House will be back tomorrow to deal with health care bill; Senate may still adjourn tonight

The House has come back into session. It’s after 7:30 p.m. “There’s one bill that we would like to take up tonight and then we’ll go home,” said House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, “and that bill is HB 650 .” That’s the trailer funding bill passed out of JFAC this morning to fund HB 644, the health care grant bill that’s now morphed into a gap coverage bill, thanks to Senate amendments. “HB 650 is the funding for HB 644, which the Senate amended today, and which is one of the reasons we’ll be back tomorrow,” Moyle said. “The Senate would like to adjourn tonight, and they cannot adjourn if we do not send them HB 650.”

The House then voted 60-7 to suspend rules and take up HB 650.