Subcommittee gives favorable reports on four bills, including workers' comp and manufactured-home zoning

The House Banking and Insurance subcommittee advanced multiple bills and issued favorable reports to the House floor.

Workers' compensation (House Bill 38 74): Representative Gagnon presented a subcommittee report that would give the Workers' Compensation Commission authority to modify medical-service fees, require annual reviews using the medical consumer price index and interstate comparisons, and establish guardrails including public hearings and consultation with a cost-containment committee. The committee adopted the subcommittee report and reported the bill favorably to the floor.

Charitable funds regulation (House Bill 46 62): Representative Wooten described a bill to streamline filing requirements for charities and commercial co-ventures, raise reporting thresholds to $10,000 for solicitation campaigns and reduce burdens on small local fundraisers. The Secretary of State's office reportedly supports the bill; the committee reported it favorably.

Manufactured-home zoning (House Bill 51 13): The subcommittee report amends earlier language to allow a replaced manufactured home to be up to five years old rather than requiring a brand-new home, and to change the terminology from "mobile home" to "manufactured home." The committee adopted the report and gave the bill a favorable report to the floor.

Votes at a glance: all of the above subcommittee reports received favorable voice reports and will be sent to the House floor as recorded in the hearing.