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SB34 Relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program.

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Relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

4

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

3
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Your Wallet

Adding consent requirements will likely reduce Medicaid reimbursements to schools, as some parents will not return forms. This shifts costs to local taxpayers.

3
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Your Community

The Medicaid-to-Schools program funds speech therapy, occupational therapy, and other services for students who need them. Consent barriers will reduce access to these services.

6
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Your Freedom

Strengthens parental consent rights, but at the cost of reducing health services access for students whose parents do not respond to consent forms.

Status

Special Order to the Present Time, Without Objection, Motion Adopted; 02/05/2026; Senate Journal 3

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

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R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Ruth Ward (R)

The Short Version

Requires parental consent before students can participate in the Medicaid-to-Schools program, which reimburses schools for health services. Passed on party-line vote 186-155.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Parents wanting control over their children's participation in Medicaid programs

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Students who lose access to school-based health services
  • ▼ Schools that lose Medicaid reimbursement revenue
  • ▼ Local taxpayers making up the funding gap

Roll Call Detail (1 vote)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 1 recorded vote on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 184 for ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 2 for , 155 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-01-07
Passed

YES = Pass the bill with the attached amendment. NO = Reject the bill (as amended).

184R + 2D
Voted to Pass (186)
0R + 155D
Voted Against (155)
39
Absent
15
Not voting
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Voted Yea (186)

Republicans (184)
Democrats (2)

Voted Nay (155)

Democrats (155)
Absent (39)

Adam Presa (R) , Allison Knab (D) , Bill Boyd (R) , Cassandra Levesque (D) , Charles Foote (R) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , David Lundgren (R) , David Luneau (D) , David Nagel (R) , Deborah Aylward (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Fred Davis (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Gary Daniels (R) , Heath Howard (D) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Creighton (R) , Jodi Nelson (R) , Karel Crawford (R) , Larry Gagne (R) , Laurence Miner (R) , Louise Andrus (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Mary Murphy (R) , Merryl Gibbs (D) , Michael Cahill (D) , Michael Harrington (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Mike Bordes (R) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Sallie Fellows (D) , Sandra Panek (R) , Sayra Devito (R) , Shane Sirois (R) , Tim Mannion (R) , Tom Dolan (R) , Travis Toner (R)

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