There were FIVE bills the last week of May that went to the Governor. They were all partisan roll calls. Those five bills did have a lot of trouble getting through both chambers, but they passed.

These five bills were:

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HB 4536 – broadens the definition of trauma in the school code to include such things as “identity development” and “systemic and historical oppression,” in furtherance of the mental health assessments in grade schools;

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HB 4606 – sets up a voluntary, short-term newborn visiting program under DHS for new moms, but we know how that will go;

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HB 4834 – removes abortion drugs and hormone therapies from the Prescription Monitoring Program that doctors and pharmacists use to see a patient’s drug history;

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HB 4714 – builds out the Children Mental Health Partnership state infrastructure to expand their duties and LGBTQ participation; , and

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HB 5095 – allows one to put an “X” on a driver’s license if one “believes” he or she is “another gender.”

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