Legislative Update – February 2025
February 28, 2025 | Information
American Indian Health Commission has these top 3 priorities for the 2025 Legislative Session that we have been discussing with legislators. See below chart for current status on each priority.
| Traditional Indian Medicines: Providing Medicaid reimbursement for Traditional Indian Medicine Practitioners. | HB 1583 2/18/2025 – Passed out of House Healthcare and Wellness Committee 2/26/2025 – House Appropriations Committee public hearing 2/28/2025 – Scheduled for Executive Session (note: must pass to continue this session) |
| Tribal Data Sovereignty: Protect Indigenous data held in certain state agency data systems from public disclosure. | HB 1692 2/12 – Public hearing in House Committee of State Government and Tribal Relations (note: did not get scheduled for Executive Session before cutoff date) |
| Tribal Public Health Funding: Increase state funding available to Tribes for providing Tribal Foundational Public Health Services to 10%. | During the first part of the legislative session, AIHC met with ~60+ different legislators to discuss necessity of the Tribal set-asides. Next steps will be during the budget portion of the session. |