It is expected to be revived later by the full House tomorrow.
Committee Chair Kavanagh plans on hearing Medicaid expansion before the budget in an effort to bring republicans together.
Abortion funding has become a sticking point for republicans and democrats alike.
According to the Yellow; “After weeks of discussions over pro-life language in the Medicaid plan, the governor rejected it as unnecessary and unlikely to survive a court challenge. Brewer spokesman Matthew Benson said today that the governor hasn’t changed her position, which is that Arizona has exhausted its efforts on this front and is appealing the district ruling on last year’s law attempting to bar abortion providers from participating in Medicaid.”
The Governor will object to any abortion language that might risk losing democrat support. Her supporters include representatives T.J. Shope, and Ethan Orr.
The Yellow Sheet reported, “…some legislative Dems not only threatened to vote against expansion if it included the CAP language, but threatened to vote no even if the CAP language was in a separate bill.”