Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
May 4, 2016
9:00 am
John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
Adjourned
* Agenda Revised May 4, 2016, 8:21 am *
Revision Notes:
Added SB 131
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
April 27, 2016
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
SB36
GATTI
MALPRACTICE
- Provides exclusion from coverage for medical malpractice by doctor practicing outside his specialty or hospital privileges. (8/1/16) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
SB38
GATTI
MEDICAID
- Provides with respect to payment of nonemergency services rendered in an emergency room to certain patients. (8/1/16) (OR -$527,452 GF EX See Note)
SB131
JOHNS
HEALTH CARE
- Limits costs for pharmacists services. (8/1/16)
SB230
PETERSON
HEALTH SERVICES
- Provides relative to the Health Education Authority of Louisiana (HEAL). (8/1/16) (EGF SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
SB455
BODI WHITE
HEALTH CARE
- Provides relative to emergency medical services transporting patients to medical facilities. (9/6/16)
SB465
BARROW
HEALTH SERVICES
- Provides relative to freestanding emergency medical care facilities. (8/1/16)
HB123
PIERRE
SCHOOLS
- Requires high schools to keep automated external defibrillators on their premises (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
HB441
JACKSON
PHYSICIANS
- Provides relative to physician participation with Medicaid managed care organizations
HB480
JACKSON
HEALTH SERVICES
- Provides relative to the practice of telemedicine in licensed healthcare facilities
HB482
JEFFERSON
CHILDREN/FOSTER CARE
- Creates a task force to recommend means by which the state may better facilitate permanency for foster children
HB488
JACKSON
ABORTION
- Provides relative to qualifications of physicians who perform elective abortions
HB494
MORENO
PUBLIC HEALTH
- Provides relative to the membership and functions of the La. State Child Death Review Panel
HB570
SCHRODER
HEALTH SERVICES
- Provides relative to the practice of telemedicine
HB662
BARRAS
MEDICAID
- Provides for a fee on emergency ground ambulance service providers (EN +$2,497,957 SD RV See Note)
HB671
MORENO
DRUGS/PRESCRIPTION
- Provides relative to redispensing of drugs in correctional facility pharmacies
HB680
MORENO
HOSPITALS
- Requires healthcare services providers to conduct background checks on prospective employees
HB763
CARPENTER
HUMAN SERVICES
- Authorizes and provides for behavioral health intervention and stabilization units (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
HB913
CARPENTER
CHILDREN/ABUSE
- Adds to the membership of the Child Protection Representation Commission
HB966
GISCLAIR
CEMETERIES
- Provides relative to fees charged for burial at a state veterans cemetery
HB969
COX
PUBLIC HEALTH
- Requires adult residential care providers and nursing homes to disseminate information on shingles and pneumonia immunizations
HB1015
BERTHELOT
ADMINISTRATION
- Changes the designation of rule making authority relative to the state fire marshal and the Department of Health and Hospitals
HB1136
LOPINTO
VITAL STATISTICS
- Authorizes the disclosure of vital records data to law enforcement (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
ADJOURNMENT