Agenda - Health and Welfare

Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
April 23, 2014 9:00 am John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
Adjourned
* Agenda Revised April 22, 2014, 3:51 pm * Revision Notes: Added SCR 87

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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
	April 15, 2014
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
		SCR69	MORRISH	CHILDREN - Creates the "Erin's Law" task force.
		SCR73	WARD	LEGIS POWERS/FUNCTIONS - Establishes the Community Health Caucus of the Legislature of Louisiana.
		SCR75	NEVERS	HEALTH/HOSPITALS DEPT - Requests that DHH study and develop a list of best practices suicide prevention training programs to make available in Louisiana to offer for training groups of Louisiana professionals and citizens on a voluntary basis.
		SCR87	FRED MILLS	HEALTH CARE - Directs DHH to create a working group to study the future of state health care funding.
		SB96	NEVERS	MEDICAID - Constitutional amendment to direct the Department of Health and Hospitals to offer health insurance with essential health benefits to every legal resident of Louisiana whose income is at or below 138% of the federal poverty level, and to allow the legislature to determine whether to continue the program when federal funding falls below 90% of the total program funding. (2/3-CA13s1(A)) (OR DECREASE GF EX See Note)
		SB349	MORRELL	MEDICAID - Provides relative to Medicaid managed long term care support and services. (gov sig) (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
		SB432	BUFFINGTON	HEALTH SERVICES - Provides relative to persons with disabilities and service dogs. (8/1/14)
		SB568	NEVERS	OPTOMETRISTS - Provides relative to the practice of optometry and the regulation of such profession. (gov sig) (EG SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
		SB600	FRED MILLS	HEALTH SERVICES - Provides relative to immunizations. (8/1/14)
		SB619	HEITMEIER	HEALTH SERVICES - Transfers the powers, duties, and functions relative to regulating pain management clinics from the Department of Health and Hospitals to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. (1/1/15)
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
ADJOURNMENT