Agenda - Health and Welfare

House Committee on Health and Welfare
May 21, 2014 9:00 a.m. Room 5
Adjourned

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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
DISCUSSION OF LEGISLATION
	HCR145	BADON	CONSUMERS/PROTECTION - Requests a study and policy recommendations concerning the health effects of formaldehyde in children's personal care products at levels currently allowed by law
	HCR159	BISHOP	HEALTH SERVICES - Creates a task force to study the prospective establishment of art therapist as a licensed profession
	HB240	P.SMITH	HEALTH CARE - (Constitutional Amendment) Requires the state to provide to a legal resident employed for the previous calendar year for at least 1,000 hours and whose income is below 100% of the federal poverty level the opportunity to participate in a state program providing health insurance with essential benefits (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
	HB261	DIXON	MEDICAID - Causes eligibility standards for the La. Medicaid Program to conform to those established by the ACA and creates the La. Health Care Independence Program (OR GF EX See Note)
	HB290	P.SMITH	MEDICAID - (Constitutional Amendment) Directs the Dept. of Health and Hospitals to offer health insurance with essential health benefits to every legal resident of La. 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 (OR DECREASE GF EX See Note)
	HB536	P.SMITH	MEDICAID - Provides for the Louisiana Health Care Independence Act (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
	HB759	NORTON	MEDICAID - Requires that La. Medicaid eligibility standards conform to those established by the Affordable Care Act (OR DECREASE GF EX See Note)
	SCR20	HEITMEIER	HEALTH/HOSPITALS DEPT - Directs Department of Health and Hospitals to submit a state plan amendment to the federal government that will permit WIC cash value vouchers to be used at farmers' markets.
	SCR21	HEITMEIER	HEALTH CARE - Creates a joint legislative committee on obesity.
	SCR39	HEITMEIER	HEALTH/HOSPITALS DEPT - Requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to study the most effective means to ensure the proper utilization of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder medications in Louisiana and to report its findings to the legislature.
	SCR47	HEITMEIER	HEALTH/HOSPITALS DEPT - Urges the Department of Health and Hospitals to study the feasibility, desirability, and practicality of alternative transportation sites (i.e. urgent care clinics) for certain patients.
	SCR87	FRED MILLS	HEALTH CARE - Directs DHH to create a working group to study the future of state health care funding.
	SB121	MORRELL	MENTAL HEALTH - Provides relative to marriage and family therapists. (8/1/14)
	SB489	HEITMEIER	HEALTH CARE - Provides relative to the diabetes annual action plan. (8/1/14)
	SB496	HEITMEIER	CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE - Provides for limits on certain medical prescriptions. (8/1/14)
	SB498	HEITMEIER	HEALTH CARE - Provides for personal care assistance services. (gov sig)
	SB502	HEITMEIER	HEALTH CARE - Provides for the licensure of pain management clinics. (gov sig)
	SB503	HEITMEIER	HEALTH/HOSPITALS DEPT - Provides for the Department of Health and Hospitals to create an upper payment limit mechanism for ambulatory surgical centers. (gov sig)
	SB507	MARTINY	DENTISTRY - Provides relative to the practice of dentistry and the regulation of the profession. (See Act)
	SB511	HEITMEIER	SUNSET LAW - Re-creates the Department of Children and Family Services. (6/30/14)
	SB513	HEITMEIER	HEALTH SERVICES - Provides for the Louisiana Obesity Prevention and Management Commission. (gov sig)
	SB514	HEITMEIER	SCHOOLS - Prohibits smoking near public and private elementary and secondary school property. (gov sig)
	SB539	NEVERS	MENTAL HEALTH - Provides relative to suicide assessment, intervention, treatment, and management training for certain professions. (8/1/14) (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX See Note)
	SB589	WALSWORTH	CHILDREN - Extends the termination date of the Children's Cabinet. (gov sig) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
OTHER BUSINESS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADJOURNMENT