Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
May 21, 2014
9:00 a.m.
John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
Adjourned
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
May 14, 2014
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
HCR88
SIMON
HEALTH SERVICES
- Creates the Task Force on Telehealth Access
HCR153
H.BURNS
CONGRESS
- Memorializes the United States Congress to pass the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013
HB62
PUGH
PHARMACISTS
- Provides relative to pharmacy record audits
HB216
SCHRODER
PUBLIC HEALTH
- Provides for preparation of pies in the home for public consumption (REF SEE FISC NOTE See Note)
HB228
JEFFERSON
CHILDREN/FOSTER CARE
- Provides relative to criminal history of an adult living in a foster home (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
HB249
PRICE
CHILDREN/CARE
- Provides for access to child care assistance by homeless families (EN FF EX See Note)
HB294
BISHOP
PUBLIC HEALTH
- Provides relative to preparation of cane syrup in the traditional manner for public consumption (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)
HB305
HOFFMANN
ABORTION
- Prohibits providers of elective abortions and their affiliates from delivering certain instruction or materials in schools
HB350
BISHOP
HEALTH CARE
- Adds conditions and protections relative to use of patient healthcare data to the La. Health Care Consumers' Right to Know law (RE NO IMPACT See Note)
HB464
BROADWATER
SNAP/FOOD STAMPS
- Establishes a pilot initiative for training and education to serve certain recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (EN DECREASE FF RV See Note)
HB668
SIMON
HEALTH/HOME CARE
- Provides for electronic visit verification for long-term care services delivered in home- and community-based settings (RE See Note)
HB1176
BROADWATER
TANF
- Provides for restrictions on use of TANF cash assistance and electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards
HB1215
ROBERT JOHNSON
HEALTH CARE/PROVIDERS
- Provides relative to collaborative practice agreements between advanced practice registered nurses and physicians
HB1256
HARRISON
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION
- Creates the Dept. of Health and Hospitals and Children and Family Services, abolishes the Dept. of Health and Hospitals (DHH) and the Dept. of Children and Family Services (DCFS), and creates separate entities within the new department as successors to the abolished departments (RE INCREASE See Note)
HB1262
IVEY
ABORTION
- Provides relative to information to be conveyed to a woman prior to abortion (EN INCREASE See Note)
HB1270
SIMON
PUBLIC HEALTH
- Provides for preparation of low-risk foods in the home for public consumption
HB1274
BADON
HEALTH SERVICES
- Provides relative to life-sustaining procedures for pregnant women
HB1279
ORTEGO
AGRICULTURE/MILK
- Provides relative to the sale or distribution of raw milk by a farmer to a consumer
HB1280
SIMON
HEALTH SERVICES
- Provides for the Louisiana Telehealth Access Act
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
ADJOURNMENT