Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
March 25, 2014
1:15 p.m.
John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
Adjourned
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
March 18, 2014
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
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.
SB75
MORRELL
PUBLIC HEALTH
- Provides relative to the minimum disinfectant residual levels of free or total chlorine throughout public and private water systems. (8/1/14)
SB309
BROOME
HEALTH CARE
- Provides for screening of pregnant women for HIV and syphilis in the third trimester of pregnancy. (gov sig)
SB491
HEITMEIER
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
- Provides relative to the Louisiana Smokefree Air Act. (8/1/14)
SB493
HEITMEIER
MEDICAID
- Provides for prohibitions within a Medicaid managed care program. (8/1/14)
SB496
HEITMEIER
CONTROL DANGER SUBSTANCE
- Provides for limits on certain medical prescriptions. (8/1/14)
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)
SB512
HEITMEIER
PUBLIC HEALTH
- Provides for chain restaurant menu labeling. (1/1/15)
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)
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
ADJOURNMENT