Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
May 7, 2014
9:30 a.m.
John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room

Adjourned		 
* Agenda Revised May 6, 2014, 5:34 pm *
Revision Notes: Removed SCR 112

 		 




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CALL TO ORDER

ROLL CALL

APPROVAL OF MINUTES
 April 30, 2014

LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
 SB107NEVERSMEDICAID - Provides for the Louisiana Health Care Independence Act. (gov sig) (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
 SB497HEITMEIERHEALTH CARE - Provides for the payment of health care services. (8/1/14)
 SB577LONGNURSING HOMES - Provides for the Department of Health and Hospitals to create an upper payment limit for mechanism for publicly owned nursing homes. (gov sig)
 HCR67LEGERHEALTH/CANCER - Provides for the Louisiana Colorectal Cancer Roundtable to be coordinated by the LSU Health Sciences Centers
 HCR81PEARSONCHILDREN/NEWBORNS - Directs the Dept. of Health and Hospitals to submit a report to the House and Senate committees on health and welfare evaluating the health benefits and healthcare costs of adding adrenoleukodystrophy to the mandatory screenings to be performed on a newborn child
 HCR95BISHOPCONGRESS - Memorializes congress to expand the Americans with Disabilities Act to require arm chairs
 HCR106NORTONHEALTH CARE - Acknowledges the historic milestones in U.S. healthcare reform reached since enactment of the Affordable Care Act
 HB185HAVARDHEALTH/HOME CARE - Provides relative to home- and community-based long-term care services provided by direct service workers (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
 HB195SIMONSUNSET LAW - Re-creates the Department of Children and Family Services
 HB388JACKSON-ANDREWSABORTION - Provides for requirements of physicians who perform abortions
 HB396WILLMOTTBOARDS/COMMISSIONS - Provides relative to the membership of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council
 HB610ABRAMSONRADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGISTS - Provides relative to licensed radiologic technologists
 HB754MORENODRUGS/CONTROLLED - Authorizes first responders to carry naloxone
 HB802BARROWPUBLIC HEALTH - Establishes a task force on toxic mold (EN INCREASE See Note)
 HB1200STOKESMEDICAID - Provides relative to Medicaid recovery audit contractors and procedures

CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE

ADJOURNMENT