HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Public Health

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM, Wednesday, March 3, 1999

PLACE: E2.030

CHAIR: Rep. Patricia Gray

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To consider the following:


HB 272            West, George "Buddy"
Relating to consent for emergency care.

HB 670            Wise / et al.
Relating to providing, at no cost, medical records to Texas
veterans for certain purposes.

HB 836            King, Tracy
Relating to access under the public information law to birth and
death indexes.

HB 867            Janek
Relating to the regulation of occupational therapists; providing
for administrative penalties.

HB 985            Maxey
Relating to compliance by state agencies with strategic guidelines
in developing electronic benefits transfer systems.

HB 1033            Bosse
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Cancer
Council.

HB 1302            Naishtat
Relating to the attorney general's authority to bring a suit
against intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded.

HB 1336            Flores
Relating to the regulation of the practice of marriage and family
therapy.

HB 1342            Maxey
Relating to an interstate compact regulating nurses.

HB 1396            Maxey
Relating to the development of a licensing model for intermediate
care facilities for the mentally retarded.

HB 1503            Gray
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Interagency
Council on Early Childhood Intervention.

SB 380            Zaffirini
Relating to the attorney general's authority to bring a suit
against intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded.

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