SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Health Services

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM or upon adjournment
             Tuesday, March 23, 1999

PLACE: E1.016

CHAIR: Senator Jane Nelson

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To consider the following:


SB 602            Moncrief
Relating to the membership of the Texas Board of Health and the
membership and powers of the Interagency Council for Genetic
Services.

SB 632            Madla
Relating to the long-range plan for the Texas Center for Infectious
Disease and the provision of tuberculosis and other  health care
and laboratory services.

SB 673            Moncrief
Relating to the establishment and funding of a program to educate
residents about anatomical gifts.

SB 676            Lucio
Relating to the regulation of the practice of spinal manipulation
by certain health care providers;  providing a penalty.

SB 830            Madla
Relating to billing policies of certain health care professionals
and facilities; providing administrative penalties.

SB 862            Gallegos / et al.
Relating to donation of organs.

SB 931            Madla
Relating to the support of graduate pharmacy education and resident
pharmacists.

SB 1232            Nelson
Relating to the regulation of birthing centers; providing an
administrative penalty.

SB 1233            Nelson
Relating to the regulation of athletic trainers.

SB 1235            Nelson
Relating to the use of a medical practitioner's Federal Drug
Enforcement Administration number; creating an offense.

SB 1236            Nelson
Relating to regulation of a product that is a combination of a drug
and a device.

SB 1240            Nelson
Relating to the regulation of certain abusable volatile chemicals;
providing for injunctive relief and administrative penalties.


Pending Bills:


SB 51            Nelson
Relating to drug testing of certain persons seeking TANF benefits.

SB 1198            Moncrief
Relating to requiring certain convalescent and nursing homes to
execute a surety bond.


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