SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Health Services

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM or upon adjournment
             Tuesday, May 11, 1999

PLACE: E1.016

CHAIR: Senator Jane Nelson

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To consider the following:


SB 390            Madla
Relating to the regulation of the practice of therapeutic optometry.

SB 847            Nixon, Drew
Relating to the practice of integrative or complementary health
care by licensed health care practitioners.

SB 1084            Harris
Relating to the assignment of benefits for dental care services.

SB 1400            Nixon, Drew
Relating to the regulation of the practice of optometry.

SB 1906            Sibley
Relating to the creation of a privilege for dental records and
communications with a dentist and to the availability of dental
records.

HB 110            Maxey                    SP: Moncrief
Relating to public access to certain information regarding medical
practitioners.

HB 765            Maxey                    SP: Moncrief
Relating to the processing of certain fees by the Texas Department
of Health.

HB 811            Jones, Jesse             SP: Nelson
Relating to the services included in home health care services.

HB 923            Coleman                  SP: Moncrief
Relating to regulation of licensed professional counselors.

HB 1051            Brimer                   SP: Madla
Relating to the regulation of the practice of therapeutic
optometry.

HB 1285            Janek                    SP: Nelson
Relating to requiring attendance of a child's parent, guardian, or
other authorized adult at well-child examinations under the state
Medicaid program.

HB 1420            Alvarado                 SP: Truan
Relating to complaints filed with the Texas State Board of
Podiatric Medical Examiners.

HB 1504            Goolsby                  SP: Harris
Relating to the establishment of a consortium of Alzheimer's
disease centers.

HB 1513            Maxey                    SP: Moncrief
Relating to powers and duties of the Texas Health Care Information
Council; providing a criminal penalty.

HB 1652            Maxey                    SP: Nelson
Relating to an education and prevention program for hepatitis C.

HB 2013            Hilderbran               SP: Madla
Relating to the regulation of bottled or vended water.

HB 2037            Gray                     SP: Carona
Relating to late fees for the renewal of the licenses of home and
community support services agencies.

HB 2070            Gray                     SP: Jackson
Relating to the administration and responsibilities of The
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

HB 2171            Luna, Vilma              SP: Truan
Relating to the establishment and operation of a medical committee
or medical peer review committee by certain public and private
entities.

HB 2175            Uher                     SP: Armbrister
Relating to the regulation of the practice of chiropractic.

HB 2382            Coleman                  SP: Lindsay
Relating to the evaluation and approval of continuing education for
physical therapists.

HB 2453            Edwards                  SP: Lindsay
Relating to the authority of physicians and optometrists or
therapeutic optometrists to form certain jointly owned entities.

HB 2573            Wolens                   SP: Nelson
Relating to tertiary medical care.

HB 3083            Telford                  SP: Duncan
Relating to medical services ordered by physicians in certain other
states for residents of this state.

HB 3216            McCall                   SP: Cain
Relating to the standardization of credentialing of physicians.

HB 3423            Morrison                 SP: Nelson
Relating to the emergency possession of and termination of the
parent-child relationship of certain abandoned children.

HB 3504            Solis, Jim               SP: Lucio
Relating to the long-range plan for the South Texas Hospital and
the provision of tuberculosis and other health care services in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley.

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