HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Public Health

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM, Wednesday, February 28, 2001

PLACE: E2.030

CHAIR: Rep. Patricia Gray

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The committee will be considering the following bills:

HB 101            Maxey / et al.
Relating to medical assistance for certain persons in need of
treatment for breast or cervical cancer.

HB 895            Coleman
Relating to a demonstration project to provide certain medications
and related services through the medical assistance program.

HB 896            Coleman
Relating to a demonstration project to provide certain services and
medications through the medical assistance program to persons with
HIV infection or AIDS.

HB 1087            Coleman
Relating to a demonstration project to establish  a medical
assistance buy-in program for certain persons with disabilities.

HB 1156            Coleman / et al.
Relating to expanding access to women's health care services.

HB 1422            Oliveira / et al.
Relating to the provision of medical assistance to certain legal
immigrants.

HB 846            Maxey / et al.
Relating to the issuance of a contact lens prescription and a
patient's right of access to that prescription.

HB 1877            Gray
Relating to the regulation of contact lens dispensing.

HB 246            Turner, Bob / et al.
Relating to the creation and funding of the Rural Communities
Health Care Investment Program to attract and retain rural health
care professionals.

SB 126            Madla
Relating to the creation and funding of a rural communities health
care investment program to attract and retain rural health care
professionals.

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