HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Public Health

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM, Wednesday, April 18, 2001

PLACE: E2.030

CHAIR: Rep. Patricia Gray

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The committee will be considering the following bills:

HB 393            Maxey / et al.
Relating to certain nonprofit entities that provide health or
long-term care or health benefit plans; providing a penalty.

HB 455            Goolsby
Relating to the training required for a health care professional to safely
perform spinal manipulation; providing a criminal penalty.

HB 1092            Solis, Jim
Relating to changing the name of the South Texas Hospital to the
South Texas Health Care Center and to eliminating certain obsolete
provisions relating to the hospital.

HB 1101            Coleman
Relating to a state strategic health plan.

HB 1463            Maxey
Relating to appropriate places of detention for certain mental
health services.

HB 1593            Reyna, Arthur
Relating to the subpoena authority of the Texas State Board of
Examiners of Psychologists.

HB 1693            Delisi
Relating to local government plans to respond to bioterrorism.

HB 2069            Kitchen
Relating to a study regarding the feasibility of providing medical
assistance to certain disabled children.

HB 2407            Gray
Relating to public access to certain information and materials.

HB 2408            Maxey
Relating to a study by the Health Professions Council relating to
the complaint procedures of certain health care regulatory
entities.

HB 2558            Maxey / et al.
Relating to the amount of the fees established by the Texas State
Board of Medical Examiners.

HB 2574            Solis, Jim
Relating to the establishment of a community health center
revolving loan fund program.

HB 3465            Maxey
Relating to certain fees prescribed by the Texas Board of Health
for the regulation of opticians.

HB 3600            Capelo
Relating to the compliance monitoring of physicians by the Texas
State Board of Medical Examiners.

HB 3612            Delisi
Relating to hospitals.

HCR 202            Lewis, Ron
Directing the Health and Human Services Commission to redesignate the
Doctors Hospital of Groves from an urban hospital to a rural hospital.

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