** REVISION ** SENATE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Health & Human Services TIME & DATE: 8:30AM or upon adjournment Thursday, April 5, 2001 PLACE: Senate Chamber CHAIR: Senator Mike Moncrief ___________________________________________________________________________ The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services will meet at 8:30 a.m. or upon completion of the Senate Local and Uncontested Calendar. To consider the following: HB 102 Maxey / et al. SP: Moncrief Relating to abolishing the electronic imaging program of the Texas Department of Human Services. SB 8 Cain Relating to discrimination in health care rates and reimbursement; providing administrative penalties. SB 280 Nelson Relating to requiring the Texas Department of Health to prepare a request for information for storing and distributing vaccines. SB 281 Nelson Relating to requiring the Texas Department of Health to allow health care providers to use certain vaccines in the vaccines for children program. SB 282 Nelson Relating to requiring the Texas Department of Health to promote the vaccines for children program to certain health care providers not currently enrolled in the program. SB 367 Zaffirini Relating to ensuring an appropriate care setting for a person with a disability. SB 368 Zaffirini Relating to permanency planning procedures for children in state institutions. SB 791 Nelson Relating to the imposition of administrative, civil, and criminal penalties and the authorization of emergency license suspension for certain licensing programs regulated by the Texas Department of Health. SB 876 Moncrief / et al. Relating to the use of restraint, seclusion, and emergency psychoactive medication in certain health care facilities. SB 1106 Bernsen Relating to the application of the Medical Liability and Insurance Improvement Act of Texas to optometrists and therapeutic optometrists. SB 1152 Van de Putte Relating to establishing the Tex Rx plan. SB 1394 Fraser Relating to the operation of a statewide rural health care system. SB 1469 Moncrief Relating to creating a pilot treatment program for certain adults on community supervision. SB 1470 Moncrief Relating to creating a pilot treatment program for certain juveniles on probation. SB 1683 Jackson Relating to the management of money earned by certain children while receiving services from the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. Pending Business: SB 34 Zaffirini Relating to providing dental services to certain recipients of medical assistance. SB 40 Zaffirini Relating to tuition assistance for licensed vocational nursing students who agree to practice in long-term care facilities. SB 42 Zaffirini Relating to identifying and addressing the needs of certain recipients of financial assistance and dependent children of recipients of financial assistance. SB 43 Zaffirini / et al. Relating to simplifying the certification process for medical assistance provided to children. SB 49 Zaffirini Relating to applying penalties to recipients of financial and nutritional assistance for certain drug- and alcohol-related convictions. SB 51 Zaffirini Relating to the provision of Medicaid to certain persons making the transition from foster care to independent living. SB 297 West, Royce Relating to providing supplemental financial assistance to certain grandparents. SB 532 Nelson / et al. Relating to medical assistance for certain persons in need of treatment for breast or cervical cancer. SB 572 Moncrief / et al. Relating to the reduction of the shortage of registered nurses by establishing a program to increase enrollments in nursing education programs, increasing nursing faculty, and creating a nursing workforce data center. SB 772 Harris Relating to requiring the Texas Department of Human Services to establish criteria for designating nursing facility operators with excellent operating records as eligible to acquire a license to operate another existing nursing facility on an expedited basis. SB 789 Moncrief Relating to the regulation and reimbursement of telemedicine medical services. SB 894 Moncrief / et al. Relating to bulk purchasing of prescription drugs by certain state agencies. SB 1056 Shapleigh / et al. Relating to capitation and reimbursement rates under the state child health plan in the Texas-Mexico border region. SB 1245 Moncrief Relating to providing for the registry of acts of misconduct by certain employees of certain health care agencies and facilities. ___________________________________________________________________________ BILLS DELETED AFTER LAST POSTING: SB 931