HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Human Services TIME & DATE: 8:00AM, Thursday, April 21, 2005 PLACE: E1.026 CHAIR: Rep. Suzanna Gratia Hupp ___________________________________________________________________________ The Committee will meet to consider the following measures: SB 23 Zaffirini / et al. Relating to subsidized child-care services and early childhood care and education program coordination. HB 2074 Coleman Relating to providing medical assistance for care in an assisted living facility. HB 405 Villarreal Relating to providing supplemental financial assistance to certain primary caretakers of a child receiving financial assistance. HB 1514 Villarreal Relating to the suspension of the license or registration of a child-care facility providing care for less than 24 hours a day or the listing of a family home. SB 46 Nelson Relating to the establishment of a method to integrate benefits issuance and recipient identification for health and human services programs. HB 3440 Herrero Relating to the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program (MERP) Claim. SB 627 Zaffirini Relating to a pilot program for the transfer of money appropriated for certain institutional care for children to provide community-based services to those children. HB 710 Naishtat Relating to provision of certain optional services for adults and operation of the medically needy program under the state Medicaid program. HB 711 Naishtat Relating to the eligibility of certain financial assistance recipients for medical assistance. HB 1061 Naishtat Relating to penalties and sanctions imposed on recipients of financial assistance. HB 3079 Naishtat Relating to the administration of psychoactive medication to certain patients. The Committee will stand in recess while the House is in session, and reconvene upon recess/adjournment of the House to hear remaining bills on the agenda. Bills will not necessarily be taken up in the order specified above, depending upon the availability of bill authors. ___________________________________________________________________________