** REVISION **
SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE:
Transportation & Homeland Security
TIME & DATE:
8:00 AM, Tuesday, September 23, 2008
PLACE:
E1.016 (Hearing Room)
CHAIR:
Senator John Carona
** MEETING CANCELED **
The Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security will hold a
public hearing on Tuesday, September 23, 2008, at 8:00 a.m. in the Capitol
Extension, Room E1.016.  The Committee will hear public and invited
testimony regarding the following interim charge:
 
Examine the roles and best practices among individuals, state and local
governments, hospitals and other health care providers, and the insurance
industry for disaster planning and first response efforts.  Explore what
changes are needed to better prepare for natural disasters to mitigate
claims and losses.  Include an assessment of the state's implementation
of recent recommendations for evacuations, including movement of
medically fragile populations.  Study the level of preparedness among
critical infrastructure entities in both the public and private sector,
the effectiveness of state disaster relief policies relating to this
infrastructure and the sufficiency of personnel needed to restore this
infrastructure.  Assess the state's preparedness to handle a public health
emergency.  Examine the challenges of interoperability of communications
technologies to improve coordination of different plans across
jurisdictions.
 
The Committee may also hear testimony on other issues under its purview.
** See Committee Coordinator for previous versions of the schedule **