** REVISION **
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE:
Public Health
TIME & DATE:
8:00 AM, Tuesday, March 24, 2009
PLACE:
E2.012
CHAIR:
Rep. Lois Kolkhorst
HB 492
 
Zerwas
Relating to the expansion of faith- and community-based health and human services and social services initiatives.
 
HB 1785
 
Kuempel
Relating to the licensing of occupational therapists.
 
HB 1802
 
Bohac
Relating to issuing medallions for mobile food units in certain municipalities.
 
HB 3282
 
Gattis
Relating to cottage food production operations.
 
HB 1409
 
Hopson
Relating to the minimum patient age for administration of an immunization or vaccination by a pharmacist.
 
HCR 88
 
Davis, John | et al.
Directing the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Texas Education Agency to educate parents of adolescent Texans regarding the importance of adolescents' receiving regular physical exams and updated immunizations.
 
HB 2382
 
Kolkhorst
Relating to information submitted to and maintained in the immunization registry after an individual becomes an adult.
 
HB 2383
 
Kolkhorst
Relating to the receipt and release of immunization information by the immunization registry in connection with a disaster.
 
HB 2163
 
Turner, Sylvester
Relating to the provision of certain medications to children younger than 11 years of age.
 
HB 1924
 
Heflin
Relating to the performance of pharmacy services in certain rural hospitals.
 
HB 2030
 
Zerwas
Relating to the Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Program and prescription drug use under the Medicaid program.
 
HB 1468
 
Chisum
Relating to the regulation of funeral homes, cemeteries, and crematories; providing a criminal penalty.
 
HB 1422
 
Villarreal
Relating to the requirements for a funeral establishment license.
 

HB 2927
 
Howard, Donna
Relating to the regulation of cemeteries by state and local government.
 
HB 2369
 
Flynn
Relating to  the sale of a cemetery plot; providing a criminal penalty.
 
HB 923
 
Dutton
Relating to prohibiting the disposition of a decedent's remains by a person charged with certain criminal conduct against the decedent.
 
HB 1404
 
Miklos
Relating to the establishment and use of a columbarium by a church.
 
HB 1067
 
Naishtat
Relating to a memorandum of understanding between certain authorized entities to share suicide data that does not identify any individual.
 
HB 3004
 
Coleman
Relating to animal shelter standards; providing a civil penalty.
 
HB 888
 
Naishtat
Relating to the detention and examination of certain persons accepted for a preliminary mental health examination.
 
HB 890
 
Naishtat
Relating to the terminology used to describe certain judicial officers.
 
 
IMPORTANT NOTES:
 
In order to hear from as many witnesses as possible, we intend to limit
testimony to four minutes.  Please keep this limitation in mind when
preparing your testimony.
 
The committee will recess at approximately 9:15 a.m. and the hearing will
resume at a time to be specified by the chair.
 
Bills will not necessarily be heard in the order specified above,
depending upon the availability of bill authors.
 
 
Bills deleted after last posting:
HB 3141
HB 578