House Committee on Health and Welfare
April 26, 2017
9:00 a.m.
Room 5
Adjourned
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
DISCUSSION OF LEGISLATION
HB192
MORENO
DRUGS/CONTROLLED
- Provides for limitations on the prescribing of opioids
HB140
GREGORY MILLER
TAX/AD VALOREM TAX
- Requires reports to the assessor concerning deaths occurring in the state (EN SEE FISC NOTE See Note)
HB245
HOFFMANN
HEALTH/HOME CARE
- Authorizes a home- and community-based services provider to recoup the cost of a preemployment background check
HB250
PYLANT
HEALTH
- Authorizes local needle exchange programs
HB341
DUSTIN MILLER
HEALTH/BEHAVIORAL
- Amends laws relative to behavioral health and mental health to provide for current practice and appropriate terminology
HB395
DUSTIN MILLER
MENTAL HEALTH
- Amends the procedures for involuntary mental health treatment
HB402
HAVARD
MENTAL HEALTH
- Provides for licensure and regulation of community-based care facilities (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
HB404
HENSGENS
HEALTH CARE
- Amends the Polysomnographic Practice Act
HB483
JACKSON-ANDREWS
HEALTH/CANCER
- Provides relative to disclosure of data maintained by the Louisiana Tumor Registry and for a cancer investigation initiative
HB490
LEGER
DRUGS/PRESCRIPTION
- Creates the Advisory Council on Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
HB493
MAGEE
FEES/LICENSES/PERMITS
- Establishes a reinspection fee for facilities and establishments with sanitary code violations (EN +$13,800 SG RV See Note)
HB586
HUNTER
HEALTH CARE
- Requires certain publicly funded healthcare facilities and providers to institute policies relative to continuity of patient care (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
OTHER BUSINESS
ANNOUNCEMENTS