Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
May 7, 2014
9:30 a.m.
John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
Adjourned
* Agenda Revised May 6, 2014, 5:34 pm *
Revision Notes:
Removed SCR 112
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
April 30, 2014
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
SB107
NEVERS
MEDICAID
- Provides for the Louisiana Health Care Independence Act. (gov sig) (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
SB497
HEITMEIER
HEALTH CARE
- Provides for the payment of health care services. (8/1/14)
SB577
LONG
NURSING HOMES
- Provides for the Department of Health and Hospitals to create an upper payment limit for mechanism for publicly owned nursing homes. (gov sig)
HCR67
LEGER
HEALTH/CANCER
- Provides for the Louisiana Colorectal Cancer Roundtable to be coordinated by the LSU Health Sciences Centers
HCR81
PEARSON
CHILDREN/NEWBORNS
- Directs the Dept. of Health and Hospitals to submit a report to the House and Senate committees on health and welfare evaluating the health benefits and healthcare costs of adding adrenoleukodystrophy to the mandatory screenings to be performed on a newborn child
HCR95
BISHOP
CONGRESS
- Memorializes congress to expand the Americans with Disabilities Act to require arm chairs
HCR106
NORTON
HEALTH CARE
- Acknowledges the historic milestones in U.S. healthcare reform reached since enactment of the Affordable Care Act
HB185
HAVARD
HEALTH/HOME CARE
- Provides relative to home- and community-based long-term care services provided by direct service workers (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
HB195
SIMON
SUNSET LAW
- Re-creates the Department of Children and Family Services
HB388
JACKSON-ANDREWS
ABORTION
- Provides for requirements of physicians who perform abortions
HB396
WILLMOTT
BOARDS/COMMISSIONS
- Provides relative to the membership of the Nursing Supply and Demand Council
HB610
ABRAMSON
RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGISTS
- Provides relative to licensed radiologic technologists
HB754
MORENO
DRUGS/CONTROLLED
- Authorizes first responders to carry naloxone
HB802
BARROW
PUBLIC HEALTH
- Establishes a task force on toxic mold (EN INCREASE See Note)
HB1200
STOKES
MEDICAID
- Provides relative to Medicaid recovery audit contractors and procedures
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
ADJOURNMENT