Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
May 4, 2016
9:00 am
John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room

Adjourned		 
* Agenda Revised May 4, 2016, 8:21 am *
Revision Notes: Added SB 131

 		 




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CALL TO ORDER

ROLL CALL

APPROVAL OF MINUTES
 April 27, 2016

LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
 SB36GATTIMALPRACTICE - Provides exclusion from coverage for medical malpractice by doctor practicing outside his specialty or hospital privileges. (8/1/16) (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
 SB38GATTIMEDICAID - Provides with respect to payment of nonemergency services rendered in an emergency room to certain patients. (8/1/16) (OR -$527,452 GF EX See Note)
 SB131JOHNSHEALTH CARE - Limits costs for pharmacists services. (8/1/16)
 SB230PETERSONHEALTH SERVICES - Provides relative to the Health Education Authority of Louisiana (HEAL). (8/1/16) (EGF SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
 SB455BODI WHITEHEALTH CARE - Provides relative to emergency medical services transporting patients to medical facilities. (9/6/16)
 SB465BARROWHEALTH SERVICES - Provides relative to freestanding emergency medical care facilities. (8/1/16)
 HB123PIERRESCHOOLS - Requires high schools to keep automated external defibrillators on their premises (EN INCREASE LF EX See Note)
 HB441JACKSON-ANDREWSPHYSICIANS - Provides relative to physician participation with Medicaid managed care organizations
 HB480JACKSON-ANDREWSHEALTH SERVICES - Provides relative to the practice of telemedicine in licensed healthcare facilities
 HB482JEFFERSONCHILDREN/FOSTER CARE - Creates a task force to recommend means by which the state may better facilitate permanency for foster children
 HB488JACKSON-ANDREWSABORTION - Provides relative to qualifications of physicians who perform elective abortions
 HB494MORENOPUBLIC HEALTH - Provides relative to the membership and functions of the La. State Child Death Review Panel
 HB570SCHRODERHEALTH SERVICES - Provides relative to the practice of telemedicine
 HB662BARRASMEDICAID - Provides for a fee on emergency ground ambulance service providers (EN +$2,497,957 SD RV See Note)
 HB671MORENODRUGS/PRESCRIPTION - Provides relative to redispensing of drugs in correctional facility pharmacies
 HB680MORENOHOSPITALS - Requires healthcare services providers to conduct background checks on prospective employees
 HB763CARPENTERHUMAN SERVICES - Authorizes and provides for behavioral health intervention and stabilization units (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
 HB913CARPENTERCHILDREN/ABUSE - Adds to the membership of the Child Protection Representation Commission
 HB966GISCLAIRCEMETERIES - Provides relative to fees charged for burial at a state veterans cemetery
 HB969KENNY COXPUBLIC HEALTH - Requires adult residential care providers and nursing homes to disseminate information on shingles and pneumonia immunizations
 HB1015BERTHELOTADMINISTRATION - Changes the designation of rule making authority relative to the state fire marshal and the Department of Health and Hospitals
 HB1136LOPINTOVITAL STATISTICS - Authorizes the disclosure of vital records data to law enforcement (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)

CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE

ADJOURNMENT