Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Health and Human Services
Room:     412
Date:     Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Time:     7:45 AM



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         SB 134      provide health insurance coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices.
             Senators Turbak Berry, Adelstein, Heidepriem, Jerstad, Knudson, and Merchant and Representatives Cutler, Blake, Burg, Dennert, Dreyer, Fargen, Frerichs, Gibson, Lust, McLaughlin, Noem, Nygaard, Olson (Betty), Putnam, Romkema, Solberg, and Solum

         SB 193      expand medicaid eligibility for pregnant women upon certain conditions and to provide an appropriation therefor.
             Senators Adelstein, Bartling, Gillespie, and Miles and Representatives Blake, Dennert, McLaughlin, Moser, Pitts, Street, and Vanderlinde

         HB 1041      provide physicians with a limited permit to practice medicine within a residency program and to revise certain provisions regarding the Board of Examiners authority to administer resident certificates and resident training permits.
             The Committee on Health and Human Services at the request of the Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners

         HB 1042      permit an extension to the required examination time period allowed for certain medical licensing examinations.
             The Committee on Health and Human Services at the request of the Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners

         HB 1092      regulate the practice of genetic counseling and to prohibit the practice of genetic counseling without a license.
             Representatives Rave, Blake, Boomgarden, Burg, Cutler, Dennert, Engels, Hunhoff (Bernie), Lucas, Peters, Pitts, Rausch, Solberg, Street, Tidemann, and Vanderlinde and Senators Hunhoff (Jean), Abdallah, Adelstein, Ahlers, Bartling, Brown, Dempster, Gant, Gillespie, Gray, Hansen (Tom), Heidepriem, Jerstad, Knudson, Merchant, Miles, and Nesselhuf

         BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

         SB 92      require the physical presence of any physician scheduled to perform an abortion at the site of the abortion procedure on the day prior to the abortion procedure.
             Senators Howie, Fryslie, and Schmidt and Representatives Hunt, Brunner, Jensen, Lange, Russell, Steele, and Verchio

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         STANFORD M. ADELSTEIN, Chair