Committee Agenda

Committee: House Health and Human Services
Room: 468
Friday, February 4, 2000
Time: 7:45 A.M.



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HB 1189      to provide for uniform prescription drug information cards.
          Representatives Fischer-Clemens and Diedtrich (Elmer) and Senators Brown (Arnold) and Lawler

HB 1279      to provide penalties for certain violations of cremation laws.
          Representatives Putnam, Broderick, Hunt, Michels, Munson (Donald), and Wudel and Senators Albers, Bogue, Drake, Frederick, and Moore

HB 1280      to increase the penalty for certain violations regarding vital records and the disposition of dead bodies.
          Representatives Putnam, Broderick, Michels, and Wudel and Senators Albers, Bogue, Drake, Frederick, and Moore

HB 1145      to provide for a Health Care Cost Task Force.
          Representatives Lucas, Burg, Cerny, Chicoine, Davis, Fischer-Clemens, Haley, Hanson, Kazmerzak, Koetzle, Lockner, McIntyre, Nachtigal, Patterson, Volesky, Waltman, and Wilson and Senators Olson, Dennert, Dunn (Rebecca), Duxbury, Flowers, Hutmacher, Kloucek, Lange, Lawler, Moore, Reedy, and Valandra

HB 1252      to require the offering and rejecting of certain health benefits in certain health benefit plans.
          Representative Earley

NOTE: The above bills will be taken up in this order for a hearing on the date noted. If circumstances do not permit a hearing on this date then a hearing will be held at the next meeting of the committee. Action on a bill may come at any time after it has had a hearing.

BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

HB 1053      to revise certain provisions relating to the practice of optometry.
          Representatives Monroe, Broderick, Diedrich (Larry), Engbrecht, Koskan, Putnam, and Sebert and Senators Benson, Flowers, Hutmacher, Kloucek, Lawler, Moore, Rounds, Staggers, and Vitter

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KRISTIE K. FIEGEN, Chair