Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Health and Human Services
Room:    423
Date:    Monday, February 5, 2001
Time:    10:00 AM



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         SB 231     ensure that covered persons of managed care plans receive certain health care services.
             Senators Reedy, Dennert, Duxbury, Ham, Hutmacher, Koetzle, McIntyre, Moore, Sutton (Dan), Symens, and Volesky and Representatives Nesselhuf, Bartling, Bradford, Burg, Davis, Elliott, Flowers, Hanson (Gary), Hargens, Lange, Monroe, Nachtigal, Olson (Mel), Peterson (Jim), Sigdestad, and Van Norman

         SB 244     require assisted living centers to disclose certain health care charges.
             Senators Brown (Arnold), Brosz, Dennert, Drake, and Sutton (Dan) and Representatives Smidt, Brown (Richard), Davis, Duenwald, and Pitts

         SB 245     create a health care access and preservation trust fund and to provide that earnings from the fund be used for certain health care purposes.
             Senators Brown (Arnold), Brosz, Daugaard, Drake, Ham, Hutmacher, McCracken, Olson (Ed), and Sutton (Dan) and Representatives Heineman, Pitts, and Smidt

         HB 1025*     repeal and revise certain mental health provisions pertaining to the state interagency coordinating network council and the local interagency teams.
             The Committee on Health and Human Services at the request of the Department of Human Services

         HB 1088     require the provision of health insurance coverage for diagnostic screening for prostate cancer.
             Representatives Davis, Bartling, Broderick, Hennies (Thomas), Nachtigal, Napoli, Olson (Mel), Peterson (Bill), and Solum and Senators McCracken, Albers, Brosz, Brown (Arnold), Everist, Ham, Hutmacher, Koetzle, Madden, McIntyre, Munson, and Reedy

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 a future meeting of the committee to be determined by the chair. Action on a bill may come at any time after it has had a hearing.

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KENNETH D. ALBERS, Chair