Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Health and Human Services
Room:    423
Date:    Monday, February 4, 2002
Time:    10:00 AM



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         HB 1241*     provide a time limit for filing an application for county welfare assistance for hospital expenses by or on behalf of a medically indigent person.
             Representatives Brown (Jarvis), Bartling, Broderick, Davis, Hargens, McCaulley, Murschel, Peterson (Jim), Van Etten, and Van Gerpen and Senators Drake, Moore, and Putnam

         HCR 1012     Urging a reconsideration of the Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone (RU-486), an investigation into the process followed in approving this drug, and a reassessment of the drug's safety.
             Representatives Rhoden, Abdallah, Bartling, Begalka, Bradford, Broderick, Burg, Davis, Duenwald, Duniphan, Elliott, Flowers, Frost, Fryslie, Garnos, Gillespie, Glenski, Hansen (Tom), Hanson (Gary), Hargens, Heineman, Hennies (Don), Holbeck, Hundstad, Hunhoff, Jaspers, Jensen, Juhnke, Klaudt, Kloucek, Koistinen, Kooistra, Lange, Lintz, Madsen, McCaulley, McCoy, Monroe, Napoli, Pederson (Gordon), Peterson (Bill), Peterson (Jim), Pummel, Sebert, Sigdestad, Slaughter, Smidt, Solum, Sutton (Duane), Teupel, Van Etten, Van Gerpen, Van Norman, and Wick and Senators Diedrich (Larry), Albers, Apa, Bogue, Brown (Arnold), Daugaard, Diedtrich (Elmer), Drake, Greenfield, Ham, Hutmacher, Kleven, Koetzle, Koskan, Madden, McCracken, Moore, Munson, Olson (Ed), Putnam, Reedy, Staggers, Sutton (Dan), Symens, and Vitter

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