Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Commerce
Room:    413
Date:    Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Time:    10:00 AM



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         SB 182     require certain disclosures by managed care entities.
             Senators Kloucek and Koetzle and Representatives Van Norman and Peterson (Jim)

         SB 174     establish a comprehensive health association to provide health insurance coverage to eligible persons.
             Senators Sutton (Dan), Diedrich (Larry), Moore, and Olson (Ed) and Representatives Juhnke, Bartling, Olson (Mel), and Peterson (Bill)

         SB 211     establish the Motor Fuel Fair Competition Act.
             Senators Sutton (Duane), Moore, and Symens and Representatives Juhnke and Olson (Mel)

         SB 186     impose an additional tax on certain alcoholic beverages and to distribute the revenue.
             Senators Dempster, de Hueck, Koskan, and Symens and Representatives Adelstein, Begalka, Bradford, Koistinen, Teupel, and Van Gerpen

         SB 196     establish a presumption regarding occupational diseases affecting firefighters.
             Senators Koetzle, Kloucek, and Sutton (Dan) and Representatives Miles and Lintz

         SB 197     create an infectious disease presumption regarding certain occupational disease disabilities.
             Senators Koetzle, Kloucek, and Sutton (Dan) and Representatives Miles and Lintz

         SB 222     revise the minimum loss ratio for individual health benefit plans.
             Senator Sutton (Dan) and Representatives Juhnke, Bartling, and Heineman

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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ROYAL "MAC" MCCRACKEN, Chair