Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Health and Human Services
Room:     423
Date:    Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Time:    10:00 AM



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         HB 1028*     revise certain provisions regarding the regulation of physician assistants.
             The Committee on Health and Human Services at the request of the Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners

         SB 119     establish a pilot project for an alternative care program for adults with substance abuse issues, to provide for a report to the Legislature, and to make an appropriation therefor.
             Senators Smidt (Orville), McCracken, McNenny, and Napoli and Representatives Tidemann, Davis, Glenski, and Rausch

         The following confirmations will be at 10:30:

         CONFIRM:    appointment of Doneen Hollingsworth, Hughes County, Pierre, South Dakota, to the position of Secretary of the Department of Health

         CONFIRM:    appointment of Deborah Bowman, Hughes County, Pierre, South Dakota, to the position of Secretary of the Department of Social Services

         CONFIRM:    appointment of Jerry Hofer, Hughes County, Pierre, South Dakota, to the position of Secretary of the Department of Human Services.    

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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TOM HANSEN, Chair