Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Health and Human Services
Room:    423
Date:    Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Time:    10:00 AM



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         SB 147     establish a fund for the research of spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries and to create an advisory council for the disbursement of the fund.
             Senators Moore and Olson (Ed) and Representatives Michels and Hunhoff

         SB 70     prohibit discrimination against certain health care providers by health insurers.
             Senators Jaspers, Koetzle, Napoli, and Sutton (Dan) and Representatives Begalka, Christensen, Elliott, McCaulley, Nesselhuf, Novstrup, and Olson (Ryan)

         SB 184     prohibit human cloning.
             Senators Schoenbeck, Abdallah, Albers, de Hueck, Diedrich (Larry), Duenwald, Greenfield, Jaspers, Kelly, Kleven, Kloucek, Kooistra, Koskan, McCracken, Moore, Napoli, Olson (Ed), Reedy, and Sutton (Dan) and Representatives Miles, Bartling, Begalka, Bradford, Deadrick (Thomas), Elliott, Frost, Fryslie, Gillespie, Glenski, Hackl, Hanson, Heineman, Hunhoff, Juhnke, Kraus, Lange, Madsen, McCaulley, McCoy, Novstrup, Olson (Ryan), Pederson (Gordon), Rave, Rhoden, Rounds, Schafer, Sebert, Smidt, Solum, Teupel, Van Etten, Weems, and Wick

         HB 1027     provide for the discharge of an involuntarily committed person if that person no longer meets commitment criteria.
             The Committee on Health and Human Services at the request 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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KENNETH D. ALBERS, Chair