MINUTES

 

SENATE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Friday, May 22, 2009

8:00 a.m.

E1.030 (House Appropriations Room)

 

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Pursuant to suspension of Senate Rule 11.18, a public hearing of the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services was held on Friday, May 22, 2009, in the E1.030 (House Appropriations Room).

 

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MEMBERS PRESENT:

 

MEMBERS ABSENT:

Senator Jane Nelson

Senator Bob Deuell

Senator Joan Huffman

Senator Dan Patrick

Senator Carlos Uresti

Senator Royce West

 

Senator Robert Nichols

Senator Eliot Shapleigh

Senator Judith Zaffirini

 

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(On the floor on May 21, 2009, Senator Nelson moved to suspend Senate Rule 11.10 and 11.18 to take up and consider SCR 77 before the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services on May 22, 2009 in a joint hearing with the House Committee on Human Services; without objection, it was so ordered.)

 

The chair called the meeting to order at 8:11 a.m.  The following was transacted: 

 

Senator Deuell assumed the chair. 

 

The chair laid out SCR 77 and recognized the author, Senator Nelson, to explain the bill. 

 

Witnesses testifying and registering on the bill are shown on the attached list. 

 

Senator Uresti assumed the chair. 

 

Senator Deuell assumed the chair. 

 

Senator Uresti assumed the chair. 

 

Senator Deuell assumed the chair. 

 

The chair moved that the public testimony be closed; without objection, it was so ordered. 

 

Senator Nelson moved that SCR 77 be left pending; without objection, it was so ordered. 

 

Senator Nelson resumed the chair. 

 

There being no further business, at 9:58 a.m. Senator Nelson moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of the chair.  Without objection, it was so ordered. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Jane Nelson, Chair

 

 

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Kyle Baum, Clerk