SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Health & Human Services

TIME & DATE:  8:00AM, Wednesday, April 2, 1997

PLACE: Senate Chamber

CHAIR: Senator Judith Zaffirini

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*  The committee will reconvene at 2 p.m. in the Capitol Auditorium.

  I.  Call to Order
 II.  Roll Call
III.  Approval of the Minutes
 IV.  To consider the following:


SB 30            Zaffirini / et al.
Relating to fraud and improper payments under the state Medicaid
program and other programs and to the creation of a criminal
offense relating to Medicaid fraud; providing penalties.

SB 84            Moncrief
Relating to the abolition of the Texas Board of Nursing Facility
Administrators and the transfer of the regulation of nursing
facility administrators to the Texas Department of Human Services;
providing penalties.

SB 361            Madla
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State Board
of Acupuncture Examiners.

SB 514            Moncrief
Relating to requiring the Health and Human Services Commission to
promulgate uniform fair hearing rules for all Medicaid funded
services.

SB 913            Sibley
Relating to the medically underserved community-state matching
incentive program.

SB 939            Ellis / et al.
Relating to control of tuberculosis in certain jail populations.

SB 957            Lindsay
Relating to billing disclosure requirements for providers of home
and community support services.

SB 1057            Zaffirini
Relating to the composition of and certain services operated by the
Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.

SB 1159            Carona
Relating to regulating personal care facilities; providing for a
civil penalty.

SB 1160            Carona
Relating to the licensing of eye banks and the use of donations of
gifts of bodies or parts; providing criminal and civil penalties.

SB 1234            Moncrief / et al.
Relating to licensure of certain publicly funded providers of home
and community support services.

SB 1243            Madla
Relating to the practice of perfusion.

SB 1247            Madla / et al.
Relating to regulation of a home and community support services agency.

SB 1248            Madla
Relating to intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded;
imposing civil and criminal penalties.

SB 1284            Gallegos
Relating to regulation of new or renovated bedding; providing
penalties.

SB 1295            Cain
Relating to licensure of certain international medical graduates
who have successfully completed a fifth pathway program.

SB 1313            Carona
Relating to the designation of licensed dietitians as service
providers under the chronically ill and disabled children's
services program.

SB 1763            Moncrief
Relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Human Services
to contract for Medicaid-certified beds in nursing facilities.

      Pending Business:


SB 55            Zaffirini / et al.
Relating to the regulation of the sale or distribution of tobacco
products; providing penalties.

SB 399            Nelson
Relating to the employment status of employees of the Texas
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.

SB 786            Madla
Relating to the authority of pharmacists to administer
immunizations.

  V.  Recess

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