SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Health Services

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM or upon adjournment
             Tuesday, April 13, 1999

PLACE: E1.016

CHAIR: Senator Jane Nelson

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To consider the following:


SB 377            Nelson
Relating to review and implementation of health care benefits
required to be provided under certain health benefit plans.

SB 539            Moncrief
Relating to the transportation of certain persons requiring
treatment for mental illness.

SB 567            Moncrief
Relating to the penalty for disclosing a person's human
immunodeficiency virus status.

SB 664            West, Royce
Relating to the personal needs allowance for certain Medicaid
recipients who are residents of long-term care facilities.

SB 806            Ellis, Rodney
Relating to the provision of medical care services to inmates
confined by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and to certain
administrative matters pertaining to the provision of those
services.

SB 932            Madla
Relating to regulation of tattoo studios; providing penalties.

SB 982            Madla
Relating to persons authorized to provide diabetes self-management
training.

SB 1206            Cain
Relating to examinations accepted or administered for licensure of
physicians.

SB 1207            Cain
Relating to the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners and the
licensure of physicians; appropriating fees and providing
penalties.

SB 1294            Zaffirini
Relating to billing medical patients.

SB 1618            Cain
Relating to the standardization of credentialing of physicians.

HB 1033            Bosse / et al.
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Cancer
Council.

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