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Indiana Senate
May 21, 2005

Final Action

SB0030
Committees, commissions, and authorities.
Rail corridor safety committee & Lake County regional transportation )government efficiency commission removed in conference committee)
Continues the rail corridor safety committee until November 1, 2010, and requires an additional report. Reestablishes the government efficiency commission (which expired January 1, 2005) until January 1, 2006, and directs the commission to make recommendations to the governor concerning the advisability of continuing or modifying all boards and commissions. Directs the governor to review the recommendations and submit those that will improve the efficiency and operation of state government to the legislative council for its review. Adds the following members to the Lake County regional transportation authority: (1) the mayor of Valparaiso or the mayor's designee; (2) the mayor of Portage or the mayor's designee; and (3) a member of the Porter County board of commissioners or the member's designee. Provides that the members appointed from Porter County may not vote on the distribution or payment of money by the authority unless Porter County pays a share of the authority's budget. Establishes the northwest Indiana transportation, infrastructure, and economic development interim study commission.
04/28/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(49-0) S
05/04/2005 Governor Signed

SB0043
Health care provider credentialing.
Specifies a credentialing application form for use in accident and
sickness insurer and health maintenance organization provider credentialing activities. Requires certain provider notifications. Exempts certain providers.
01/04/2005 S: Author Added Beverly J. Gard
01/04/2005 S: 1st Reading Assigned Health And Provider Services
02/02/2005 S: Committee Action Pass(9-0) Health And Provider Services
02/03/2005 S: Committee Report do pass, adopted
02/03/2005 S: 2nd Author Added Billie J. Breaux
02/07/2005 S: Amendment 1 (Gard), prevailed; Voice Vote
02/07/2005 S: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
02/08/2005 S: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 90: Yeas 50, Nays 0
02/08/2005 S: Referred to the House
02/08/2005 S: House sponsor: Rep. Ripley
02/08/2005 S: Cosponsor: Rep. Pelath
03/07/2005 H: 1st Reading Assigned Insurance
03/24/2005 H: Committee Action Pass(9-0) Insurance
03/29/2005 H: 2nd Reading Pass
03/31/2005 H: 3rd Reading Pass (89-0)
03/31/2005 H: Ret 1st House No Amendments
04/07/2005 H: Signed By the Speaker
04/08/2005 S: Signed By the President Pro Tem
04/08/2005 S: Signed By the President of the Senate
04/15/2005 S: Governor Signed

SB0054
Immunity for uncompensated health services.
Immunity for uncompensated health services and advertisers or sponsors.
Provides immunity from civil liability for: (1) certain health care providers providing certain services without compensation; and (2) advertisers or sponsors of certain events.
04/26/2005 S: Ret 1st House Concur(47-0)
05/04/2005 Governor Signed

SB0076
Availability of ultrasound and fetal heart tone information
Requires a health care provider to provide a pregnant woman with information regarding the availability of ultrasound imaging and auscultation of heart tones of a fetus before performing an abortion on the pregnant woman. Allows a pregnant woman to view the fetal ultrasound imaging and hear the auscultation of the fetal heart tone before an abortion is performed.
01/04/2005 S: Author Added R. Michael Young
01/04/2005 S: Author Added Patricia L. Miller
01/04/2005 S: 1st Reading Assigned Health And Provider Services
02/16/2005 S: Committee Action Pass Amend(6-3) Health And Provider Services
02/17/2005 S: Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
02/17/2005 S: Co Author Added Brent Steele
02/21/2005 S: Second reading: ordered engrossed
02/21/2005 S: Senators Kruse and Drozda added as coauthors
02/24/2005 S: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 174: Yeas 40 and Nays 8
02/24/2005 S: Referred to the House
02/24/2005 S: House sponsor: Rep. Noe
02/24/2005 S: Cosponsor: Rep. Turner
03/08/2005 H: 1st Reading Assigned Public Policy And Veterans Affairs
03/17/2005 H: Committee Action Pass(9-0) Public Policy And Veterans Affairs
03/17/2005 H: Committee Report do pass, adopted
03/21/2005 H: 2nd Reading Pass
03/28/2005 H: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 330: Yeas 84, Nays 12
03/28/2005 H: Returned to the Senate without amendments
04/04/2005 H: Signed by the Speaker
04/05/2005 S: Signed by the President Pro Tempore
04/06/2005 S: Signed by the President of the Senate
Health And Provider Services Committee
04/19/2005 S: Governor Signed

SB0197
Reciprocity for dentists.
Decreases the period of out-of-state practice required of a dentist
applying for a license by reciprocity from five of the preceding nine
years to two of the preceding three years.
Health And Provider Services Committee
01/04/2005 S: Author Added Vi Simpson
01/04/2005 S: Author Added Thomas J. Wyss
01/04/2005 S: 1st Reading Assigned Health And Provider Services
01/12/2005 S: Committee Sched 9:30 a.m. Room 431 Health And Provider Services
01/12/2005 S: Committee Action Pass(10-0) Health And Provider Services
01/13/2005 S: Committee Report do pass, adopted
01/24/2005 S: 2nd Reading Pass
01/25/2005 S: 3rd Reading Pass (47-0)
01/25/2005 S: Sponsor Added Vaneta Becker
01/25/2005 S: Sponsor Added Charlie Brown
03/07/2005 H: 1st Reading Assigned Public Health
03/28/2005 H: Committee Sched 10:30 a.m. Room 156-C Public Health
04/04/2005 H: 2nd Reading Pass
04/05/2005 H: 3rd Reading Pass (95-0)
04/05/2005 H: Ret 1st House No Amendments
04/11/2005 H: Signed By the Speaker
04/12/2005 S: Signed By the President Pro Tem
04/13/2005 S: Signed By the President of the Senate
04/20/2005 S: Governor Signed

SB0206
Home services.
Home medical equipment services providers. (revised digest)
Requires a home medical equipment services provider to be licensed by the board of pharmacy. Authorizes the board to conduct inspections, issue licenses, discipline providers for violations, and adopt rules to: (1) specify the equipment to be regulated; (2) set standards for the licensure of services providers; (3) govern the safety and quality of services that are provided; (4) recognize certain accredited individuals for purposes of issuing a temporary license; and (5) set reasonable fees for the application, issuance, and renewal of a license. Makes conforming changes.
04/27/2005 H: Conf Report Adopted(89-0) H
04/28/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(47-0) S
05/04/2005 Governor Signed

SB0224
Independent living, home health care, and hospices
Home health care services and hospice services council. (revised digest)
Prevents a member of the home health care services and hospice services council from: (1) having an ownership interest in; or (2) serving as a voting member on the governing body of; a home health agency or a hospice. Removes the prohibition against a member having: (1) a pecuniary interest in; or (2) providing services through employment or under contract for; a home health agency or a hospice.
04/26/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(48-0) S
05/06/2005 Governor Signed

SB0268
Cloning.
Declares that human cloning is against public policy. Prohibits the state, a state educational institution, or a political subdivision of the state from using resources to knowingly participate in human cloning activities. Requires the state department of health to revoke the license of a hospital that knowingly allows human cloning activities. Requires the medical licensing board to revoke the license of a physician who knowingly participates in human cloning. Allows Indiana University to establish an adult stem cell research center. Defines adult stem cell and fetal stem cell and states that these types of stem cell research are not included in the definition of cloning. Makes: (1) the unlawful participation in; (2) the implantation of or the attempt to implant the product of; and (3) the shipment or receipt of the product of; human cloning a Class D felony. Makes the purchase or sale of a human ovum, zygote, embryo, or fetus a Class C felony.
04/28/2005 H: Conf Report Adopted(75-2) H
04/28/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(47-0) S
05/04/2005 Governor Signed

SB0293
Health related information disclosure.
Provides for disclosure of certain information concerning a missing person. Requires the state department of health to request a determination that the provision is not preempted by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
03/07/2005 H: 1st Reading Assigned Public Health
04/04/2005 H: 2nd Reading Pass
04/05/2005 H: 3rd Reading Pass (94-0)
04/05/2005 H: Ret 1st House No Amendments
04/11/2005 H: Signed By the Speaker
04/12/2005 S: Signed By the President Pro Tem
04/13/2005 S: Signed By the President of the Senate
04/20/2005 S: Governor Signed

SB0298
Administrative rules requiring fiscal review.
Makes the following changes to the administrative rulemaking statute
requiring an agency to submit a rule with an estimated economic impact greater than $500,000 to the legislative services agency (LSA) for a fiscal impact statement: (1) Requires the agency to consider the rule's annual economic impact after the rule is fully implemented. (2) Specifies that the $500,000 threshold applies to the impact on all regulated entities. (3) Requires the agency to submit to LSA a rule meeting the threshold for a fiscal impact statement not later than 50 days before the public hearing on the rule. (4) Requires the agency to consider the rule's impact on an entity that already voluntarily complies with the rule. Makes conforming changes to the statute requiring the education roundtable to determine the fiscal impact of certain recommendations it makes. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the administrative rules oversight committee.)
Governmental Affairs and Interstate Cooperation Committee
01/06/2005 S: Author Added Howard 'Luke' Kenley
01/06/2005 S: Author Added R. Michael Young
01/06/2005 S: Co Author Added Lindel O. Hume
01/06/2005 S: Co Author Added Richard D. Young, Jr.
01/06/2005 S: 1st Reading Assigned Governmental Affairs and Interstate Cooperation
01/09/2005 S: Author Added Richard D. Young, Jr.
01/09/2005 S: Author Added Lindel O. Hume
01/26/2005 S: Committee Action Pass Amend(9-0) Governmental Affairs and Interstate Cooperation
01/27/2005 S: Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
01/31/2005 S: 2nd Reading Pass
01/31/2005 S: Co Author Added Brandt Hershman
02/07/2005 S: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 65: Yeas 47, Nays 0
02/07/2005 S: Referred to the House
02/07/2005 S: House sponsor: Rep. Hinkle
02/07/2005 S: Cosponsor: Rep. Murphy and Denbo
03/07/2005 H: 1st Reading Assigned Government And Regulatory Reform
03/17/2005 H: Committee Sched 8:30 a.m. Room 156-B Government And Regulatory Reform
03/28/2005 H: 3rd Reading Pass (91-2)
03/28/2005 H: Ret 1st House Amendments
04/05/2005 S: Ret 1st House Dissent
04/05/2005 S: Ret 1st House Dissent
04/21/2005 : Conf Comm Sched 4:30 p.m. Room 233
04/28/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(50-0) S
05/12/2005 Governor Signed

SB0360
Obesity
Removes language in the morbid obesity definition that refers to weight guidelines in the Metropolitan Life Insurance table. Specifies certain requirements for coverage for surgical treatment of morbid obesity under: (1) a state employee health plan; (2) an accident and sickness insurance policy; and (3) a health maintenance organization contract. Requires monitoring of patients and reporting of specified information by physicians to the state department of health.
04/29/2005 H: Conf Report Adopted(93-0) H
04/29/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(47-0) S
05/11/2005 Governor Signed

SB0432
Long term care plan.
Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to develop a plan concerning specified issues relating to long term care and Medicaid costs and submit the plan to legislative council.
01/13/2005 S: Authored by Senator Miller
01/13/2005 S: First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
02/24/2005 S: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
02/24/2005 S: Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
02/28/2005 S: 2nd Reading Pass Amend
02/28/2005 S: Amendment #3 (Miller), prevailed; Voice Vote
02/28/2005 S: Amendment #4 (Miller), prevailed; Voice Vote
03/01/2005 S: 3rd Reading Pass (47-1)
03/01/2005 S: Sponsor Added Vaneta Becker
03/14/2005 H: 1st Reading Assigned Public Health
03/22/2005 H: Committee Action Pass Amend(9-0) Public Health
03/29/2005 H: 2nd Reading Pass
03/31/2005 H: 3rd Reading Pass (92-0)
03/31/2005 H: Ret 1st House Amendments
04/27/2005 S: 1st House Dissent Withdrawn
04/28/2005 S: Ret 1st House Concur(46-0)
05/06/2004 Governor Signed

SB0444
Methamphetamine and pharmacy security.
Requires the criminal justice institute to operate a meth watch program. Requires a law enforcement agency that terminates the operation of a methamphetamine laboratory to report the existence and location of the laboratory to the state police, fire department, and county health department. Specifies that a law enforcement agency that discovers a child less than 14 years of age at a methamphetamine laboratory must notify the division of family and children. Requires the state police to adopt guidelines and a form for the use of a retailer in recording a transaction involving ephedrine or pseudoephedrine. Requires the department of environmental management to maintain a list of persons certified to inspect or clean up property polluted by chemicals used to manufacture a controlled substance. Adds certain chemical reagents to the list of chemical reagents and precursors used in the manufacture of methamphetamine. Prohibits a retailer from selling a drug containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine: (1) to a person less than 18 years of age; and (2) in a quantity greater than three grams in one transaction. Requires a retailer to store drugs containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine: (1) behind a counter or in a locked case that makes the drugs unavailable to customers without the assistance of a store employee; or (2) directly in front of the pharmacy counter, in the line of sight of an employee behind the pharmacy counter, and in an area under constant video monitoring, if the retail establishment in which the drugs are sold is a pharmacy or contains a pharmacy that is open for business. Requires a retailer to record certain information concerning a person who purchases a drug containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine by requiring the purchaser to present identification and record certain information in a log that may be made available to law enforcement officers in accordance with state or federal law. Grants a retailer immunity from civil liability for the good faith disclosure of this information. Prohibits a person from purchasing more than three grams of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine in one week. Requires a retail distributer, wholesaler, or manufacturer to report suspicious orders to the state police, and requires a retailer to report unusual thefts to the state police. Provides that a retailer who has suffered three unusual thefts in a 30 day period must store all drugs containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine behind the counter or in a locked case for 180 days. Makes knowing or intentional violation of the ephedrine or pseudoephedrine sale or purchase restrictions a Class C misdemeanor, and enhances the penalty to a Class A misdemeanor for second or subsequent violation.
04/29/2005 H: Conf Report Adopted(95-0)
05/10/2005 Governor Signed

SB0529
Department of child services.
Department of child services and human services. (Revised digest)
Provides for review by the department of local government finance if a county does not levy the amount necessary to pay for child services or children's psychiatric residential treatment services. Extends the expiration of the office of the secretary of family and social services and its divisions to January 1, 2008. Establishes the department of child services and moves specified duties and services to the department. Adds references to the state central collection unit concerning income withholding by employers for child support payments and allows the department of child services to assess a civil penalty of $25 per obligor per pay period against certain income payors that do not make the payment through electronic funds transfer. Renames the division of family and children to the division of family resources and renames the division's bureaus. Authorizes the state to procure child services and other related services on behalf of a county. Establishes the select committee on the reorganization of child services and assigns committee duties. Requires a juvenile court to appoint a guardian ad litem for a child in need of services in certain situations. Establishes the child support bureau within the department of child services. Provides immunity to the director and employees of the department of child services. Provides that a reference to the division of family and children is to be construed as a reference to the department of child services in certain statutes. Requires local child protection services to maintain sufficient staff. Requires the department of child services to make certain reports to the budget committee and the legislative council. Changes the expiration of a license for a child caring institution and of a foster family home license from two to four years. Requires the department of child services to adopt rules governing the number of hours required for foster parent training. Allows the state police to conduct a name based criminal history check of persons who reside in a location where a child will be placed under certain circumstances. Requires the state police to verify the name based criminal history check through fingerprint identification, and permits a person who believes that the results of the name based criminal history check are incorrect to challenge the results by submitting the person's fingerprints. Removes a provision authorizing the division of family and children or a juvenile probation officer to directly conduct a criminal history check, requiring instead that the juvenile probation officer or division of family and children caseworker request that the state police conduct the criminal history check. Specifies that the department of child services, a local child protective service, a local child fatality review team, or the statewide child fatality review committee must disclose certain redacted records concerning the death or near fatality of a child regardless of when the records were created. Provides that certain information concerning the death or near fatality of a child is not required to be redacted. Requires a local child fatality review team and the statewide child fatality review committee to review records concerning a child whose death may have been the result of abuse or neglect. Specifies the circumstances under which a child's death may have been the result of abuse or neglect. Requires the department of child services, the department of education, the department of correction, and the division of mental health to develop and coordinate the children's social, emotional and behavioral health plan. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to apply for a Medicaid waiver to provide coverage for mental health services to a special needs adopted child who is not more than 18 years of age. Permits a licensed collection agency to collect child support arrearages in certain situations. Provides that the child support bureau has certain duties concerning the collection of child support arrearages by a licensed collection agency. Provides that each county auditor shall keeps records and make reports related to certain transactions and funds as required by the department of child services. Provides that the director of the department of child services is to be consulted in the appointment of a director of a county office of the division of family resources. Repeals: (1) statutes that require county offices of family and children to establish a local child protection service; (2) the designation of the child support bureau within the division of family and children as the state's designated Title IV-D agency; (3) duplicate provisions related to certain reports; and (4) statutes concerning provisional licenses for foster homes, group homes, child caring institutions, and child placing agencies. Makes technical corrections.
04/28/2005 H: Conf Report Adopted(85-1) H
04/29/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(47-0) S
05/12/2005 Governor Signed

SB0538
Lead poisoning.
Lead poisoning. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to develop: (1) measures to evaluate Medicaid managed care organizations in screening children for lead poisoning; (2) a system to maintain the results of the evaluation in written form; and (3) a performance incentive program. Removes a reference to the lead poisoning program from a communicable disease law. Requires the state department of health to adopt rules for case management of children with lead poisoning. Allows the state department of health to coordinate lead poisoning outreach programs with social service organizations. Requires reporting, monitoring, and preventive procedures to protect children from lead poisoning. Requires certain persons to submit lead testing reports to the state department of health in an electronic format. Allows certain governmental agencies to share lead testing information with each other.
01/20/2005 S: Author Added Beverly J. Gard
01/20/2005 S: 1st Reading Assigned Health And Provider Services
02/01/2005 S: 2nd Author Added Connie W. Sipes
02/01/2005 S: Co Author Added Connie Lawson
02/01/2005 S: Co Author Added Vi Simpson
02/02/2005 S: Committee Action Pass(10-0) Health And Provider Services
02/03/2005 S: Committee Report do pass, adopted
02/03/2005 S: Co Author Added Billie J. Breaux
02/14/2005 S: 2nd Reading Pass Amend
02/14/2005 S: Amendment #2 (Gard), prevailed;
02/14/2005 S: Co Author Added Timothy D. Skinner
02/15/2005 S: 3rd Reading Pass (48-0)
02/15/2005 S: Sponsor Added Vaneta Becker
03/14/2005 H: 1st Reading Assigned Public Health
03/29/2005 H: Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
04/06/2005 H: 2nd Reading Pass Amend
04/11/2005 H: 3rd Reading Pass (94-0)
04/11/2005 H: Ret 1st House Amendments
04/18/2005 S: Ret 1st House Concur(48-0)
04/26/2005 H: Signed By the Speaker
04/27/2005 S: Signed By the President Pro Tem
05/04/2005 Governor Signed

SB0572
Medicaid waiver for family planning services.
Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to apply for a
demonstration waiver to extend Medicaid coverage of family planning services for certain women.
Author: Howard 'Luke' Kenley
Author: Vi Simpson
Health And Provider Services Committee
01/20/2005 S: Author Added Howard 'Luke' Kenley
01/20/2005 S: Author Added Vi Simpson
01/20/2005 S: 1st Reading Assigned Health And Provider Services
02/14/2005 S: Co Author Added Robert L. Meeks
02/16/2005 S: Committee Sched 9:00 a.m. Room Senate Chambers Health And Provider Services
02/16/2005 S: Committee Action Pass Amend(11-0) Health And Provider Services
02/17/2005 S: Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
02/17/2005 S: Co Author Added Billie J. Breaux
02/21/2005 S: Second reading: ordered engrossed
02/22/2005 S: Senator Miller added as first author
02/22/2005 S: Senator Simpson added as second author
02/22/2005 S: Senator Simpson removed as first author
02/22/2005 S: Senators Kenley and M. Young added as coauthors
02/22/2005 S: Senator Kenley removed as second author
02/28/2005 S: 3rd Reading Pass (40-8)
02/28/2005 S: Sponsor Added Tim Brown
02/28/2005 S: Co Sponsor Added Charlie Brown
03/08/2005 H: 1st Reading Assigned Public Health
03/15/2005 H: Committee Action Pass(11-0) Public Health
03/15/2005 H: Committee Report do pass, adopted
03/21/2005 H: 2nd Reading Pass
03/21/2005 H: Second reading: ordered engrossed
03/28/2005 H: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 323: Yeas 95, Nays 0
03/28/2005 H: Returned to the Senate without amendments
04/04/2005 H: Signed By the Speaker
04/05/2005 S: Signed By the President Pro Tem
04/06/2005 S: Signed By the President of the Senate
04/13/2005 S: Governor Signed

SB0590
Electronic drug prescriptions.
Allows the: (1) electronic transmission of prescriptions and instructions related to the prescriptions; and (2) transmission of prescriptions by facsimiles for schedule III, IV, and V controlled substances. Requires that a prescription may be transmitted electronically only through the use of an electronic data intermediary. Requires the board of pharmacy to: (1) adopt rules concerning security of electronically transmitted prescription information; and (2) establish an process for approving electronic data intermediaries. Expands the requirements that must be met by a wholesale drug distributor for eligibility for licensure. Specifies prohibited acts. Specifies criminal acts related to wholesale drug distribution and legend drugs. Allows the board of pharmacy to establish an electronic pedigree pilot program.
01/20/2005 S: Author Added Marvin D. Riegsecker
01/20/2005 S: 1st Reading Assigned Economic Development and Technology
01/31/2005 S: Committee Sched 9:30 a.m. Room Senate Chamber Economic Development and Technology
01/31/2005 S: Committee Action Pass(9-0) Economic Development and Technology
01/31/2005 S: Committee Report do pass, adopted
02/03/2005 S: Co Author Added Vi Simpson
02/10/2005 S: 2nd Reading Pass Amend
02/10/2005 S: Amendment #4 (Riegsecker), prevailed; Voice Vote
02/28/2005 S: 3rd Reading Pass (48-0)
02/28/2005 S: Sponsor Added Mary Kay Budak
02/28/2005 S: Co Sponsor Added Charlie Brown
03/08/2005 H: 1st Reading Assigned Public Health
03/15/2005 H: Committee Sched 10:30 a.m. Room House Chambers Public Health
03/15/2005 H: Committee Action Pass Amend(10-0) Public Health
03/17/2005 H: Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
03/24/2005 H: 2nd Reading Pass
03/28/2005 H: 3rd Reading Pass (97-0)
03/28/2005 H: Ret 1st House Amendments
04/04/2005 S: Ret 1st House Dissent
04/04/2005 S: Ret 1st House Dissent
04/19/2005 : Conf Comm Sched 11:15 a.m. Room 130
04/27/2005 H: Conf Report Adopted(85-0) H
04/29/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(49-0) S
05/11/2005 Governor Signed

SB0591
Professions and occupations. (revised digest)
Requires members of the state psychology board and the social worker, marriage and family therapist, and mental health counselor board to meet before July 1, 2005, to establish, for recommendation to the legislative council: (1) definitions of assessment, diagnosis, psychological testing, and appraisal instrument; and (2) criteria individuals should be required to meet to be authorized to perform or use assessment, diagnosis, psychological testing, and appraisal instruments. Requires the board members to submit a report to the legislative council not later than October 1, 2005. Provides that the state psychology board may not adopt new rules to establish, maintain, and update a list of restricted psychology tests and instruments until after December 31, 2005.
04/29/2005 H: Conf Report Adopted(82-1) H
04/29/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(48-0) S
05/11/2005 Governor Signed

SB0603
Kidney disease.
Adds kidney disease to the chronic disease management program and the chronic disease registry.
01/24/2005 S: Author Added Sue Landske
01/24/2005 S: 1st Reading Assigned Health And Provider Services
02/09/2005 S: Committee Action Pass(9-0) Health And Provider Services
02/10/2005 S: Committee Report do pass, adopted
02/14/2005 S: 2nd Reading Pass
02/21/2005 S: 3rd Reading Pass (50-0)
02/21/2005 S: Sponsor Added David Nason Frizzell
02/21/2005 S: Co Sponsor Added Charlie Brown
02/21/2005 S: Co Author Added Allie V. Craycraft, Jr.
03/08/2005 H: 1st Reading Assigned Public Health
04/04/2005 H: 2nd Reading Pass
04/06/2005 H: 3rd Reading Pass (92-0)
04/06/2005 H: Ret 1st House No Amendments
04/11/2005 H: Signed By the Speaker
04/12/2005 S: Signed By the President Pro Tem
04/13/2005 S: Signed By the President of the Senate
04/20/2005 S: Governor Signed

SB0607
Professional licensing. (revised digest)
Combines the health professions bureau into the professional licensing agency. Repeals a provision concerning the health professions bureau that is similar to a provision concerning the professional licensing agency.
04/29/2005 H: Conf Report Adopted(78-1) H
04/29/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(47-1) S
05/11/2005 Governor Signed

SB0615
CHOICE board. (revised digest)
Adds additional members to, and additional duties for, the community and home options to institutional care for the elderly and disabled (CHOICE) board. Extends certain expiration dates.
04/27/2005 H: Conf Report Adopted(88-0)
04/29/2005 S: Conf Report Adopted(48-0)
05/04/2005 Governor Signed


 

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