Senate
Record of Committee Proceedings
Committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs
Senate Bill 495
Relating to: mental health crisis intervention services; requirements for a Level I local health officer; coordination by a local board of health of activities of a sanitarian; fetal death reports; access by a coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner or medical examiner's assistant to patient health care records; confidentiality restrictions on cancer reports; service contracts under community integration programs; eliminating outdated requirements for bed assessments for nursing homes and intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded; designation by a nursing home of a person to accept service of notice or mail; required information for licenses for nursing homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating a date for posting notice about the long-term care ombudsman program; eliminating dates for determinations that nursing homes are institutions for mental diseases; resident rights and responsibilities for residents of nursing homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating dates for requesting and providing information about nursing homes; evaluations of integrated services projects; matching funds requirements for participants in integrated services projects; eliminating a requirement for a plan and report on school-community alcohol and drug abuse prevention and other services; eliminating a requirement that a person investigating a report of suspected or threatened emotional abuse of a child determine that the person responsible for the emotional damage is neglecting, refusing or unable for reasons other than poverty to remedy the harm; and prohibiting an adoptive parent from moving for relief from an order granting adoption or petitioning for a rehearing of such an order (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of health and family services).
Law Revision Committee.
March 10, 1998 Referred to committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
March 18, 1998
PUBLIC HEARING HELD
Present: (6) Senators Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Absent: (0) None.
· Kevin Lewis, DHFS
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March 18, 1998
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Present: (6) Senators Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Absent: (0) None.
Moved by Senator Breske, seconded by Senator Moore, that
Senate Bill 495
be recommended for passage.
Ayes: (6) Senators Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes: (0) None.
Absent: (0) None.
PASSAGE RECOMMENDED, Ayes 6, Noes 0, Absent 0
Melissa White
Committee Clerk
