The committee on Children and Families reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 238
Relating to: determining eligibility of certain persons for Medical Assistance without consideration of a spouse's income or assets.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Grigsby, Seidel, Pope-Roberts, Sinicki, Berceau, Kestell, Pridemore and Spanbauer.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Grigsby, Seidel, Pope-Roberts, Sinicki, Berceau, Kestell, Pridemore and Spanbauer.
Noes: 0.
To joint committee on Finance.
Assembly Bill 780
Relating to: elimination of surplus retention limitations for residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and child welfare agencies that provide rate-based services for the Department of Children and Families or a county department of human services or social services; determination of the rates charged by those providers; establishment of a performance-based contracting system for those providers; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Grigsby, Seidel, Pope-Roberts, Sinicki, Berceau, Kestell, Pridemore and Spanbauer.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Grigsby, Seidel, Pope-Roberts, Sinicki, Berceau, Kestell, Pridemore and Spanbauer.
Noes: 0.
To joint committee on Finance.
Tamara Grigsby
Chairperson
Committee on Children and Families
The committee on Health and Healthcare Reform reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 671
Relating to: licensing anesthesiologist assistants and creating the Council on Anesthesiologist Assistants and granting rule-making authority.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Richards, Roys, Benedict, Shilling, Seidel, Pasch, Bernard Schaber, Vukmir, Rhoades, Stone, Strachota and Nygren.
Noes: 0.
Assembly Amendment 3 adoption:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Richards, Roys, Benedict, Shilling, Seidel, Pasch, Bernard Schaber, Vukmir, Rhoades, Stone, Strachota and Nygren.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Richards, Roys, Benedict, Shilling, Seidel, Pasch, Bernard Schaber, Vukmir, Rhoades, Stone, Strachota and Nygren.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 675
Relating to: hospital staff privileges for and written agreements required for nurse-midwives and allowing nurse-midwives to elect to be covered under the injured patients and families compensation fund.
Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 10 - Representatives Richards, Roys, Benedict, Shilling, Seidel, Pasch, Bernard Schaber, Rhoades, Stone and Strachota.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Vukmir and Nygren.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 10 - Representatives Richards, Roys, Benedict, Shilling, Seidel, Pasch, Bernard Schaber, Rhoades, Stone and Strachota.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Vukmir and Nygren.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Richards, Roys, Shilling, Seidel, Pasch, Bernard Schaber, Rhoades, Stone and Strachota.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Benedict, Vukmir and Nygren.
To committee on Rules.
Jon Richards
Chairperson
Committee on Health and Healthcare Reform
The committee on Judiciary and Ethics reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 224
Relating to: the reimbursement rate for private attorneys appointed by the State Public Defender.
Without recommendation (Assembly Rule
19).
Ayes: 4 - Representatives Hebl, Kessler, Cullen and Turner.
Noes: 4 - Representatives Gundrum, Kerkman, Kramer and Zipperer.
To joint committee on Finance.
Assembly Bill 810
Relating to: creating a privilege for communications to veteran mentors.
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Hebl, Kessler, Cullen, Turner, Gundrum, Kerkman, Kramer and Zipperer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill 492
Relating to: restoration to competency of a defendant (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services).
Concurrence:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Hebl, Kessler, Cullen, Turner, Gundrum, Kerkman, Kramer and Zipperer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Gary Hebl
Chairperson
Committee on Judiciary and Ethics
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Senate Bill 483
Relating to: prohibiting health insurance policies and self-insured health plans from excluding coverage for injuries based on the use of alcohol or controlled substances.
By
Senators
Jauch, Sullivan, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Taylor and Schultz; cosponsored by Representatives Pasch, Grigsby, Roys, Zepnick, Berceau, Dexter, Young and Hubler.
To committee on Health and Healthcare Reform.
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Reference Bureau Corrections
Assembly Bill 810
1. Page 2, line 18: delete "is program" and substitute "is a program".
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Chief Clerk Reports
The Chief Clerk records:
Assembly Bill 159
Assembly Bill 213
