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Latest Action: 06/21/2008 - Effective date: June 21, 2008.

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Makes changes to the facility need review process
Latest Action: 06/17/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008.

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Provides for the denial, revocation, or nonrenewal of the license of a home health care provider under certain circumstances
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

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Provides relative to fees paid for copying medical records
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Health and Welfare.

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Provides for the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act. (8/15/08)
Latest Action: 05/19/2008 - Read by title, withdrawn from the files of the House.

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Requires health insurance coverage of the human papillomavirus vaccine (OR NO IMPACT SG EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/06/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008.

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Removes provision which allows a public body to take up a matter not on the agenda of a public meeting
Latest Action: 07/06/2008 - Effective date: July 1, 2008.

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Provides for a change in the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) formula for members of the Harbor Police Retirement System (EN INCREASE SEE NOTE)
Latest Action: 05/14/2008 - Read by title, returned to the calendar.

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(Constitutional Amendment) Provides for forfeiture of public retirement benefits by certain persons who are convicted of felony acts associated with their positions (OR SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.

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Provides relative to the agency of certain public servants for purposes of the Code of Governmental Ethics

HB883

HB883 Sponsored by Kirk Talbot
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.

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Provides for issues triable by a jury

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Latest Action: 06/30/2008 - Effective date 6/30/08.

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Provides for Alzheimer's training requirements for certain employees of adult residential care homes and long-term care facilities. (gov sig)
Latest Action: 07/06/2008 - Effective date 7/6/08.

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Provides for integrated case management through the use of "No Wrong Door." (gov sig)
Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Title of substitute adopted, becomes Senate Bill No. 810.

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Provides for Alzheimer's training requirements for certain employees of adult residential care homes and long-term care facilities. (gov sig)

SB634

SB634 Sponsored by Julie Quinn
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Rules suspended. Read by title and recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary C.

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Requires a review of health care services rendered during an emergency prior to criminal prosecution. (8/15/08)

SB446

SB446 Sponsored by Bill Cassidy
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Introduced in the Senate, rules suspended, read first and second time by title and referred to the committee on Health and Welfare.

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Provides relative to the moratorium upon the certification of additional methadone maintenance programs. (gov sig)
Latest Action: 06/02/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

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Requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to study the financial burdens of physicians in St. Tammany Parish
Latest Action: 05/29/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

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Urges and requests the House Committee on Health and Welfare and the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to evaluate the viability of establishing a medical school in the central portion of the state
Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Enrolled, signed by the Speaker of the House and taken by the Clerk of the House to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.

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Urges and requests the Department of Health and Hospitals to perform a feasibility study to determine which health care professions in areas of the state impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have experienced staffing shortages and reasonable incentives the legislature could offer to health care professionals in order to encourage employment in hurricane-impacted areas
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008.

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Provides for the licensure of adult day health care providers
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

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Limits third party access to a patient's medical or hospital records