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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Health Care

Whipple (Chairman), Martin, Newman, Barker, Northam

Clerk: Jocelyn R. Lance
Staff: Jessica Eades, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: February 26, 2008
Time and Place: Tuesday, 1/2 hr. after Senate adjourns, 4th Fl E Conf. Rm., G.A.B

H.B. 1400 Minor's drug test; disclosure of results.

Patron: Pogge

Disclosure of minor's drug test results.  Provides that a parent, legal guardian or person standing in loco parentis may obtain the results of any drug test of a minor or a minor's health records, except when the minor's treating physician or the minor's treating clinical psychologist has determined in the exercise of his professional judgment that the disclose of heath records or the results of any drug test of the minor would be reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to the minor or another person.  This bill also provides that a minor shall not be deemed an adult of the purpose of consenting to a drug test when the minor is not receiving outpatient care, treatment, or rehabilitation for substance abuse.

H.B. 1543 Surgical complications; requires physicians to report.

Patron: Janis

Health records; surgical complications reporting. Requires physicians to report, in writing or by electronic means, each patient who comes under his professional care and requires medical treatment or suffers death that the physician has a reasonable basis to believe is the result of an elective outpatient surgical procedure.  Complications resulting from elective outpatient surgical procedures. This bill provides that the report shall not contain any identifying information.