2001-03-29                     Senate Journal                      Page 0853
                   First Reading and Reference of House Bills                                    
                                                                                                    
HB 81                                                                                             
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 81(FIN) BY THE HOUSE FINANCE                                                  
COMMITTEE, entitled:                                                                                
                                                                                                    
             "An Act extending the termination date of the Board                                    
             of Dental Examiners; relating to the Board of Dental                                   
             Examiners and regulation of the practice of dentistry;                                 
             and relating to dental hygienists and dental                                           
             assistants."                                                                           
                                                                                                    
was read the first time and referred to the Labor and Commerce and                                  
Finance Committees.                                                                                 
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                           Standing Committee Reports                                            
                                                                                                    
SB 37                                                                                             
The Finance Committee considered SENATE BILL NO. 37 "An Act                                         
relating to collective negotiation by physicians with health benefit                                
plans; and to health benefit plan contracts with individual competing                               
physicians" and recommended it be replaced with                                                     
                                                                                                    
             CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 37(FIN) "An Act                                                 
             relating to collective negotiation by competing                                        
             physicians with health benefit plans, to health benefit                                
             plan contracts, to the application of antitrust laws to                                
             agreements involving providers and groups of                                           
             providers affected by collective negotiations, and to                                  
             the effect of the collective negotiation provisions on                                 
             health care providers."                                                                
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Signing do pass: Senator Kelly, Cochair, Senators Wilken, Leman.                                    
Signing no recommendation: Senator Donley, Cochair, Senators                                        
Austerman, Olson, Green. Signing do not pass: Senator Hoffman.                                      
                                                                                                    
The following previously published fiscal information applies:                                      
 Fiscal Note No. 1, Department of Law