05/04/2007 01:30 PM Senate HEALTH, EDUCATION & SOCIAL SERVICES

          HB 113  OPTOMETRISTS' USE OF PHARMACEUTICALS                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
1:11:48 PM [No audio available.]                                                                                              
VICE CHAIR  THOMAS announced HB  113 to be up  for consideration.                                                               
[Before the committee was CSHB 113(HES).]                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR COWDERY moved to adopt  the proposed committee substitute                                                               
to  HB  113,  labeled  25-LS0411\O, Version  O,  as  the  working                                                               
document of the committee.   There being no objection, the motion                                                               
carried.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
VICE  CHAIR  THOMAS  commented that  public  testimony  had  been                                                               
closed on the bill in a previous meeting.                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
1:12:13 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
SYDNEY  MORGAN, staff  to Representative  Samuels, explained  two                                                               
changes to the bill: one  provision allowing injectable drugs for                                                               
anaphylactic shock effective  as soon as the bill  is passed, and                                                               
another regarding the effective date for all other injectables.                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
1:13:14 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
VICE CHAIR THOMAS explained that Chair Davis was excused from                                                                   
the meeting, and said that his intention was to pass the bill                                                                   
out of committee.                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR COWDERY  moved to report  SCS CSHB 113(HES),  referred to                                                               
as Version O, from committee  with individual recommendations and                                                               
accompanying fiscal  notes. There being no  objection, the motion                                                               
carried.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
There being no further business to come before the committee,                                                                   
Vice Chair Thomas adjourned the meeting at 1:14:40 PM.