04/16/2009 09:00 AM Senate FINANCE

SENATE BILL NO. 10                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     "An  Act  requiring  health  care  insurers  to  provide                                                                   
     insurance  coverage  for  medical  care  received  by  a                                                                   
     patient   during   certain  approved   clinical   trials                                                                   
     designed  to  test and  improve  prevention,  diagnosis,                                                                   
     treatment,  or  palliation   of  cancer;  directing  the                                                                   
     Department  of Health  and  Social  Services to  provide                                                                   
     Medicaid  services to persons  who participate  in those                                                                   
     clinical  trials;  relating to  experimental  procedures                                                                   
     under a state  plan offered by the  Comprehensive Health                                                                   
     Insurance  Association; and  providing for an  effective                                                                   
     date."                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
9:41:24 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Stedman   noted  that  the  bill   had  been  heard                                                                   
previously and asked if members  concerns had been satisfied.                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Hoffman  MOVED  to  report  CS SB  10(HSS)  out  of                                                                   
Committee   with    individual   recommendations    and   the                                                                   
accompanying fiscal  note. There  being NO OBJECTION,  it was                                                                   
so ordered.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
CS  SB  10(HSS)  was  REPORTED   out  of  Committee  with  no                                                                   
recommendation and attached zero  note 1 by the Department of                                                                   
Health and Social  Services and zero note 2  by Department of                                                                   
Commerce, Community and Economic Development.