SENATE CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 178(HES):                                       
                                                                               
       An Act  adding children  under the  age of  21 who  are                 
       eligible  for  adoption assistance  because  of special                 
       needs  to  the  optional  Medicaid  coverage  list  and                 
       revising the order of priority in which groups eligible                 
       for  optional  Medicaid  coverage  are eliminated;  and                 
       providing for an effective date.                                        
                                                                               
  CO-CHAIR  DRUE  PEARCE  announced  that SCSHB  178(HES)  was                 
  before the  committee and asked  Senator Rieger to  speak to                 
  the bill.                                                                    
                                                                               
  SENATOR STEVE RIEGER spoke in support  of the bill and MOVED                 
  for passage of SCSHB 178(HES) from committee with individual                 
                                                                               
                                                                               
  recommendations  with   accompanying  fiscal   notes.     No                 
  objections being  heard, it  was REPORTED  OUT of  committee                 
  with  a  "do  pass,"  and  with  six  fiscal  note  for  the                 
  Department of Health & Social Services: #270 - $55.8; #229 -                 
   $1,165.7; #229 - $35.4; #230 -$499.6;  #243 - $25.1; #252 -                 
  +$35.4.  Co-chairs Frank and  Pearce, Senators Kelly, Jacko,                 
  Rieger and Sharp  signed "do  pass."   Senator Kerttula  was                 
  temporarily absent from the meeting and did not sign.