SENATE BILL NO. 8                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act relating  to a mental health patient's  right to                                                                   
     choose the  gender of hospital staff  providing intimate                                                                   
     care to the  mental health patient and to  the duties of                                                                   
     hospital staff  in caring for patients  receiving mental                                                                   
     health treatment."                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  BETTYE DAVIS,  bill sponsor,  thanked the  Committee                                                                   
for  hearing   the  bill  and   declared  the  bill   had  no                                                                   
opposition.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Hoffman Moved  to Report  CSSB 8  out of  Committee                                                                   
with  individual  recommendations   and  accompanying  fiscal                                                                   
notes. There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
CSSB  8  (FIN)   was  REPORTED  out  of  Committee   with  no                                                                   
recommendations and  accompanying new zero fiscal  notes from                                                                   
the Department  of Corrections  and the Department  of Health                                                                   
and Social services.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
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