SENATE RULES COMMITTEE                                         
                     May 11, 1998                                              
                      7:45 p.m.                                                
                                                                               
MEMBERS PRESENT                                                                
                                                                               
Senator Tim Kelly, Chair                                                       
Senator Loren Leman, Vice Chair                                                
Senator Robin Taylor                                                           
Senator John Torgerson                                                         
Senator Jim Duncan                                                             
                                                                               
MEMBERS ABSENT                                                                 
                                                                               
All members present                                                            
                                                                               
COMMITTEE CALENDAR                                                             
                                                                               
HOUSE BILL NO. 367 am                                                          
"An Act relating to part-time public school students; and providing            
for an effective date."                                                        
                                                                               
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 490(RLS) am                                              
"An Act relating to insurance premium taxes and to insurance taxes,            
licenses, or fees imposed on certain health care insurance; and                
providing for an effective date."                                              
                                                                               
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 459(FIN) am                                              
"An Act establishing new eligibility for medical assistance for                
certain disabled persons and giving their eligibility for services             
the highest priority among optional services and groups under the              
medical assistance program; amending the definition of 'personal               
care services in a recipient's home' as used in the medical                    
assistance program; moving midwife services from being the first to            
being the 14th service eliminated under the medical assistance                 
program when there is insufficient funding; and adjusting the                  
priority of optional services and optional eligible groups under               
the medical assistance program in order to reflect the new                     
priorities given to the newly-eligible disabled persons and to                 
midwife services but without otherwise changing the relative order             
of the other optional services and optional groups."                           
                                                                               
PREVIOUS SENATE COMMITTEE ACTION                                               
                                                                               
HB 367 - See HESS minutes dated 4/17/98 and 4/22/98.                           
         Finance report 5/10/98.                                               
                                                                               
HB 490 - No previous action to record.                                         
                                                                               
HB 459 - See HESS minutes dated 4/15/98.                                       
         Finance report 5/8/98.                                                
         Rules minutes dated 5/9/98 & 5/10/98.                                 
                                                                               
ACTION NARRATIVE                                                               
TAPE 98-7 , SIDE A                                                             
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN KELLY called the Senate Rules Committee meeting to order              
at 7:45 p.m.                                                                   
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN KELLY brought HB 367 am - PART-TIME PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENT             
ENROLLMENT before the committee as the first order of business.                
                                                                               
SENATOR LEMAN moved and asked unanimous consent HB 367 am be                   
approved for calendaring at the discretion of the Chair.  Hearing              
no objection, it was so ordered.                                               
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN KELLY brought CSHB 490(RLS) am - INSURANCE TAXES,                     
LICENSES,& FEES before the committee as the next order of business.            
                                                                               
SENATOR LEMAN moved and asked unanimous consent CSHB 490(RLS) am be            
approved for calendaring at the discretion of the Chair.  Hearing              
no objection, it was so ordered.                                               
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN KELLY brought CSHB 459(FIN) am - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE:                  
DISABLED & OTHERS before the committee and directed attention to a             
proposed Rules SCS.                                                            
                                                                               
SENATOR LEMAN moved the adoption of SCS CSHB 459(RLS).  Hearing no             
objection, it was so ordered.                                                  
                                                                               
SENATOR LEMAN moved and asked unanimous consent SCS CSHB 459(RLS)              
be approved for calendaring at the discretion of the Chair.                    
Hearing no objection, it was so ordered.                                       
                                                                               
There being no further business to come before the committee, the              
meeting adjourned at 7:47 p.m.