MINUTES 
                                           
                     JOINT INTERIM COMMITTEE ON HEALTH SERVICES 
                                           
                              Friday, February 8, 2002 
                                     1:00 p.m. 
                                       E2.030 
                                           
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.18, a public hearing of the Joint Interim Committee on Health  
         Services was held on Friday, Feb. 8, 2002, in the Capitol  
         Extension, E2.030, Austin, Texas. 
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator Judith Zaffirini, Senate Chair  Senator Steve Ogden 
         Senator Robert Duncan                   Senator Eliot Shapleigh 
         Senator Jane Nelson                     Representative Garnet  
                                                 Coleman 
         Representative Patricia Gray, House Chair    Representative  
                                                 Craig Eiland 
         Representative Kyle Janek 
         Representative Arlene Wohlgemuth 
                                           
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         The Senate members were called to order by Chair Zaffirini, and  
         the House members were called to order by Chair Gray.  The  
         hearing came convened at 1:00 p.m., and a quorum was established  
         at 1:05 p.m. The following business was transacted: 
          
         Chair Zaffirini and Chair Gray made opening remarks and welcomed  
         members, staff and invited witnesses to the hearing. 
          
         The chairs laid out the Oct. 30, 2001, minutes and called for  
         revisions.  There being none Sen. Nelson moved their approval.   
         There being no objection, the motion prevailed by unanimous  
         consent. 
           
         The chairs called the following invited witnesses to provide  
         oral testimony: 
          
              Don Gilbert, commissioner, Health and Human Services  
              Commission, answered questions from the committee and  
              provided a detailed presentation regarding Medicaid and  
              CHIP caseloads and cost projections, reimbursement rates  
              and administration.   
          
              Jim Hine, commissioner, Department of Human Services,  
              joined Commissioner Gilbert and gave an update on the  
      
              implementation of Senate Bill 43, Children's Medicaid  
              Simplification. 
          
              Judy Denton, director, Texas Works, joined Commissioners  
              Gilbert and Hine in answering several questions from the  
              committee. 
          
         The chairs called the following public witness to provide oral  
         testimony: 
          
              Anne Dunkelberg, senior policy analyst, Center for Public  
         Policy Priorities. 
          
         With no other business to come before the committee, at 2:53  
         p.m. the chairs moved that the committee stand recessed subject  
         to the call of the chairs.  Without objection, it was so  
         ordered.   
          
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         Senator Judith Zaffirini, Senate Chair 
          
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         Representative Patricia Gray, House Chair 
          
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         Amber Martin, Senate Clerk 
          
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         Jeanette Rodriguez, House Clerk