** REVISION ** HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Public Health TIME & DATE: 8:00 AM, Tuesday, March 24, 2009 PLACE: E2.012 CHAIR: Rep. Lois Kolkhorst HB 492 Zerwas Relating to the expansion of faith- and community-based health and human services and social services initiatives. HB 1785 Kuempel Relating to the licensing of occupational therapists. HB 1802 Bohac Relating to issuing medallions for mobile food units in certain municipalities. HB 3282 Gattis Relating to cottage food production operations. HB 1409 Hopson Relating to the minimum patient age for administration of an immunization or vaccination by a pharmacist. HCR 88 Davis, John | et al. Directing the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Texas Education Agency to educate parents of adolescent Texans regarding the importance of adolescents' receiving regular physical exams and updated immunizations. HB 2382 Kolkhorst Relating to information submitted to and maintained in the immunization registry after an individual becomes an adult. HB 2383 Kolkhorst Relating to the receipt and release of immunization information by the immunization registry in connection with a disaster. HB 2163 Turner, Sylvester Relating to the provision of certain medications to children younger than 11 years of age. HB 1924 Heflin Relating to the performance of pharmacy services in certain rural hospitals. HB 2030 Zerwas Relating to the Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Program and prescription drug use under the Medicaid program. HB 1468 Chisum Relating to the regulation of funeral homes, cemeteries, and crematories; providing a criminal penalty. HB 1422 Villarreal Relating to the requirements for a funeral establishment license.

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HB 2927 Howard, Donna Relating to the regulation of cemeteries by state and local government. HB 2369 Flynn Relating to  the sale of a cemetery plot; providing a criminal penalty. HB 923 Dutton Relating to prohibiting the disposition of a decedent's remains by a person charged with certain criminal conduct against the decedent. HB 1404 Miklos Relating to the establishment and use of a columbarium by a church. HB 1067 Naishtat Relating to a memorandum of understanding between certain authorized entities to share suicide data that does not identify any individual. HB 3004 Coleman Relating to animal shelter standards; providing a civil penalty. HB 888 Naishtat Relating to the detention and examination of certain persons accepted for a preliminary mental health examination. HB 890 Naishtat Relating to the terminology used to describe certain judicial officers. IMPORTANT NOTES: In order to hear from as many witnesses as possible, we intend to limit testimony to four minutes.  Please keep this limitation in mind when preparing your testimony. The committee will recess at approximately 9:15 a.m. and the hearing will resume at a time to be specified by the chair. Bills will not necessarily be heard in the order specified above, depending upon the availability of bill authors. Bills deleted after last posting: HB 3141 HB 578