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3 Document(s) [ Subject: Trauma Facilty/EMS account ]
| Committee: | House Public Health | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 81st Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Anatomical Board, Texas | Anatomical gifts | Asthma | Disease prevention | Driver Responsibility Program | Emergency management | Emergency medical services | Health care providers | Indigent health care | Medical Board, Texas | Organ and tissue donations | Prescription drugs | State employees | Trauma Facilty/EMS account | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.80 H349h | |
| Session: | 80th R.S. (2007) | |
| Online version: | View report [74 pages File size: 8,191 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Monitor and evaluate the full array of wellness initiatives undertaken by the State of Texas to include the newly adopted state employee wellness and prevention legislation (HB 1297, 80th R.S.) and a pilot program to encourage health lifestyles, such as smoking cessation within the Medicaid program (SB 10, 80th R.S.) and for state employees. Develop strategies for maximizing potential health benefits and optimizing the return on the State of Texas' investments in wellness. Include a review of other state and private sector programs for employee wellness that result in prevention cost savings. | |
| 2. | Research issues relating to the Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act (Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code) and related local health care initiatives (Chapter 534, Government Code), and make recommendations to address any imbalance between counties for the provision of health care. | |
| 3. | Review issues related to federal changes for tamper-resistant prescription pad requirements, and monitor the activity of the Texas Department of Public Safety Controlled Substances Advisory Committee in response to SB 1879, 80th R.S.. | |
| 4. | Examine issues related to the Texas Anatomical Gift Act (Chapter 692, Health and Safety Code.) | |
| 5. | Examine the status of asthma in Texas, and make recommendations to prevent asthma and to assist children and adults with asthma to more effectively manage their disease. Develop strategies for decreasing the direct medical and indirect related costs associated with asthma. | |
| 6. | Examine activities at the Texas Medical Board as they relate to the protection of public health and the practice of medicine, and the status of implementation requirements established by HB 1973, 80th R.S.. The committees should consider any findings by the Texas Sunset Commission. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Appropriations.) | |
| 7. | Examine the State of Texas' preparedness level to handle a public health emergency. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committees on Defense Affairs and State-Federal Relations.) | |
| 8. | Review the effectiveness of the Driver Responsibility Programs, and provide recommendations for increasing the collection rate of assessed penalties. Provide recommendations for amnesty and incentive programs established by the passage of SB 1723, 80th R.S.. Examine the status of Texas' current statewide trauma system infrastructure and how the system may be optimized to meet future trauma care needs in a rapidly growing state with overburdened emergency rooms. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Transportation.) | |
| 9. | Study the state's current and long-range need for physicians, dentists, nurses and other allied health and long-term care professionals. Make recommendations regarding strategies related to geographic distribution and barriers to recruitment of high-need professions, especially for primary care providers and long-term care professionals. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committees on Border and International Affairs and Appropriations.) | |
| 10. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
| Committee: | House Transportation | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Transportation, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2008 : a report to the House of Representatives, 81st Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Buses | Driver licenses | Driver Responsibility Program | Emergency medical services | Enhanced driver licenses | Graduated driver licenses | High-occupancy vehicle lanes | Homeland security | Identity requirements | Metropolitan areas | Parking facilities | Persons with disabilities | Railroad tracks | Rural areas | Teenage drivers | Traffic | Traffic safety | Trans-Texas Corridor | Transportation planning | Trauma Facilty/EMS account | Uninsured motorists | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.80 T687 | |
| Session: | 80th R.S. (2007) | |
| Online version: | View report [71 pages File size: 8,336 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Research and make recommendations to the legislature on programs to improve safety for teen drivers. | |
| 2. | Study the concept of using corridor planning organizations to provide a mechanism for local involvement in the Trans-Texas Corridor. | |
| 3. | Study and make recommendations for funding mechanisms for the Rail Relocation Fund. | |
| 4. | Study and make recommendations regarding the feasibility of a motor bus-only lane program for state highways in Texas that focuses on the use of improved shoulders as a low-speed bypass of congested highway lanes. Examine comparable laws form other states that allow transit buses to operate on state highway shoulders. | |
| 5. | Examine the role of metropolitan planning authorities in state law, as well as the creation of rural planning authorities to address the planning needs outside of metropolitan planning organizations but within council of government boundaries. | |
| 6. | Study and make recommendations for changes to statutes regarding handicapped parking. | |
| 7. | Review the effectiveness of the Driver Responsibility Program and provide recommendations for increasing the collection rate of assessed penalties. Provide recommendations for amnesty and incentive programs established by the passage of SB 1723, 80th R.S.. Examine the status of Texas' current statewide trauma system infrastructure and how the system may be optimized to meet future trauma care needs in a rapidly growing state with overburdened emergency rooms. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Public Health.) | |
| 8. | Review the current requirements for driver's license and identification card holders in Texas in order to recommend legislative measures to prevent these documents from being used to further criminal activities, and recommend ways to enhance homeland security. (Joint Interim Charge with House Committee on Defense Affairs and State-Federal Relations.) | |
| 9. | Monitor the continued implementation of the Texas Financial Responsibility Verification Program authorized by SB 1670, 79th R.S., and determine whether any further statutory enhancements are needed to reduce the number of uninsured motorists in Texas. (Joint Interim Charge with the House Committee on Insurance.) | |
| 10. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
| Committee: | Senate Finance | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim charge recommendations to the 80th Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Banks and banking | Driver Responsibility Program | Emergency medical services | Federal funds | Health care costs | Indigent health care | Medicaid | Medicaid fraud | Money transfers | Transportation planning | Transportation, Texas Department of | Trauma Facilty/EMS account | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.79 F49 | |
| Session: | 79th R.S. (2005) | |
| Online version: | View report [62 pages File size: 16,186 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review health care funding, focusing on the Medicaid program, Medicare Part D, hospital reimbursements and trauma and indigent care. | |
| 2. | Study the method through which fees are collected under the Driver's Responsibility Program in order in maximize the amount of money for trauma funding and transportation. Look specifically at collection rates and develop means to enhance them. | |
| 3. | Determine the number of commercial and consumer transactions, including wire transfers, that occur in Texas. Determine the amount of monies that are sent internationally from Texas. Study the feasibility of creating a pilot program in Harris County that captures a percentage of revenues from such transactions, and request an Opinion from the Attorney General's Office to pursue these revenues as a potential source for health care funding. | |
| 4. | Review the process by which the Texas Department of Transportation Commission allocates funds to the districts through the Allocation Program. Include a description of all scoring mechanisms used in making allocations of resources and make recommendations for maximizing the use of these funds to meet Legislative objectives. Joint Charges with Senate Transportation & Homeland Security Committee. | |
| 5. | Review the process by which the Texas Department of Transportation Commission determines which federal funding sources should be implemented to comply with funding reductions mandated by Congress. Assess the Commission's options for determining how projects that were to be funded out of these reduced revenue sources will be funded this biennium. Joint Charges with Senate Transportation & Homeland Security Committee. | |
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