HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                         Bill No. SB 782, 1st Eng.
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
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11  Representative(s) Harrell offered the following:
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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 1, line 13, of the bill
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17         Section 1.  (1)(a)  The Agency for Health Care
18  Administration shall create an Organ Transplant Task Force
19  within the Agency for Health Care Administration, which task
20  force must be funded by existing agency funds.
21         (b)  Task force participants shall be responsible for
22  only the expenses that they generate individually through
23  participation. The agency shall be responsible for expenses
24  incidental to the production of any required data or reports.
25         (2)  The task force shall consist of up to 15 members.
26  The task force chairperson shall be selected by majority vote
27  of a quorum present. Eight members shall constitute a quorum.
28  The membership shall include, but not be limited to, a balance
29  of members representing the Agency for Health Care
30  Administration, health care facilities that have existing
31  organ transplantation programs, individual organ transplant
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    File original & 9 copies    04/26/01                          
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HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 782, 1st Eng. Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only) 1 health care practitioners, pediatric organ transplantation 2 programs, organ procurement agencies, and organ transplant 3 recipients or family members. 4 (3) The task force shall meet for the purpose of 5 studying and making recommendations regarding current and 6 future supply of organs in relation to the number of existing 7 organ transplantation programs and the future necessity of the 8 issuance of a certificate of need for proposed organ 9 transplantation programs. At a minimum, the task force shall 10 submit a report to the Legislature which includes a summary of 11 the method of allocation and distribution of organs; a list of 12 facilities performing multiple organ transplants and the 13 number being performed; the number of Medicaid and charity 14 care patients who have received organ transplants by existing 15 organ transplant programs; suggested mechanisms for funding 16 organ transplants, which shall include, but need not limited 17 to, an organ transplant trust fund for the treatment of 18 Medicaid and charity patients; the impact of trends in health 19 care delivery and financing on organ transplantation; and the 20 number of certificates of need applications reviewed by the 21 Agency for Health Care Administration in the last 5 years, 22 including the number approved or denied and the number 23 litigated. 24 (4) The task force shall meet at the call of the 25 chairperson. The task force shall submit a report to the 26 Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the 27 House of Representatives by January 15, 2002. The task force 28 is abolished effective December 31, 2002. 29 30 31 2 File original & 9 copies 04/26/01 hbd0001 12:59 pm 00782-0081-193767
HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 782, 1st Eng. Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only) 1 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 2 And the title is amended as follows: 3 On page 1, line 2, after the semicolon 4 5 after the semicolon insert: 6 providing for the Agency for Health Care 7 Administration to create the Organ Transplant 8 Task Force to study organ transplantation 9 programs; requiring the task force to study and 10 make recommendations on the necessity of the 11 issuance of certificates of need for such 12 programs and funding for organ transplantation; 13 providing a date for the task force to report 14 to the Governor and the Legislature; 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 3 File original & 9 copies 04/26/01 hbd0001 12:59 pm 00782-0081-193767