The Senate Health and Social Services Committee heard five bills covering medical marijuana use in hospitals, chiropractic and physical therapy insurance coverage, long-term care facility ownership transparency, optometrist loan repayment eligibility, and emergency department health data collection — with no formal votes recorded on any bill and the sharpest debate centered on SB196's requirements for long-term care ownership disclosure, where industry groups argued federal reporting already covers the ground while sponsors cited risks of private equity opacity.
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Daniel Cholik (American Healthcare Association) argued that CMS transparency data expanded since 2024 to include private equity and REITs is already publicly available, updated quarterly to the public and monthly to the state, making SB196 duplicative. David Parkinson (Laurelton) similarly argued the information required by the bill is already submitted annually in the assisted living license application to DHCQ. Senator Mantzavinos countered: 'I think we've seen some federal agencies sometimes reverse course on posting information on websites. And we just want to make sure that going forward the state has the tools it needs in this space.'
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“The amendment does two things. One fixes an error that was in the original bill which would have included much more than just inpatient hospitals, which was not the intention of the bill. The intent was just for this to be inpatient acute care hospitals. And so the first amendment tailors this bill specifically to our hospitals. And then the second part of the amendment addresses concerns that medical society had with which would just make sure that the attending physicians were aware that patients had medical cannabis in the hospitals and would be utilizing it.”
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Sign in to subscribeGood morning. Welcome back. After that. Good morning and welcome back to the Senate Health and Social Services Committee. As chair of the committee and in accordance with Senate rules, this committee is authorized to meet in a hybrid format. Committee members and members of the public can participate either in person or virtually through the zoom webinar. Let's begin today's meeting by taking an attendance roll call of committees. Present myself, Senator Pinckney. Chair is present. Senator Townsend, Senator Hanson, Senator Huxtable, Senator Poore will be here momentarily. Senator Siegfried, Senator Buckson and Senator Wilson. All right. With sufficient number of members present, the Health and Social Services Committee will move to the agenda. First, we will review draft minutes from January 21, 20, 20, 26, last our last meeting. If there are any questions on the minutes, I will take those. Otherwise I'd entertain a motion to approve the minutes moved by Senator Townsend, seconded by Senator Huxtable. The minutes are approved. Thank you very much. We'll move right into the agenda. I have the first bill this morning. It is Senate Bill 226. This bill is coming back to us. I believe I had it in committee…
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