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CS/SB 1240: Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

GENERAL BILL by Health Policy ; Richter ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Bean ; Sobel

Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing; Requiring health care providers to provide an opportunity for a child’s parent or legal guardian to provide contact information so that he or she may receive information from specified service providers when the hearing loss is identified; requiring the Department of Health to register certain service providers and institutions; allowing a parent or legal guardian to request services from a participating service provider; providing that the level of services received is based on the child’s individualized education program or individual and family service plan, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2013
 Last Action: 5/3/2013 Senate - Died in Education
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Health Policy (HP)
  2. Education (ED)
  3. Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (AHS)
  4. Appropriations (AP)


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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
2/27/2013 Senate • Filed
3/1/2013 Senate • Referred to Health Policy; Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 92
3/5/2013 Senate • Introduced -SJ 92
3/15/2013 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/20/13, 3:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
3/20/2013 Senate • CS by Health Policy; YEAS 8 NAYS 1 -SJ 240
3/22/2013 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
3/25/2013 Senate • CS by Health Policy read 1st time -SJ 252
3/27/2013 Senate • Now in Education -SJ 240
5/3/2013 Senate • Died in Education