FIFTY-EIGHTH WYOMING LEGISLATURE
APPROVED INTERIM COMMITTEE STUDIES
2006 INTERIM
JOINT LABOR, HEALTH
AND SOCIAL SERVICES INTERIM COMMITTEE
Initial Approved Budget: $30,000
Topic
#1: Prevailing Wage [Topic
Assigned by Management Council].
Review prevailing wage
determination issues in the department of employment and other agencies.
Topic #2: Workforce
Development. [Note: this topic was reassigned
to the Minerals Committee by Management Council]
Topic #3: Emergency Medical
Response.
The volunteer emergency
response system is an essential gateway to the medical care system. The committee has been notified of problems
such as unreliable funding and a shortage of qualified personnel. The committee will investigate and develop
appropriate legislation to assure the availability and quality of the emergency
response system in the state's communities.
Topic #4: Dental Care.
The committee has been advised
that quality dental care is effectively unavailable to many citizens of the
state, leading to otherwise preventable health and social problems. The committee will investigate ways to
enhance the availability of dental care and the adequacy of coverage and
reimbursement rates under state-funded health plans.
Topic #5: Develop appropriate
legislation to respond to the numerous reports required by law to be given to
the committee. Among the reports the
committee will be receiving that may generate legislative activity are:
(a) Wyoming
Healthcare Commission studies, including reports on the availability and cost
of health insurance, the restructuring of the Medicaid benefit schedule
(SF0048) and medical specialty centers (SF0057);
(b) Select
committee on developmental programs final report (HB0008);
(c) Department
of Education/Developmental Disabilities Division report on developmental
preschool funding (HB0012);
(d) Department
of Health report on childhood immunizations (HB0036);
(e) Quality
child care oversight committee report (HB0092);
(f) Department
of health report on health care errors (2005 SF0113);
(g) Department
of Employment public works apprenticeship report (2004 HB0098);
(h) Department
of Health drug court report.
Topic #6: Prevailing
Wage. (Topic Assigned by Management Council)
Study the effects of
co-employee liability immunity in relation to the case of Bertagnolli vs
Lauderback.
Topic #7. Minor Studies:
(a) Technical corrections to recent major program legislation
sponsored by the committee.
(b) Possible legislation to limit or prohibit the exclusion of
health insurance coverage for claims related to the insured's participation in
clinical trials.
(c) Monitor and respond as necessary to any unanticipated federal
law/regulation changes that affect the committee's jurisdictional subjects.
(d) Workers'
compensation and unemployment insurance technical corrections.