FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2021

March 1, 2021

Mr. Speaker:

    Your HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

HOUSE BILL 269

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

     1. On page 4, line 25, strike "290dd-d" and insert in lieu thereof "290dd-2".

     2. On page 5, line 1, strike the closing quotation mark and

between lines 1 and 2, insert the following new subsection:

          "H. For the purposes of this section, "health care

operation activities" includes administrative, financial, legal and

quality improvement activities of a covered entity that are

necessary to conduct business and to support the core functions of

treatment and payment and are limited to the activities listed in

the definition of "health care operations" at 45 C.F.R. 164.501."".,

and thence referred to the JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.