07 LC 33
1959S
The House Committee on Health and Human Services offers the following
substitute to HB 203:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Chapter 2 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to the Department of Human Resources, so as to provide for the establishment of
a task force to develop a plan for education on chronic kidney disease; to
provide for membership and appointment of members to the task force; to provide
for duties and responsibilities; to provide for reports and recommendations from
such task force; to provide for related matters; to provide for automatic
repeal; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Chapter
2 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the
Department of Human Resources, is amended by adding a new Code section as
follows:
"31-2-10.
(a)
There is created within the Division of Public Health of the Department of Human
Resources the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force. The task force shall be
composed of 22 members appointed as provided in this Code section who shall
serve without compensation except for actual expenses incurred for travel on the
official business of the task force not to exceed the amount of per diem allowed
to members of the General Assembly. The task force shall not meet more than 10
days. Vacancies in the task force shall be filled by appointment in the manner
of the original appointment.
(b)
The commissioner of human resources, or his or her designee, shall be one member
of the task force and shall serve as the chairperson. The Speaker of the House
of Representatives shall appoint two members. The President Pro Tempore of the
Senate shall appoint two members. The director of the Division of Public Health
of the Department of Human Resources shall appoint two members. The commissioner
of community health shall appoint two members. The Governor shall appoint an
additional 13 members of the task force as follows:
(1)
Two Georgia nephrologists;
(2)
A citizen of Georgia who has been diagnosed with chronic kidney
disease;
(3)
A person who works for one of the major voluntary health organizations in
Georgia which seeks to prevent kidney disease;
(4)
A representative from each of the four medical schools in Georgia;
(5)
A registered nurse who specializes in nephrology;
(6)
A licensed social worker who specializes in nephrology;
(7)
A licensed dietician;
(8)
A dialysis technician; and
(9)
A nephrology technician who represents clinical laboratories.
(c)
The chairperson shall convene the first meeting of the task force before July
31, 2007.
(d)
The task force shall have the following duties and
responsibilities:
(1)
To develop a plan to educate the public and health care professionals about the
advantages and methods of early screening, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic
kidney disease and its complications based on the Kidney Disease Outcomes
Quality Initiative Clinical Practice Guidelines or other medically recognized
clinical practice guidelines;
(2)
To develop a plan to educate health care professionals about early kidney
replacement therapy education for patients, including in-center dialysis, home
hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and vascular access options and
transplantation, prior to the onset of kidney failure;
(3)
To make recommendations on the implementation of a cost-effective plan for early
screening, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic kidney disease and its
complications for the State´s population;
(4)
To provide a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly,
the Governor, and the chairpersons of the Senate and House of Representatives
Health and Human Services Committees no later than December 31, 2007;
and
(5)
To perform such other activities as the task force finds necessary or convenient
in order to accomplish its purposes under this Code section.
(e)
The Department of Human Resources shall provide to the task force necessary
staff, research, and meeting facilities.
(f)
The task force shall complete its work no later than December 31, 2007, and
shall stand abolished on January 1, 2008. This Code section shall be repealed
by operation of law on January 1, 2008."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.