Senate Health & Human Services Committee
Monday, October 19, 2026 | 12:30 p.m.
Room 8E-A, East Wing
Agenda
Call to Order
- HB 348 (Bonner) – Requiring nursing homes to provide notice to residents of their rights to hire an estate attorney.
- HB 1652 (Salisbury) – Adding Gaucher disease to Pennsylvania’s Newborn Child Screening Program.
- SB 965 (Cappelletti) – Creating a two-year Maternal Health Monitoring Pilot Program to provide remote monitoring of health conditions such as blood pressure and diabetes for pregnant women in low-access care areas.
- SR 397 (Brooks) – Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the financial and operational burdens of outdated, duplicative or unnecessary hospital regulations and recommend legislative or administrative reforms.
- Amendment A04655 – Adding requirement to study impacts of scope of practice on physicians in rural areas.
- SB 1041 (Brown) – Establishing a Medical Assistance program allowing trained family members to be reimbursed for providing complex care services to medically fragile children and other eligible recipients under registered nurse supervision.
- SR 238 (Farry) – Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study Medicaid reimbursement rates for pediatric and adult shift nursing.
- SB 1306 (Farry) – Establishing a $10M Hospital Security Grant Fund.
- SB 1453 (Ward) – Updating the list of surgical procedures permitted in ambulatory surgery centers to align with 2026 standards, and establishing an attestation process to implement new services.
- SB 1504 (Brooks) – Establishing formal and informal dispute resolution processes for hospitals to contest inspection deficiencies which impede hospital operations or result in significant penalties.
Recess to the Call of the Chair