Health and Welfare Committee Jurisdiction

To this committee shall be referred, in accordance with the rules, all legislative instruments, messages, petitions, memorials and other matters relating to the following subjects:

• Institutions, health and welfare generally.
• Hospitals, public or private.
• Health offices and their administration.
• Institutions and services for mentally retarded.
• Mental Health institutions and facilities.
• Geriatric hospitals.
• Nursing homes.
• Vocational rehabilitation including vocational rehabilitation homes.
• Alcoholic rehabilitation.
• Health and Human Resources Administration.
• Tuberculosis sanatoriums.
• Nurse's training programs.
• Public welfare.
• Old age assistance.
• Private and local institutions of public welfare.
• Research training and rehabilitation in the field of public welfare.
• Regulation, licensing, or certification of health-related occupations and professions.