Minnesota Senate Health and Family Security Committee

The Committee on Health and Family Security has jurisdiction over all bills relating to health care and family security.

State Agencies

• Health, Department of: 144.011
• Human Services, Department of: 245.03
• Aging, Board on: 256.975
• Chiropractic Examiners, Board of: 148.02
• Dentistry, Board of: 150A.02
• Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board: 144E.01
• Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators, Board of: 144A.19
• Marriage and Family Therapy, Board of: 148B.30
• Medical Practice, Board of: 147.01
• Nursing, Board of: 148.181
• Optometry, Board of: 148.52
• Pharmacy, Board of: 151.02
• Podiatry, Board of: 153.02
• Psychology, Board of: 148.90
• Regional Treatment Center Review Boards (one for each regional treatment center): 253B.22
• Social Work, Board of: 148B.19
• Disability, Council on: 256.482
• Physical Therapy Council: 148.67
• Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Advisory Coucil: 254A.04
• American Indian Advisory Council: 254A.035
• Licensed Traditional Midwifery, Advisory Council on: 147D.05
• Mortuary Sciences Advisory Council: 149.02
• Plumbing Code and Examinations, Advisory Council on: 326.41
• Wells and Borings, Advisory Council on: 103I.105
• Continuing Education, Advisory Task Force on: 151.13
• Services to Persons with Mental Retardation, Related Conditions, or Physical Handicaps, Advisory Task Force for: 252.31
• State Health Advisory Task Force: 144.011
• Community Health Advisory Committee: 145A.10
• Rural Health Advisory Committee: 144.1481
• Mental Health-Mental Retardation, Ombudsman for: 245.92
• Office of Rural Health: 144.1482
• Older Minnesotans, Ombudsman for: 256.974

Confirmations

• Commissioner of Health
• Commissioner of Human Services
• Emergency Services Regulatory Board: 12 members

Other Laws

• Clean Indoor Air Act
• Compulsive Gambling
• Health Care Data Collection & Research Initiatives
• Health Maintenance Organizations
• Lead /Asbestos abatement
• Nursing Homes
• Safe Drinking Water Act
• Social Services: Foster Care, Adoption, Family Preservation, Child Protection /Abuse
• Tobacco Sales
• Vital Statistics