Senate Standing Committee
Health and Welfare

This committee is responsible for public or private hospitals; health offices and their administration; institutions and services for the mentally retarded; mental health institutions and facilities; geriatric hospitals; nursing homes; vocational rehabilitation including vocation rehabilitation homes; alcoholic rehabilitation; Department of Health; tuberculosis sanatoriums; nurses training programs; public welfare; old age assistance; private and local institutions of public welfare; and research training and rehabilitation in the field of public welfare.