CRITICAL ISSUES

Bills Assigned to Committee
CRITICAL ISSUES
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: Creates the crime of financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person.

: Enacts the Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act.

: Changes the allowable supply of medication to be received by certain enrollees through a pharmaceutical plan and requires collection agencies to be informed when payments are made on patient account.

: Requires health insurers to offer contraceptive coverage to enrollees at no charge or on a formulary.

: Makes it a felony to sell or attempt to sell a child.

: Prohibits the use of genetic information or test results for insurance purposes.

: Creates the office of corrections ombudsman.

: Creates crime of offender sexual abuse.

: Prohibits the acquisition, receipt, sale or transfer of fetal tissue, organs or body parts of a fetus or unborn child.

: Permits the public display of the Ten Commandments in certain public buildings.

: Enacts the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program.

: Prohibits health care providers from charging interest or fees on medical bills until thirty days after a final benefit determination is made and requires final benefit determinations.

: Allows supervisors of sheltered workshops to perform production work.

: Makes various changes in the health insurance pool.

: Creates the crime of financial exploitation of an elderly or disabled person.

: Requires certain referrals to other health care professionals after a diagnosis of cancer and requires insurance coverage.

: Creates an income tax deduction of up to two hundred dollars for otherwise nondeductible costs of health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses.

: Requires physicians to offer any pregnant woman seeking an abortion with the opportunity to view her sonogram.

: Prohibits the General Assembly from appropriating funds for assisted suicide.

: Prohibits health insurance companies from requiring a woman to go through a primary care physician for access to an obstetrician or gynecologist.

: Establishes a multicultural citizens' advisory program and committee in the office of the Lieutenant Governor.

: Requires the revocation of a physician's license for assisting in a suicide.

: Requires certain health insurance mandates to be tested in the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan first.

: Regulates the quality of patient care provided by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.

: Guarantees that a test of compelling state interest will be applied to all laws which affect the free exercise of religion.

: Prohibits the transfer of human fetal parts for valuable consideration.

: Prohibits requiring submission of certain personal information.

: Requires health carriers to offer all health plans as open referral plans and provide prescription cards if pharmaceutical coverage is provided.

: Makes various changes in health insurance laws to comply with changes in the federal law.

: Makes various changes to the managed care statutes.

: Establishes a public campaign financing system, with voluntary participation.

: Requires the Mo. Consolidated Health Care Plan to maintain adequate service networks throughout the state.

: Creates the Family and Community Investment Trust

: Enacts the "Parenting Alternatives Law" and provides for the transfer of temporary custody to the prospective adoptive parents within forty-eight hours of the birth of the child.

: Creates a Medicaid voucher program in the Department of Social Services for recipients to obtain private health insurance if it is more cost effective.

: Mandates various types of health insurance coverage.

: Requires health insurers to treat mental health and chemical dependency services in an identical manner as other medical services.

: Prohibits executive agencies from lobbying the legislature, with certain exceptions.

: Urges the United States Congress to amend certain ERISA provisions relating to insurance.

: Urges the U.S. Congress to enact legislation regarding the disciplinary provisions of IDEA.

: Declares December 15 as Bill of Rights Day.

: Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution.

: Amends the Missouri Constitution by adding an Equal Rights Amendment.

: Prohibits financial exploitation of the elderly.

: Creates the "Parenting Alternatives Law" to promote adoption as an alternative parenting option.

: Makes a technical change regarding what agency certifies a managed care organization.

: Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the delivery of in-home services for the elderly.

: Revises term limits for members of the general assembly.

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