PUBLIC HEALTH

Bills Assigned to Committee
PUBLIC HEALTH
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: Exempts mental health residential facilities and day programs accredited by the Council on Accreditation from the licensing requirements of the Department of Health.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Regulates the use of single use medical devices.

: Provides for the emergency temporary commitment of a person with active tuberculosis.

: Establishes or modifies programs on organ transplants, assistive technology, lead abatement, blindness education, and obesity awareness.

: Allows dental service agreements between the Department of Social Services and dentists providing dental services to Medicaid recipients, and creates an income tax credit for such dentists.

: Removes the prohibition on use of general revenue funds for certain Department of Health programs and includes dentists in planning for services in health care shortage areas.

: Expands the Shared Care Program in the division of aging to include persons caring for a disabled individual.

: Establishes or modifies programs on organ transplants, assistive technology, lead abatement, blindness education, and obesity awareness.

: Establishes or modifies programs on organ transplants, assistive technology, lead abatement, blindness education, and obesity awareness.

: Changes the placement of individuals found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.

: Adds varicella and hepatitis A to the list of required immunizations for children and narrows the scope of practice of emergency medical technicians.

: Adds varicella and hepatitis A to the list of required immunizations for children and narrows the scope of practice of emergency medical technicians.

: Adds certain blood tests for pregnant women and establishes Office on Women's Health.

: Establishes a pilot project for alternative licensure and incremental sanctioning of hospitals and establishes a registration program for embryo laboratories.

: Prohibits the sale of over-the-counter weight loss products in pill, tablet or capsule form to minors.

: Establishes a pilot project for alternative licensure and incremental sanctioning of hospitals and establishes a registration program for embryo laboratories.

: Adds varicella and hepatitis A to the list of required immunizations for children and narrows the scope of practice of emergency medical technicians.

: Requires pharmacies that participate in the Medicaid program to provide Medicare prescriptions at the Medicaid rate.

: Establishes or modifies programs on organ transplants, assistive technology, lead abatement, blindness education, and obesity awareness.

: Requires the Department of Health to adopt the federal Food and Drug Administration's Food Code of 1999.

: Requires the Department of Health to disclose the HIV status of certain persons.

: Makes technical intersectional reference corrections to sections 421.005 to 421.034.

: Allows the Department of Health to promote anti-obesity activities to increase public awareness about the dangers of obesity.

: Establishes or modifies programs on organ transplants, assistive technology, lead abatement, blindness education, and obesity awareness.

: Creates the Office of State Ombudsman for Mental Health Facility Residents in the Lieutenant Governor's Office.

: Requires the departments of Mental Health and Health to conduct a study on expanding the services provided to persons with brain injuries.

: Requires the Department of Health to provide the State Archives with microfilms of vital statistic records more than seventy-two years old.

: Amends the definition of "secured facility" for purposes of commitment of persons acquitted based on mental disease or defect.

: Requires hospitals to maintain certain minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.

: Requires mental hospitals and facilities to quarterly report the use of electroconvulsive therapies to the department of mental health.

: Establishes a joint interim committee to study an eye disease called macular degeneration.

: Establishes a committee to study the phenomenon of school-age children who are prescribed behavior control medication.

: Urges health care professionals and managed care plans to adopt the CDC/AAP recommendations regarding the judicious use of antibiotics.

: Requires placement of warning signs in establishments licensed to sell or serve alcoholic beverages.

: Allows the establishment of a donated dental services program for certain eligible persons.

: Establishes the Office on Women's Health within the Department of Health.

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