HEALTH, PUBLIC

Missouri House of Representatives
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HEALTH, PUBLIC
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: 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.

: Enacts the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program.

: Requires HIV testing of certain offenders.

: Authorizes the Division of Professional Registration to regulate branding and body piercing.

: Requires pharmacies to notify the Board of Pharmacy of any known mistakes in prescriptions.

: Prohibits the possession, sale or distribution of GHB or Ketamine.

: Allows for the sanctioning of a child care license for violation of any local law.

: Establishes a Children's Trust Fund home visitation program for parents under the age of twenty-one with newborns.

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

: Regulates the sale of tobacco products.

: 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.

: Includes philosophical beliefs as a basis for refusing child immunizations.

: Establishes the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and specifies the uses of the moneys in the fund.

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

: Requires the University of Missouri to award grants for spinal cord injury research.

: Requires persons convicted of intoxication-related offenses and weapons offenses to pay an additional court cost to provide funding to trauma centers.

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

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

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

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

: Prohibits the deceptive use of health-related cash discount cards.

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

: Allows a pharmacist to refuse to fill a prescription that the pharmacist has a moral reason to oppose.

: Establishes the Spinal Cord Injury Fund and creates a grant program through the University of Missouri for spinal cord injury research.

: Makes all aged, blind or disabled persons with annual incomes of up to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level eligible for medical assistance.

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

: Mandates various types of health insurance coverage.

: Creates the Missouri Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund, the Missouri Alternatives to Abortion Support Fund and the Missouri Respect Life Commission.

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

: Amends various portions of on-site sewage system law.

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

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

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to establish the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to create the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund.

: Establishes the "Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program" to provide health care benefits to all Missouri citizens.

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

: Relating to invasive species management.

: Relating to immunization.

: Establishes the Missouri Permanent Trust Fund for any tobacco settlement funds, with a contingent effective date.

: Provides an income tax credit for up to $1000 for residents of long term care facilities and home health care expenses.

: Modifies the licensure requirements of persons dealing with lead-bearing substances.

: Authorizes an obesity awareness program and permits Medicaid coverage for anti-obesity drugs.

: Provides for the licensure of home care companies by the Department of Health.

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

: Amends various portions of on-site sewage system law.

: Establishes a Needle Exchange Program within the Department of Health.

: Submits to the voters a constitutional amendment for the use of tobacco settlement moneys.

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Last Updated September 11, 2000 at 2:53 pm