CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND HEALTH

Bills Assigned to Committee
CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND HEALTH
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: Requires certain buildings to provide family restrooms.

: Requires insurance coverage for services provided by registered nurse first assistants and licensed physician assistants.

: Amends various provisions related to caregiver qualifications and registration.

: Establishes a state systemic lupus erythematosis program in the Department of Health.

: Establishes the Missouri CASA Fund.

: 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.

: Makes technical intersectional reference corrections to certain regulation of mattresses provisions.

: Requires mental hospitals and facilities to quarterly report the use of electroconvulsive therapies to the Department of Mental Health.

: Expands the Missouri Kidney Program at the University of Missouri to provide assistance for immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals to organ transplant patients.

: Revises marriage laws.

: Revises the foster care reimbursement rate.

: Expands the newborn screening requirements to include additional treatable and manageable disorders.

: Requires the Department of Health to designate centers of excellence in women's health.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Requires certain children to receive hepatitis A immunizations.

: Enacts the Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2001.

: Allows adopted adults to have access to their original birth certificates without a court order.

: Expedites the process of adopting a foster child by waiving the six-month waiting period.

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

: Creates heirloom birth certificates and marriage licenses suitable for display.

: Expands the newborn screening requirements to include potentially treatable and manageable disorders.

: Modifies grandparent visitation provisions.

: Uses tobacco settlement moneys for a smoking cessation treatment program.

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

: Creates mandatory vision screenings for first grade, kindergarten and Head Start students; provides lists of sources for such exams; funds exams for certain students.

: Adds meningitis vaccine to the list of required immunizations for school children.

: Requires the Department of Health to develop recommendations on methods of reducing medication errors.

: Changes the name of the Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to the Division of Developmental Disabilities.

: Requires the Department of Health to adopt a blood-borne pathogen standard for occupational exposure of public employees to blood and infectious materials and revises law on needle safety.

: Requires health care professionals to inform their patients about EDTA chelation therapy.

: Requires HMOs to provide direct access to ob/gyn services, bone density testing and contraceptive coverage, and notify enrollees of cancer screenings available through their insurance.

: Requires manufacturers, packers, distributors, or sellers of drugs or devices to comply with the current federal labeling requirements in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

: Establishes a pharmacy discount program for certain Medicaid eligible persons.

: Requires informed parental consent prior to the prescribing of a psychiatric medication for a minor.

: Expands the Missouri Kidney Program to provide immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals to other transplant patients.

: Creates a Pharmaceutical Investment Program for Seniors to help defray the cost of pharmaceuticals for senior citizens.

: Changes the name of the Medical School Loan Repayment Program to the Health Professional Student Loan Repayment Program and expands the program by including dentists.

: Modifies the qualifications for members of the Missouri Genetic Advisory Committee.

: Regulates the use of epinephrine auto-injector devices by emergency medical technicians.

: Modifies the income categories for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

: Makes various changes regarding sanitation in and inspection of food establishments.

: Requires the Bureau of Cancer Control to provide educational literature on prostate cancer to all males fifty years of age or older.

: Amends the statute regarding informed consent prior to the performance of an abortion.

: Requires Department of Health to publish a list of all deaths in this state since 1910.

: Requires the Department of Health to provide microfilm of all vital records 72 years old or older and microfilm of indexes of such records to the State Archives.

: Revises hospital whistle blower provision and enacts the Missouri Health Facilities Review Law.

: Establishes a Childhood Lead Testing Program in the Department of Health.

: Prohibits the use of general revenue funds for abortions, abortion services or human fetal tissue research.

: Encourages state agencies and state-funded institutions to improve access to quality health care for women.

: Creates a Child Abuse and Neglect Commission within the Office of Governor.

: Expands the current prescription drug tax credit for the elderly.

: Expedites the adoption of foster children by waiving or shortening certain waiting periods.

: Allows dental students to enroll in the loan repayment program and establishes a donated dental services program.

: Protects a parent from liability for relinquishing custody of a newborn to a medical facility.

: Corrects intersectional references in law regulating the manufacture, renovation, and sale of mattresses.

: Requires liquor licensees to post signs warning that drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause birth defects.

: Modifies membership and duties of the Organ Donation Advisory Committee and allows incresed contributions to organ donation programs.

: Allows a surviving spouse to obtain an autopsy report.

: Enacts provisions for blood-borne pathogens, external defibrillators, lupus, tuberculosis, women's health services, and childhood lead testing.

: Allows for the termination of guardianship of children in certain circumstances.

: Allows expanded funding for Department of Health programs.

: Provides for Medicaid eligibility for certain breast and cervical cancer patients.

: Requires compliance with federal law in drug labeling.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Creates a Child Abuse and Neglect Commission composed of 10 members to be appointed by the Governor.

: Declares Child Citizenship Day.

: Asks Illinois to enact a law requiring minors to obtain parental consent for abortions.

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