HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF

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: Amends various provisions related to caregiver qualifications and registration.

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

: 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.

: Regulates stretcher van services.

: Changes certain provisions of the controlled substances law.

: Creates an income tax credit for owners of real estate which contains a child-occupied facility or dwelling which is involved in a lead abatement project.

: Allows governing bodies to abate certain property taxes of owners of real estate which contains a child-occupied facility or dwelling which is involved in a lead abatement project.

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

: Enacts various laws regulating ambulance services and stretcher vans.

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

: Requires certain children to receive hepatitis A immunizations.

: 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.

: Allows certain health care professionals to provide dental treatments and establishes a dental hygienist advisory commission.

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

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

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

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

: Establishes an Advisory Commission for Dental Hygienists.

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

: Establishes an advisory commission for dental hygienists and allows certain health care professionals to provide dental care.

: Establishes a life sciences research program, creates a life sciences research board, and provides for disposition of tobacco settlement moneys.

: Changes the Department of Health to the Department of Health and Senior Services and adds programs for Alzheimer's disease.

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program.

: 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.

: Creates a zero expenditure minimum for new services for purposes of the certificate of need laws.

: Enacts procedures relating to the exposure of humans to rabies or zoonotic diseases and requires the registration of primate animals.

: Makes various changes regarding certificate of need law.

: Establishes the Automated External Defibrillator Advisory Committee.

: 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.

: 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.

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

: 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.

: 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.

: Creates the Non-native Species Council.

: Relating to exposure of humans to rabies or zoonotic disease and requiring owners of non-human primates to register the animals.

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

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

: Revises the Family Care Safety Registry.

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

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

: Establishes the Tobacco Settlement Fund Commission.

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

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

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

: Establishes the Joint Committee on Health Care, Policy and Planning.

: Requires regulation of on-site sewage treatment systems.

: Creates the Department of Health and Senior Services and transfers the duties of the Division of Aging to the new Department.

: Creates a Life Sciences Research Program.

: Repeals certificate of need law and enacts law regarding "review certification".

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

: Requires vision exams for enrolling kindergarten and first grade students.

: Requires the department of health to submit a biennial report to the general assembly regarding physician employment contracts with managed care entities.

: Requires the Department of Health to make a report detailing the contractual provisions between managed care entities and nurses.

: Adds a tax on the sale of certain tobacco products to fund the Missouri Pharmaceutical Assistance Program.

: Allows expanded funding for Department of Health programs.

: Promotes Alzheimer's awareness through public recognition and increased training.

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Requires compliance with federal law in drug labeling.

: Transfers the licensure of emergency medical technicians to the Board of Registration for the Healing Arts.

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

: Requires disclosure to the Department of Health of the transfer of human fetal parts for research purposes.

: Restricts certain sales of precursors to methamphetamine.

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