HEALTH, PUBLIC

Missouri House of Representatives
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HEALTH, PUBLIC
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: Authorizes the University of Missouri to award grants for spinal cord injury research.

: 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.

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

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

: 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.

: 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.

: Provides funding for federally qualified health centers.

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

: Requires facilities licensed by the Division of Aging to employ a food services director and requires long-term care facilities to employ a registered dietician.

: 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.

: Provides medical assistance to employed persons with disabilities pursuant to the federal Ticket to Work Act.

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

: Requires disclosure by landlords and sellers of prior methamphetamine activities on their real property.

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

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program.

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

: 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.

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

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

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

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

: Allocates a portion of any tobacco settlement moneys for a grant program to increase the availability of ventilators in long-term care facilities.

: Establishes the County Health and Safety Fund and the Healthy Missouri Trust Fund for expenditure of any tobacco settlement moneys.

: Permits court-ordered testing of persons whose bodily fluids have come in contact with certain employees.

: Establishes a joint interim committee to study the issue of suicide prevention.

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

: Creates the Non-native Species Council.

: Requires physicians who perform abortions to inform women of the link between abortion and breast cancer.

: Authorizes state support of federally qualified health centers, subject to appropriation.

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

: Provides additional protection for health care consumers.

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

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

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

: Requires regulation of on-site sewage treatment systems.

: Creates a Life Sciences Research Program.

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

: Certain DNR rules shall be no stricter than federal regulations with exceptions.

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

: Establishes purposes for Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund.

: Revises inspection provisions for beverage manufacturers and distributors.

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

: Establishes Missouri Healthy Families Trust Fund.

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Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:50 am