CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND HEALTH

Bills Assigned to Committee
CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND HEALTH
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: Enacts the Missouri Calcium Initiative which gives purchasing preference to foods and beverages containing high levels of calcium.

: Allows the Division of Family Services to provide financial assistance to not-for-profit food pantries operating throughout the state.

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

: Exempts all food sales by religious, charitable, and nonprofit organizations from the food inspection laws of this state.

: Adds the Camden County child assessment center to the list of centers funded by the Department of Social Services.

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

: Creates the Missourians Helping Missourians Trust Fund.

: Allows not-for-profit organizations to finance child and adult day care facilities.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Establishes the criteria for use of the title "registered nurse first assistant" and requires insurance coverage for the services provided by such assistants.

: Requires the implementation of a state suicide prevention plan by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Requires the Bureau of Cancer Control in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide educational material and information on prostate cancer screenings and testing.

: Requires the Department of Health to provide requesting hospitals with rape kits to aid in the identification of rape suspects.

: Establishes the rights of persons who use service animals and prohibits sexual conduct with animals.

: Exempts food sales made by religious, charitable and nonprofit organizations from the state food code laws and rules.

: Exempts certain foster parents from support thresholds on dependency exemptions.

: Allows a parent to leave a child less than thirty days old in the custody of certain professionals without subjecting themselves to criminal or civil liability.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide hospitals with rape kits.

: Revises the foster care reimbursement rate.

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

: Requires certain public buildings to provide family restrooms.

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

: Requires parental consent to prescribe birth control to minors.

: Regulates dental services provided by not-for-profit corporations.

: Enacts the "Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2002".

: Modifies the exemptions from licensure required for foster homes, residential care facilities, and child placing agencies.

: Prohibits human cloning.

: Delineates the rights and responsibilities of foster parents.

: Provides for the completion of the newborn hearing screening if the newborn is transferred to another facility before the screenings are completed.

: Requires informed consent prior to the administration of mental health treatment and services.

: Allows persons to execute an advanced directive for mental health treatment.

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

: Allows a parent to leave a child in the custody of a hospital without threat of criminal prosecution for child abandonment.

: Regulates use of psychotropic medications for school children.

: Makes developmentally appropriate phonics instruction available for all public primary school age students.

: Adds testing for various metabolic and genetic diseases to the list of newborn screenings and requires insurance coverage for such diseases.

: Enacts and amends various provisions regarding long-term care staffing, career ladder provisions, and quality of care issues.

: Requires stretcher van services to be licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Permits the disclosure of a patient's mental health records fifty years after the patient's death.

: Modifies various provisions regarding declared states of emergency.

: Modifies the uses of the moneys in the Health Document Services Fund.

: Modifies provisions regarding the confidentiality of the Department of Health and Senior Services' central registry information on genetic disorders and birth defects.

: Establishes a nurse staffing plan for hospitals.

: Increases the foster care reimbursement and adoption subsidy rate over a three-year period.

: Extends the expiration date on the Children's Health Insurance Program to July 1, 2007.

: Requires entities providing foster care services to children who are wards of the state to be reimbursed at a rate equal to one hundred percent of their actual costs.

: Provides health insurance coverage for a second opinion when a patient with a newly diagnosed cancer is referred to a specialist.

: Exempts continuing care retirement communities from the certificate of need laws.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish and administer a program for the registration of biological agents in the state.

: Requires health insurance coverage for clinical trials for treatment of cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.

: Permits the electronic creation and retrieval of birth and death records.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish nurse-to-patient staff ratios for hospitals.

: Establishes the Missouri Career Ladder Initiative Program for nurse assistants providing long-term care.

: Adds the Clay-Platte Child Assessment Center to the list of regional assessment centers funded by the Department of Social Services.

: Establishes the Office of Child Protection Information and the Child Protection Information Advisory Committee to assist persons with children who are or have received protective services.

: Modifies the provisions regarding the imposition of a processing fee for child support orders.

: Modifies various provisions relating to Missouri's certificate of need laws.

: Modifies the provisions regarding sanitation in and inspection of food establishments.

: Requires long-term care facilities to offer influenza and pneumonia vaccinations to their residents on an annual basis.

: Adds the Clay-Platte child assessment center to the list of regional assessment centers funded by the Department of Social Services.

: Creates a State Board of Naturopathic Medicine.

: Provides procedures for the comanagement of patients by optometrists and ophthalmologists.

: Modifies the provisions regarding the relocation of a child after dissolution of marriage.

: Requires the Department of Social Services to conduct or contract for an advertising campaign for the recruitment of adoptive and foster care families.

: Modifies various provisions regarding the Putative Father Registry.

: Creates a joint committee to make a comprehensive analysis of the child abuse and neglect hotline system.

: Proposes a constitutional amendment removing prohibition of public aid for religious purposes.

: Modifies production requirements for sellers of jams and jellies.

: Creates the Missouri Council on Obesity Prevention.

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

: Expands the Children's Trust Fund Board from seventeen to twenty-one members.

: Allows the state to temporarily license certain health care practitioners during a state public health emergency.

: Modifies membership and duties of the Organ Donation Advisory Committee, allows increased donations.

: Modifies the law relating to the rights of persons with service animals.

: Revises laws on foster care, child abuse, child labor, and medical records.

: Revises laws on health insurance. Permits organ donations by persons sixteen years old.

: Makes a technical correction to the statute creating the Spinal Cord Injury Fund.

: Allows electronic creation and access to birth and death records.

: Expands the uses of the Department of Health and Senior Services Document Services Fund to include costs directly attributable to the collection, processing, storage, and access to documents and data.

: Requires the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts to accept continuing medical education on autism.

: Allows the continuation of a newborn hearing screening from a transferring facility to a receiving facility.

: Creates a food recovery program to provide food to needy persons.

: Urges Congress to adopt legislation requiring Medicare to cover all oral anti-cancer drugs.

: Urges Congress to pass the reauthorization legislation for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

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