DRUGS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES

Missouri House of Representatives
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DRUGS AND CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
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: Revises criminal laws.

: Requires Department of Revenue to distribute information to first time licensees relating to the dangers of drinking and driving.

: Expands eligibility for the Missouri Senior Rx Program to include seniors with catastrophic drug costs.

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

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

: Requires denial of workers' compensation payments if an employee has an accident due to alcohol or illicit drugs.

: Eliminates workers' compensation benefits to employee using drugs at the time of an accident.

: Requires insurers to issue a uniform prescription drug information card to enrollees.

: Changes the allowable supply of medication to be received by certain enrollees through a pharmaceutical plan and requires collection agencies to be informed when payments are made on patient accounts.

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

: Establishes a Medicaid Pharmacy Management Program in the Department of Social Services and a Joint Committee on Pharmacy Management.

: Increases the health insurance coverage for diabetes equipment and medications.

: Revises the definition of the practice of chiropractic.

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

: Modifies health insurance and prohibits use of public funds for abortion or human cloning.

: Authorizes creation of county crime reduction funds, creates the Missouri Sheriffs' Methamphetamine Relief Team, and modifies the St. Louis City Sheriff's Fund.

: Denies workers' compensation benefits for workers whose injuries are caused by voluntary intoxication of drugs or alcohol.

: Revises criminal laws.

: Delineates neighborhood groups, community groups, and local social services agencies rights at sentencing hearings for controlled substances offenders.

: Provides that a person may not be arrested or convicted for a crime or situation involving drugs if another becomes ill during it and they summon aid for them and stay with them until help arrives.

: Adds failing to summon aid for a sick person involuntary manslaughter if in circumstances where drug transactions are involved.

: Transfers Board of Probation and Parole and the Division of Probation and Parole to the Office of Probation and Parole within the judiciary and eliminates conditional release for certain sex crimes.

: Denies employment benefits for employees who test positive for illegal drugs.

: Enacts the Pharmacy Benefit Management Regulation Act.

: Urges Congress to pass legislation imposing price controls on the sale of prescription drugs in the United States.

: Endorses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations on the judicious use of antibiotics.

: Disqualifies individuals for unemployment compensation for failing or refusing to take a drug test.

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

: Creates a stamp tax on controlled substances.

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