HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF

Missouri House of Representatives
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HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF
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: Requires one of the seven members of the State Board of Health to be a chiropractic physician.

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program.

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

: Bases funding for the nutritional services programs of the Division of Aging on the actual number of meals served in each area the previous fiscal year.

: 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.

: Requires long-term care facilities and adult day care programs to employ a food services director.

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

: Revises law on the licensing of nursing home administrators.

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

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

: Requires the release of information regarding Class I standard violations by nursing homes to newspapers, radio stations, and television stations.

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

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

: Enacts the Emergency Preparedness Resource Act.

: Changes requirements and regulations for emergency services and personnel.

: Changes requirements and regulations for emergency services.

: Repeals the Offices of Minority Health and Women's Health in the Department of Health and Senior Services and replaces them with the Division of Minority Health and the Division of Women's Health.

: Enacts the Disposition of Human Fetuses Act.

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding protection of the elderly.

: Increases the penalties for forcible rape and sodomy and attempted forcible rape and sodomy and prohibits bail for certain sex crimes.

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

: Establishes the Missouri Quality of Care Trust Fund to fund various long-term care initiatives and programs.

: Extends the drinking water primacy fee, authorizes bonds for various water projects, and revises water and sewer laws.

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

: Modifies various provisions regarding declared states of emergency.

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

: Allows persons treated by emergency medical care providers, health care providers, and Good Samaritans to be tested for contagious and infectious diseases.

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

: Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provisions of in-home services to the elderly.

: Provides standards for assisted living facilities.

: Enacts the Disposition of Fetal Remains Act which allows a birth mother to determine the final disposition of any fetal remains.

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

: Clarifies that the reimbursement of Department of Health and Senior Services advisory committees shall be subject to appropriations.

: 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.

: Regulates adult establishments.

: Amends various provisions regarding the reporting requirements for long-term care facilities.

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

: Expands the medical testing performed on persons delivered to the Department of Corrections.

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

: Alters the laws controlling limited liability corporations and corporations.

: 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.

: Modifies various provisions regarding the disclosure of mental health information.

: Creates the crime of transferring human fetal parts.

: Modifies the requirements for air ambulance services.

: Modifies various provisions regarding air ambulance service.

: Encourages the Division of Maternal, Child and Family Health within the Department of Health and Senior Services to raise public awareness on the use of emergency contraception.

: Requires hepatitis B testing, in addition to HIV testing, for crime victims and prisoners.

: Creates the Invasive Species Council.

: Makes a number of changes designed to protect the elderly.

: Creates the Missouri Council on Obesity Prevention.

: Creates the Missouri State Emergency Health Powers Act to address state public health emergencies.

: Requires certain facilities for children to show proof of accreditation or compliance with safety standards.

: Creates a tax credit for 25% of the unreimbursed cost of health insurance premiums paid by individuals.

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

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

: Prohibits use of genetic information and testing for insurance purposes.

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Allows adopted persons over 50 to obtain original birth certificates.

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

: Removes the religious and medical exemption limitations from childhood vaccination requirements.

: Exempts religious, charitable, and nonprofit organizations from food inspection laws in certain circumstances.

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

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

: Allows parents to refuse to immunize their children without providing certain justifications.

: Requires one member of the State Board of Health to be a chiropractor.

: Increases state emergency health powers.

: Modifies the certificate of need law.

: Defines and regulates assisted living facilities in the state.

: Creates a grant program for the establishment of an umbilical cord blood bank.

: Requires informed consent at least twenty-four hours before an abortion.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide child care facilities with a list of unsafe children's products.

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

: Revises certificate of need law and enacts a review certification procedure for acute care facilities.

: Creates a Life Sciences Research Program.

: Allows county prosecutors jurisdiction for prosecuting nuisance cases.

: Revises laws relating to ambulance districts and ambulance services.

: Authorizes the Recorder of Deeds in the City of St. Louis to be named the local registrar for birth and death records.

: 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.

: Defines and regulates assisted living facilities in the state.

: Adds a tax on the sale of certain tobacco products and creates the "Fund for Lifelong Health".

: Requires certain facilities to provide immunizations for influenza and pneumonia to elderly residents.

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

: Removes the Department of Health from dairy inspection.

: Creates the Missouri Tobacco Settlement for Healthy Families Trust Fund.

: Modifies provisions relating to air ambulance services.

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

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Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am