HEALTH CARE POLICY

Bills Assigned to Committee
HEALTH CARE POLICY
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: Establishes a state suicide prevention plan and an Advisory Council on Pain and Symptom Management; requires certain mental health service plans.

: Repeals certificate of need law.

: Allows an additional exemption from immunizations for school children.

: Requires health insurance carriers to include chiropractors as providers for covered conditions under basic health care coverage.

: Enacts the Dedication to Donation Act.

: Requires informed consent at least twenty-four hours prior to an abortion and requires persons who perform abortions to maintain proof of financial responsibility.

: Modifies the requirements for health insurance coverage for clinical trials for treatment of cancer.

: Enacts the Missouri Calcium Initiative which gives purchasing preference to foods and beverages containing high levels of calcium.

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

: Enacts nurse staffing requirements for all hospitals licensed in this state.

: Establishes a state suicide prevention plan and an Advisory Council on Pain and Symptom Management; requires certain mental health service plans.

: Requires health insurers to provide coverage for children's hearing aids.

: Expands current mandated health insurance coverage to include coverage for chemical dependency.

: Changes the compensation guidelines for deputy county coroners.

: Modifies various provisions of the substance abuse traffic offender program.

: Limits the application of the certificate of need law to long-term care facilities.

: Requires health insurance provided through Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan to provide coverage for expenses for scalp hair prostheses.

: Establishes a comprehensive children's mental health services system.

: Establishes the Joint Committee on the Life Sciences.

: Requires the Department of Corrections to test incarcerated offenders for tuberculosis and infectious diseases with no right of refusal.

: Prohibits the use of public funds for health and social services programs to subsidize abortion services.

: Modifies the regulation and supervision of physician assistants.

: Changes the name of residential care facilities I and II to assisted living facilities I and II.

: Establishes a vaccination program for first responders.

: Requires health insurance coverage for Phase I and II clinical trials for cancer treatment in addition to the current coverage for Phase III and IV clinical trials for cancer treatment.

: Requires medically therapeutic circumcisions to be covered under the state Medicaid program and, if funded, nontherapeutic, elective or routine circumcisions in a nondiscriminatory manner.

: Limits the disclosure of nonpublic personal health information.

: Places restrictions on the original licensure of acute care hospitals.

: Establishes the Missouri State Advisory Council on Pain and Symptom Management in the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Establishes the Cancer Drug Repository Program in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide cancer drugs to low-income Missouri residents.

: Legalizes the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

: Creates the Life Sciences Trust Fund and the Life Sciences Board.

: Amends the requirements for the Missouri Family Trust.

: Enacts the Woman's Right to Know Act which raises public awareness and promotes appropriate counseling for emergency birth control measures.

: Enacts the Safe Staffing and Quality Care Accountability Acts.

: Creates the "Disposition of Fetal Remains Act".

: Creates the Certificate of Need Revolving Fund.

: Establishes the Missouri Rural Health Initiative and the Missouri Rural Health Services Commission in the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Urges Congress to enact a Medicare prescription drug benefit.

: Establishes March 6th as Lymphedema D-Day in Missouri.

: Creates the Comprehensive Patient Education and Healthcare Cost Improvement Pilot Program in the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Consent for Abortion.

: Establishes the Missouri Commission on Prevention and Management of Obesity.

: Establishes coordinated health program board to prevent student obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type II diabetes.

: Requires the Department of Mental Health to develop a plan to address the needs of persons with developmental disabilities who are on waitlists for services.

: Authorizes licensed ground ambulance services in Saint Louis County to provide critical care ambulance service.

: Creates the Missouri calcium initiative.

: Establishes a December 15, 2003, deadline for a Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan study which is presently required by law but has no deadline.

: Changes the procedure by which parental or guardian consent is noted for organ donation by minors.

: Modifies the amount of supplemental fees for the Substance Abuse Traffic Offender Program.

: Modifies the law relating to informed consent for experimental treatment by accredited teaching hospitals.

: Includes the use of lasers within the definition of dentistry.

: Establishes the Joint Committee on the Life Sciences.

: Requires the Department of Mental Health to develop a state suicide prevention plan.

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