HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF

Missouri House of Representatives
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HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF
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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.

: Establishes the Mandated Health Benefit Review Commission within the Department of Insurance to review all existing and proposed mandated health benefits.

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

: Enacts various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly.

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

: Includes registered sexual offenders in the family care safety registry.

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

: Includes emergency medical technicians-intermediate serving in the City of St. Louis in the definition of "EMT-I" in section 190.100.

: Establishes a vaccination program for first responders.

: 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.

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

: Revises lead abatement statutes.

: Legalizes the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

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

: Creates the "Disposition of Fetal Remains Act".

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

: Encourages the University of Missouri-Columbia Veterinary School to establish a biosafety level 3 lab for the handling of animal and plant infectious agents.

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

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

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

: Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly.

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

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

: Creates a certificate of birth for stillborn children.

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

: Regulates the prevention and screening of lead poisoning.

: Creates the Invasive Species Council.

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

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

: Allows the Department of Health to investigate complaints of air quality in public schools.

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

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

: Authorizes the Bureau of Communicable Diseases to monitor epidemiological studies for suspected bioterrorist agents.

: Requires consent twenty-four hours prior to an abortion and proof of financial responsibility to perform abortions.

: Creates the Missouri Office of Pharmaceutical Reporting.

: Modifies the rebate amount for prescription drugs in the Missouri Senior Rx program.

: Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly.

: Allows adopted persons eighteen and older to obtain copies of their original birth certificate.

: Allows persons registering their vehicles to make a $1 donation to the organ donor program and revises parental consent notice for minors.

: Makes a technical change in the organ donation license law.

: Establishes the Missouri State Advisory Council on Pain and Symptom Management.

: Creates the "Women's Right To Know Act".

: Modifies the law relating to vital records.

: Creates the "Disposition of Fetal Remains Act".

: Requires students enrolled in institutions of higher education to receive meningitis vaccine.

: Allows the Department to levy fines for the abatement of lead poisoning.

: Extends the Family Care Safety Registry to January 1, 2007.

: Establishes mandated health benefit review commission and eliminates certain mandates from health policies.

: Modifies the law relating to the screening of genetic diseases and birth defects.

: Adds definitions for "protective oversight" and "voluntary leave" in the Omnibus Nursing Home Act.

: Modifies various provisions relating to the protection of the elderly.

: Subjects nonprofit health entities to additional review by the AG before they can convert to for-profit entities.

: Establishes the "Comprehensive Patient Education and Healthcare Cost Improvement Pilot Program".

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

: Requires license-exempt residential care facilities to provide a notice of parental responsibility.

: The state board of education shall promulgate rules regarding model school district healthy dietary guidelines.

: Modifies the law relating to the Putative Father Registry.

: Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to offer a vaccination program for first responders.

: Requires all child care facilities or programs exempt from licensure to conduct background checks on all employees.

: Establishes the Hepatitis C Task Force.

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