HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
Bills Indexed by Subject
HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to offer a vaccination program for first responders deployed to disaster areas as a result of bioterrorism events.

: Prohibits immunizations and dental restorations containing mercury after April 1, 2006.

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

: Establishes a prescription monitoring program in the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Revises lead abatement statutes.

: Requires hospitals and birth centers to provide parents with information on shaken baby syndrome.

: Establishes the Disposition of Fetal Remains Act and allows the parents of a stillborn child to apply for a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth with the State Registrar of vital records.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to offer a vaccination program for first responders deployed to disaster areas as a result of bioterrorism events.

: Revises certain statutes relating to birth and death records.

: Modifies lead testing requirements to include all children less than six years of age who reside in or spend more than 10 hours a week in a high-risk area.

: Legalizes the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

: Revises the statutes relating to the forfeiture of controlled substances and drug paraphernalia.

: Authorizes the creation of a watershed improvement district in the Upper White River Basin or any county of the third classification.

: Modifies the Long-term Care Ombudsman Program.

: Enacts and modifies various provisions regarding the state foster care system.

: Enacts the Missouri Hospital Infection Control Act of 2004.

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program to provide a single, publicly financed statewide insurance program for all residents of this state.

: Establishes a program in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide preventative and primary health care services to low-income pregnant women, mothers, and children.

: Enacts the Missouri Hospital Infection Control Act of 2004.

: Revises the statutes on military discharge records and other vital records.

: Coordinates the benefits for the federal Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003.

: Allows the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish rules creating licensing and permit fees and directing where they should be deposited.

: Establishes the Women's Right to Know Act to raise public awareness about the existence and availability of emergency contraception.

: Increases the tax deduction for long-term care insurance from 50% to 100% of premiums paid and requires certain state agencies to implement strategies to increase awareness of the tax deduction.

: Revises the statutes regarding the collection of evidence of a sexual assault and the procedures used in the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault.

: Requires any sale or transfer of methamphetamine precursor drugs to be recorded and the signature of the receiver secured.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to develop and implement an abortion reduction program to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.

: Creates a tax credit for 10% of contributions to health reimbursement arrangements.

: Modifies various provisions regarding foster care and protective services for children.

: Modifies various provisions relating to lead abatement.

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

: Modifies the law relating to lead abatement.

: Creates the Missouri Office of Pharmaceutical Reporting.

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

: Creates the Invasive Species Council.

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

: Modifies laws relating to vital records and the disposition of fetal remains.

: Modifies provision relating to Alzheimer's Demonstration Project.

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

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

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

: Allows parents to refuse to vaccinate their children in certain circumstances.

: Exempts certain food sales from food inspection laws.

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

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Amends the putative father registry.

: Creates licensure requirements for end stage renal disease dialysis facilities.

: Gives the Children's Division the sole authority to license foster homes and residential facilities.

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

: Modifies the age limitation for the testing for lead poisoning in children.

: Creates the Health Care for Missouri's People program for the uninsured and under-insured.

: Creates the "Disposition of Fetal Remains Act" and allows the state registrar to issue certificates for stillborn children.

: Creates the "Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council".

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

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

: Establishes the Prescription Drug Repository Program within the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Requires entities that provide child, elder, and health care services to submit certain employment information to a database.

: Alllows physicians to jointly negotiate with certain health carriers.

: Regulates the prevention and screening of lead poisoning.

: Establishes the Missouri Area Health Education Centers program.

: Provides that the Department shall not require by rule any immunizations that are not specified in section 167.181, RSMo.

: Improves access to vital records.

: Creates the "Emergency Care for Sexual Assault Victims Act of 2004".

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Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:09 am