HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2006)
Bills Indexed by Subject
HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF

: Establishes the Missouri Senior Prescription Drug Plan to provide Medicare Part D gap coverage for the elderly

: Requires only operators or riders of motorcycles and motortricycles who are younger than 21 years of age to wear protective headgear and requires a study on the effects of the law to be done for three years

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to implement a Missouri women's health services program

: Changes the laws regarding immunizations for children

: Requires in-home child care providers to furnish parents of children receiving services a background check of every person in the home older than 17 years of age

: Changes the laws regarding ventilator-associated pneumonia that can originate or occur in a hospital or hospital-like setting

: Requires hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to implement an acuity-based patient classification system

: Requires manufacturers of certain toxic household products to add an aversion agent to the product as a poison prevention measure and establishes the Poison Prevention Task Force to provide oversight

: Establishes the Missouri State Diabetes Commission to develop a state strategy for the prevention, treatment, and control of diabetes

: Allocates additional funding from the Crime Victims' Compensation Fund to certain recipients

: Requires that a photograph be taken of every incarcerated person and made available to the victim upon request and allows a victim to be represented by an appointed person during parole hearings

: Establishes the Office of the Missouri Surgeon General within the Department of Health and Senior Services

: Dissolves the Advisory Committee on Poison Control and transfers its powers and certain duties to the Department of Health and Senior Services and dissolves the Committee on Radiation Control

: Authorizes a checkoff on the Missouri individual and corporate income tax forms for donations for cervical cancer awareness and treatment and the calculation for individual net operating losses

: Establishes the Manufactured Home Health and Safety Act which provides minimum standards for the maintenance, sanitation, and use of manufactured home communities

: Transfers the Missouri Head Injury Advisory Council to the Department of Health and Senior Services

: Allows the Department of Health and Senior Services to disclose certain test results and personal information to a health care provider providing treatment without the individual's consent

: Establishes the Missouri Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment Act to assist emergency services personnel and health care providers in carrying out the treatment wishes of patients

: Establishes the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies (CARE) Act and the Birth Control Protection Act and requires implementation of a women's health services program

: Requires the administrative penalties collected for a violation of the laws regarding lead abatement and lead poisoning prevention to be distributed annually to the schools of several counties

: Establishes a plan for use by the Department of Health and Senior Services to determine the amount of personal care services a residential care facility is entitled to under Title XIX

: Establishes a quality rating system for child care facilities, early childhood programs, and before and after school care programs

: Designates the State Milk Board as the official rating agency for the enforcement of standards relating to milk production

: Changes the laws regarding assisted living facilities

: Establishes the Women's Preventive Health Services Program within the Department of Health and Senior Services

: Changes the laws regarding sexual offenders

: Allows the State Registrar within the Department of Health and Senior Services to appoint a local registrar and allows instruments affecting real property in Jackson County to be recorded in Independence

: Makes the necessary statutory changes based on the transfer of the Division of Aging from the Department of Social Services to the Department of Health and Senior Services

: Prohibits the use of blinds on windows in licensed child care facilities

: Changes the laws regarding the classification of marijuana as a controlled substance and legalizes the use of marijuana for medical purposes

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

: Establishes the Missouri Commission on Prevention and Management of Obesity

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish a fee schedule for architectural plan review of new construction or alterations at certain health care facilities

: Changes the requirements for financial assistance for personal care services

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish and oversee hepatitis C testing for health care providers and first responders

: Removes the relative child exemption in the laws regarding child care licensure

: Extends the expiration date for the Technical Advisory Committee on the Quality of Patient Care and Nursing Practices from December 31, 2006, to December 31, 2011

: Requires, subject to appropriation, an expansion of the variety of kosher foods approved under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children

: Establishes the Prescription Monitoring Act to monitor the prescribing and dispensing of controlled substances

: Establishes the Unborn Child Pain Prevention Act regarding the capacity of an unborn child to experience pain during an abortion

: Requires the development of caseload standards for the departments of Health and Senior Services and Mental Health

: Establishes the Women's Health Services Program within the Department of Health and Senior Services

: Extends the expiration date of the financial assistance for the Consumer-directed Personal Care Services Program until June 30, 2008

: Limits the liability of volunteer medical professionals to actual damages and provides additional insurance coverage for legal expenses and actual damages not covered under the Legal Expense Fund

: Establishes the Umbilical Cord Blood Bank Services Program to collect and provide researchers with umbilical cord blood for scientific research on human stem cells

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Insurance Act to provide comprehensive and necessary health care services for Missouri residents

: Directs the Comprehensive Cancer Action Plan for Missouri, which is a nationwide model of effective cancer control strategies, be posted annually on the Missouri state website homepage.

: Enacts provisions relating to the capacity of an unborn child to experience pain during an abortion

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

: Relating to unused prescription drugs.

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: Prescribes requirements for assisted living facilities

: Modifies provisions of the law relating to ambulatory surgical centers

: Modifies the law relating to ombudsman volunteers

: Creates a trust fund and commission for youth smoking prevention programs

: Removes references to the Committee on Radiation Control from Chapter 192, RSMo

: Modifies provisions relating to lead abatement administrative penalties assessed by the health department

: Prohibits the use of public funds for health and social service programs that subsidize abortion services

: Relating to unused prescription drugs.

: Modifies provisions of the law relating to ambulatory surgical centers

: Establishes the "Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program"

: Establishes a prescription monitoring program

: Establishes the "Joint Committee on Health"

: Modifies various provisions relating to lead abatement

: Modifies poison control provisions

: Provides for Medicaid coverage for personal care services for persons in residential care facilities

: Alters the "special education threshold" for any school district with a higher-than-average student population with elevated blood lead levels

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

: Requires all health care providers or first responders to be tested for Hepatitis C

: Authorizes volunteer transportation services for the elderly

: Modifies provisions on confidential medical test results

: Modifies provisions on senior citizens and the disabled

: Transfers varies duties between state agencies

: Establishes a "health facilities construction plan review fee"

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

: Modifies laws on the Metabolic Formula Distribution Program

: Imposes a tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:52 am