HEALTH, PUBLIC

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

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

: Revises the requirements for course materials and instruction in public schools relating to contraception and sexually transmitted diseases

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

: Allows employers to provide or contract for health insurance benefits at a reduced deductible level for employees who do not smoke or use tobacco products

: Requires health care facilities in which a person dies to inform in writing the person transporting the dead body if the person had a contagious, infectious, or communicable disease

: Allows school nurses to keep on hand and administer prefilled syringes of epinephrine to any student who the nurse believes is having an anaphylactic reaction

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

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

: Makes persons who have been diagnosed with cancer eligible for Missouri Medicaid benefits

: Requires placement of automated external cardiac defibrillators in each high school and at school athletic events

: Requires the Governor to annually issue a proclamation designating May 10 as "Hepatitis C Awareness Day"

: Establishes the Healthy Drinks for Healthy Children Act of 2006 which limits the types of beverages that may be sold in public elementary, middle, and junior high schools

: 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

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

: Requires certain employers of 10,000 or more employees in this state to pay an assessment based on health care benefits paid for employees that do not reach a minimum expenditure level

: 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

: Provides funding for umbilical cord blood banks and non-fetal human stem cell research

: 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

: Limits certificate of need to long-term care facilities

: Changes the laws regarding barbers and barber shops

: Adds grocery and convenience stores to the list of donors that can donate food to a charity or nonprofit organization for distribution without being liable for damages resulting from the food's condition

: Provides funding for rural hospital infrastructure

: Changes the laws regarding assisted living facilities

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

: 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

: Abolishes the community advisory committee of the Missouri Foundation for Health and requires the Governor to make appointments to the foundation's board

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide the employee disqualification list to nursing or medical schools to check it against students participating in patient care services

: Establishes the Missouri Commission on Prevention and Management of Obesity

: Establishes the Asbestos and Silica Claims Priorities Act

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

: Requires the Life Sciences Research Board to award grants for the retrofitting of factory facilities for the production of supplies and technology used in human stem cell research

: Recognizes April 27th of each year as "Autism Awareness Day" and the month of April each year as "Autism Awareness Month" in Missouri.

: 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.

: Designates the tenth of May each year as "Hepatitis C Awareness Day" in Missouri.

: Creates a tax deduction for organ donation

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

: Relating to unused prescription drugs.

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: Creates an income tax deduction for organ donation

: Requires all health clubs to have at least one automated external defibrillator

: Provides Medicaid benefits to all cancer patients

: Prohibits any governmental entity from interfering with the right to obtain or use contraceptives

: Creates an income tax deduction for organ donation

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

: Provides for vocational rehabilitation referrals for Medicaid recipients receiving assistance based on disability

: Requires laboratories to calculate glomerular filtration rates when testing for kidney disease

: Repeals the June 30, 2008, Medicaid Sunset Provision

: Modifies provisions in various health care and social services programs

: Allows volunteer, out-of-state health care providers to be deployed during emergencies

: Establishes the "Joint Committee on Health"

: Requires large employers to dedicate a percentage of profits for health care costs

: Modifies poison control provisions

: Relating to "Hepatitis C Awareness Day"

: 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

: Modifies laws of Missouri Health Insurance Pool

: Raises income limit for Medical Assistance for Families recipients

: Creates the crime of "knowingly receiving, selling, or obtaining personal health information"

: Establishes the "Disabled Employee's Health Assistance Program (DEHAP)"

: Prohibits health care professionals from billing for anatomic pathology services not personally rendered

: Modifies provisions on students self-administering medication

: Modifies provisions on personal care assistance services

: Modifies provisions of the Missouri Rx Plan Advisory Commission

: Directs the Department of Social Services to establish Coordinated Care and Administrative Service Organization pilot programs

: Modifies provisions on senior citizens and the disabled

: Allows a local registrar to be an employee of either a county or city health agency

: Relates to the duty of pharmacies to fill prescriptions

: Allows sixteen-year olds to donate blood with parental permission

: Modifies definitions of ambulatory surgical centers to include certain abortion clinics

: Raises the Medicaid-eligibility level for old age assistance and permanently disabled recipients

: Creates a statewide consortium to be known as the "Umbilical Cord Blood Tissue Bank"

: Creates new Medicaid cancer benefits

: Modifies and enacts new provisions pertaining to health care facilities

: Enacts multiple provisions regarding illegal aliens

: Modifies laws on the Metabolic Formula Distribution Program

: Expresses support for Taiwan to have an observer status in the World Health Organization

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:53 am