HB 55 --- Sponsor: Sater, David

Creates the Healthcare Technology Fund and the Missouri Healthcare Technology Commission

HB 66 --- Sponsor: Davis, Cynthia L. --- CoSponsor: Ruestman, Marilyn

Revises the definition of "free health clinic" as it relates to the State Legal Expense Fund

HB 182 --- Sponsor: Bruns, Mark J. --- CoSponsor: Sater, David

Establishes the Outside the Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate Act to permit the execution of do-not-resuscitate orders for use by emergency medical providers for patients receiving treatment outside a hospital

HB 209 --- Sponsor: Schaaf, Robert --- CoSponsor: Cooper, Robert Wayne

Changes the laws relating to collaborative practice privileges for certain medical students and the laws relating to physician assistant licenses

HB 216 --- Sponsor: Stevenson, Bryan P. --- CoSponsor: Dixon, Bob

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

HB 278 --- Sponsor: Roorda, Jeff --- CoSponsor: Meadows, Tim

Allows licensed ambulance services, emergency medical response agencies, and not-for-profit organizations which contract for ambulance services to establish peer review committees

HB 333 --- Sponsor: Lipke, Scott A. --- CoSponsor: Page, Sam

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

HB 340 --- Sponsor: Villa, Thomas

Removes health care providers from the mandatory exclusion from jury duty and allows the court to excuse a health care provider from jury service at the court's discretion

HB 353 --- Sponsor: Schaaf, Robert --- CoSponsor: Jetton, Rod

Changes the laws regarding fraud and abuse in the Missouri Medicaid Program

HB 378 --- Sponsor: Wildberger, Edward --- CoSponsor: Baker, Judy

Establishes the Registered Surgical Technologist Title Protection Act

HB 434 --- Sponsor: Stevenson, Bryan P. --- CoSponsor: Sander, Therese

Establishes the Health Care Rights of Conscience Act which allows a health care professional not to participate in a health care service that violates his or her conscience

HB 435 --- Sponsor: Stevenson, Bryan P. --- CoSponsor: Wallace, Maynard

Creates the crime of abuse of a vulnerable person in the first, second, and third degrees

HB 450 --- Sponsor: Baker, Judy --- CoSponsor: McClanahan, Rebecca

Establishes the Missouri Health Profession Shortage Planning Commission to develop recommendations regarding the health profession workforce

HB 497 --- Sponsor: Sater, David --- CoSponsor: Day, David

Establishes guidelines for the licensure and supervision of physician assistants

HB 512 --- Sponsor: Pratt, Bryan --- CoSponsor: Yates, Brian David

Establishes the Asbestos and Silica Claims Priorities Act

HB 534 --- Sponsor: Walsh, Regina --- CoSponsor: Wildberger, Edward

Establishes the Safe Staffing and Quality Care Accountability Act for Veterans Homes and the Safe Staffing and Quality Care Accountability Act for Mental Health Facilities

HB 569 --- Sponsor: Portwood, Dr. Charles R.

Increases the fees for copying patient care medical records

HB 579 --- Sponsor: Dempsey, Tom --- CoSponsor: Day, David

Allows for the deployment of health care professionals licensed, registered, or certified in Missouri or any other state in an emergency and grants them immunity from civil damages

HB 588 --- Sponsor: Schaaf, Robert --- CoSponsor: Page, Sam

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

HB 597 --- Sponsor: Pratt, Bryan

Creates qualifying standards for expert witnesses in certain cases, allows temporary licensing of out-of-state experts, and makes some expert testimony inadmissible and certain conduct unprofessional

HB 599 --- Sponsor: Faith, Sally A. --- CoSponsor: Dempsey, Tom

Changes the laws regarding health care liens

HB 618 --- Sponsor: Davis, Cynthia L. --- CoSponsor: Cooper, Robert Wayne

Changes the laws regarding Missouri's Good Samaritan Law by granting civil immunity to a person providing services at a free health clinic if they are within the provider's medical field

HB 640 --- Sponsor: Dixon, Bob --- CoSponsor: Wilson, Larry

Requires the registration and licensure of doctors of naturopathic medicine

HB 672 --- Sponsor: Cooper, Robert Wayne --- CoSponsor: Burnett, John P.

Changes the laws regarding the licensure of professional counselors

HB 677 --- Sponsor: Cooper, Robert Wayne --- CoSponsor: Ruestman, Marilyn

Allows licensed ambulance services, emergency medical response agencies, and not-for-profit organizations which contract for ambulance services to establish peer review committees

HB 728 --- Sponsor: Portwood, Dr. Charles R. --- CoSponsor: Threlkeld, Kevin

Specifies that under the MO HealthNET program, the successor to the Missouri Medicaid Program, providers can receive enhanced reimbursement for certain services

HB 729 --- Sponsor: Portwood, Dr. Charles R.

Prohibits health carriers from changing any diagnostic or current procedural terminology code submitted by a health care provider without the written permission of the health care provider

HB 769 --- Sponsor: Bruns, Mark J. --- CoSponsor: Bruns, Mark J.

Provides protections for vulnerable adults and children and transfers the Division of Aging from the Department of Social Services to the Department of Health and Senior Services

HB 775 --- Sponsor: Wasson, Jay

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

HB 788 --- Sponsor: Cooper, Robert Wayne --- CoSponsor: Ruestman, Marilyn

Changes the laws regarding public health emergency preparedness

HB 818 --- Sponsor: Ervin, Doug --- CoSponsor: Wilson, Kevin

Establishes the Missouri Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and changes the laws regarding the Missouri Health Insurance Pool and health care insurance

HB 833 --- Sponsor: Wasson, Jay

Changes the laws regarding the licensing of certain professionals

HB 917 --- Sponsor: Low, Beth --- CoSponsor: Talboy, Mike

Establishes Christy's Law which requires all health care personnel involved in the examination of a rape victim to inform the victim of his or her right to be tested for a date rape drug

HB 948 --- Sponsor: Schaaf, Robert

Changes the laws regarding newborn screenings and the Metabolic Formula Distribution Program

HB 999 --- Sponsor: Donnelly, Margaret --- CoSponsor: Page, Sam

Removes the requirement that a nonalcoholic antiseptic be used to cleanse the skin prior to drawing blood for a chemical blood alcohol test

HB 1055 --- Sponsor: Sander, Therese --- CoSponsor: Tilley, Steven

Changes the laws regarding sexual education instruction in public schools and establishes public awareness and services for alternatives to abortion programs

HB 1061 --- Sponsor: Cooper, Robert Wayne --- CoSponsor: Threlkeld, Kevin

Requires hospitals to report certain incidents involving patient safety to a patient safety organization for review

HB 1156 --- Sponsor: Hubbard, Rodney R. --- CoSponsor: Page, Sam

Requires direct billing by licensed practitioners for anatomic pathology services rendered

HB 1225 --- Sponsor: Cunningham, Jane

Requires an obstetric ultrasound to be conducted prior to the 24-hour waiting period for an abortion

HB 1290 --- Sponsor: Muschany, T. Scott

Changes the laws regarding medical malpractice by revising the definitions of "health care provider" and "health care services"

SB 72 --- Sponsor: Justus, Jolie L.

Enacts provisions relating to the duty of a pharmacy to fill prescriptions

SB 80 --- Sponsor: Shields, Charles W.

Modifies provisions of the Metabolic Distribution Formula Program

SB 85 --- Sponsor: Champion, Norma

Establishes a drug monitoring program and modifies existing record keeping for controlled substances and pseudoephedrine products

SB 158 --- Sponsor: Engler, Kevin

Bars entities from discriminating between licensed professional counselors

SB 159 --- Sponsor: Engler, Kevin

Modifies complaint procedures and record retention requirements for complaints against professional licensed counselors and social workers

SB 173 --- Sponsor: Ridgeway, Luann

Authorizes peer review committees for certain emergency medical services

SB 182 --- Sponsor: Green, Timothy P.

Amends requirements for workers' compensation and benefit payments

SB 196 --- Sponsor: Green, Timothy P.

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

SB 272 --- Sponsor: Scott, Delbert

Modifies the membership of the Advisory Commission for Physical Therapists

SB 273 --- Sponsor: Shields, Charles W.

Modifies various provisions relating to the State Legal Expense Fund

SB 285 --- Sponsor: Crowell, Jason

Protects the conscience rights of pharmaceutical professionals

SB 303 --- Sponsor: Loudon, John

Changes the laws regarding midwives and the practice of midwifery

SB 305 --- Sponsor: Kennedy, Harry

Creates the "Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act"

SB 314 --- Sponsor: Clemens, Dan

Licenses clinical laboratory science personnel

SB 333 --- Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill

Revises provisions relating to the renamed Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council

SB 357 --- Sponsor: Green, Timothy P.

Creates the "Marie Van Dillen Act" relating to emergency services

SB 380 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris

Provides for immunity from liability for certain health care professionals deployed during a state of emergency

SB 381 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris

Establishes regulations for discount medical plan organizations that issue health discount medical plans

SB 467 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack

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

SB 496 --- Sponsor: Koster, Chris

Revises the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

SB 513 --- Sponsor: Clemens, Dan

Allows nurses working in any area of need to qualify for the Professional and Practical Nursing Student Loan Program

SB 537 --- Sponsor: Lager, Brad

Amends the law relating to physician assistants

SB 546 --- Sponsor: Bray, Joan

Enacts the Prevention First Act

SB 556 --- Sponsor: Loudon, John

Establishes the "Missouri Health Insurance Exchange", the "Direct Payment Stop Loss Fund", and creates administrative procedure to collect unpaid medical claims

SB 577 --- Sponsor: Shields, Charles W.

Enacts the "Missouri Health Improvement Act of 2007"

SB 578 --- Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill

Requires hospitals to report adverse health events

SB 579 --- Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill

Modifies provisions relating to certificate of need

SB 604 --- Sponsor: Coleman, Maida

Modifies provisions relating to services provided during natural disaster and terrorist attacks

SB 612 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack

Modifies provisions on confidential medical test results

SB 657 --- Sponsor: Crowell, Jason

Modifies licensing requirements for nurses

SB 658 --- Sponsor: Stouffer, Bill

Establishes the "Outside the Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate Act"

SB 677 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack

Creates the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force

SB 704 --- Sponsor: Bray, Joan

Establishes the implementation of a health care quality report card

SB 705 --- Sponsor: Mayer, Robert

Modifies laws relating to emergency management

SCR 1 --- Sponsor: Bray, Joan

Encourages support and education regarding reproductive health

SCR 5 --- Sponsor: Shields, Charles W.

Recognizes November 21, 2007, as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Day (COPD) and November as COPD month in Missouri

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