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Government
Pending Legislation
State Legislation - Senate Bills
SB 16 Cultural Competency(Tavares, C.) To require certain health care professionals to complete instruction in cultural competency. | SB 55 Nurse Staffing(Skindell, M.) To establish minimum ratios of direct-care registered nurses to patients in hospitals, to specify rights of registered nurses working in hospitals and to prohibit retaliatory actions by hospitals against registered nurses |
SB 106 Smoking(Tavares, C.) To prohibit smoking in a motor vehicle in which a child under six years of age is a passenger. | SB 109 Medical Information(Tavares, C.) To establish the "Yellow Dot" motor vehicle medical information program within the Department of Public Safety. |
SB 110 Health Care ID(Tavares, C.) To require a health care professional to wear identification when providing care or treatment in the presence of a patient. | SB 119 Opioid Prescribing(Hackett, R.) Addiction treatment and opioid prescribing by physicians and dentists. |
SB 121 Mammogram Coverage(Edlund, J.) To include tomosynthesis as part of required screening mammography benefits under health insurance policies. | SB 126 Conversion Therapy(Tavares, C.) To prohibit certain health care professionals from engaging in conversion therapy when treating minor patients. |
SB 154 Opioid Addiction(Schiavone, J., Yuko, K.) To provide for the prevention and treatment of opioid addiction, to make an appropriation, and to declare an emergency. | SB 177 Qualified Immunity(Lehner, P.) To expand the circumstances in which qualified immunity from civil liability applies with respect to volunteer health care services provided to indigent and uninsured persons. |
SB 178 Life Sustaining Treatment(Lehner, P.) To establish procedures for the use of medical orders for life-sustaining treatment and to make changes to the laws governing DNR identification and orders. |
State Legislation - House Bills
HB 7 Provider Immunity(Cupp, R.) To grant qualified civil immunity to certain medical providers who provide emergency medical services as a result of a disaster; to provide that certain communications made regarding an unanticipated outcome of medical care, the development or implementation of standards under federal laws, and an insurer's reimbursement policies on health care are inadmissible as evidence in a medical claim; to provide that medical bills itemizing charges are inadmissible as evidence and an amount accepted as full payment for medical services is admissible as evidence of the reasonableness of the charges; to specify the manner of sending a notice of intent to file a medical claim and provide a procedure for the discovery of other potential claims within a specified period after the filing of a medical claim; to provide that any loss of a chance of recovery or survival by itself is not an injury, death, or loss for which damages may be recovered; to provide civil immunity to certain medical providers regarding the discharge of a patient with a mental condition that threatens the safety of the patient or others; to require that governmental agencies that receive peer review committee records maintain their confidentiality; and to clarify the definition of "medical claim." | HB 72 Step Therapy(Johnson) To adopt requirements related to step therapy protocols implemented by health plan issuers and the Department of Medicaid. |
HB 73 Pharmacy Sales(Rezabek, J., Koehler, K.) To prohibit sales of dextromethorphan without a prescription to persons under age 18. | HB 77 Child Care Centers(Rutherford, W.) To provide for the licensure of sick-child care centers. |
HB 99 Pneumoconiosis claims(Cera, J.) To modify worker's compensation benefit amounts for occupational pneumoconiosis claims and to create the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board to determine medical findings for such claims.
| HB 101 Epinephrine Dispensing(Merrin, D.) To authorize an epinephrine autoinjector substitution when a prescription is filled or refilled, to authorize epinephrine to be dispensed without a prescription under a physician-established protocol, and to declare the act the "Epinephrine Accessibility Act." |
HB111 Mental Health Commitments (Carfagma, R., Ryan S.) To authorize certain advanced practice registered nurses to have a person involuntarily transported to a hospital for a mental health examination. | HB117 Opioid Therapy(Huffman, S., Brenner, A.) To establish a statewide pilot program for the provision of long-acting opioid antagonist therapy for offenders convicted of an opioid-reated offense who will be released from confinement on supervised release, and to specify that the therapy is to be provided during both their confinement and their supervised release. |
HB 131 Physical Therapy(Gavarone, T., Reineke, B.) To modify the laws governing the practice of physical therapy. | HB 145 Confidential Treatment(Huffman, S., Sprague, R.) To provide for the establishment of a confidential program for the treatment of certain impaired practitioners and to declare an emergency. |
HB 167 Opioid Prescribing(Edwards, J.) Addiction treatment and opioid prescribing by physicians and dentists. | HB 172 Medical Records(SCHURING, K.) To modify the laws governing access to a patient's medical records. |
HB 191 Nurse Anesthetists(Gonzales, A.) Regarding the practice of certified registered nurse anesthetists. | HB 193 Flu Vaccines(Hagan, C.) To prohibit an employer from taking an adverse employment action against a person who has not been or will not be vaccinated against influenza. |
HB 273 Maintenance of Certification(Gavarone, T.) To prohibit a physician from being required to secure a maintenance of certification as a condition of obtaining licensure, reimbursement, or employment or obtaining admitting privileges or surgical privileges at a hospital or health care facility. | HB 286 Palliative Care(LaTourette, S.) To create the Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Council, to establish the Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program, and to require health care facilities to identify patients and residents who could benefit from palliative care. |
HB 332 Anatomical Gifts(Antonio, N.) Regarding anatomical gifts, transplantation, and discrimination on the basis of disability. |
