Government

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 91 Universal Health Care

(Skindell, M., Tavares, C.) To provide universal health care coverage to all Ohioans.

SB 93 Hearing Aids

(Brown, E.) Will require health insurers to provide coverage for hearing aids. 

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 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 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.

SB 227 Health Plan Claims

(Huffman, M.) To require health plan issuers to release certain claim information to group plan policyholders.

SB 259 Physician Assistants

SB 262 Eating Disorders

(Tavares, C.) To require public schools annually to provide parents of students in any of grades five through twelve with educational information regarding eating disorders.

SB 287 Health Education

(Sykes, V.) To require the State Board of Education to develop and adopt health education standards for grades kindergarten through twelve and to require only venereal disease education standards and curriculum adopted by the State Board to be approved by concurrent resolution of the General Assembly.

SB 310 Non-Opioid Therapy

Tavares, C.) To establish procedures for using non-opioid directives, to require prescribers to inform patients about non-opioid therapies, and to require health insurers to cover non-opioid therapies for treating pain

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, T.) To adopt requirements related to step therapy protocols implemented by health plan issuers and the Department of Medicaid.

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."

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 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 241 Diabetes Registry

(Barnes, J.) To establish the Ohio Diabetes Registry.

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 317 Tax Deduction for Volunteer Care

(Young, R.) Tax deduction for providing uncompensated and unreimbursed medical care. 

HB 326 Prescribing Authority for Psychologists

(Seitz, B., Gavarone, T.) Allows psychologists to prescribe psychotrops.

HB 397 Newborn Screening

(Boggs, K, Butler, J.) To include spinal muscular atrophy as an additional disorder to be screened for under the Newborn Screening Program. 

HB 399 Health Insurance

 (Henne, M., Butler, J.) To enact the Ohio Right to Shop Act to require health insurers to establish shared savings incentive programs for enrollees.

HB 456 Prohibit requiring nurses to work overtime

(Sprague, R.) To prohibits a hospital from requiring a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse to work overtime as a condition of continued employment. 

HB 462 Procedures before closing a hospital

(Schuring, K. West, T.) This bill will require that a hospital and its affiliated health care facilities in certain counties follow specified procedures before permanently ceasing operations or closing, to terminate the provisions of this act on June 19, 2018, and to declare an emergency.

HB 535 Drug Overdoses

(Gavarone, T.) To require certain reports regarding overdoses and naloxone, to include naltrexone within the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System, and to name this act the "Opioid Data and Communication Expansion Act."

HB 536 Emergency Care

(Reece, A.) To prohibit health plan issuers, including those participating in the Medicaid care management system, from implementing any form of selective emergency services coverage.

HB 557 Art Therapy

(Anielski, M.) To require the licensure of art therapists and to require the State Medical Board to regulate the licensure and practice of art therapists.

HB 559 Child Immunizations

 (Gonzales, A., Landis, A.) To make changes to the law governing immunization of children enrolled in school, preschool programs, and day-care programs.

HB 614 Drug Paraphernalia

(West, T.) To provide immunity from arrest, prosecution, or conviction for use or possession of drug paraphernalia for a person who seeks or obtains medical assistance for a drug overdose.

HB 617 Telehealth Commission

(West, T.) To establish the Ohio Telehealth Commission.