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- HB 129 Public health; Board of Health may declare area hazardous thereto and require sewer services.
- HB 343 Hospice programs; regulation thereof.
- HB 412 Gamete donors; anonymous donations thereof prohibited in medical procedures.
- HB 425 Home Care Consumer and Worker Protection Act; created.
- HB 444 Stem cell research; authorizes research involving derivation & use of human embryonic cells, etc.
- HB 548 Education expenses; requires Dept. of Juv. Justice to pay for any juvenile placed in corrections.
- HB 598 Emergency medical services personnel; required to report child abuse or neglect.
- HB 620 Physicians; definition of office practice.
- HB 768 Hospitals & Health care practioners; use of reprocessed single-use medical devices; penalty.
- HB 875 Dextromethorphan (DXM); Health Commissioner restrict access to over-the-counter medicine containing.
- HB 1035 Medical Assistance Services, Office of Inspector General for; created, report.
- HB 1056 Dietitians and nutritionists; requirements for licensure by Board of Health Professions.
- HB 1199 Oral contraceptives; requirements for prescribing for minors.
- HB 1299 Preneed Funeral Contract Recovery Fund; created.
- HB 1300 Funeral services licensees, funeral directors, and embalmers; continuing education requirements.
- HB 1358 Assisted living facilities; exempt from requirement to have staff member who is awake 24 hrs.a day.
- HB 1389 Practice of naturopathy; establishes licensure requirements.
- HB 1399 Barbers and Cosmetology, Board for; regulation of laser or light therapy technicians.
- HB 1504 Medical care facility; exempts from definition certain specialized centers for provision of MRI.
- HB 1538 Child day care facilities; exemptions from licensure.
- HB 1607 Phenylketonuria; special foods for management thereof.
- HB 1633 Mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services providers; retaliation prohibited.
- HB 1768 Stem cell research; authorizes research involving derivation & use of human embryonic cells, etc.
- HB 1839 Child Care Provider Registry; created.
- HB 1873 Doctors of medicine, osteopathy, and podiatry; expungement of disciplinary report if without merit.
- HB 1911 Parental placement adoption; legal counsel may appear on behalf of birth parents or adoptive parent.
- HB 1912 Parental placement adoption; exchange of identifying information.
- HB 1914 Human papillomavirus vaccine; added as required vaccination.
- HB 1938 Physicians; persons without degree knowingly representing themselves as such.
- HB 1944 Medical practitioners; requires criminal history background checks therefor.
- HB 2038 Medical assistance plan; DMAS to contract with DMHMRSAS for mental health services.
- HB 2044 Detention orders, temporary; removes certain requirements.
- HB 2123 Fertility treatments; disclosure required of ova donors.
- HB 2155 Certificate of public need; eliminates regional health planning agencies therefrom.
- HB 2221 Birth control; definition thereof.
- HB 2274 Health care facilities; three year plan for repeal of certificate of public need program.
- HB 2276 Certificate of public need; establishes a two part review for contested /uncontested applications.
- HB 2277 Certificates of public need; eliminates regional health planning agencies therefrom.
- HB 2474 Involuntary commitment; county police department to provide transportation.
- HB 2572 Autism; includes if medically diagnosed under definition of 'functional and central nervous system'.
- HB 2583 Surgical complications; requires physicians to report from elective outpatient procedures.
- HB 2607 Nursing homes; requires Board of Health to establish staffing standards therein.
- HB 2651 State employees; removes reference to Milliman & Robertson's guidelines from Code.
- HB 2709 Cemetery operators and funeral establishments; prohibited acts.
- HB 2717 Paternity; State Registrar of vital records to provide certified copies of sworn statements thereof.
- HB 2721 Criminal history background checks; providers licensed by DMHMRSAS.
- HB 2842 Pharmacist; requirement that sell and dispense drugs.
- HB 2843 Physician, licensed; authority to send laboratory results directly to patient.
- HB 2844 Salvinorin A; included as a Schedule I hallucinogenic.
- HB 2857 Stem cell research; authorizes research involving derivation & use of human embryonic cells, etc.
- HB 2948 State employees; health insurance plan to provide coverage for radiation therapy.
- HB 2987 Tobacco products; use thereof around foster care children .
- HB 3080 Medical examiner; to make an in-person investigation on scene or at morgue into cause of death.
- HB 3156 Intensity based modulated radiation therapy; state plan to include provision for payment thereof.
- HJ 595 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; DMAS to consider disease mgmt. to reduce finan./clin. burden.
- SB 856 Criminal history background checks; providers licensed by DMHMRSAS.
- SB 865 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); time limit on receipt thereof.
- SB 995 Medicaid eligibility; young adults transitioning from foster care.
- SB 1391 Pharmacy, Board of; membership.