Health (and Related Subheadings)
West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Creating Smoke Free West Virginia Act [SB-28]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
The purpose of this bill is to enact the Smoke Free West Virginia Act, prohibiting smoking in public places, places of employment and government vehicles.
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Requiring public health impact statement relating to new DEP air or water rules [SB-25]
[Healthcare ]
The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Bureau for Public Health to conduct a public health impact statement assessing the health impact of any new air or water rule, or modification of an existing air or water rule, proposed by the Department of Environmental Protection to insure that no air or water rule is promulgated without substantiating independent medical or scientific evidence that there is no detrimental public health impact from the rule. The bill also requires that the findings in the impact statement be incorporated
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Authorizing Department of Health and Human Resources promulgate legislative rules [SB-245]
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Establishment of Required Qualifications and Ethical Standards for Interpreters and Transliterators.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Creating medication therapy management services program for Medicaid recipients [SB-2]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
The purpose of this bill is to create a medication therapy management services program for Medicaid recipients. The bill permits licensed pharmacists to consult with Medicaid patients to ensure they are taking the appropriate drugs and the drugs are not interfering with one another. The bill sets forth the specific services to be provided by a pharmacist and eligibility requirements. The bill also provides for a pilot program for certain Medicaid patients.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Requiring Medicaid dental coverage for mothers of newborns [SB-198]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Health and Human Resources and Medicaid to provide dental coverage to an eligible mother for two years following the birth of her child.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Creating Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Savings Act [SB-195]
[Environment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
The purpose of this bill is to improve program integrity for the States Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program by implementing waste, fraud and abuse, prevention detection and recovery. It provides legislative intent and definitions. The bill provides for data verification and provider screening technology solutions, state of the art clinical code editing technology, state-of-the-art predictive modeling and analytics technologies and implementation of fraud investigative services combining retrospective claims analysis and prospective
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Providing workers' compensation benefits for mental illness under certain circumstances [SB-173]
Providing workers' compensation benefits for mental illness under certain circumstances
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Requiring photo on mobility impairment windshield placard; physician approval [SB-126]
The purpose of this bill is to require removable windshield placards that are issued to persons with a mobility impairment to have on the placard a photograph of the person to whom the placard is issued. The bill also requires physician approval of mobility impaired applications.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Prohibiting certain abortions at state facilities [SB-122]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit abortions at state college or university medical facilities, except when the abortion is necessary to save the life of the woman receiving the abortion.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Creating Medication Therapy Management Act [SB-114]
The purpose of this bill is to create a medication management therapy program and setting out the funding source for paying for the program.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Increasing age of consent for refusal of mental health treatment [SB-10]
[Healthcare ]
The purpose of this bill is to change the age of consent for refusal of mental health treatment from twelve to eighteen. The bill also clarifies that the state is not obligated to pay for voluntary hospitalizations.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Requiring colorectal cancer screening coverage for certain individuals [SB-1]
[Healthcare ]
The purpose of this bill is to require health insurance coverage for colorectal cancer examination and testing for individuals fifty years of age or older.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Requiring Medicaid to have public notice and comment period and to have state plan amendments approved by LOCHHRA [HB-4651]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Requiring Medicaid to have public notice and comment period and to have state plan amendments approved by LOCHHRA
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Requiring hospitals and other medical service providers to bill Medicaid for eligible inmate hospital and professional services [HB-4638]
[Crime and Law Enforcement ]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
The purpose of this bill is to require hospitals and other medical service providers to bill Medicaid for eligible inmate inpatient hospital and professional services. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Authorizing a responsible parent pilot project [HB-4636]
The purpose of this bill is to authorize a responsible parent pilot project by the Department of Health and Human Resources in conjunction with the Division of Corrections. §16-44-1 is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Relating to the construction of the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act [HB-4617]
The purpose of this bill is to repeal §55-7D-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the construction of the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act as it relates to health regulations, departments and officers.
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Changing the student-school nurse staffing ratio [HB-4570]
Changing the student-school nurse staffing ratio
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Exempting motor vehicles used by the Department of Health and Human Resources solely for transporting Medicaid patients from the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission [HB-4532]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Exempting motor vehicles used by the Department of Health and Human Resources solely for transporting Medicaid patients from the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Allowing for greater cooperation concerning reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation of vulnerable adults among different entities [HB-4516]
Allowing for greater cooperation concerning reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation of vulnerable adults among different entities
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West Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Compassionate Use Act for Medical Cannabis [HB-4498]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
The purpose of this bill is to create the Compassionate Use Act for Medical Cannabis. It provides protections for the medical use of cannabis; defines debilitating medical conditions for which medical cannabis may be used; and authorizes the addition of debilitating medical conditions. The bill sets out limitations of this article. It prohibits discrimination against persons entitled to the protection of this article. The bill requires the registration of qualifying patients and designated care givers and requires issuance of registry identification
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