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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the regulation of raw milk and raw milk products; adding a provision subject to a criminal penalty. [SB-95]
Relating to the regulation of raw milk and raw milk products; adding a provision subject to a criminal penalty.
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Breaking Addiction Act of 2017 [HB-2239]
Breaking Addiction Act of 2017
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Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017 [S.989]
Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include pediatric subspecialties in primary health services for purposes of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). Psychiatrists who are pediatric subspecialists are included in behavioral and mental health professionals. (These amendments make pediatric subspecialists, including psychiatrists, eligible for the NHSC fellowship program for the delivery of primary health services in health professional shortage areas, the NHSC Scholarship
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Expressing support for designation of April 2017 as "National Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Month". [HR-297]
Expressing support for designation of April 2017 as "National Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Month". Expresses support for the designation of National Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Month. (Congenital diaphragmatic hernia is a birth defect that occurs when the diaphragm fails to fully form, allowing abdominal organs to migrate into the chest cavity and preventing lung growth.) Encourages that steps should be taken to: raise awareness of and increase public knowledge about congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH); inform people
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Inpatient psychiatric hospital admission; defendant found incompetent. [SB-935]
Inpatient psychiatric hospital admission; defendant found incompetent. Removes the prohibition on inpatient psychiatric hospital admission for defendants who have already been ordered to receive treatment to restore their competency to stand trial. This bill incorporates SB 895 and is identical to HB 2462.
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Establishing that an employee’s termination from employment for testing positive on a drug or alcohol test required by the employer disqualifies that employee for benefits [HB-2544]
The purpose of this bill is to establish that an employee’s termination from employment for testing positive on a drug alcohol test required by the employer disqualifies that employee for benefits.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the operations of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas; authorizing a trust company to charge the institute an investment fee. [SB-81]
Relating to the operations of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas; authorizing a trust company to charge the institute an investment fee.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the eligibility of the children of certain first responders for free prekindergarten programs in public schools. [HB-357]
Relating to the eligibility of the children of certain first responders for free prekindergarten programs in public schools.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Study; Joint Commission on Health Care to study options for use of telemental health; report. [HJR-568]
Study;Joint Commission on Health Care to study options for increasing the use of telemental health services in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study options for increasing the use of telemental health services in the Commonwealth, including the issues and recommendations set forth in the report of the Telemental Health Work Group of the Joint Subcommittee Studying Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the 21st Century and to report its findings to the Joint Subcommittee by November 1, 2017.
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Utah 2017 General Session
Telehealth Amendments [HB-154]
Telehealth Amendments
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Patient Experience in Research Act of 2017 [HB-2244]
Patient Experience in Research Act of 2017 This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration to carry out a pilot project under which sponsors of new drugs or biological products agree to evaluate: (1) the distress experienced by patients in clinical trials for medications intended to treat a serious condition, and (2) the effects of providing support to distressed patients on the outcome of a clinical trial. The user fee is waived for new drug applications that include data from such an evaluation.
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HEARTS Act Health Equity and Access for Returning Troops and Servicemembers Act [HB-2243]
HEARTS Act Health Equity and Access for Returning Troops and Servicemembers Act This bill extends TRICARE eligibility to certain former members of the Armed Forces regardless of whether they enroll (as required under current law) in Medicare's supplementary medical insurance program. Specifically, the bill applies to former members who are: (1) younger than 65 years of age, (2) medically retired from the Armed Forces, and (3) entitled to Medicare hospital insurance benefits on the basis of their former entitlement to disability insurance benefits
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Certificates of public need; conditions on certificates, alternative plans of compliance. [HB-1544]
Certificates of public need; alternative plans of compliance. Provides that in cases in which a certificate holder holds more than one certificate of public need with conditions, and the certificate holder is unable to satisfy the conditions of one certificate, the Department of Health may provide for satisfaction of the conditions on that certificate by the provision of care at a reduced rate to indigent individuals in excess of the amount required by another certificate issued to the same holder, in an amount approved by the Department as part
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to education programs regarding AIDS and HIV infection. [HB-226]
Relating to education programs regarding AIDS and HIV infection.
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Relating to parental notification of abortions performed on unemancipated minors [HB-2002]
The purpose of this bill is to modify the law requiring parental notification of abortions performed on unemancipated minors.
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Repeal of the Obamacare Bay State Boondoggle Act [HB-2224]
Repeal of the Obamacare Bay State Boondoggle Act This bill requires that the Medicare hospital wage index floor for non-rural areas be calculated using state-specific, rather than national, budget neutrality. (The Medicare hospital wage index is used to calculate geographic adjustments to Medicare reimbursements.)
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
DPOR and DHP; licensure, certification, registration, and permitting. [SB-922]
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and Department of Health Professions; licensure, certification, registration, and permitting. Provides that certain powers of the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, the Department of Health Professions, and health regulatory boards and certain requirements of persons regulated by such entities apply, inclusively, to permits as well as licenses, certifications, and registrations and to holders of permits as well as holders of such licenses, certifications, and registrations.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the immunization data included in and excluded from the immunization registry. [SB-54]
Relating to the immunization data included in and excluded from the immunization registry.
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Utah 2017 General Session
Medicaid Housing Coordinator [SB-88]
Medicaid Housing Coordinator
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Chiropractic Membership in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Act of 2017 [HB-2202]
Chiropractic Membership in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to make certain doctors of chiropractic (chiropractors) eligible for appointment to the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. To be appointed, a chiropractor must be eligible for licensure in a majority of the states or approved by a body acceptable to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS and the Surgeon General must ensure that such chiropractors are trained, equipped, and otherwise
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