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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Allowing influenza immunizations to be offered to patients and residents of specified facilities [HB-2431]
The purpose of this bill is to allow influenza immunizations to be offered to patients and residents of specified facilities on a voluntary basis based upon recommendations of the Center for Disease Control.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joe Ellington
Chapter 187, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 on 05/23/2017
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Relating to the regulation of funeral services, funeral homes, cemeteries, and crematories; imposing penalties. [SB-65]
Relating to the regulation of funeral services, funeral homes, cemeteries, and crematories; imposing penalties.
Sponsored by: Sen. Judith Zaffirini
Read First Time on 01/24/2017
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Peer-Support Specialist Act of 2017 [HB-2046]
Peer-Support Specialist Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to eligible entities to develop and sustain behavioral health paraprofessional training and education programs, including through tuition support. Eligible entities are community colleges, training or credentialing programs, and other entities deemed appropriate by HHS. HHS must report on and publish best practices and professional standards in states for: (1) establishing and operating health care programs using peer-support
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Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Cardenas
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2017
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Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Research and Education Act of 2017 [HB-1984]
Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Research and Education Act of 2017 This bill requires the National Institutes of Health to expand, intensify, and coordinate programs for research on triple-negative breast cancer (the cells of these breast cancers are negative for estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors, and excess HER2 protein). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must develop and disseminate to the public information regarding triple-negative breast cancer, including information on: (1) the incidence and prevalence of triple-negative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2017
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Opioid PACE Act of 2017 Opioid Preventing Abuse through Continuing Education Act of 2017 [HB-2063]
Opioid PACE Act of 2017 Opioid Preventing Abuse through Continuing Education Act of 2017 This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to require a practitioner (other than a hospital, pharmacy, pharmacist, or veterinarian) to comply with a training requirement, as a condition of obtaining or renewing a registration to prescribe or dispense opioids for the treatment of pain or pain management.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 05/01/2017
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Relating to the sunset review date for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and the time for awarding cancer research and prevention grants. [HB-84]
Relating to the sunset review date for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and the time for awarding cancer research and prevention grants.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Davis
Received From The House on 04/26/2017
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LATTS Act of 2017 Label and Transport Tissues Safely Act of 2017 [HB-2022]
LATTS Act of 2017 Label and Transport Tissues Safely Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the sale of human tissue for research or education unless the seller has a non-transplant tissue bank license, each package of tissue is labeled with specified information, and each package is wrapped in the prescribed manner. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall establish a process for the approval, suspension, and revocation of non-transplant tissue bank licenses. False labeling of packages of human tissue is prohibited. HHS or any accrediting
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Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Gosar
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2017
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Restoring the Patient's Voice Act of 2017 [HB-2077]
Restoring the Patient's Voice Act of 2017 This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group health plan to establish an exception to medication step-therapy protocol in specified cases. A medication step-therapy protocol establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs are covered by a group health plan or a health insurance issuer. To warrant an exception to the protocol, at least one of the following circumstances must be met: (1) the treatment is contraindicated, (2) the treatment is expected
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Introduced In House on 04/06/2017
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Supporting the goals and ideals of National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day. [HR-262]
Supporting the goals and ideals of National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day. Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day. Promotes effective and comprehensive HIV prevention education programs. Urges youth-friendly and accessible health care services to better provide for the early identification of HIV through voluntary routine testing and to connect those in need to clinically and culturally appropriate care and treatment as early as possible. Commends the work of AIDS service organizations, community and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2017
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Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2017 [HB-2042]
Access to Frontline Health Care Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish and carry out a Frontline Providers Loan Repayment Program under which HHS makes student loan repayments in exchange for a health professional providing frontline care services for two years in a frontline care scarcity area. Frontline care services include services in the fields of surgery, optometry, physical therapy, pharmacies, public health, dietetics, occupational therapy, pediatrics,
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Loebsack
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2017
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Eliminating Health Disparities Act of 2017 [HB-2048]
Eliminating Health Disparities Act of 2017 This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow a state to establish a Health Disparities Elimination Program, through which the state shall provide incentive payments to qualified community health systems (i.e., hospitals or affiliated groups of health care providers) for approved initiatives to reduce health disparities. In selecting qualified community health systems for participation, a state shall give priority to those that: (1) have included, in their required action plans,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ben Lujan
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2017
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PIMA of 2017 Promoting Integrity in Medicare Act of 2017 [HB-2066]
PIMA of 2017 Promoting Integrity in Medicare Act of 2017 This bill expands Medicare's prohibition on physician self-referrals to include, with specified exceptions, certain advanced imaging, anatomic pathology, radiation therapy, and physical therapy services. Additionally, the bill establishes increased civil monetary penalties for violations of the self-referral prohibition with respect to those services. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shall conduct a compliance review with respect to such referrals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dina Titus
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/21/2017
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Pharmaceutical Information Exchange Act [HB-2026]
Pharmaceutical Information Exchange Act This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow information about a new investigational medication or the investigational use of a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration to be provided to health care entities if the information is based on reliable scientific evidence.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brett Guthrie
Subcommittee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. on 01/17/2018
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Relating to selling Jackie Withrow Hospital [HB-2366]
The purpose of this bill is to require the selling of Jackie Withrow Hospital by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources.Â
Sponsored by: Rep. Joe Ellington
Senate Requests House To Concur on 04/07/2017
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Medicare You Can Opt Into Act of 2017 [HB-2065]
Medicare You Can Opt Into Act of 2017 This bill allows an individual to buy into Medicare for hospital insurance if the individual is residing in the United States and is a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or permanent resident. The Department of Health and Human Services must establish enrollment periods and coverage for individuals who buy the insurance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Carol Shea-Porter
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/21/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. [HB-1473]
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (the Act). The Act prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks' gestation unless, in reasonable medical judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition as to necessitate the abortion to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function. When an abortion is not prohibited post-20 weeks' gestation, and
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Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2017
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Relating to the organizational structure of state government [HB-2376]
The purpose of this bill is to provide that the Bureau for Medical Services be renamed the Department of Medical Services with the Commissioner of the Bureau for Medical Services becoming the Secretary of the Department of Medical Services. The bill provides that the Department continue to operate as currently configured as the Bureau for Medical Services with the structure of the Department of the Health and Human Resources for administrative support, interagency cooperation and program support. The bill; removes the Human Rights Commission,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joe Ellington
To Health And Human Resources on 03/29/2017
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Relating to covered benefits under the child health plan. [SB-163]
Relating to covered benefits under the child health plan.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jose Rodriguez
Read First Time on 01/25/2017
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Rural Hospital Access Act of 2017 [S.872]
Rural Hospital Access Act of 2017 This bill permanently extends the Medicare-Dependent Hospital program (which provides increased payments to certain smaller, rural hospitals that serve a proportionally high number of Medicare patients) and the program for increased payments under Medicare for low-volume hospitals.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 04/06/2017
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Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act [HB-2038]
Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to excise taxes on manufacturers, to impose a one cent per milligram fee on the sale of active opioids by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. The fee excludes prescription drugs used exclusively for the treatment of opioid addiction as part of a medically assisted treatment effort. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish a program to provide rebates or discounts to cancer and hospice patients to ensure that they do
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Sponsored by: Rep. Earl Blumenauer
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2017