HEALTH, PUBLIC

Missouri House of Representatives
Bills Indexed by Subject
HEALTH, PUBLIC
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: Enacts the Missouri Calcium Initiative which gives purchasing preference to foods and beverages containing high levels of calcium.

: Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program.

: Exempts all food sales by religious, charitable, and nonprofit organizations from the food inspection laws of this state.

: Requires health care professionals to inform their patients about EDTA chelation therapy.

: Bases funding for the nutritional services programs of the Division of Aging on the actual number of meals served in each area the previous fiscal year.

: Creates an alcohol reduction program for children and youth funded by persons who sell certain alcoholic beverages.

: Creates the Missourians Helping Missourians Trust Fund.

: Requires the implementation of a state suicide prevention plan by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Requires the Bureau of Cancer Control in the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide educational material and information on prostate cancer screenings and testing.

: Requires long-term care facilities and adult day care programs to employ a food services director.

: Exempts food sales made by religious, charitable and nonprofit organizations from the state food code laws and rules.

: Requires health insurers to offer contraceptive coverage to enrollees.

: Increases the health insurance coverage for diabetes equipment and medications.

: Modifies the income eligibility categories for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

: Adds meningitis vaccine to the list of required immunizations for school children.

: Modifies the exemptions from licensure required for foster homes, residential care facilities, and child placing agencies.

: Enacts the Emergency Preparedness Resource Act.

: Repeals the Offices of Minority Health and Women's Health in the Department of Health and Senior Services and replaces them with the Division of Minority Health and the Division of Women's Health.

: Allows philosophical beliefs to be a basis for objection to required school immunizations.

: Creates crime of contamination of food or drink.

: Creates the Environmental Regulation Consistency Act.

: Creates crimes for sexual offenders who know they have HIV, amends HIV notification statutes, HIV disclosure statutes, prosecutors motion for HIV testing and the punishment for prostitution.

: Modifies various provisions regarding declared states of emergency.

: Creates crime of criminal profiteering and civil penalty for unfair leverage when selling during a consumer market disruption. Revises crime of making a terrorist threat.

: Allows persons treated by emergency medical care providers, health care providers, and Good Samaritans to be tested for contagious and infectious diseases.

: Requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to establish and administer a program for the registration of biological agents in the state.

: Creates new crimes of terrorism.

: Alters the laws controlling limited liability corporations and corporations.

: Modifies the provisions regarding sanitation in and inspection of food establishments.

: Endorses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations on the judicious use of antibiotics.

: Modifies production requirements for sellers of jams and jellies.

: Requires hepatitis B testing, in addition to HIV testing, for crime victims and prisoners.

: Creates the Invasive Species Council.

: Requires governmental food establishments to give preference to foods with calcium in certain circumstances.

: Creates the Missouri State Emergency Health Powers Act to address state public health emergencies.

: Allows the state to temporarily license certain health care practitioners during a state public health emergency.

: Creates the Environmental Regulation Consistency Act.

: Exempts from state and local sales taxes all sales to athletic events and dues for health and fitness centers.

: Establishes the "Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program" to provide health care benefits to all Missouri citizens.

: Establishment a Needle Exchange Program within the Department of Health.

: Related to terrorism.

: Removes the religious and medical exemption limitations from childhood vaccination requirements.

: Exempts religious, charitable, and nonprofit organizations from food inspection laws in certain circumstances.

: Exempts health club services from sales tax.

: Allows parents to refuse to immunize their children without providing certain justifications.

: Increases state emergency health powers.

: Streamlines the process and oversight of cleanups and encourages voluntary cleanup sites.

: Creates a Life Sciences Research Program.

: Exempts diabetic medical supplies from local sales taxes.

: Creates the Missouri Tobacco Settlement for Healthy Families Trust Fund.

: Creates special license plates.

: Urges Congress to adopt legislation requiring Medicare to cover all oral anti-cancer drugs.

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Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:08 am