HOSPITALS

Missouri House of Representatives
92nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2004)
Bills Indexed by Subject
HOSPITALS

: Permits a pregnant woman to determine the final disposition of human fetal remains.

: Limits the disclosure of nonpublic personal health information.

: Requires hospitals and birth centers to provide parents with information on shaken baby syndrome.

: Establishes the Disposition of Fetal Remains Act and allows the parents of a stillborn child to apply for a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth with the State Registrar of vital records.

: Revises the statutes regarding the Division of Professional Registration.

: Clarifies the duties of certain county coroners and medical examiners.

: Creates notice provisions, reporting requirements, public market rates, and presumptions for the Department of Insurance and entities providing medical malpractice and professional negligence insurance.

: Revises various statutes relating to informed consent for abortion.

: Requires organ procurement organizations to use their best efforts to find a suitable recipient for an anatomical gift of a vascular organ.

: Revises the statutes relating to the forfeiture of controlled substances and drug paraphernalia.

: Revises various statutes relating to medical malpractice insurance.

: Enacts the Missouri Hospital Infection Control Act of 2004.

: Modifies the law relating to license-exempt facilities for children.

: Authorizes surgical co-management arrangements.

: Enacts the Missouri Hospital Infection Control Act of 2004.

: Prohibits health insurers from discriminating against any willing provider in the geographic region of the health benefit plan.

: Modifies the definition of "qualified employment" for purposes of nursing student loan programs to include employment at hospitals in areas of need.

: Establishes the Women's Right to Know Act to raise public awareness about the existence and availability of emergency contraception.

: Imposes civil liability on any person violating Missouri's informed consent law for abortions.

: Modifies laws relating to vital records and the disposition of fetal remains.

: Subjects nonprofit health entities to additional review by the AG before they can convert to for-profit entities.

: Details information to be included in physician abortion reports.

: Allows public hospitals in Clay County to close certain records and meetings.

: Alters definitions concerning Charles Gallagher Financial Awards and the Nursing Student Loan Program.

: Creates licensure requirements for end stage renal disease dialysis facilities.

: Creates the "Disposition of Fetal Remains Act" and allows the state registrar to issue certificates for stillborn children.

: Establishes the Prescription Drug Repository Program within the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Modifies various provisions dealing with the reporting and investigating of an individual's death.

: Provides advanced practice nurses with prescriptive authority for controlled substances under a collaborative practice agreement.

: Improves access to vital records.

: Creates the "Emergency Care for Sexual Assault Victims Act of 2004".

: Recognizes Ellis Fischel Cancer Center as the designated cancer center of the State of Missouri.

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Last Updated October 7, 2004 at 11:09 am