Health and Mental Health

MO - Senator Chuck Purgason (R)

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Chair

MO - Senator Charlie Shields (R)

Title:

Vice-chair

MO - Senator Michael Gibbons (R)

Title:

Member

MO - Senator Harry Kennedy (D)

Title:

Member

MO - Senator Wes Shoemyer (D)

Title:

Member

MO - SB2 Creates the crime of knowingly receiving, selling, or obtaining personal health information

MO - SB3 Enacts provisions on mental health reform

MO - SB4 Extends the Federal Reimbursement Allowance, Pharmacy Tax, Nursing Facility Reimbursement Allowance, and Medicaid Managed Care Reimbursement Allowance sunsets

MO - SB15 Establishes a long-term care insurance public-private partnership program

MO - SB33 Requires certain employers to dedicate a percentage of profits for health care costs

MO - SB63 Requires insurers to provide notice of coinsurance or other cost sharing features in the evidence of coverage they issue to enrollees

MO - SB95 Requires applicants for Medicaid and Comprehensive Health Insurance Pool to identify the proposed beneficiary's employer

MO - SB122 Establishes a commission to study the possible implementation of a Missouri universal health assurance program

MO - SB125 Requires state employees to contribute a percentage of income toward their health insurance

MO - SB174 Modifies laws on mental health facilities and group homes for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled

MO - SB179 Requires any applicant for health care benefits under a public assistance program to identify his or her employer

MO - SB191 Enacts provisions on children's mental health

MO - SB248 Establishes a long-term care insurance public-private partnership program

MO - SB267 Allows small employers to obtain medical coverage through the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan

MO - SB274 Creates the "Healthcare Technology Fund"

MO - SB374 Allows health maintenance organizations to issue high deductible health plans combined with health savings accounts and taxes such policies at a rate of 2 percent for the purpose of funding the First Steps Program

MO - SB379 Requires the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Board to offer all qualified employees the option of receiving health care coverage through a high deductible health plan and the establishment of a health savings account

MO - SB446 Modifies provisions relating to fire safety standards in long-term care facilities

MO - SB463 Establishes the "Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2007"

MO - SB465 Authorizes individuals to sue for Medicaid fraud and modifies various provisions relating to the reporting and investigating of such fraud

MO - SB556 Establishes the "Missouri Health Insurance Exchange", the "Direct Payment Stop Loss Fund", and creates administrative procedure to collect unpaid medical claims

MO - SB577 Enacts the "Missouri Health Improvement Act of 2007"

MO - SB578 Requires hospitals to report adverse health events

MO - SB581 Modifies provisions relating to the state medical assistance program

MO - SB653 Revises the eligibility requirements for the Uninsured Women's Health Program

MO - SB704 Establishes the implementation of a health care quality report card

MO - SB705 Modifies laws relating to emergency management