State Bill Tracking Report

Bill

Summary

Latest Action

Pratt (R)

Health And Welfare Budget Reconciliation

Relates to 2013-2014; relates to health; relates to welfare; relates to budget reconciliation.

06/13/2013 :

-  HOUSE Engrossed. Printed.

-  To HOUSE Committee of the WHOLE.

-  From HOUSE Committee of the WHOLE. To third reading.

-  In HOUSE. Read third time. Passed HOUSE. *****To SENATE.

-  Substituted for SB1009

-  In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE.

-  *****To GOVERNOR.

Maienschein (R)

Professions and Vocations: Military Spouses: Licenses

Requires a board within the Department of Consumer Affairs to issue a temporary license to an applicant who qualifies for, and requests, expedited licensure if that person is married or in a domestic partnership or legal union with a member of the the Armed Forces assigned to a duty station in the State. Authorizes an investigation to see if the person is licensed in another jurisdiction and a criminal background check. Requires submission of a signed affidavit.

06/13/2013 :

-  To SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Rendon (D)

Healing Arts: Licensure Exemption

Amends existing law that requires an exempt health care practitioner to obtain prior authorization to provide services from the applicable licensing board and to satisfy other specified requirements, including payment of a fee as determined by the applicable licensing board. Deletes the date of repeal, allowing the exemption to operate until a specified date.

06/10/2013 :

-  From SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECON. DEVELOPMENT: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.

Patterson (R)

Vocational Nursing: Interim Permits

Authorizes an application for a vocational nursing permit to submit an application for an interim permit at the same time as the applicant submits his or her application for licensure by examination. Requires the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians to issue the interim permit to the applicant within a specified number of days of receiving the completed application.

06/10/2013 :

-  From SENATE Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT with author's amendments.

-  In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Skinner (D)

Occupational Safety and Health Standards

Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to adopt a standard for the handling of antineoplastic drugs in health care facilities regardless of the setting. Requires the standard to be consistent with and not exceed specific recommendations adopted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for preventing occupational exposures to those drugs in health care settings.

06/13/2013 :

-  To SENATE Committee on LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.

Hernandez E (D)

Associate Degree Nursing Scholarship Program

Extends indefinitely the operation of the Associate Degree Nursing (A.D.N.) Scholarship Pilot Program to provide scholarships to students in counties determined to have the most need.

06/14/2013 :

-  To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.

Hernandez E (D)

General Acute Care Hospitals: Patient Classification

Requires, with respect to a patient classification system, that a committee for each general acute care hospital review the reliability of the system for validating staffing requirements to determine whether the system accurately measures patient care needs. Revises the committee makeup to require a minimum percentage be direct patient care nurses appointed by a bargaining agent or the nursing administrator.

06/10/2013 :

-  From ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH with author's amendments.

-  In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HEALTH.

Henry (D)

Relating Professions And Occupations

Adopts the emergency suspension provision already included in the Medical Practice Act for boards and commissions regulated under Titles 23 and 24 of the Delaware Code to enable a temporary suspension pending a hearing to be issued upon the written order of the Secretary of State or the Secretary's designee, with the concurrence of the Board chair or the Board chair's designee if the activity of the licensee presents a clear and immediate danger to the public health.

06/06/2013 :

-  INTRODUCED.

-  To SENATE Committee on HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES.

Rita (D)

Public Accounting Act

Amends the Public Accounting Act; makes changes in provisions concerning definitions, the Board of Examiners, the Public Accountant Registration Committee, the Administrative Procedure Act, licensure, practice, unlicensed practice, accountancy activities, powers and duties of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, sharing of information, exemption from the Act, application for licensure, qualifications, foreign accountants, expiration and renewal of licenses, fees, and other matters.

06/12/2013 :

-  *****To GOVERNOR.

Thibaut (D)

Health Care Insurance

Provides for the adequacy, accessibility, and quality of health care services offered by a health insurance issuer in its health benefit plan networks; provides for the public records law; provides for enforcement by the commissioner of insurance; provides for fines and penalties; relates to a contracted reimbursement rate, emergency medical conditions, essential community providers, facility-based physicians and filings.

06/10/2013 :

-  Signed by GOVERNOR.

-  Act No. 205

Finn (D)

Electronic Submission of Insurance Claims

Relates to the electronic submission of insurance claims.

06/12/2013 :

-  In JOINT Committee on FINANCIAL SERVICES: Heard. Eligible for Executive Session.

Nangle (D)

Insurance Coverage for Medically Necessary Services

Relates to insurance coverage for medically necessary services.

06/12/2013 :

-  In JOINT Committee on FINANCIAL SERVICES: Heard. Eligible for Executive Session.

Senate Floor

Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Bill

Contains the amended text of the House bill numbered 3401 which makes appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, and to make certain changes in law, each of which is immediately necessary to carry out those appropriations or for other important public purposes, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

05/23/2013 :

-  INTRODUCED.

-  New Text of H 3401 and S 3.

Woodbury (I)

Public Disclosure of Health Care Prices

Requires health care practitioners to maintain and make available to clients a price list of their most frequently provided services and procedures. The prices stated are the prices charged to a patient when there is no insurance coverage or when reimbursement by an insurance company is denied.

06/10/2013 :

-  In HOUSE. Passed to be enacted.

-  In SENATE. Passed to be enacted in concurrence.

-  Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk.

Goolsby (R)

Capital Punishment Amendments

Excludes the administration of a lethal injection from the practice of medicine; to codify the law that prohibits regulatory boards from sanctioning health care professionals for assisting in the execution process; to amend the law on the administration of a lethal injection; to require the setting of an execution date if any of the events which are provided by statute have occurred; to eliminate the process by which a defendant may use statistics to have a sentence of death reduced to life in prison.

06/14/2013 :

-  *****To GOVERNOR.

Wightman (NP)

Uniform Credentialing Act

Relates to the Uniform Credentialing Act; changes provisions relating to display of credentials and advertisement.

06/11/2013 :

-  103rd Legislature -- First Regular Session Adjourned - 06/05/2013 - Carried Over to Second Regular Session.

Gloor (NP)

Cigarette and Tobacco Tax Provisions

Changes cigarette and tobacco tax provisions.

06/11/2013 :

-  103rd Legislature -- First Regular Session Adjourned - 06/05/2013 - Carried Over to Second Regular Session.

Nelson (NP)

Health Care Freedom of Conscience Act

Adopts the Health Care Freedom of Conscience Act.

06/11/2013 :

-  103rd Legislature -- First Regular Session Adjourned - 06/05/2013 - Carried Over to Second Regular Session.

Lifton (D)

Certification as Clinical Nurse Specialist

Relates to certification as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS); provides for issuance of a certificate to practice as a clinical nurse specialist; provides for the completion of educational program registered by the department including a master's or doctoral degree, or a post-master's certificate from a program acceptable to the department which prepares graduates to practice as CNSs and which is accredited by the national nursing accredited body; provides for registration fee.

06/12/2013 :

-  From ASSEMBLY Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.

-  To ASSEMBLY Committee on RULES.

Schimel (D)

Expedited Partner Therapy for Chlamydia Trachomatis

Authorizes expedited partner therapy for chlamydia trachomatis and other sexually transmitted infections and makes such provisions permanent; authorizes health care practitioner who is authorized to diagnose and prescribe antibiotic drugs; excludes patients sexual partner from examination.

06/11/2013 :

-  Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.

-  To SENATE Committee on HEALTH.

Gunther (D)

Safe Patient Handling Act

Enacts the safe patient handling act to establish a statewide safe patient handling policy for health care facilities in the state.

06/12/2013 :

-  Amended on ASSEMBLY floor.

Paulin (D)

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists

Provides for the certification by the education department of certified registered nurse anesthetists.

06/07/2013 :

-  Amended in ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.

Gottfried (D)

Affirmation of a Health Care Practitioner

Amends the Civil Practice Law & Rules Law; provides that an affirmation of a health care practitioner may be served or filed in an action in lieu of and with same force and effect as an affidavit (changes the current reference in existing provisions from "physician, osteopath or dentist" to "health care practitioner").

06/11/2013 :

-  Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE.

-  To SENATE Committee on CODES.

O'Donnell (D)

Licensed Pharmacist and Certified Nurse Practitioner

Amends the Education Law; authorizes a licensed pharmacist and certified nurse practitioner to administer meningococcal disease immunizing agents.

06/12/2013 :

-  From ASSEMBLY Committee on RULES.

Pretlow (D)

Community College Bachelor Degree Program in Nursing

Amends the Education Law; authorizes community colleges offering an associates degree program in nursing to offer a four-year bachelor degree program in nursing.

06/10/2013 :

-  INTRODUCED.

-  To ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.

Grisanti (R)

Domestic Violence Forensic Examiner Program

Establishes a domestic violence forensic examiner program.

06/10/2013 :

-  From SENATE Committee on HEALTH.

-  To SENATE Committee on FINANCE.

Krueger (D)

Certification As a Clinical Nurse Specialist

Relates to certification as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS).

06/13/2013 :

-  Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.

-  To ASSEMBLY Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.

Young (R)

Certification of Registered Nurse Anesthetists

Amends the education law; relates to certification of certified registered nurse anesthetists.

06/10/2013 :

-  Amended in SENATE Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.

Golden (R)

Notification for Transfer of Health Care Facility

Amends the education law and the public health law; relates to the transfer of patient medical records in certain circumstances; relates to a health care provider, health care facility, or health care practitioner which permanently ceases to do business or practice in this state; provides that if failure to release medical records may cause a threat to the health of the individuals, the commissioner may order new tests to be performed by a practitioner chosen by the commissioner.

06/13/2013 :

-  Amended on SENATE floor.

Young (R)

Telemedicine and Telehealth

Consolidates provisions relating to telemedicine and telehealth into a single article of the public health law.

06/11/2013 :

-  Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.

-  To ASSEMBLY Committee on HEALTH.

Young (R)

Nurse Practitioners Modernization Act

Amends the education law; relates to establishing the nurse practitioners modernization act; relates to the termination of a written practice agreement with a collaborating physician.

06/11/2013 :

-  Amended in SENATE Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.

Carlucci (D)

Electronic Death Registration System

Amends the public health law; relates to the establishment of an electronic death registration system; relates to the authorization to design, implement and maintain an electronic death registration system for collecting, storing, recording, transmitting, amending, correcting and authenticating information, as necessary and appropriate to complete a death registration, and to generate such documents as determined by the department in relation to a death occurring in this state.

06/12/2013 :

-  Amended in SENATE Committee on FINANCE.

McClain (R)

Dispensing of Drugs During Public Health Emergencies

Requires the Director of Health to develop protocols regarding the authority to administer, deliver, distribute, or dispense drugs during certain public health emergencies.

06/12/2013 :

-  From HOUSE Committee on HEALTH AND AGING: Recommended as substituted.

Gonzales (R)

Coverage of Telehealth Services

Regards Medicaid and health insurance coverage of telehealth services.

06/12/2013 :

-  From HOUSE Committee on HEALTH AND AGING: Recommended as substituted.

Kotek (D)

Equal Pay for Health Practitioners

Requires insurers to reimburse physician assistants and nurse practitioners at same rate as physicians for same services; declares emergency, effective on passage.

06/11/2013 :

-  HOUSE concurred in SENATE amendments.

-  Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk.

Cameron (R)

Coordinated Care Organizations

Authorizes board of directors of coordinated care organization to petition to remove a board member; requires a reduction in reimbursement paid for services provided by a health care entity represented by any removed board member; requires the Health Authority to decertify a coordinated care organization that fails to meet qualification criteria and requirements, fails to ensure member safeguards or fails to reduce the reimbursement; provides for dispute resolution; relates to Medicare reimbursement rates.

06/10/2013 :

-  Public Hearing Scheduled.

Bates (D)

Oregon Health Authority

Requires Oregon Health Authority to prescribe criteria for training on treatment of opiate overdose and specifies requirements for training; allows person successfully completing training to possess and administer naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose; makes person providing treatment immune from civil liability except for wanton misconduct; declares emergency, effective on passage.

06/06/2013 :

-  Signed by GOVERNOR.

-  Chaptered. Chapter No. 340

McNamara (D)

Businesses and Professions Nurses

Would amend and greatly expand the role and duties of certain types of nurses in the health care profession, especially the role and authority of advance practice registered nurses. This act would take effect upon passage.

06/12/2013 :

-  Passed SENATE.

-  *****To GOVERNOR.

Goldin (D)

Insurance Accident and Sickness Insurance Policies

Would amend the amount of time permitted for a health payer to conduct a post- payment audit from two (2) years to one year and would establish an appeals process prior to any recoupment or set-off. This act would take effect upon passage.

06/12/2013 :

-  To HOUSE Committee on CORPORATIONS.

Miller (D)

Rhode Island Health Care Reform Act of 2013

Would make a number of substantive and definitional changes to various statutes governing the health-care system. This act would take effect upon passage.

06/11/2013 :

-  Transferred to HOUSE Committee on CORPORATIONS.

Miller (D)

Businesses and Professions

Would amend and greatly expand the role and duties of certain types of nurses in the health care profession, especially the role and authority of advance practice registered nurses. This act would take effect upon passage.

06/12/2013 :

-  Passed HOUSE.

-  *****To GOVERNOR.

Hayes R (R)

Health Care Provider

Requires a health care provider to give a patient an opportunity to allow disclosure of certain information to designated family members and other individuals and to authorize the involvement of these family members and other individuals in the treatment of the patient; specifies the contents of the authorization; provides civil and criminal immunity for good faith disclosure of information; relates to definitions in the Adult Health Care Consent Act.

06/07/2013 :

-  Signed by GOVERNOR.

Roybal-Allard (D)

Evidence Based Maternity Care

Promotes optimal maternity outcomes by making evidence-based maternity care a national priority.

06/06/2013 :

-  INTRODUCED.

-  To HOUSE Committee on ENERGY AND COMMERCE.

-  Additionally referred to HOUSE Committee on WAYS AND MEANS.

House Human Services Committee

Methamphetamine Abuse

Requires health care providers to search the State Prescription Monitoring System prior to prescribing a controlled substance; expands the categories of persons who may access the system; creates a pain management advisory council; requires the development of specified train for hospitals regarding addition screenings, intervention, and treatment; establishes an unused drug disposal program; allows physicians to prescribe, dispense, and distribute opioid antagonists for overdose related situations.

06/12/2013 :

-  Act No. 0075

Jinkins (D)

Hospital Safety Net Assessment

Concerns a hospital safety net assessment.

06/11/2013 :

-  By Order of Resolution - Returned to House for Third Reading.

Becker (R)

Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses

Removes the expiration for the additional surcharge imposed on registered nurses and licensed practical nurses.

05/13/2013 :

-  2013 1st SPECIAL SESSION ACTION: By Order of Resolution - Reintroduced and retained in present status.