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2008 Bill(s)
HCS HB 1355 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: H Rules Description: Let Buchanan County enact an ordinance on nuisances.
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HB 1460 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: H Judiciary Description: Expand the law on tampering with a judicial officer to include juvenile officers.
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* HCS HB 1546 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: S 3rd Read Description: Require hospitals to establish control programs for drug-resistant staph infections. Added to the perfection calendar on May 5, when there are less than two weeks before the end of the session and the House usually has stopped taking up bills for perfection.
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HB 1671 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: H Health Insurance Description: Require the Insurance Department to develop standard insurance application forms.
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* HB 1805 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: S 3rd Read Description: Prohibit an HMO from charging a co-pay for a prescription drug that is higher than the actual retail price the pharmacy charged. The SCS for HB 1790 that contained this bill was defeated, putting the bill on the calendar.
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HB 1806 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: H Perf Description: Restrict the "Certificate of Need" law to long-term care facilities. The law restricts medical facilities from expanding without state government approval.
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HCS HB 1857 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: H Perf Description: Require an HMO to pay to a provider outside the network the same rate to network medical providers in the same area for the same services.
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HCS HB 1880 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: H Perf Description: Add additional rights for health providers in HMO contracts. Prohibit an HMO from terminating an agreement with a provider if the provider accepted lower payments from another HMO. Added to the perfection calendar on May 5, when there are less than two weeks before the end of the session and the House usually has stopped taking up bills for perfection.
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* HCS HB 1933 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: H Rules Description: Include home telemonitoring services to coverage by MO HealthNet that provides health care coverage for the lower income. The HCS contains a number of other HealthNet and medical provisions.
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HB 2143 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: H Family Description: Shorten the deadline for various hearings in child abuse cases with the child abuse registry.
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HB 2256 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: H Health Insurance Description: Add additional requirements and reporting requirements on medical malpractice insurance. Give the Insurance Department more authority to regulate rates.
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HB 2346 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: H 2nd Read Description: Expand to ambulance districts the "federal reimbursement allowance," an accounting trick that lets the state get extra federal Medicaid matching funds by taxing the ambulance districts their federal allowance (and then returning it).
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 2398 Sponsor:Schaaf, Robert Status: IN HCS HB 2413 Description: The governor's Insure Missouri program to expand government-financed health care for lower income.
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Note: The descriptions of bills, amendments and roll-call votes are written by MDN journalists. MDN's database may not include committee assignments of bills made on the last day of the session since it is too late for the committee to act on the bill and, thus, the delayed assignment has no practical effect.
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