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2015 Bill(s)
HB 261 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: WITHDRAWN Description: Allow a direct contract between a doctor and a patient to provide medical care for a defined period of time. Exempt it from regulation as insurance.
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* HB 262 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H Select Com. on Insurance Description: Require health insurance cover eating disorders. Not assigned to a committee until March 31.
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HB 263 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H Civil & Criminal Proceedings Description: Include aviation activities under a law providing a lawsuit exemption for property owners for various types of recreational activities on their land.
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HB 264 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H Emerging Issues Description: Prohibit state and local government from assisting a federal agency from collecting electronic data or metadata without consent of the owner or a warrant. Assigned to committee on April 14.
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HB 265 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H Health Insurance Description: Prohibit licensing of doctors or optometrists being conditioned on compliance with a federal rule requiring electric health records. Prohibit licensing of some types of health care providers from requiring participation in any health insurance plan. Assigned to committee on April 14.
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HB 432 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Give a medical professional the right to refuse to participate in any procedure or research that violates the medical providers conscience.
See: Official legislative description and status* HB 601 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Prohibit any state or local government official from assisting in implementation of the federal health insurance law. Suspend the license of any insurance company that accepts funds that results in penalties for someone violating the federal law.
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HB 617 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H Select Com. on Social Services Description: Require the Health Department to include on its website price information it gets from hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. Expand what hospitals are required to report.
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SCS HCS HB 671 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: S 3rd Read Description: Repeal a prohibition on granting a permanent license as a physician or surgeon who failed three attempts to pass the license board examination.
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HCS HB 672 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health Description: Require Medicaid coverage for behavioral, social and psychophysiological services to be based on a specific national reimbursement code.
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HCS HB 769 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Allow health care services to be provided through a medical retainer agreement with a physician without being regulated as insurance.
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HCS HB 867 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: S Veterans' Affairs & Health Description: Require that every medical student be provided each year with the opportunity to be screened for the risk of depression by an online survey.
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HB 1014 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H Select Com. on Social Services Description: Require the departments of Health and Mental Health to establish rules governing telehealth services by the Medicaid program. Require security and privacy for digital files.
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HB 1164 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H Health & Mental Health Policy Description: Extend to August 2015 a law that expired in 2012 providing heart disease screening for uninsured and underinsured women.
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HB 1222 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Require Medicaid to cover and directly pay reimbusement for direct primary care services.
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HB 1223 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Expand the authority of the Comprehensive Psychiatric Services Council to provide oversight of suicide awareness activities as well as suicide prevention activities.
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HB 1302 Sponsor:Frederick, Keith Status: H 2nd Read Description: Prohibit a health insurance plan from encouraging or incentivizing prescription of a specific medication or treatment.
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