Health Care Issues
May 2012
HB11 PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (SEARS B) To prohibit state departments and agencies from implementing or enforcing a provision of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act without meeting certain conditions.
Current Status: 2/23/2011 – House Health and Aging, (Second Hearing)
HB12 MEDICAID PROGRAM (SEARS B) To establish new requirements concerning services, providers, third-party liability, and reports for the Medicaid program.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB13 MEDICAID-PREMIUM ASSISTANCE (SEARS B) To require the Director of Job and Family Services to seek federal approval to create a premium assistance component of the Medicaid program.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB24 LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES (COMBS C) To provide notice to a long-term care facility when a Tier III or similar category sex offender/child-victim offender indicates an intent to reside in the facility or registers an address within the specified geographical notification area including the facility.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Senate Judiciary, (First Hearing)
HB47 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (HAGAN R) Regarding annual reports about certain employers of public assistance recipients.
Current Status: 2/9/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB61 COMPENSATORY TIME OFF (THOMPSON A, MARTIN J) To give private employers the option to offer and employees the option to accrue and use compensatory time off in lieu of monetary overtime compensation.
Current Status: 2/24/2011 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, House Economic and Small Business Development, (Fourth Hearing)
HB62 ASSAULT OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS (GONZALES A) To increase the penalty for assault when the victim is a health care worker engaged in the performance of official duties.
Current Status: 3/27/2012 – Senate Judiciary, (Fifth Hearing)
HB68 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE (BURKE D) To create the Ohio Council to Reform Behavioral Health Care.
Current Status: 2/9/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB70 INSURANCE POLICY – NO CREDIT INFO (LUCKIE II C) To prohibit an insurer’s use of a credit score, credit history, or credit report in fixing a premium rate for, or the terms and conditions of, an insurance policy, or in determining whether to issue, continue, or renew an insurance policy.
Current Status: 3/1/2011 – House Insurance, (First Hearing)
HB71 OHIO OFFICIAL PRESCRIPTION PROGRAM (LUCKIE II C) To create the Ohio Official Prescription Program and to require prescribers and pharmacists to obtain information from the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System.
Current Status: 5/4/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB79 INSURANCE COVERAGE – ABORTIONS (BUBP D, UECKER J) To prohibit qualified health plans for providing coverage for certain abortions.
Current Status: 12/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/22/12
HB85 HEALTH INSURANCE (HACKETT R, SEARS B) To prohibit requiring an individual to obtain or maintain health insurance.
Current Status: 2/23/2011 – House Health and Aging, (Second Hearing)
HB93 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (BURKE D, JOHNSON T) To establish and modify the prevention of prescription drug abuse, development of information programs by the State Medical Board, and Medicaid coverage of prescription drugs.
Current Status: 5/20/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 5/20/2011 – some sections 6/19/2011
HB96 DYSLEXIA (CELESTE T, BRENNER A) To specify dyslexia as a specific learning disability and to require a pilot project to provide early screening and intervention services for children with dyslexia.
Current Status: 12/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/22/12
HB97 HIGH DEDUCTIBLE HEALTH CARE (HOLLINGTON R, CARNEY J) To require the Department of Administrative Services to make a high deductible health care plan available to state employees and state elected officials and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 12/13/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (Third Hearing)
HB126 BMV DATABASE – NEXT OF KIN (GROSSMAN C, GONZALES A) To provide that when a person submits an application to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles for a new or renewal driver’s license, commercial driver’s license, temporary instruction permit, motorcycle operator’s license or endorsement, or identification card, the individual must be furnished with a next of kin information form on which the individual may list information in the next of kin database of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Current Status: 3/2/2011 – Referred to Committee House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security
HB128 STAFFING AMBULANCES (CAREY, JR. J, PETERSON B) To revise the requirements for staffing ambulances and the priorities for distributing grants for emergency medical services.
Current Status: 6/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 90 days
HB141 ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSES (GOODWIN B, BOYD B) To modify the authority of certain advanced practice nurses to prescribe schedule II controlled substances.
Current Status: 4/6/2011 – House Health and Aging, (Third Hearing)
HB143 YOUTH SPORTS INJURIES (STINZIANO M, O’BRIEN S) Regarding head injuries and concussions in youth sports.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – House Health and Aging, (Second Hearing)
HB148 MACULAR DEGENERATION (LETSON T, ANIELSKI M) To designate March as Macular Degeneration Awareness Month.
Current Status: 3/2/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/4/2012
HB149 NURSING ASSIGNMENTS (LETSON T) Regarding the assignment of circulating nurses in hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities.
Current Status: 5/18/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB154 PENALTY FOR ASSAULT (SLESNICK S, DRIEHAUS D) To increase the penalty for assault to a felony of the fourth degree when the victim is a health care professional, health care worker, or security officer of a hospital who is engaged in the performance of the individual’s duties.
Current Status: 3/30/2011 – House Criminal Justice, (First Hearing)
HB156 MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT RATES (YUKO K, MCGREGOR R) To revise the types of costs included in determining nursing facilities’ Medicaid reimbursement rates.
Current Status: 5/18/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB166 EMS CERTIFICATION-RENEWAL (PHILLIPS D) To require the State Board of Emergency Medical Services to notify EMS and firefighter personnel in writing when their certifications are due for renewal.
Current Status: 3/29/2011 – House State Government and Elections, (First Hearing)
HB182 SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM (FOLEY M, ANTONIO N) To authorize the establishment of syringe exchange programs.
Current Status: 2/8/2012 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (Third Hearing)
HB184 MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY (MARTIN J) To designate March as “Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month.”
Current Status: 5/18/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB214 MEDICAL USE OF CANNABIS (YUKO K, HAGAN R) Regarding the medical use of cannabis.
Current Status: 5/3/2011 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
HB215 ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY (DOVILLA M) To designate the fifteenth day of June as “Elder Abuse Awareness Day.”
Current Status: 2/21/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 5/22/2012
HB217 HOSPITAL PROVIDE INFO ON BREAST RECONSTRUCTION (PATMON B) To require a hospital to provide information regarding breast reconstruction to a patient before obtaining the patient’s consent for a mastectomy, lymph node dissection, or lumpectomy.
Current Status: 6/15/2011 – House Health and Aging, (Third Hearing)
HB218 INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR OFF-LABEL DRUGS (HOTTINGER J) To use the compendia adopted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to determine whether an insurer may exclude coverage for off-label drug usage.
Current Status: 9/26/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 12/26/2011
HB244 INFLUENZA IMMUNIZATIONS (GONZALES A, ROEGNER K) To permit authorized paramedics to administer immunizations for influenza to firefighters or emergency medical technicians.
Current Status: 4/25/2012 – PASSED BY SENATE; Vote 31-0
HB245 PAIN AWARENESS MONTH (YUKO K) To designate September as “Pain Awareness Month.”
Current Status: 10/19/2011 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Second Hearing)
HB248 TO DESIGNATE OCTOBER 13 AS METASTATIC BREAST CANCER AWARENESS DAY. (BOYD B)
Current Status: 6/15/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB249 INMATE HEALTH SCREENINGS (BOYD B) To require health-trained personnel to perform a medical, dental and mental health screening on each inmate upon arrival at a jail, to establish procedures that health-trained personnel must follow if an inmate is taking xanax, ativan, valium, or any other, or any other benzodiazepine, and to provide that the sheriff ensure that health-trained personnel responsible for medical, dental, and mental health screening be trained as to symptoms and consequences of withdrawal from addictive drugs.
Current Status: 5/9/2012 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB250 PORTABLE ELECTRONICS INSURANCE (HACKETT R) To establish requirements and procedures for issuing portable electronics insurance.
Current Status: 12/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/22/2012
HB251 ORIENTAL MEDICINE (SCHURING K) To regulate the practice of Oriental medicine and to modify the laws governing the practice of acupuncture.
Current Status: 5/9/2012 – House Health and Aging, (Fourth Hearing)
HB259 ALTERNATIVE HEALTH SERVICES (ADAMS J, YUKO K) Regarding the provision of complementary or alternative health services.
Current Status: 3/28/2012 – House Health and Aging, (Fourth Hearing)
HB279 KINSHIP CAREGIVERS (GROSSMAN C, DRIEHAUS D) To expand the class of persons who may execute a caretaker authorization affidavit or is designated as attorney in fact under a power of attorney in fact for purpose of authority of care, custody, and control of a child and to enhance Ohio’s policies regarding kinship caregivers.
Current Status: 5/8/2012 – House Judiciary and Ethics, (Third Hearing)
HB281 PREGNANCY PREVENTION (ANTONIO N) Regarding assistance for pregnancy prevention and hospital services for victims of sexual assault.
Current Status: 6/28/2011 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
HB284 PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (GONZALES A, LETSON T) To modify the laws governing physician assistants.
Current Status: 2/15/2012 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Health and Aging, (Sixth Hearing)
HB287 OHIO HEALTH CARE PLAN (HAGAN R, FOLEY M) To enact the Ohio Health Security Act to establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
Current Status: 7/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
HB288 EMT CIVIL IMMUNITY (SWAT) (COMBS C) To grant an emergency medical technician who is providing volunteer medical assistance to a county, township, or municipal SWAT team at the SWAT team’s request the same civil immunity granted to a political subdivision employee and to permit such an emergency medical technician to carry a firearm onto, or possess a firearm on, lands and premises during the time that the technician is providing such medical assistance.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – House Local Government, (Second Hearing)
HB292 GENETIC COUNSELORS-CLINICAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE (GONZALES A) To establish licensure requirements for genetic counselors, to modify certain laws governing the State Medical Board, and to create a visiting clinical professional development certificate for certain physicians who are not licensed in Ohio.
Current Status: 4/25/2012 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Fifth Hearing)
HB293 PENALTY FOR ROBBERY NEAR PHARMACY (STINZIANO M) To increase the penalties for robbery, burglary, and breaking and entering when the offenses occur in or in the immediate vicinity of a pharmacy;
Current Status: 7/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House Criminal Justice
HB298 FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES (ROEGNER K, ROSENBERGER C) To prioritize the distribution of funds for family planning services.
Current Status: 2/28/2012 – House Health and Aging, (Second Hearing)
HB303 NURSES (SCHURING K) To revise the law governing nurses, medication aides, dialysis technicians, and certified community health workers.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, House Health and Aging, (Fourth Hearing)
HB334 ELECTRONICALLY TRACKED PSEUDOEPHEDRINE (JOHNSON T, BUBP D) Regarding the participation of pharmacies, retailers, and the Attorney General in electronically tracking pseudoephredrine and ephedrine product sales through a national exchange.
Current Status: 3/28/2012 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (Fifth Hearing)
HB350 TAXPAYER CONTRIBUTION – AMERICAN RED CROSS (HACKETT R, GROSSMAN C) To allow taxpayers to make contributions to the American Red Cross Ohio Disaster Response Readiness Fund through their income tax returns.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
HB351 WELL STIMULATION/BRINE DISPOSAL (ANTONIO N, FEDOR T) To establish requirements governing well stimulation, brine disposal and water that is used in the drilling/operation of oil and gas wells, including a requirement that oil and gas permitees pay a seven per cent overriding royalty for each well that is stimulated.
Current Status: 11/9/2011 – Referred to Committee House Agriculture and Natural Resources
HB353 HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS (SEARS B) To repeal certain hospital performance reporting requirements.
Current Status: 12/7/2011 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB367 PEDIATRIC RESPITE CARE LICENSURE (MAAG R) Regarding licensure of pediatric respite care programs.
Current Status: 5/2/2012 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Third Hearing)
HB382 EXPLOITATION – ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES (GENTILE L) To provide that “exploitation” under the adult protective services law includes action by any person, rather than only by a caretaker.
Current Status: 11/29/2011 – Referred to Committee House Judiciary and Ethics
HB393 STILLBORN INFANT BIRTH CERTIFICATE (YUKO K) To rename certificates recognizing the delivery of a stillborn infant as certificates of live birth resulting in stillbirth.
Current Status: 1/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
HB399 VERBAL MEDICAL ORDERS AUTHENTICATION POLICY (BUTLER, JR. J) To require each hospital to establish a policy governing authentication of verbal medical orders.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – House Health and Aging, (Second Hearing)
HB417 PATIENT NOTIFICATION-TERMINATED PHYSICIANS (GROSSMAN C) Regarding responsibility for notifying patients that a physician’s employment by a health care entity has been terminated.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – SUBSTITUTE BILL ACCEPTED & REPORTED OUT, House Commerce, Labor & Technology, (Third Hearing)
HB419 COMPASSIONATE ASSISTANCE FOR RAPE EMERGENCIES ACT (ANTONIO N, GARLAND N) To establish the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act regarding hospital services provided to victims of sexual assault.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
HB421 PHYSICIANS CIVIL IMMUNITY (SLABY L, O’BRIEN S) To grant civil immunity to physicians who report a patient’s use of a drug of abuse or other condition not involving such use to specified persons or entities, to exclude the making of those reports from the grounds for disciplinary action against physicians, and to apply the civil immunity of physicians who report to an employer in the business of public transportation an
employee’s use of a drug of abuse or other condition not involving such use to any violation of a patient’s privacy rights.
Current Status: 5/9/2012 – House Criminal Justice, (Fifth Hearing)
HB426 TAX REFUND CONTRIBUTION-BREAST & CERVICAL CANCER PROJECT (SCHURING K) To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to the Ohio Breast and Cervical Cancer Project.
Current Status: 4/19/2012 – House Ways and Means, (Second Hearing)
HB427 STROKE RESPONSE & TREATMENT (BOYD B, GARDNER R) To replace the Council on Stroke Prevention and Education with the Stroke System of Care Task Force; to provide for state recognition of hospitals that are primary stroke centers; to require establishment of protocols for emergency triage, treatment, and transport of stroke patients; and to require the Department of Health to maintain a stroke data registry and a statewide system for stroke response and treatment.
Current Status: 3/14/2012 – House Health and Aging, (Second Hearing)
HB438 CLINICAL RESEARCH FACULTY CERTIFICATE (SEARS B) To specify requirements for obtaining and renewing a clinical research faculty certificate.
Current Status: 3/14/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
HB466 CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TRAINING (PATMON B) To require that employees and students at state institutions of higher education who work with children receive training in child abuse prevention.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – House Education, (First Hearing)
HB467 HEALTH CARE LICENSING BOARDS’ ENFORCEMENT POWERS (JOHNSON T, PETERSON B) Regarding enforcement powers of certain health care professional licensing boards, regulation of pain management clinics, limits on prescriber-furnished controlled substances, and classifications of certain controlled substances.
Current Status: 5/9/2012 – House Health and Aging, (Second Hearing)
HB485 NURSE ANESTHETISTS (PELANDA D) To authorize certified registered nurse anesthetists to issue medication orders for the administration of drugs to patients during certain phases of patient care and to specify the circumstances in which such nurses may perform clinical support functions.
Current Status: 5/9/2012 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB487 MBR-MID-BIENNIUM REVIEW BUDGET (AMSTUTZ R) To make operating and other appropriations, to levy taxes and provide for implementation of those levies, and to provide
authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.
Current Status: 5/10/2012 – Senate Finance, (Fifth Hearing)
HB492 MELANOMA AND SKIN CANCER DETECTION AND PREVENTION MONTH (GONZALES A) To designate May as “Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month.”
Current Status: 4/25/2012 – REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB496 PSYCHOLOGY LAW (HACKETT R, GARLAND N) To revise the laws governing the practice of psychology.
Current Status: 5/9/2012 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
HB497 HEALTH INSURER-DENTAL PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT (HACKETT R) To prohibit a health insurer from reimbursing dental providers based upon a fee schedule if the dental services provided are not covered by any contract or participating provider agreement between the health insurer and the dental provider.
Current Status: 5/8/2012 – House Insurance, (First Hearing)
HB518 WORKERS’ COMPENSATION-HEALTH PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (SEARS B, LANDIS A) To statutorily allow the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to summarily suspend a provider’s certification to participate in the Health Partnership Program, to specify procedures for that suspension, and to exempt documents, reports, and evidence pertaining to a workers’ compensation fraud investigation from the Public Records Law.
Current Status: 4/19/2012 – House Workers’ Compensation Subcommittee, (First Hearing)
HCR3 HEALTH COVERAGE TAX CREDIT (O’BRIEN S) To request the members of the United States Congress to reauthorize and continue the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) enhancements including provisions related to the monthly reimbursement program, the qualified family members program, and Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Associations (VEBAs).
Current Status: 2/10/2011 – Referred to Committee House Finance and Appropriations
HCR8 BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS (STINZIANO M, O’BRIEN S) Declaring March 2011 as Brain Injury Awareness Month in Ohio.
Current Status: 4/6/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
HCR32 PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS (HAYES B, HENNE M) To recognize the contributions of pregnancy resource centers.
Current Status: 1/19/2012 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
HJR2 HEALTH CARE COVERAGE (MAAG R, SEARS B) To preserve the freedom of Ohioans to choose their health care and health care coverage.
Current Status: 3/23/2011 – REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (Third Hearing)
SB23 TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT WAITING LIST (TAVARES C) To provide that a terminally ill individual with an anticipated life expectancy of five years or less who is on a waiting list for the PACE program or a Medicaid waiver program providing home and community-based services is to have priority over other individuals on such a waiting list.
Current Status: 9/28/2011 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (First Hearing)
SB24 OHIO FAMILY STABILITY COMMISSION (TAVARES C) To create the Ohio Family Stability Commission.
Current Status: 9/21/2011 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (First Hearing)
SB25 MEDICAID PROMPT PAYMENT (TAVARES C) To specify that the Ohio prompt payment law applies to payment of claims by Medicaid managed care organizations.
Current Status: 5/2/2012 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (First Hearing)
SB26 PATIENT REFERRAL CLINICAL LABORATORY (TAVARES C) To prohibit providers of clinical laboratory services from inducing physicians to refer patients in exchange for remuneration and from placing laboratory personnel in physician offices.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
SB28 TELEMEDICINE SERVICES COVERAGE (TAVARES C) Regarding insurance and Medicaid coverage of telemedicine services.
Current Status: 5/10/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
SB31 CANCER PRESCRIPTIONS (TAVARES C) To require certain insurers that provide coverage for cancer chemotherapy treatment to provide coverage for certain prescribed, orally administered anticancer medication on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered or injected cancer medications that are covered under the policy.
Current Status: 3/22/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
SB34 PROHIBIT CREDIT SCORE FOR INSURANCE (TAVARES C) To prohibit an insurer’s use of a credit score, credit history, or credit report in fixing a premium rate for, or the terms and conditions of, an insurance policy, or in determining whether to issue, continue, or renew an insurance policy.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
SB40 COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME MONTH (KEARNEY E) To designate November as “Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness Month” and to require the Department of Health to include on its web site information regarding the syndrome.
Current Status: 1/25/2012 – REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
SB41 COUNTY BOARDS OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (KEARNEY E) To increase the membership of county boards of developmental disabilities.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
SB49 RESTRICT LIQUOR PERMITS (KEARNEY E) To prevent the issuance or transfer of a retail liquor permit if the place for which the permit is sought is so situated that it will substantially and adversely affect the normal, orderly conduct of a nursing home or childcare center and to prevent issuing or transferring the location of a retail liquor permit if the number of existing permits in the neighborhood is such that the issuance or transfer would be detrimental to and interfere with public morals, safety, or welfare.
Current Status: 3/22/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
SB54 PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL FACILITES STANDARDS (TAVARES C) To require that any privately run non-Ohio agency, home, school, camp, institution, or other entity or residential facility
to which Ohio abused, neglected, dependent, unruly, or delinquent children are committed comply with the same standards that are applicable to in-state agencies, homes, schools, camps, institutions, or other entities or residential facilities.
Current Status: 2/2/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
SB55 HEALTH INSURANCE PAYMENTS (TAVARES C) To prohibit health insurers from denying payment for a service during or after the performance of the service if the insurer provided prior written authorization for the service.
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
SB60 HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS CULTURAL COMPETENCY (TAVARES C) To require certain health care professionals to complete instruction in cultural competency.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (First Hearing)
SB69 NEED BASED PROGRAM APPLICANTS (SCHAFFER T) To establish a drug testing requirement for adults who apply for need-based programs that provide cash assistance, medical assistance, housing assistance, food assistance, or energy assistance.
Current Status: 11/30/2011 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (First Hearing)
SB77 BICYCLE HELMET LAWS (SKINDELL M) To require bicycle operators and passengers under 18 years of age to wear protective helmets when the bicycle is operated on a roadway and to establish the Bicycle Safety Fund to be used by the Department of Public Safety to assist low-income families in the purchase of bicycle helmets.
Current Status: 2/1/2012 – Senate Highways & Transportation, (First Hearing)
SB79 DRUG MARKETING (SKINDELL M) Regarding prescription drug marketing disclosures.
Current Status: 2/23/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
SB82 UNIVERSITY REQUIRED LIFE INSURANCE (CATES G) To prohibit a state university from enrolling certain undergraduate students whose parents are not covered by life insurance policies designated for the students’ education and to require the Department of Administrative Services to contract for such a policy to cover uninsured parents.
Current Status: 5/3/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
SB83 ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE PRESCRIBE DRUGS (OELSLAGER S) To modify the authority of certain advanced practice nurses to prescribe schedule II controlled substances.
Current Status: 3/9/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/8/2012
SB85 NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (SAWYER T) To rename the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy as the Northeast Ohio Medical University.
Current Status: 3/8/2011 – Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
SB87 LONG-TERM CARE (TAVARES C) To implement recommendations of the Unified Long-Term Care Budget Workgroup.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (First Hearing)
SB103 PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE (STEWART J) To establish and modify laws regarding the prevention of prescription drug abuse and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 3/8/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
SB111 ASSAULT ON HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL (OELSLAGER S) To increase the penalty for assault to a felony of the fourth degree when the victim is a health care professional, health care worker, or security officer of a hospital who is engaged in the performance of the individual’s duties.
Current Status: 5/10/2011 – Senate Judiciary – Criminal Justice, (Second Hearing)
SB112 OHIO HEALTH CARE PLAN (SKINDELL M) To establish and operate the Ohio Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all Ohio residents.
Current Status: 11/29/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
SB121 PHYSICIAN DESIGNATIONS (PATTON T) To establish standards for physician designations by health care insurers.
Current Status: 5/3/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
SB123 OHIO ELICENSE CENTER WEB SITE (BACON K) To require that the Ohio eLicense Center web site include information submitted by certain health professionals to their
licensing boards regarding the characteristics of their professional practices.
Current Status: 9/28/2011 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Second Hearing)
SB129 CIVIL IMMUNITY-DOCTOR PROVIDING EMERGENCY CARE (BACON K, HITE C) To grant qualified civil immunity to a physician, physician assistant, dentist, or optometrist who provides emergency medical, dental, or optometric services, first-aid treatment, or other emergency professional care in compliance with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act or as a result of a disaster and to a certified nurse-midwife, certified nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, or registered nurse, who provides emergency services, first-aid treatment, or other emergency professional care as a result of a disaster and to provide that these provisions do not apply to wrongful death actions.
Current Status: 5/4/2011 – Senate Judiciary – Civil Justice, (Third Hearing)
SB136 PAYMENT FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES (OELSLAGER S, CAFARO C) To make changes to the law regarding preapproval of and payment for health care services.
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
SB138 ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION (HUGHES J) To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to the Alzheimer’s Association.
Current Status: 5/19/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB141 MEDICAL SERVICES FOR VISITING SPORTS TEAMS (GILLMOR K) To authorize a licensed physician from another state to provide medical services to an out-of-state athletic team and accompanying individuals when the team is participating in a sporting event in Ohio.
Current Status: 7/12/2011 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
SB147 INCOME TAX CONTRIBUTIONS TO RED CROSS (SCHAFFER T, HITE C) To allow taxpayers to make contributions to the American Red Cross Ohio Disaster Response Readiness and preparedness Fund through their income tax returns.
Current Status: 6/23/2011 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (Second Hearing)
SB149 MOBILITY IMPAIRED PERSON (BACON K, JONES S) To revise the definition of “mobility impaired person” to include a person who is diagnosed with autism for purposes of the statutes governing assistance dogs.
Current Status: 5/10/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs
SB157 TRAFFIC SIGNS – DISABLED CHILD (PATTON T) To authorize the use of traffic signs warning of the presence of a child with a disability.
Current Status: 6/22/2011 – Senate Highways & Transportation, (First Hearing)
SB171 SUNSET REVIEW COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS (GILLMOR K) To implement the recommendations of the Sunset Review Committee by abolishing, terminating, transferring, or renewing various agencies and reestablishing the Sunset Review Committee but postponing operation until the 131st General Assembly, and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 6/30/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/30/2011
SB182 BREAST RECONSTRUCTION INFORMATION HOSPITAL (TAVARES C) To require a hospital to provide information regarding breast reconstruction to a patient before obtaining the patient’s consent for a mastectomy, lymph node dissection, or lumpectomy.
Current Status: 3/14/2012 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Second Hearing)
SB190 PREGNANCY PREVENTION-SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM (CAFARO C) Regarding assistance for pregnancy prevention and hospital services for victims of sexual assault.
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
SB199 BREAST CANCER AWARENESS (SMITH S) To designate October 13 as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
Current Status: 4/25/2012 – REPORTED OUT, Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Third Hearing)
SB201 FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES (JORDAN K, LEHNER P) To prioritize the distribution of funds for family planning services.
Current Status: 12/6/2011 – Senate Finance, (First Hearing)
SB204 YELLOW DOT MEDICAL INFORMATION (TAVARES C) To establish the “Yellow Dot” motor vehicle medical information program within the Department of Public Safety.
Current Status: 9/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Highways & Transportation
SB205 ART THERAPY (SKINDELL M, GRENDELL T) To regulate the practice of art therapy.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Third Hearing)
SB228 NURSE ANESTHETISTS (BURKE D) To authorize certified registered nurse anesthetists to issue medication orders for the administration of drugs to patients during certain phases of patient care and to specify the circumstances to which such nurses may perform clinical support functions.
Current Status: 3/21/2012 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (First Hearing)
SB232 COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION (SKINDELL M) To establish statutory standards for comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education in public schools and to designate section 3313.6011 of the Revised Code as the “Act for Our Children’s Future.”
Current Status: 10/20/2011 – Referred to Committee Senate Education
SB233 HEALTH INSURERS (OELSLAGER S) To limit copayments health insurers impose for physical therapy services and to make changes in the law governing health insurers and intermediary organizations.
Current Status: 11/15/2011 – Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor, (First Hearing)
SB247 TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS DAY (BALDERSON T) To designate the ninth day of July as “Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Day.”
Current Status: 3/9/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 6/8/2012
SB260 PEDIATRIC STROKE AWARENESS MONTH (OBHOF L) To designate May as “Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month.”
Current Status: 5/4/2012 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
SB264 NURSING FACILITY BONUSES (JONES S) Regarding quality incentive payments and quality bonuses paid to nursing facilities under the Medicaid program.
Current Status: 12/21/2011 – SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; Eff. 3/22/2012 – Sections 1-4 Eff. 7/1/2012
SB265 BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND BALANCE (BACON K) To increase the balance that must exist in the Budget Stabilization Fund, from 5% to 10% of the General Revenue Fund revenue, before revenue surpluses are applied to income tax reductions.
Current Status: 3/20/2012 – Senate Finance, (Second Hearing)
SB276 PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT LAWS (HITE C) To modify the laws governing physician assistants.
Current Status: 1/10/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
SB283 COMPASSIONATE ASSISTANCE FOR RAPE EMERGENCIES ACT (TURNER N) To establish the Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act regarding hospital services provided to victims of sexual assault.
Current Status: 1/24/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
SB285 TAX REFUND CONTRIBUTION-BREAST & CERVICAL CANCER PROJECT (PATTON T) To allow taxpayers to contribute a portion of their income tax refunds to the Ohio Breast and Cervical Cancer Project.
Current Status: 2/15/2012 – Senate Ways & Means & Economic Development, (First Hearing)
SB286 CLINICAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE (JONES S) To create a visiting clinical professional development certificate for certain physicians who are not licensed in Ohio.
Current Status: 4/25/2012 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Fourth Hearing)
SB287 DEPENDENCY PROFESSION LAW (LAROSE F, CAFARO C) To revise the law governing the professions of chemical dependency counseling and alcohol and other drug prevention.
Current Status: 4/24/2012 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
SB291 SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY (LEHNER P) Regarding the practice of surgical technology in hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities.
Current Status: 4/25/2012 – Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Fourth Hearing)
SB297 CLINICAL RESEARCH FACULTY CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENTS (PATTON T) To specify requirements for obtaining and renewing a clinical research faculty certificate and to declare an emergency.
Current Status: 4/17/2012 – Referred to Committee House Health and Aging
SB301 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (BURKE D, CAFARO C) Regarding enforcement powers of certain health care professional licensing boards, regulation of pain management clinics, limits on prescriber-furnished controlled substances, and classifications of certain controlled substances.
Current Status: 5/9/2012 – House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
SB304 BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH MONTH (BALDERSON T) To designate the month of May as “Better Hearing and Speech Month.”
Current Status: 3/28/2012 – REPORTED OUT AS AMENDED, Senate Health, Human Services & Aging, (Second Hearing)
SB324 HEALTH INSURER-DENTAL PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT (SEITZ B) To prohibit a health insurer from reimbursing dental providers based upon a fee schedule if the dental services provided are not covered by any contract or participating provider agreement between the health insurer and the dental provider.
Current Status: 4/17/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce & Labor
SB329 PRISONERS’ MEDICAL-BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM (SEITZ B, BURKE D) To authorize the Director of Rehabilitation and Correction to implement a program to improve prisoners’ access to psychotropic drugs and a program authorizing the provision of medical and behavioral health care to prisoners through telecommunication methods.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – Referred to Committee Senate Health, Human Services & Aging
SCR15 FOLIC ACID EDUCATION (SCHAFFER T) To express the General Assembly’s support of increasing public awareness of and education on the importance of folic acid in the diets of women of childbearing age.
Current Status: 4/18/2012 – REPORTED OUT, House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)
SCR16 MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT FOR COMBAT PERSONNEL (BURKE D) To urge Congress to support the provision of efficient and comprehensive mental health treatment to combat military personnel and combat veterans who are suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other combat-related stress disorders.
Current Status: 3/27/2012 – ADOPTED BY SENATE; Vote 33-0