Nursing Homes, Asst Lvg, LTC
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)
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)
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
HB98 INCOME TAX RATE FOR 70 1/2 YEARS OR OLDER (HOLLINGTON R) To reduce the maximum effective income tax rate applicable to unearned income of persons age 70 1/2 years or older to 1% beginning in 2013.
Current Status: 3/30/2011 – House Ways and Means, (Fourth Hearing)
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
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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)
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)
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
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
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)