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BILL #, TITLE, SPONSOR |
ISSUE/DESCRIPTION |
UMA POSITION |
FISCAL NOTE |
STATUS |
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UMA SPONSORED BILL |
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S.B. 93S07 -- Licensed Direct-
Entry Midwife Amendments
Sponsor: Sen. Margaret
Dayton |
Defines "normal birth and pregnancy" as low risk at start of labor and
low risk at end of labor. Delineates which pregnancies are high low
risk and clarifies provisions related to the transfer of a client to a
hospital. Amends standards of practice related to mandatory transfers
of clients; and creates a new rules committee. Prohibits delivery of
twins and breech by Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives but allows them to do
very limited VBACs. |
UMA Sponsorship |
$300 One-Time Funding |
Passed |
H.B. 477 -- Licensing of Anesthesiologist Assistants
Sponsor: Rep. Steve Clark |
Provides for the licensing of Anesthesiologist Assistants to assist
Anesthesiologists. Must practice under the supervision of an
Anesthesiologist. |
UMA Sponsorship
/USA Bill |
No Fiscal Note |
Sent to
Interim |
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APPROPRIATIONS REQUESTS |
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Appropriation for Physician Office EMR Evaluation |
Requested $100,000 appropriation from HHS Appropriations Committee for
continuation of the EMR evaluation program started last year. Requested
that appropriations go to the DOH to bring down a federal match and
taken through HealthInsight to allow continued evaluation &
recommendation to physicians offices. |
Support |
$100,000 One-
Time Funding |
Funded |
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Physician Reimbursement Increase Request for Medicaid Program |
Base budget appropriations of 2.0% increase for physicians. |
Support |
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Funded |
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UMA COLLABORATIVE BILLS |
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H.B. 101 -- Amendments to Emergency Injection for Anaphylactic Reaction
Act
Sponsor: Rep. Todd Kiser |
Provides that a school, school board, or school official or a primary or
secondary school may not prohibit a teacher from receiving training to
administer, process, store or administer an epinephrine auto-injector on
school grounds. Requires the school to make available epinephrine
auto-injectors on school grounds. |
Collaborative Support |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
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HOUSE BILLS |
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H.B. 12 -- Controlled
Substances and Paraphernalia
Sponsor: Rep. Curt Oda |
Amends language regarding items used to ingest or inhale any controlled
substances - changed from illegal drugs. |
Information Item |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 15 -- Control and Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sponsor: Rep. Phil Riesen |
Requires the DOH and local health departments
to provide information to the public and health care
professionals about the health consequences of untreated
sexually transmitted diseases and the medical options for
treatment of the diseases and services available. |
Public Support |
$350,000 Ongoing
General Funds |
Passed |
H.B. 16 -- Medicaid Coverage for Certain Telehealth Services
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Last |
Requires the Medicaid program to allow the use of telemedicine for
certain services and provide reimbursement. |
Public Support |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 17 -- Cancer Screening and Mortality Reduction Program
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ray |
Expands the DOH's breast cancer mortality reduction program to include
other cancers; identifies the program. |
Public Support |
$2.3 M Ongoing
General Funds |
Failed |
H.B. 18S01 -- Material Harmful to Minors Admendments
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ray |
Amends the definition of material harmful to minors to remove "with"
from the bill and insert "of" |
No Position |
No Fiscal Note |
Failed |
H.B. 24S01 -- Amendments to Utah Digital Health Service Commission Act
Sponsor: Rep. Rhonda Menlove |
Renames the commission the Utah Digital Health Service Committee.
Requires the chairperson to report to the Executive Director of the DOH.
Amends the duties of the committee and requires the committee to advise
and make recommendations to the DOH on patient privacy realted
policies. Places emphasis on helping rural health care providers and
special populations. |
Public Support |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 38 -- Education and Outreach Regarding Substances Harmful During
Pregnancy
Sponsor: Rep. Rhonda Menlove |
Directs the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, to conduct a
public education and outreach program to inform pregnant women, and
women who may become pregnant, of the risk of using substances that are
harmful during pregnancy, of treatment available to avoid or stop use
and abuse of these substances and legal protections for seeking help. |
Public Support |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 40S02 -- Safe Drinking Water
Revisions
Sponsor: Rep. Sylvia Anderson |
Requires a a first or second class county to adopt an ordinance to
protect a source of public drinking water. Authorizes a municipality or
city to adopt an ordinance to protect the public drinking water.
Directs the Drinking Water Board to establish guidelines and report to
the legislature. |
Information Item |
$250,000 Ongoing General
Funds |
Passed |
H.B. 47S02 -- Standards for Exchange of Electronic Health Information
Sponsor: Rep. Rhonda Menlove |
Authorizes the DOH to adopt standards for the secure exchange of
electronic health information; defines terms; requires those that
participate in exchanges the information to use these standards.
Requires reporting to the legislature on the adoption of the standards. |
Public Support |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 49S01 -- Budget Reserve Account and Disaster Recovery Account
Amendments
Sponosr: Rep. Wayne Harper |
Modifies target amounts for Budget Reserve Account, Education Fund
Budget Reserve Account and State Disaster Recovery
Restricted Account. Takes out that the
funding comes from the Uniform School Fund and just leaves the funding
from the General Fund Appropriation. |
Information Item |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 53S01 -- Impact of Administrative Rules on Small Businesses
Sponsor: Rep. Steve Clark |
Requires a state agency to consider methods to minimize the impact of an
agency's proposed administrative rule if the agency reasonably expects
the rule will have a measurable negative fiscal impact on small
businesses. |
Information Item |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 60S01 -- Legislative Review of Health Insurance Mandates
Sponsor: Rep. Jim Dunnigan |
Modifies the process by which the Business and Labor Interim Committee
reviews health insurance mandates and removes some provisions related to
the legislative auditor general assisting with the review. B&L
Committee will review mandates between five and ten years and recommend
whether they should be modified or repealed. |
Information Item |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 74 -- Medicaid 340B Drug Pricing Programs
Sponsor: Rep. David Litvack |
Requires that the DOH explore the feasibility of expanding 340B drug
pricing programs in the State Medicaid program. |
Information Item |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 79 -- Sunset Reauthorization and Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. David Clark |
Reauthorizes certain named state entities and programs that are
scheduled to sunset before the 2009 Annual General Session. Medical
malpractice arbitration act is repealed July 1, 2009. |
Information Item |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 82 -- Notice of Changes to the State Medicaid Plan
Sponsor: Rep. Merlynn Newbold |
Amends the DOH reporting requirements to the Legislature when the DOH
makes a change to the Medicaid plan. |
Information Item |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 87 -- Primary Seat Belt Law
Sponsor: Rep. Richard Greenwood |
Repeals the provision that makes a safety belt violation for a person 19
years of age or older enforceable only as a secondary action when the
person is detained for another offense. |
Public Support |
$3,100 2008
$16,400 2009
$4,000 2010 |
Failed |
H.B. 93 -- Insurance Fraud Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Aagard |
Expands the reporting of fraudulent insurance acts and modifies the
requirements of the report. Modifies penalties and provides for
rulemaking. Requires a person to report a fraudulent insurance act to
the department if the person has a good faith belief on the basis of
preponderance of the evidence that a fraudulent insurance act has been
committed. |
No Position |
$100,000 Annual
Revenue |
Passed |
H.B. 100 -- Amendments to Prescribing Schedule II Drugs
Sponsor: Rep. Mark Wheatley |
Changes the maximum supply of a controlled substance that may be
prescribed at one time from a 30 day supply to a 90 day supply; and
removes the authority to distribute three different post dated
prescriptions for the same controlled substance. |
Opposed |
No Fiscal Note |
Withdrawn |
H.B. 107 -- Emergency Management Administrative Council
Sponsor: Rep. Curt Oda |
Expands duties of the Emergency Management Administration Council.
Changes council membership. |
Information Item |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 108 -- Prosthetic Limb Health Insurance Parity
Sponsor: Rep. David Litvack |
Requires accident and health insurers to provide coverage for prosthetic
and orthotic devices if they provide coverage for hospital, medical, or
surgical expenses. |
No Position |
No Fiscal Note |
Failed |
H.B. 116 -- Flourine in Privately Owned Water System
Sponsor: Rep. Sylvia Anderson |
Requires the majority of the voting shareholders of a privately owned
public water system to approve the addition or removal of flourine. |
Opposed for public health purposes |
No Fiscal Note |
Failed |
H.B. 119S01 -- Controlled Substance Database Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Daw |
Establishes real time reporting of controlled substances database pilot
program for Davis, Salt Lake, Utah and Weber counties beginning July 1,
2008 and ending December 1, 2009. Provides for access to controlled
substance database by pharmacies, pharmaceutical facilities and
physicians. Establishes penalties for accessing or using information
unless allowed. |
Public Support |
$175,000 Ongoing General Funds and
$825,000 One- Time funding for
2009 |
Passed |
H.B. 121S01 -- County Charges for Services to incarcerated Persons
Sponsor: Rep. Richard Greenwood |
Expands a provision relating to health care expenses incurred for
persons booked into or committed to jail in a county to include health
care expenses incurred by physicians, making those expenses county
charges - subject to statutory limits and pay them 65% of PEHP
contracted rates for the physician. |
Support after Amended to meet Physician Needs |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 133S02 -- Health System Reform
Sponsor: Rep. David Clark |
Directs the DOH to work with the DOI, the DOW, the Gov Office of Econ.
Devel, and the Legisl Bus & Labor Committee to develop and implement a
state strategic plan for health system reform. Requires the DOI to work
with insurers to develop standards for health insurance applications and
standards for compatible systems of electronic submission of
applications; facilitate private collection of premium payments from
multiple sources. Encourage health insurers to develop new health
insurance products that raise the threshold for qualification for
insurance coverage. Enacts a tax credit for insurance premiums paid by
the individual. Appropriates money to fund the collection of episodes
of care and for the DOH to implement the standards for electronic
exchange of clinical health information. |
Public Support |
Appropriates $615,000 Ongoing General Funds for the collection and
distribution of the costs of episodes of care and $882,000 One -Time for
the DOH and Legis.
Research |
Passed |
H.B. 136S02 -- Illegal Drug Activity Reporting Hotline Through the
Office of the Attorney General
Sponsor: |
Requires the attorney general to establish and maintain the Illegal Drug
Activity Reporting Hotline to provide the public with a single,
statewide toll-free telephone number to anonymously report illegal drug
activity. Requires the Attorney General to receive, log, analyze and
disseminate credible information received from the calls to law
enforcement and provide for a reward for callers to report illegal drug
activities. |
Information Item |
$8,900 Ongoing
General Funds |
Failed |
H.B. 137 -- State Facility Water Conservation Program
Sponsor: Rep. Larry Wiley |
Creates the State Facility Water Conservation Program to provide,
guidelines, procedures, and design and construction standards to improve
water conservation in existing, renovated and newly constructed state
facilities. Establishes information, recommendations, assistance and
analysis of water use by state agencies, etc. |
No Position |
$500,000 Ongoing
General Funds |
Failed |
H.B. 140 -- Child Restraint Device Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Tim Cosgrove |
Requires that the operator of a motor vehicle shall provide for the
protection of a person younger than eight years of age by using an
appropriate child restraint device. Changes current law from 5 to 8
years of age. A child under age 8 who is 57 inches tall or taller is
exempt from the requirement. |
Public Support |
$6,000 Ongoing
General Funds |
Passed |
H.B. 168S02 -- Health Insurance Market Choices
Sponsor: Rep. Jim Dunnigan |
Only requires HMOs and PPOs to offer one plan that is subject to what
they currently have to comply with such as the PPO law and the HMO law
including mandates but can then offer multiple plans that are not
subject to the current mandates. Means a PPO that now has to offer
plans that pay non-participating providers 75% of the network provider
rate for similarly qualified providers can now offer many other plans
and only has to offer one plan that pays 75% for non-participating
providers. |
Oppose - Suggest Amendments |
No Fiscal Note |
Failed |
H.B. 174S01 -- Traumatic Brain Injury Fund
Sponsor: Rep. James Gowans |
Creates the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund in the DOH. Directs that an
advisory committee be created to recommend expenditures from the fund.
Increases the surcharge on DUIs and other offenss to provide monies for
the fund. Requires that at least 50% of the fund be expended each year
to directly assist individuals with traumatic brain injury. Allows for
reimbursement to the courts for expenses directly related to the
implementation of the provisions of the bill. |
Public Support for
Concept - Neutral where funding comes from |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 191 -- Medical Malpractice Arbitration
Sponsor: Rep. Steve Urquhart |
Creates a separate malpractice arbitration system that would be for
cases valued up to $300,000. Would only allow a review of the medical
record and would have one "medical" expert review the chart and make a
determination. |
Opposed if not amended |
No Fiscal Note |
Withdrawn |
H.B. 236 -- Abortion Law Revisions
Sponsor: Rep. Steve Sandstrom |
Prohibits abortion except for certain circumstances. Legal note says
that it violates Roe v. Wade. |
Information Item |
No Fiscal Note |
Withdrawn |
H.B. 245 -- Administration of Medication to Students Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Lockhart |
Allows school administrators rather than school boards to meet certain
requirements; modifies the role of school nurses relating to the
administration of medication to students. Medication can only be
administered to a student during school hours if the student's licensed
health care provider has prescribed the medication and provides
documentation as to the method. |
No Position |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 258 -- Medicaid Drug Utilization Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Becky Lockhart |
Prohibits the inclusion of immunosuppressive drugs used to prevent
transplanted organ rejection from inclusion on the Medicaid PDL and
under step therapy in the Medicaid program or under generic substitution
requirements under Medicaid. |
Support as long as it is only to prevent transplanted organ rejection |
$79,000 General
Funds for 2009
87,2000 Ongoing General Funds |
Passed |
H.B. 260 -- Controlled Substance Schedule - Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ray |
Adds the herb salvia divinorum to the statutory list of controlled
substances; and designates salvia divinorum as a Schedule I controlled
substance. |
Public Support |
No Fiscal Note |
Withdrawn |
H.B. 263S01 -- Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Sponsor: Rep. Eric Hutchings |
Requires the DOH to enter into an agreement for the operation of the
Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disabilities (URADD) and a
public education campaign to increase the early identification of autism
spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities. |
Public Support |
$350,000 Ongoing
General Funds |
Passed |
H.B. 267 -- Controlled Substances Amendments - Suda Controls
Sponsors: Rep. Neil Hansen |
Establishes ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, and
phenylpropanolamine as Schedule V controlled substances; authorizes
preparations of the above intended for lawful use in the diagnosis,
cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease to be purchased,
sold or transferred without a prescription if dispensed by a person
licensed under the Pharmacy Practice Act and recorded in the Division of
Occupational and Professional Licensure's controlled substance database;
and requires the division by rule provide for reporting transactions of
these substances in teh controlled substance database. |
Public Support |
$114,400 2009
$44,800 Ongoing
General Funds from 2010 on |
Failed |
H.B. 268 -- Health Facility Committee Membership
Sponsor: Rep. Christopher Herrod |
Adds a representative of ambulatory surgical facilities to the
membership of the Health Facility Committee within the DOH. |
Public Support |
No Fiscal Note |
Passed |
H.B. 276S02 -- Health Professional Authority - Death and Disability
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Last |
Authorizes a PA or Nurse Practitioner to state or certify cause of
death, and complete and sign a death certificate; requires treatment by
a PA or NP within the past 30 days to be considered when determining
whether a decedent must be referred to the medical examiner. Allows a
PA or NP to certify that a person has a disability, and will have the
disability for a particular length of time, for purposes of obtaining a
disability special |
