| BILL #, TITLE, SPONSOR | ISSUE/DESCRIPTION | UMA POSITION | FISCAL NOTE | STATUS |
| UMA INITIATIVES | | | | |
S.B. 79S03 -- Medical Malpractice Amendments
Sponsor: Sen. Peter Knudson and Senator John Valentine | Establishes a standard of proof of clear and convincing evidence for malpractice actions based on emergency care received in emergency departments. This applies to all EMTALA care and covers emergency room physicians, hospitals, employed providers and on-call specialists. It applies to emergency care in the emergency department until a patient is stabilized and transfered to another department or released. It does not apply if the specialist on call has a provider/patient relationship with the patient outside of the emergency department if they have seen the patient in the last 3 months for the exact same condition and if they have the patient records immediately available. There is a four year sunset on this law. | UMA Initiative
Strong Support | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 269S02 -- Anesthesiologist Assistants
Sponsor: Rep. Julie Fisher | Creates a new licensing chapter under DOPL for the Professional Licensing of Anesthesiologist Assistants. Establishes a licensing board, defines terms, requirements and qualifications for licensure and defines unlawful and unprofessional conduct. | UMA/USA Initiative
Strong Support | $2,000 Revenue
from licensing. | Failed |
| UMA COLLABORATIVE BILLS | | | | |
H.B. 165S03 - Health Reform - Administrative Simplification
Sponsor: Rep. Merlynn Newbold | Amends the timing requirement for a hospital itemized bill. Creates a system wide, broad based demonstration project between health care payers and health care providers for innovating the payment of delivery of healthcare in the state. Requires Insurance Commissioner to convene insurers and providers to establish a more efficient coordination of benefits process. Requires insurers to issue a standardized card containing health plan information. Gives the Ins. Dept. rulemaking authority to establish standards for electronic exchange of health plan information (card swipe technology or other). Requires an insurer to provide sufficient information to the health care provider to determine compensation or payment for healthcare services. Ins. Commissioner with group to develop standardized terminology and formats of EOBs, create a better pre-authorization process and create a consolidated credentialing process. Decreases the amount of time an insurer has to recover amount paid to a provider if it was incorrect. | Collaborative Support | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 188S02 - Health System Reform - Insurance Market
Sponsor: Rep. Dave Clark | Expands access to the health insurance market, increases market flexibility and provides greater transparency in the health insurance market.
- Revises the basic benefit plan used for consumer comparison of health benefit products;
- Requires the DOI to include a summary of the types of plans sold through the internet portal, including market penetration of mandate lite products in its annual market report
- Allows insurers to offer lower cost health insurance products that do not include certain state mandates in the individual market, the small employee group market
- Creates the Utah NetCare Plan - a low cost alternative to current federal COBRA and state mini-COBRA plans
- Requires health insurance brokers and producers to disclose their commissions and compensation to their customers prior to selling a health benefit plan
- Modifies the number and type of products an insurer must offer in the small employer group market and the individual market
- Establishes a defined contribution arrangement market available on the internet portal which offers a range of health benefit plan choices to
an employer's eligible employees. Starts with small employers Jan 1
2010 and large employer groups beginning Jan 1, 2012.
- Establishes a board within the DOI that has the responsibility to
develop a risk adjustment mechanism that will apportion risk
among the insurers participating in the internet portal
- Requires insurers who offer plans through the portal to provide
greater transparency and disclose information about plan benefits,
provider networks, wellness programs, claim payment practices,
and solvency ratings
- Establishes a process for a consumer to compare health plan
features on the internet portal and to enroll in a health benefit plan
through the portal
- Requires teh Office of Consumer Health Services to convene insurers,
and health care providers to monitor and report to the Health Reform Task
Force and to the B&L Interim Committee regarding progress towards
expanding access to the defined contribution market, greater choice in the
market, and payment reform demonstration projects;
- Reauthorizes the Health Reform Task Force for one year
| Collaborative Support | $0 2009
$70,000 2010
$70,000 2011 | Passed |
H.B. 331S02 - Health Reform - Health Insurance Coverage in State Contracts
Sponsor: Rep. Jim Dunnigan | Requires certain state entities to require a contractor who contracts with a state entity to offer the contractor's employers or subcontractors qualified health insurance coverage during the duration of the contract with the state if the contract is in the amount of $500,000 or more and those employees or subcontractors work at least 30 hours a week. | Collaborative Support | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
| HOUSE BILLS | | | | |
H.B. 13 -- Crime of Strangulation or Smothering
Sponsor: Rep. Jennifer Seelig | Amends the offense of aggravated assault to include the offenses of intentionally impeding a person's circulation by applying pressure to a person's neck or throat or impeding a person's normal breathing and makes this offense a third degree felony. | No Position
| $58,100 2010
$116,300 2011 | Failed |
H.B. 14 -- Material Harmful to Minors Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Sheryl Allen | Provides penalties for minors that distribute pornographic material or deal in material harmful to a minor. Makes it a class A misdemeanor for 16 or 17 years of age, a class B misdemeanor for 16 years of age or younger and a third degree felong for a person 18 years or older who solicits a person younger than 18 to distribute pornographic material or deal in material harmful to a minor. Provides that if a person younger than 18 years of age has previously committed teh offense of dealing in material harmful to minors, the person is guilty of third degree felony for each subsequent offense. | Support | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 17 -- Expedited Partner Therapy Treatment
Sponsor: Rep. Jennifer Seelig | Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act to allow physicians the option to use expedited partner therapy if they wish when treating a patient with a sexually transmitted disease and any partner they may have. If the physician chooses, he/she may may prescribe a medication as per CDC guidelines for a partner they have not seen without it being considered unlawful conduct. Provides immunity to a provider who prescribes to a partner as long as the provider is not grossly negligent or willful and wanton in prescribing. | Soft Support based on Public Health.
Strong support if extra liability protection inserted. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 21 -- Amendments to Driver License Sanction Requirements
Sponsor: Rep. Richard Greenwood | Provides that the requirement that the reinstatement of a person's license for a person under 21 years of age operating a vehicle with a detectable amount of alcohol in the person's body is contingent upon the person's completion of an action recommended by a local substance abuse authority or substance abuse program is only applicable within five years after the effective date of the license sanction. | Information Only | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 26 -- Child and Vulnerable Adult Endangerment Provisions
Sponsor: Rep. Mike Morley | Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally causes or permits a child or vulnerable adult to be exposed to, inhale, ingest, or have contact with a controlled substance, chemical substance, or drug paraphernalia is: guilty of a third degree felony; guilty of a second degree felony, if as a result of the conduct, the child or vulnerable adult suffers bodily injury, substantial bodily injury or serious bodily inury; or guilty of a first degree felony, if, as a result of the conduct a child or vulnerable adult dies. Provides an affirmative defense to the crime described if the controlled substance is obtained by lawful prescription and is used or possessed in accordance with the prescription instructions. Provides penalties. | No Position but some language in the bill concerns us. Amended so we support the bill. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 27 -- Protections for Agricultural Practices
Sponsor: Rep. Mike Morley | Eliminates the presumption that agricultural operations are conducted in accordance with sound agricultural practices and provides that agricultural operations are not nuisances. | Some concerns. No position. Talked with sponsor about concerns. Seems to be o.k. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 31 -- Utah Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survival Act
Sponsor: Rep. Carl Wimmer | Enacts the Utah Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survival Act and amends civil liability immunity provisions relating to the act. Provides for the expiration of the AED statewide database on Sept. 1, 2009 and replaces it with local system operated by public safety answering points. Permits a person to administer CPR or use an AED on a person reasonably believe to be in sudden cardiac arrest without a license or certificate and regardless of whether the person is trained to administer CPR or to use an AED. Provides for immunity from civil liablity for certain acts or omissions relating to administering CPR, operating, designing, or managing a CPR or AED program or providing instruction or training, or taking other specified action in relation to CPR or AEDs unless the actions constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct. | Support | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 33 -- Refund of Unearned Health Insurance Premiums and Medicare Supplement Insurance Premiums
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ray | Amends Insurance Code. Requires "unearned amount of the collected premium" from a health insurance policy or a Medicare supplement policy to be refunded if the policy is cancelled for a reason other than a material misrepresentation. Provides that if an insurer cancels a health insurance policy or a Medicare supplement policy because of a material misrepresentation on the application, the insurance shall refund teh premiums collected minus claims that have been paid. | Information Item | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 40 -- Motorcycle Rider Education Program Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Daw | Provides that a person who is at least 15 years 6 months of age and has been issued a learner permit may enroll in and complete a motorcycle rider training course if the course is conducted on a closed course that is not conducted on a public highway, is approved by the Driver License Division and meets or exceeds established national standards for motorcycle rider training courses prescribed by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation. | Information Item | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 52 -- Insurance Code Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Jim Dunnigan | Modifies insurance code. Provides rulemaking authority related to annual financial reporting requirements similar to those adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Modifies the audit committee. Authorizes the commissioner to make rules related to federal law requirements involving genetic information and involving marketing. Addresses general requirements for licensing and when the commissioner may deny a license application. Addressed reinstatement of a voluntarily surrendered license, modifies title insurance producer's reserve fund. Addresses designations by an insurer, agency licensee, etc. Makes certain records private under the Government Records Access and Management Act. Modifies notice requirements related to termination of coverage, modifies exemptions from the prohibition on sharing commissions, mordifies provisions related to a bail bond license. Etc. | Information Item
| No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 81S01 -- Health Care Patient Identity Protection
Sponsor: Rep. Stephen Sandstrom | Amends Health Care Facility Licensing and Inspection Act by providing measures to discourage identity theft and health insurance fraud and to protect the accuracy of medical records. Defines "medical facility." Allows a medical facility or Physician's office to request identification of a patient prior to giving services and/or indentification of the consenting individual if the patient lacks capacity to consent. Permits a medical facility or physician's office to use methods to document or confirm a patient's identiy. Prohibits a medical facility that is subject to EMTALA from denying services to an individual on the basis that the individual does not provide identification when requested. | Neutral Position Now. Originally opposed because it didn't allow physicians to turn away a patient for no I.D. Have amended that out now. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 89 - Prosthetic Limb Health Insurance Parity
Sponsor: Rep. David Litvack | Requires accident and health insurers to provide coverage for prosthetic devices and at a minimum must equal the coverage provided under the Medicare program. Includes all services and supplies necessary of the use of the prosthetic device. | Soft Support - support concept - reality is that it will be very hard to get this through | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 90S01 -- Criminal Homicide Abortion
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ray | Enacts the crime of "criminal homicide abortion" and makes it a second degree felony. Defines criminal homicide abortion as a person causes the death of an unborn child by intentionally performing an abortion of the unborn child after the unborn child is viable to survive outside of the womb. It is not a violation if the abortion is necessary to avert the death of the woman or if the women is at serious risk of substantial or irreversible impairment of a major bodily function if the abortion is not performed or if the abortion is performed on an unborn child who has a naturally occurring medical condition that makes it highly unlikely the unborn child is viable. Prohibits a physician from aborting a fetus that is viable. Defines viable as able to live outside of the womb as determined by the attending physician to a reasonable degree of medical certainty. | Oppose. Based on requirements placed on a physician to keep fetus alive outside of the womb artificially. We eventually amended to a point where we were o.k. if not thrilled with the bill. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 95 -- Restrictions on Use of Wireless Communication Devices in Vehicles
Sponsor: Rep. Phil Riesen | Prohibits a person from using a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle on a highway in this state with some exceptions. Makes it a class C misdemeanor for violating the prohibition. | No Position on acutal bill but support the concept | $0 2009
$1,200 Rev 2010
$1,200 Rev 2011 | Failed |
H.B. 106 -- Controlled Substance Database Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Daw | Expands the purposes for which a practitioner or pharmacist may access information on the controlled substance database. Grants access to a mental health therapist under certain circumstances. Permits a practitioner to designate up to three employees, approved by DOPL, to access the database. Provides that the individual who obtains information from the database may include the information in the patient's medical chart or file and may provide the information to others under HIPAA regulations. Gives DOPL rulemaking authority on the database and allows DOPL to charge a fee for background checks for designated employees. Mental Health Therapist cannot access the database if not licensed. Provides that a relative of a deceased person is not entitled to access information from the database relating to the deceased person. | Support.
UMA has worked with Rep. Daw on this bill to make accessing the controlled substance database better and more useful for physicians. | $0 2009
$5,000 2010 | Passed |
H.B. 108 -- Hormone Restoration Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Doug Aagard | Gives the Naturopathic physician the ability to prescribe a Schedule III substance - Testosterone. Requires them to keep a record of the testosterone. Allows them to administer, dispense or professionally use the testosterone cream. The testosterone must be a bio-identical, designed to be administered topically or designed to be absorbed across the mucosal membranes of the mouth and prescribed solely for the purpose of treating a patient with a low testosterone level in order to restore the patient to a normal testosterone level. | Opposed. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 114 -- Abortion Litigation Trust Account Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Ken Sumsion | Defines terms of the Abortion Litigation Trust Account. Provides that money may be deposited into the account for the purpose of defending any law passed by the legislature that challenges the legal concept that a woman has the right to abortion, even when the woman is not threatened with the loss of life or substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. Provides that any money remaining as of May 11, 2009 used to defend Senate Bill 23 passed in 1991 can be used for the above purpose. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 121S02-- Retired Volunteer Health Practitioner Act
Sponsor: | Enacts the Retired Volunteer Health Care Practitioner Act which establishes eligibility for a volunteer health care practitioner license. Provides a waiver of fees for licensing of that volunteer. Limits the practice of the volunteer to exclusive charity care at charity locations; and requires supervision of the volunteer. | Support.
| No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 124 -- Insurance Coverage for Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders and Short Bowel Syndrome
Sponsor: Rep. Chris Johnson | Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage for the use of an amino acid-based elemental formula, regardless of the delivery method of the formula, for the diagnoses or treatment of an eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorder or short bowel syndrome if a licensed physician issues a written order stating that the formula is medically necessary. Requires the coverage to be similar or identical to the coverage provided for other illnesses or diseases. | Soft Support. It is very unlikely this bill can pass the legislature because it is a mandate. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 127 -- Personal Injury Protection Coverage Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Todd Kiser | Allows a presumptive personal representative to present and resolve a claim for applicable benefits payable under person injury protection coverage resulting from the death of an insured. | Information Item | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 128 -- Electronic Prescribing Act
Sponsor: Rep. Rhonda Menlove | Requires a practitioner to provide a patient with the option to participate in electronic prescribing as of January 1, 2012. Requires the pharmacy to accept and comply with the electronic prescription that is transmitted. Provides enforcement and ensures that the electronic prescribing is done in a secure manner. Requires full disclosure of patients rights, restrictions and obligations of the electronic prescribing. Provides for a hardship to not electronically prescribe for small or rural areas. | No Position. UMA worked to amend the bill to be in sync with federal medicare law. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 129 -- Alcoholic Beverage Amendments Related to Minors
Sponsor: Rep. Curt Oda | Modifies penalties for violation related to proof of age, penalties related to suspension of driving privileges of a minor, makes a minor or a parent or guardian liable for monetary penalties imposed on a reatail licensee for a violation related to a minor. | Information Item. | $0 2009
$3,000 2010 | Passed |
H.B. 132S01 -- Sexual Assault Victim Protocols
Sponsor: Rep. Biskupski | Requires a health care facility to provide to a victim of sexual assault information about emergency contraception and then provide emergency contraception upon the request of the victim. Requires a health care facility to maintain a protocol, prepared by a physician, for the administration of emergency contraception at the facility and develop and implement a written policy to ensure that a person is present at the facility, or on-call, who has authority and training to comply with the requirements of the bill. | No Position on actual bill. Support the concept of notification. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 134 -- Recall of Unsafe or Defective Products
Sponsor: Rep. Christine Watkins | Prohibits a supplier from selling or offering for sale a product that is the subject of a recall. Makes it illegal for a supplier to sell or offer for sale a product that has been recalled. Requires a supplier to remove a product that has been recalled from availability. | Information Item. | $0 2009
$165,600 2010
$146,700 2011 | Failed |
H.B. 144 -- Medical Language Interpreter Act
Sponsor: Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck | Provides that a person who renders language interpretation services between a health care provider who speaks English and another person (medical interpreter services), in Spanish, Russian, Bosnian, Somali, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, or Navajo may voluntarily obtain certification as a certified medical language interpreter. Provides that a person may provide medical interpreter services without obtaining certification. Establishes requirements for certification. Makes it a class A misdemeanor to misrepresent onself as certified when not certified. Permits the division to charge a fee for administering certification exam and issuing the certification. | Information Item. | $0 2009
$7,500 Rev 2010
$1,500 Rev 2011 | Passed |
H.B. 145 -- Workplace Drug Testing Programs
Sponsor: Rep. Trisha Beck | Modifies definitions, addresses procedures related to confirmation of tests, certification by medical review officers and use of test information of nongovernmental employers. Expands the scope of who is included in the section providing that a physician-patient relationship is not created. | Support. Changes the procedures to meet what is being done currently. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 158 -- Motorcycle Helmet Law Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Neil Hansen | Says a person may not operate or ride a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle on a highway in this state unless the person is wearing protective headgear if another person under age 21 is also riding or the operator holds a motorcycle learner permit. Says a person under 21 years of age may not ride on a highway unless wearing protective heargear with a continuous solid chin bar and protective glasses, googles, or a transparent face shield unless the motorcycle is equipped with a protective winshield. Grants rule making authority to establish standards for approved protective headgear, etc. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Tabled in Committee |
H.B. 184 -- Income Tax Credit for a Disabled Dependent
Sponsor: Rep. John Dougall | Allows for a tax credit beginning on or after January 1, 2009 for a dependent adult with a disability or a dependent child with a disability. | Support concept but not particular bill. | $0 2009
$2,270,000 2010
$2,330,000 2011 | Failed |
H.B. 189 -- Instruction in Health Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Lynn Hemingway | Requires instruction in health in the public schools to be age-appropriate and medically accurate. Provides components of instruction for health courses. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 192 -- Personal Injury Judgment Interest
Sponsor: Rep. Jim Dunnigan | Amends the date that a plaintiff may claim interest on special damages and defines interest as simple interest and not compounded interest. Says that interest for treatment as a result of an accident or injury can only be accrued at 7% simple interest. This is a compromise from the original bill. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 217 -- Utah Indoor Clean Air Act Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Neil Hansen | Provides an exception to the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act. Excludes from the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act, a business that receives at least 25% of its annual gross receipts from the on-site sale of tobacco. | Oppose.
| No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 219 -- Tobacco Tax Increase
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ray | Increases the Cigarette and Tobacco Tax and Licensing Act by increasing the tax rates on sale, use, storage, or distribution of cigarettes in the state. Increase the tax from 3.475 cents per cigarette to 8.475 cents per cigarette and for cigarettes weighing in excess of three pounds per thousand cigarettes, from 4.075 cents per cigarette to 9.938 cents per cigarette. | Support.
| $0 2009
$40 M Rev 2010
$41 M Rev 2011 | Failed |
H.B. 222 -- Unborn Child Pain Prevention Act
Sponsor: Rep. Carl Wimmer | Requires at least 24 hours before a physician performs an abortion of an unborn child who is at least 20 weeks gestational age, the woman on whom the abortion is performed shall be informed of any anesthetic or analgesic that would eliminate or alleviate organic pain to the unborn child and any medical risks associated with the anesthetic or analgesic; unless a medical emergency exists or the abortion is being performed to save the life of the woman or to prevent grave damage to her medical health. Provides that the person providing the information described in the preceding paragraph is not prohibited from informing the woman of the person's own opinion regarding teh administration of an anesthetic or analgesic to alleviate fetal pain. Requires DOH to produce a brochure that should be provided to that woman including information from both sides of the issue. Provides that a physician who performs such an abortion shall administer an anesthetic or analgesic to the unborn child if the woman consents unless a medical emergency exists or the physician informs the woman that the physician or the facility at which the abortion is to be performed cannot or does not provide the service. | Oppose.
Some wording changes were made to the final bill. | $0 2009
$5,000 2010
$5,000 2011 | Passed |
H.B. 224 -- Health Care Provider Abusive Work Environment Prohibition Act
Sponsor: Rep. Stephen Sandstrom | Establishes the Act. Defines terms. Prohibits abusive conduct and retaliation and provides from a private right of action. Establishes factors in determining abusive conduct; provides for affirmative defenses and for remedies. Provides waiver of governmental immunity, etc. Defines Abusive conduct as : repeated inflication of verbal abuse such as the use of a derogatory remark, insult, or epithet, verbal or physical conduct that a reasonable person would find threatening, intimidating or humiliating or the gratuitous sabotage or undermining of a person's work performance. | Oppose.
Too restrictive and the language is too broad. Could be interpreted to mean any verbal communication that a person doesn't like. | $0 2009
$142,000 2010
$138,000 2011 | Failed - sent to interim |
H.B. 239 -- Utah Medical Examiner Act - Investigation and Autopsies Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Curtis Oda | Grants the attorney general or an assistant attorney general the authority to investigate certain deaths. Grants the AG authority to request an autopsy. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 245 -- Utah State 911 Committee Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Curtis Oda | Amends the duties and powers of the Utah 911 committee to allow them to review information regarding the number of telephone subscribers; 911 call delivery network costs, public safety answering point cots and system engineering information. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 247 -- Amendments to Email Information Required of Registered Sex Offenders
Sponsor: Rep. Jim Bird | Details what information a registered sex offender has to submit such as online and Internet identifiers as currently defined by law. Provides for access to that information, etc. | Support.
| No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 248 -- Regulating the Use of a Wireless Communication Device While Operating a Motor Vehicle
Sponsor: Carol Spackman Moss | Prohibits a person from using a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle unless the wireless communication device is designed and configured to allow for hands-free talking and listening and is used in that manner; provides exceptions for an emergency, when reporting a safety hazard or requesting assistance relating to that hazard or when reporting criminal activity. Makes it a class C misdemeanor for violation. | Support Concept not this particular bill. | $0 2009
$3,800 Rev 2010
$3,800 Rev 2011 | Failed |
H.B. 254 - Health Professional Authority - Death and Disability
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Last | Except for fetal deaths, authorizes a nurse practitioner in certain circumstances to state or certify cause of death and allows them to complete and sign a death certificate. An NP must have independent practice or a group practice and not be employed by a licensed health care facility and would only be able to fill in a death certificate for their own patient that is a patient not seen by a physician. The NP must also complete an education program on how to complete a death certificate which is developed by the DOH. It also allows an NP to certify that a person has a disability for the purposes of obtaining a disability special group license plate - a temporary winshield placard, or a removable winshield placard from the Motor Vehicle Division. | Support with PAs included. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 265 -- Postmortem Procedures Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Daw | Defines terms of Utah Vital Statistics Act. Provides that if a funeral service director is not retained, a designated agent or the next of kin of a decedent may sign and file the decedent's certificate of death. Describes rights and responsibilities of a designated agent or next of kin of decedent. Requires state registrar to post information on the state registrar's website and provide instructions for completing and filing the death certificate and possessing, transporting and disposing of a dead body or dead fetus. Other provisions on immunity for releasing dead body. Makes funeral director liable for not removing potentially hazardous implants before cremation, etc. | No Position. | $4,200 2009
$0 2010
$0 2011 | Passed |
H.B. 273 -- Contracting for Inter-Facility Medical Transports
Sponsor: Rep. Mike Noel | Amends Utah Emergency Medical Services System Act. Defines inter-facility transport. Allows a healthcare facility to contract with any inter-facility transport services provider who holds a licensure. Requires notice of a contract be given to the DOH. Establishes requirements for licensure an dlimits marketing activities. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 277 -- Controlled Substance Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ray | Adds the herb salvia divinorum to the statutory list of controlled substances; designate salvia divinorum as a Schedule I controlled substance. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 281 -- Wireless Communication Device Use Limitations While Operating a Motor Vehicle
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ray | Prohibits a person from using a wireless communication device for text messaging or electronic mail communication while operating a motor vehicle on a highway in the state or in a reduced speed school zone or public parking lot unless the device is signed and configured to allow for hands-free talking and listening and is used in that manner. Prohibits a person younger than 18 years of age from using a wireless device while operating a motor vehicle on a highway provides exceptions. | Support Concept not particular bill. | $0 2009
$3,800 Rev 2010
$3,800 Rev 2011 | Failed |
H.B. 284 -- Smoking Ban in Motor Vehicle
Sponsor: Rep. Jay Seegmiller | Prohibits a person from smoking in a motor vehicle if a child who is younger than 8 yers of age is restrained or is required to be restrained in a child restraint device in the motor vehicle. Provides for a fine of $45 for violation unless person is enrolled in a smoking cessation program then the court can suspend the fine. Provides that enforcement of this shall only be as a secondary action and that this cannot be used as a basis for or evidence of child abuse or neglect. | Support. | $0 2009
$1,600 2010
$1,600 2011 | Failed |
H.B. 285 -- Loss of Personal Information
Sponsor: Rep. Eric Hutchings | Repeals and reenacts notification requirements when personal information is accessed or acquired by an unauthorized person. Requires a person who has or maintains a consumer's personal information that is accessed or acquired by an unauthorized person to give the consumer notice. It amends civil penalties. | Support the concept of protecting patient information but oppose the bill because it is too broad. It includes a patient's name. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 289 -- Background Checks for Qualifying Entities
Sponsor: Rep. Stephen Sandstrom | Permits a background check of a volunteer who provides services to a vulnerable adult who works in a "qualifying entity" and expands the definition of "qualifying entity". | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 290S03 -- Prohibition of Wireless Communication Device Use in Motor Vehicle
Sponsor: Rep. Stephen Clark | Prohibits a person from using a wireless communication device for text messaging or electronic mail communication while operating a motor vehicle on a highway in the state. Provides exceptions such as a medical emergency, reporting of a safety hazard or requesting assitance relating to such; reporting a criminal activity; used by law enforcement officers or emergency service personnel. Provides that ciminal homicide is automobile homicide if a person operates a moving vehicle in a negligent or criminally negligent manner causing the death of another and was using the handheld devise for the above. | Support concept but not particular bill. | $0 2009
$1,400 2010
$1,600 Rev 2011 | Passed |
H.B. 294S01 -- Survival Action Upon Injury or Death
Sponsor: Rep. Kay McIff | Allows heirs of a person injured by a wrongdoer to receive certain special damages, including income loss and general damages including pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, and other damages suffered by the decedent up to $100,000 if the suit commenced before the death even if the death is unrelated to the injury. | Table until we have more information. Opposed original bill. Compromise on bill passed. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 302 -- Distribution of Tobacco Settlement Monies Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Ron Bigelow | Reduces the amounts allotted to the DOHH from the Tobacco Settlement Funds for Drug Board (from $4,000,000 to $3,847,100) and increases amount to DOH for CHIP (from $10,300,000 to $10,452,900). | Fiscal Bill - released last days of session | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 306 -- Health and Human Services Related Commission, Committee, and Council Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Ron Bigelow | Eliminates some DOH and DOHH Boards that have not been funded. Makes per diem expenses discretional for Director of DOH and DOHH. | Fiscal Bill - released last days of session | ($15,000) 2009
($56,200) 2010
($56,200) 2011 | Passed |
H.B. 319 -- Disaster Recovery Funding Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Curt Oda | This bill includes certain local districts and special service districts among the local government entities that are authorized to create and maintain a local government disaster fund. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 329S01 -- Wrongful Death Claims
Sponsor: Rep. Lorie Fowlke | This bill provides that wrongful death claims of children will be handled in the same manner as the wrongful death claims of adults. | No Position. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 340S01 -- Respite Care Assistance Fund
Sponsor: Rep. Jack Draxler | Creates a restricted special revenue fund known as the Respite Care Assistance Fund for the receipt and expenditure of certain gifts and donations for repite care related services in the DOHS. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 356S01 -- Barber, Cosmetologist/Barber, Esthetician, Electrologist, and Nail Technician Licensing Act Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Merlynn Newbold | Modifies Licensing Act. Allows Master Esthetician and Esthetician to use lasers for hair removal, anti-aging resurfacing enhancements, photo rejuvenation or tattoo removal. Master Estheticians must be generally supervised by a physician and Estheticians must be directly supervised by a physician. All must have a physician evaluation before the procedure as needed but a tattoo removal must have a physician evaluation before a procedure period. | No Position but UMA worked to have physician supervision included for laser procedures. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 357S01 -- Motorcylce Helmet Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Ronda Menlove | Provides that a court shall waive $10 of a find charged to a person operating a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle for a moving traffic violation if the person was 18 years of age or older at the time of operation and wearing a protective headgear at the time of operation. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 372 -- Insurance Provisions Regarding Offenders
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ray | Provides that if an insured is otherwise eligible for benefits under a policy, an accident and health insurer may not exclude coverage for an inmate housed in a correctional facility or an offenders in the custody of the Dept. of Corrections. Third party payor shall be primary payer. | No Position | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 395 -- Medical Services Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Paul Ray | Recodifies the Utah Emergency Medical Services System Act. Moves the Emergency Medical Services Committee and Bureau from the DOH to public safety, including the Medical Examiner. | No Position | $0 2009
$77,000 2010
$77,000 2011 | Failed |
H.B. 399 - Charitable Care Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Las | Amends definition of health care provider in the Health Care Providers Immunity from Liability Act. Amends the definition of remuneration to clarify that a charitable contribution is not considered payment to the facility. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 419 -- Tanning Facilities Tax and Melanoma Cancer Research and Education Fund
Sponsor: Rep. Mel Brown | Imposes a tax on tanning facilities to equal 10% of amounts paid or charged and those monies shall go to a Melanoma Cancer Research and Education Fund established through the DOH. | | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 420 -- Carbon Emission Reduction Provisions Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Christein Watkins | Amends the definition of "renewable energy source" to include energy derived from methane gas found in coal mines. | | No Fiscal Note | Held in
Committee |
H.B. 428 -- Unemployment Insurance Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Steven Mascaro | Provides unemployment benefits may not be denied to an individual soley based on the fact that the individual is seeking only part-time work, so long as a majority of the weeks in the individual's base period consists of part-time work. Provides that a claimant for benefits cannot be disqualified from receiving benefits on the basis of separating from employment is the separation is for a compelling family reason. | No Position | $229,000 2009
$6,800,000 2010
$9,000,000 2011 | Failed |
H.B. 440 -- Nuclear Power Generation and Distribution
Sponsor: Rep. Jay Seegmiller | Requires a nuclear power corporation to obtain from the PSC a certificate of convenience and necessity before constructing or operating a nuclear power plan. Authorizes the PSC to issue a certificate of convenience and necessity to a nuclear power corp only if there is a federally licensed facility in the U.S. with adequate capacity to dispose of the nuclear power plant's high-level nuclear waste and the proposed plan is economically advantageous to ratepayers. Amends state energy policy to promote the responsible development of nuclear power generation. | No Position. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 446 -- Medicaid Restricted Account Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Becky Edwards | Amends the Medicaid Restricted Account to designate unspent general fund money appropriated to the department for the Medicaid program as nonlapsing funds for 08, 09, 10 and 2011. | Fiscal Bill - released last days of session | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.B. 447 -- Utah Emergency Medical Services System Act Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Ron Bigelow | Redistributes monies allocated for grants to improve the delivery of emergency medical services from a statewide program to the rural areas of the State. Repeals funding allocation for high school emergency medical training programs. | Fiscal Bill - released last days of session | $0 2009
$800,000 2010
$800,000 2011 | Passed |
H.B. 451 -- Public Employees' Benefit and Insurance Program Amendments
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Dee | Repeals the requirement that all state employees participate in PEHP and allows the state to receive competitive bidding for coverage every two years. | | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 454 -- Small Employer Group Reinsurance Pool
Sponsor: Rep. Jackie Biskupski | Creates the Utah Reinsurance Pool as a nonprofit entity within the DOI. Defines terms and establishes scope. | | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.B. 456S01 -- Tobacco Access Restrictions
Sponsor: Rep. Brad Last | Amends restrictions on sale, placement, and display of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to include cigars and pipe tobacco. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.C.R. 1 -- Concurrent Resolution on Certification of Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles
Sponsor: Rep. Jack Draxler | Concurrent resolution that urges the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promptly revise and streamline the certification requirements applicable to small volume manufacturers; also urges the EPA to waive requirements for recertifying conversion kits under certain circumstances; urges EPA to permit small vehicle manufacturers to include vehicles and engines in a single engine category; urges the EPA to provide additional guidance to small volume manufacturers regarding the conversion of older vehicle models; urges the EPA to institute a natural gas vehicle research, development, and demonstration funding program; and encourages the formation of public and private partnerships to increase the state refueling infrastructure. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.C.R.2 -- Healthy Family Partnership Concurrent Resolution
Sponsor: Rep. Curtis Oda | Concurrent resolution that encourages the Utah State Board of Education and the Utah State Board of Regents to ensure that all middle school, junior high, senior high and post-secondary education programs in the state to provide timely and age appropriate materials on the dangers of family and dating violence, how to identify the problem, how to get help and how to provide support for friends or siblings caught in an abusive situation. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.C.R. 5S01 -- Concurrent Resolution Urging the Realignment of Air Quality Requirements by the EPA
Sponsor: Rep. Rhonda Menlove | Concurrent Resolution that urges the EPA to correct its flawed configuration of nonattainment areas impacting Utah, including eliminating a redesignation to attainment that includes areas outside of Utah's jurisdiction and control. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.C.R. 6 -- Concurrent Resolution Expressing Opposition to Congressional Efforts to Expand the Jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act
Sponsor: Rep. Melvin Brown | Concurrent Resolution that expresses strong opposition to any federal legislation that would expand the reach and scope of the Clean Water Act and a strong commitment to the goals and objectives of the original Act. Asserts that it is not in the nation's interest to subject all waters construed as "waters of the United States" to requirements of federal regulation. Urges Congress to preserve the traditional power of states over land and water use and avoid unnecessary alterations to the regulatory reach of the proposed Clean Water Act amendments. | Soft Opposition. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.J.R. 9 -- Joint Resolution on Cost-Effective Energy Efficiency and Utility Demand-Side Management
Sponsor: Rep. Roger Barrus | Urges state and local governments, electric and natural gas utilities and municipal utilities to work together to promote and encourage cost-effective energy efficiency and conservation. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.J.R. 12S01 -- Joint Resolution Supporting Hydrogen Power from Advanced Coal and Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technology
Sponsor: Rep. Patrick Painter | Expresses support for producing hydrogen from coal with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology as a means of strengthening Utah's economy and helping Utah to stand at the forefront of energy production. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
H.J.R. 22 -- Joint Resolution - Utah's Medicaid Asset Test
Sponsor: Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck | Recommends an interim study to determine whether to repeal a portion of the subsection Utah Code that allows the Utah Department of Health to require a Medicaid asset test and recommends the study to include a component on how to help low income Utah families to move off of public assistance, make economic progress and help break the generational cycle of poverty. | Soft Support. It is very unlikely this bill can pass the legislature because it is a mandate. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
H.R. 3 -- Resolution on Energy Policy
Sponsor: Rep. Michael Noel | Urges Governor Huntsman to withdraw Utah from the Western Climate Initiative. | Oppose. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
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S.B. 12 -- DUI Amendments
Sponsor: Sen. Sheldon Killpack | Defines driving under the influence court. Provides that certain reports issued by the Driver License Division may not contain evidence of an impaired driving conviction if the reporting court notifies the DLD that the defendant is participating in or has completed the program of a driving under the influence court with exception for a CDL license holder or a violation that occurred in a commercial vehicle. Provides for suspension or revocation of the Driver's license under certain circumstances. | Information Item. | $0 2009
$1,000 2010 | Passed |
S.B. 20 -- Local Public Health Emergency Funding
Sponsor: Sen. Dennis Stowell | Requires the DOH to establish a local health emergency assistance program and establishes the requirements for the program. Requires the DOH to submit an annual written report on the program activity to the HHS Interim Committee and appropriate appropriations subcommittee. | No Position.
| $0 2009
$5,300 2010
$1,800 2011 | Passed |
S.B. 21S01 -- State and Local Health Authorities Amendments
Sponsor: Sen. Dennis Stowell | Modifies responsibilities of the DOH and local health departments with respect to their interrelationship. Requires the DOH to establish a committee consisting of DOH and local health dept. reps. Delineates responsibility of committee and requires the Health Advisory Council to make a binding decision on the goals and budget of federal grants if the committee is unable to achieve unanimity on the goals and budget. | Information Item.
| No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 22S02 -- Street Legal All-Terrain Vehicle Amendments
Sponsor: Sen. Scott Jenkins | Provides and amends definitions of street-legal all-terrain vehicles. Gives restrictions on tires and requirements of safety inspections. Requires person operating vehicle to have a safety inspection certificate. Provides for a fee. | Information Item.
| No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 29S01 -- Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments
Sponsor: Sen. Dennis Stowell | Amends Safe Drinking Water Act relating to the addition or removal of flourine in a public water system owned by a Corporation. Requires that the majority of the voting shareholders approve the addition or removal of flourine in the public water system. Requires corporate public water system to provide notice of fluorine content. | Information Item.
| No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 32 - Wrongful Death Amendments
Sponsor: Sen. Scott McCoy | Defines wrongful death designee as a person who is designated as the only wrongful death heir in the decedent's will, trust, or other notarized written directive and has been adjudicated by the court of competent jurisdiction, by clear and convincing evidence, to have had a mutual supportive and dependent relationship with the decedent. Provides minor children with priority over other heirs in the event of a wrongful death settlement. | Information Item.
| No Fiscal Note | Failed in Committee |
S.B. 37 -- Utah Substance Abuse and Anti-Violence Coordinating Council Amendments
Sponsor: Sen. Kevin VanTassell | Adds the director of the Division of Indian Affairs or the director's designee as a voting member of the Utah Substance Abuse and Anti-violence Coordinating council. | Information Item | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 42 -- Nuclear Power Distribution and Generation
Sponsor: Senator Scott McCoy | Requires Nuclear power corporation to obtain from the PSC a certificate of convenience and necessity before constructing or operating a nuclear power plant. Authorizes the PSC to issue a certificate only if there is a federally licensed facility in the US with adequate capacity to dispose of the nuclear power plant's high-level nuclear waste and the proposed plant is economically advantageous to ratepayers. Amend the state energy policy to promote the responsible development of nuclear power generation. | No Position.
| No Fiscal Note | Failed |
S.B. 43 -- Insurance Coverage for Autism Spectrum Disorders - Clay's Law
Sponsor: Sen. Howard Stephenson | Requires accident and health insurers that provide health insurance benefits to provide coverage for treatment of autism spectrum disorders. Describes the minimum coverage amounts of $50,000 annually for a child under the age of nine and $25,000 for a child nine years old or older. | Support Concept not this particular bill. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
S.B. 62 -- Insurance Coverage for Essential Medical Services
Sponsor: Senator Michael Waddoups | Requires a health care facility that is the only provider in a service area to offer an essential medical service to make the essential medical service available to an unaffiliated managed care organization at the discounted pricing negotiated with the lowest price of another MCO. Creates enforcement provisions. | Oppose. | $0 2009
$320,000 2010
$200,000 2011 | Withdrawn |
S.B. 86 -- Amendments to Preferred Drug List
Sponsor: Senator Allen Christensen | Requires the DOH to report percentage of prescription overrides of the Medicaid PDL annually to the Legislature's Health and Human Services Interim Committee. Amends language exclusion of a psychotropic drug to "a typical or atypical" anti-psychotic drug. | No Position.
| $0 2009
($840,300) 2010
($1,269,300) 2011 | Withdrawn |
S.B. 87 -- Preferred Drug List Revisions
Sponsor: Senator Allen Christensen | Implements the prior authorization requirements for non-preferred drug that is in the same therapeutic class of a drug that is on the preferred drug list. Provides for telephone or fax approval of denial within 24 hours of receipt of request. Provides for dispensing of a limited supply of a requested drug for emergency situations. | Support | ($430,200) 2009
($5,162,100) 2010
($5,162,100) 2011 | Passed |
S.B. 91 -- Electronic Communications Harassment Amendment
Sponsor: Senator John Greiner | Expands the offense of electronic communication harassment to include acts intended to cause substantial emotional distress. Increases penalty for repeat offenses and a greater penalty if the victim is a minor. Clarifies that electronic harassment may create a civil cause of action if the electronic communications are not made for legitimate business purposes. | Support. Alliance recommendation. | $0 2009
$3,000 2010
$3,000 2011 | Passed |
S.B. 111 -- Health Care Workforce Financial Assistance Program Amendments
Sponsor: Senator Gene Davis | Expands this program to include geriatric professionals defined as health care professional; social worker; occupational therapist; pharmacist; physical therapist; or psychologist. Allows them to be included in the health care workforce financial assistance program if funding is appropriate by the legislature for this purpose. | No Position.
| No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 114S02 -- Tobacco Tax Amendments
Sponsor: Senator Allen Christensen | Increases the Cigarette, moist snuff, and other tobacco product tax. Eliminates the Cigarette Restricted Account and creates a Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Restricted Account. Provides for deposits into the account. Allocates $10,500,000 from the account for various programs (health) and restricts use of the remaining money. Raises tax by $.60. Funds go toward the DOH for prevention programs, U of U for medical education and other health related programs. | Strong Support. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
S.B. 117S01 -- Advance Health Care Directive Act Amendments
Sponsor: Senator Alan Christensen | Authorizes a PA, a Psychologist, or a clinical social worker to determine whether an adult lacks health care decision making capacity or the capacity to make or revoke an advance health care directive. Provides that an PA can sign a life with dignity order | Information Item currently.
Take out LCSW. Agreed to get PAs put back in. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 119 -- Hospital Emergency Room Task Force
Sponsor: Senator Chris Buttars | Creates the Hospital Emergency Room Task Force. Designates membership and the duties of the TF. 5 members of the Senate. 7 members of the House. The committee shall review and make recommendations on: how to determine the appropriate use of hospital emergency rooms; how to create incentives to decrease inappropriate use of hospital emergency rooms; ways to support the availability of appropriate staffing of emergency rooms including availability of specialists for emergency care; and alternatives for ER care and how to develop and fund the alternatives. A final report will be given to the HHS Interim Committee before Nov 30, 2009. | Committee Tabled decision but staff will talk to Buttars to find out what he is trying to do. | $0 2009
$35,000 2010
$0 2011 | Failed |
S.B. 129 -- Mental Health Therapist Grant and Scholarship Act Repeal
Sponsor: Sen. Dan Liljenquist | Repeals Mental Health Therapist Grant and Scholarship Program. | Information Item. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 137 -- Physical Therapy Practice Act
Sponsor: Sen. Wayne Niederhauser | Defines terms. Recodifies the "Physical Therapy Practice Act." Describes membership of Board. Prohibits a person from practicing PT in Utah unless licensed as a PT in Utah. Describes requirements for licensure as a PT or a PT assistant. Describes requirements of licensure, license renewal, exemption from licensure, denial of a license. Describes practice of PT and scope of licensure for a PT and PT Assistant. Describes function of PT Aide and duties. Describes when a PT can administer certain prescription medications. Describes requirements of animal physical therapy and what is lawful and unlawful. Includes PT Assistant as a health care provider covered under the Utah Health Care Malpractice Act. | Information item. We are working with the PTs on this to make sure it does not expand scope or prohibit physicians from doing PT. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 143 -- Sunset Act and Repealers Reauthorizations
Sponsor: Sen. Sheldon Killpack | Extends the repeal date on medical malpractice arbitration agreements to July 1, 2019. | Information Item. Extends Medical Arbitration Act until 2016. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 149 -- Prohibition of Text Messaging or Electronic Mail Communication While Driving
Sponsor: Sen. Lyle Hillyard | Prohibits a person from using a wireless communication device for text messaging or electronic mail communication while operating a motor vehicle on a highway in Utah. Provides exceptions for a medical emergency, when reporting a safety hazard or requesting asssistance or reporting a criminal activity or requesting assistantance, when used by law enforcement officer or emergency service personnel. First or second time violation is guilty of a class B misdemeanor or class A if the person has also inflicted bodily injury upon another because of use of device. Third degree felony if the person has two or more prior convictions within ten years and has inflicted serious bodily injury upon another as a proximate result of using a wireless device. | Support concept but not particular bill. | $0 2009
$39,700 2010
$66,400 2011 | Failed |
S.B. 158 -- Child Support - Cash Medical Support
Sponsor: Senator Greg Bell | Requires the court to include a cash medical support provision in its child support orders and requires the Office of Recovery Services to include a provision assigning responsibility for chas medical support in its orders. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 173 -- Emotional Support Animals and Psychiatric Therapy Animals
Sponsor: Senator Margaret Dayton | Deletes definitions relating to emotional support animals and psychiatric therapy animals. Removes emotional support animals from the definition of service animals. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 175 -- Signage Requirements Relating to Children and Animals in Parked Cars
Sponsor: Senator Karen Mayne | Requires signs to be placed in state facilities, public schools and child care program facilities warning of the dangers of leaving children or pets in parked vehicles. | | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
S.B. 179 -- Safety Belt Enforcement Amendments
Sponsor: Senator Curt Bramble | Provides that the secondary enforcement provisions for certain safety belt violations by a person 19 years of age or older does not apply to a person 19 years of age or older who is operating a commercial vehicle or a public vehicle. | Oppose. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
S.B. 195 -- Public Employee Defined Contribution Amendments
Sponsor: Senator Dan Liljenquist | Suspends for 2009 and 2010 one half of the 1.5% employer defined contribution made on behalf of those employees in the PEHP noncontributory Retirement System. | | Positive $12.9 M
for 2010 | Failed |
S.B. 213 -- Restaurant Nutrition Labeling
Sponsor: Senator Howard Stephenson | Prohibits counties and municipalities from regulating the dissemination of nutritional information by restaurants and other facilities. | Talk to Senator Stephenson. What is intent. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 217 -- Drugs Amendments
Sponsor: Senator Peter Knudson | Amends provisions that are permitted for accident and health insurance policies; and prohibits an insurer from requiring a cancer patient to pay more for chemotherapy treatment that is administered orally rather than intravenously. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Failed |
S.B. 225 -- Health Amendments for Legal Immigrant Children
Sponsor: Senator Luz Robles | Removes the five year residency requirement for a legal immigrants child to be eligible for the coverage under Medicaid or CHIP. | | $225,000 2009
$1.8 M in 2010
$1.8 M in 2011 | Failed |
S.B. 228S01 -- Prohibition on Internet Or Mail-Order Sales of Tobacco Products
Sponsor: Senator Margaret Dayton | Makes it a violation to cause tobacco products to be ordered or purchased through the Internet or by mail and establishes penalties for violation. | Support | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.B. 258 -- Medicaid Drug Program Amendments
Sponsor: Senator Lyle Hillyard | Allows the Drug Utilization Review Board to use cost considerations in addition to other issues in determining which drugs are approved by the board under the drug utilization review in the Medicaid program. | Fiscal Bill - released last days of session | $0 2009
($39,400) 2010
($39,400) 2011 | Failed |
SJR 1 -- Joint Resolution - Renewable Energy System
Sponsor: Senator Pat Jones | Joint resolution of the legislature that directs the State Energy Program to assess the need for model solar and geothermal ordinances at the local government level and to report to the Legislature on its process for assessing the need; urges local governments to adopt a model ordinance for wind energy projects; and directs that a copy of the resolution be sent to the State Energy Program. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.J.R. 4 -- Recycling of Electronic Waste Joint Resolution
Sponsor: Sen. Scott McCoy | Joint resolution encouraging Utah to reduce electronic waste and reuse or recycle electronic items. Urges the Utah EPA to continue working with the Recycling Coalition and oterh interested stakeholders to assess electronic waste issues in the state. Urges the Recycling Coalition to make recommendation regarding electronic recycling to the DEQ. Urges the Coalition to report its findings and recommendations to the Natural Resources Interim Committee. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
S.R. 3 -- Resolution Designating September 2009 as Hydrocephalus Awareness Month
Sponsor: Sen. Greg Bell | Designates September 2009 as Hydocephalus Awareness Month in the state of Utah. | Support. | No Fiscal Note | Passed |
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