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Senator Ferns was the Lead Sponsor for 38 bills: |
Bill |
Title |
Status |
Committee |
Step |
Last Action |
SB 6 | Requiring drug screening and testing of applicants for TANF program | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2016) | ||
SB 47 | Rewriting licensing requirements for practice of medicine and surgery and podiatry | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2016) | ||
SB 48 | Establishing Mental Health, Veteran and Service Members Court | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/19/16 |
SB 49 | Excluding mobile x-ray services from health care provider tax | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 50 | Clarifying certain nonprofit-owned hospitals may have only one governing body | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/10/16 |
SB 51 | Exempting certain employers from discriminating against tobacco users | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 52 | Modifying requirements for child witness to testify by closed circuit television | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/16 |
SB 68 | Disallowing Health Care Authority to conduct rate review and set rates for hospitals | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2016) | ||
SB 271 | Regulating practice of accountancy | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2016) | ||
SB 273 | Setting forth required provisions regarding prior authorization of drug benefits by insurers | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/14/16 |
SB 278 | Clarifying physicians' mutual insurance company is not state or quasi-state actor | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 12, 2016) | ||
SB 279 | Specifying how assessed value of any share of natural resource property is to be determined | Pending | Senate Natural Resources | Committee | 01/14/16 |
SB 281 | Requiring health care providers and facilities to notify patient when mammogram indicates dense breast tissue | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/14/16 |
SB 283 | Creating crime when fire is caused by operation of clandestine drug laboratory | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016) | ||
SB 284 | Providing for approval by county commission of all health policies enacted by local boards of health | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/14/16 |
SB 285 | Allowing adult adoptees and their descendants to access adoption records | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/14/16 |
SB 301 | Changing amounts of prejudgment and post-judgment interest | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/15/16 |
SB 302 | Limiting products liability actions | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/15/16 |
SB 304 | Providing insurance coverage for abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/15/16 |
SB 320 | Permitting practice of telemedicine | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/17/16 |
SB 322 | Regulating pharmacy benefits managers | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/19/16 |
SB 377 | Relating to liability of spouses or relatives to assist in paying for indigent funeral service expenses | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/25/16 |
SB 395 | Extending expiration date for tax rate on eligible acute-care hospitals | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/27/16 |
SB 404 | Removing prohibition on billing persons for testing for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016) | ||
SB 438 | Requiring DHHR be present at judicial proceedings | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/24/16 |
SB 467 | Creating new simplified and expedited certificate of need process | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/02/16 |
SB 475 | Providing rebuttable presumptions for certain injuries and diseases for firefighters and police officers | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/02/16 |
SB 508 | Relating to civil claims for private nuisance | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/23/16 |
SB 531 | Providing for court-appointed special advocate in each judicial circuit | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/22/16 |
SB 541 | Requiring agencies analyze impact of proposed and existing regulations on small business | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/06/16 |
SB 542 | Admissibility of certain evidence in civil action on use or nonuse of safety belt | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/29/16 |
SB 561 | Setting rates for accident and sickness insurance | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/10/16 |
SB 566 | Creating new tax on insurance reserves held by accident and sickness insurance carriers | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/10/16 |
SB 569 | Regulation of chronic pain clinics | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 03/04/16 |
SB 572 | Defining criteria private insurance carriers must consider in setting rates | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/10/16 |
SB 597 | Relating generally to Health Care Authority | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 12, 2016) | ||
SB 605 | Continuing personal income tax adjustment to certain retirees | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/15/16 |
SB 655 | Reducing severance tax on coal to 4 percent | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/20/16 |