Bill Status - 1999 Regular Session
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There are 143 bill(s) regarding Health
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee | Step | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 11 | Relating to requirement of signs designating smoking and nonsmoking areas | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| SB 82 | Prohibiting female genital mutilation; penalties | Signed | Governor | 04/22/99 | |
| SB 90 | Providing free copies of medical records to indigent persons | Signed | Governor | 04/22/99 | |
| SB 203 | Creating automated external defibrillator program | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 02/03/99 |
| SB 220 | Authorizing per diem reimbursement for occupational pneumoconiosis board | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/26/99 |
| SB 372 | Implementing tobacco master settlement agreement | Signed | Governor | 04/22/99 | |
| SB 389 | Eliminating hospital rate-setting power and jurisdiction | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/02/99 |
| SB 442 | Providing certain exemptions from mandatory immunizations | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/05/99 |
| SB 446 | Creating Rural Health Infrastructure Preservation and Enhancement Act | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/05/99 |
| SB 452 | Relating to uniform anatomical gift act | Pending | Senate Interstate Cooperation | Committee | 02/05/99 |
| SB 459 | Increasing sanitarians' salaries within division of health | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/08/99 |
| SB 492 | Relating to certificate of need | Signed | Governor | 04/23/99 | |
| SB 534 | Decreasing time limit doctors have to report diagnosed cases of tuberculosis | Signed | Governor | 04/23/99 | |
| SB 550 | Relating to conversion of rural hospital acute care and psychiatric beds | Signed | Governor | 04/23/99 | |
| SB 551 | Creating Medicaid Prescription Drug Prior Authorization Act | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/17/99 |
| SB 604 | Regulating health care liability | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/22/99 |
| SB 612 | Clarifying definition of ambulance; staffing and personnel requirements | Signed | Governor | 04/23/99 | |
| SB 614 | Prohibiting additional requirements on septic system installers | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 03/08/99 |
| SB 624 | Relating to permit approval of individual sewage systems with surface water discharge | Pending | Senate Natural Resources | Committee | 03/08/99 |
| SB 645 | Defining storm water | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 03/08/99 |
| SB 651 | Establishing phlebotomist services and training program | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/22/99 |
| SB 697 | Establishing state tobacco growers' settlement board | Signed | Governor | 04/23/99 | |
| SB 709 | Providing salary increase to certain state officials | Pending | CONF | 03/13/99 | |
| HB 2001 | Requiring insurance coverage of reconstructive surgery following mastectomy surgery | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2003 | Permitting a physical therapist holding a temporary permit to practice under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2005 | Revision and clarification of the open governmental proceedings law | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2007 | Requiring state agencies to provide information for verifying eligibility for public housing programs | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2008 | Tax credit for employers who provide child day care services for their employees | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2011 | Patient Protection Act | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2013 | Establishing a special volunteer medical license | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/26/99 |
| HB 2014 | Requiring certain health insurance policy language | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2017 | Permitting emergency medical service attendants to choose whether lost time is subtracted from regular pay or annual leave | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2020 | Requiring that the drawing of blood be done only by a phlebotomist | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2025 | Prohibiting employers from charging accumulated sick or annual leave against an employee who has missed work due to being on call as a firefighter, EMT or paramedic | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2035 | Requiring HMOs, PEIA insurance coverages and group health coverages to provide equal payment coverage for prescription drugs | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2043 | Creation and regulation of prepaid limited health service organizations | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2045 | Relating to itemized statements of medicaid assistance or services | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2049 | Requiring medicaid providers to publicly disclose staffing and performance data | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2050 | Managed Care Consumer Protection Act | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2053 | Establishment of pilot supervised visitation programs by the Department of Health and Human Resources | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2082 | Amending the Medical Practice Act | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2083 | Imposing a fee on prison and jail inmates for medical services | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2089 | Incremental decrease in the tax assessed on dental and physicians' services | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2099 | Prohibiting vehicles transporting hazardous materials from parking within one thousand feet of educational or health care facilities | Pending | House Roads and Transportation | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2111 | Homestead exemption from debts caused by catastrophic illness | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2113 | Tanning Facility Act | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2119 | Tobacco Products Excise Tax Act | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2124 | Providing that certain advanced nurse practitioners may serve in lieu of an HMO subscriber's primary care physician | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2142 | Allowing mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2148 | Regulations and safety standards for body piercing | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 03/01/99 |
| HB 2162 | Requiring restaurant food handlers to wear protective gloves | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2163 | Requiring diagnostic test results be reported to a patient within twenty-four hours of the time the physician receives the results | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2164 | Requiring advised consent for induced abortions | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2166 | Including school-based health care providers in the definition of primary care physician for children subscribers of HMO's | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2175 | Requiring the county commission of the county in which an indigent individual resides to pay the expenses of a commitment hearing | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2176 | Authorizing municipal law-enforcement officers to transport and present mentally incompetent persons to mental health care facilities | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/19/99 |
| HB 2188 | Establishing the West Virginia recreation therapy board | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2190 | Requiring insurance coverage of breast reconstruction following mastectomy surgery | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2195 | Repealing the provider tax on dental services | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/13/99 |
| HB 2203 | Sentencing alternative for violations of the ban on tobacco products for students over the age of eighteen years | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/99 |
| HB 2214 | Elder Offense Registration Act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/99 |
| HB 2228 | General revision of the West Virginia Medical Practice Act | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/14/99 |
| HB 2229 | Requiring parental consent before an unemancipated minor may obtain an abortion except in certain instances | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/99 |
| HB 2239 | Uniform Anatomical Gift Act | Pending | Senate Interstate Cooperation | Committee | 03/03/99 |
| HB 2260 | Removing the requirement that the division of vocational rehabilitation transfer disproportionate share hospital funds to the medical services trust fund | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/15/99 |
| HB 2268 | Establishment of a state veterans' nursing home | Pending | House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security | Committee | 01/15/99 |
| HB 2269 | Limitation on liability for certain rendering of emergency medical care involving the use of an automatic external defibrillator | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2280 | Requiring mental hygiene commissioners each year to receive training relative to mental illness | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/09/99 |
| HB 2286 | Requiring the licensing of clinical exercise physiologists | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/19/99 |
| HB 2288 | Providing for the payment of prescription drug services for senior citizens | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/19/99 |
| HB 2299 | Relating to the disposal of animal carcasses by incineration | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 01/19/99 |
| HB 2302 | Relating to exemptions to the compulsory immunization requirement of school children | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/19/99 |
| HB 2303 | Correcting the code to reflect that chiropractors are not qualified to engage in the discipline of physical therapy | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/19/99 |
| HB 2306 | Clarifying the definition of community care services | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/11/99 |
| HB 2308 | Implementing a training or certification program which includes drug testing and criminal background checks for in-home health care workers | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/19/99 |
| HB 2313 | Including the Legislature and the former departments of corrections and health within coverage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/20/99 |
| HB 2332 | Prohibiting the use of funds from the public assistance medical services fund to pay for an abortion except in certain cases | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/21/99 |
| HB 2338 | Relating to the registration and recordation of durable powers of attorney and medical powers of attorney | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/28/99 |
| HB 2344 | Requiring at least one registered nurse to serve on certain state boards, commissions or task forces | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/22/99 |
| HB 2362 | Establishing early defibrillation programs | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/28/99 |
| HB 2366 | Requiring the provision of public toilet facilities in shopping malls | Pending | House Industry and Labor | Committee | 01/25/99 |
| HB 2367 | Removing the tax exemption status for certain nonprofit hospitals | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/25/99 |
| HB 2371 | Establishing a state veterans nursing home | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/04/99 |
| HB 2379 | Imposing an excise tax on smokeless tobacco products and dedicating the proceeds of the tax to the Children's Health Insurance Program | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/26/99 |
| HB 2381 | Clarifying compensation of the occupational pneumoconiosis board and when its members must be appointed | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/10/99 |
| HB 2389 | Requiring nursing homes to have sufficient nursing personnel | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/26/99 |
| HB 2391 | Good Neighbor Water Expansion Act | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/26/99 |
| HB 2394 | Creating an office of actuarial services | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/26/99 |
| HB 2395 | Minimizing the practice of defensive medicine | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/26/99 |
| HB 2410 | Voluntary Small Employer Purchasing Pool Act | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/27/99 |
| HB 2450 | Requiring law-enforcement agencies to immediately investigate reports of missing persons who have Alzheimer's disease | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/28/99 |
| HB 2452 | Imposing special excise taxes on tobacco products | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2454 | Increasing the excise tax on the sale and use of cigarettes | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/28/99 |
| HB 2461 | Health insurance coverage for certain contraceptive drugs or devices approved by the food and drug administration | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/29/99 |
| HB 2463 | Requiring nurse representation on hospital boards of directors | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/29/99 |
| HB 2602 | Eliminating the hospital rate-setting powers and jurisdiction of the health care authority | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 03/05/99 |
| HB 2604 | Creating a medicaid drug prior authorization advisory board | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/02/99 |
| HB 2611 | Requiring verification of approved septic or sewage system prior to connection of public utilities | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/03/99 |
| HB 2617 | Restoring certain spending authority to the director of the office of miners' health, safety and training | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2649 | Making the joint commission on accreditation of health care organizations a review organization | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/04/99 |
| HB 2653 | Providing a definition of "exclusivity" under the article relating to certificate of need | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/04/99 |
| HB 2658 | Banning the advertisement of tobacco products or sponsorship by tobacco interests for any youth activity or event | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 03/04/99 |
| HB 2672 | Exempting certified densitometry technologists from obtaining radiologic technologist licenses | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2681 | Patient Safety Act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/08/99 |
| HB 2693 | Long-term Care Insurance Act | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2722 | Patients' Access to Eye Care Act | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 03/05/99 |
| HB 2724 | Making changes to the certificate of need law | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/10/99 |
| HB 2726 | Changing definitions used with regard to respiratory therapists | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2735 | Municipal authority to compel sewer connections outside corporate limits | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/11/99 |
| HB 2751 | Salary increase for sanitarian employees of the division of health | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/12/99 |
| HB 2771 | Establishing responsibility of the division of juvenile services for juveniles accused of and convicted of crimes and requiring certain inter-agency agreements between the division and the department of health and human resources | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/15/99 |
| HB 2773 | PSC jurisdiction over certain sewer systems and creating the Small Public Utility Customer Protection Act | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/10/99 |
| HB 2782 | Conversion of rural hospital acute care and psychiatric beds to skilled nursing beds | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/16/99 |
| HB 2792 | Providing an exemption from mandatory immunizations for good cause or due to religious prohibition | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/16/99 |
| HB 2800 | Minimum requirement of physical education instruction for preschool through sixth grade | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/99 |
| HB 2802 | Relating generally to the practice of physical therapy | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2806 | Creating a health insurance program for small business employers | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/17/99 |
| HB 2821 | Providing Occupational Safety and Health Act coverage for municipal firefighters | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/17/99 |
| HB 2826 | Relating to permit approval of individual sewage systems with surface water discharge under certain conditions | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2832 | Sales tax exemption for certain purchases intended to counteract negative effects of cancer or cancer treatment | Vetoed | Governor | 04/08/99 | |
| HB 2838 | Relating to testing of kindergarten and prekindergarten students for tuberculosis | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/19/99 |
| HB 2840 | Relating to nurse-patient ratios in hospitals | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/19/99 |
| HB 2841 | Establishing the "James 'Tiger' Morton" catastrophic illness fund and commission | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2852 | Enhancing protection for consumers of managed health care plans | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/19/99 |
| HB 2875 | Expanding the number of days per year that a nursing facility resident's bed and personal space is reserved when the resident is away from the facility | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/23/99 |
| HB 2885 | Clarifying the scope of chiropractic practice | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/24/99 |
| HB 2897 | Creating the elderly prescription drug assistance program | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/08/99 |
| HB 2901 | Enhancing protection for consumers of managed health care plans | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2905 | Establishing a managed care policy board | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2906 | Managed Care Ombudsman Program Act | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2910 | Relating to insurance coverage for the treatment of serious mental illness | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2915 | Genetic Information Privacy Act | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2928 | Prohibiting county, city or other local governments from imposing additional requirements on septic system installers | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2933 | Establishing a blood borne pathogen standard governing exposure of public employees to blood and infectious materials | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2956 | Enhancement and preservation of rural health care services | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2961 | Establishing a special volunteer medical license | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2972 | Regulation of traditional cheese-making methods | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 2986 | Requiring insurance coverage for mental illness | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2992 | Clarifying the definition of ambulance and specifying staffing the personnel requirements for specialized multipatient medical transports | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 2994 | Adding Schedule III and IV controlled substances to the program for targeted monitoring | Pending | 2nd Reading | 03/05/99 | |
| HB 3005 | Assuring proper treatment of nursing home residents by providing minimum staffing levels, requiring criminal background checks of employees and prohibiting threatening activity at the facility | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/25/99 |
| HB 3021 | Establishing authority over the commission for the deaf and hard-of-hearing to the department of health and human resources | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 | |
| HB 3031 | Creating a tobacco settlement fund | Signed | Governor | 04/21/99 |