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Further providing for definitions and for the prevention of concussions and traumatic brain injuries.
In rules of evidence, further providing for subpoena of records.
Recognizing the month of September 2026 as "Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of May 2025 as "Guillain-Barré Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating June 15, 2026, as "Elora Joyce Khan Pediatric Brain Cancer Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania to promote education, compassion, advocacy and research related to pediatric brain cancer.
In school health services, establishing the Commission on Children's Vision and providing for duties of Commission on Children's Vision.
Further providing for title of act, for legislative purpose, for definitions, for lead poisoning prevention, assessment and testing, for duties of department and for blood lead assessment and testing coverage.
Providing for sport activities in public institutions of higher education and public school entities to be expressly designated male, female or coed; and creating causes of action for harms suffered by designation.
Providing for sport activities in public institutions of higher education and public school entities to be expressly designated male, female or coed; and creating causes of action for harm suffered by designation.
Recognizing the month of September 2026 as "ITP Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In enforcements, further providing for scope of enforcement authority.
In coroner, further providing for coroner's investigation and providing for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
Designating the month of April 2026 as "Donate Life Month" and April 10, 2026, as "Blue and Green Day" in Pennsylvania in support of organ donation awareness.
Recognizing the month of April 2026 as "Limb Loss Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing May 5, 2026, as "World Asthma Day" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for definitions; and making editorial changes.
Designating the month of May 2026 as "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of May 10 through 16, 2026, as "National Hospital Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating May 15, 2026, as "Prader Willi Syndrome Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of April 2026 as "Esophageal Cancer Awareness and Prevention Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of June 2026 as "Scleroderma Awareness Month" and June 29, 2026, as "World Scleroderma Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing May 17, 2026, as "World Neurofibromatosis Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating May 14, 2026, as "Apraxia Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing April 25, 2026, as "Diabetic Eye Screening Day" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for compassionate access to medical marijuana; and imposing a penalty.
Protecting an individual's choice to use assisted reproductive technology.
Providing for standardized human trafficking screening and intervention protocols in health care facilities; imposing duties on the Department of Health; and providing for training and enforcement.
Recognizing the month of May 2026 as "Sex Ed for All Month" in Pennsylvania.
In general provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in death and fetal death registration, further providing for information for certificates and for coroner referrals.
Establishing the Health Care Facility Threat Assessment Grant Program; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Recognizing April 13 through 19, 2026, as "National Osteopathic Medicine Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of April 19 through 25, 2026, as "National Infertility Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of May 2026 as "Mental Health Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of May 2026 as "Osteoporosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of May 3 through 9, 2026, as "Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for onsite emergency physicians.
Recognizing the week of May 9 through 15, 2026, as "National Stuttering Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for primary care workforce initiative; and making an appropriation.
Providing for medical devices.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, further provid ing for general powers of board, for restrictions on members of the board and certain employees of Commonwealth, for enforcement and for biennial reports; in licenses and regulations, liquor, alcohol and malt and brewed beverages, further providing for malt and brewed beverages manufacturers', distributors' and importing distributors' licenses, for number and kinds of licenses allowed same licensee, for responsible alcohol management, for surrender of restaurant, eating place retail dispenser, hotel, club, catering club, importing distributor and distributor license for benefit of licensee, for unlawful acts relative to malt or brewed beverages and licensees and for liability of licensees; providing for hemp-derived cannabinoid beverages; establishing the Local Hemp Sharing Fund; and imposing penalties.
Providing for sport activities in public institutions of higher education and public school entities to be expressly designated male, female or coed; and creating causes of action for harm suffered by designation.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in pharmacy benefits manager contracts, providing for State pharmacy benefits manager.
In preliminary provisions, providing for health care sharing ministries.
Providing for health care site neutrality.
Designating February 19, 2026, as "Wear Purple Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of March 8 through 14, 2026, as "Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of February 2026 as "Blood Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating January 23, 2026, as "Maternal Health Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania to recognize all the women who die from complications of pregnancy or childbirth.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study of medical errors and issue a report to provide recommendations on reduction of errors and improved patient safety.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study and issue a report on workplace policies related to perimenopause and menopause offered by public and private employers.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a performance audit of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's Tobacco Policy and Control Program as it relates to the investigations of tobacco outlets in the city.
Further providing for drug overdose medication.
Further providing for drug overdose medication.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, providing for notice of legal representation for medical assistance.
Further providing for definitions and for license application.
Designating February 2, 2026, as "Rheumatoid Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Urging the Congress of the United States to retain expanded health insurance subsidies that enable consumers to purchase health insurance through Pennie.
Recognizing October 6, 2025, as "World Cerebral Palsy Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of September 2025 as "Prostate Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of October 5 through 11, 2025, as "Healthy Vision Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of September 2025 as "Perimenopause Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Establishing and providing for duties of the Infectious Disease Advisory Commission.
Further providing for permit to conduct a pharmacy.
Providing for regulation of kratom.
Further providing for Newborn Child Screening and Follow-up Program.
Further providing for Newborn Child Screening and Follow-up Program.
Designating the month of November 2025 as "Diabetes Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In school health services, further providing for definitions, for possession and use of asthma inhalers and epinephrine auto-injectors, for school access to emergency epinephrine and for administration of epinephrine auto-injectors by school bus drivers and school crossing guards.
Designating the month of November 2025 as "Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for expiration.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for medication offered to patient.
In casualty insurance, providing for coverage for insulin.
Providing for grant awards to entities in rural counties and designated medically underserved areas to pay for the education debt of practitioners employed at the entity.
Recognizing November 1, 2025, as "Tylenol Day" in Pennsylvania.
Imposing a duty on health care facilities to provide patients with autologous blood transfusions and direct allogeneic blood transfusions.
Designating the month of October 2025 as "Menopause Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Prohibiting State agencies from providing funding and contracting with a person who provides or is affiliated with another person who provides abortion-related activities; requiring a person enrolled in a medical assistance program to attest that the person is not engaging in abortion-related activities; and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to establish an advisory committee and conduct a comprehensive study regarding the indoor air quality for seniors and children in this Commonwealth.
In miscellaneous provisions, providing for drug screening and awareness education and for fatherhood engagement in maternal health; and imposing duties on the Joint State Government Commission.
Providing for the Office of Health Equity; establishing the Health Equity Advisory Committee; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Further providing for title of act, for definitions, for prohibition, for signage, for enforcement, for preemption of local ordinances and for repeal; and making editorial changes.
Recognizing the week of September 21 through 28, 2025, as "Frontotemporal Degeneration Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Urging the Congress of the United States and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to enable veterans to access hyperbaric oxygen therapy for both traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Providing for J-1 Visa Waiver Physician Grant Program.
Designating August 8, 2025, as "Brain Aneurysm Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
In abortion, further providing for informed consent and providing for medical education.
Further providing for definitions and for public nuisances.
In abortion, further providing for definitions and for medical consultation and judgment.
Designating July 22, 2025, as "Hemihyperplasia Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Ensuring greater access to sickle cell disease treatments and designating the Department of Health to conduct a comprehensive and coordinated data collection effort to better understand and quantify the scope and impact of sickle cell disease on patients, communities and states throughout the United States.
In casualty insurance, providing for coverage of COVID-19 vaccines.
Establishing the Advisory Council on PANDAS and PANS; and providing for the duties of the Advisory Council on PANDAS and PANS.
In abortion, further providing for medical consultation and judgment and for informed consent.
Providing for adult use cannabis; imposing certain gross receipts tax and excise tax; and making repeals.
Reenacting and amending the act of July 7, 2017 (P.L.285, No.14), entitled "An act establishing the Rare Disease Advisory Council and providing for its powers and duties; and providing for duties of the Department of Health, the Insurance Department, the Department of Human Services and the Department of Education."
Establishing an All Payor Claims Database; imposing duties on the Health Care Cost Containment Council; imposing penalties; and making an appropriation.
Providing for cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; establishing the Cannabis Control Board; providing for powers and duties of the Cannabis Control Board; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for disproportionately impacted area, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis, edible and infused products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis, edible and infused products; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to medical use of cannabis; transferring powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Cannabis Control Board; and making repeals.
Designating the week of September 21 through 27, 2025, as "Surgical Technologist Week" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for adult use of cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; establishing the Keystone Cannabis Authority; providing for powers and duties of the Keystone Cannabis Authority; establishing the Community Opportunity Fund; providing for social and economic equity, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to the medical use of cannabis; transferring certain powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Keystone Cannabis Authority; and making repeals.
Recognizing October 24, 2025, as "World Polio Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of September 21 through 28, 2025, as "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Research and Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania to increase awareness and understanding of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to support improved diagnosis and treatment.
In public assistance, providing for coverage for blood pressure monitors.
Recognizing the month of September 2025 as "Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for definitions; providing for Statewide stroke registry; and making an editorial change .
Recognizing September 19, 2025, as "Aortic Disease Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for reporting costs associated with health care for illegal migrants.
Promoting indoor air quality in facilities housing or serving vulnerable populations; providing for tax credits, for certification programs, for public education and for data collection; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Recognizing the month of June 2025 as "Scleroderma Awareness Month" and June 29, 2025, as "World Scleroderma Day" in Pennsylvania.
In public assistance, further providing for reimbursement for certain medical assistance items and services; and abrogating regulations.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for surgical smoke evacuation systems.
Designating June 23, 2025, as "Dravet Syndrome Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing July 25, 2025, as "World IVF Day" in Pennsylvania.
Ensuring reproductive freedom by preserving the anonymity of providers on prescription labels.
Recognizing the month of May 2025 as "Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of August 2025 as "National Wellness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of October 2025 as "Breast Cancer Awareness Month" and October 17, 2025, as "National Mammography Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing May 6, 2025, as "World Asthma Day" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for approval from the Department of Health and the Office of Attorney General before certain transactions involving health care entities within this Commonwealth.
Establishing the Neurodegenerative Disease Research Program and the Neurodegenerative Disease Research Program Fund; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In school health services, further providing for health services, for reports and for interagency coordinating council for child health, nutrition and physical education; and, in terms and courses of study, further providing for physical education.
Designating the month of June 2025 as "Life Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of April 2025 as "World HIE Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of July 2025 as "Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing June 14, 2025, as "World Blood Donor Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of May 2025 as "Preeclampsia Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of May 2025 as "Melanoma Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating May 14, 2025, as "Apraxia Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of November 2025 as "National Epilepsy Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating June 23, 2025, as "Widows' and Widowers' Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of May 2025 as "Mental Health Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating October 13, 2025, as "Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of April 2025 as "Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing May 15, 2025, through June 15, 2025, as "Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania to raise public awareness, promote acceptance and support individuals living with Tourette syndrome and related disorders.
Establishing requirements for hospital-based financial assistance; providing for hospital-based financial assistance forms, for information about hospital-based financial assistance programs and for reporting of hospital-based financial assistance policies; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Providing for over-the-counter availability of ivermectin.
Providing for hospital price transparency and for prohibition on collection action of debt against patients for noncompliant hospitals.
Recognizing the week of May 11 through 17, 2025, as "National Hospital Week" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for the regulation and treatment of cannabis, for exemption from criminal or civil penalties, for effect on cannabis convictions and expungements and for membership and duties of the Liquor Control Board; establishing Pennsylvania Cannabis Stores; providing for social and economic equity, for license, permit or other authorization, for packaging, labeling, advertising and testing, for recordkeeping and inspection, for prohibitions and penalties and for tax and tax administration; establishing the Cannabis Revenue Fund, the Communities Reimagined and Reinvestment Restricted Account and the Substance Use Disorder Prevention, Treatment and Education Restricted Account; providing for the issuance of bonds; imposing duties on the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Revenue; and making repeals.
Recognizing May 13, 2025, as "Cancer Action Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing May 17, 2025, as "World Neurofibromatosis Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for authority to control.
Recognizing the month of May 2025 as "Menstrual Health Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing October 15, 2025, as "Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day" and the month of October 2025 as "Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In administrative organization, further providing for advisory boards and commissions; and, in powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, establishing the Brain Injury Advisory Board.
In powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, providing for perimenopause and menopause education.
Recognizing the week of May 9 through 15, 2025, as "National Stuttering Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of October 2025 as "Dyslexia Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In school health services, providing for school-based health centers.
Providing for public health notification programs; and establishing the Medication-Induced Movement Disorders Screening Education Program.
Requiring health insurance policies to provide coverage for pre-exposure prophylaxis and post-exposure prophylaxis HIV medication and associated laboratory tests and patient visits.
In birth registration, providing for certain information prohibited.
In death and fetal death registration, providing for nonbinary designation.
Recognizing the week of April 20 through 26, 2025, as "National Infertility Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of June 2025 as "Lipedema Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of September 2025 as "Alopecia Areata Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of May 2025 as "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for medication error prevention training.
In abortion, providing for prohibition against cooperation with out-of-State abortion investigations.
Recognizing the month of April 2025 as "Limb Loss Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for title of act, for legislative purpose, for definitions, for lead poisoning prevention, assessment and testing and for duties of department.
Further providing for definitions, for test results and for duties of Department of Health.
Providing for public health notification programs; and establishing a bone marrow donor recruitment program.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for hospital pricing transparency; providing for acquisition of health care facilities; and conferring powers to the Department of Health and Attorney General.
In powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, providing for pelvic floor dysfunction education.
Establishing the Pennsylvania Drug Shortage Reporting System; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Designating the week of April 7 through 11, 2025, as "Health Equity Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing April 14 through 20, 2025, as "National Osteopathic Medicine Week" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for title and short title of act, for definitions, for establishment, for restocking and dispensing of cancer drugs, for storage, distribution and fees and for immunity; providing for annual report and for list of approved participating pharmacies; further providing for regulations; and imposing duties on the State Board of Pharmacy.
In records, further providing for fees for copies.
In general budget implementation, further providing for Department of Health.
Establishing the Adult-use Cannabis Program; providing for farmer-grower permits; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Providing for hospital closure procedure requirements, for notice of proposed general hospital closure or significant impact closure, for health equity impact assessments, for closure plans and for enforcement actions.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for firearms policy.
Further providing for definitions and for postpartum coverage standards; providing for provisions relating to involuntary discharge; and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services.
Further providing for permit to conduct a pharmacy.
In epinephrine auto-injector entities, further providing for scope of chapter, for definitions and for epinephrine auto-injectors for authorized entities; and making an editorial change.
Prohibiting gender transition procedures for minors and coverage for gender transition procedures for minors.
Recognizing the week of March 9 through 15, 2025, as "Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of September 2025 as "Prostate Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing February 24 through March 2, 2025, as "Eating Disorders Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in practitioners, further providing for pr actitioner registration; in medical marijuana controls, further providing for electronic tracking and for laboratory; and, in Medical Marijuana Advisory Board, further providing for advisory board.
Establishing a moratorium on for-profit hospital ownership; and directing the Joint State Government Commission to study and issue a report on for-profit hospitals.
Designating the month of March 2025 as "Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating February 28, 2025, as "HIV is Not a Crime Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for hospital emergency abortion services.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for do-not-resuscitate orders for minors.
Providing for vaccination schedule for pediatric patients and for coverage, compensation and reimbursement for vaccinations; and imposing penalties.
Further providing for confidentiality of reports and records.
Amending the act of February 13, 1970 (P.L.19, No.10), entitled "An act enabling certain minors to consent to medical, dental and health services, declaring consent unnecessary under certain circumstances," further providing for release of medical records; and providing for parent or legal guardian access to medical records.
A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for right to medical freedom.
In abortion, further providing for medical consultation and judgment.
Providing for opioid stewardship; establishing the Opioid Reparation and Accountability Fund and the Opiate Epidemic Response Advisory Council; and imposing duties on the Department of Health, the Department of Human Services and the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs.
In public assistance, providing for behavioral health and physical health services integration.
In medical marijuana controls, further providing for grower/processors; and, in dispensaries, further providing for facility requirements.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions.
In decrees and records, further providing for definitions and for original birth record.
In general provisions, repeals and effective date, providing for acute care mental health bed registry and referrals.
Providing for Commonwealth funding safety and transparency.
Designating February 2, 2025, as "Rheumatoid Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for restroom access for certain customers of retail establishments; and imposing a penalty.
Providing for amnesty for disciplinary actions regarding COVID-19 protocols.
In powers and duties of the Department of State and its departmental administrative board, establishing the Pharmaceutical Collection Sites Educational Program.
In emergency medical services system, further providing for emergency medical responders.
Designating January 23, 2025, as "Maternal Health Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania to recognize all the women who die from complications of pregnancy or childbirth.
Establishing the Distressed Hospital Grant Program to award grants to distressed hospitals to prevent the reduction of services or cessation of operations; and making an appropriation.
Providing for the final disposition of fetal remains; and imposing penalties.
Amending the act of February 13, 1970 (P.L.19, No.10), entitled "An act enabling certain minors to consent to medical, dental and health services, declaring consent unnecessary under certain circumstances," providing for consent required for vaccines.
In school health services, providing for face covering or mask mandate opt out.
Amending the act of February 13, 1970 (P.L.19, No.10), entitled "An act enabling certain minors to consent to medical, dental and health services, declaring consent unnecessary under certain circumstances," further providing for mental health treatment and for liability for rendering services; and providing for applicability.
Amending the act of February 13, 1970 (P.L.19, No.10), entitled "An act enabling certain minors to consent to medical, dental and health services, declaring consent unnecessary under certain circumstances," further providing for individual consent, for mental health treatment and for release of medical records; and providing for parent or legal guardian access to medical records.
Further providing for definitions and for free exercise of religion protected.
In support of the indigent, further providing for relatives' liability and procedure; and making an editorial change.
Designating the month of March 2025 as "Endometriosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In practitioners, further providing for practitioner registration.
In provisions relating to abortion, repealing provisions relating to short title of chapter and to legislative intent, further providing for definitions, repealing provisions relating to medical consultation and judgment, to informed consent, to parental consent, to abortion facilities, to printed information, to Commonwealth interference prohibited, to spousal notice, to determination of gestational age, to abortion on unborn child of 24 or more weeks gestational age, to infanticide, to prohibited acts and to reporting, further providing for publicly owned facilities, public officials and public funds and for fetal experimentation and repealing provisions relating to civil penalties, to criminal penalties, to State Board of Medicine and State Board of Osteopathic Medicine and to construction; providing for reproductive rights; repealing provisions relating to compliance with Federal health care legislation as to regulation of insurers and related persons generally; and imposing penalties.
Designating the month of November 2024 as "Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In general provisions, further providing for definitions; in death and fetal death registration, providing for pronouncement of death by a practical nurse; and, in records, further providing for fees for copies.
In public assistance, providing for medical assistance coverage for doula services; and, in fraud and abuse control, further providing for third
In epinephrine auto-injector entities, further providing for definitions and for epinephrine auto-injectors for authorized entities.
In support of the indigent, further providing for relatives' liability and procedure; and making an editorial change.
Providing for public health notification programs.
In records, further providing for fees for copies.
Designating the month of November 2024 as "Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness Month" and recognizing November 4, 2024, as "Color the World Orange Day" in Pennsylvania.
Establishing the Alzheimer's, Dementia and Related Disorders Office and the Alzheimer's, Dementia and Related Disorders Advisory Committee.
Requiring information relating to perinatal or postpartum mood and anxiety disorders and resources to be provided to pregnant patients; and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Further providing for definitions, for license application and for storage, handling and recordkeeping.
Providing for certified medication aides; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for consumer protections; and abrogating a regulation.
Establishing the Maternal Health Monitoring Pilot Program.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for reporting costs associated with health care for illegal migrants.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for surgical smoke evacuation systems.
Providing for Attorney General notification; imposing a fine; and promulgating regulations.
Designating the month of October 2024 as "Liver Disease Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of September 2024 as "Alopecia Areata Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing October 29, 2024, as "World Stroke Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing October 15, 2024, as "White Cane Safety Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of September 15 through 21, 2024, as "Surgical Technologist Week" in Pennsylvania.
In coroner, providing for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
Recognizing October 5, 2024, as "Ostomy Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of October 2024 as "Dyslexia Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of November 2024 as "National Epilepsy Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of October 2024 as "Breast Cancer Awareness Month" and October 18, 2024, as "National Mammography Day" in Pennsylvania.
In practitioners, further providing for practitioner registration.
Designating the month of September 2024 as "Childhood Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for legislative purpose and for lead poisoning prevention, assessment and testing.
In school health services, providing for school-based health centers.
Establishing the Emerging Psychologists Workforce Initiative Program; and providing for authorization of internship positions, for award of internship positions and for funding of program.
Providing for the reporting of workplace violence in health facilities.
Further providing for drug overdose medication.
Providing for grant awards to entities in rural counties and designated medically underserved areas to pay for the education debt of practitioners employed at the entity.
Further providing for title and short title of act, for definitions, for establishment of program, for restocking and dispensing of cancer drugs, for storage, distribution and fees and for immunity, providing for annual report and for list of approved participating pharmacies and further providing for regulations.
Designating the month of September 2024 as "Prostate Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for adult use of cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture; establishing the Cannabis Business Development Fund; providing for social and economic equity, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to medical cannabis; transferring certain powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Department of Agriculture; and making repeals.
Urging the Congress of the United States to pass the Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2023 and the Allergen Disclosure In Non-food Articles Act.
Providing for Maternal Care Access Program; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Designating June 1, 2024, as "Idiopathic Hypersomnia Day" in Pennsylvania.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for licensure; and abrogating a regulation.
Further providing for title of act; in preliminary provisions, further providing for short title, for scope of act and for definitions and providing for regulations; in pharmacy audits, further providing for limitations; in registration, further providing for PBM and auditing entity registration; providing for pharmacy benefits manager contracts; in PBM cost transparency requirements, providing for PBM transparency report required, repealing provisions relating to regulations and providing for PSAO reporting requirements; in enforcements, further providing for scope of enforcement authority; providing for pharmacy services; and making repeals.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for administration.
Prohibiting the enforcement of certain noncompete covenants entered into by health care practitioners and employers and providing for a study by the Health Care Cost Containment
Providing for hospital price transparency and for prohibition on collection action of debt against patients for noncompliant hospitals.
Recognizing the month of June 2024 as "Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating July 22, 2024, as "Hemihyperplasia Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of April 2024 as "Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In regulation of insurers and related persons generally, providing for telemedicine.
Designating June 23, 2024, as "Widows' and Widowers' Day" in Pennsylvania.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for hospital emergency services.
In abortion, further providing for medical consultation and judgment and for informed consent.
Recognizing July 25, 2024, as "World IVF Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of June 2024 as "Scleroderma Awareness Month" and June 29, 2024, as "World Scleroderma Day" in Pennsylvania.
In decrees and records, further providing for definitions and for original birth record.
Designating the month of August 2024 as "Endometriosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In public assistance, providing for coverage of rapid whole genome sequencing.
Recognizing May 17, 2024, as "World Neurofibromatosis Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of July 2024 as "MECP2 Duplication Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing June 25, 2024, as "World Vitiligo Day" in Pennsylvania.
In general provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in records, further providing for fees for copies.
In death and fetal death registration, providing for pronouncement of death by a practical nurse.
Prohibiting gender transition procedures for minors and coverage for gender transition procedures for minors.
Designating the month of June 2024 as "Life Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating March 14, 2024, as "Nutrition and Dietetics Technician, Registered Day" in Pennsylvania.
Prohibiting discrimination in certain life insurance policies based on certain drugs.
Recognizing June 14, 2024, as "World Blood Donor Day" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for title of act, for definitions, for prohibition, for signage, for enforcement, for preemption of local ordinances and for repeal; and making editorial changes.
Recognizing June 25, 2024, as "World Vitiligo Day" in Pennsylvania.
Establishing the Women, Infants and Children State Advisory Board.
Providing for training for long-term care, for criteria for nurse aides and for limitation on department.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for licensure; and abrogating a regulation.
In Commonwealth services, providing for emergency stockpiles and medical countermeasures.
Designating the month of May 2024 as "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in medical marijuana controls, further providing for electronic tracking and for laboratory; and, in Medical Marijuana Advisory Board, further providing for advisory board.
Recognizing the month of May 2024 as "Mental Health Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of May 6 through 12, 2024, as "Women's Lung Health Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of March 10 through 16, 2024, as "Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of May 2024 as "Preeclampsia Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Directing the Pennsylvania Department of Health to integrate Application Programming Interface (API) technology as required under section 701(c.1) of the act of April 17, 2016 (P.L.84, No.16), known as the Medical Marijuana Act, to enhance data interoperability and streamline data communication within the Medical Marijuana Program and ensure that all relevant measures are taken to achieve the intended goals of the act.
Designating February 2, 2024, as "Rheumatoid Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of May 2024 as "Menstrual Health Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In public assistance, providing for coverage for blood pressure monitors.
Designating the month of May 2024 as "Fitness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing May 17, 2024, as "Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of May 5 through 11, 2024, as "Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of May 2024 as "ALSP Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of May 12 through 18, 2024, as "National Hospital Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing and honoring the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., for more than a century of commitment to social activism, academic excellence and civic engagement in this Commonwealth on the occasion of "Delta Day" at the State Capitol.
Designating the month of March 2024 as "Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for public health notification programs; and establishing a bone marrow donor recruitment program.
Recognizing the week of April 21 through 27, 2024, as "National Infertility Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of April 2024 as "Donate Life Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of April 2024 as "Retinal Blindness Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of April 2024 as "Limb Loss Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for definitions and for exemptions.
Designating the month of May 2024 as "Nurses Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing May 7, 2024, as "World Asthma Day" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for adult use cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; establishing the Cannabis Regulatory Control Board; providing for powers and duties of the Cannabis Regulatory Control Board; establishing the Cannabis Business Development Fund; providing for social and economic equity, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to medical marijuana; transferring certain powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Cannabis Regulatory Control Board; in driving after imbibing alcohol or utilizing drugs, further providing for driving under influence of alcohol or controlled substance and for authorized use not a defense; and making repeals.
Further providing for definitions, for test results and for duties of Department of Health.
Recognizing the month of March 2024 as "National Athletic Training Month" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for Legionnaires' disease risk management; and imposing penalties.
Further providing for definitions and for establishment and design; and providing for entry requirements for EMS providers.
Recognizing October 24, 2023, as "World Polio Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating October 9, 2023, as "PANDAS Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania to inform and bring greater awareness of Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS) to the general public and medical community.
Recognizing the week of October 8 through 14, 2023, as "International Sterile Processing Week" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for amnesty for disciplinary actions regarding COVID-19 protocols.
Amending the act of February 13, 1970 (P.L.19, No.10), entitled "An act enabling certain minors to consent to medical, dental and health services, declaring consent unnecessary under certain circumstances," providing for consent required for vaccines.
Providing for a long-term care medical director registry; and imposing duties on the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services.
In general provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in records, further providing for fees for copies.
Providing for the treatment and prevention of anaphylaxis in child care centers.
In terms and courses of study, providing for early human life development education.
In abortion, further providing for publicly owned facilities, public officials and public funds.
In public assistance, repealing provisions relating to expenditure of public funds for abortions limited; and abrogating a regulation.
Further providing for definitions and for free exercise of religion protected.
Providing for medication error prevention training.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study of medication errors and issue a report to provide recommendations on reduction of errors and improved patient safety.
Establishing a moratorium on for-profit hospital ownership; and directing the Joint State Government Commission to study and issue a report on for-profit hospitals.
Providing for teledentistry; authorizing the regulation of teledentistry by the board; and providing for insurance coverage of teledentistry.
In public assistance, further providing for reimbursement for certain medical assistance items and services; and abrogating regulations.
Providing for independent local dispensaries.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in medical marijuana organizations, further providing for application and issuance, for limitations on permits and providing for additional dispensary and grower/processor permits authorized, for application and issuance of additional permits and for limitations on other additional permits or licenses; and, in academic clinical research centers and clinical registrants, further providing for definitions.
In public safety, providing for urine drug screening requirement and for xylazine awareness education.
Providing for access to treatment for sexual assault survivors and for duties of the Department of Health.
Amending the act of April 27, 1905 (P.L.312, No.218), entitled "An act creating a Department of Health, and defining its powers and duties," further providing for State health centers; and making editorial changes.
Recognizing November 15, 2023, as "Ohtahara Syndrome Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of October 2023 as "Spina Bifida Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing November 1, 2023, as "Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating September 18, 2023, as "Pitt Hopkins Syndrome Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania to coincide with "International Pitt Hopkins Syndrome Awareness Day."
Recognizing the month of October 2023 as "Rett Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of June 2023 as "National Aphasia Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study on the Commonwealth's preparedness to respond to public health emergencies.
Recognizing the week of October 8 through 14, 2023, as "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in medical marijuana organizations, providing for additional dispensary permits authorized; and, in administration, providing for available licenses.
Providing for duty of primary care providers to provide information on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and for duties of Department of Health.
In coroner, providing for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
In public assistance, providing for medical assistance coverage for pasteurized donor human milk.
In medical professional liability, providing for informed consent in pelvic, rectal and prostate examinations.
Designating the month of November 2023 as "Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of November 2023 as "Diabetes Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of June 2023 as "Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Month" in Pennsylvania.
In public assistance, further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care and providing for emergency transportation services and for case-mix rates for nursing facilities; in Statewide quality care assessment, further providing for definitions, for implementation, for administration, for restricted account and for expiration; continuing the Pennsylvania Rural Health Redesign Center Authority and the Pennsylvania Rural Health Redesign Center Fund; and making a repeal.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, providing for notice of legal representation for medical assistance.
Providing for opioid settlements.
Establishing the Advisory Council on PANDAS and PANS; and providing for the duties of the Advisory Council on PANDAS and PANS.
Recognizing the month of September 2023 as "Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing October 7, 2023, as "Ostomy Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for definitions.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in tobacco product manufacturers directory, further providing for directory, for certification, for required information, for agent for service of process and for records and reporting and providing for nonparticipating manufacturer and importer joint and several liability and for surety bond requirements; and imposing duties on the Office of Attorney General.
Designating October 6, 2023, as "College Radio Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing October 6, 2023, as "World Cerebral Palsy Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of September 2023 as "Cholesterol Education Month" and September 1, 2023, as "LDL-C Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating October 13, 2023, as "Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of September 17 through 24, 2023, as "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Research and Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania to increase awareness and understanding of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Designating the month of September 2023 as "Childhood Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Amending the act of February 13, 1970 (P.L.19, No.10), entitled "An act enabling certain minors to consent to medical, dental and health services, declaring consent unnecessary under certain circumstances," further providing for individual consent, for mental health treatment and for release of medical records; and providing for parent or legal guardian access to medical records.
Further providing for title of act and for short title; providing for definitions, for water supply, for certified lifeguards, for swimming pool pesticides, for safety, for public notice, for hygiene, for violations and penalties, for permits, for issuance of permit, for fees, for powers and duties of department, for validity, for construction, for permit revocation or suspension, for public nuisance declaration, for violations and for repeals; and making editorial changes.
Providing for opioid settlements.
In powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, providing for monitoring spread of emerging illicit drugs.
Further providing for definitions and for exemptions and providing for advertisements for laboratory tests and for source plasma donation center; and abrogating a regulation.
Providing for J-1 Visa Waiver Primary Care Physician Grant Program; and making an appropriation.
In school health services, further providing for automatic external defibrillators, providing for automated external defibrillators and training, further providing for sudden cardiac arrest and electrocardiogram testing and providing for electrocardiogram testing.
Ensuring greater access to sickle cell disease treatments and designating the Department of Health to conduct a comprehensive and coordinated data collection effort to better understand and quantify the scope and impact of sickle cell disease on patients, communities and states throughout the United States.
Urging the Congress of the United States to expand Medicare to include coverage of hearing aids.
In death and fetal death registration, providing for nonbinary designation.
Providing for protection of pregnant individuals' information, for authorization for disclosure, for data breach and for violation.
Providing for the final disposition of fetal remains; and imposing penalties.
Providing for hospital patient protection provisions; and imposing penalties.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for firearms policy.
A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for health care as a human right.
In powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, providing for perimenopause and menopause education.
Further providing for State Board of Pharmacy.
In powers and duties of the Department of State and its departmental administrative board, establishing the Pharmaceutical Collection Sites Educational Program.
Providing for advertisements for laboratory tests.
Further providing for maternal mortality review committee and for purpose and duties of committee.
Establishing the Medical Debt Relief Program; establishing requirements for hospital-based financial assistance; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Designating July 22, 2023, as "Hemihyperplasia Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of May 2023 as "Nurses Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing May 2, 2023, as "World Asthma Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of May 14 through 20, 2023, as "Food Allergy Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of April 23 through 29, 2023, as "National Infertility Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of May 2023 as "Fitness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of May 1 through 7, 2023, as "Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of April 2023 as "Donate Life Month" in Pennsylvania.
Amending the act of February 13, 1970 (P.L.19, No.10), entitled "An act enabling certain minors to consent to medical, dental and health services, declaring consent unnecessary under certain circumstances," further providing for mental health treatment and for liability for rendering services; and providing for applicability.
In general provisions, repeals and effective date, providing for acute care mental health bed registry and referrals.
Providing for Commonwealth funding safety and transparency.
Designating the month of June 2023 as "Life Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of July 2023 as "Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing June 29, 2023, as "World Scleroderma Day" in Pennsylvania.
In miscellaneous provisions, providing for Firefighter Cancer Registry.
Urging the Congress of the United States and the United States Department of Health and Human Services to eliminate the Skilled Nursing Facility Three-Day Rule for Medicare recipients.
Further providing for Maternal Mortality Review Committee and for purpose and duties of committee.
Providing for healthy outdoor public grounds; and imposing duties on the Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Agriculture.
In powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, providing for pelvic floor dysfunction education.
Recognizing the week of May 7 through 13, 2023, as "National Hospital Week" in Pennsylvania.
In public assistance, providing for behavioral health and physical health services integration.
In public assistance, providing for medical assistance coverage for pasteurized donor human milk.
In powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, further providing for Advisory Health Board; and abrogating a regulation.
Designating May 25, 2023, as "Trauma and Mental Health Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
In general provisions relating to health care, further providing for applicability, for definitions, for criminal penalties, for emergency medical services, for definitions, for orders, bracelets and necklaces, for revocation, for absence of order, bracelet or necklace and for emergency medical services, repealing provisions relating to advisory committee and providing for discontinuance and for Pennsylvania orders for life-sustaining treatment; and making editorial changes.
Requiring health insurance policies to provide coverage for pre-exposure prophylaxis and post-exposure prophylaxis HIV medication and associated laboratory tests and patient visits.
Further providing for definitions.
Repealing provisions relating to family planning funding limitations.
In public assistance, repealing provisions relating to expenditure of public funds for abortions limited.
In medical professional liability, further providing for informed consent.
In abortion, further providing for publicly owned facilities, public officials and public funds.
Providing for allocation of money to family planning providers; prohibiting certain allocation; and making an appropriation.
Prohibiting discriminatory practices against applicants and enrollees under certain insurance policies based on claims or prescriptions involving prophylaxis HIV medication.
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in child care centers and family child care homes; and imposing penalties.
In public safety, providing for the Pennsylvania Violent Death Reporting System; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In 2022-2023 budget implementation, further providing for definitions and for Department of Human Services.
Urging the Medical Marijuana Advisory Board to encourage and facilitate State System of Higher Education universities to secure United States Drug Enforcement Administration registrations to authorize the possession of cannabis for clinical registrants to engage in hands-on work regarding cultivating, testing, processing and researching cannabis plants.
Recognizing the month of May 2023 as "Nurses Month" in Pennsylvania.
Requiring indoor contamination assessment certifications and environmental quality certifications of child day-care centers; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Human Services; establishing the Child Day-Care Center Grant Program; and imposing penalties.
Providing for prescribing and dispensing drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for off-label use to treat coronavirus infections causing respiratory-syndrome-related illnesses.
Providing for adult use cannabis; imposing certain gross receipts tax and excise tax; and making repeals.
Adding and amending provisions relating to farmer-growers by, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in program, further providing for program established and for unlawful use of medical marijuana; in medical marijuana organizations, further providing for medical marijuana organizations, for permits, for granting of permit, for application and issuance, for fees and other requirements and for limitations on permits; in medical marijuana controls, further providing for electronic tracking, providing for farmer-growers and further providing for storage and transportation; in tax on medical marijuana, further providing for tax on medical marijuana; in academic clinical research centers and clinical registrants, further providing for clinical registrants; and, in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for zoning.
Establishing the Adult-use Cannabis Program; providing for farmer-grower permits; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In health care cost containment, providing for full financial disclosure by hospitals and freestanding ambulatory service facilities.
Further providing for definitions and for postpartum coverage standards; providing for provisions relating to involuntary discharge; and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services.
In records, further providing for fees for copies.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in medical marijuana organizations, further providing for limitations on permits and providing for additional dispensary permits and for application and issuance of additional dispensary permits.
Providing for restroom access for certain customers of retail establishments; and imposing a penalty.
In patients, further providing for identification cards; and, in dispensaries, further providing for dispensing to patients and caregivers.
In registration district administration, further providing for local registrars' compensation; and making a repeal.
Further providing for definitions, for test results and for duties of Department of Health.
In public assistance, providing for payments for burial services; and abrogating a regulation.
Providing for the study and design of a program for importing prescription drugs.
Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to join the Women's Reproductive Health Care Compact to protect women's reproductive health care services; providing for the form of the compact; and imposing additional powers and duties on the Governor.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for hospital pricing transparency; providing for acquisition of health care facilities; and imposing duties on the Department of Health and the Attorney General.
Providing for the testing and labeling of baby food and for prohibited levels of toxic heavy metals in baby food; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In public assistance, further providing for reimbursement for certain medical assistance items and services.
In general provisions, repeals and effective date, providing for acute care mental health bed registry and referrals.
A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for personal reproductive liberty.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a performance audit of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's Tobacco Policy and Control Program as it relates to the investigations of tobacco outlets in the city.
Urging the Department of Health to investigate each entity in this Commonwealth with a permit to open and operate a medical cannabis business to determine whether the entity has financial ties to Russian businesses and, if so, take steps to revoke the permit.
Providing for public health protections related to hydraulic fracturing infrastructure; imposing duties on Department of Health and Department of Environmental Protection; and establishing the Oil and Natural Gas Public Health Registry Fund.
In abortion, further providing for medical consultation and judgment.
Further providing for authorization of county departments of health; and repealing provisions relating to dissolution of and withdrawal from county departments of health.
Providing for the protection of patients and medical personnel from health care facility retaliation, for prohibitions, for rebuttable presumptions, for discriminatory treatment, for evidence, for civil penalties and remedies, for criminal penalty, for restitution and damages, for injunctive relief, for peer review activity and for exemption.
Providing for the Office of Health Equity; establishing the Health Equity Advisory Committee; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
In school health services, providing for possession and use of opioid antagonists.
In birth registration, providing for certain information prohibited related to birth registration.
Providing for vaccination schedule for pediatric patients and for coverage, compensation and reimbursement for vaccinations; and imposing penalties.
Prohibiting mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with an individual under 18 years of age.
Providing for compassionate aid in dying; and imposing penalties.
Further providing for confidentiality of reports and records.
In casualty insurance, providing for enrolled dependents right to confidentiality for health care services received.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for dialysis centers.
A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for right to medical freedom.
Further providing for definitions; providing for domestic abuse reporting by health care practitioners; and making editorial changes.
In 2022-2023 budget implementation, further providing for Department of Human Services.
In terms and courses of study, providing for menstruation education.
Further providing for confidentiality of reports and records.
In abortion, further providing for legislative intent, providing for fetal heartbeat examination and further providing for medical consultation and judgment, for abortion on unborn child of 24 or more weeks gestational age and for reporting.
In abortion, further providing for prohibition against cooperation with out-of-State abortion investigations.
In reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for Targeted Industry Cluster Certificate Scholarship Program.
In school health services, providing for face covering or mask mandate opt out.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for report of inventory by health care facility.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for Remote eWIC Reloading Pilot Program.
Providing for hospital closure procedure requirements, for notice of proposed general hospital closure or significant impact closure, for health equity impact assessments, for closure plans and for enforcement actions.
Establishing the Distressed Hospital Grant Program to award grants to distressed hospitals to prevent the reduction of services or cessation of operations; and making an appropriation.
In emergency medical services system, further providing for emergency medical responders, for emergency medical technicians, for advanced emergency medical technicians and for paramedics.
In public assistance, further providing for verification of eligibility.
Providing for temporary health care services agencies.
Providing for expedited partner therapy and for liability.
In abortion, further providing for State Board of Medicine and State Board of Osteopathic Medicine; in bases of jurisdiction and interstate and international procedure, providing for interstate interference with reproductive health services; in depositions and witnesses, further providing for subpoenas and for summoning witness in this Commonwealth to testify in another state; and, in detainers and extradition, further providing for extradition of persons not present in demanding state at time of commission of crime.
In public assistance, providing for pharmacy benefits manager audit and obligations; and abrogating regulations.
Further providing for confidentiality and protection of collected data, proceedings and activities.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in responsibilities of the State, providing for State center closure moratorium.
In abortion, further providing for definitions, for medical consultation and judgment and for reporting.
Providing for the final disposition of fetal remains; and imposing penalties.
Providing for advertisements for laboratory tests.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for definitions, for licensure and for issuance of license; and, in general provisions, repeals and effective date, providing for confidentiality.
In assault, further providing for the offense of aggravated assault and for probable cause arrests in domestic violence cases; repealing provisions relating to abortion; in incapacitated persons, further providing for provisions concerning powers, duties and liabilities; providing for reproductive rights; imposing duties on the Department of Health; and imposing penalties.
Prohibiting the sale or distribution of kratom products to individuals younger than 18 years of age; providing for duties of Department of Health; and imposing penalties.
In public assistance, providing for compensable services and items; and abrogating a related regulation.
In abortion, further providing for definitions, for medical consultation and judgment, for informed consent, for parental consent, for printed information, for determination of gestational age, for prohibited acts, for reporting, for civil penalties and for State Board of Medicine and State Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
A Concurrent Resolution recognizing and congratulating the Free African Society on the 235th anniversary of its founding in Philadelphia.
Establishing the Distressed Hospital Grant Program to award grants to distressed hospitals to prevent the reduction of services or cessation of operations; and making an appropriation.
In abortion, further providing for prohibited acts; and abrogating regulations.
Providing for hospital closure procedure requirements, for notice of proposed general hospital closure or significant impact closure, for health equity impact assessments, for closure plans and for enforcement actions.
Ensuring greater access to sickle cell disease treatments and designating the Department of Health to conduct a comprehensive and coordinated data collection effort to better understand and quantify the scope and impact of sickle cell disease on patients, communities and states throughout the United States.
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in child care facilities; and imposing penalties.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, providing for notice of legal representation for medical assistance.
Providing for a Statewide comprehensive health care system; establishing the Pennsylvania Health Care Plan and providing for eligibility, services, coverages, subrogation, participating and nonparticipating providers, cost containment, quality assurance and for transitional support and training; establishing the Pennsylvania Health Care Board, the Pennsylvania Health Care Agency, the Office of Health Care Ombudsman and the Pennsylvania Health Care Trust Fund; and imposing a payroll tax and an additional personal income tax.
A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for personal reproductive liberty.
Prohibiting enforcement of covenants not to compete in health care practitioner employment agreements.
In emergency medical services system, further providing for emergency medical responders, for emergency medical technicians, for advanced emergency medical technicians and for paramedics.
In records, providing for records, disclosure for case management, further providing for records and for fees for copies.
Providing for healthy outdoor public grounds; and imposing duties on the Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Agriculture.
Further providing for confidentiality of reports and records.
In prescribing opioids to minors, further providing for definitions, for prohibition and for procedure and providing for applicability; and making an editorial change.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for photo identification tag regulations.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for ambulatory surgical facility permitted surgical procedures; and abrogating regulations.
A Concurrent Resolution urging the Medical Marijuana Advisory Board to encourage and facilitate State System of Higher Education universities to secure United States Drug Enforcement Agency registrations to authorize the possession of cannabis for clinical registrants to engage in hands-on work regarding cultivating, testing, processing and researching cannabis plants.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for licensure; providing for COVID-19 regulatory flexibility authority; and making a related repeal.
Providing for cytomegalovirus education and newborn screening.
Providing for patient access to diagnostics and treatments for Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses; and requiring health care policies to provide certain coverage.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for hospital pricing transparency; providing for acquisition of health care facilities; and imposing duties on the Department of Health and the Attorney General.
In public assistance, further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance.
In fiscal provisions relating to public assistance, providing for distribution of SNAP benefits.
Providing for public health protections related to hydraulic fracturing infrastructure; imposing duties on the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection; and establishing the Oil and Natural Gas Public Health Registry Fund.
Providing for prescribing and dispensing drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for off-label use to treat coronavirus infections causing respiratory syndrome-related illnesses.
Establishing a moratorium on for-profit hospital ownership; and directing the Joint State Government Commission to study and issue a report on for-profit hospitals.
Directing the Center for Rural Pennsylvania to conduct a study on the current level of health care access in rural counties and municipalities, as well as the challenges faced in the home-based primary care industry, the telehealth service industry and the community health workers industry within this Commonwealth.
Establishing the Medicaid Care Transition Program and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services.
In abortion, further providing for publicly owned facilities, public officials and public funds.
In 2021-2022 budget implementation, further providing for definitions and for Department of Human Services; and repealing provisions relating to family planning funding limitations.
In public assistance, repealing provisions relating to expenditure of public funds for abortions limited.
Providing for allocation of money to family planning providers; prohibiting certain allocation; and making an appropriation.
Providing for the use of certain credentialing applications and for credentialing requirements for health insurers; imposing penalties; and conferring powers and imposing duties on the Insurance Department.
Amending the act of April 27, 1905 (P.L.312, No.218), entitled "An act creating a Department of Health, and defining its powers and duties," further providing for the administrative structure of the Department of Health, establishing the office of Chief Nursing Officer of the Commonwealth and providing for the powers and duties of the Chief Nursing Officer of the Commonwealth.
In general provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in records, further providing for disclosure to governmental agencies.
In public assistance, further providing for verification of eligibility.
Urging the Department of Health to investigate each entity in this Commonwealth with a permit to open and operate a medical cannabis business to determine whether the entity has financial ties to Russian businesses and, if so, take steps to revoke the permit.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a performance audit of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's Tobacco Policy and Control Program as it relates to the investigations of tobacco outlets in the city.
Providing for protection of pregnant individuals' information, for authorization for disclosure, for data breach and for violation.
Establishing the Outpatient Renal Dialysis Facility Qualified Staff Retention and Recruitment Program within the Department of Human Services; and making an appropriation.
A Concurrent Resolution recognizing the month of May 2022 as "National Physical Fitness and Sports Month" in Pennsylvania.
In powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, providing for pelvic floor dysfunction education.
Providing for the testing and labeling of baby food and for prohibited levels of toxic heavy metals in baby food; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Providing for access to treatment for sexual assault survivors and for duties of the Department of Health.
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in child care facilities; and imposing penalties.
Further providing for title of act, for definitions, for prohibition, for signage, for enforcement, for annual reports, for administration, for preemption of local ordinances and for repeal; and making editorial changes.
Providing for exemption to COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for right to medical freedom.
Further providing for purpose, for definitions, for powers and duties of board and for establishment of program; providing for requirements for first responder agencies and hospital emergency departments; and further providing for access to prescription information.
Providing for research and clinical studies of psilocybin and psilocybin-assisted therapy.
In birth registration, providing for certain information prohibited related to birth registration.
In public assistance, providing for hospital presumptive eligibility.
In public assistance, providing for waivers to be requested for medical assistance.
In general provisions relating to health care, further providing for applicability, for definitions and for criminal penalties; in living wills, further providing for emergency medical services; in out-of-hospital nonresuscitation, further providing for definitions, for orders, bracelets and necklaces, for revocation, for absence of order, bracelet or necklace and for emergency medical services, repealing provisions relating to advisory committee and providing for discontinuance; providing for Pennsylvania orders for life-sustaining treatment; and making editorial changes.
In public assistance, further providing for verification of eligibility.
In emergency COVID-19 response, providing for Federal maintenance of effort restrictions and for ending maintenance of effort restrictions related to COVID-19 public health emergency.
Providing for COVID-19 antibodies data.
In public assistance, providing for work requirements.
Imposing duties on certain care facilities relating to residents and applicants who are registered sexual offenders; and providing for duties of Department of Health.
In ARPA health care workforce supports, further providing for definitions; and providing for early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease or a related disorder.
Providing for exemption to employer COVID-19 vaccine requirements when individuals possess natural immunity to the virus.
Further providing for definitions and for requirements.
A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania, providing that there is no right to abortion or funding for an abortion.
Further providing for definitions, for test results and for duties of Department of Health.
Providing for COVID-19 testing; establishing the COVID-19 At-Home Testing Distribution Program; and making an inconsistent repeal.
Further providing for title of act; and providing for reports of cases of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses in deceased individuals.
In preliminary provisions, providing for construction; and, in public assistance, further providing for definitions, for eligibility and for the medically needy and determination of eligibility.
In general powers and duties of the department, further providing for State participation in cooperative Federal programs; in public assistance, further providing for income for the community spouse, for medical assistance payments for institutional care, for medical assistance payments for home health care, for other medical assistance payments and for medical assistance benefit packages and coverage, copayments, premiums and rates; providing for the Office of Independent Medical Assistance Director; and making an editorial change.
In medical professional liability, further providing for informed consent.
In patient safety, further providing for powers and duties, for patient safety plans, for reporting and notification and for medical facility reports and notifications.
Adding and amending provisions relating to farmer-growers by, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in program, further providing for program established and for unlawful use of medical marijuana; in medical marijuana organizations, further providing for medical marijuana organizations, for permits, for granting of permit, for application and issuance, for fees and other requirements and for limitations on permits; in medical marijuana controls, further providing for electronic tracking, providing for farmer-growers and further providing for storage and transportation; in tax on medical marijuana, further providing for tax on medical marijuana; in Medical Marijuana Advisory Board, further providing for advisory board; in academic clinical research centers and clinical registrants, further providing for clinical registrants; and, in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for zoning.
In public assistance, further providing for eligibility.
In public assistance, further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance.
Providing for exemption to COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
In powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, providing for perimenopause and menopause education.
Providing for research and clinical studies of psilocybin, for duties of Department of Health, for duties of institutional review boards, for duties of authorized psilocybin manufacturers, for duties of approved investigators and for reports.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in responsibilities of the State, providing for State center closure moratorium.
Designating the month of October 2021 as "Dyslexia Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in patients, further providing for caregivers and for minors.
In public assistance, providing for behavioral health and physical health services integration.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions and providing for inspection for continuing conformity to license.
Further providing for access to prescription information and for expiration; and making an editorial change.
In public safety, providing for crisis standards of care.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, providing for notice of legal representation for medical assistance.
Providing for vaccinations and for disease prevention and control.
Providing for the Office of Health Equity; establishing the Office of Health Equity Advisory Committee; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Further providing for confidentiality of reports and records.
In abortion, further providing for legislative intent, providing for fetal heartbeat examination, further providing for medical consultation and judgment, for abortion on unborn child of 24 or more weeks gestational age and for reporting.
In abortion, further providing for medical consultation and judgment.
In COVID-19 disaster emergency, establishing the COVID-19 Antibody Testing Pilot Program.
Providing for Office of Health Care Consumer Advocate; imposing duties on the Office of Attorney General; and making appropriations.
Amending the act of February 13, 1970 (P.L.19, No.10), entitled "An act enabling certain minors to consent to medical, dental and health services, declaring consent unnecessary under certain circumstances," providing for vaccine-preventable diseases.
In medical professional liability, further providing for informed consent.
Condemning tobacco companies' practice of targeted advertising in low-income communities.
In fraud and abuse control, providing for managed care plan prohibition.
Providing for off-campus facility fees.
Providing for prescription drug affordability; and establishing the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, the Prescription Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council and the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund.
In medical assistance for workers with disabilities, further providing for definitions and for medical assistance benefits for workers with disabilities and workers with medically improved disabilities.
Providing for access to congregate care facilities for essential caregivers, for additional safety requirements for residents of congregate care facilities, for suspension of access for essential caregivers and for costs associated with safety measures related to essential caregivers.
In medical professional liability, further providing for informed consent.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in program, further providing for lawful use of medical marijuana; in practitioners, further providing for duration; in patients, further providing for caregivers; in medical marijuana organizations, further providing for permits, for relocation and for convictions prohibited; in medical marijuana controls, further providing for electronic tracking, for grower/processors, for storage and transportation and for laboratory; in dispensaries, further providing for dispensing to patients and caregivers and for facility requirements; in tax on medical marijuana, further providing for Medical Marijuana Program Fund; in administration, further providing for temporary regulations; in Medical Marijuana Advisory Board, further providing for advisory board and for regulations based on recommendations of advisory board; in offenses related to medical marijuana, further providing for disclosure of information prohibited; in academic clinical research centers and clinical registrants, further providing for academic clinical research centers and for clinical registrants; and, in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for applicability.
In powers and duties of the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, providing for notification of emergency contact.
Providing for vaccination schedule for pediatric patients and for coverage, compensation and reimbursement for vaccinations; and imposing penalties.
Establishing the Emerging Health Service Psychologist Program; and providing for authorization of internship positions, for award of internship positions and for funding of program; and making an appropriation.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for reports to coroners.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, providing for reports to coroners.
In emergency COVID-19 response, establishing the Community Health Outreach and Vaccination Support Program; and making an appropriation.
Providing for patient access to diagnostics and treatments for Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses; and requiring health care policies to provide certain coverage.
Establishing the COVID-19 Vaccine Providers Reimbursement Program and the COVID-19 Vaccine Providers Reimbursement Account to reimburse COVID-19 vaccine providers for the costs incurred in storing the COVID-19 vaccine; and making an appropriation.
Prohibiting COVID-19 vaccine information on identification cards and proof of receipt of COVID-19 vaccine; and providing for civil cause of action.
Further providing for authorization of county departments of health and for dissolution of and withdrawal from county departments of health.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for certain governmental prohibitions.
Providing for cytomegalovirus education and newborn screening.
Prohibiting vaccination, isolation and quarantine mandates, vaccination without consent and vaccination mandates by business entities and ticket issuers; and imposing penalties.
Providing for COVID-19 vaccine personal information privacy; and imposing penalties.
Establishing the Advisory Council on PANDAS and PANS; and providing for the duties of the Advisory Council on PANDAS and PANS.
Prohibiting discrimination in pharmacy benefits plans and prevention or interference with patient choice; providing for reimbursement claims methodology and for safety net protection; and imposing penalties.
Providing for establishment of suicide death review teams, for duties of Department of Health, for confidentiality of suicide death review team records and criminal and civil liability protections.
Providing for essential family caregivers in facilities during disaster emergencies.
In public assistance, establishing the Pennsylvania Preferred® Food Bucks Program.
Recognizing the foundation and advancement of the pro-life movement in Pennsylvania by John Patrick Stanton and Mr. Stanton's commitment to the pro-life movement side of the abortion controversy in debate and legislative process and in potential solution.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions and providing for food allergy guidelines.
In departmental powers and duties as to supervision, providing for lead testing; and, in departmental powers and duties as to licensing, providing for lead testing.
In public assistance, providing for medical assistance reimbursement for doula services.
In public assistance, providing for pregnancy-related and postpartum medical assistance.
In public safety, providing for distribution of COVID-19 vaccine.
Further providing for confidentiality and protection of collected data, proceedings and activities.
Relating to the administration and distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations in this Commonwealth.
Providing for informed consent for vaccinations and for penalties.
In medical assistance for workers with disabilities, further providing for definitions and for medical assistance benefits for workers with disabilities and workers with medically improved disabilities.
Further providing for definitions and providing for Remote eWIC Reloading Pilot Program.
In public assistance, further providing for Assistance Recipient Identification Program and for administration of assistance and related functions.
In records, further providing for fees for copies.
Urging the United States Department of Health and Human Services to increase the allocation of COVID-19 vaccine doses sent to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Providing for the protection of patients and medical personnel from health care facility retaliation, for prohibitions, for rebuttable presumptions, for discriminatory treatment, for evidence, for civil penalties and remedies, for criminal penalty, for restitution and damages, for injunctive relief, for peer review activity and for exemption.
Providing for departmental powers and duties as to small personal care homes.
Urging the Department of Health to add cystic fibrosis to Phase 1A for COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
Providing for retaining health care innovations during the COVID-19 pandemic and imposing duties on the Joint State Government Commission.
Providing for distribution of COVID-19 vaccine and for delivery of COVID-19 vaccine.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a study to review the availability of dental services in rural areas of this Commonwealth and to provide a report detailing the options for improving access to oral health care services.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study on prescription drug pricing and issue a report.
Providing for blood lead testing of certain children by health care practitioners; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Amending the act of April 27, 1905 (P.L.312, No.218), entitled "An act creating a Department of Health, and defining its powers and duties," further providing for the administrative structure of the Department of Health, establishing the office of Chief Nursing Officer of the Commonwealth and providing for the powers and duties of the Chief Nursing Officer of the Commonwealth.
In general provisions, repeals and effective date, providing for acute care mental health bed registry and referrals.
Establishing generator requirements for long-term care nursing facilities, assisted living residences, nursing homes, personal care homes and hospices; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health and other State agencies; and imposing penalties.
In public assistance, further providing for meeting special needs and work supports and incentives.
Urging the Department of Health to prioritize the vaccination of corrections staff and incarcerated people since they are at increased risk for contracting and dying from COVID-19.
Further providing for powers and authority of the department.
Providing for the study and design of a program for importing prescription drugs.
Requiring indoor contamination assessment certifications and environmental quality certifications of child day-care centers; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Human Services; establishing the Child Day-Care Center Grant Program; and imposing penalties.
In medical professional liability, providing for reporting by certain licensees.
In public assistance, providing for payments for burial services; and abrogating a regulation.
In abortion, further providing for Commonwealth interference prohibited.
In registration district administration, further providing for local registrars' compensation; and making a related repeal.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for collection and disposal of drugs by pharmacies.
In preliminary provisions, reenacting and amending provisions relating to definitions; in powers and duties of the department, reenacting and amending provisions relating to powers and duties of the department; in Statewide Health Coordinating Council and health systems agencies, reenacting and amending provisions relating to State health services plan; in administration of the act, reenacting provisions relating to regulations and reenacting and amending provisions relating to enforcement of orders relating to certificate of need; in certificate of need, reenacting and amending provisions relating to certificate of need required and clinically related health services subject to review, to certificates of need and notice of intent and application and issuance and to notice and hearings before health systems agencies, reenacting provisions relating to notice of public meetings and to good cause, reenacting and amending provisions relating to information during review, to criteria for review of applications for certificates of need or amendments and to monitoring certificate of need, expiration of a certificate of need and reenacting provisions relating to emergencies and reenacting and amending provisions relating to notice of termination of services, to review of activities and to actions against violations of law and rules and regulations and bonds; in licensing of health care facilities, reenacting and amending provisions relating to issuance of license; in general provisions and repeals and effective date, reenacting and amending provisions relating to existing facilities and institutions and to fees for review of certificate of need applications and repealing provisions relating to sunset.
Providing for lead screening and related services, for health insurance coverage for lead screening and related diagnostic services and supplies and for duties of the Department of Health.
Prohibiting mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with an individual under 18 years of age.
Providing for the Community Diaper and Incontinence Products Grant Program; establishing the Community Diaper and Incontinence Products Grant Program Fund; directing the Department of Aging to establish a program to improve access to incontinence supplies; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Human Services.
Further providing for definitions; providing for domestic abuse reporting by health care practitioners; and making editorial changes.
In public assistance, further providing for the medically needy and determination of eligibility.
In public assistance, further providing for persons eligible for medical assistance.
Providing for COVID-19 Vaccine Registry and for regulations by Department of Health.
Providing for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Prohibited Gifts Act.
Providing for hospital patient protection.
In public assistance, further providing for responsibilities and obligations of department, applicants and recipients.
In public assistance, further providing for responsibilities and obligations of the Department of Human Services, applicants and recipients and establishing the Electronic Benefits Transfer Card Management Program.
Recognizing discrimination against women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people and other marginalized groups as a public health issue threatening the safety of Pennsylvanians.
In patient safety, further providing for definitions, for powers and duties of Patient Safety Authority, for patient safety committee and for confidentiality and compliance.
Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to join the Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases; providing for the form of the compact; imposing additional powers and duties on the Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the compact.
Providing for the duty of health care providers to publish the cost of health care procedures.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for right to enter and inspect.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for report of inventory by health care facility.
Providing for a universal maternal home visiting program; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Health.
Designating the month of April 2021 as "Sjogren's Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for nursing services.
Further providing for prohibition.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for right to enter and inspect and providing for nursing services.
Providing for the disclosure of communicable diseases in certain facilities during disaster emergencies.
Providing for the regulation of tattoos, body piercings and corrective cosmetic artists, for limiting tongue splitting and for powers and duties of the Department of Health and imposing penalties.
Providing for prohibition on health care provider self-referral.
Urging the Pennsylvania Department of Health to prioritize the vaccination of vulnerable populations and essential workers over legislators and other public officials who may work remotely.
In medical professional liability, providing for use of Department of Health surveys or inspections.
Providing for a long-term care medical director registry and imposing duties on the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services.
Limiting restrictive covenants in health care practitioner employment agreements.
Further providing for State Board of Pharmacy.
In health care outcomes, further providing for establishment, for value-based models relating to the Hospital Outcomes Program, for value-based models relating to the Managed Care Organization Outcomes Program and for managed care organization Medicaid contracts.
Providing for direct primary care, medical service agreements and insurance, for medical service agreement requirements, for use of health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts and for use of other health care practitioners.
Providing for accessible prescription labels.
In public assistance, further providing for pharmaceutical and therapeutics committee.
In public assistance, further providing for medical assistance pharmacy services and providing for prescription drug pricing study.
Providing for retaining health care innovations during the COVID-19 pandemic and imposing duties on the Joint State Government Commission.
Providing for vaccination schedule for pediatric and adult patients and for coverage, compensation and reimbursement for vaccinations; and imposing penalties.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a review of the data collection by the Department of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Designating the month of July 2020 as "MECP2 Duplication Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for extension of waiver provisions for pediatric services.
Providing for emergency COVID-19 provisions.
In records, further providing for records and fees for copies.
Designating the week of September 20 through 26, 2020, as "Surgical Technologists Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of September 6 through 12, 2020, as "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Research and Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania to increase awareness and understanding of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Recognizing the month of November 2020 as "Carbon Monoxide Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of October 25 through 31, 2020, as "National Massage Therapy Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania to honor the more than 7,900 licensed massage therapists in this Commonwealth.
Urging the United States Food and Drug Administration to promptly consider guidelines and protocols for the approval of cannabidiol as a product which is legally available for resale.
Urging the United States Food and Drug Administration to recognize this Commonwealth's concern with the safety of kratom and the current distribution and sale of kratom as a drug replacement, supplement or food and to promptly consider guidelines and protocols for the safe use of kratom.
Further providing for definitions, for reports and for confidentiality of reports and records; and providing for confidentiality provisions during disaster emergency.
In health care assistance, further providing for Community-Based Health Care Program.
Providing for access to long-term care facilities for essential caregivers, for additional safety requirements for residents of long-term care facilities, for suspension of access for essential caregivers and for personal protective equipment for essential caregivers.
Recognizing November 19, 2020, as "The Great American Smokeout Day" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for living donor protection; and imposing duties on the Department of Health and the Insurance Department.
Providing for essential family caregivers in facilities during disaster emergencies.
Recognizing the month of April 2020 as "World HIE Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of May 10 through 16, 2020, as "National Women's Lung Health Week" in Pennsylvania and encouraging all residents of this Commonwealth to learn more about the detection and treatment of lung cancer.
Recognizing the month of April 2020 as "National Donate Life Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing May 20, 2020, as "Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing April 17, 2020, as "World Hemophilia Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing April 1, 2020, as "National Walking Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of April 2020 as "Sjogren's Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of March 2020 as "National Athletic Training Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of March 2020 as "National Nutrition Month" in Pennsylvania as sponsored by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Designating the week of March 1 through 8, 2020, as "Sleep Apnea Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing March 11, 2020, as "Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of March 2020 as "National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of April 19 through 25, 2020, as "Infertility Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania in conjunction with "National Infertility Awareness Week."
Recognizing the month of March 2020 as "Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in program, further providing for lawful use of medical marijuana; in practitioners, further providing for duration; in patients, further providing for caregivers; in medical marijuana organizations, further providing for permits; in dispensaries, further providing for dispensing to patients and caregivers and for facility requirements; and, in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for applicability.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a cost-benefit analysis and issue a report on the need to increase the availability and provide additional funding for oral health care services in rural areas throughout this Commonwealth.
Recognizing the month of September 2020 as "Histiocytosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of October 2020 as "Pennsylvania Pharmacists and Pharmacy Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of October 2020 as "Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of September 2020 as "Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of October 25 through 31, 2020, as "Respiratory Care Week" in Pennsylvania and commending respiratory therapists for their outstanding contributions to health care.
Recognizing the year 2020 as the "Year of the Nurse and Midwife" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for authority to administer injectable medications, biologicals and immunizations.
In medical assistance for workers with disabilities, further providing for definitions and for medical assistance benefits for workers with disabilities and workers with medically improved disabilities.
Providing for a long-term care medical director registry and imposing duties on the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services.
Further providing for definitions, for test results and for duties of Department of Health.
In public assistance, further providing for persons eligible for medical assistance.
In health care outcomes, further providing for establishment, for value-based models relating to the Hospital Outcomes Program, for value-based models relating to the Managed Care Organization Outcomes Program and for managed care organization Medicaid contracts.
Recognizing the month of September 2020 as "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In medical assistance for workers with disabilities, further providing for definitions and for medical assistance benefits for workers with disabilities and workers with medically improved disabilities.
Providing for direct primary care, medical service agreements and insurance, for medical service agreement requirements, for use of health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts and for use of other health care practitioners.
In general powers and duties of the Department of Human Services, further providing for State participation in cooperative Federal programs; in public assistance, further providing for income for the community spouse, for medical assistance payments for institutional care, for medical assistance payments for home health care, for other medical assistance payments and for medical assistance benefit packages and coverage, copayments, premiums and rates; providing for the Office of Independent Medical Assistance Director; and making an editorial change.
Further providing for definitions and for control measures.
In casualty insurance, further providing for health insurance coverage for certain children of insured parents and providing for coverage for General Assembly.
In casualty insurance, providing for prohibition on lifetime and annual limits on essential health benefits and for coverage for General Assembly and other Commonwealth employees.
In casualty insurance, providing coverage for essential health benefits and for coverage for General Assembly and other Commonwealth employees.
Designating the month of September 2020 as "Hirschsprung's Disease Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania to coincide with a global initiative in Australia.
Recognizing the week of August 1 through 7, 2020, as "World Breastfeeding Week" in Pennsylvania and supporting breastfeeding as a way to enhance the well-being of all individuals worldwide.
Recognizing the month of July 2020 as "Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of April 2020 as "Limb Loss Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study on medical student choice in primary care and issue a report.
Prohibiting enforcement of covenants not to compete in health care practitioner employment agreements.
In public assistance, establishing the SNAP Healthy Bucks Incentive Program.
Providing for public health emergency facility safety.
Providing for requirements relating to administration of obstetrical ultrasound procedures.
Further providing for prohibition.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for right to enter and inspect and providing for nursing services.
Providing for release of information on deceased individuals by coroners or medical examiners and for immunity from liability.
Providing for consumer prescription drug pricing disclosure and pharmacy freedom to communicate.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for photo identification tag regulations.
Designating the month of March 2020 as "Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a study of the availability and accessibility of obstetrical services in this Commonwealth.
Recognizing April 8, 2020, as "Cushing's Syndrome Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for right to enter and inspect.
Designating the week of May 10 through 16, 2020, as "Food Allergy Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of June 2020 as "Cancer Survivors Recognition Month" in Pennsylvania and honoring all cancer survivors for their strength and courage in the face of this devastating illness.
Designating the month of June 2020 as "Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for prohibition.
Recognizing the week of April 13 through 19, 2020, as "Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of May 2020 as "Yoga Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for photo identification tag regulations.
Providing for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Prohibited Gifts Act.
Providing for negative COVID-19 testing of hospital patients before admission to facilities and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Recognizing the month of May 2020 as "Bladder Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of May 2020 as "Hepatitis Awareness Month" and May 19, 2020, as "Hepatitis Testing Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of June 2020 as "Alzheimer's Disease and Brain Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating May 28, 2020, as "Menstrual Hygiene Day" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for personal protective equipment stockpile.
Designating May 14, 2020, as "Apraxia Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating May 12, 2020, as "Fibromyalgia Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for COVID-19 child care personal protective equipment; and imposing duties on the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health.
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in child care facilities; and imposing penalties.
Recognizing February 12, 2020, as "World Cholangiocarcinoma Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating May 15, 2020, as "Trauma Registrars Day" in Pennsylvania.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for duties of long-term care nursing facilities and personal care homes during public health emergency.
Establishing the SNAP Benefits Start-Up Assistance Program; providing for applications for assistance, for award of assistance, for requirements of participants and for funding for assistance.
In public assistance, further providing for responsibilities and obligations of department, applicants and recipients.
Recognizing the month of May 2020 as "Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of May 2020 as "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing March 26, 2020, as "Epilepsy Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of May 2020 as "Lupus Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing March 18, 2020, as "Kick Butts Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of March 2020 as "Save Your Vision Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of May 11 through 17, 2020, as "Stuttering Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of May 2020 as "Better Hearing and Speech Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating May 6, 2020, as "Pennsylvania Health Care Information Technology Awareness Day."
Designating the month of March 2020 as "Endometriosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of March 2020 as "Brain Injury Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of May 2020 as "Preeclampsia Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Urging the immediate removal or resignation of Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine.
Providing for the disclosure of communicable diseases in certain facilities during disaster emergencies.
Providing for report on telemedicine benefits during COVID-19 pandemic.
Recognizing the month of May 2020 as "Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of May 10 through May 16, 2020, as "National Hospital Week" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for industrial business reporting relating to COVID-19 and for duties of the Department of Health.
In COVID-19 disaster emergency, establishing the COVID-19 Antibody Testing Pilot Program.
Recognizing May 17, 2020, as "DIPG Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
In public assistance, further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care.
In powers and duties of the department, providing for response to COVID-19 pandemic.
In public assistance, further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care.
In health and accident insurance, prohibiting exclusions for preexisting conditions and providing for coverage for General Assembly.
Providing for the Health Care Cost Containment Council, for its powers and duties, for health care cost containment through the collection and dissemination of data, for public accountability of health care costs and for health care for the indigent; providing for COVID-19 disaster emergency; in local organizations and services, further providing for general authority of political subdivisions; and, in Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act, further providing for heading of chapter, for short title of chapter, for definitions, for applicability and for form of unsworn declaration.
Urging the Department of Human Services to submit a request to the United States Department of Agriculture to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Online Purchasing Pilot.
Urging the Congress of the United States to take action on legislation that would expand Medicare coverage to include hearing aids; and urging the Congress of the United States to approve the Protecting Our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain From China Act, which would ensure that the United States is not dependent on foreign countries for pharmaceutical manufacturing..
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for report of inventory by health care facility.
Requiring that information on the option of perinatal support care programs be given to a woman after diagnosis of a life limiting condition; and imposing penalties.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in responsibilities of the State, providing for State center closure moratorium.
Designating the week of June 1 through 7, 2020, as "Automated External Defibrillator Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
In records, further providing for fees for copies.
Encouraging members of the General Assembly to convene public hearings to receive testimony from medical professionals regarding the appropriate standards of care for children with gender dysphoria.
Providing for a universal maternal home visiting program; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Health.
Further providing for title of act; providing for general provisions for act and imposing duties on the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement; in preliminary provisions for medical cannabis, further providing for short title, for declaration of policy and for definitions; in program, further providing for program established, for confidentiality and public disclosure, for lawful use of medical marijuana and for unlawful use of medical marijuana; in practitioners, further providing for practitioner registration, for practitioner restrictions, for issuance of certification and for duration; in patients, further providing for identification cards, for caregivers, for special conditions, for contents of identification card, for suspension and for prohibitions; in medical marijuana organizations, further providing for medical marijuana organizations, for permits, for granting of permit, for application and issuance, for fees and other requirements, for issuance, for relocation, for terms of permit, for permit renewals, for suspension or revocation, for convictions prohibited, for diversity goals and for limitations on permits; in medical marijuana controls, further providing for electronic tracking, for grower/processors, for storage and transportation, for laboratory and for prices; in dispensaries, further providing for dispensing to patients and caregivers and for facility requirements; in tax on medical marijuana, further providing for tax on medical marijuana and for Medical Marijuana Program Fund; in administration, further providing for governing practice and procedure, for reports by medical marijuana organizations, for law enforcement notification, for evaluation, for report and for temporary regulations; in Medical Marijuana Advisory Board, further providing for advisory board; in offenses related to medical marijuana, further providing for criminal diversion of medical marijuana by practitioners, for criminal diversion of medical marijuana, for criminal retention of medical marijuana, for criminal diversion of medical marijuana by patient or caregiver, for falsification of identification cards, for adulteration of medical marijuana, for disclosure of information prohibited, for additional penalties and for other restrictions; in research program, further providing for definitions, for establishment of medical marijuana research program, for medical marijuana research program administration, for approval, for requirements, for restrictions, for regulations and for nonentitlement; in academic clinical research centers and clinical registrants, further providing for legislative findings and declaration of policy, for clinical registrants and for research study; in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for conflict, for financial and employment interests, for insurers, for protections for patients and caregivers, for schools, for day-care centers, for notice and for applicability; providing for adult-use cannabis; establishing the Commonwealth Reinvestment Fund, the Student Loan Reimbursement Program, the Mixed Income Housing Program, the After-school Program and the Minority and Woman Cannabis Grant Program; imposing duties on the Department of Education, the Department of Community and Economic Development, the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency; imposing penalties; making appropriations; making repeals; and making editorial changes.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a study and issue a report on the fiscal and human effects resulting from the Department of Public Welfare, now the Department of Human Services, changes in 2011 to adult dental coverage under medical assistance.
Recognizing the year 2020 as "Year of the Nurse and Midwife."
Recognizing the week of April 6 through 12, 2020, as "Teen Health Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of June 15 through 21, 2020, as "Men's Health Week" in Pennsylvania.
In public assistance, further providing for eligibility.
In public assistance, further providing for prohibited use of public assistance funds.
Further providing for title of act, for definitions, for prohibition, for signage, for enforcement, for annual reports, for administration, for preemption of local ordinances and for repeal; and making editorial changes.
Designating the month of May 2020 as "Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In records, further providing for fees for copies.
Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to join the Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases; providing for the form of the compact; imposing additional powers and duties on the Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the compact.
Requiring indoor contamination assessment certifications and environmental quality certifications of child day-care centers; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Human Services; establishing the Child Day-Care Center Grant Program; and imposing penalties.
Establishing generator requirements for long-term care nursing facilities, assisted living residences, nursing homes, personal care homes and hospices; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health and other State agencies; and imposing penalties.
Further providing for access to prescription information.
Regulating milk banks that provide donor human milk in this Commonwealth.
Providing for health insurance coverage requirements for stage four, advanced metastatic cancer.
In powers and duties of the Department of Justice and its departmental administrative boards, further providing for Bureau of Consumer Protection and providing for opioid action task force; in powers and duties of the Department of Health and its departmental administrative and advisory boards, further providing for residential drug and alcohol treatment programs for pregnant women and mothers and their dependent children and for staff training and referral mechanisms; in powers and duties of the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, providing for residential drug and alcohol treatment programs for pregnant women and mothers and their dependent children; providing for intergovernmental collaboration on substance abuse and for public health emergency; and making editorial changes.
Recognizing February 15, 2020, as "Love is Love Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of January 19 through 25, 2020, as "Nurse Anesthetists Week" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of January 2020 as "Cervical Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating January 26, 2020, as "Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating February 7, 2020, as "National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of February 2020 as "Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of February 7 through 14, 2020, as "Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of February 9 through 15, 2020, as "Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
In public assistance, providing for use of pharmacy benefits manager by medical assistance managed care organization.
Recognizing the month of January 2020 as "Thyroid Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing February 2, 2020, as "Rheumatoid Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of March 2020 as "Amyloidosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
In medical professional liability, further providing for informed consent.
Designating the week of January 19 through 25, 2020, as "Healthy Weight Week" and designating January 23, 2020, as "Women's Healthy Weight Day" in Pennsylvania.
Providing for prescription drug affordability; establishing the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, the Prescription Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council and the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund.
Further providing for definitions.
In general provisions, repeals and effective date, providing for hospital closing.
Providing for expedited partner therapy and for liability.
Further providing for schedules of controlled substances.
In public assistance, further providing for workfare program.
Providing for the study and design of a program for importing prescription drugs.
Recognizing November 14, 2019, as "World Diabetes Day" in Pennsylvania.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in responsibilities of the State, providing for State center closure moratorium.
In administration of the act, further providing for promulgation of rules and regulations.
Providing for cancer control, prevention and research and for the Pennsylvania Cancer Control, Prevention and Research Advisory Board; and making related repeals.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for regulations.
In public assistance, further providing for responsibilities and obligations of the Department of Human Services, applicants and recipients and establishing the Electronic Benefits Transfer Card Management Program.
Condemning the Trump Administration's proposed changes to eligibility requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for right to enter and inspect.
In abortion, further providing for definitions and for medical consultation and judgment.
Recognizing December 1, 2019, as "World AIDS Day" in Pennsylvania.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for do-not-resuscitate orders for minors.
In public assistance, providing for medical assistance reimbursement for doula services.
In public assistance, providing for pregnancy-related and postpartum medical assistance.
Further providing for confidentiality and protection of collected data, proceedings and activities.
Further providing for State Board of Pharmacy.
In public safety, providing for opioid treatment agreements.
Establishing the Pennsylvania Rural Health Redesign Center Authority and the Pennsylvania Rural Health Redesign Center Fund.
Providing for the final disposition of fetal remains; and imposing penalties.
In public assistance, providing for pharmacy benefits manager audit and obligations.
Providing for the use of certain credentialing applications and for credentialing requirements for health insurers; imposing penalties; and conferring powers and imposing duties on the Insurance Department.
In public assistance, providing for compensable services and items; and abrogating a related regulation.
Recognizing the month of October 2019 as "Chiropractic Health Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of November 2019 as "COPD Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Further providing for definitions and for Pennsylvania Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Screening Program; and making an editorial change.
In medical assistance, further providing for nonemergency medical transportation services.
Providing for impact of opioid epidemic.
Designating the month of November 2019 as "Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of October 20 through 26, 2019, as "National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of October 2019 as "Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of November 2019 as "Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of November 2019 as "National Epilepsy Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing November 21, 2019, as "The Great American Smokeout Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing November 3, 2019, as "One Health Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of November 10 through 16, 2019, as "Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a study and issue a report analyzing the current Pennsylvania health and human services hotlines and their cost to the Commonwealth.
Recognizing October 19, 2019, as "National Period Day" in Pennsylvania.
In public assistance, repealing provisions related to nonemergency medical transportation services.
Recognizing October 20, 2019, as "Mast Cell Diseases Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating October 5, 2019, as "Peroxisomal Disorder Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of October 2019 as "Down Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of October 2019 as "Pennsylvania Pharmacists and Pharmacy Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of October 2019 as "Rett Syndrome Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing dwarfism with the hope of raising positive awareness about dwarfism and promoting the welfare of people having dwarfism in this Commonwealth.
Recognizing the week of October 21 through 25, 2019, as "National Medical Assistants Recognition Week" in Pennsylvania in appreciation of the quality care, support and vital services provided by medical assistants in this Commonwealth.
Recognizing Fathom Pharma LLC for its efforts to mitigate the opioid crisis and expressing support for continued innovation by the pharmaceutical industry.
Recognizing the month of September 2019 as "Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing September 30, 2019, as "NICU Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of October 13 through 19, 2019, as "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Designating October 11, 2019, as "Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of September 2019 as "Sepsis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Requiring identification of lawful presence in the United States as a prerequisite to the receipt of public benefits.
Providing for prescribing of opioids and penalties.
In public assistance, further providing for meeting special needs and work supports and incentives.
Providing for the Community Diaper and Incontinence Products Grant Program; establishing the Community Diaper and Incontinence Products Grant Program Fund; directing the Department of Aging to establish a program to improve access to incontinence supplies; and imposing powers and duties on the Department of Human Services.
Designating September 24, 2019, as the day to commemorate "United States National Health IT Week-September 23, 2019, to September 27, 2019" in Pennsylvania.
Designating October 9, 2019, as "PANS/PANDAS Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania and recognizing the need to raise awareness of pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome and pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections.
Designating the month of September 2019 as "Krabbe Disease Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of September 2019 as "Leukodystrophy Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of September 2019 as "Self-Care Awareness Month" in this Commonwealth.
Recognizing the month of September 2019 as "Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of September 2019 as "Childhood Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the month of October 2019 as "National Breast Cancer Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania and October 18, 2019, as "National Mammography Day" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the month of September 2019 as "Histiocytosis Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Recognizing the week of September 15 through 21, 2019, as "National Medicare Education Week" in Pennsylvania.
Observing the month of September 2019 as "Newborn Screening Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Designating the week of September 23 through 29, 2019, as "Diaper Need Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania.
Urging the Congress of the United States to direct the National Institutes of Health to conduct a comprehensive study on the causes of Ewing sarcoma.
Recognizing September 18, 2019, as "HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
In public assistance, prohibiting eligibility for violators of sexual offender registration.
Recognizing July 22, 2019, as "World Brain Day" in Pennsylvania.
In public safety, providing for opioid treatment agreements.
In prescribing opioids to minors, further providing for definitions, for prohibition and for procedure and providing for applicability; and making an editorial change.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, providing for reports to coroners.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for reports to coroners.
In preliminary provisions, providing for construction; and, in public assistance, further providing for definitions, for eligibility and for the medically needy and determination of eligibility.
Further providing for purpose, for definitions, for powers and duties of board and for establishment of program; providing for requirements for first responder agencies and hospital emergency departments; and further providing for access to prescription information.
Establishing the Advisory Council on PANDAS and PANS; and providing for the duties of the Advisory Council on PANDAS and PANS.
In emergency medical services system, further providing for definitions and for Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation, providing for accreditation of trauma centers, for submission of list, for funding, for notification of trauma center closure, for reporting and for certification and financial report; and making a related repeal.
In public assistance, further providing for medical assistance payments for institutional care and for nonemergency medical transportation services and providing for uniform Statewide preferred drug list; in nursing facility assessments, further providing for definitions, for calculation, for remedies, for repayment and for time periods; in intermediate care facilities for persons with an intellectual disability assessments, further providing for definitions and for time periods; and making a related repeal.
In administrative organization, repealing provisions relating to employees with access to Federal tax information and providing for criminal history background checks of employees and contractors with access to Federal tax information; in organization of independent administrative boards and commissions, providing for Center for Rural Pennsylvania; in Office of State Inspector General, further providing for powers, purpose and duties and for criminal charges; in Commonwealth budget procedures, further providing for submission of budget to General Assembly; in Commonwealth agency fees, further providing for Department of State; in Independent Fiscal Office, further providing for revenue estimates; providing for Joint Underwriting Association accountability; in powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry, its departmental administrative and advisory boards and departmental administrative officers, providing for Bureau of Occupational and Industrial Safety; providing for legislative agencies and the continuation of Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing; and making editorial changes and related repeals.
In public assistance, further providing for definitions, for general assistance-related categorically needy and medically needy only medical assistance programs, for the medically needy and determination of eligibility and for medical assistance payments for institutional care; in hospital assessments, further providing for definitions, for authorization, for administration, for no hold harmless, for tax exemption and for time period; and, in Statewide quality care assessment, further providing for definitions.
Providing for pain management clinics; and imposing penalties.
Urging the Department of Health to lower nurse-to-patient ratios in regulation for long-term care nursing facilities in this Commonwealth to ensure safe staffing standards.
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; and, in patients, further providing for caregivers and for minors.
Urging the Congress of the United States to increase the Medicaid reimbursement rate for long-term care nursing facilities in Pennsylvania.
In prescribing opioids to minors, providing for prescribing opioids to individuals and further providing for definitions, for prohibition and for procedure; and making editorial changes.
Recognizing the foundation and advancement of the pro-life movement in Pennsylvania by John Patrick Stanton and Mr. Stanton's commitment to the pro-life movement side of the abortion controversy in debate and legislative process and in potential solution.
Providing for the declaration of a public health emergency, for duties of the Department of Health, for temporary regulations and for immunity from liability.
Establishing the Infant CPR and Choking Education and Prevention Program; and providing for educational and instructional materials, for duties of department, for criminal or civil liability and for regulations.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for actions against violations of law, rules and regulations.
In medical professional liability, further providing for informed consent.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to study the impact of this Commonwealth's current behavioral health needs and behavioral health care system capacity on hospital emergency departments and patient health.
In public assistance, further providing for the medically needy and determination of eligibility.
In medical professional liability, providing for reporting of surveys and inspections.
In medical professional liability, providing for use of Department of Health surveys or inspections.
Adding provisions relating to patient care monitoring.
In medical professional liability, providing for reporting by certain licensees.
Prohibiting mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with an individual under 18 years of age.
In public assistance, further providing for other medical assistance payments and providing for payments to providers for cognitive rehabilitation therapy.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for term and content of license.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for Culture and Quality of Life Certification Program.
Providing for patient access to diagnostics and treatments for Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses; and requiring health care policies to provide certain coverage.
In public assistance, further providing for verification of eligibility.
Providing for the regulation of tattoos, body piercings and corrective cosmetic artists, for limiting tongue splitting and for powers and duties of the Department of Health and imposing penalties.
In preliminary provisions, reenacting and amending provisions relating to definitions; in powers and duties of the department, reenacting and amending provisions relating to powers and duties of the department; in Statewide Health Coordinating Council and health systems agencies, reenacting and amending provisions relating to State health services plan; in administration of the act, reenacting provisions relating to regulations and reenacting and amending provisions relating to enforcement of orders relating to certificate of need; in certificate of need, reenacting and amending provisions relating to certificate of need required and clinically related health services subject to review, to certificates of need and notice of intent and application and issuance and to notice and hearings before health systems agencies, reenacting provisions relating to notice of public meetings and to good cause, reenacting and amending provisions relating to information during review, to criteria for review of applications for certificates of need or amendments and to monitoring certificate of need, expiration of a certificate of need and reenacting provisions relating to emergencies and reenacting and amending provisions relating to notice of termination of services, to review of activities and to actions against violations of law and rules and regulations and bonds; in licensing of health care facilities, reenacting and amending provisions relating to issuance of license; in general provisions and repeals and effective date, reenacting and amending provisions relating to existing facilities and institutions and to fees for review of certificate of need applications and repealing provisions relating to sunset.
In patient safety, further providing for definitions, for powers and duties of Patient Safety Authority, for patient safety committee and for confidentiality and compliance.
Providing for certification of community paramedics, for community paramedicine service coverage by casualty insurance carriers and for medical assistance reimbursement.
Further providing for powers and authority of department.
In forgery and fraudulent practices, providing for patient brokering.
In licensing of health care facilities, providing for nursing services.
In public assistance, further providing for nonemergency medical transportation services.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study on prescription drug pricing and issue a report.
Providing for the Prescription Drug Pricing Task Force.
In general provisions relating to health care, further providing for applicability, for definitions and for criminal penalties; in living wills, further providing for emergency medical services; in out-of-hospital nonresuscitation, further providing for definitions, for orders, bracelets and necklaces, for revocation, for absence of order, bracelet or necklace and for emergency medical services, repealing provisions relating to advisory committee and providing for discontinuance; providing for Pennsylvania orders for life-sustaining treatment; and making editorial changes.
Providing for the Health Care Cost Containment Council, for its powers and duties, for health care cost containment through the collection and dissemination of data, for public accountability of health care costs and for health care for the indigent.
Providing for hospital patient protection.
Recognizing poverty as a public health crisis in this Commonwealth that leads to a myriad of individual and societal harms.
Providing for the compilation of daily nursing staff reports by hospitals, for public posting of reports and for reporting to the Department of Health; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Providing for consumer prescription drug pricing disclosure.
Condemning tobacco companies' practice of targeted advertising in low-income communities.
Further providing for definitions and providing for electronic tracking of hypodermic needles and syringes.
In boards of directors, providing for scope of chapter, for definitions and for prohibition; in officers, directors and members, further providing for compensation of directors; in hospital plan corporations, further providing for definitions and providing for prohibition; and, in professional health services plan corporations, further providing for definitions and for board of directors.
Limiting restrictive covenants in health care practitioner employment agreements.
Providing for prohibition on health care provider self-referral.
In minors, further providing for sale of tobacco.
Providing for the protection of patients and medical personnel from health care facility retaliation, for prohibitions, for rebuttable presumptions, for discriminatory treatment, for evidence, for civil penalties and remedies, for criminal penalty, for restitution and damages, for injunctive relief, for peer review activity and for exemption.
Providing for departmental powers and duties as to small personal care homes.
In public assistance, further providing for Assistance Recipient Identification Program and for administration of assistance and related functions.
In public assistance, providing for work requirements.
In public assistance, providing for medical assistance deemed eligibility program for home care, home health and older adult daily living services.
Urging the United States Food and Drug Administration to promptly consider candidates for Lyme disease vaccinations currently seeking approval under the drug approval process.
Further providing for definitions and for misbranding.
Providing for sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait testing.
In general powers and duties, providing for work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
In public assistance, providing for prohibition of cash assistance extensions.
Amending the act of April 27, 1905 (P.L.312, No.218), entitled "An act creating a Department of Health, and defining its powers and duties," further providing for the administrative structure of the Department of Health, establishing the office of Chief Nursing Officer of the Commonwealth and providing for the powers and duties of the Chief Nursing Officer of the Commonwealth.
Further providing for title of act; providing for general provisions for act; in preliminary provisions, further providing for short title, for declaration of policy and for definitions; in program, further providing for program established, for confidentiality and public disclosure, for lawful use of medical marijuana and for unlawful use of medical marijuana; in practitioners, further providing for practitioner registration, for practitioner restrictions, for issuance of certification and for duration; in patients, further providing for identification cards, for caregivers, for special conditions, for contents of identification card, for suspension and for prohibitions; in medical marijuana organizations, further providing for medical marijuana organizations, for permits, for granting of permit, for application and issuance, for fees and other requirements, for issuance, for relocation, for terms of permit, for permit renewals, for suspension or revocation, for convictions prohibited, for diversity goals and for limitations on permits; in medical marijuana controls, further providing for electronic tracking, for grower/processors, for storage and transportation, for laboratory and for prices; in dispensaries, further providing for dispensing to patients and caregivers and for facility requirements; in tax on medical marijuana, further providing for tax on medical marijuana and for Medical Marijuana Program Fund; in administration, further providing for governing practice and procedure, for reports by medical marijuana organizations, for law enforcement notification, for evaluation, for report and for temporary regulations; in Medical Marijuana Advisory Board, further providing for advisory board; in offenses related to medical marijuana, further providing for criminal diversion of medical marijuana by practitioners, for criminal diversion of medical marijuana, for criminal retention of medical marijuana, for criminal diversion of medical marijuana by patient or caregiver, for falsification of identification cards, for adulteration of medical marijuana, for disclosure of information prohibited, for additional penalties and for other restrictions; in research program, further providing for definitions, for establishment of medical marijuana research program, for medical marijuana research program administration, for approval, for requirements, for restrictions, for regulations and for nonentitlement; in academic clinical research centers and clinical registrants, further providing for legislative findings and declaration of policy, for clinical registrants and for research study; in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for conflict, for financial and employment interests, for insurers, for protections for patients and caregivers, for schools, for day-care centers, for notice and for applicability; providing for adult-use cannabis; establishing the Commonwealth Reinvestment Fund, the Student Loan Reimbursement Program, the Mixed Income Housing Program and the After-school Program; imposing duties on the Department of Education, the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency and the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement; imposing penalties; making appropriations; making repeals; and making editorial changes.
In general provisions, repeals and effective date, providing for acute care mental health bed registry and referrals.
In public assistance, providing for payments for burial services; and abrogating a regulation.
In departmental powers and duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions and providing for food allergy guidelines.
In pupils and attendance, further providing for immunization required and penalty.
In public assistance, providing for behavioral health and physical health services integration.
Further providing for definitions; and providing for collection and disposal of drugs by pharmacies.
Providing for informed consent for vaccinations and for penalties.
In fiscal provisions relating to public assistance, providing for distribution of SNAP benefits.