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Relating to education concerning the organic compound bisphenol A; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Relating to education concerning the organic compound bisphenol A; and imposing duties on the Department of Health.
Providing for school foods reform and imposing duties on schools relating to the sale of food and beverages and on the Department of Education and the Department of Health.
In adoption, further providing for hearing, for alternative procedure for relinquishment and for grounds for involuntary termination; providing for voluntary agreement for continuing contact; further providing for impounding of proceedings and access to records and for medical history information; providing for records and access to information; establishing an information registry; and making editorial changes.
Providing for education for parents relating to sudden infant death syndrome and sudden unexpected death of infants; establishing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Education and Prevention Program; and providing for duties of the Department of Health.
Establishing the Methadone Death and Incident Review Team and providing for its powers and duties; and imposing a penalty.
Providing for protection of abused, neglected, exploited or abandoned adults; establishing a uniform Statewide reporting and investigative system for suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation or abandonment of adults; providing for protective services; and prescribing penalties.
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct an in-depth analysis of the occurrence, effects and trends of poverty and low income in this Commonwealth.
Further providing for accreditation of Level III trauma centers and for payment calculation of funding of trauma centers.
Providing for the care of the body of a resident who dies while resident in a facility.
Further providing for death certificates.
Further providing for application for registration certificate, for issuance of registration certificate and for records; providing for disclosure; and further providing for emergency closure.
Providing for copies of patient test results to be sent directly to patients; and providing for duties of the Department of Health.
Providing for a definition of "child"; and further providing for the definition of "medically dependent or technologically dependent child."
Memorializing the Congress of the United States to extend the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Emergency Contingency Fund by extending the time limit for states to draw upon the fund.
Providing for the regulation of indoor tanning facilities and for penalties.
Changing the name of the Department of Public Welfare; and providing for transition period.
Calling upon the Department of Health to conduct a study determining the accessibility and effectiveness of sickle cell services currently provided by the Department of Health and need for additional services to meet the needs of people afflicted with sickle cell disease in this Commonwealth.
Establishing a task force on Lyme disease and related maladies; and providing for powers and duties of the task force, the Department of Health, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Pennsylvania Game Commission, for certain antibiotic therapies and for misconduct proceedings.
Memorializing the Congress of the United States to take action to safeguard the health of families who are eligible for food stamps by changing the way the Food Stamps program is regulated.
Creating the Pennsylvania Chronic Care Commission, providing for responsibilities and duties of the commission and for duties of the Department of Health.
Further providing for legislative intent, for definitions and for third-party drugs in long-term care facilities.
In adoption, further providing for definitions, for counseling, for effect of decree of termination, for religious belief, for time of entry of decree of adoption, for impounding of proceedings and access to records, for docket entries and for certificate of adoption; and providing for agency records and attorney records.
Providing for electronic prior approval for Medicaid.
Providing for joint training and continuing education of nursing care providers and nursing facility surveyors, assisted living service providers and assisted living residence surveyors and for joint training and continuing education of personal care providers and personal care home surveyors.
Establishing the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs; providing for governing body of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; making a related repeal; repealing related provisions of the Pennsylvania Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Control Act; and making editorial changes.
Providing for sale of needles and syringes by pharmacists.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study and to issue a report on the status of and any disparities found in dental care for Pennsylvanians with disabilities.
Providing for bisphenol A-free baby and toddler products.
Establishing the Governor's Cabinet for People with Disabilities and the Governor's Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities; and providing for their powers and duties.
Providing for liability for false claims, for adoption of congressional intent of the Federal False Claims Act, for treble damages, costs and civil penalties, for powers of the Attorney General and for qui tam actions.
Requiring a circulating nurse in certain operating rooms.
Providing for requirements for methadone use by narcotic treatment programs, for reducing methadone diversion, for reducing methadone-related accidents and deaths and for duties of the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs in the Department of Health.
Providing for certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Further providing for domestic violence and rape victims services.
Further providing for workfare program.
Providing for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program eligibility, allocation of funds and resources; imposing duties on the Department of Public Welfare; and providing for compliance and fraud prevention procedures and for performance audit and allocation of appropriations.
Providing for disposition of proceeds from facility closure.
Establishing the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs; and repealing related provisions of the Pennsylvania Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Control Act.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study and to issue a report comparing the impact and funding of health care as it is currently available in this Commonwealth and as proposed by certain pending legislation.
Establishing the Community-Based Health Care (CHC) Program in the Department of Health; and providing for hospital health clinics.
Establishing State funding for the Heart Disease and Stroke Program within the Department of Health.
Urging the Congress of the United States to pass and the President of the United States to sign legislation to extend the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage extension for the states' Medicaid programs to June 30, 2011.
Establishing the Family Caregiver Support Advisory Board within the Department of Public Welfare; and providing for its powers and duties.
Repealing provisions relating to preemption of local ordinances.
Further providing for the membership of the advisory committee of The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund.
Further providing for the labeling of dispensed drugs; and providing for notification of the country of origin of dispensed drugs.
Further providing for chemicals subject to registration.
Providing for the establishment, implementation and administration of a program for the return of prescription drugs; and imposing additional powers and duties on the State Board of Pharmacy, the Department of Health and the Department of Public Welfare.
Further providing for repayment from probate estates.
Imposing a moratorium on the establishment of new or expanded methadone clinics and requiring the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to conduct a study to determine the impact of these clinics on the communities in which they are located.
Providing for requirements relating to administration of obstetrical ultrasound procedures.
In public assistance, further providing for administration.
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study the proliferation of methadone clinics in this Commonwealth and calling for a moratorium on the establishment of additional methadone clinics pending completion of the study.
Establishing a bill of rights for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities; and conferring powers and duties on the Department of Public Welfare.
Providing for assisted outpatient treatment programs.
Memorializing the Congress of the United States in its health care reform decisions to apply the American Cancer Society's guidelines for breast cancer screening.
In general powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare, providing for determining whether applicants are veterans; in public assistance, further providing for establishment of county boards and expenses, for lifetime limit and for prohibited use of public assistance funds; further defining "exempt hospital" and "general acute care hospital"; further providing for authorization, for administration, for no hold harmless, for tax exemption and for cessation; and providing for fraud reporting to Inspector General.
Establishing the Community-Based Health Care (CHC) Program in the Department of Health; providing for hospital health clinics and for a tax credit; and making an appropriation.
In licensing of health care facilities, further providing for definitions, for licensure, for term and content of license and for reliance on accrediting agencies and Federal Government.
Providing for pharmacy audit procedures.
Urging the Department of Health to revise its disease monitoring practices in this Commonwealth.
Further providing for meeting special needs, work supports and incentives; and abrogating a regulation.
Providing for the regulation of indoor tanning facilities and for powers and duties of the Department of Health; and prescribing penalties.
Reenacting and amending the act of September 26, 1951 (P.L.1539, No.389), known as The Clinical Laboratory Act, further providing for the title and for the short title; providing for legislative findings; further providing for definitions; providing for clinical laboratory permits; further providing for permit applications, for regulations, for hearings and appeals, for exemptions and for unlawful conduct; providing for regulations, for forensic DNA laboratories, for exemptions and for hearings and appeals; and further providing for penalties.
Prohibiting certain persons from being vaccinated with vaccines containing mercury or injected with any mercury-containing product; and prescribing a penalty.
Providing for a fraud examination of the Department of Public Welfare.
Providing for the regulation of tanning facilities and for powers and duties of the Department of Health; and prescribing penalties.
Providing for a public health access program beneficiary employer report; and imposing duties on the Secretary of Health.
Providing for drug redistribution within correctional facilities.
Recognizing the week of September 20 through 26, 2009, as "Low-Back Pain Awareness Week" in Pennsylvania, providing for its observance and urging the Department of Public Welfare to establish a task force.
Further providing for use of Tobacco Settlement Fund; and establishing the Cigarette Home Safety Firefighters Scholarship Fund.
In adoption, further providing for impounding of proceedings and access to records.
Providing for electronic prescriptions and for duties of the Department of Health; establishing the Medical Assistance Health Information Technology Incentive Payment Program in the Department of Public Welfare; and imposing penalties.
Providing for a welfare efficiency audit and for the definition of "educational activity"; further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance, for regulations as to employment, work-related activities and training and for meeting special needs, work supports and incentives; providing for documents submitted; further providing for the Assistance Recipient Identification Program; providing for an income eligibility verification system; further providing for administration of assistance and related functions; providing for a fraud detection system; further providing for eligibility; providing for residence requirements for county assistance offices, for screening for illegal drug use, for prepayment pharmacy audits, for medical assistance participating provider requirements and for fraud reporting to Inspector General; and abrogating a regulation.
Providing for a Statewide comprehensive health care system; establishing the Pennsylvania Health Care Plan and providing for eligibility, services, coverages, subrogation, participating providers, cost containment, reduction of errors, tort remedies, administrative remedies and procedures, attorney fees, quality assurance, nonparticipating providers, transitional support and training; and establishing the Pennsylvania Health Care Agency, the Employer Health Services Levy, the Individual Wellness Tax and the Pennsylvania Health Care Board and providing for their powers and duties.
Designating July 4, 2009, as "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania.
Establishing the Community-Based Health Care (CHC) Program in the Department of Health; providing for hospital health clinics; and establishing the Community-Based Health Care Fund.
In the State blind pension, further providing for eligibility and for amount.
Further providing for registration districts and local registrars' duties, for death and fetal death registrations and for reports.
Establishing and directing a select committee to examine matters relating to the shortage of health care professionals in this Commonwealth.
Urging the Department of Health to implement certain requirements relating to tetanus/diphtheria booster immunizations.
Further providing for legislative intent, for definitions, for third-party drugs in long-term care facilities and for civil liability and unprofessional conduct.
Further providing for eligibility for public assistance.
A Concurrent Resolution directing the Joint State Government Commission to create a pain task force and a pain task force advisory committee to promote professional and public education and awareness and to improve the quality of care for the residents of this Commonwealth who are suffering from pain.
Further providing for issuance of license.
Pledging support to the Shriners Hospitals for Children in dealing with a budget shortfall which threatens to close six hospitals throughout the country, one of which is located in Erie, and encouraging the Shriners Hospital System to explore every available option for making the system financially sound and for keeping open the Erie hispital, which serves the needs of children and families in a five-state area.
Making editorial changes.
Further providing for death and fetal death registration; providing for deceased veteran notification to county government; and further providing for referral of deaths to coroner, for permits concerning dead bodies and fetal remains, for registration permits concerning dead bodies and fetal remains, for regulations and for registrations.
Reenacting and amending the act of July 8, 1986 (P.L.408, No.89), known as the Health Care Cost Containment Act, further providing for policy declaration, for definitions, for the Health Care Cost Containment Council and its powers and duties, for data submission and collection and for access to council data; providing for the establishment of a Health Care Cost Containment Council Act Review Committee; and further providing for sunset of act.
In public assistance, providing for prepayment pharmacy audits.
Further providing for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Providing for community-based health care; making an appropriation; and making a related repeal.
Establishing the Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Prevention Fund; and providing for the deposit of a portion of the liquor tax into the fund and for use of fund.
Establishing the Medical Safety Automation Program; and providing grants to implement medical safety automation systems.
Providing for disposition of adoption agency records upon closure.
Specifying the individuals who are entitled to receive autopsy reports and associated medical records prepared by coroners and medical examiners.
Urging the Department of Health to prepare and distribute educational information about premature infants' risks and health care needs.
Providing for quarterly interim payments to certain providers of community mental retardation services; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Public Welfare; and making a related repeal.
Further providing for the amount of the State Blind Pension.
Prohibiting certain referrals of patients by health care providers for health care services; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health; and imposing penalties.
Providing for the medical use of marijuana; and repealing provisions of law that prohibit and penalize marijuana use.
Providing for fluoridation of public water.
Further providing for lifetime limit, for payments to counties for services to children, for departmental administration of county child welfare services, for needs-based budgeting process, for review of county submissions and for limits on reimbursements to counties; further defining "exempt hospital"; further providing for administration; providing for managed care organization assessments; further providing for other prohibited acts, criminal penalties and civil remedies and for repayment from probate estates; providing for limit on claim reduction and for false claims; and providing for necessary action to qualify the Commonwealth for additional Medical Assistance funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5, 123 Stat. 115).
Providing for reimbursement for prosthetic devices.
Further providing for medical assistance payments.
Establishing the Medical Safety Automation Fund; and providing grants to implement medical safety automation systems.
Establishing the Illness Monitoring and Investigation Unit within the Department of Health; and providing for its powers and duties.
Further prohibiting smoking in public places; providing for local ordinances; and making a related repeal of the Fire and Panic Act.
Providing for proceeds derived from facility disposition; and establishing the Mental Health Community Services Account and the Mental Retardation Community Services Account.
Further providing for prohibition.
Further providing for prohibition.
Requiring information relating to parenting and prenatal depression, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and other emotional trauma counseling to be provided to a woman who is pregnant or has just given birth; and providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Health.
Further providing, in general budget implementation, for the Department of Public Welfare.
Further providing for treatment of life estates, annuities and other contracts in determining eligibility for medical assistance.
Defining "bidis" or "beedies"; and prohibiting the sale of bidis.
Establishing the Dentists for Medical Assistance Patients Program in the Department of Public Welfare.
Providing for professional nurse safe staffing standards.
Providing for a patient education brochure concerning mercury amalgam.
Establishing the Women, Infants and Children Special Supplemental Program in the Department of Health and providing for its purposes; establishing the Women, Infants and Children Special Supplemental Program Fund; and making an appropriation.
Providing for clinical laboratory reports.
Further providing for general powers and duties of Department of Health, for disclosure of records and for evidentiary sufficiency of records; providing for access to records on Internet website; and making an appropriation.
Repealing certain provisions relating to county liability for nursing home care for persons at county-owned facilities.
Directing the Department of Health to conduct a geographic study determining the accessibility and need for drug and alcohol treatment facilities throughout the counties of this Commonwealth and urging a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses for drug or alcohol treatment facilities until the completion of the study.
Authorizing employment of certain persons as drug and alcohol counselors based solely on their previous work or life experience; abrogating a regulation; and making inconsistent repeals.
Establishing the Community-Based Health Care Provider Access (CHCPA) Program in the Department of Health; providing for hospital health clinics and for a tax credit; and making an appropriation.
Establishing the Physician Retention Loan Forgiveness Program in the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; providing for powers and duties of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; and making an appropriation.
Providing for involuntary commitment of drug-dependent persons.
Providing, in public assistance, for screening for illegal drug use.
Further providing for verification of eligibility for medical assistance.
Further providing for uniformity in administration of assistance and regulations as to assistance, for authorized signatures on employability assessment forms, for medical assistance payments and for rules and regulations for personal care homes.
Providing for income eligibility verification system and for fraud detection system.
Further providing for Assistance Recipient Identification Program and for local administration of assistance.
Further providing for special needs trusts.
Designating February 16, 2009, as "Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day" in Pennsylvania; and urging the National Institutes of Health to recognize "Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day" and to advance research relating to peripartum cardiomyopathy.
Urging the Congress of the United States to increase funding to the National Institutes of Health by 6.7% in each of the next three years to accelerate the momentum of discovery to improve health and quality of life for millions of Americans.
Further providing for blind pension eligibility and amount.
In preliminary provisions and in licensing of health care facilities, further providing for definitions.
Regulating tattoo, body-piercing and corrective cosmetic artists; limiting tongue splitting; providing for powers and duties of the Department of Health; and imposing penalties.
Providing for fluoridation of public water.
Requiring retail merchandise establishments that provide shopping carts to customers to make sanitation wipes available; providing for the powers and duties of the Department of Health; and prescribing a penalty.
Providing for medical assistance payments for hospital services; and establishing the State Health Payment Review Board.
Further defining "assistance group"; and further providing for eligibility and determination of need related to recipients of temporary assistance to needy families.
In pupils and attendance, further providing for immunization required and penalty; and requiring children to be tested for diabetes prior to admission.
In public assistance, further providing for administration of assistance and for additional services for medically needy recipients; and abrogating a regulation.
Providing for lead-level testing of playgrounds, schools and parks.
Regulating sexually oriented businesses; providing for licenses, for licensure requirements, for inspections and for enforcement; and prescribing penalties.
Repealing Assistance Recipient Identification Program provisions; providing for fingerimaging system and for fraud detection system; and making editorial changes.
In public assistance, further providing for eligibility for public assistance.
Requiring the Department of Health to establish bloodborne pathogen standards for emergency services personnel and public employees; establishing the Bloodborne Pathogen Fund; and repealing an act relating to bloodborne pathogen standards.
Further providing for purposes, for definitions, for powers of the Department of Health, for administration and for licensure; providing for compliance with staffing plans and recordkeeping, for work assignment policies and for public disclosure of staffing requirements; further providing for license standards, reliance on accrediting agencies and Federal Government, for medical assistance payments and for civil penalties; and providing for private cause of action and for grants and loan programs for nurse recruitment.
Requiring verification of the lawful presence in the United States of any natural person 18 years of age or older who has applied for public benefits.
Providing for methods of dispensing drugs and enforcement.