Medical Affairs

Human trafficking awareness and prevention training

Telehealth for Veterinary Services

Chronic Kidney Disease Month

Prehospital Healthcare

Nursing Homes TB Tests

Support recycling in SC

Pharmacy access

Informed Consent to COVID 19 Vaccine

Medicaid Provider and Recipient Fraud

Anesthesiologist Assistants

Abortion-Inducing Drugs

Mothers and Preborns Act

Death Certificate Filing Deadline Exception

Involuntary Commitment

Fluoride Ban

Abortifacients

Waiver of fees for birth certificates and Special ID Cards for homeless and former foster care individuals

Prescription Medicine Study Committee

Protecting Children from Cancer-Causing Radiation Act

Optometrists

Blood Cancer Awareness Month

South Carolina Kratom Consumer Protection Act

Collaborative Practice Agreements

American-made dialysate

Ivermectin Deregulation

Myositis Awareness month

Alzheimer's Disease

Community HealthWorker Awareness

Medicaid

Medical Informed Consent

Involuntary Admission

Sexually Violent Predator Act

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

Medical authorization of handicap placards

Adoption

Brain Injury Awareness Month

Peace, Harmony and Wellness Day

SCAAP Day in SC

Pharmacists

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists

Unborn Child Protection Act

Long-Term Care Facilities

Safer Syringe Program

Air Quality

Physician assistants

Reproductive Rights

Nursing Home Staff

Compassionate Care Act

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians

Medicaid

Mobile optometry units

Hospital at Home

Bloodborne Disease

Suicide Prevention Training for Health Professionals

Ambulance Assessment

ALS Month Naming

Executive Office of Health Policy

Non-Opioid Pain Management

Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) Awareness Week

Vaccines and Public Health

Pain-Treating Drugs

Medical Billing

SVPA

State Building Construction Energy Standards

Vaccination Discrimination Prevention Act

Executive Office of Health Policy

Telemedicine Prescriptions

Compassionate Care Act

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Day

Disability Advocacy Day

National Wear Red Day

Dispensing Drugs Acquired from Outsourcing facilities

Pharmacist administration or dispensation of hormonal contraceptives

Laser Hair Removal

Safer Syringe Program

Medicaid

Narcan OTC

Narcotic Treatment Programs

Crisis Stabilization Units

Psypact

Abortion - Fetal Heartbeat

State Health Facility Licensure Act

Public Health

NF Awareness Day

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Bladder Cancer Awareness Month

Medical Marijuana Referendum

Chronic Kidney Disease Awareness Month

Cardiovascular Disease

Vital Statistics - Changes to Birth Certificates

SC Osteopathic Medicine Day

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Day

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians

Gender Reassignment Surgery

Military Med Techs Education Credit

Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) Awareness Week

Medicaid Expansion

Medicaid Expansion

Abortion During First Trimester

Mental health, emergency admission

Gender reassignment

South Carolina Pro Birth Accountability Act

Tuberculosis Health Certificates

Abortion

Medical Ethics and Diversity Act

Birth certificate, certified copy

Rena Grant Sickle Cell Disease Voluntary Patient Registry Act

Home-based food products

ASLP Interstate Compact Act

Insurance

Optometry mobile units

Anatomical gifts, nondiscrimination in access

Medication provision in certain facilities

Medical assistants

Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact Act

Peace, Harmony, and Occupational Therapy Day declared as May 10, 2022

Chemically-induced abortions, disclosure requirements

Criteria for physician supervision of nurses in extended role

Licensing provisions

Gender reassignment

Central Fill Pharmacies

Department of Health and Environmental Control - JR to Approve Document No. 5057

Lupus Awareness Month

Neonatal testing

SC Overdoes Prevention Act

Do not resuscitate orders

Medical practitioners and health care payers

Abortion

SC Osteopathic Medicine Day declared as March 9, 2022

COVID-19 vaccine

Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week declared as May 1-8, 2022

Pollution control act, odor-bearing air contaminants

Solid Waste Policy and Management Act

Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month declared as January 2022

Medicaid

Memorialize Congress, Medicare coverage for cancer detection

COVID-19 vaccine administration, podiatrists

Physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses

Renal dialysis

Disabled Self-Employment Development Trust Fund

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month declared as September 2021

Naloxone

Preproduction plastic

Smoking

Volunteer school personnel

Birth certificates

Donor Day

Mental Health Month

Perinatal care services

Osteopathic Medicine Day

COVID-19

SC Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act

Prescriptions, supply limitations

Anesthesiologist's assistants

Hazardous waste cleanup

Tax exemption, feminine hygiene products

Add teachers to 1a of vaccination plan

Smoking

COVID-19 vaccines

Masks

SC Pro Birth Accountability Act

SC Harm Reduction Act

Arbitration agreements

Intensive or critical care

Contaminant levels

Hospitals

Solid waste policy and management

Nursing homes and nursing care facilities

Electronic prescriptions

Savannah River Site Day

Emergency prescription refills

Tertiary level developmental evaluation centers

Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month

Do not resuscitate orders

Year of the Eye Exam

Contaminant levels

Aging Depts Physician Student Loan Payment Program

Certificates of Need

Waste tire regulations

Birth certificate

Prescription drug label requirements

Hospitals

Wastewater spills by public utility

Color the World Orange for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome/Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Awareness Day

EMT certificates

SC Harm Reduction Act

Hazardous Waste Management Regulations (D. No. 4841)

Long Term Health Care Administrators Board (D. No. 4844)

Requirements to take step 3 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (D. No. 4853)

Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST) Act

Health care decisions for unable to consent persons

Physical Therapy Examiners Board, licensure

Athletic Trainers' Act, definitions

Speech-Language Pathologists Assistants exemptions

General licensing provisions, speech-language pathology assistants, and continuing education (D. No. 4858)

National Nurses Week

Alzheimer's disease and related disorders resource coordination center

Solid waste policy and management

Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Hunger Action Month

Step Up & Be Safe Month

Transport of a mentally ill person

Code of Ethics (D. No. 4863)

Controlled substance prescriptions

Advisory Council on Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS)

Donor Day

Mental Health Month

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Awareness Day

Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

Nurse Practice Act

Health care decisions for adults unable to make such decisions

Certificate of Need exemptions

Urge the Federal Government to work to remove barriers to conducting research on the use of cannabis to treat medical conditions and illnesses

Physical Therapy Examiners Board

SC Compassionate Care Act

Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

SC Fetal Heartbeat Protection from Abortion Act

Emergency service system billing and insurance coverage practices

Neonatal testing

Physical Therapy Licensure Compact

Birth certificates of adopted children

Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact Act

Prescription Monitoring Program

Opioid analgesics, prescriptions to minors

Opioid prescriptions, limits, prescription report cards

State of emergency, prescription refills by pharmacists

Standards for licensing hospices (D. No. 4800)

Solid Waste Emergency Fund

Controlled substance schedules

Speech-Language Pathologists Assistants exemptions

Genetic counselors

SC Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act

Nurse Licensure Compact (D. No. 4779)

Regional Health Services Board of Directors

SC Stroke Care System (D. No. 4760)

Regional Health Services Board of Directors

Prescription report cards

Prescribing limitations

Pharmacy Practice Act

Prescription monitoring program

Donor Day

Better Hearing and Speech Month

Disabled Self-Employment Development Trust Fund

Prescriptions

Prescription drugs

Eating Disorder Awareness Week

Omphalocele Awareness Day

SC Beverage Container Recycling Act

Drug or Alcohol-Related Overdose Medical Treatment

Pharmacies

Disabilities

Nurse Licensure Compact

Drug or Alcohol overdose

Drug substitutions

Donated Dental Services Recognition Day

Immunization Week

Renal dialysis facilities

Health care practitioners

Electrology Practice Act

Certificate of need

Partial birth abortions

March for Meals Month

Shingles Vaccination Study Committee

Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Abortions

Shellfish (D. No. 4736)

Honorable Henry Dargan McMaster

Drug substitutions

Pollution

Mesothelioma Awareness Day

Emergency refills of prescriptions

Department of Disabilities and Special Needs

Arbitration agreements

Brain Tissue Donor Study Committee

Quality Hospice Programs Act

Margy's Law

Medical Foster Home Program for veterans

Marshals at State mental health facilities

SC Telemedicine Act

Nurses

Certification of Need for Health Facilities and Services (D. No. 4538)

Emergency medical services; insurance; DHEC

DHEC

Certificate of Need program

Hope's Law

Mental Health Month

Cervical Cancer Prevention Act

Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week

Cervical Cancer Prevention Act

Sexually transmitted diseases (D. No. 4612)

Maternal and child health services, charges (D. No. 4608)

Trauma care systems (D. No. 4578)

Environmental protection and conservation

Clean drinking water

Well standards (D. No. 4571)

Natural public swimming areas (D. No. 4571)

Organ Donor Registration Day

Emergency Anaphylaxis Treatment Act

MS Awareness Day

Abortion

Medical foster homes for veterans

Particle accelerators (D. No. 4482)

Hypodermic devices; drugs and devices (D. No. 4468)

Psychology Board of Examiners fees (D. No. 4515)

Podiatry Examiners Board fees (D. No. 4513)

Board of Examiners in Opticianry fees (D. No. 4511)

Renal medullary carcinoma

S.C. Overdose Prevention Act

Soil-based on-site disposal systems

Patient's rights

Iron Disorders Awareness Month

Sacral Agenesis Caudal Regression Syndrome

Palmetto Comprehensive Health Care Act

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month

Mental Health Month

Medical Marijuana Program Act

Pharmacy Practice Act

Marijuana

Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Review Committee

Abolish DHEC

Abortions

Standard for licensing day care facilities for adults (D. No. 4498)

Electronic monitoring

Pharmacies

Dental Therapists

Medicaid eligibility

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Abortion

S.C. Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Long Term Health Care Administrators

Dental Sedation Act

Cervical Cancer Prevention Act

Endometriosis Awareness Month

Mental health

Medical Cannabis Therapeutic Treatment Research Act

Hospitals

Hearing aids

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month

Medicaid

Sarcoidosis Awareness Month

Organ Donor Registration Month

Critical congenital heart defects screening on newborns (D. No. 4429)

Nursing Board Code of Ethics (D. No. 4447)

State Health Care Choice Act

Sexually violent predator

Foreign pharmacies

Vaccination, screening and immunization regarding contagious diseases (D. 4434)

Immunity from Liability for Providing Free Health Care Services

Prescription drug trafficking

Air Ambulance Affordability Act

Certificate of need program

Brain Injury Leadership Council

Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Month

Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Day

Medicaid

Drycleaning Facility Restoration Trust Fund

Landfills

Mental health services

Medical information disclosure

Long-term care facilities

Telemedicine Insurance Reimbursement Act

Free Clinic Awareness Day

Out-of-state pharmacies

Human Heartbeat Protection Act

Business Freedom to Choose Act

Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week

Bladder Awareness Month

Panel for dietetics (D. No. 4237)

Autism Awareness Day

Prostate Cancer

Endometriosis Awareness Month

Recovered Materials Processing Facility

Pharmacy Practice Act

Alzheimer's disease and Related disorders Resource Coordination Center Advisory Council

Interstate Advisory Health Care Commission

Residential treatment facilities for children and adolescents that prohibit licensure by DHEC

Number of lifeguards for public swimming pools

Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation

Hospitals required to provide parents of newborns educational information

Free Clinic Awareness Day

Hospitals' liability

Septic tank permit provisions

Issues pertaining to the Savannah River

Exemptions and limitations on pollutants

Direct caregivers

Geropsychiatric Distinct Part Unit

Health care facilities

Interns and residents authorization to fill prescriptions

Acupuncture Act

Department of Vocational Rehabilitation to provide monthly client contact and service information

Healthcare Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act

Physical Therapy Licensure examination

S.C. Medical Services Area

Children's Dental Month; Give Kids a Smile Day

Solid waste collection

Bedbug Prevention and Sanitation Act

Nursing home administrator

Birth certificates

Abortion

Pharmaceutical sales representatives

Provide That The State Law Enforcement Division (sled) Shall Have An Electronic Monitoring System Which Will Serve As The Repository For Information The Data Collection System Gathers And Transfers To Sled Pertaining To The Sale And Purchase Of Products Containing Ephedrine, Pseudoephedrine, And Phenylpropanolamine, To Provide That Sled's System Must Have Certain Capabilities, To Prohibit Imposing Fees On Retailers And Law Enforcement For Access To The Data Reporting And Collection System, To Provide That The Information In Sled's System Is Confidential, To Authorize Sled And Retailers To Participate In Other Data Collection Systems, And To Require Sled To Enter Into A Memorandum Of Agreement With The National Association Of Drug Diversion Investigators, As The Data Collection System, And To Provide Procedures, Certain Contents Of The Memorandum, And Roles And Responsibilities Of The Parties. - Ratified Title

Honor The Memory Of Cass Elias Mccarter By Naming The Program The Cass Elias Mccarter Guardian Ad Litem Program. - Ratified Title

Revise Certain Definitions And To Add, Among Others, The Definition Of "emergency Medical Technician" (emt); To Change The Emsc Program Name To The "emergency Medical Services And Trauma For Children Program" And To Provide That This Program Must Include Guidelines For Voluntary Designation Of Pediatric Emergency Departments, Disaster Response Guidelines, Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Training, And Assistance With The Development Of Disaster Plan Strategies Relating To Children; To Specify That The Identity Of An Emt Contained In Information Collected By Ems Is Confidential Unless Requested By A Patient; To Provide That Upon Request A Patient May Obtain Information Collected By Ems To Delete Provisions Pertaining To The Confidentiality Of The Identity Of Physicians And Hospitals; To Further Specify To Whom Patient Information May Be Released; To Require The Department And A Person Or Entity Licensed Or Certified Pursuant To This Article To Disclose To The Solicitor Information That Could Aid In The Investigation Or Prosecution Of Criminal Activity; And To Establish The Emergency Medical Services For Children Advisory Committee, To Provide For Its Members And Duties, And To Provide That Members On The Committee Serve Without Compensation, Mileage, Per Diem, Or Subsistence. - Ratified Title

Define Certain Terms, And To Provide For The Dispensing Of Certain Drugs Or Devices At A Federally Qualified Health Center.

Provide That The Standard For Dissolved Oxygen Is 0.1 Mg/l. - Ratified Title

Provide That Persons Eighteen Or Older Are Eligible To Receive A Tattoo. - Ratified Title

Provide That The Department Of Health And Environmental Control, In Conjunction With The Board Of Pharmacy, Shall Develop A Program To Receive And Dispose Of Unused Medications From The Public And Shall Develop Guidelines For The Safe And Proper Disposal Of Medications Which Must Be Available And Distributed To The Public.

Declare February 2010 As "national Children's Dental Health Month" And Friday, February 5, 2010, As "give Kids A Smile Day" In South Carolina, In Order To Promote Oral Health And Join In The Efforts Throughout The Nation To Advocate For Oral Health Awareness And Optimal Oral Health In Children.

Expand The Types Of Data Collected By The Alzheimer's Disease Registry, And To Provide For The Authorization Of Studies About Alzheimer's Disease And The Caregivers Of Persons With Alzheimer's Disease. - Ratified Title

Relating To The Drycleaning Facility Restoration Trust Fund, So As To, Among Other Things, Further Specify That Wholesale Drycleaning Facilities Are Subject To The Provisions Of This Article And Are Eligible To Seek Restoration Assistance Under This Article; To Authorize The Department Of Health And Environmental Control To Use Funds, Other Than Funds From The Drycleaning Facility Restoration Trust Fund, If An Emergency Exists And Funds Are Not Available From The Trust Fund And To Further Provide That These Funds Must Be Repaid From The Trust Fund; To Provide Exemptions From The Environmental Surcharge Imposed On The Gross Proceeds Of Sales Of Retail Drycleaning Facilities, Including An Exemption For Wholesale Sales Of Drycleaning Services; To Further Provide For Eligibility Requirements And Determinations And Procedures For Requesting And Issuing Restoration Assistance, Including Obtaining Secondary Assessments And The Amount Of Deductibles; To Provide Initial And Annual Registration Fees For Drycleaning Facilities Established After October 1, 1995, And To Authorize The Property Owner To Register A Facility If The Owner Or Operator Of The Facility Does Not; To Provide For The Issuance Of Certificates Of Registration, To Require Presentation Of Such Certificates In Order To Purchase Drycleaning Solvents, To Prohibit A Supply Facility, Or Other Drycleaning Facility, From Selling Drycleaning Solvent To A Drycleaning Facility If The Facility Does Not Possess A Certificate, And To Provide Civil Penalties; To Specify Requirements For A Drycleaning Facility Exemption Certificate; And To Revise The Membership Of The Drycleaning Advisory Council.

Provide That The South Carolina Department Of Health And Human Services Shall Maintain Its Medically Fragile Children's Program And Shall Pursue Options To Obtain Authority To Maintain The Existing Program With Its Current Eligibility Criteria.

Further Specify The Criminal Records Checks That Must Be Conducted On Direct Care Staff, To Provide That A Direct Care Entity Includes A Day Program Operated By The Department Of Mental Health Or The Department Of Disabilities And Special Needs, To Delete Provisions Requiring Direct Caregivers To Verify Residency For The Twelve Months Preceding Applying For Employment, To Delete Provisions Authorizing Private Businesses, Organizations, Or Associations To Conduct Criminal History Background Checks Required By This Article, And To Delete Provisions Relating To Certain Fingerprint Forms And Procedures; And To Repeal Section 44-20-225 Relating To Consumer Advisory Boards For The Department Of Disabilities And Special Needs' Mental Retardation, Autism, And Head And Spinal Cord Injury Divisions And Article 5, Chapter 20, Title 44 Relating To The Licensure And Regulation Of Facilities And Programs By The Department Of Disabilities And Special Needs.

Require Such Notification When A Person Dies In A Health Care Facility Within Twenty Four Hours Of Entering A Health Care Facility Or Of Having An Invasive Surgical Procedure Performed.

Relating To The Conditions For Performance Of An Abortion, Information Requirements, Waiting Period, Minors Or Mentally Incompetent Persons, And Retention Of Records, To Provide That A Woman Must Be Provided With A Twenty-four Hour Reflection Period Before An Abortion Procedure, To Provide The Nature And Source Of The Information Provided To And Made Available To A Woman Seeking An Abortion, And To Provide The Language Of The Certification That A Woman Must Sign Prior To An Abortion Procedure.

Provide That The Department Of Health And Environmental Control May Not Remove A Resident From The Facility If The Resident, The Resident's Family Or The Resident's Health Care Power Of Attorney, The Resident's Physician, And The Facility Agree To The Resident's Continued Stay And The Facility Is Capable Of Providing Or Obtaining Necessary Services For The Resident.

Delete Provisions Relating To The Certificate Of Need Program, Thereby Abolishing The Certificate Of Need Program; And To Repeal Sections 44-7-160, 44-7-180, 44-7-185, 44-7-190, 44-7-200, 44-7-210, 44-7-220, 44-7-230, And 44-7-240 All Relating To The Certificate Of Need Program And Powers And Procedures Of The Department Of Health And Environmental Control Relative To The Certificate Of Need Program.

Extend The Smoking Prohibition Provided For In The Act To Restaurants, Bars, Lounge Areas, And Recreational Facilities; To Specify That Smoking Is Permitted In Private Homes And Automobiles, Home-based Businesses, Private Functions In Indoor Areas, Hotel Rooms Designated As Smoking Rooms, Specialty Tobacco Stores, Tobacco Manufacturers, Cigar Bars, And Private Clubs And To Provide That A Proprietor Of An Establishment Has The Right To Prohibit Smoking In His Establishment Which Would Otherwise Be Permitted By This Chapter; To Provide That The Posting Of Designated Smoking Area Signs Is Not Required For Private Homes And Automobiles Or Home-based Businesses And To Provide An Exception; To Delete The Maximum Criminal Penalty From A Fine Of Twenty-five Dollars And To Provide A Minimum Criminal Penalty Of A Fine Of Not Less Than Fifty Dollars; To Provide That A Person Smoking In A Restaurant, Bar, Or Lounge Must Be Asked To Extinguish All Lighted Tobacco Products And If The Person Refuses To Do So, The Person Must Be Asked To Leave The Premises; To Prohibit A Person Or Employer From Retaliating Against Another Person Or An Employee Or Customer For Filing A Complaint For Or Seeking Prosecution Of A Violation Of This Chapter; And To Provide That The Clean Indoor Air Act Must Not Be Construed To Permit Smoking Where It Is Otherwise Prohibited By Regulation Of A State Or Local Agency, Including A Local Ordinance.