Organ Transplants; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt by rule specified minimum standards for certain organ transplants; providing that hospitals that do not meet these standards by, or begin organ transplant programs after, a specified date have 3 years to meet such standards and must maintain them thereafter, etc.
Public Records and Meetings/Department of Health or the Board of Physical Therapy; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Health or the Board of Physical Therapy pursuant to the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact; authorizing disclosure of exempt information under certain circumstances; providing an exemption from public records requirements for recordings, minutes, and records generated during the closed portion of such meetings; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Dental Payments under Health Insurance Plans; Prohibiting certain restrictions on payment methods by individual health insurers to dentists; providing requirements if certain payment methods are initiated or changed; prohibiting fees for payment transmittals; requiring enforcement by the Financial Services Commission; prohibiting insurers from denying certain claims submitted by dentists except under specified circumstances; revising the definition of the term “covered services”, etc.
Public Records/Reports of County or Municipal Code Violations; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying and location information of persons reporting a potential violation of a county or municipal code or ordinance; providing for retroactive application; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption, etc.
Physical Therapy Licensure Compact; Creating the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact; specifying requirements for state participation in the compact; authorizing member states to obtain biometric-based information from and conduct criminal background checks on licensees applying for a compact privilege; specifying circumstances under which licensees are ineligible for a compact privilege; establishing the Physical Therapy Compact Commission; providing for implementation and administration of the compact and associated rules, etc.
Growing Teachers from Within Pilot Program; Creating the pilot program within the Department of Education, contingent upon legislative appropriation; requiring school districts to apply to the department by a specified date in order to participate in the pilot program; requiring the Commissioner of Education to select participating school districts based on specified criteria to participate in the pilot program; specifying eligibility requirements for participation by school employees in the pilot program, etc.
Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Providing that posttraumatic stress disorder suffered by a 911 public safety telecommunicator or crime scene investigator is a compensable occupational disease under certain circumstances; specifying that benefits do not require a physical injury and are not subject to certain apportionment or limitations; requiring certain employing agencies to provide specified mental health training, etc.
Issuance and Renewal of Permanent Disabled Parking Permits; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue a permanent disabled parking permit to a person who has a long-term mobility impairment; removing provisions that require such a person to renew a disabled parking permit and that require such permit to bear a validation sticker; revising provisions relating to the appearance of disabled parking permits, etc.
Coverage for Skin Cancer Screenings; Requiring individual health insurance policies; group, blanket, and franchise health insurance policies; and health maintenance contracts, respectively, to provide coverage and payment for annual skin cancer screenings performed by a licensed dermatologist without imposing any cost-sharing requirement; specifying a requirement for and a restriction on payments for such screenings, etc.
Food Recovery; Directing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, subject to legislative appropriation, to implement a pilot program to provide incentives to agricultural companies to sell fresh food products to food recovery entities; authorizing food recovery entities to negotiate the price for fresh food products and reimburse agricultural companies for certain costs; providing shipping requirements; requiring the department to reimburse food recovery entities for certain costs, etc.
