Sen. Gayle Harrell

Step-therapy Protocols; Revising the circumstances under which step-therapy protocols may not be required; requiring health insurers to publish on their websites and provide to their insureds specified information; requiring health maintenance organizations to publish on their websites and provide to their subscribers specified information; providing requirements for procedures for requests and appeals of denials of protocol exemptions, etc.

Commercial Motor Vehicle Registration; Providing for future expiration of a provision relating to vehicles with apportioned registrations; providing, beginning on a specified date, license plate and cab card requirements for vehicles registered in accordance with the International Registration Plan; specifying the fee for an original or renewal cab card and the trust fund where the fee is deposited; providing for the replacement at no charge of damaged or worn license plates, etc.

Mental Health of Students; Revising data the Department of Children and Families is required to analyze when creating its annual report on the initiation of certain involuntary examinations; requiring charter schools to be in compliance with laws relating to reporting involuntary examinations; requiring the Department of Education, by a specified date, to share with the Department of Children and Families data received from school districts relating to involuntary examinations; revising requirements for plans relating to mental health assistance allocations, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/98 Points of Light Road; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Traveling Across County Lines to Commit a Burglary; Deleting a requirement that travel across county lines be for a specified purpose in order to reclassify a burglary offense, etc.

Living Organ Donors in Insurance Policies; Prohibiting insurers under specified policies from declining or limiting coverages and discriminating against persons based solely on their status as living organ donors, and from precluding insureds from donating organs; authorizing the Financial Services Commission to adopt rules and take actions to enforce specified laws, etc.

Recognizing Veteran Suicide; Urging Congress to recognize the epidemic of suicide among veterans and to fully fund suicide prevention efforts of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, etc.

Traveling Across County Lines with Intent to Commit a Felony; Defining the term “felony offense”; providing for reclassification of certain felony offenses when the person who commits the offense crosses a county line with specified intent; removing the requirement for reclassification that an offender’s travel be for the purpose of thwarting law enforcement attempts to track stolen items, etc.

Department of Transportation; Repealing a provision relating to applications for funding for technical assistance relating to areas in and around a proposed multiuse corridor interchange; clarifying that the Department of Revenue is responsible for a certain transfer from the State Treasury to the General Revenue Fund of a portion of documentary stamp tax distributions credited to the State Transportation Trust Fund; revising a limitation on an annual transfer from the State Transportation Trust Fund to the Right-of-Way Acquisition and Bridge Construction Trust Fund; requiring drivers to change lanes when approaching a road and bridge maintenance or construction vehicle displaying warning lights on the roadside without advance signs and channelizing devices; deleting a requirement that the department provide space and video conference capability at each of the department’s district offices as an alternative to physical appearance by a person requesting a hearing before the Commercial Motor Vehicle Review Board within the department, etc.

Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; Revising regulations applicable to owners and drivers of commercial motor vehicles; revising the length of time within which an officer is authorized to give written notice requiring correction of an unduly hazardous operating condition; providing that owners and drivers of nonpublic sector buses operated on public highways of this state are subject to specified provisions of law; authorizing the department to conduct investigations and examinations of department-authorized private rebuilt inspection providers, etc.