Directs the commissioner of health to evaluate existing needs assessment tools and develop additional professionally and statistically valid assessment tools to be used to assist in determining the amount, nature and manner of services and care needs of individuals receiving medical assistance and care.
Sen. Gustavo Rivera
Sponsored bills
Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants to eligible applicants to provide certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions or diseases.
Establishes a pilot project for placement of inmates close to home; provides that such project would house inmates who are parents of minor children in the correctional facility located in closest proximity to the primary place of residence of any such inmate's minor child or children.
Relates to campaign contributions by intermediaries.
Provides for clarification of the disposition of human remains.
Extends the preferred drug program to medicaid managed care providers and offers the program to other health plans.
Establishes an age-appropriate sex education grant program through the department of health conducted by an eligible applicant; authorizes the commissioner to determine certain topics of instruction and makes provisions for the application of grants.
Relates to replacing all instances of the words or variations of the words inmate or inmates with the words incarcerated individual or incarcerated individuals or variation thereof.
Relates to applications for major capital improvement rent increases; requires owners to submit copies of all permits with their applications for major capital improvement rent increases; denies applications if permits are fraudulent or not included.
Requires the department of health, the state emergency medical services council and the regional emergency medical services council to update their policies, procedures, and protocols for prehospital emergency medical care and transportation related to the assessment, treatment and transport of stroke patients by a provider of an emergency medical service or an ambulance service.