2016 Legislative Updates
The 2016 Legislative Session began January 6. Below are some of the bills of interest to DMH.
Additional information on legislation as well as members of the General Assembly can be found on the House and Senate web sites:
Senate
House
Additional information on legislation as well as members of the General Assembly can be found on the House and Senate web sites:
Senate
House
2016
| Bill Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SJR 29 | Holsman | Creates a right to access medical marijuana. |
| SCR 49 | Nasheed | Designates May as Mental Health Awareness Month. |
| SCR 50 | Nasheed | Designates the month of September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. |
| SCR 60 | Curls | Urges a commitment to equal rights for people with cognitive disabilities to access technology and information. |
| SB 607 | Sater | Requires the Department of Social Services to contract with a third party to verify eligibility for public assistance programs. |
| SB 608 | Sater | Authorizes certain MO HealthNet health care provider fees. |
| SB 627 | Nasheed | Requires each public institution of higher education to develop and implement a policy to advise students and staff on available suicide prevention programs. |
| SB 646 | Schupp | Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop training guidelines and school districts to adopt a policy for youth suicide awareness and prevention education. |
| SB 688 | Romine | Establishes the Joint Committee on Public Assistance. |
| SB 724 | Nasheed | Prohibits employers from inquiring into or considering the criminal records of applicants before offering a conditional offer of employment. |
| SB 761 | Chappell-Nadal | Exempts marijuana from certain forfeiture provisions relating to controlled substances. |
| SB 762 | Chappell-Nadal | Allows a person to possess up to one ounce of marijuana and provides a licensure process for retail marijuana stores, cultivation facilities, and products manufacturers. |
| SB 768 | Schaaf | Establishes a Prescription Drug Monitoring Act. |
| SB 813 | Brown | Allows pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to sell and dispense opioid antagonists |
| SB 854 | Brown | Establishes the Joint Committee on Public Assistance. |
| SB 895 | Hegeman | Modifies provisions relating to tax increment financing, emergency service providers, and board members of fire protection and ambulance districts. |
| SB 986 | Brown | Authorizes the conveyance of certain state properties. |
| SB 1055 | Riddle | Authorizes legal counsel for the Department of Mental Health to have standing in certain hearings involving a person unable to stand trial due to lack of mental fitness. |
| SB 1056 | Riddle | Allows physician assistants to determine the necessity of physical or chemical restraint of a patient in a mental health facility or program. |
| SB 1076 | Parson | Modifies certificate of need requirements for long-term care facilities. |
| SB 1080 | Schaefer | Extends the sunset on certain healthcare provider reimbursement allowance taxes |
| SB 1083 | Wallingford | Modifies procedures in guardianship proceedings for incapacitated persons |
| SB 1084 | Pearce | Establishes an Early Learning Quality Assurance Report pilot program |
| SB 1133 | Sifton | Prohibits discrimination between certain types of mental health professionals |
| Bill Number | Sponsor | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HJR 57 | Ellington | Proposes a constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana for persons 21 years of age or older. |
| HB 1368 | Hubrecht | Committee to examine schools for severely disabled. |
| HB 1428 | Sommer | Revises the definition of "service dog" to include animals that provide support or therapeutic functions for individuals with psychiatric or mental disabilities. |
| HB 1432 | Vescovo | Requires a hearing to be held within 30 days if a state employee is placed on administrative leave. |
| HB 1512 | Ellington | Specifies that a person applying for state employment, public assistance, or state housing assistance cannot be required to disclose any prior nonviolent felony plea or conviction with certain exceptions. |
| HB 1524 | Ellington | Allows marijuana convictions to be expunged for certain persons contingent upon the passage of a constitutional amendment or other statutory enactment legalizing marijuana. |
| HB 1534 | Flanigan | Extends the expiration date on various federal reimbursement allowances for two years. |
| HB 1537 | Adams | Establishes the Missouri Universal Health Assurance Program to provide a publicly financed, statewide insurance program for all residents of the state. |
| HB 1545 | Fitzwater | Prohibits the MO HealthNet Division from discriminating between a licensed marital therapist and family therapist and a licensed professional counselor when establishing rules for payment of services. |
| HB 1546 | Lauer | Establishes policies and training for youth suicide awareness and prevention in schools. |
| HB 1565 | Engler | Raises the MO HealthNet asset limits for disabled persons. |
| HB 1568 | Lynch | Allows physicians to prescribe naloxone to any individual to administer, in good faith, to another individual suffering from an opiate-induced drug overdose. |
| HB 1569 | Lynch | Provides certain immunities for persons who seek medical assistance for a drug or alcohol overdose. |
| HB 1570 | Lynch | Authorizes a $5 surcharge for drug-related offense cases to fund drug rehabilitative programs. |
| HB 1619 | McCaherty | Establishes a two-year statute of limitations for actions against a mental health professional for malpractice, negligence, error, or mistake. |
| HB 1620 | Kelley | Modifies provisions relating to family law proceedings. |
| HB 1656 | Dunn | Requires training in suicide awareness and prevention for public school teachers. |
| HB 1658 | Frederick | Establishes the Show-Me Compassionate Medical Education Act. |
| HB 1753 | Bahr | Allows structured family caregiving as a covered service under MO HealthNet, subject to the approval of federal waivers. |
| HB 1789 | Rone | Changes the laws regarding public administrators to require the county to provide a staff if the public administrator handles at least fifty cases. |
| HB 1831 | McGaugh | Allows for the inclusion of respite in the orders for the management of the estate of protectees and dependents for purposes of guardianships. |
| HB 1869 | Kratky | Specifies that any person who causes substantial physical injury or death to a service dog must be ordered to fully compensate for the injury, loss, or replacement of the service dog. |
| HB 1892 | Rehder | Establishes the Narcotics Control Act. |
| HB 1923 | Barnes | Changes the laws regarding the provision of telehealth services. |
| HB 2090 | Chipman | Specifies that public administrators shall not be required to disclose their personal financial information in order to serve as guardian or conservator. |
| HB 2128 | Hurst | Abolishes the doctrine of adverse possession in Missouri. |
| HB 2135 | Rhoads | Modifies provisions relating to emergency medical services. |
| HB 2207 | Curtis | Changes the laws regarding youth. |
| HB 2309 | Green | Changes the laws regarding notice requirements for when a patient is admitted to a mental health facility. |
| HB 2365 | Rhoads | Prohibits a peer support group counselor from testifying as to any confidential communication properly entrusted to the counselor by law enforcement personnel while receiving counseling |
| HB 2407 | Allen | Transfers and restructures the duties and powers of the Department of Health and Senior Services to the Department of Social Services, Department of Mental Health and Health, and the Department of MO Healthnet. |
| HB 2413 | Hill | Requires any physician who chooses to report a patient's unstable mental capacity to possess a firearm to the federal government to also notify the county sheriff. |
| HB 2564 | Monticello | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to establish a trauma-informed schools pilot program. |
| HB 2565 | Monticello | Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to establish a trauma-informed schools initiative. |
| HB 2566 | Pfautsch | Establishes the early learning quality assurance report pilot program |
| HB 2570 | Hill | Changes the training requirements for child care providers and school teachers and staff regarding identifying signs of possible child abuse. |
| HB 2580 | Rehder | Changes the laws regarding the priority of persons to be appointed guardian of an incapacitated person or conservator of a disabled person. |
| HB 2697 | Morris | Establishes the Tricia Leann Tharp Act, which requires certain pharmacists to receive two hours of continuing education on suicide prevention |
| HB 2778 | Neely | Modifies provisions relating to guardianships within the Probate Code |