2018 Legislative Updates
DMH Legislative Wrap-up 2018
2018 Legislative Session will begin on January 3, 2018.
Below is a list of some of the bills tracked by DMH during the regular session.
DMH Legislative Briefing 2018
Additional information on legislation as well as members of the General Assembly can be found on the House and Senate websites:
Senate
House
2018 Legislative Session will begin on January 3, 2018.
Below is a list of some of the bills tracked by DMH during the regular session.
DMH Legislative Briefing 2018
Additional information on legislation as well as members of the General Assembly can be found on the House and Senate websites:
Senate
House
2018
Bill Number | Sponsor | Description |
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SB 638 | Sater | Extends the sunset on certain healthcare provider reimbursement allowance taxes. |
SB 660 | Riddle | Modifies the law relating to working hours for employees at certain mental health facilities. |
SB 661 | 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 693 | Wallingford | Modifies procedures in guardianship and conservator proceedings for incapacitated or disabled persons. |
SB 699 | Sifton | Creates the MO HealthNet Buy-In for Workers with Disabilities program. |
SB 733 | Sifton | Establishes the Psychology Inter-jurisdictional Compact. |
SB 737 | Schupp | Establishes the Narcotics Control Act. |
SB 762 | Schatz | Establishes the Narcotics Control Act. |
SB 775 | Brown | Extends the sunset on certain healthcare provider reimbursement allowance taxes. |
SB 785 | Nasheed | Creates provisions relating to student mental health at public institutions of higher education. |
SB 791 | Nasheed | Provides that knowingly inciting another to commit suicide is involuntary manslaughter in the second degree. |
SB 796 | Koenig | Modifies provisions relating to the education requirements for the licensure of psychologists. |
SB 806 | Crawford | Modifies various provisions regarding guardianship and conservator proceedings. |
SB 825 | Sater | Modifies provisions relating to limitations on prescribing opioids. |
SB 846 | Schupp | Requires certain health care professionals to complete two hours of suicide prevention training as a condition of initial licensure and as a condition of license renewal. |
SB 932 | Sater | Extends the sunset on certain healthcare provider reimbursement allowance taxes. |
SB 948 | Sater | Requires certain MO HealthNet participants to comply with work and community engagement requirements. |
SB 966 | Rowden | Modifies provisions relating to the administration of the criminal justice system. |
SRB 975 | Dixon | Repeals expired, ineffective, and obsolete statutory provisions. |
SB 1004 | Schupp | Creates the Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Board. |
SB 1033 | Riddle | Establishes procedures for requesting termination of custody for person in the care of the state. |
SB 1081 | Rizzo | Provides a procedure by which a defendant may be found to be not eligible for the death penalty due to serious mental illness. |
SB 1083 | Walsh | Permits the Department of Mental Health to enter into certain contracts. |
SB 1094 | Hoskins | Modifies provisions relating to complaints against psychologists. |
SB 1095 | Hoskins | Modifies provisions relating to Department of Mental Health inspections. |
SB 1098 | Sater | Modifies provisions of law relating to insurance coverage for mental health conditions. |
Bill Number | Sponsor | Description |
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HB 1350 | Smith | Modifies provisions relating to background check requirements of in-home service providers and personal care attendants. |
HB 1405 | DeGroot | Modifies provisions relating to financial interests of minors. |
HB 1253 | Schroer | Establishes the Joint Committee on Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment. |
HB 1363 | Kidd | Requires teachers and principals to complete two hours of suicide prevention education each school year. |
HB 1375 | Ruth | Designates June 27 of each year as "Post Traumatic Stress Awareness Day" in Missouri. |
HCB 15 | Frederick | Modifies provisions relating to opioids. |
HB 1241 | Lavender | Changes the laws regarding the management of certain state revenues by sweeping certain funds and lowering the senior property tax credit maximum. |
HB 1248 | Pike | Adds powdered alcohol to provisions relating to intoxicating liquor. |
HB 1369 | Sommer | Revises the definition of "service dog" to include animals that provide support or therapeutic functions for individuals with psychiatric or mental disabilities. |
HB 1410 | Fitzpatrick | Extends the expiration date on various federal reimbursement allowances for two years. |
HB 1419 | Haefner | Requires certain health care professionals to complete two hours of suicide prevention training as a condition of licensure. |
HB 1429 | Muntzel | Authorizes a tax credit for donations to a homeless shelter. |
HB 1451 | May | Prohibits the use of electroconvulsive therapy on children under 16 years of age. |
HB 1468 | Stevens | Extends benefits for pregnant women under the MO HealthNet program and Show Me Healthy Babies program to one year after giving birth. |
HB 1527 | Walker | Establishes the Mo HealthNet Buy-In for Workers with Disabilities Program. |
HB 1553 | Neely | Modifies provisions relating to guardianship and conservatorship proceedings. |
HB 1572 | Rowland | Modifies provisions relating to driver's licenses for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. |
HB 1574 | Rowland | Modifies provisions relating to advanced practice registered nurses in collaborative practice arrangements. |
HB 1612 | Kelley | Specifies that a ward's income is separate from a guardian's income and that a ward's income is not to be included in the calculation of a guardian's income. |
HB 1616 | Walker | Provides substance abuse treatment to postpartum women for one year after birth under the Show-Me Healthy Babies program. |
HB 1617 | Barnes | Modifies provisions relating to telehealth. |
HB 1619 | Rehder | Establishes the Narcotics Control Act. |
HB 1627 | Evans | Establishes protections for pregnant offenders and offenders who are in postpartum recovery while in custody at a correctional center or county or city jail. |
HB 1658 | Basye | Changes the laws regarding health care for persons with disabilities. |
HB 1689 | Kelley | Modifies provisions relating to the appointment of a successor guardian or conservator. |
HB 1698 | Washington | Designates July as Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. |
HB 1707 | Green | Changes the laws regarding notice requirements for when a patient is admitted to a mental health facility. |
HB 1740 | Wessels | Establishes the Narcotics Control Act. |
HB 1747 | Wood | Extends the expiration date on various federal reimbursement allowances. |
HB 1875 | Taylor | Creates the crime of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree if a person knowingly misuses a narcotic drug while pregnant. |
HB 1896 | Swan | Establishes the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. |
HB 1970 | Fitzwater | 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. |
HB 1981 | Gray | Specifies that a state employee who works 10 hour days and 40 hours per week cannot be required to take two hours of vacation leave for paid holidays. |
HB 2069 | Rehder | Modifies provisions relating to the appointment of a guardian or conservator of an incapacitated person. |
HB 2098 | Meredith | Repeals statutory provisions relating to the Missouri Children's Services Commission. |
HB 2101 | Beard | Specifies that guardian ad litem fees shall not be automatically waived in certain civil actions. |
HB 2105 | Frederick | Modifies provisions relating to opioids. |
HB 2106 | Frederick | Establishes the "Patients First Medicaid Reform Act." |
HB 2120 | Barnes | Expands MO HealthNet benefits for pregnant women to provide substance abuse treatment for up to two years after giving birth. |
HB 2127 | Frederick | Modifies provisions relating to assistant physicians. |
HB 2130 | Unsicker | Requires state agencies to support competitive integrated employment for persons with disabilities. |
HB 2141 | McCreery | Prohibits mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy or sexual orientation change efforts with minors. |
HB 2164 | Rehder | Modifies provisions relating to referrals of children who may have been exposed to controlled substances. |
HB 2199 | Neely | Changes the laws regarding managed care under the MO HealthNet program. |
HB 2205 | Helms | Allows licensed professional counselors to be reimbursed for mental health services provided to eligible adults under MO HealthNet. |
HB 2209 | Barnes | Establishes a Prescription Abuse Registry. |
HB 2217 | Walker | Establishes the "Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Board." |
HB 2229 | Ross | Prohibits the use of public funds for lobbying purposes. |
HB 2233 | Ross | Modifies provisions of law relating to advanced practice registered nurses who provide behavioral health care services. |
HB 2238 | Mathews | Establishes the "Social Innovation Grant Program" to find alternative solutions for serving the state's vulnerable populations. |
HB 2280 | Haefner | Expands MO HealthNet benefits for pregnant women to provide substance abuse treatment for up to one year after giving birth. |
HB 2295 | Helms | Allows certain physician assistants and assistant physicians who are licensed under chapter 334 to provide psychiatric treatment to certain mental health patients. |
HB 2338 | Ellebracht | Specifies that guardian ad litem fees shall not be automatically waived in certain civil actions. |
HB 2354 | Frederick | Requires the department of higher education to promulgate rules establishing the Coordinating Board for Mental Health Issues in Higher Education. |
HB 2381 | Sommer | Designates May as Mental Health Awareness month. |
HB 2384 | Barnes | Changes provisions for mental health care coverage. |
HB 2433 | Washington | Requires long-term care facilities to have on staff one person trained in suicide assessment, treatment, and management. |
HB 2471 | Mitten | Requires legislative lobbyists and legislative liaisons to complete sexual harassment training offered by the Missouri Ethics Commission. |
HB 2490 | Kelly | Changes provisions relating to advanced practice registered nurses. |
HB 2509 | Hannegan | Provides that a person cannot be sentenced to death if he or she raises the issue that he or she suffered from a serious mental illness at the time of the commission of the offense. |
HB 2567 | Sommer | Creates new provisions related to security measures for public schools. |
HB 2611 | Smith | Modifies provisions relating to inspections of residential treatment facilities and day programs by the Department of Mental Health. |
HB 2636 | Reiboldt | Modifies provisions relating to criminal proceedings involving persons lacking mental capacity. |
HB 2674 | Rehder | Changes the laws regarding unlawful actions by persons knowingly infected with communicable diseases. |
HB 2675 | McCreery | Changes the laws regarding unlawful actions by persons knowingly infected with communicable diseases. |
HB 2709 | Swan | Modifies provisions relating to prisoner complaints made against a psychologist license. |
HB 2716 | Hurst | Modifies provisions relating to the Department of Mental Health obtaining medical insurance information of individuals. |