Health and Human Services

Establish requirements and liability protection for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses serving on ambulance crews.

Modify requirements for ambulance operators.

Revise provisions related to the practice of addiction counseling and prevention services.

Require that the Department of Social Services submit a federal waiver request to exclude soft drinks from the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Revise the medical purpose affirmative defense in cannabis prosecution.

Reschedule the pharmaceutical composition of crystalline polymorph psilocybin in a drug product approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a Schedule IV controlled substance.

Revise the application requirements for special license plates and parking permits for individuals with disabilities.

Require the licensure of non-medical home care agencies, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Authorize the possession and self-administration of diabetes medications by a student on school property and at school-related events and activities.

Adopt the physician assistant licensure compact.

Adopt the respiratory care interstate compact.

Adopt the athletic trainer licensure compact.

Classify medetomidine as a Schedule III controlled substance and establish permissible uses.

Address prior authorization and reporting requirements by utilization review organizations and health carriers.

Regulate the sale of nicotine products, and to provide a penalty therefor.

Revise the types of community-based providers for purposes of state funded services.

Limit the ability of a health carrier to recoup, recover, or retroactively deny previously paid claims.

Permit the use of biological filtration systems in water recreational facilities located in certain lodging establishments.

Require education in prenatal human growth and development.

Require the reimbursement of therapy using equine movement through the state medicaid program.

Modify provisions related to the practice of pharmacy.

Require that the Department of Health annually report on public health effects of cannabis use.

Create the Developmental Disability Service Delivery Committee.

Prohibit certain restrictions in employment contracts for community services providers.

Place requirements on the use of artificial intelligence systems by health carriers in making determinations about the provision of health care services.

Cause the repeal of the medical cannabis chapter upon the federal re-scheduling of cannabis.

Limit the potency of cannabis products sold at medical cannabis dispensaries.

Prohibit certain billing practices by ambulance service providers and establish reimbursement standards for out-of-network emergency medical services.

Ban hemp-derived intoxicants not for medical purposes.

Ban kratom and kratom products and to provide a penalty therefor.

Prohibit the sale of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol products to individuals under the age of twenty-one.

Clarify and establish requirements related to forensic medical examinations.

Create a task force to study the provision of emergency medical services as an essential service and the funding thereof.

Expand the information required to be sent to the prescription drug monitoring program for each registry identification card holder.