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RIAFP 2008 Legislative
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| 2018 |
BY Tassoni, McBurney, Doyle,
Felag |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIANS |
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(would grant physicians immunity from ordinary negligence when
they offer free care in free clinics for the poor) |
| 2114 |
BY Cote |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO COURTS
AND CIVIL PROCEDURE |
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(reduce the interest percentage to be added in civil actions from twelve
percent (12%) to six percent (6%) |
| 2169 |
BY Miller |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH
AND SAFETY -- PROHIBITING PERSONS FROM ENTERING AND REMAINING ON PUBLIC WAYS
OR SIDEWALKS WITHIN A 100 FOOT RADIUS OF A REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE FACILITY |
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(criminal penalty/civil remedy/person enters/remains/public way or
sidewalk adjacent to a reproductive health care facility/knowingly obstructs,
detains, hinders, impedes/blocks/person’s entrance to/exit from a
reproductive health care facility) |
| 2189 |
BY Perry, Sosnowski, Miller,
Levesque C, Goodwin |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
INSURANCE -- COVERAGE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE |
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(specify that reimbursement for professional providers for mental illness
coverage shall be comparable to the amount paid for similar medical services) |
| 2204 |
BY Perry, Sosnowski, Miller,
Levesque C, Pichardo |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC
RELATIONS -- PERSONS ELIGIBLE TO MARRY |
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(broaden the definition of persons eligible to marry to include persons
of the same gender/this act would also provide that members of the clergy
would not be required to officiate at any particular marriage) |
| 2220 |
BY Pichardo, Perry, Ciccone,
Metts, Miller |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO STATE
AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE |
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(provide health insurance coverage to U.S. permanent resident children
and parents/also provide benefits to children ineligible for federal medical
assistance due to citizenship or alienage requirements) |
| 2224 |
BY Tassoni, Doyle, McBurney |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH
AND SAFETY |
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(define a mobile health screening vehicle and would provide that such
vehicles would be deemed to be health care facilities) |
| 2225 |
BY Miller, Pichardo, Levesque
C, Perry, Issa |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
INSURANCE - HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR DEPENDENTS |
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(health care coverage terminating for a dependent at a specified age give
the insured the opportunity to continue coverage/he or she is under age
thirty/no dependents of his or her own provided an additional premium may be
charged) |
| 2279 |
BY Blais |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
INSURANCE |
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(create an independent committee to review the cost-effectiveness,
medical efficacy and social need for mandated health insurance benefits) |
| 2237 |
BY Pichardo, Metts |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL
PROCEDURE - IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE IN CRIME FIGHTING |
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(establish the Immigrant Assistance in Crime Fighting Act to promote
safety and health of all residents/immigrants will report violations of state
and local law) |
| 2278 |
BY Blais |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND
DRUGS - CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES - PRESCRIPTIONS |
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(eliminate the limitation that prescriptions for schedule II controlled
substances be submitted for up to a maximum of a 30 day supply and a maximum
of 250 dosage units) |
| 2283 |
BY Perry, Moura, Sosnowski,
Gallo, Pichardo |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH
AND SAFETY - BREASTFEEDING - PROMOTES THE INTERESTS OF MATERNAL AND CHILD
HEALTH |
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(allow a woman to feed her child by bottle or breast in any place open to
the public and would allow her a private cause of action for denial of this
right) |
| 2286 |
BY Sheehan, Perry, Sosnowski,
Paiva-Weed, Walaska |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
INSURANCE -- HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET EXPANSION |
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(establish a regional health insurance market between Rhode Island,
Massachusetts and Connecticut) |
| 2356 |
BY Perry, Gallo, Pichardo,
Miller, Levesque C |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION
-- CIGARETTE TAX |
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(prohibit licensing of a facility that maintains a health care facility
and a pharmacy at the same location) |
| 2380 |
BY Gibbs |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH
AND SAFETY -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH |
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(authorize the director of health to grant temporary Rhode Island
licenses to health care providers licensed in other state in the event of a
public health emergency) |
| 2384 |
BY Gallo |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
EDUCATION |
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(establish a state-administered program for the forgiveness of retention
loans on behalf of physicians) |
| 2547 |
BY Levesque C, Gallo |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIANS ASSISTANTS |
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(remove the allowance for “graduate practice” status for physician
assistants/grant immunity from liability for gratuitous emergency assistance
to state - licensed and |
| 2809 |
BY Sosnowski, Perry, Miller,
Sheehan, Gibbs |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC
OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES - - INSURANCE BENEFITS |
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(would require that any health care plan provided to state employees must
require the employees to designate a primary care physician, it would include
a healthy Rhode Island chronic care management program) |
| 7308 |
BY Petrarca, Corvese, Palumbo,
Dennigan |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIANS |
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(grant physicians immunity from ordinary negligence when they offer free
care in free clinics for the poor) |
| 7360 |
BY Handy |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH
AND SAFETY -- PROHIBITING PERSONS FROM ENTERING AND REMAINING ON PUBLIC WAYS
OR SIDEWALKS WITHIN A 100 FOOT RADIUS OF A REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE FACILITY |
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(criminal penalty/civil remedy/person who enters or remains on a public
way or sidewalk adjacent to a reproductive health care facility/bstructs,
detains, hinders, impedes or blocks entrance to or exit from a reproductive
health care facility) |
| 7464 |
BY McNamara, Corvese, Malik,
Lewiss, Naughton |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH
AND SAFETY |
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(define a mobile health screening vehicle and would provide that such
vehicles would be deemed to be health care facilities) |
| 7468 |
BY Ferri, Almeida,
Baldelli-Hunt, Giannini,
Mattiello |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIANS ASSISTANTS |
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(remove the allowance for graduate practice status for physician
assistants/grant immunity from liability for gratuitous emergency assistance
to state- licensed and federally-credentialed physician assistants) |
| 7493 |
BY Ferri, Lewiss,
Baldelli-Hunt, Malik,
Winfield |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
INSURANCE -- HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET EXPANSION |
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(establish a regional health insurance market between Rhode Island,
Massachusetts and Connecticut) |
| 7508 |
BY Lewiss, Kennedy, Coderre E,
McNamara, Shanley |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
INSURANCE |
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(provide that health providers, when treating a non-resident, be
reimbursed at a rate which is the greater of the rate established by the
health insurer in Rhode Island or by health insurers in the state of the
non-resident) |
| 7530 |
BY Ajello, Segal, Handy,
Dennigan, Ferri |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO
EDUCATION |
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(establish a state-administered program for the forgiveness of retention
loans on behalf of physicians) |
| 7570 |
BY McNamara |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND
DRUG -- UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT |
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(would void schedule II prescriptions not dispersed with 90 days and
schedule III, IV and V within 180 days. It would further eliminate certain
monthly supply limits) |
| 7676 |
BY Lewiss, Dennigan, Church,
Gablinske, McNamara |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO TAXATION
-- CIGARETTE TAX |
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(prohibit licensing of a facility that maintains a health care facility
and a pharmacy at the same location) |
| 7920 |
BY Naughton |
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL
ASSISTANCE -- COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS -- CARE FOR UNINSURED |
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(provide funds to community health centers to enable them to continue to
deliver primary care services to the uninsured) |
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