RIAFP 2008 Legislative Agenda
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2018 BY  Tassoni, McBurney, Doyle, Felag ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- PHYSICIANS
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(provide funds to community health centers to enable them to continue to deliver primary care services to the uninsured)