BILLS WE'RE SUPPORTING
This 'Keeping Kids Covered' bill would provide 12- month continuous eligibility for kids on Medicaid, and would address other potential barriers to coverage for children by allowing automatic CHIP premiums and chartering a study on Utah’s kids churn issue.
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Ranked #14 on Social Service Appropriations Ongoing Priority List and #18 on the one-time list
Fiscal Note Available
House Rules Committee
Directs the Utah Department of Health, or third party firm, to analyze All Payer Claims Database (APCD) and report yearly on wasteful spending in Utah.
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Ranked #48 on Social Service Appropriations Ongoing Priority List
House/ Passed 3rd Reading
Senate Rules Committee
This bill creates an incentive for health benefit plans to reduce the required copayments for insulin. As well as increasing the number of days for which an insulin prescription can be refilled, increasing the length of time an insulin prescription can last, and increases the number of professions that can be licensed to prescribe insulin.
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Bill was heard in House HHS committee - held pending revisions,
should be back next week
Directs the Utah Department of Health to apply for a waiver allow inmates with substance use disorder to apply for and receive Medicaid benefits up to 30 days before release from a correctional facility. Creates a substance use and mental health tele-health pilot program to be conducted in one or more county jails, and tax refund for qualifying clinicians providing care for incarcerated individuals.
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Ranked #34 on Social Service Appropriations Ongoing Priority List and #11 on the one-time list
House/ Passed 3rd Reading
Senate/ Business and Labor Committee Passed
Senate 2nd Reading
Expanded crisis services including expanded mobile crisis outreach statewide, receiving center pilot program, and statewide warm line.
*This was substituted in committee to remove the IMD waiver provision. UHPP is now supporting, rather than watching this bill.
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Ranked #25, 26 and 42 on Social Service Appropriations Ongoing Priority List and #5 on the one-time list
House HHS / Unanimous Favorable Recommendation
House/ 3rd Reading
Modifies and enacts provisions related to mental health treatment access. Gives recom
mendations on the need for more adult beds at the Utah State Hospital. Outlines the responsibilities of assertive community outreach treatment teams (ACT teams) and requests a grant to develop ACT teams.
The third substitute version also creates a Utah Substance Use and Advisory Council within the Governor's office.
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Ranked #40 on Social Service Appropriations Ongoing Priority List
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ouse/ Passed 3rd Reading
Senate Rules Committee
This bill amends the definition of telemedicine services; clarifies the scope of telehealth practice; and requires certain health benefit plans to provide coverage parity and commercially reasonable reimbursement for telehealth services and telemedicine services.
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House Rules Committee
Provides funding appropriated by the Legislature for a professional education scholarships and loan repayment assistance to health care professionals who locate or continue to practice in underserved areas; and loan repayment assistance to geriatric professionals who locate or continue to underserved areas.
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House Passed 3rd Reading
Senate/ Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
Adds dental education programs to the list of training programs in the rural residency training program.
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Senate/ Passed 3rd Reading
House/ Passed 3rd Reading
Extends the repeal date for the Children's Hearing Aid Program.
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House/ Passed 3rd Reading
Senate HHS - Favorable Recommendation
Senate/ 3rd Reading
This concurrent resolution urges the United States Congress to address escalating prescription drug prices.
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House HHS - Favorable Recommendation
House/ Passed 3rd Reading
Senate Rules Committee
Removes the provision that allows a minor to tan with a parent's consent. Directs the department to post warning signs that are consistent with this bill.
The substitute version that passed the House maintains the physician consent provision.
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House/ Circled
House/ Passed 3rd Reading
Senate Rules Committee
This bill requires the Division of Health Care Financing to apply for a Medicaid waiver or a state plan amendment to extend family planning services to certain low-income individuals; and extends the sunset date for the current reporting requirement.
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BILLS WE’RE WATCHING
Implements more transparency measures on PBMs.
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House HHS
Works to create the Adult Autism Treatment Account to allocate more money for this specific budgeting.
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House HHS/ Passed
House/ Passed 3rd Reading
This bill amends the definition of unprofessional conduct for prescribing health care professionals and pharmacists.
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House/ Passed 3rd Reading
Senate/ Passed 3rd Reading
This bill enacts provisions related to the price of insulin. This bill places a cap on the copayment an insurance company can require for an insulin to 100$ per 30 days supply as of January 1, 2021.
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House Rules Committee
This bill requires a health benefit plan to cover in-vitro fertilization if it provides a maternity benefit.
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House Business and Labor Committee
Amends provisions relating to the allocation of new appropriations to the Division of Services for People with Disabilities
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Senate HHS/ Passed
Senate/ Passed 3rd Reading
House Rules Committee
This bill subjects to certain requirements, allows a parent or a parent's designee to safely relinquish a newborn child within 30 days after the day on which the child is born.
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House HHS/ Passed
House/ Passed 3rd Reading
Senate Rules Committee
This bill supplements or reduces appropriations otherwise provided for the support and operation of state government for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019 and ending June 30, 2020 and appropriates funds for the support and operation of state government for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2021.
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House/ Passed 3rd Reading
Senate/ Passed 3rd Reading
