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Midwest Care Alliance Tracked Bills April 2013

HB3

HEALTH BENEFIT EXCHANGE (SEARS B, KUNZE S) To specify licensing and continuing education requirements for insurance agents involved in selling, soliciting, or negotiating sickness and accident insurance through a health benefit exchange.

 

Current Status:   

3/19/2013 - Referred to Committee Senate Insurance and Financial Institutions

 

Comments:   

None

 

State Bill Page:   

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=130_HB_3

 

 

 

HB21

VOTING PROCESS-HEALTH CARE ISOLATION ELECTOR (STEBELTON G) To establish a process to permit an elector who is confined to a health care facility under isolation to vote with the assistance of bipartisan board of elections employees.

 

Current Status:   

2/26/2013 - House Policy and Legislative Oversight, (First Hearing)

 

Comments:   

None

 

State Bill Page:   

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=130_HB_21

 

 

 

HB59

BIENNIAL BUDGET (AMSTUTZ R) To make operating appropriations for the biennium beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2015; to provide authorization and conditions for the operation of state programs.

 

Current Status:   

3/21/2013 - House Finance and Appropriations, (Seventh Hearing)

 

Comments:   

None

 

State Bill Page:   

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=130_HB_59

 

 

 

HB79

LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT WITHDRAW-WITHHOLD (BOOSE T) To provide that an individual's statutory priority to decide whether or not to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment for the individual's relative is forfeited if the individual is charged with felonious assault or aggravated assault resulting in the relative being in a terminal condition from the physical harm suffered.

 

Current Status:   

2/27/2013 - Referred to Committee House Judiciary

 

Comments:   

None

 

More Information:   

No link available

HB87

SEX OFFENDER NOTIFICATION-LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY (LETSON T, RETHERFORD W) To provide notice to a long-term care facility when a Tier III or similar category sex offender/child-victim offender indicates an intent to reside in the facility or registers an address within the specified geographical notification area including the facility.

 

Current Status:   

3/6/2013 - Referred to Committee House Judiciary

 

Comments:   

None

 

State Bill Page:   

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=130_HB_87

 

 

 

HB91

HEALTH CARE FREEDOM ACT (YOUNG R, THOMPSON A) To enact the Health Care Freedom Act.

 

Current Status:   

3/20/2013 - House Health and Aging, (First Hearing)

 

Comments:   

None

 

State Bill Page:   

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=130_HB_91

SB70

OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW (TAVARES C) To specify that discrimination by an employer against any person because of the person's credit history is an unlawful discriminatory practice under the Ohio Civil Rights Law.

 

Current Status:   

3/13/2013 - Referred to Committee Senate Commerce and Labor

 

Comments:   

None

 

State Bill Page:   

http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=130_SB_70

 

 

 

         

 

No Bills Introduced Since 3/22/2013c

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