Provides for clarification of the disposition of human remains. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Provides for additional remedies for patients' private right of actions in residential health care facilities; allows class actions by patients, patient's legal representative, or such patient's estate. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Relates to the appointment of a temporary operator or voluntary receiver of adult care facilities. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Relates to the distribution of funds to support the provision of general hospital indigent care. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Prohibits participation in torture and improper treatment of prisoners by health care professionals; prohibits a health care professional from engaging, assisting, planning the torture or improper treatment of a prisoner; requires health care professionals to report torture and improper treatment. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Relates to certain prohibitions in contracts or agreements by health maintenance organizations; prohibits clauses which entitle reimbursement at the lowest price or rate; prohibits contracts which restrict referral of patients based solely upon a health care provider's status with a managed care product; prohibits disclosure of an enrollee's diagnosis on a prescription as a condition for authorizing coverage for payment or dispensing of a prescription; and prohibits contracts which allow for the substitution of a pharmaceutical drug or agent by any person other than the prescribing health care professional. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants to not-for-profit organizations and elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools to be used to help pay for the costs of conducting local blood drives. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Disqualifies providers for receipt of monies for the improvement of recruitment and retention of non-supervisory workers providing home health services, when such monies are not provided to the certified home health service agencies employing such workers and providing standards for payment of claims for certain long term care services. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Repeals certain provisions regarding the adoption of a new or revised city charter proposed by a charter commission which limit the submission of questions to a city's qualified electors; eliminates the rule that provides that whenever a city charter commission puts a proposal on the local ballot, all other local referendum proposals are barred from the ballot. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Provides that the commissioner of health may exempt certain brand name drugs so that they fall under medical assistance umbrella. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Provides for pharmacy benefit management and the procurement of prescription drugs to be dispensed to patients, or the administration or management of prescription drug benefits; sets forth definitions; provides for funds received by a pharmacy benefit manager to be received by the pharmacy in trust for the health plan or provider and provides for accountability of such funds. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee:

Includes optometrists within provisions relating to clinical laboratories under certain conditions. / Sponsor: Gottfried (MS) Committee: