128th General Assembly Legislative Report
Updated: April 27, 2010
OHIO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HB8 / AUTISM (CELESTE, T) To prohibit health insurers from excluding coverage for specified services for individuals diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
Current Status: / 12/15/2009 – Referred to Committee Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor
HB84 / Health screening procedures for new jail inmates/training for screening personnel (BOYD, B) To require health-trained personnel to perform a medical, dental, and mental health screening on each inmate upon arrival at a jail, to establish procedures that health-trained personnel must follow if an inmate is taking xanax, ativan, valium, or any other benzodiazepine, and to provide that the sheriff ensure that health-trained personnel responsible for medical, dental, and mental health screening be trained as to symptoms and consequences of withdrawal from addictive drugs.
Current Status: / 3/18/2009 – Assigned to the House Criminal Justice Committee
HB208 / ART THERAPY-REGULATE (SKINDELL, M) To regulate the practice of art therapy.
Current Status: / 1/20/2010 – House Health, (Third Hearing)
HB228 / Suicide/unusual death-drug test of deceased if asked for and paid for by family (DOMENICK, J) To require a coroner, deputy coroner, or pathologist to administer a blood test for alcohol or drugs when a person has died by suicide or in an unusual manner and the test is requested and paid for by a family member.
Current Status: / 6/17/2009 - House Criminal Justice Committee
HB235 / Deliquent child-transfer to adult court/disposition/judicial release (HEARD, T) To amend specific sections and to repeal a section of the Ohio Revised Code regarding the transfer for criminal prosecution of an alleged delinquent child, the eligibility for imposition of a serious youthful offender dispositional sentence, the commitment of a delinquent child to the Department of Youth Services based on a firearm specification or certain aggravated vehicular homicide specifications, and the granting of a judicial release to a delinquent child.
Current Status: / 6/23/2009 House Criminal Justice Committee
HB281 / MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS arrest & transport certain persons to hospital (YUKO, K) To permit additional health care professionals who provide mental health services to take into custody and transport those persons to a hospital.
Current Status: / 3/3/2010 – House Judiciary, (Third Hearing)
HB371 / CHILD IN NEED OF PROTECTIVE SERVICES (PILLICH, C) To establish the category of a child in need of protective services and to generally replace the terms "abused child," "neglected child," and "dependent child" as they apply to civil law with the term "child in need of protective services."
Current Status: / 2/9/2010 – House Civil and Commercial Law, (Second Hearing)
HB391 / ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY (CHANDLER, K) To establish an address confidentiality program for individuals who reasonably believe that they are in danger of being threatened or physically harmed by another person, to exclude the residential and familial information of a federal law enforcement officer from the definition of a public record, to include federal law enforcement officers among the protected individuals who are authorized to request a public office other than the county auditor to redact the person's address from any record made available to the general public on the internet, and to include those officers among the protected individuals who may request the county auditor to replace the person's name with the person's initials on the general tax list and duplicate.
Current Status: / 4/14/2010 – PASSED BY HOUSE, Vote 97-0
HB446 / privately run facilities (HARRIS, M) To require that any privately run non-Ohio agency, home, school, camp, institution, or other entity or residential facility to which Ohio abused, neglected, dependent, unruly, or delinquent children are committed comply with the same standards that are applicable to in-state agencies, homes, schools, camps, institutions, or other entities or residential facilities.
Current Status: / 3/16/2010 – House Local Government / Public Administration, (First Hearing)
OHIO SENATE
SB15 / HEALTH CARE POLICIES (MILLER, D) To prohibit discrimination in health care policies, contracts, and agreements in the coverage provided for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses and substance abuse or addiction conditions.
Current Status: / 3/31/2009 - Senate Health, Human Services and Aging, (First Hearing)
SB136 / Health insurance/Medicaid-coverage of telemedicine services (MILLER, R) Regarding insurance and Medicaid coverage of telemedicine services.
Current Status: / 6/16/09 – Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor