HB 258

Elections; voting rights restoration process revised; Alabama Voting Rights Act Commission established to prevent discrimination in voting; duties and membership provided; Secretary of State required to establish database on election administration

Tourism; creates a grant program for boosting state tourism economies affected by global trade disruptions and foreign travel slowdowns; creates a competitive grant program to fund tourism-related infrastructure projects; creates international and domestic marketing campaigns; establishes the Tourism Sector Economic Monitoring Council

Tourism; creates a grant program for boosting state tourism economies affected by global trade disruptions and foreign travel slowdowns; creates a competitive grant program to fund tourism-related infrastructure projects; creates international and domestic marketing campaigns; establishes the Tourism Sector Economic Monitoring Council

Elections; early voting, in-person voting period, authorized

Absentee voting; designee to deliver voter's absentee ballot application and absentee ballot to absentee election manager for disabled voter, authorized

Physician Assistants; interstate licensure compact, established

Living organ donors; to prohibit discrimination in obtaining insurance coverage, provide paid medical leave for public employees who donate organs and a tax credit to private sector employers that provide similar paid leave to their employees

Health care plans; to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in determinations of coverage

State Health Planning and Development Agency; Rural Health Antitrust Immunity Act created, collaboration among rural health care providers authorized; certification and supervision framework established, limited immunity from state and federal antitrust laws provided

Emergency medical transport providers assessment, sunset clause removed

Hospitals, private hospital assessment and Medicaid funding program sunset clause removed.

Creating the crime of conspiracy to deny medical treatment to victim of sexual offense

Revise the practice of certified registered nurse anesthetists

An Act relating to the rural health transformation program; relating to physician assistants; relating to collaborative agreements between physicians and physician assistants; relating to the interstate medical licensure compact; relating to the PA licensure compact; relating to the practice of medicine; relating to the psychology interjurisdictional compact; relating to health care providers; relating to the recognition of EMS personnel licensure interstate compact; relating to provisions regarding physician assistants in contracts between certain health care providers and health care insurers; and establishing the Rural Health Transformation Program Advisory Council.

Modifies provisions relating to hospital investments and service areas

Human services: medical services; automatic enrollment and renewal for certain individuals under the medical assistance program; provide for

A bill for an act relating to human services; delaying implementation of the single dental administrator for the medical assistance program; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 256B.0371, subdivision 4; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 256B.0371, subdivision 3.