HB 272

An Act relating to a social work licensure compact; relating to the practice of social work; and providing for an effective date.

An Act establishing a 30-day deadline for the payment of contracts under the State Procurement Code; establishing deadlines for the payment of grants, contracts, and reimbursement agreements to nonprofit organizations, municipalities, and Alaska Native organizations; relating to payment of grants to named recipients that are not municipalities; and providing for an effective date.

An Act establishing a student loan repayment pilot program; and providing for an effective date.

Urging the federal government to waive the new H-1B Visa fees for teachers in the state.

An Act relating to criminally negligent homicide; relating to the duty of an operator immediately after an accident; and providing for an effective date.

An Act relating to allocations for the special education service agency; and providing for an effective date.

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.

An Act relating to health care insurance; relating to insurance reimbursement for health care services provided through telehealth; relating to telehealth; providing for an effective date by repealing the effective date of secs. 9 and 10, ch. 38, SLA 2022; and providing for an effective date.

An Act relating to emergency medical dispatchers; classifying dispatchers in police or fire departments and in state trooper offices as peace officers under the public employees' retirement system; and providing for an effective date.

Expressing commitment to the rural health transformation program; acknowledging the critical health care challenges facing rural areas of the state; and urging action by the Governor and the Alaska delegation in Congress to continue to advocate for the state's interests and advance the rural health transformation program.

An Act relating to sexual assault.

An Act relating to certified nurse aide training; and providing for an effective date.

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

Revise the practice of certified registered nurse anesthetists

Health occupations: physicians; interstate medical licensure compact; update

Public Health - Abortion (Heartbeat Bill)

Establish narrow, clearly bounded guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare Supplement policies in West Virginia.

Prohibiting surprise billing of ground emergency medical services by nonparticipating providers