House Bill 286
Identify need and provide support for palliative care
To amend sections 3702.51, 3702.594, 3712.01, and 4731.054 and to enact sections 3701.36, 3701.361, 3701.362, 3712.10, and 3712.11 of the Revised Code to create the Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Council and a related education program, to require identification of patients and residents who could benefit from palliative care, to authorize hospice care programs to provide palliative care in their inpatient facilities or units to non-hospice patients, to specify that Medicaid coverage for palliative care is not being expanded, to modify the pain management clinic licensing law relative to certain palliative care patients, and to authorize the Director of Health to approve the transfer of certain nursing home beds to a facility in a contiguous county.
Current Version
Effective Date
March 20, 2019
Introduced In House
In House Committee
Reported By Committee
Passed By House
Introduced In Senate
In Senate Committee
Reported By Committee
Passed By Senate
Sent To The Governor
Subjects
Committees
House Aging and Long Term Care Committee
Senate Health, Human Services and Medicaid Committee
Primary Sponsors
Sarah LaTourette
Cosponsors
Senators
Bill Beagle
Dave Burke
William P. Coley, II
John Eklund
Randy Gardner
Bob D. Hackett
Matt Huffman
Stephanie Kunze
Peggy Lehner
Gayle Manning
Scott Oelslager
Bob Peterson
Joseph Schiavoni
Charleta B. Tavares
Lou Terhar
Cecil Thomas
Kenny Yuko
Representatives
Marlene Anielski
Nickie J. Antonio
Steven M. Arndt
Michael Ashford
John Barnes, Jr.
Louis W. Blessing III
Kristin Boggs
Janine R. Boyd
Andrew Brenner
Richard D. Brown
Rick Carfagna
Nicholas Celebrezze
Jack Cera
Kathleen Clyde
Hearcel F. Craig
Robert R. Cupp
Anthony DeVitis
Bill Dean
Jay Edwards
Keith Faber
Teresa Fedor
Tavia Galonski
Theresa Gavarone
Timothy E. Ginter
Doug Green
Dave Greenspan
Christina Hagan
Stephen D. Hambley
Brian Hill
Glenn W. Holmes
Stephanie D. Howse
Stephen A. Huffman
Jim Hughes
Catherine D. Ingram
Darrell Kick
Al Landis
George F. Lang
David Leland
Michele Lepore-Hagan
P. Scott Lipps
Nathan H. Manning
Robert McColley
Adam C. Miller
Michael J. O'Brien
John Patterson
Thomas F. Patton
Dorothy Pelanda
Rick Perales
Daniel Ramos
Alicia Reece
Bill Reineke
Jeffery S. Rezabek
Craig S. Riedel
John M. Rogers
Clifford A. Rosenberger
Scott Ryan
Tim Schaffer
Gary Scherer
Kirk Schuring
Bill Seitz
Michael Sheehy
Kent Smith
Ryan Smith
Robert Cole Sprague
Dick Stein
Martin J. Sweeney
Emilia Strong Sykes
Andy Thompson
Thomas West
Ron Young
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