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Quality Homecare Council Act. Would create the Missouri Quality Homecare Council which would be tasked with improving health care for the elderly. Passed 2,077,831 (75.26%) 683,137 (24.74%) Proposition C Clean Energy Act. Would require utility companies to slowly increase their usage of renewable energy. Passed 1,777,500 (66.03%) 914,332 (33.97%)
The Department of Health and Senior Services is responsible for managing and promoting all public health programs to improve life and wellness for Missourians. [1] They are responsible for maintaining programs to control and prevent disease; regulation and licensure of health and child care facilities; and programs designed to create safeguards and health resources for seniors and the state's ...
In November 2024, a court order allowing the Missouri legislation to go into effect immediately - thats implementing an explicit ban on any gender-affirming healthcare for children and minors. [58] As of April 2021, a bill to ban transgender girls from participating in girls' sports teams was advancing in the Missouri House of Representatives.
Fact Check: Missouri already does not require mandated reporters, including health care providers, to report suspected instances of human or sex trafficking unless the victim is a minor or a ...
Missouri residents now must provide proof of gender-affirmation surgery or a court order to update their gender on driver's licenses following a Revenue Department policy change. Previously ...
In other states, the process requires a court order or statute and can be more difficult. An applicant may be required to post legal notices in newspapers to announce the name change—rules that have been criticized on grounds of privacy rights and potentially endangering transgender people to targeted hate crimes. [34]
Changes around minors charged as adults Currently, children as young as 12 can be tried as adults for any felony in Missouri at the court’s discretion. HB 1659 would raise that age to 14.
In "Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity," [2] Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, and Michael Reich of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health aim to provide decision-makers with tools and frameworks for health care system reform. They propose five "control knobs" of health reform: financing ...