Grants to educational institutions for health manpower shortage
incentives and debt repayment assistance for physicians and
residents in primary care, Scholarship Administration required to
use fees received from the Physician Quality Assurance Board for,
provisions added ..................................................................................

Health insurance reform, including guaranteed access to coverage for
small employers, establishment of the Health Care Access and Cost
Commission, and implementation of cost containment strategies,
including practice parameters for physicians, provisions added .....

Liability for damages in medical malpractice cases, consideration of
standards of practice among health care practitioners, and
prohibition of use of practice parameters as evidence of standard of
care, provisions added.......................................................................

License fee to be used to fund the physician rehabilitation program
and, peer review activities, provisions altered; Board of Physician
Quality Assurance Fund and Board of Nursing Fund, termination
provisions repealed ............................................................................

Payment of claims by a health maintenance organization to a provider
not under written contract, methodology used to determine rate,

prohibitions and requirements added ...............................................

Physician Quality Assurance, Board of, bonding requirements and
regulatory authority altered; including provisions for fees, entering
contracts to purchase services, cease and desist orders and
injunctive relief, examinations, physician rehabilitation and peer

review, and records inspection.......................................................

Referral of patients by a health care practitioner to an entity in which
the practitioner has a beneficial interest or a compensation
agreement, and their reimbursement through insurance,

prohibitions added.............................................................................

Pilots, Board of --

Appropriation to .........................................................................................

Termination date extended....................................................................

Pinball Machines SEE Gaming
Pistols-SEE Guns
Planning, Office of --
Appropriation to....................................................................................

Fees for services and products, authorized...........................................

Planning SEE Zoning and Planning
Plant Closings SEE Industrial Matters
Plumbing --

Journey plumber or master plumber licenses, training in testing
backflow prevention devices, requirements added ...........................

State Board of, appropriation to...........................................................

Waterless toilets, authorization for disposal system size reduction and
prohibition of use of conventional fixtures when a property deed or
covenant requires waterless toilets, provisions added .....................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

628	3076
9	529
9	529
627	3064
629	3081
304	1808
627	3064
376	2068
8	400
21	911
8	315
	475
	485
	505
26	956
546	2742
8	399
620	3039