State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program,
transfer from the Department of Personnel to the Department of
Budget and Fiscal Planning, termination date repealed .................

State employee grievance or complaint, reprisal for presentation or
pursuit, prohibited; plan for enforcement required.........................

Surrender of State positions from the appropriated number for FY
1996, provisions added.......................................................................

Telecommuting pilot program for State employees, provisions added .

Unique personnel classifications, responsibility for recruiting,
examining, certifying eligible lists, or making temporary

appointments for ................................................................................

Pest Control - -

Plant industries and pest management, appropriation for..................

Petroleum SEE Fuel
Pets SEE Animals
Pharmacists —

SEE ALSO Drugs

Allocation of money from the State Board of Pharmacy Fund to a

pharmacist rehabilitation committee, authorized ............................

Physical Therapists —

Tuition assistance program, appropriation to ......................................

Physicians —

Health maintenance organization (HMO) point-of-service option for
health care and dental benefits, patient continuum of care when
provider terminated from HMO panel, application process for
HMO panel of providers, and method of payment of provider by
insurance carrier, provisions altered.................................................

In-nerwork obstetrician/gynecologists, annual visit for routine care
for women who do not choose an obstetrician/gynecologist as their
primary care provider, coverage under health insurance and health
maintenance organizations, provisions added ..................................

Informed consent for HIV testing by a health care provider,
provisions altered ...............................................................................

Investigations of allegations of grounds for disciplinary action in a
standard of care case against a physician, offer of patient interview
required to be included.....................................................................

Local health officers who are physicians, restrictions on practicing
medicine, altered................................................................................

Medical review committees, definition expanded to include a
committee appointed by or established in an accredited health
occupations school .............................................................................

Methamphetamine and amphetamine, prohibition on practitioners
dispensing, repealed...........................................................................

Obstetrician/Gynecologists, Task Force on, established; charges for
diagnostic lab testing processed outside the physician's office,
limitation repealed .............................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

323	2254
160 161	1876 1880
7 487	565 2732
200	1958
7	434 552

380	2469
7	495
604 605	3431 3450
159	1875
321	2251
466	2673
507	2928
74	1372
103	1458
499	2865