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House Bill 290

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Allows terminally ill patients to take unapproved drugs

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Long Title To amend sections 3721.10, 4729.01, 4729.291, 4729.51, 4729.57, 4731.22, 4731.227, 5155.01, 5155.012, and 5155.03 and to enact sections 4729.89, 4731.97, and 4745.04 of the Revised Code to permit a patient with a terminal condition to be treated with a drug, product, or device that is not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, to modify the laws governing the appointment of a county home superintendent or administrator, and to permit health care professionals to earn continuing education credit by providing volunteer health care services to indigent and uninsured persons.

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Effective Date

April 6, 2017

Subjects

Commerce : Insurance Health and Human Services : Health Care Health and Human Services : Medicaid Occupational Licensing and Regulation

Committees

Senate Health and Human Services Committee
House Health and Aging Committee

Primary Sponsors

Robert Sprague

Marlene Anielski

Cosponsors

REPRESENTATIVES

Niraj J. Antani

Nickie J. Antonio

Steven Arndt

Nan A. Baker

John Barnes

Heather Bishoff

Louis W. Blessing III

John Boccieri

Terry Boose

Janine R. Boyd

Tim W. Brown

Tony Burkley

Jim Butler

Kathleen Clyde

Jonathan Dever

Mike Dovilla

Teresa Fedor

Timothy Ginter

Doug Green

Cheryl L. Grossman

Bob D. Hackett

Christina Hagan

David Hall

Stephen D. Hambley

Michael Henne

Stephen A. Huffman

Greta Johnson

Terry Johnson

Christie Bryant Kuhns

Sarah LaTourette

Michele Lepore-Hagan

Ron Maag

Nathan H. Manning

Jeff McClain

Michael J. O'Brien

Sean O'Brien

John Patterson

Rick Perales

Dan Ramos

Bill Reineke

Jeff Rezabek

Kristina Roegner

Mark J. Romanchuk

Margaret Ann Ruhl

Scott K. Ryan

Kirk Schuring

Michael Sheehy

Emilia Strong Sykes

Andy Thompson

Ron Young

SENATORS

Troy Balderson

Bill Beagle

Edna Brown

Dave Burke

Capri S. Cafaro

Bill Coley

John Eklund

Keith Faber

Randy Gardner

Cliff Hite

Jim Hughes

Shannon Jones

Kris Jordan

Frank LaRose

Peggy Lehner

Gayle Manning

Larry Obhof

Scott Oelslager

Tom Patton

Bob Peterson

Tom Sawyer

Joe Schiavoni

Bill Seitz

Michael J. Skindell

Charleta B. Tavares

Cecil Thomas

Joe Uecker

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