Department of health reports-cleanup.

ORIGINAL
Senate
File No
.
SF0031

ENROLLED ACT NO.
12
,

SENATE

SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2015 General Session

AN ACT relating to the administration of government; deleting requirements for reports from the department of health to the legislature as specified; requiring the department to provide reports from the department's internal performance measurement system; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 9
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2
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102 by creating a new subsection (o),
9
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2
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2702(
a)(vii),
35
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1
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801, 35
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25
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301(b)(intro), 35
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27
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103(a)
(intro)
and 42
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4
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120(f) are amended to read:

9
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2
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102
.

Department of health; duties and responsibilities; state grants.

(o)

The department shall provide to the joint labor, health and social services
interim
committee, and any other appropriate legislative committee, periodic reports from the department's internal performance measurement system.

9
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2
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2702
.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in this act:

(vii)

"This act" means W.S 9
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2
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2701 through
9
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2
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2706
9
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2
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270
4
.

35
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1
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801
.

Department of health to develop comprehensive emergency medical services and trauma system.

The department of health shall develop a comprehensive emergency medical services and trauma system.
The department shall report annual progress on the system to the legislature.

35
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25
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301
.

Diabetes care planning; reports to the legislature.

(b)

The department of health shall
submit a report to the joint labor, health and social services interim committee by October 1 of each odd
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numbered year through 2021 on
track for statistical and trending analysis
the following:

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27
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103
.

Program evaluation and statistical information.

(a)

It shall be the goal of the program in each county to provide appropriate nursing contact to all eligible women. The department shall
annually report by October 1 to the joint labor, health and social services interim committee
statistically track
, in order to provide trending reports as needed,
the number of known eligible births, the number receiving appropriate contacts, the number of women needing follow
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up services and the number who did not receive follow
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up services broken down by cause as follows:

42
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4
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120
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Contracts for waiver services; authority of department; emergency case services; cost based payments; training and certification of specialists.

(f)

The department, not later than April 1, 2008, shall promulgate rules under which an emergency case shall be determined to exist with respect to eligibility for federal home and community based waiver services for persons with developmental disabilities or adult brain injury under this act. Upon a finding by the department that an emergency exists under this subsection, the department in accordance with its rules and regulations shall make necessary expenditures for the recipient from the emergency contingency account established for that
purpose. Expenditures from the emergency contingency account shall be limited to those services necessary to provide authorized customary services as provided by home and community
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based waivers for persons with developmental disabilities or adult brain injury in response to the emergency situation until the emergency no longer exists or eligibility under this act can be determined and any necessary services provided from nonemergency funding sources.

The developmental disabilities division of the department of health shall submit an accounting to the joint appropriations interim committee and the joint labor, health and social services interim committee by October 1 of each year regarding total expenditures and the number of persons provided emergency services pursuant to this subsection.

Section 2
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W.S. 9
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2
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103(a)(ii), 9
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2
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1215, 9
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2701(f), 9
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2
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2706, 9
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4
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1204(j), 25
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5
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105(b), 33
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115(g), 42
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4
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121(m), 42
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6
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105(f) and 42
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6
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109(d) are repealed.

Section 3
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2006 Wyoming
Session
Laws, Chapter 40,
Section
10(c) is
amended to read:

Section 10.

Mental health outcomes development/data infrastructure.

(c)

The department of health, mental health division, shall expend the appropriation under this section to establish a statewide quality improvement program which will systematically monitor the effectiveness, efficiency, appropriateness and quality of mental health care and services. The department of health, mental health division, shall negotiate with service providers specific system performance measures and client outcome measures utilized on the
statewide quality improvement program, to include, but not be limited to, access to and quality of core and regional services, changes in employment and residential status of clients, and cost effectiveness of services. The department of health, mental health division shall structure its contracts with community mental health centers with whom it has contracts to ensure necessary client data is reported uniformly. The contracts shall specify what services will be provided under the contract and outcome measures achieved to determine the extent of statewide needs, based on regional reports received.
Quality improvement reports shall be provided to the joint appropriations interim committee and the joint labor, health and social services interim committee no later than October 1 of each year, beginning October 1, 2007.

Section
4
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This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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