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HB05198 - An Act Concerning Telehealth.
Public Health, Craig C. Fishbein, Saud Anwar
Last updated 4 months ago
35 Co-Sponsors
To extend telehealth provisions adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic until June 30, 2027.
STATUS
Passed
HB05058 - An Act Adopting The Nurse Licensure Compact.
Mary Welander, Heather S. Bond Somers, Jaime S. Foster
Last updated 4 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
STATUS
Passed
HB05201 - An Act Concerning The Use Of Funds In The Tobacco Settlement Fund.
Public Health, Craig C. Fishbein, Saud Anwar
Last updated 7 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
To require funding of tobacco control programs to prevent and reduce tobacco use at the amount recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
STATUS
Introduced
HB05316 - An Act Concerning The Office Of Health Strategy's Recommendations Regarding The Certificate Of Need Program.
Public Health, Jaime S. Foster, Susan M. Johnson
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
To amend the (1) definitions of "large group practice" and "group practice" relating to the certificate of need program, (2) size and composition of the type of group practices required to annually report to the Attorney General, (3) types of large group practice transfers of ownership and acquisition of medical equipment that require certificate of need approval, and (4) presumption in favor of certificate of need approval for certain large group practice transfers of ownership.
STATUS
Introduced
SB00425 - An Act Prohibiting Discrimination By Health Care Providers In The Provision Of Health Care Services In The State.
Judiciary, Travis Simms, William Heffernan
Last updated 6 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
To prohibit health care providers from discriminating against persons in the provision of health care services in the state.
STATUS
Introduced
HB05291 - An Act Concerning The Department Of Public Health's Recommendations Regarding Improved Opioid Monitoring.
Public Health, Travis Simms, Heather S. Bond Somers
Last updated 4 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
To require each hospital that treats a patient for a nonfatal overdose of an opioid drug to administer a toxicology screening of such patient if medically appropriate.
STATUS
Passed
HB05010 - An Act Concerning A State Subsidy For Retired Teachers' Health Insurance Benefits.
Eleni Kavros DeGraw, David J. Rutigliano, Gary A. Turco
Last updated 8 months ago
40 Co-Sponsors
To restore the one-third state subsidy to retired teachers enrolled in the Teachers' Retirement Board Medicare supplement health insurance package.
STATUS
Introduced
HB05008 - An Act Concerning Funding For School Breakfast And Lunch.
Gary A. Turco, Moira Rader, Amy Morrin Bello
Last updated 8 months ago
55 Co-Sponsors
To provide funds to reimburse the school food authorities for the difference between the federal reimbursement rate for reduced-price and fully-paid school breakfast and lunch program meals.
STATUS
Introduced
HB05453 - An Act Concerning The Membership And Processes Of The Connecticut Siting Council.
Government Administration and Elections, Matthew Blumenthal, Tony Hwang
Last updated 7 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
To make changes to the membership of the Connecticut Siting Council, require additional cost-benefit analysis and information concerning related projects for certain proposed facilities, require additional notifications to the owner of property intended to be condemned and make additional revisions to the process for granting applications for a certificate.
STATUS
Introduced
HB05197 - An Act Concerning Social Workers.
Public Health, Travis Simms, Jeffrey Gordon
Last updated 4 months ago
42 Co-Sponsors
To adopt the social work licensure compact.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Connecticut district HD-057
COMMITTEES
Connecticut House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Jaime S. Foster was born in Fremont, Nebraska. She received her B.S. in political science from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2003. Foster served as a legislative aide to State Senator Tom Carlson from 2007 to 2015. In 2015, she took a position at Green Plains Renewable Energy working on state and federal regulatory issues. Foster is active with the American Association of Political Consultants, Nebraska Rural Electric Association, Nebraska Cattlemen and Nebraska Pork Producers Association. Foster and her husband live in Lincoln with their three children.read less
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