Bill Title: Chronic pain management. Requires state employee health plans, Medicaid, policies of accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organization contracts to provide coverage for chronic pain management. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning to apply for any Medicaid state plan amendment necessary to provide the coverage.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-01 - Public Law 149 [SB0162 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Mark Messmer [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-048	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator James Merritt [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-031	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Eric Bassler [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-039	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Lonnie Randolph [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-002	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Andy Zay [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-017	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Ronald Grooms [R]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-046	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Dennis Zent [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-051	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Cindy Kirchhofer [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-089	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Robin Shackleford [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-098	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Shane Lindauer [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-063	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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