Health plan companies required to establish appeal process for providers to access if provider's contract is terminated for cause, and health plan company prohibited from terminating provider's contract without cause.
Informal kinship caregiver support grant program established; financial support expanded for adoptive, foster, and kinship families; and money appropriated.
Procedural requirements for evictions and expungements expanded, rental lease covenants and obligations expanded, and rental discrimination based on tenant's receipt of public housing assistance prohibited.
Generic or off-patent drugs; excessive price increases prohibited, attorney general authorized to take action against price increases, sale withdrawal prohibited, prescription drug affordability board and advisory council established, prescription drug cost reviews and remedies provided, and money appropriated.
Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act of 2023; hospital nurse staffing and nurse workload committees requirements established, core staffing plan requirements modified, commissioner required to grade and publicly disclose hospital compliance, hospital preparedness and incident response action plan requirements modified, nursing facility employee scholarship eligibility modified, hospital nursing and health professional education loan forgiveness programs established/modified, and money appropriated.
Prevention services, intervention services, and barrier reduction services relating to youth involved or at risk of becoming involved in criminal or juvenile justice system funding provided; report required; and money appropriated.
Commissioner of human services directed to establish a prescription drug purchasing program, program authority and eligibility requirements specified, and report required.