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SB 439 was referred to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on February 21, 2007. A hearing was scheduled for April 12, 2007. State Representative Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) introduced an identical bill, HB 1094 with 59 co-sponsors. It was referred to the House Public Health Committee on February 22, 2007.
[42] [43] Supporters of the legislation have stated that the purpose of the new law is to protect women's health and unborn children, citing precedents like the recent Kermit Gosnell case. [41] [44] Abortion access in the state of Texas has seen a serious decline since the passage of Senate Bill 5.
The new law replaced the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools and combined several functioning entities under the Texas State Department of Health into a new agency called the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. [7] This act was revolutionary within the field of mental health on several fronts.
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Informed consent entails knowledge of the pros and cons of a proposed treatment, then a decision made in light of those pros and cons. [35] Some states' right-to-try laws also put patients at risk of losing hospice or home health care, [36] and the costs surrounding treatment can be prohibitive, something right-to-try laws do not fix.
Public health law examines the authority of the government at various jurisdictional levels to improve public health, the health of the general population within societal limits and norms. [1] Public health law focuses on the duties of the government to achieve these goals, limits on that power, and the population perspective.
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In May 2011, the state of Vermont became the first state to pass legislation establishing a single-payer health care system. The legislation, known as Act 48, establishes health care in the state as a "human right" and lays the responsibility on the state to provide a health care system which best meets the needs of the citizens of Vermont.