passed unanimously by bipartisan vote without amendment and with a do-pass recommendation in the Senate Small Business, Insurance and Industry Committee. The positions SB 618 to come to the Missouri Senate floor.
SB 618 [full text] defines applied behavior analysis, specifies applied behavior analysis as a covered treatment, and includes Board Certified Behavior Analysts as "Autism service providers", and specifies Board Certified Behavior Analysts, either in independent practice or as an employee of an agency, as appropriate supervisor for those who are neither certified nor licensed by the state of Missouri.
The similar House bill,
was studied on January 26 in a work session (no public testimony) of the House Special Standing Committee on Health Insurance and proposals for amendment to this bill, including reducing the annual coverage for applied behavior analytic services and an exemption for small businesses with fewer than 25 employees were discussed. The Missouri legislative website shows that another work session (no public testimony) on HB 1311 is scheduled for Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 4:00pm, Hearing Room 5.
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For more info, news stories and past blog posts
Autism Votes Missouri
Missouri edges closer to autism insurance reform
L Mae Wilkinson
January 26, 9:37 PMSt. Louis Autism & Parenting Examiner
Autism bill advances in Senate, studied in House
01.26.2010 3:19 pm
By Virginia Young
Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau
Political Fix, stltoday.com
Autism coverage bill clears Missouri Senate commitee
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | 8:09 p.m. CST
BY Brian Krebs, Missourian
Legislative links page for the Missouri Association for Behavior Analysis (MOABA)
Note: the current legislation listed is the mandate bills from the previous 2009 session, but shows that MOABA has tracked these events in the past. This page also has a 2007 powerpoint of MOABA testimony about applied behavior analysis before Missouri's Blue Ribbon Panel on autism.
Missouri General Assemby
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
LEG NEWS: Missouri Autism Insurance bills heard in committee on Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Practitioner Issues in Behavior Analysis SIG blog
Friday, December 4, 2009
STATES: Missouri Prefiles Two Autism Insurance Reform Bills
Practitioner Issues in Behavior Analysis SIG blog
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