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Read. Follow. Verify.Missouri House Bill 1980 designates licensed emergency medical personnel as health care professionals for peer review purposes
Last action · April 29, 2026: Placed on Informal CalendarSponsors: Bennie Cook and 1 other
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What This Bill Would Do
HB 1980 designates individuals licensed under sections 190.001 to 190.245, RSMo, as health care professionals under section 537.035, and classifies their required quality improvement or quality assurance activities as activities.
The measure changes the legal protections and confidentiality rules applying to quality assurance records for emergency medical personnel by bringing them under existing peer review statutes.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Health care professionals licensed under sections 190.001 to 190.245
Their required quality improvement and quality assurance activities are designated as activities of a peer review committee under section 537.035.
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Procedural history
27 actions- Apr 29, 2026HousePlaced on Informal Calendar
- Apr 16, 2026SenateCommitteeReported Do Pass (S)
- Apr 14, 2026SenateCommitteeVoted Do Pass (S)
- Apr 14, 2026SenateExecutive Session Held (S)
- Mar 31, 2026SenatePublic Hearing Held (S)
- Mar 30, 2026SenatePublic Hearing Scheduled (S)
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- Mar 23, 2026SenateCommitteeSecond read and referred: Emerging Issues and Professional Registration(S)
- Mar 9, 2026SenateReported to the Senate and First Read (S)
- Mar 5, 2026HouseFloorThird Read and Passed (H)
- Mar 5, 2026HouseTaken Up for Third Reading (H)
- Mar 5, 2026HousePlaced on the Informal Third Reading Calendar (H)
- Mar 2, 2026HousePerfected (H)
- Mar 2, 2026HouseTitle of Bill - Agreed To
- Mar 2, 2026HouseTaken Up for Perfection (H)
- Feb 25, 2026HousePlaced on the Informal Perfection Calendar (H)
- Feb 23, 2026HouseCommitteeReported Do Pass (H)
- Feb 23, 2026HouseCommitteeVoted Do Pass (H)
- Feb 23, 2026HouseExecutive Session Completed (H)
- Feb 5, 2026HouseCommitteeReferred: Rules - Administrative(H)
- Feb 3, 2026HouseCommitteeReported Do Pass (H)
- Jan 28, 2026HouseCommitteeVoted Do Pass (H)
- Jan 28, 2026HouseExecutive Session Completed (H)
- Jan 21, 2026HousePublic Hearing Completed (H)
- Jan 15, 2026HouseCommitteeReferred: Professional Registration and Licensing(H)
- Jan 8, 2026HouseFloorRead Second Time (H)
- Jan 7, 2026HouseIntroducedRead First Time (H)
- Dec 1, 2025HouseIntroducedPrefiled (H)
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