North Dakota legislation · 69th Legislative Assembly
North Dakota HB1567: AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study relating to dental and oral health care status among Medicaid recipients and workforce support to improve access for low-income children, Native American children, and individuals with disabilities.
Status: Signed into law, April 21, 2025
Relating to dental and oral health care status among Medicaid recipients and workforce support to improve access for low-income children, Native American children, and individuals with disabilities.
What the bill says
An act to provide for a legislative management study relating to dental and oral health care status among Medicaid recipients and workforce support to improve access for low-income children, Native American children, and individuals with disabilities.
From the enrolled text, April 9, 2025:
AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study relating to dental and oral health care status among Medicaid recipients and workforce support to improve access for low-income children, Native American children, and individuals with disabilities. SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - ACCESS TO DENTAL AND ORAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOME CHILDREN, NATIVE AMERICAN CHILDREN, AND INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES. 1. During the 2025-26 interim, the legislative management shall consider studying the unmet dental and oral health care needs of low-income children, Native American children, and individuals with disabilities. The study must include: a. An overview of the dental and oral health care status of Medicaid recipients, including low-income children, Native American children, and individuals with disabilities, both on and off reservations; b. Evaluation of the importance of receiving dental and oral health care services, the impacts and outcomes of not receiving services, general health consequences, complications, and expanded costs of future care; c. Review of state and federal regulations, policies, and procedures limiting or perceived as limiting dentist provider enrollment in Medicaid, including impediments to enrollment, length of credentialing and recredentialing, reasons for provider termination, prior authorizations, attachments, appeals, and timely payments; d. Availability of, and access or barriers to, complex dental services for Medicaid recipients with disabilities or dental conditions which might require anesthesia or critical care; e. …
Sponsors
- Mary Schneider (D, 21) · primary sponsor
- Brad Bekkedahl (R, 1)
- Collette Brown (D, 9)
- Jayme Davis (D, 9)
- Lisa Finley-DeVille (D, 4A)
- Lauriebeth Hager (D, 21)
- Kathy Hogan (D, 21)
- Carrie McLeod (R, 45)
- Alisa Mitskog (D, 25)
- Jon Nelson (R, 14)
Latest actions
- : Filed with Secretary Of State 04/17
- : Signed by Governor 04/15
- : Sent to Governor
- : Signed by Speaker
- : Signed by President
- : Second reading, passed, yeas 87 nays 3
- : Concurred
- : Returned to House (12)
- : Second reading, passed as amended, yeas 47 nays 0
- : Amendment adopted, placed on calendar
Votes
- Final Passage (April 7, 2025): 87 yea, 3 nay, passed
- Final Passage (March 27, 2025): 47 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Final Passage (February 25, 2025): 88 yea, 2 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is HB1567?
- HB1567 is a bill in the North Dakota Legislature (69th Legislative Assembly): AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study relating to dental and oral health care status among Medicaid recipients and workforce support to improve access for low-income children, Native American children, and individuals with disabilities.
- What does HB1567 do?
- In its own words: An act to provide for a legislative management study relating to dental and oral health care status among Medicaid recipients and workforce support to improve access for low-income children, Native American children, and individuals with disabilities.
- What is the status of HB1567?
- Signed into law as of April 21, 2025. Latest action: Filed with Secretary Of State 04/17 (April 21, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB1567?
- Mary Schneider (D, 21), with 9 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HB1567?
- On the North Dakota Legislature website: https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/regular/bill-overview/bo1567.html
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