ANA 2003 State Legislative Trends Report Reports and Maps Introduction to ANA's State Legislative Trends Report Welcome to the State Legislative Trends Report. This year State Government Relations staff has chosen nine topics that we believe will be of greatest interest to ANA members. Six legislative trends relate to ANA's Nationwide State Legislative Agenda on Nurse Staffing and three trends, needlestick injury prevention, workplace violence and ergonomics relate to workplace health and safety. This is the third year Constituent Member Associations (CMAs) and ANA are working in concert to implement a Nationwide State Legislative Agenda on Staffing that focuses on prohibition of mandatory overtime; mandatory development and implementation of valid and reliable nurse staffing systems; whistleblower protections for nurses who want to report unsafe conditions without retribution; mandatory collection of nursing supply and demand data for state nursing workforce projections; collection and public reporting of nursing-sensitive quality data related to RN staffing and patient outcomes; and funding for nursing education. As of December, 2003, state legislators have responded with the establishment of new laws in the following states and ANA Staffing Agenda categories: Prohibition of Mandatory Overtime Enacted: CA [regulations], ME, MD, MN, NJ, OR, TX [regulations], WA, WV Nurse Staffing Plans Enacted: CA [regulations], FL, KY, NV [regulations], TX [regulations], OR, VA Whistleblower Protection Enacted: AZ, CA, FL (public employees), IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NJ, NY, OH, OR, TX, UT (all employers), VA, WV, WI Collection of Nursing Workforce Data Enacted: FL, GA, HI, ID, IN, KY, MD, ME, MS, NE, ND, NJ, NY, OK, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WV Nursing Quality Indicators Enacted: CT, NJ [regulations], FL, RI, TX [regulations] Funding for Nursing Education Enacted: AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MI, MS, NE, NH, NV, OR, RI, SD, TX, VA, WV, WY State Government Relations monitors over 1,000 bills including topics such as interstate nurse compacts, nurse practice acts, advanced practice nurses, EMT scope of practice, midwives, pharmacists, unlicensed assistive personnel, latex allergies, medical errors, worker ids and other issues of concern to nurses. The sources for legislative tracking include Lexis/Nexis, Statescape Tracking Service, and CMAs. These bills are modified and updated as information becomes available. In this report, each easy-to-read page captures a moment in time, a snapshot of what is happening in every state on a particular topic. A background description accompanies each map and provides a succinct summary of the more prominent bills State Government Relations staff is monitoring and, whenever possible supplies a two-year or more historic perspective. Reports and Maps Legislative Maps The following PDF documents requires that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your computer. They are best viewed with the Adobe Reader version 4.0 or above. If you do not have the Reader, or if you are using version 3.0 or below, you can download the latest version of the Acrobat Reader free from the Adobe site. Help with PDFs and using the Acrobat Reader   Background Info Map Mandatory Overtime Map Nurse Staffing Plans and Ratios Map Nursing Workforce Data Collection Map Nursing Education Incentives and Others Map Ergonomics Map Needlestick Injury Prevention Map Nursing Quality Indicators Map Violence in the Workplace Map Whistleblower Protection Map Chart - Laws Protecting the Title "Nurse"     To State Governemnt Affairs Home >>> To ANA Advocacy Site >>>   Search Contact ANA Join/Renew Membership Members Only Online CE NursingInsiderSpecial Offersnursesbooks.org © 2008 The American Nurses Association, Inc. All Rights Reserved Copyright Policy | Privacy Statement