Tax Credits/ Family Planning/ Medicaid/ Autism

Missoulian: Senate panel tables 3 bills to help low-, moderate-income Montanans 

SB 378: Provide a state earned income tax credit
SB 318: Renter income tax credit for up to $250 gross rent paid
SB 309: Revise tax haven country laws

Missoulian: No attempt made by Montana House Democrats to restore family planning funds 

HB 2: General Appropriations Act

 

Missoulian: Montana legislators introduce new bills to expand Medicaid

SB 395: Revise health care laws to expand Mediacid and improve health care delivery 

SB 393: Implement the Medicaid expansion  

HB 458: Implement the Medicaid expansion 

 

Missoulian: Health officials: 1 in 50 school kids have autism
CDC and HRSA issue report on changes in prevalence of parent-reported Autism Spectrum Disorder in school-aged children  

Main findings of the report:

·         The prevalence of parent-reported ASD among children aged 6-17 years was 2 percent in 2011-2012 compared to 1.2 percent in 2007.

·         The change in prevalence estimates was greatest for boys and for adolescents aged 14 to 17 years.

·         Children who were first diagnosed in or after 2008 were more likely to have milder ASD than those diagnosed in or before 2007.

·         Much of the increase in the prevalence estimates from 2007 to 2011-2012 for school-aged children was the result of diagnoses of children with previously unrecognized ASD.

Autism Spectrum Disorders- Data and Statistics