Kentucky House Bill 49

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: Introduced on January 2 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-02 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant providers the right not to participate in or pay for services that violate their conscience; exempt providers from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit the State Board of Medical Licensure from reprimanding medical practitioners and require the board to provide complaints it has received to medical practitioners; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations; provide that the Act may be cited as the Healthcare Heroes Recruitment and Retention Act; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of medical professionals and declaring an emergency.

Rep. Steve Rawlings [R]	Rep. Shane Baker [R]	Rep. Josh Calloway [R]	Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker [R]
Rep. Steven Doan [R]	Rep. Mark Hart [R]	Rep. John Hodgson [R]	Rep. Candy Massaroni [R]
Rep. Marianne Proctor [R]	Rep. Nancy Tate [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-02	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2024-01-02	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb49.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/hb49/orig_bill.pdf