KY SB239 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 22 2024 - 50% progression
Action: 2024-03-22 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on March 22 2024 - 50% progression
Action: 2024-03-22 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Summary
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.
Title
AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of medical professionals and declaring an emergency.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-03-21 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 3016 (Y: 29 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-22 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-03-22 | House | received in House |
| 2024-03-21 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 29-7 with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-21 | Senate | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 21, 2024 |
| 2024-03-13 | Senate | reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-12 | Senate | returned to Health Services (S) |
| 2024-03-12 | Senate | 2nd reading |
| 2024-03-12 | Senate | taken from Health Services (S) |
| 2024-03-11 | Senate | returned to Health Services (S) |
| 2024-03-11 | Senate | 1st reading |
| 2024-03-11 | Senate | taken from Health Services (S) |
| 2024-02-26 | Senate | to Health Services (S) |
| 2024-02-21 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-02-21 | Senate | introduced in Senate |
Subjects
Effective Dates, Emergency
Health and Medical Services
Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Insurance, Health
Medicaid
Nurses
Optometrists
Personnel and Employment
Pharmacists
Physicians and Practitioners
Public Health
Short Titles and Popular Names
State Agencies
Health and Medical Services
Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Insurance, Health
Medicaid
Nurses
Optometrists
Personnel and Employment
Pharmacists
Physicians and Practitioners
Public Health
Short Titles and Popular Names
State Agencies
