KY HB148 | 2017 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-15 - posted in committee
Pending: House Health and Family Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Summary

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to establish licensing for midwifery; establish terms and create definitions; establish the Kentucky Board of Midwifery, create membership, set terms, and grant authority and duties; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations; establish the scope of practice for a licensed midwife; require informed consent for practice and require disclosures; allow the board to reprimand, deny, limit, revoke, probate, or suspend licenses; establish in the State Treasury the Kentucky Board of Midwifery trust and agency fund; amend KRS 211.180 to remove midwifery from the purview of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 311.550 to amend the definition of medicine and osteopathy to remove a reference to the Cabinet's oversight of midwifery; declare that this Act is intended to be consistent with the United States Midwifery Education, Regulation, and Association statement on licensure, July 2015; APPROPRIATION.

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Title

AN ACT relating to midwifery and making an appropriation therefor.

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History

DateChamberAction
2017-02-15Houseposted in committee
2017-02-07Houseto Health and Family Services (H)
2017-01-06Houseintroduced in House

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