KY HB199 | 2024 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-5)
Status: Engrossed on March 26 2024 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-04-15 - recommitted to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
Pending: Senate Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Summary

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance requirements for centers; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; add requirement for medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, and 216.2970 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.

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Title

AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2024-03-26 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 358 (Y: 69 N: 25 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2024-04-15Senaterecommitted to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
2024-03-28Senatefloor amendments (1), (2) and (3) filed
2024-03-27Senatereturned to Committee on Committees (S)
2024-03-27Senate2nd reading
2024-03-27Senatetaken from Committee on Committees (S)
2024-03-26Senatereturned to Committee on Committees (S)
2024-03-26Senate1st reading
2024-03-26Senatetaken from Committee on Committees (S)
2024-03-26Senateto Committee on Committees (S)
2024-03-26Senatereceived in Senate
2024-03-26House3rd reading, passed 69-25 with Floor Amendment (2)
2024-03-25Houseposted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024
2024-03-25Housefloor amendment (2) filed
2024-03-22Housefloor amendment (1) filed
2024-03-07House2nd reading, to Rules
2024-03-06Housereported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2024-01-18Houseto Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
2024-01-09Houseto Committee on Committees (H)
2024-01-09Houseintroduced in House

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