Kentucky House Bill 263 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 14 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-26 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Pending: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and create the Opioid Drug Overdose Prevention Program within the Department for Public Health to include projects to encourage 911 calls when overdoses are observed; programs to increase awareness of opioid antidotes among those unlikely to overdose on opiates, overdose prevention; recognition and response education in drug treatment centers, outreach programs, and other organizations working with drug users and their families and communities; overdose recognition and response training in drug treatment centers; producing and distributing targeted or mass media materials on opioid drug overdose prevention and response; collaboration among health-care providers to promote the prescribing, dispensing, and distributing of opioid antidote; preparation of curricula for groups interested in the prevention of opioid drug overdose; coordinating education and training on opioid drug overdose response and treatment for certain groups; coordinating parent, family, and survivor education groups to prevent death from overdose; require health-care providers to ensure patient education on use of opioid antidote; prohibit disciplinary or other adverse action under relevant statutes for health-care providers that dispense opioid antidote in good faith to patients; permit those that have received patient information and believe in good faith that a person is experiencing a drug overdose to administer the opioid antidote; direct the Department for Public Health to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the drug overdose program; extend civil immunity under this section to licensed physicians, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics, and physician assistants involved with training, prescribing, or dispensing the opioid antidote; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to authorize emergency medical technicians and paramedics to administer the opioid antidote to any person that the EMT or paramedic has been called to attend that is exhibiting symptoms consistent with opioid drug overdose; require every ambulance provider in Kentucky to keep an adequate supply of opioid antidote and the necessary equipment to administer it; require every ambulance provider to establish medical protocols to be used by EMT providers and paramedics in assessing an individual's overdosing on opioid drugs, determining correct dosages of opioid drugs, and the methods for administration; amend KRS 15A.342 to extend the Office of Drug Control Policy's authority to include the drug overdose prevention program created by this Act.

AN ACT relating to the prevention of opioid drug overdose.

Rep. Thomas Burch [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-26		recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2010-02-24		floor amendment (3) filed to Committee Substitute
2010-02-23		floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute
2010-02-23		taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
2010-02-22		posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 24, 2010
2010-02-19		2nd reading, to Rules
2010-02-18		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute
2010-01-25		posted in committee
2010-01-19		to Health & Welfare (H)
2010-01-14		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB263.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB263/bill.doc