Kentucky House Bill 285 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on April 26 2010 - 100% progression
Action: 2010-04-26 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 171)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Provide noncodified language to acknowledge a current pilot project designed to educate parents about pediatric abusive head trauma at three Norton Healthcare hospitals and request that preliminary results be shared with the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare by November 2010; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to define terms; amend KRS 15.334 to include the dynamics of pediatric abusive head trauma and model protocols to address pediatric abusive head trauma as mandatory training subjects for law enforcement officers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require inclusion of a segment on pediatric abusive head trauma in health education curriculum in Kentucky high schools; create a new section of KRS Chapter 197 to require that a course covering the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma be made available to inmates in state penitentiaries, and encourage local jailers to include a similar course; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to require that practicing guardian ad litem attorneys receive 1.5 hours of training in the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every five years as part of their continuing legal education; amend KRS 199.472 to require all prospective adoptive parents to take a 1.5 hour course in the prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma; amend KRS 199.896 to require employees and owners of child-care centers to take a 1.5 hour course once every 5 years as a part of their continuing education requirements and covering the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma; amend KRS 211.690 to require the HANDS program to include an educational component on the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require all health care professionals practicing in urgent care facilities to complete approved continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma; amend KRS 311.601 to require practicing pediatricians, radiologists, family practitioners, trauma physicians, and emergency medicine physicians to complete 1.5 hours of continuing medical education once by December 31, 2013, and to require new specialists to complete the 1.5 hour training course once; amend KRS 311.844 to require physician's assistants to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma once by December 31, 2013; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require paramedics to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every five years; amend KRS 311A.120 to require emergency medical technicians or first responders to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every five years; amend KRS 314.073 to require nurses to complete 1.5 hours of continuing competency requirements covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at once by December 31, 2013; amend KRS 335.130 to require licensed social workers and licensed clinical social workers to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at least once every six years; amend KRS 620.360 to require foster parents that receive placements of children under the age of five to attend a continuing education session covering the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma; amend KRS 194A.545 to encourage the cabinet's training academy to include training covering the recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma for front-line child protection staff.

AN ACT relating to pediatric abusive head trauma.

Rep. Royce Adams [D]	Rep. Linda Belcher [D]	Rep. Scott Brinkman [R]	Rep. Thomas Burch [D]
Rep. John Carney [R]	Rep. Ron Crimm [R]	Rep. William Farmer [R]	Rep. Joseph Fischer [R]
Rep. David Housman [R]	Rep. Joni Jenkins [D]	Rep. Thomas Kerr [R]	Rep. Stan Lee [R]
Rep. Mary Marzian [D]	Rep. Tim Moore [R]	Rep. Rick Nelson [D]	Rep. Marie Rader [R]
Rep. Tom Riner [D]	Rep. Fitz Steele [D]	Rep. Alecia Webb-Edgington [R]	Rep. Susan Westrom [D]
Rep. Addia Wuchner [R]	Rep. Jill York [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-04-26		signed by Governor (Acts ch. 171)
2010-04-15		delivered to Governor
2010-04-15		enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
2010-04-14		passed 100-0
2010-04-14		House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (2)
2010-04-14		posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (2)
2010-04-14		taken from Rules Committee
2010-04-14		to Rules (H)
2010-04-14		received in House
2010-04-14		passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute (2)
2010-04-14		Committee Substitute (1) withdrawn
2010-04-14		3rd reading
2010-04-14		posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, April 14, 2010
2010-04-14		reported favorably, to Rules as a Consent bill with Committee Substitute (2)
2010-04-14		returned to Judiciary (S)
2010-04-14		taken from Rules Committee
2010-03-26		reported favorably, to Rules as a Consent bill with Committee Substitute
2010-03-24		returned to Judiciary (S)
2010-03-24		2nd reading
2010-03-24		taken from committee
2010-03-23		returned to Judiciary (S)
2010-03-23		1st reading
2010-03-23		taken from committee
2010-02-16		to Judiciary (S)
2010-02-11		received in Senate
2010-02-10		3rd reading, passed 99-0 with Committee Substitute
2010-02-05		posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 10, 2010
2010-02-05		2nd reading, to Rules
2010-02-04		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute
2010-02-01		posted in committee
2010-01-21		to Health & Welfare (H)
2010-01-19		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB285.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB285/bill.doc