Kentucky House Bill 445 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 22 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-03-16 - returned to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
Pending: House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Amend KRS 314.011 to eliminate the Controlled Substance Formulary Development Committee; amend KRS 314.042 to permit advanced practice registered nurses to enter into a collaborative agreement for prescriptive authority for controlled substances with a collaborating advanced practice nurse practitioner or a physician and to permit advanced practice registered nurses to prescribe controlled substances without a collaborative agreement after four years; amend KRS 314.193 to assign to the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Council the responsibility to make recommendations to the Board of Nursing regarding limitations on prescriptions for controlled substances written by advanced practice registered nurses and to review continuing education requirements for controlled substances; amend KRS 314.196 to clarify qualifications for members of the Collaborative Prescribing Agreement Joint Advisory Committee and to clarify the committee's responsibilities.

AN ACT relating to the prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses.

Rep. Russell Webber [R]	Rep. John Carney [R]	Rep. DJ Johnson [R]	Rep. Russ Meyer [D]
Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]	Rep. Dean Schamore [D]	Rep. Jill York [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-16	House	returned to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
2018-03-16	House	1st reading
2018-03-16	House	taken from Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
2018-03-13	House	posted in committee
2018-02-26	House	to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
2018-02-22	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB445.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB445/bill.pdf