KY HB570 | 2022 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 23 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-23 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on February 23 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-23 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to define terms; prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant providers the right not to participate in or pay for services that violate their conscience; exempt providers from liability for exercising these rights; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations of these provisions.
Title
AN ACT relating to the exercise of ethics and diversity within the medical profession.
Sponsors
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2022-02-23 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
2022-02-23 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Civil Rights
Health and Medical Services
Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Insurance, Health
Medicaid
Nurses
Optometrists
Personnel and Employment
Pharmacists
Physicians and Practitioners
Public Health
Health and Medical Services
Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Insurance, Health
Medicaid
Nurses
Optometrists
Personnel and Employment
Pharmacists
Physicians and Practitioners
Public Health
Kentucky State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb570.html |
Text | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/hb570/orig_bill.pdf |