Kentucky House Bill 578 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 1 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-08 - posted in committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to define terms; create the Kentucky Board of Midwifery; provide for licensure and administrative regulation requirements regarding the practice of midwifery; establish a trust and agency fund to be administered by the board to implement the licensure of midwives; specify that the formulary not include Schedule II, III, or IV drugs; require licensees to report data on clients for the previous year to the board; require options for moderate or high risk births to be disclosed to a client; require a record of informed consent to be kept for seven years by the midwife; set forth informed consent requirements for patient care; amend KRS 211.180 and 311.550 to conform.

AN ACT relating to midwifery.

Rep. Russell Webber [R]	Rep. Dean Schamore [D]	Rep. Richard Heath [R]	Rep. James Tipton [R]
Rep. Susan Westrom [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-08	House	posted in committee
2016-03-02	House	to Health & Welfare (H)
2016-03-01	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB578.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB578/bill.pdf