Kentucky House Bill 92 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)
Status: Introduced on January 5 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-01-05 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "free-standing alternative birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for free-standing alternative birthing centers including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) Standards for Birth Centers, and a six-month provisional license to be issued when all requirements for licensure other than accreditation have been met to allow a facility time to become accredited; require the cabinet to form an ad hoc committee to provide input on the development of administrative regulations; state that a certificate of need is not required to establish and license a free-standing alternative birthing center; amend KRS 216B.020 to conform; add the short title Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.

AN ACT relating to free-standing alternative birthing centers.

Rep. Jason Nemes [R]	Rep. Russell Webber [R]	Rep. Tina Bojanowski [D]	Rep. Kevin Bratcher [R]
Rep. Myron Dossett [R]	Rep. Daniel Fister [R]	Rep. Mark Hart [R]	Rep. Jerry Miller [R]
Rep. Phillip Pratt [R]	Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-05	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2021-01-05	House	introduced in House
2020-11-18	House	Prefiled by the sponsor(s).

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/hb92.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/hb92/orig_bill.pdf