Kentucky Senate Bill 103

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-12 - to Health Services (S)
Pending: Senate Health Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance requirements for centers; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; add requirement for medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, and 216.2970 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.

AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.

Sen. Shelley Frommeyer [R]	Sen. John Schickel [R]	Sen. Julie Raque Adams [R]	Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong [D]
Sen. Denise Harper Angel [D]	Sen. Gerald Neal [D]	Sen. Mike Nemes [R]	Sen. Reginald Thomas [D]
Sen. Lindsey Tichenor [R]	Sen. Robin Webb [D]	Sen. Gex Williams [R]	Sen. Mike Wilson [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-12	Senate	to Health Services (S)
2024-01-10	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2024-01-10	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb103.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb103/orig_bill.pdf