KY SB11 | 2011 | Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill 11 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on February 2 2011 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-04 - to Judiciary (H)
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Summary

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to establish a civil mechanism for the recovery of false or fraudulent claims made against the Commonwealth's Medicaid System, including provisions increasing damages and civil penalties against wrongdoers, delineating mandatory and discretionary activities of the Attorney General, authorizing private litigants to bring claims in the name of the state against wrongdoers, establishing procedural mechanisms for handling civil actions of this type in the courts, prohibiting retaliation against employees who assist in suits of this type, and establishing time limitations for the filing of these suits.

Title

AN ACT relating to false claims.

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-04		to Judiciary (H)
2011-02-02		received in House
2011-01-07		3rd reading, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute
2011-01-07		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, January 7, 2011
2011-01-06		reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute
2011-01-05		returned to Judiciary (S)
2011-01-05		2nd reading
2011-01-05		taken from Judiciary (S)
2011-01-04		returned to Judiciary (S)
2011-01-04		1st reading
2011-01-04		taken from Judiciary (S)
2011-01-04		to Judiciary (S)
2011-01-04		introduced in Senate