Kentucky Senate Bill 134 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on February 11 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-13 - to Judiciary (S)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to require the Board Medical Licensure to design a program to ensure that a physician offers testimony in accord with his or her professional knowledge of skills; create an expert witness certificate program for individuals who submit certain documents; require that individuals testifying as expert medical witnesses be certified by this program before their testimony may be admitted as expert testimony; clarify that the certificate shall only permit an individual to testify and not practice medicine; state 16 subjects to which an individual, under penalty of perjury, shall attest before he or she may receive an expert witness certificate; state circumstances under which the board may pursue disciplinary action, issue fines of up to $10,000, and revoke an expert witness certificate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 454 to establish standards for medical expert witness testimony.

AN ACT relating to medical practice.

Sen. Whitney Westerfield [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-13	Senate	to Judiciary (S)
2014-02-11	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/SB134.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/SB134/bill.doc