KY SB2 | 2012 | Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill 2 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 28 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-03-22 - recommitted to Judiciary (S)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]

Summary

Amend KRS 216B.015 to establish a definition of "pain management facility"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to establish requirements for owners, operators, and investors of pain management facilities and establish payment-for-services requirements; amend KRS 216B.020 to establish that pain management facilities are exempted from the certificate of need requirement; amend KRS 216B.990 to establish a Class D felony for any person who intentionally or knowingly or conspires to intentionally or knowingly operate a pain management facility in violation of the new section; amend KRS 218A.202 to establish that the electronic system for monitoring Schedules II, III, IV, and V controlled substances shall apply to all prescribers and dispensers of controlled substances; establish that the cabinet my enter into agreements or contracts for the establishment of the system; establish that any prescriptions issued or dispensed shall be reported into the system within 24 hours; establish that an employee of a practitioner or a pharmacist may request information from the system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to establish that prior to prescribing or dispensing a controlled substance every practitioner and dispenser shall query the system and shall retain the reference or transaction number of the query for their records; amend KRS 218A.245 to establish an option allowing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the system to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states or an organization administering the exchange of interstate or intrastate prescription dispensing data; amend KRS 311.550 to conform; amend KRS 311.565 to establish that the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure shall promulgate administrative regulations related to the prescribing and dispensing of buprenorphine and methadone; amend KRS 311.591 to establish a specific time frame for the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to handle grievances related to inappropriate or excessive prescribing or dispensing practices; amend KRS 311.594 to conform; create a new section of KRS 311.530 to 311.620 to establish that physicians shall receive specified training prior to prescribing any medication; amend KRS 315.191 to require the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate administrative regulations regarding required identification when a Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance is dispensed; create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to enact the Prescription Monitoring Program compact as developed by the Council of State Governments, including provisions relating to the compact's purpose, authorized uses and restrictions on prescription data, the establishment of technology and security standards, funding, the creation and operation of an interstate commission and its powers, duties, organization, administration, and rulemaking, the establishment of oversight, enforcement, and dispute resolution mechanisms, and delineating the conditions for compact formation, membership, and dissolution; allow the Governor, subject to Senate confirmation, to make Kentucky's appointments under the Prescription Monitoring Program compact.

Title

AN ACT relating to medical services.

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-22		recommitted to Judiciary (S)
2012-03-12		floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2012-03-09		reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1)
2012-02-29		to Judiciary (S)
2012-02-29		returned to Committee on Committees (S)
2012-02-29		2nd reading
2012-02-29		taken from Committee on Committees (S)
2012-02-28		returned to Committee on Committees (S)
2012-02-28		1st reading
2012-02-28		taken from Committee on Committees (S)
2012-02-28		introduced in Senate