Kentucky Senate Bill 246 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 28 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-03-01 - to Health & Welfare (S)
Pending: Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that an independent institution or postsecondary educational institution that requires a student to receive an immunization for disease must allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violations of the requirement; amend KRS 209.52 to allow vaccine requirement exemptions at long-term care facilities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to provide that a health facility that requires an employee to receive an immunization for disease must allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violations of the requirement; create a new section or KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to establish that an individual in the Commonwealth cannot be required to receive an unapproved drug that has been approved for emergency use by the secretary of the United States Food and Drug Administration; require specified information be given to an individual if he or she does choose to take the drug; create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to provide that an employer that requires an employee to receive an immunization for disease must allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violations of the requirement; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to drugs and medicines and declaring an emergency.

Sen. Adrienne Southworth [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-01	Senate	to Health & Welfare (S)
2022-02-28	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2022-02-28	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb246.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/sb246/orig_bill.pdf