Kentucky Senate Bill 72

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 8)
Status: Engrossed on February 17 2026 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2026-02-17 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against health care professionals who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant health care professionals the right not to participate in services that violate their conscience; exempt health care professionals from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit hiring or licensing authorities from reprimanding health care professionals; require hiring or licensing authorities to provide complaints it has received to health care professionals; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations; provide that the Act may be cited as the Health Care Heroes Recruitment and Retention Act; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of health care professionals and declaring an emergency.

Sen. Donald Douglas [R]	Sen. Gary Boswell [R]	Sen. Greg Elkins [R]	Sen. Robert Mills [R]
Sen. Matt Nunn [R]	Sen. Steve Rawlings [R]	Sen. Gex Williams [R]	Sen. George Wise [R]

2026-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RSN# 3825 (Y: 28 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-02-17	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2026-02-17	House	received in House
2026-02-13	Senate	3rd reading, passed 28-5
2026-02-12	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 13 2026
2026-02-12	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2026-02-11	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2026-02-06	Senate	to Health Services (S)
2026-01-12	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2026-01-12	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/sb72.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/sb72/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/sb72/bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/26RS/sb72/LM.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/sb72/vote_history.pdf