| KY | HB176 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; obligate the cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop guidelines for health facilities conducting workplace safety assessments and creating a workplace safety plan; require the cabinet ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB148 | Pass | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to provide for the written assignment of substance abuse or mental health treatment benefits to a substance abuse and mental health facility or other health care provider located in this state t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB180 | Pass | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish biomarker testing coverage requirements for health benefit plans; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the biomarker testing coverage requirements; direct that provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB94 | Pass | Amend KRS 314.042 to establish requirements related to "Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse's Prescriptive Authority for Nonscheduled Legend Drugs" (CAPA-NS) and "Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Regist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB544 | Pass | Amend KRS 199.900 relating to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB43 | Pass | Amend KRS 216.505 to include communicable disease outbreaks and resident communicable disease status to exemptions for essential personal care visitors; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB42 | Pass | Amend KRS 18A.2258 to require the secretary of the Finance Cabinet to contract with an independent entity to monitor all Public Employee Health Insurance health care service benefit claims; allow the contract to include pharmacy benefits claims monit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
signed by Governor |
| KY | SJR54 | Pass | Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to develop a proposal to link Medicaid reimbursements to Area Deprivation Index scores; submit findings and proposals to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2023; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB200 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund to enable the CPE, healthcare programs, and healthcare providers and facilities to match public and private dollars for the purpose of awardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB71 | Pass | Amend KRS 311.1925 to add other related adults and hospital administrators to the hierarchy of those who can authorize an anatomical gift; amend KRS 311.1929 to add research for the advancement of donation and transplantation science as an acceptable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB226 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the administration of behavioral health community crisis response and transfer the administration from the Department for Military Affairs to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; repeal KRS ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB110 | Pass | Amend KRS 314.091 to expand when the Kentucky Board of Nursing can suspend or reprimand a licensed nurse; amend KRS 314.101 to allow licensed nurses from another state who are in the state on a nonroutine basis to practice; amend KRS 314.121 to limit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB135 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make information on postpartum depression and a postpartum assessment tool available on its website; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB334 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require an application to increase the number of beds by an intermediate-care facility for individuals with an intellectual disability to be consistent with the state health plan under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB502 | Pass | Amend KRS 216.718 to define "permanent direct care staff" and "temporary direct care staff"; amend KRS 216.772, 216.724, 216.726, and 216.728 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB75 | Pass | Amend KRS 205.6405, relating to hospital rate improvement programs, to redefine "managed care gap" and "qualifying hospital"; amend KRS 205.6406, relating to hospital rate improvement programs, to add inpatient services and include add-on amounts to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB170 | Pass | Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health insurance coverage for oocyte and sperm preservation services and medical services related to testicular and other urological cancers; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB238 | Pass | Create a new section in KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit a health care provider from discriminating against an individual who has a disability based solely on the individual's disability when providing health care and other services related to an anatomic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB387 | Pass | Amend KRS 12.550, 21A.190, 164.020, 194A.030, 194A.564, 194A.601, 199.665, 199.8943, 199.8996, 205.470, 205.525, 205.619, 205.702, 205.704, 209A.122, 210.031, 210.300, 210.365, 210.366, 210.368, 211.027, 211.297, 211.577, 211.684, 214.544, 214.556, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-20
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB12 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define "physician wellness program" and "career fatigue"; establish protections for physicians who participate in a physician wellness program; and affirm physician obligation to report impaired physicians to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-17
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB40 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 72.405 to apply definitions to entirety of KRS Chapter 72; create new definition of "genetic tests"; expand definition of "post-mortem examination"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 72 to require the Office of the Kentucky State Medical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
placed in the Orders of the Day |
| KY | HB101 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 156.160 to prohibit administrative regulations of the Kentucky Board of Education from requiring students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in order to attend school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB47 | Engross
50% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and establish a medicinal cannabis program; amend KRS 342.815 to establish that the Employer’s Mutual Insurance Authority shall not be required to provide coverage to an employer if doing so w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB129 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB154 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS 304.17C-130 to 304.17C-138 to establish requirements for insurers of dental benefit plans relating to assignment of benefits; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers providing coverage f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HJR38 | Engross
50% | Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to permit the coverage of triage, treatment, and transport of patients by emergency ambulance services and submit a state Medicaid plan amendment to cover treatment in p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB436 | Intro
25% | Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to submit a state plan amendment application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services no later than November 1, 2023, to provide medical assistance for inpatient and outpatient services pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HR90 | Intro
25% | Recognize April 2023 as Testicular Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
To House Floor Committee |
| KY | HB21 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 186.412 to require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures and forms to allow an individual without a fixed, permanent address to submit a form signed by a shelter, health care facility, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) as a consent bill |
| KY | HB196 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Mental Health Safety Center within the University of Louisville to be known as SafeKY; require SafeKY to create, implement, and maintain a real-time electronic mental health applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB349 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 214.430 to permit expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted infections including but not limited to trichomoniasis, gonorrhea, or chlamydia infection; amend KRS 311.990 to remove the penalty of a Class D felony for a person who don...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB470 | Engross
50% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; state that the provision of gender transition services to a person under the age of 18 years by a health care provider or mental health care provider is unethical and unprofessional conduct; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
laid on clerk's desk |
| KY | SB29 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish eligibility criteria for Medicaid managed care organizations and limit the number of managed care organizations contracted by the Department for Medicaid Services to no more than three; EFFECTIVE J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB156 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 216.505 to include psychiatric residential treatment facilities as defined in KRS 216B.450 in the definition of "facility"; include communicable disease outbreaks and resident communicable disease status to exemptions for essential personal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB90 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to require treatment centers licensed as a chemical dependency treatment service to provide transportation services or access to transportation services to residents who wish to leave the program; outline trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| KY | SR148 | Intro
25% | Recognize April 2023 as Oral Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-10
To Senate Floor Committee |
| KY | SCR165 | Intro
25% | Create the Certificate of Need (CON) Task Force to review the CON program; review the need to maintain or modify each health facility and service covered by CON; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit any findings and recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-09
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HCR85 | Intro
25% | Create the Certificate of Need (CON) Task Force to review the CON program; review the need to maintain or modify each health facility and service covered by CON; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit any findings and recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-08
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB67 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) |
| KY | HB290 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 205.529 to revise the medications that are part of the program for synchronization of medications; amend KRS 218A.172 to revise the medications regulated; amend KRS 218A.182 to revise when a an electronic prescription is required from the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB528 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require certain health insurance policies, plans, certificates, and contracts to provide coverage for the treatment of substance use disorder by an inpatient facility and an in-home program; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-07
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB526 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 312.021 to create gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
To House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee |
| KY | HB495 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require coverage for screenings, tests, and procedures performed for the purpose of detecting cancer that occur prior to diagnosis; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 38A of KRS Chapter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
To House Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | HR24 | Pass | Recognize February 27 to March 5, 2023, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB137 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 411.182 to limit recoverable medical costs to amounts owed in tort actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB134 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements for prior authorization exemptions; establish requirements for rescinding prior authorization exemptions; set forth requirements for external rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | HB239 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require a health care provider to order a quantitative and qualitative toxicology test to determine if a cause of an overdose is from an illicit drug if the person exhibits symptoms of an overdose in the he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB261 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 194A.700 to revise definitions; amend KRS 194A.703 to require that assisted living communities be classified as residential buildings and not institutional buildings; amend KRS 194A.705 to specify how food should be prepared; clarify how an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB511 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 194A.703 to require that each assisted living facility that provides basic health and health-related services and dementia care services be classified as an institutional building and require that any assisted living facility that does not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-24
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB107 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and establish a medicinal cannabis program; amend KRS 342.815 to establish that the Employer’s Mutual Insurance Authority shall not be required to provide coverage to an employer if doing so w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
