| KY | SB28 | Veto | Amend KRS 311.380 to add definitions; amend KRS 311.400 to add the scope of practice for podiatric residents and podiatric assistants; amend KRS 311.420 to add qualifications to acquire a podiatry license; and amend KRS 311.480 to include podiatric r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Vetoed |
| KY | SB74 | Pass | Amend KRS 211.684 to define "state child and maternal fatality review team"; require the Department for Public Health to establish a state child and maternal fatality review team; modify required annual reporting requirements; amend KRS 216.2929 to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB297 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "National Background Check Program" or "NBCP," "PACE," and "PACE service provider"; exempt PACE service providers from obtaining a health facility license or a certificate of need to provide PACE ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor |
| KY | SR87 | Pass | Recognize January 23, 2024, as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB65 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify three emergency administrative regulations relating to Medicaid services after those administrative regulations were found deficient during the 2023 legislative interim; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State |
| KY | SB71 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to define "voluntarily"; require treatment centers or programs licensed as a chemical dependency treatment service to provide transportation services to residents who wish to voluntarily leave the program if th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB111 | Pass | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health insurance coverage for speech therapy as a treatment for stuttering; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health service benefit p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB145 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to allow health facilities or health care providers enrolled in the Kentucky Medicaid program to submit a current or prospective employee to a check of the child abuse and neglect or adult abuse registries main...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB242 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 216.525, relating to health services, to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
placed in the Orders of the Day |
| KY | SCR292 | 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] | 2024-03-28
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB295 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SCR187 | Intro
25% | Establish the Health Care Disparities Task Force; establish task force membership; require task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | SB239 | Engross
50% | 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 medical care providers who decline to perform procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB27 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms, prohibit discrimination against 340B covered entities by pharmaceutical manufacturers, and authorize the Attorney General to investigation violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB347 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 533.270 to define terms; amend KRS 533.274 to remove a misdemeanor as a disqualifying offense; require an assessment of a homeless defendant for a behavioral health disorder and establish preference for participation in the program if an el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | SB24 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of managed care organizations contracted by the Department for Medicaid Services to no more than three; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB367 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Kentucky all-payer claims database; establish purposes, definitions, and a restricted fund for the database; require the executive director of the Office of Data Analytics to develop, implement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB373 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to limit the liability of facilities that provide procedures related to in vitro fertilization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to limit the liability of health care providers that perform procedures re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB307 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 205.560 to define terms; establish procedures for investigating alleged violations of federal or state law by certified waiver providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB305 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 216B.020 to add various health facilities and services to the list of health facilities and services that are exempt from certificate of need requirements; amend KRS 216B.065 to exempt various health facilities and services from acquisition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB326 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 216.350, relating to health services, to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB301 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to state that there shall be no criminal liability against a provider engaged in assisted reproduction who meets the professional standard of care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB324 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "covenant not to compete," "employee," and "health service provider"; prohibit a health service provider from requiring an employee to enter a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB335 | Intro
25% | Appropriate certain General Fund moneys to the Department for Public Health to support the Smoking and Vaping Cessation Program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB221 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 211.430 to make a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB270 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define "health care provider" and "health care service"; make conforming amendments; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements for prior authorization exemptions;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | SB219 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 304.17A-270 to include medical laboratories in the definition of "provider"; amend KRS 205.522 to require the state Medicaid program to comply with any willing provider law; make technical amendments; require the Cabinet for Health and Fami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB238 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.1415 to remove provisions related to parental rights and courses, curriculums, or programs on human sexuality; provide for a process for parents to opt out of their child receiving instruction on the subject of human sexuality; amend KR...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SR100 | Pass | Designate February 2024 as American Heart Month and to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease and the importance of known one's cholesterol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB183 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; require employers who provide services in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation to maintain a written heat illness prevention plan informing employees of policies and proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB159 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS 95A.200 to 95A.300 to establish a voluntary PFAS blood test reimbursement program using moneys from the Firefighters Foundation Program fund and operated by the Kentucky Fire Commission; allow for reimbursement for out-of-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB154 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 311B.050 to require the Kentucky Board for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to create and enforce policies and procedures that ensure a patient's right to record any procedure performed by an individual who is licensed by the board; am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee |
| KY | SR103 | Pass | Designate February 2024 as American Heart Month and to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease and the importance of knowing one's cholesterol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR106 | Pass | Honor Dr. Clifford Lowdenback for serving as the current president of the Kentucky Dental Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB136 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require that all health services, equipment, programs, centers, facilities, beds, agencies, technologies, or hospitals listed in the state health plan except nursing facility beds or long-term care beds, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB135 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that an independent institution or postsecondary education institution that requires a student to receive an immunization for disease shall allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB137 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require that when a certificate of need for a health service or health facility is considered orphaned the need for the health service or health facility shall be presumed, an application by a new entity mu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB124 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure by January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB113 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS 335.300 to 335.399 to authorize the board to grant licensure to an applicant who holds an active license from another state to practice as an independent marriage and family therapist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee |
| KY | SB103 | 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] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB94 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 154.12-330 to give preference to veterans in the issuance of small business loans; create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to require monthly veteran workforce reports; create new sections of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB34 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to require the eligibility periods for all public assistance programs administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services be extended to the maximum period of eligibility permitted under federal law; proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SCR42 | Intro
25% | Reestablish the Certificate of Need (CON) Task Force to consider changes to the CON program; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit any findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB38 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "feminine hygiene product"; require each public school that includes any of grades four through 12 to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students; require each local board of education t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB36 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 218A.500 to allow the United States Department of Veterans Affairs health care system to operate a syringe services program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB51 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to define terms; establish a licensing board for professional music therapists; require three members of the board to have engaged in three years of the practice or teaching of music therapy; prohibit any person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee |
