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KYHB204Intro
25%
Amend KRS 216B.040 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family conduct public hearings on certificate of need applications as requested by applicants for, or holders of, certificates of need and licenses; amend KRS 216B.062 to require that noti...
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2024-02-14
To House Health Services Committee
KYHB552Intro
25%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define new terms; require hospitals to disclose prices for certain items and services provided by hospitals; require hospitals to provide descriptions of different services and standard charges of those serv...
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2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB536Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage fo...
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2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB544Intro
25%
Amend KRS 211.684 to permanently establish the state child and maternal fatality review team within the Kentucky Department for Public Health; require the team to review and analyze all child fatalities or near fatalities in the Commonwealth each yea...
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2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB538Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "pregnancy resource center"; require pregnancy resource centers to be licensed; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure stan...
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2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB183Intro
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...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee
KYHB480Intro
25%
Amend KRS 72.425 to require a coroner to perform an autopsy on a decedent when the death of the person is not a coroner's case if a request is made by written consent by the decedent's spouse, the next of kin, or the person who assumes the responsibi...
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2024-02-07
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB159Intro
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-...
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2024-02-05
To Senate State & Local Government Committee
KYSB154Intro
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...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee
KYHB428Intro
25%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion ...
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2024-01-31
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB430Intro
25%
Amend KRS 211.690 to require the Health Access Nurturing Development Services Program to provide educational information about maternal and postpartum depression; make technical corrections.
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2024-01-31
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB429Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define terms; establish privacy protections for a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish protections for any person or entity assisting a woman seeking reproduct...
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2024-01-31
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB405Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS 211.672 to 211.678 to establish the Perinatal Advisory Committee to review Kentucky’s system of perinatal care and make recommendations for the improvement of perinatal outcomes within the Cabinet for Health and Family S...
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2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB426Intro
25%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164A to establish within the State Treasury a fund to be used to make contributions to Kentucky opportunity accounts; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to share information with the Kentucky Highe...
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2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB406Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings to be claimed as a service for the child as part of the early and periodic, diagnostic and treatment benefit; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky ...
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2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB136Intro
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...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB137Intro
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...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB135Intro
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...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYHB35Intro
25%
Amend KRS 319.053 to reduce the five-year supervision requirement to two years for a licensed psychological associate to qualify as a licensed psychological practitioner; amend KRS 319.050 and 319.064 to extend the grace period from 60 days to 180 da...
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2024-01-26
To House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee
KYSB124Intro
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.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYHB382Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require employees, visitors, and patients wear respirator masks while inside a health facility; establish exemptions.
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2024-01-25
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB376Intro
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...
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2024-01-25
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB364Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS 210.370 to 210.485 to create the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program; establish duties and responsibilities; amend KRS 210.400 to establish that the community board for mental health or individuals with an...
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2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB358Intro
25%
Amend KRS 213.046, 213.056, and 213.071 to require the biological sex designation on a birth certificate to be either male or female and prohibit a nonbinary or any symbol representing a nonbinary designation including the letter "X."
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2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB350Intro
25%
Amend KRS 196.173 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
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2024-01-23
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB352Intro
25%
Amend KRS 218B.010 to add additional conditions to the list of qualifying medical conditions for the use of medicinal cannabis.
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2024-01-23
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB113Intro
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.
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2024-01-22
To Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee
KYHB321Intro
25%
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan issued or renewed in the Commonwealth that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses shall include coverage for chronic pain treatme...
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2024-01-22
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB339Intro
25%
Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 304.17A-660 to 304.17A-665 to define terms; require certain health plans to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorder; establish r...
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2024-01-22
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB310Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define "health service" and "seeking, obtaining, providing, or facilitating a health service"; provide exemption from civil liability, criminal liability, or administrative investigation for seeking, obtaini...
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2024-01-19
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB150Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers from state and local ad valorem taxes; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 92, 132, 133, 134, 136, 141, 186, 186A, and 235 to confo...
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2024-01-18
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYHB77Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 309 to adopt the Interstate Massage Compact; declare the intent and purpose of the compact; define terms; establish conditions under which an individual can practice in a remote state; authorize a home state to imp...
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2024-01-18
To House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee
KYHB306Intro
25%
Amend KRS 211.680 to expand the scope of the legislative intent and findings; create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; require licensed health facilities under KRS Chapter 216B to provide each patient with written information regarding...
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2024-01-18
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB290Intro
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 comprehensive supervised substance use disorder treatment; create a new section of Subtit...
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2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB285Intro
25%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill individual's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; require conditions for making the request; permit individual to resci...
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2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB273Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization contracted to provide Medicaid benefits to provide comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity and inform Medicaid enrol...
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2024-01-16
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB103Intro
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,...
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2024-01-12
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB94Intro
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...
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2024-01-10
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee
KYHB211Intro
25%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish a program for harm reduction centers; amend possession of controlled substance statutes to reduce penalties; amend KRS 218A.275 to provide for referrals to treatment for persons charged with possess...
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2024-01-09
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB202Intro
25%
Amend KRS 216B.015 to amend the definition of "capital expenditure minimum" and define "major medical equipment expenditure minimum"; amend KRS 216B.061 to modify conditions under which a person is prohibited from taking actions without a certificate...
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2024-01-09
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB173Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for certified professional midwifer...
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2024-01-08
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB175Intro
25%
Amend KRS 216B.065 to require the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, or the medical systems thereof, to obtain approval from the General Assembly before acquiring a hospital that requires a license issued under KRS 216B.042.
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2024-01-08
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB181Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to permit a tenant to terminate a lease or rental agreement if he or she is seeking relocation due to a recent mental or physical health emergency; require the tenant to pay any rent due prorated to the effecti...
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2024-01-08
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB177Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 prohibiting the state, any political subdivision of the state, or any governmental agency from requiring a child to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
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2024-01-08
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB34Intro
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...
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2024-01-05
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYHB163Intro
25%
Amend KRS 214.450 to define "COVID-19 vaccine" or "mRNA vaccine"; amend KRS 214.452 to require blood establishments to test for COVID-19 antibodies, evidence of lipid nanoparticles, and spike protein; require the administrator of any blood establishm...
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2024-01-05
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB145Intro
25%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define new terms; require hospitals to disclose prices for certain items and services provided by hospitals; require hospitals to provide descriptions of different services and standard charges of those serv...
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2024-01-04
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB144Intro
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 receiving 10 percent or more of its total gross revenue from state general funds from requirin...
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2024-01-04
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB146Intro
25%
Amend KRS 199.8965 to require a child care staff member who turns 18 to complete a national and state criminal background check within 30 days of his or her 18th birthday.
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2024-01-04
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB38Intro
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...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
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