| KY | HB484 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to establish the emergency medical services education grant program under the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to be used for student tuition support, agency support, and emergency medical services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 217) |
| 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 (Acts Ch. 207) |
| KY | HB272 | Pass | Amend KRS 405.075 to change the definition of "newborn safety device" related to the continuous staffing requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 202) |
| 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 (Acts Ch. 201) |
| 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 (Acts Ch. 168) |
| KY | HB174 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 422 to establish standards and procedures for access to copies of patient medical records for a patient who is under the age of eighteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 164) |
| KY | HB323 | Pass | Amend KRS 95A.262 to permit the Kentucky Fire Commission to establish a reimbursement program for cancer screenings for firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 142) |
| KY | HB385 | Pass | Amend KRS 311.631, relating to living wills and advance directives, to include an adult friend as an individual authorized to make health care decisions on behalf of a patient who lacks decisional capacity; amend KRS 504.060 to define "examiner" and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 138) |
| KY | HB57 | Pass | Amend KRS 311A.030 to remove the classifications of ambulance services, mobile integrated healthcare programs, and medical first response providers; amend KRS 311A.142 to permit an emergency medical responder, emergency medical technician, advanced e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 94) |
| KY | HB115 | Pass | Amend KRS 304.17-316 to define terms; make technical corrections; prohibit cost-sharing requirements for any covered diagnostic breast examination or supplemental breast examination; provide for additional coverage if required under federal law; prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 97) |
| KY | HB166 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define "SUDEP" and encourage a health care provider to provide information regarding sudden unexpected death in epilepsy; create a new section of KRS Chapter 72 to define "SUDEP" and update autopsy requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 98) |
| KY | HB505 | Pass | Amend KRS 309.080, 309.0805, 309.083, 309.0813, 309.0831, 309.0841, 309.0842, and 309.088 to change references to "associate alcohol and drug counselor I" and "associate alcohol and drug counselor II"; amend KRS 309.081 to make changes to the Board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 89) |
| KY | HB31 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization contracted for the delivery of Medicaid Services to provide coverage and reimbursement for at home prothrombin time or internati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 74) |
| KY | HB52 | Pass | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define "cancer screeing, test, or procedure"; require coverage for screenings, tests, and procedures performed for the purpose of detecting cancer that occur prior to diagnosis; amend KRS 304...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 75) |
| KY | HB194 | Pass | Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a person employed by or under contract with a hospital if the event occurs in or on the premises of a hospital or hospital-owned outp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 80) |
| 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 (Acts Ch. 68) |
| 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 (Acts Ch. 69) |
| KY | HB361 | Pass | Amend KRS 311.530 to add the chair of the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure as an ex officio nonvoting member; amend KRS 311.842 to change how the physician assistants on the Physician Assistant Advisor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.30) |
| KY | HB475 | Pass | Amend KRS 441.053, relating to jail health care operations, to remove the prohibition that an entity that provides medical, dental, psychological, or pharmacy services to the Department of Corrections and local jails cannot also provide claims manage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.36) |
| KY | HB493 | Pass | Amend KRS 194A.705 to limit the provision of enumerated health and health-related services to assisted living communities and nursing homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 57) |
| 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 (Acts Ch.18) |
| KY | HB159 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define "health care provider" and "health services"; establish that health care providers are immune from criminal liability for harm arising from a health services-related act or omission other than gross n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.12) |
| KY | HB274 | Pass | Amend KRS 315.010 and 315.205 to permit pharmacists to administer vaccines to children three years of age or older pursuant to prescriber-approved protocols with the consent of a parent or guardian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.11) |
| KY | HB220 | Pass | Amend KRS 304.17A-163 to permit insurers to require insureds to try biosimilar biological products prior to providing coverage for the equivalent branded prescription drug under certain circumstances; make findings and establish intent of Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 4) |
