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KYHB22Engross
50%
Amend KRS 311.667 to remove the requirement for medical oversight of an AED program.
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2024-03-15
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
KYHB31Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-15
posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024
KYHB159Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-15
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
KYHB252Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to prohibit a health care provider from performing a pelvic, rectal, or prostate examination without the informed consent of the patient or the person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient; p...
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2024-03-15
To House Rules Committee
KYHB361Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-15
passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day
KYHB438Intro
25%
Amend KRS 158.832 to include a definition for "undesignated glucagon"; amend KRS 158.838 to allow health care practitioners to prescribe undesignated glucagon in the name of a school to be maintained for use by a school nurse or trained school employ...
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2024-03-15
To House Rules Committee
KYHB477Engross
50%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish diagnosis criteria for sepsis.
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2024-03-15
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 21, 2024
KYHB677Intro
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...
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYHB764Intro
25%
Amend KRS 205.529 to remove reference to a Schedule III controlled substance containing hydrocodone in the program for synchronization of medications; amend KRS 218A.010 to add optometrist and physician assistant to the definition of "practitioner"; ...
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2024-03-15
To House Rules Committee
KYSB319Engross
50%
Amend KRS 49.280 to expand definitions relating to crime victims compensation; amend KRS 49.300 to specify duties of the Crime Victims Compensation Board; amend KRS 49.310 to allow family members and caregivers of a victim to file claims; amend KRS 4...
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee
KYHB166Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB239Intro
25%
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...
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2024-03-13
reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
KYHB645Engross
50%
Amend KRS 311.6225 to make changes to the medical order for scope of treatment form.
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2024-03-13
To Senate Committee on Committees
KYHB318Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to require insurers of health benefit plans to offer a program to reduce or eliminate prior authorization requirements; establish notice requirements; establish participating provider requirement...
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2024-03-12
To House Banking and Insurance Committee
KYHB317Intro
25%
Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define "health care provider"; 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; establish requirements fo...
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2024-03-12
To House Banking and Insurance Committee
KYHB174Engross
50%
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.
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2024-03-11
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYHB467Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to requi...
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2024-03-11
To House Rules Committee
KYSB145Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-08
To House Rules Committee
KYSB28Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-07
To House Rules Committee
KYHB199Intro
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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2024-03-07
To House Rules Committee
KYSB24Engross
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.
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2024-03-06
To House Health Services Committee
KYSB373Intro
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...
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2024-03-01
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYHB401Engross
50%
Amend KRS 342.0011 to expand the definition of "physician" to include physicians with a license issued by any state, Commonwealth, district, or territory of the United States.
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2024-02-29
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee
KYSB296Intro
25%
Amend KRS 342.0011 to define "medical professional"; amend KRS 342.020 to provide that failure to submit a statement for services within 45 days may render the statement for services ineligible and that denial of a claim shall toll the requirements t...
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2024-02-29
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee
KYSB301Intro
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.
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2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
KYSB324Intro
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...
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2024-02-29
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYHB385Engross
50%
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 ...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee
KYSB270Intro
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;...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee
KYSB247Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish diagnosis criteria for sepsis.
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2024-02-26
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYHB711Intro
25%
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, and 311.781 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.725, 311.727, 311.732, 311.7706, 311.772, 311.780, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when the unborn child has a lethal fetal anomaly and delineate additional medical cir...
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2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB697Intro
25%
Amend KRS 311.599 to add gender-neutral language.
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2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB761Intro
25%
Amend KRS 312.021 to create gender-neutral language.
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2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB760Intro
25%
Amend KRS 311.586 to provide gender-neutral language.
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2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB757Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to protect access to assisted reproductive technology; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to declare that a fertilized human egg or human embryo that exists outside of the uterus of a human body shall not ...
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2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB211Intro
25%
Amend KRS 314.073 to require nurses whose primary scope of practice focuses on patients 50 years of age or older to complete continuing education courses on treating Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia; amend KRS 311.844 to require physic...
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2024-02-22
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB219Intro
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...
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2024-02-22
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYSB238Intro
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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2024-02-22
To Senate Education Committee
KYHB675Intro
25%
Amend KRS 200.666, related to requirements for personnel development, to provide that training activities for licensed providers of early intervention services for children are offered by various licensure boards.
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2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB589Intro
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...
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2024-02-20
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB574Intro
25%
Amend KRS 311.571 to allow and add requirements for a physician licensed to practice medicine in another country to obtain a provisional license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth; add requirements for a provisional license to convert to a regu...
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2024-02-15
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
KYHB543Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define "drug disposal method"; require the Kentucky Medicaid program to provide payment to a pharmacist or practitioner for the cost of a drug disposal method that the pharmacist or practitioner distributed ...
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2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees
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
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
KYSR106PassHonor Dr. Clifford Lowdenback for serving as the current president of the Kentucky Dental Association.
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2024-01-30
adopted by voice vote
KYHR65Intro
25%
Honor Dr. Clifford Lowdenback for serving as the current president of the Kentucky Dental Association.
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2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees
KYHCR62Intro
25%
Establish the Infant Mortality Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2024.
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2024-01-29
To House Committee On Committees
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
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