| KY | SR87 | Pass | Recognize January 23, 2024, as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HB199 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-04-15
To Senate Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee |
| KY | HB6 | Pass | The State/Executive Branch Budget: Details Part I, Operating Budget; details Part II, Capital Projects Budget; details Part III, General Provisions; details Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; details Part V, Funds Tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 175) |
| KY | HB174 | Pass | Amends KRS 311.6225 to make changes to the medical order for scope of treatment form; and creates 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 ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 164) |
| KY | HB477 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish diagnosis criteria for sepsis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 125) |
| KY | HB385 | Pass | Amends 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; amends KRS 504.060 to define “examiner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 138) |
| KY | SB280 | Pass | Creates new sections of KRS 205 to define terms and to direct that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services develop a Medicaid directed payment program to improve Medicaid reimbursement rates for qualifying hospitals located in counties with a Medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 90) |
| KY | HB31 | Pass | Creates 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 internat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 74) |
| KY | SB71 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to define “alternative sentencing worker,” “qualified treatment program,” and “treatment program,” to allow a court to issue an order for pretrial release pending an assessment for a mental health o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 68) |
| KY | HB361 | Pass | Amends KRS 311.530 to add the chair of the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, and to allow the commissioner of public health, the dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, the vice dean fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.30) |
| KY | SB319 | Pass | Amends KRS 49.280 to expand definitions relating to crime victims compensation; amends KRS 49.300 to specify duties of the Crime Victims Compensation Board; amends KRS 49.310 to allow family members and caregivers of a victim to file claims; amends K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 67) |
| KY | SB145 | Pass | .Creates 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 ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.18) |
| KY | SB242 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB252 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB467 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB764 | Intro
Sine Die | 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"; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB159 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define “health care provider” and “health services,” and to establish that health care providers providing health services are immune from criminal liability for harm arising from a health services-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.12) |
| KY | SB239 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB203 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-03-21
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB645 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 311.6225 to make changes to the medical order for scope of treatment form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB27 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 | HB318 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | SB281 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish that a university hospital shall only be entitled to a university hospital Medicaid reimbursement rate for services delivered at or by the university hospital in the county in which the affiliated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB408 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to require treatment centers or programs licensed as a chemical dependency treatment service to provide transportation services to residents who wish to leave the program if the resident's family, guardian, or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB789 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 210.450 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB305 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 645.110 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB326 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216.525 to include gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB490 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish diagnosis criteria for sepsis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HJR105 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study community-based supportive service options for individuals with a history of aggressive behavior or aggressive sexual behaviors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB806 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms; prohibit discrimination against 340B covered entities by pharmaceutical manufacturers; authorize the Attorney General to investigate violations; amend KRS 315.010 to include pharmacists who com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB811 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216.350, relating to health services, to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to ensure that home and community-based waiver programs include attendant care and nonskilled in-home care services and that adult day health and home healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB238 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB574 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB204 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB552 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB538 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 189.010 to define "super speeder"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to assess a fee of $200 to any person convicted as a super speeder; assess a fee of $50 and require the suspension of driving privileges for not making a timely paym...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HCR62 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | SB124 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require employees, visitors, and patients wear respirator masks while inside a health facility; establish exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB310 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB306 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HR50 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognize March 2024 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB285 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees |
