KY HB519 | 2016 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 15 2016 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-17 - to Health & Welfare (S)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on March 15 2016 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-17 - to Health & Welfare (S)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]
Summary
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to establish a process to designate a lay caregiver to be contacted upon discharge from a hospital; provide instructions to designated lay caregiver; provide that the designation of a lay caregiver not interfere with provisions of a living will; provide that compliance or noncompliance does not constitute a private right of action or standard of care.
Title
AN ACT relating to family caregivers.
Sponsors
| Rep. Jim Wayne [D] | Rep. Thomas Burch [D] | Rep. George Brown [D] | Rep. Mary Marzian [D] |
| Rep. Gregory Stumbo [D] | Rep. David Watkins [D] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-17 | Senate | to Health & Welfare (S) |
| 2016-03-15 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2016-03-14 | House | 3rd reading, passed 94-0 |
| 2016-03-11 | House | posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 14, 2016 |
| 2016-03-11 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2016-03-10 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar |
| 2016-03-04 | House | posted in committee |
| 2016-02-29 | House | to Health & Welfare (H) |
| 2016-02-26 | House | introduced in House |
Kentucky State Sources
| Type | Source |
|---|---|
| Summary | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB519.htm |
| Text | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB519/bill.pdf |
| Supplement | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB519/vote_history.pdf |
