KY HB700 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 31-0)
Status: Introduced on February 26 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-03-15 - to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
Pending: House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on February 26 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-03-15 - to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
Pending: House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Create a new section of Subtitle17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special enrollment rights; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require health benefit plans that provide coverage for dependents to provide coverage for maternity care; amend KRS 304.17A-220 and 194A.099 to conform with the special enrollment requirement; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with the special enrollment and maternity coverage requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to define terms and provide for the payment of coverage premiums to eligible individuals; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid coverage for maternity services; amend KRS 205.592 to allow the Medicaid income limit for certain women and children to be increased under certain circumstances; amend KRS 205.6485 to require Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to provide maternity coverage; amend KRS 164.2847 to provide for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees for a child conceived and born as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 164.2849 to declare the interests of the Commonwealth in protecting the unborn and supporting a child conceived and born as a result of sexual assault within established parameters; amend KRS 199.011 to define a child conceived and delivered as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 199.473 to waive certain fees related to adoption proceedings; amend KRS 199.502 to include a conviction for specified criminal acts for an adoption without consent of the biological living parents; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish entitlement to nonrecurring adoption expenses under specified circumstances; amend KRS 199.894 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.8996 to establish the Child Care Assistance Program and establish eligibility requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to direct the Cabinet to provide informational material on benefits available to a victim of sexual assault and a child conceived as a result of the sexual assault; amend KRS 216B.400 to establish requirements for receipt of specified benefits related to sexual assault that results in pregnancy; create a new section of KRS Chapter 49 to establish benefits available to a child born as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 49.310 to conform; amend KRS 625.090 to add a conviction or guilty plea to any degree of rape, sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct as a basis to terminate parental rights; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver if potential cost defrayment or loss of federal funds is identified; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Act; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
Title
AN ACT relating to the protection of mothers and their children.
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-15 | House | to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H) |
| 2024-02-26 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-02-26 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Actuarial Analysis
Children and Minors
Crime Victims
Crimes and Punishments
Education, Higher
Effective Dates, Delayed
Insurance, Health
Local Mandate
Medicaid
Parental Rights
Peace Officers and Law Enforcement
Police, State
Reproductive Issues
Short Titles and Popular Names
State Employees
Women
Children and Minors
Crime Victims
Crimes and Punishments
Education, Higher
Effective Dates, Delayed
Insurance, Health
Local Mandate
Medicaid
Parental Rights
Peace Officers and Law Enforcement
Police, State
Reproductive Issues
Short Titles and Popular Names
State Employees
Women
