| KY | HB199 | Engross
50% | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| KY | HB477 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish diagnosis criteria for sepsis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| KY | HB22 | Pass | Amend KRS 311.667 to remove the requirement for medical oversight of an AED program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| KY | HB401 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor |
| 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 |
| KY | HB252 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB438 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB467 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB764 | Intro
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"; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| 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 |
| KY | HB677 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB645 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB318 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | HB317 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | HB711 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB697 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 311.599 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB761 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 312.021 to create gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB760 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 311.586 to provide gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB757 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB675 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB589 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB574 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB538 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB543 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB428 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB429 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HR65 | Intro
25% | Honor Dr. Clifford Lowdenback for serving as the current president of the Kentucky Dental Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HCR62 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB35 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee |
| KY | HB382 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB364 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS 210.370 to 210.485 to create the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program; establish duties and responsibilities; amend KRS 210.400 to establish that the community board for mental health or individuals with an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB352 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 218B.010 to add additional conditions to the list of qualifying medical conditions for the use of medicinal cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB321 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan issued or renewed in the Commonwealth that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses shall include coverage for chronic pain treatme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB330 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define "sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts," "mental health professional," and "public funds"; prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation and gender identity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB310 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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
25% | 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 |
| KY | HB210 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB180 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to create winter and summer temperature standards for disconnection of service by retail electric and gas utilities; allow resumption of disconnection only after a 72-hour period during which the temperature st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-08
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB144 | Intro
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 receiving 10 percent or more of its total gross revenue from state general funds from requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB103 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 422 to establish standards and procedures for access to copies of patient medical records or charts for a patient who is under the age of eighteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB92 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 311.633 to require physicians and health care facilities to notify patients of the right to refuse compliance with advance directives or medical orders for scope of treatment; require physicians and health care facilities to provide notice ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB32 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 311.601 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for physicians to meet the 7.5 hours of approved continuing education in KRS 218A.205; amend KRS 311.844 to require an option ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB48 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to recognize an inherent and absolute right to refuse medical treatment and remove liability protections in the event of a serious adverse reaction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB49 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees |
