KY HB199 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-5)
Status: Engrossed on March 26 2024 - 50% progression
Action: 2024-04-15 - recommitted to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
Pending: Senate Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on March 26 2024 - 50% progression
Action: 2024-04-15 - recommitted to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
Pending: Senate Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Summary
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, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance requirements for centers; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; add requirement for medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, and 216.2970 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.
Title
AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-03-26 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 358 (Y: 69 N: 25 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-15 | Senate | recommitted to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H) |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | floor amendments (1), (2) and (3) filed |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | returned to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | 2nd reading |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | taken from Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | returned to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | 1st reading |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | taken from Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-03-26 | House | 3rd reading, passed 69-25 with Floor Amendment (2) |
| 2024-03-25 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024 |
| 2024-03-25 | House | floor amendment (2) filed |
| 2024-03-22 | House | floor amendment (1) filed |
| 2024-03-07 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-03-06 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
| 2024-01-18 | House | to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H) |
| 2024-01-09 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-01-09 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Administrative Regulations and Proceedings
Health and Medical Services
Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Licensing
Nurses
Physicians and Practitioners
Reproductive Issues
Short Titles and Popular Names
Health and Medical Services
Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Licensing
Nurses
Physicians and Practitioners
Reproductive Issues
Short Titles and Popular Names
