Kentucky House Bill 137 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: Passed on April 11 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-04-11 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 50)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Create KRS Chapter 311B, a new chapter relating to the licensure of medical imaging technologists and radiation therapists; establish legislative policy favoring regulation by a licensing board; define terms; create the Kentucky Board for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to license and regulate advanced practice professionals, medical imaging technologists, radiographers, radiation therapists, nuclear medicine technologists, and limited X-ray machine operators; set up board membership, meeting, and other procedural requirements; establish board powers and duties generally, including promulgating administrative regulations to administer and enforce the chapter, setting licensing requirements, and hiring an executive director and other board administrative staff; set minimum qualifications and powers of the executive director; require the board to recognize and enforce the standards of the national organizations for the medical imaging and radiation therapy professions; forbid practice of the regulated professions without a license from the board; exempt practitioners of the healing arts, students, and federal government employees from the chapter; list those professions requiring a license from the board; authorize the board to establish the qualifications for acquiring and maintaining licensure, with the power to identify other specialties or categories of duties consistent with KRS Chapter 311B; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations to set licensing fees; establish a trust and agency fund from licensing and other fees for use by the board; waive fees and set special procedures for licensees serving in the United States Armed Forces; permit claiming to be a licensee, employing an imaging or radiation professional, or manipulating ionizing radiation equipment or administering radiopharmaceuticals only if the person is licensed under the chapter; require any person to alert the board when a licensee has committed certain acts or has become unfit or incompetent to practice; list reasons the board may deny, revoke, or suspend a license; describe procedures for administrative hearings for licensee discipline; define conditions for instituting civil penalties; authorize the board to set reasonable fines through the promulgation of administrative regulations; repeal KRS 211.870, 211.890, and 211.993; set procedures for initial board appointments.

AN ACT relating to the licensure of health care professionals who use radiation for imaging and therapy and making an appropriation therefor.

Rep. Rocky Adkins [D]	Rep. James Glenn [D]	Rep. David Housman [R]	Rep. Sannie Overly [D]
Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]	Rep. Jody Richards [D]	Rep. John Stacy [D]	Rep. David Watkins [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-04-11		signed by Governor (Acts ch. 50)
2012-03-30		delivered to Governor
2012-03-30		enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
2012-03-30		received in House
2012-03-30		passed 32-3
2012-03-30		Senate receded from Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-03-30		posted for passage for receding from Senate Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-03-27		received in Senate
2012-03-27		House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-03-27		posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-03-27		to Rules (H)
2012-03-27		received in House
2012-03-26		3rd reading, passed 24-12 with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-03-26		posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 26, 2012
2012-03-21		2nd reading, to Rules
2012-03-20		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-02-29		to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
2012-02-27		received in Senate
2012-02-24		3rd reading, passed 85-7 with Committee Substitute, floor amendment (1)
2012-02-23		taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
2012-02-22		posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, February 24, 2012
2012-02-21		2nd reading, to Rules
2012-02-16		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute
2012-02-10		floor amendment (1) filed
2012-01-17		posted in committee
2012-01-03		to Health & Welfare (H)
2012-01-03		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB137.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB137/bill.doc