KY HB213 | 2015 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 37-2)
Status: Engrossed on February 19 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-20 - to Judiciary (S)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]
Status: Engrossed on February 19 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-20 - to Judiciary (S)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]
Summary
Amend KRS 72.026 to increase the scope of mandatory coroner and medical examiner examinations and reporting in deaths involving a Schedule I controlled substance; amend KRS 100.982 to mirror federal law in regard to addicted persons and residential care facilities; amend KRS 196.288 to direct that a portion of recaptured savings from criminal justice reforms be directed to jail-based substance abuse treatment programs for prisoners, to community mental health centers for community members, and to KY-ASAP for substance abuse prevention programming; and to combat neonatal abstinence syndrome; and to prosecutorial and defense agencies to fund social workers and expedited prosecutions; amend KRS 205.560 to amend the protocols for Medicaid provider credentialing relative to substance abuse treatment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid to offer a broad array of substance abuse treatment resources; amend KRS 216B.020 to amend the certificate of need process relative to substance abuse treatment facilities; annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 217.186 to allow the opiate overdose rescue medication naloxone to be prescribed to persons, agencies, or school employees capable of administering the medication in emergency situations; allow first responders to access and utilize the medication; allow pharmacists certified to do so to prescribe and dispense the medication; amend KRS 218A.050 to include acetylfentanyl in the list of schedule I controlled substances; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to create a criminal defense for use in emergency drug overdose situations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to require state-funded substance abuse programs from discriminating against pregnant women; create and amend various sections in KRS Chapter 218A to restructure the existing trafficking in controlled substance offenses into a three-tiered structure based upon peddling, trafficking, and aggravated trafficking; amend KRS 218A.500 to exempt from the drug paraphernalia statute needles exchanged at a local health department operating a treatment outreach program with local approval and needles and sharps declared to a peace officer prior to a search of the defendant's person; amend KRS 625.050 to provide a safe harbor protection for a pregnant addict who complies with prenatal care and substance abuse treatment instructions; include noncodified language encouraging the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study certain opioid treatment initiatives, establish an evidence-based treatment task force relating to the disease of addiction, develop county and regional wraparound teams for opioid addiction, collaborate with medical schools and post-graduate training programs to include ten hours of coursework on addiction for all medical professionals, increase continuing education units for medical and health professionals relating to the disease of addiction, and make legislative recommendations to the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare; direct the Department of Criminal Justice Training to conduct regionalized heroin-specific in-service training for law enforcement officers by December 31, 2016; EMERGENCY.
Title
AN ACT relating to controlled substances and declaring an emergency.
Sponsors
| Rep. John Tilley [D] | Rep. Joni Jenkins [D] | Rep. Rocky Adkins [D] | Rep. Linda Belcher [D] |
| Rep. Thomas Burch [D] | Rep. Dwight Butler [R] | Rep. Larry Clark [D] | Rep. Leslie Combs [D] |
| Rep. Will Coursey [D] | Rep. Mitchel Denham [D] | Rep. Jeffery Donohue [D] | Rep. Kelly Flood [D] |
| Rep. Jim Gooch [R] | Rep. Derrick Graham [D] | Rep. Jeff Greer [D] | Rep. Chris Harris [D] |
| Rep. James Kay [D] | Rep. Dennis Keene [D] | Rep. Martha King [D] | Rep. Mary Marzian [D] |
| Rep. Thomas McKee [D] | Rep. Russ Meyer [D] | Rep. Charles Miller [D] | Rep. Terry Mills [D] |
| Rep. Rick Nelson [D] | Rep. Sannie Overly [D] | Rep. Rick Rand [D] | Rep. Jody Richards [D] |
| Rep. Tom Riner [D] | Rep. Dean Schamore [D] | Rep. John Short [D] | Rep. Arnold Simpson [D] |
| Rep. Fitz Steele [D] | Rep. Wilson Stone [D] | Rep. Thomas Thompson [D] | Rep. David Watkins [D] |
| Rep. Jim Wayne [D] | Rep. Susan Westrom [D] | Rep. Brent Yonts [D] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-02-20 | Senate | to Judiciary (S) |
| 2015-02-19 | Senate | returned to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2015-02-19 | Senate | 1st reading |
| 2015-02-19 | Senate | taken from Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2015-02-19 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2015-02-13 | House | passed 98-0 with committee amendment (1), floor amendments (3) (5) and (6) |
| 2015-02-13 | House | floor amendment (1) defeated |
| 2015-02-13 | House | 3rd reading |
| 2015-02-12 | House | floor amendments (3) (4) (5) and (6) filed |
| 2015-02-12 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 13, 2015 |
| 2015-02-11 | House | reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with committee amendment (1) |
| 2015-02-11 | House | floor amendment (2) filed |
| 2015-02-10 | House | posting waived |
| 2015-02-10 | House | floor amendment (1) filed |
| 2015-02-10 | House | returned to Judiciary (H) |
| 2015-02-10 | House | 1st reading |
| 2015-02-10 | House | taken from Judiciary (H) |
| 2015-02-09 | House | to Judiciary (H) |
| 2015-02-09 | House | introduced in House |
