KY HB239 | 2023 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-24 - to Health Services (H)
Pending: House Health Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on February 9 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-24 - to Health Services (H)
Pending: House Health Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require a health care provider to order a quantitative and qualitative toxicology test to determine if a cause of an overdose is from an illicit drug if the person exhibits symptoms of an overdose in the health care provider's professional opinion or the person is known to the health care provider to have had previous overdose treatment; require a report of test findings to law enforcement and the coroner if the person dies while in the hospital; limit the public record of the test finding; provide immunity from civil liability for the health care provider who administers the test.
Title
AN ACT relating to hospital reporting of drug overdose information.
Sponsors
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2023-02-24 | House | to Health Services (H) |
2023-02-09 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
2023-02-09 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Coroners
Deaths
Drugs and Medicines
Health and Medical Services
Police, City and County
Police, State
Public Records and Reports
Deaths
Drugs and Medicines
Health and Medical Services
Police, City and County
Police, State
Public Records and Reports
Kentucky State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/hb239.html |
Text | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/hb239/orig_bill.pdf |