Kentucky House Bill 250 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 7 2012 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-03-13 - to Judiciary (S)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to define terms; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to begin to prepare to establish and implement a registry of each person against whom a charge of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an adult has been substantiated; require the cabinet to promulgate regulations upon the implementation of the registry; prohibit adult institutional and community-based long-term-care service providers from employing a person whose name appears on the registry upon implementation of the registry; require the cabinet to implement a fingerprint-based background check program if federal funds become available for the National Background Check Program from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; clarify that all administrative procedures shall be in accord with KRS Chapter 13B; amend KRS 205.5606 to require that each person that provides services under that section shall not employ a person whose name appears on the registry upon implementation of the registry; amend KRS 210.795 to require that, upon implementation of the registry, a person on the registry is ineligible to be a provider under that statute and providers shall not employ a person whose name appears on the registry; amend KRS 209.140 to state that, upon implementation of a registry, the names of persons against whom charges of abuse, neglect, or exploitation have been substantiated shall be available to potential employers and the public.

AN ACT relating to patient safety in long-term-care settings and making an appropriation therefor.

Rep. Linda Belcher [D]	Rep. Kelly Flood [D]	Rep. Joni Jenkins [D]	Rep. Dennis Keene [D]
Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]	Rep. Carl Rollins [D]	Rep. Jim Wayne [D]	Rep. Susan Westrom [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-13		to Judiciary (S)
2012-03-07		received in Senate
2012-03-06		3rd reading, passed 62-36 with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-03-05		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 6, 2012
2012-03-02		2nd reading, to Rules
2012-03-01		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-02-27		posted in committee
2012-01-17		to Health & Welfare (H)
2012-01-12		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB250.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB250/bill.doc