Kentucky House Bill 304 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 21 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-03-21 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 084)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to enact and enter into the Nurse Licensure Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for registered nurses or practical nurses; permit the Kentucky Board of Nursing to limit or revoke the multistate licensure privilege of any nurse to practice in Kentucky; establish application requirements; require reporting of any actions taken by the Kentucky Board of Nursing to the home state of the licensee; require compact states to participate in a coordinated licensure information system and provide for interchange of information; establish the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators; provide immunity for party states, officers, employees, or agents of a party state's nurse licensing board who act in accordance with the provisions of the compact; prohibit amendment of the compact unless the amendment has been enacted into the laws of all party states; provide for severability for any provision in the compact that is contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance; repeal KRS 314.470, which set forth the prior version of the Nurse Licensure Compact; EFFECTIVE December 31, 2018, or upon adoption of compact by 26 states, whichever is earlier.

AN ACT relating to the nurse licensure compact.

Rep. Addia Wuchner [R]	Rep. Mary Marzian [D]	Rep. Kelly Flood [D]	Rep. Mark Hart [R]
Rep. Kimberly Moser [R]	Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]	Rep. Melinda Prunty [R]	Rep. Susan Westrom [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-21	House	signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 084)
2017-03-14	House	delivered to Governor
2017-03-14	House	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2017-03-14	House	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2017-03-14	House	received in House
2017-03-08	Senate	3rd reading, passed 37-0
2017-03-08	Senate	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017
2017-03-07	Senate	reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill
2017-03-06	Senate	returned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
2017-03-06	Senate	1st reading
2017-03-06	Senate	taken from Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
2017-02-28	Senate	to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
2017-02-23	Senate	received in Senate
2017-02-22	House	3rd reading, passed 99-0
2017-02-21	House	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017
2017-02-17	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2017-02-16	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
2017-02-15	House	posted in committee
2017-02-14	House	to Health and Family Services (H)
2017-02-10	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB304.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB304/bill.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB304/vote_history.pdf