Kentucky House Bill 748

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 19 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-19 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require that annual mental health parity reports be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission on or before June 1 of each year for referral to certain committees and be published by the insurance commissioner on the Department of Insurance's website; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for enforcement by the Attorney General; authorize a private cause of action by any person directly injured by a violation or likely violation of the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for a private right of action under the mental health parity law; establish construction clauses; authorize the Attorney General to promulgate administrative regulations for proper enforcement of mental health parity law; amend KRS 205.522 to require the Department for Medicaid Services, Medicaid managed care organizations, and the state' medical assistance program to comply with mental health parity law; require the Department for Medicaid Services or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to obtain federal approval, if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to mental health parity and declaring an emergency.

Rep. Vanessa Grossl [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-19	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2025-02-19	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb748.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb748/orig_bill.pdf