Kentucky House Bill 90

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-07 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers; establish criteria for a medical director; establish requirements for obtaining written informed consent; require a written patient transfer agreement with a hospital that provides obstetric services; require a written patient transfer agreement with an emergency medical transportation service; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; require medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, 216.2921, 216.2923, 216.2925, 216.2927, and 216.2970 to conform; require the cabinet to promulgate updated administrative regulations by December 1, 2025; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.

AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.

Rep. Jason Nemes [R]

Rep. Kimberly Holloway [R]

Rep. Kimberly Banta [R]

Rep. Marianne Proctor [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-07	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2025-01-07	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb90.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb90/orig_bill.pdf