KY SB140 | 2022 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Passed on March 17 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-17 - signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 19)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Passed on March 17 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-17 - signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 19)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Summary
Amend KRS 304.17A-163 to define terms; establish requirements for clinical review criteria and clinical practice guidelines used to establish step therapy protocols; require certain notices and disclosures relating to step therapy protocols; establish requirements for exception requests, internal appeals, and external reviews of step therapy protocols; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to promulgate administrative regulations; require insurers, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, or private review agents to submit an annual report relating to step therapy exception requests; amend KRS 304.17A-168, 304.17A-535, 304.17A-600, 304.17A-607, 304.17A-617, and 304.17A-623 to conform; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the step therapy protocol requirements; apply to health plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after the effective date of Sections 1 to 12 of the Act; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek a federal waiver of authorization if necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.
Title
AN ACT relating to step therapy protocols.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2022-03-10 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 257 (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2022-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 2045 (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2022-02-17 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 2045 (Y: 35 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-17 | Senate | signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 19) |
| 2022-03-11 | Senate | delivered to Governor |
| 2022-03-11 | Senate | enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House |
| 2022-03-11 | Senate | enrolled, signed by President of the Senate |
| 2022-03-11 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2022-03-10 | House | 3rd reading, passed 95-0 |
| 2022-03-09 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 10, 2022 |
| 2022-03-03 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2022-03-02 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
| 2022-02-24 | House | to Banking & Insurance (H) |
| 2022-02-17 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2022-02-17 | House | received in House |
| 2022-02-17 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 35-0 with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2022-02-16 | Senate | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 17, 2022 |
| 2022-02-16 | Senate | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2022-02-15 | Senate | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2022-02-07 | Senate | to Banking & Insurance (S) |
| 2022-02-03 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2022-02-03 | Senate | introduced in Senate |
Subjects
Administrative Regulations and Proceedings
Children and Minors
Drugs and Medicines
Education, Higher
Effective Dates, Delayed
Insurance, Health
Medicaid
Reports Mandated
State Agencies
State Employees
Children and Minors
Drugs and Medicines
Education, Higher
Effective Dates, Delayed
Insurance, Health
Medicaid
Reports Mandated
State Agencies
State Employees
