Kentucky Senate Bill 18 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: Passed on March 24 2010 - 100% progression
Action: 2010-03-24 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 23)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit a health benefit plan from excluding coverage for routine patient healthcare costs that are incurred in the course of a cancer clinical trial if the health benefit plan would provide coverage for the routine patient healthcare cost had it not been incurred in a cancer clinical trial; provide that nothing in this section requires a policy to offer, nor prohibit a policy from offering, cancer clinical trial services by a participating provider; provide that nothing in this section requires services that are performed in a cancer clinical trial by a non-participating provider of a policy to be reimbursed at the same rate as those performed by a participating provider of the policy.

AN ACT relating to health care services provided in clinical trials for the treatment of cancer.

Sen. Walter Blevins [D]	Sen. David Boswell [D]	Sen. Tom Buford [R]	Sen. Perry Clark [D]
Sen. Julie Denton [R]	Sen. Denise Harper Angel [D]	Sen. Jerry Rhoads [D]	Sen. Johnny Turner [D]
Sen. Robin Webb [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-24		signed by Governor (Acts ch. 23)
2010-03-16		delivered to Governor
2010-03-16		enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2010-03-15		enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2010-03-12		received in Senate
2010-03-11		3rd reading, passed 96-0
2010-03-05		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 8, 2010
2010-03-04		2nd reading, to Rules
2010-03-03		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2010-02-26		posted in committee
2010-02-12		to Banking & Insurance (H)
2010-02-10		received in House
2010-02-10		3rd reading, passed 36-0
2010-02-09		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 10, 2010
2010-02-03		2nd reading, to Rules
2010-02-02		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2010-01-06		to Banking & Insurance (S)
2010-01-05		introduced in Senate
2010-11-04		To: Interim Joint Committee on Banking and Insurance

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB18.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB18/bill.doc