KY SB54 | 2015 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 30 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-03-30 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 82)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 30 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-03-30 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 82)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]
Summary
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to mandate priority access for pregnant women to substance abuse treatment or recovery service programs, prevent discrimination against pregnant women by substance abuse treatment or recovery service providers, and provide practitioners civil immunity for failing to recognize controlled substance abuse by a pregnant patient or referring a pregnant patient to substance abuse treatment or recovery services consistent with community standards of care; amend KRS 625.050 to prevent the filing of a petition to terminate the parental rights of a pregnant woman who used a controlled substance during pregnancy if she, by the twentieth week of pregnancy, enrolls in and maintains compliance with both a substance abuse treatment or recovery program and prenatal care throughout the remaining term of that pregnancy.
Title
AN ACT relating to drug-dependent newborns.
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-30 | Senate | signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 82) |
| 2015-03-25 | Senate | delivered to Governor |
| 2015-03-25 | Senate | enrolled, signed by each presiding officer |
| 2015-03-25 | Senate | passed 38-0 |
| 2015-03-25 | Senate | Senate concurred in House floor amendment (1) |
| 2015-03-25 | Senate | posted for passage for concurrence in House floor amendment (1) |
| 2015-03-23 | Senate | to Rules (S) |
| 2015-03-23 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2015-03-23 | House | 3rd reading, passed 98-0 with floor amendment (1) |
| 2015-03-11 | House | floor amendment (1) filed |
| 2015-03-10 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 11, 2015 |
| 2015-03-10 | House | reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2015-03-09 | House | posting waived |
| 2015-03-09 | House | returned to Judiciary (H) |
| 2015-03-09 | House | 1st reading |
| 2015-03-09 | House | taken from Judiciary (H) |
| 2015-03-04 | House | to Judiciary (H) |
| 2015-03-03 | House | received in House |
| 2015-03-03 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute |
| 2015-03-02 | Senate | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 3, 2015 |
| 2015-02-27 | Senate | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2015-02-26 | Senate | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute |
| 2015-02-03 | Senate | to Judiciary (S) |
| 2015-01-06 | Senate | introduced in Senate |
