Kentucky Senate Bill 7 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on February 13 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-02-13 - signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to establish a Collaborative Prescribing Agreement Joint Advisory Committee; set membership of the committee at 3 advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who prescribe nonscheduled legend drugs and 3 physicians who currently or previously signed a collaborative agreement with an APRN for prescribing nonscheduled legend drugs (CAPA-NS); authorize the committee to recommend items to the nursing and medical boards, including a common CAPA-NS form; establish methods to assist APRNs who need a physician to sign a CAPA-NS in emergency and non-emergency situations; require the committee to forward complaints to the appropriate licensing board without discussing or reviewing any complaint or actions by the practitioner; declare that each board retains jurisdiction over its licensees and committee members; attach the committee to the nursing board, while each board is responsible for the expenses of its members; alternate committee meetings between the facilities of the two boards; amend KRS 314.042 to set out specific requirements for a CAPA-NS agreement similar to those already established for controlled substance collaborative agreements; allow an APRN to discontinue or be exempt from the CAPA-NS requirement in limited circumstances after the APRN has prescribed under a CAPA-NS for 4 years in a certified population focus; clarify that an APRN cannot be required to maintain a CAPA-NS after the 4 years, but may choose to continue a CAPA-NS indefinitely; direct an APRN to notify the nursing board if the APRN will be prescribing without a CAPA-NS; permit an APRN from another state seeking licensure by endorsement to prescribe without a CAPA-NS if that APRN either had a collaborative prescribing agreement with a physician or prescribed independently for at least 4 years; require an APRN who has prescribed for less than 4 years when the new requirements take effect to complete the 4 years before being eligible to prescribe without a CAPA-NS.

AN ACT relating to nurses.

Sen. Paul Hornback [R]	Sen. John Schickel [R]	Sen. Walter Blevins [D]	Sen. Tom Buford [R]
Sen. Julian Carroll [D]	Sen. Julie Denton [R]	Sen. Sara Gregory [R]	Sen. Denise Harper Angel [D]
Sen. Morgan McGarvey [D]	Sen. Dennis Parrett [D]	Sen. Jerry Rhoads [D]	Sen. Dorsey Ridley [D]
Sen. Reginald Thomas [D]	Sen. Mike Wilson [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-13	Senate	signed by Governor
2014-02-06	Senate	delivered to Governor
2014-02-06	Senate	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2014-02-05	Senate	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2014-02-05	Senate	received in Senate
2014-02-04	House	3rd reading, passed 99-0
2014-01-30	House	placed in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 4, 2014
2014-01-30	House	taken from Rules
2014-01-30	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2014-01-29	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
2014-01-24	House	posted in committee
2014-01-23	House	to Licensing & Occupations (H)
2014-01-17	House	received in House
2014-01-16	Senate	3rd reading, passed 36-1
2014-01-16	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 16, 2014
2014-01-15	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2014-01-14	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2014-01-13	Senate	to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
2014-01-07	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/SB7.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/SB7/bill.doc
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/SB7/vote_history.pdf