Kentucky Senate Bill 76 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-01-11 - to Health & Welfare (S)
Pending: Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "free-standing alternative birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for free-standing alternative birthing centers including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) Standards for Birth Centers, and a six-month provisional license to be issued when all requirements for licensure other than accreditation have been met to allow a facility time to become accredited; require the cabinet to form an ad hoc committee to provide input on the development of administrative regulations; state that a certificate of need is not required to establish and license a free-standing alternative birthing center; amend KRS 216B.020 to conform; add the short title Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.

AN ACT relating to free-standing alternative birthing centers.

Sen. Alice Kerr [R]

Sen. Julie Raque Adams [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-11	Senate	to Health & Welfare (S)
2021-01-06	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2021-01-06	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/sb76.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/sb76/orig_bill.pdf