Kentucky Senate Bill 8 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Introduced on September 9 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-09-09 - returned to Committee on Committees (S)
Pending: Senate Committee on Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Direct the use of a total of $81,000,000 of American Rescue Plan Act State Fiscal Recovery funds in fiscal year 2021-2022 to address the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting essential need for retaining and recruiting nurses, nurse's aides, respiratory therapists, emergency medical personnel, and other critical medical staff in acute care hospitals and nursing homes; require distribution of funds of a minimum of $3,000 per licensed hospital bed and a minimum of $1,500 per licensed nursing home bed; require acute care hospitals and nursing homes to report expenditures to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require the cabinet to report to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to the health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Sen. Ralph Alvarado [R]

Sen. David Givens [R]

Sen. Rick Girdler [R]

Sen. Brandon Smith [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-09-09	Senate	returned to Committee on Committees (S)
2021-09-09	Senate	1st reading
2021-09-09	Senate	taken from Committee on Committees (S)
2021-09-09	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2021-09-09	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21SS/sb8.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21SS/sb8/orig_bill.pdf