| KY | HB484 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to establish the emergency medical services education grant program under the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to be used for student tuition support, agency support, and emergency medical service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 217) |
| KY | SB28 | Veto | Amend KRS 311.380 to add definitions; amend KRS 311.400 to add the scope of practice for podiatric residents and podiatric assistants; amend KRS 311.420 to add qualifications to acquire a podiatry license; and amend KRS 311.480 to include podiatric r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Vetoed and delivered with Veto Message to Secretary of State |
| KY | SB74 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with special enrollment and maternity coverage requirements; creates a new section of KR...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 207) |
| KY | HB272 | Pass | Amends KRS 405.075 to change the definition of “newborn safety device” related to the continuous staffing requirement; and amends KRS 156.095 to require that information on the Safe Haven Baby Boxes Crisis Line be posted in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 202) |
| KY | SB297 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define “National Background Check Program” or “NBCP,” “PACE,” and “PACE service provider,” to exempt PACE service providers from obtaining a health facility license to provide PACE services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 201) |
| KY | HB199 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
To Senate Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee |
| KY | SR87 | Pass | Recognize January 23, 2024, as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB65 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify three emergency administrative regulations relating to Medicaid services after those administrative regulations were found deficient during the 2023 legislative interim; and creates a new section of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 168) |
| KY | HB174 | Pass | Amends KRS 311.6225 to make changes to the medical order for scope of treatment form; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 422 to establish standards and procedures for access to copies of patient medical records for a patient who is under the ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 164) |
| KY | HB323 | Pass | Amends KRS 95A.262 to permit the Kentucky Fire Commission to establish a reimbursement program for cancer screenings for firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 142) |
| KY | HB385 | Pass | Amends KRS 311.631, relating to living wills and advance directives, to include an adult friend as an individual authorized to make health care decisions on behalf of a patient who lacks decisional capacity; amends KRS 504.060 to define “examiner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 138) |
| KY | HB57 | Pass | Amends KRS 311A.030 to remove the classifications of ambulance services, mobile integrated healthcare programs, and medical first response providers; amends KRS 311A.142 to permit an emergency medical responder, emergency medical technician, advanced...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 94) |
| KY | HB115 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with breast examination coverage requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 97) |
| KY | HB166 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define “SUDEP,” to update autopsy requirements, to require the Vital Statistics Branch to forward a copy of the death certificate to the North American SUDEP Registry if sudden unexpected death in epile...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 98) |
| KY | HB505 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish requirements for providing alcohol and drug treatment and behavioral health service providers and to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 89) |
| KY | HB31 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization contracted for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage and reimbursement for at-home prothrombin time or internat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 74) |
| KY | HB52 | Pass | Creates a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define “cancer screening, test, or procedure,” and to require coverage for certain cancer screenings, tests, and procedures; and amends KRS 18A.225, 164.2871, and 205.522 to require Medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 75) |
| KY | HB194 | Pass | Amends KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a person employed by or under contract with a health clinic, doctor’s office, dental office, long-term care facility, hospital, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 80) |
| KY | SB71 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to define “alternative sentencing worker,” “qualified treatment program,” and “treatment program,” to allow a court to issue an order for pretrial release pending an assessment for a mental health o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 68) |
| KY | SB111 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.225, 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 304.17C-125 to require limited health service benefit plans, Medicaid, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 69) |
| KY | HB361 | Pass | Amends KRS 311.530 to add the chair of the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, and to allow the commissioner of public health, the dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, the vice dean fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.30) |
| KY | HB475 | Pass | Amends KRS 441.053, relating to jail health care operations, to remove the prohibition that an entity that provides medical, dental, psychological, or pharmacy services to the Department of Corrections and local jails cannot also provide claims manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.36) |
| KY | HB493 | Pass | Amends KRS 194A.705 to limit the provision of enumerated health and health-related services to assisted living communities and nursing homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 57) |
| KY | SB145 | Pass | .Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to allow health facilities or health care providers enrolled in the Kentucky Medicaid program to submit a current or prospective employee to a check of the child abuse and neglect or adult abuse registries ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.18) |
| KY | SB242 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216.525, relating to health services, to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
placed in the Orders of the Day |
| KY | SCR292 | Intro
Sine Die | Create the Certificate of Need (CON) Task Force to review the CON program; review the need to maintain or modify each health facility and service covered by CON; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit any findings and recomme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to prohibit a health care provider from performing a pelvic, rectal, or prostate examination without the informed consent of the patient or the person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient; p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB467 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB764 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 205.529 to remove reference to a Schedule III controlled substance containing hydrocodone in the program for synchronization of medications; amend KRS 218A.010 to add optometrist and physician assistant to the definition of "practitioner"; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB159 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define “health care provider” and “health services,” and to establish that health care providers providing health services are immune from criminal liability for harm arising from a health services-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.12) |
| KY | HB274 | Pass | Amends KRS 315.010 and 315.205 to permit pharmacists to administer vaccines to children five years of age or older pursuant to prescriber-approved protocols with the consent of a parent or guardian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.11) |
| KY | SB295 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HR136 | Pass | Recognize April 2024 as Testicular Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SCR187 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Health Care Disparities Task Force; establish task force membership; require task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | SB239 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216B.020 to add various health facilities and services to the list of health facilities and services that are exempt from certificate of need requirements; amend KRS 216B.065 to exempt various health facilities and services from acquisition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB677 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 304.17A-270 to include medical laboratories in the definition of "provider"; amend KRS 205.522 to require the state Medicaid program to comply with any willing provider law; make technical amendments; require the Cabinet for Health and Fami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB220 | Pass | Amends KRS 304.17A-163 to permit insurers to require insureds to try biosimilar biological products prior to providing coverage for the equivalent branded prescription drug under certain circumstances; and makes findings and establishes intent of Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 4) |
| KY | HB645 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 311.6225 to make changes to the medical order for scope of treatment form.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB27 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms, prohibit discrimination against 340B covered entities by pharmaceutical manufacturers, and authorize the Attorney General to investigation violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB318 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to require insurers of health benefit plans to offer a program to reduce or eliminate prior authorization requirements; establish notice requirements; establish participating provider requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | HB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define "health care provider"; make conforming amendments; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements for prior authorization exemptions; establish requirements fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | HB618 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 510.320 to define "sexually transmitted disease"; set requirements for tests for a sexually transmitted disease rather than human immunodeficiency virus; amend KRS 529.090 to define "sexually transmitted disease"; set requirements for tests...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB347 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 533.270 to define terms; amend KRS 533.274 to remove a misdemeanor as a disqualifying offense; require an assessment of a homeless defendant for a behavioral health disorder and establish preference for participation in the program if an el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | SB24 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of managed care organizations contracted by the Department for Medicaid Services to no more than three; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB813 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriate certain General Fund moneys to the Department for Public Health to support the Smoking Cessation Program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to require the eligibility periods for all public assistance programs administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services be extended to the maximum period of eligibility permitted under federal law; proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB408 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to require treatment centers or programs licensed as a chemical dependency treatment service to provide transportation services to residents who wish to leave the program if the resident's family, guardian, or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB791 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 211.575 to change the required statewide system for stroke response and treatment annual report date to September 1 of each year; amend KRS 211.689 to change the definition of "home visitation" and "home visitation program" and make technic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 212.190 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Families & Children Committee |
