| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HR136 | Pass | Recognize April 2024 as Testicular Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
adopted by voice vote |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 212.190 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Families & Children 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 | HR89 | Pass | Recognize February 26 to March 3, 2024, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HB490 | Intro
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] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 211.160, relating to health and family services, to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Kentucky Prescription Drug Affordability Board; establish the duties and membership of the board; provide that the board be a budgetary unit of the Office of Data Analytics; authorize the board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HCR106 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Health Care Outcomes Task Force to evaluate the potential need for additional resources and programs in Kentucky to improve the overall health of Kentuckians with particular focus on providing opportunities for students to learn about a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB806 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms; prohibit discrimination against 340B covered entities by pharmaceutical manufacturers; authorize the Attorney General to investigate violations; amend KRS 315.010 to include pharmacists who com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB697 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 311.599 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 324B to direct professional healthcare licensing boards to collect more comprehensive and uniform data on licensure renewal forms and to report data to the Department of Insurance and Cabinet for Health and Family ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB811 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216.350, relating to health services, to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB761 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 312.021 to create gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB760 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 311.586 to provide gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to protect access to assisted reproductive technology; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to declare that a fertilized human egg or human embryo that exists outside of the uterus of a human body shall not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB768 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for the treatment of plagiocephaly; prohibit certain restrictions on coverage for the treatment of plagiocephaly; require health benefit plans ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216.350 to add general-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 205.558 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for coronary calcium imaging testing; provide that coronary calcium imaging testing shall not be considered investigational or experimental; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
