| KY | HB190 | Pass | Amends 2024 Ky. Acts. ch. 104, sec. 3 (2024 RS SB 188/GA, sec. 3) to define “national average drug acquisition cost,” to temporarily exempt retail chain pharmacies from minimum drug reimbursement requirement, and to make technical amendment; EFFE...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 213) |
| KY | HB5 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 174) |
| KY | HB142 | Pass | Repeals, reenacts, and amends KRS 438.345 as a new section of KRS Chapter 158; requires local boards of education to adopt policies that penalize students for possessing alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products and lists pen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 149) |
| KY | HB386 | Pass | Amends KRS 218A.1446 to remove annual and package purchase limits for pseudoephedrine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 117) |
| KY | HB534 | Pass | Amends KRS 205.536 to prohibit the Department for Medicaid Services or a Medicaid managed care organization from requiring or using certain utilization reviews for prescription drugs that contains an opioid antagonist; and amends KRS 304.17A-611 to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 155) |
| KY | SB188 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.2254 to require that the state employee health plan and state agencies comply with certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 104) |
| KY | HB11 | Pass | Amends KRS 241.060 to allow the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to conduct hearings and appeals; amends KRS 438.305 to define terms, to require the Secretary of State to create and publish a list of certain tobacco product retailers, to requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 111) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.832 to include a definition for "undesignated glucagon"; amend KRS 158.838 to allow health care practitioners to prescribe undesignated glucagon in the name of a school to be maintained for use by a school nurse or trained school employ...
[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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to guarantee the right of an individual 21 years of age or older to possess, use, buy, or sell one ounce or less of cannabis and to cultivate, harvest, and store up to five cannabis plan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, pow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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 | SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to require that any person who administers an unapproved drug, devise, or biologic that has been approved for emergency use by the secretary of the United States Food and Drug Administration provides inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB713 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to requ...
[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 | HB838 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216B.210 to specify that referral of complaints from the Kentucky Abortion-Inducing Drug Certification Program complaint portal may be made to the Office of the Attorney General or any other state department for enforcement.
[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 | HB556 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover injectable epinephrine devices for persons 18 years of age or younger; provide that the coverage shall not be subject to cost-sharing requirements; amend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB543 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define "drug disposal method"; require the Kentucky Medicaid program to provide payment to a pharmacist or practitioner for the cost of a drug disposal method that the pharmacist or practitioner distributed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB536 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to establish cost-sharing requirements for prescription drugs; require rebates to be passed through; establish confidentiality requirements for the rebate information; create a new section of KRS 365.880 to 365.900 to provide th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | HB90 | Fail | Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, pow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
WITHDRAWN |
| KY | HB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB420 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, pow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that an independent institution or postsecondary education institution that requires a student to receive an immunization for disease shall allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 342.610 to remove the presumption that the use of an illegal substance prior to an accident caused the injury; provide that the use of an illegal substance shall be the proximate cause of the injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 342.610 to exclude certain levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the blood from the presumption that an injury was caused by the introduction of certain substances into the employee's body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB321 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan issued or renewed in the Commonwealth that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses shall include coverage for chronic pain treatme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define "health service" and "seeking, obtaining, providing, or facilitating a health service"; provide exemption from civil liability, criminal liability, or administrative investigation for seeking, obtaini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill individual's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; require conditions for making the request; permit individual to resci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization contracted to provide Medicaid benefits to provide comprehensive coverage for the treatment of obesity and inform Medicaid enrol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SCR46 | Intro
Sine Die | Urge the United States Congress to remove cannabis as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide that any person who has been convicted of, pled guilty to, or entered an Alford plea to a sex crime where the victim was under the age of 12 shall undergo medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment; provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215, the Kentucky Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, to define terms; require products that are known to be or could act as gene therapy to be labeled with the words "Potential Gene Therapy Product" or "Gene Ther...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish a program for harm reduction centers; amend possession of controlled substance statutes to reduce penalties; amend KRS 218A.275 to provide for referrals to treatment for persons charged with possess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 189A.010 to prohibit driving under the influence of intoxicating hemp products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 214.450 to define "COVID-19 vaccine" or "mRNA vaccine"; amend KRS 214.452 to require blood establishments to test for COVID-19 antibodies, evidence of lipid nanoparticles, and spike protein; require the administrator of any blood establishm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to guarantee the right of an individual 21 years of age or older to possess, use, buy, or sell one ounce or less of cannabis and to cultivate, harvest, and store up to five cannabis plan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 189A.005 to define "marijuana concentration"; amend KRS 189A.010 to create a per se limit for a marijuana concentration measured by a blood test; create presumption that a person is not under the influence if the marijuana concentration is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB36 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 218A.500 to allow the United States Department of Veterans Affairs health care system to operate a syringe services program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to define "homeless shelter"; require homeless shelters to provide personal products to residents at no cost; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide any available state or federal funds,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To House Committee On Committees |
