| KY | HB459 | Pass | Amends KRS 311.844 to require that physician assistants complete continuing education courses on treating Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, and to allow graduating physician assistants to submit course curriculum on Alzheimer’s dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 218) |
| KY | SR87 | Pass | Recognize January 23, 2024, as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| 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 | SR323 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the appointment of Darlena Jones to the Board of Nursing for a term expiring June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR294 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the appointment of Amber Powell to the Board of Nursing for a term expiring June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR319 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the appointment of Jennifer Harpe-Bates to the Board of Nursing for a term expiring June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR298 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the appointment of Karen Sherfey to the Board of Nursing for a term expiring June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR299 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the appointment of Miriam Haas to the Board of Nursing for a term expiring June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to limit the liability of facilities that provide procedures related to in vitro fertilization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to limit the liability of health care providers that perform procedures re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "covenant not to compete," "employee," and "health service provider"; prohibit a health service provider from requiring an employee to enter a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| 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 | SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 314.073 to require nurses whose primary scope of practice focuses on patients 50 years of age or older to complete continuing education courses on treating Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia; amend KRS 311.844 to require physic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SR145 | Pass | Recognize February 14, 2024, as Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Day in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HR87 | Pass | A resolution recognizing February 14, 2024, as Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Day in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HB538 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "pregnancy resource center"; require pregnancy resource centers to be licensed; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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 | SR104 | Pass | Proclaim February 8, 2024, as Kentucky Nurses Day and adjourn in honor of Kentucky nurses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HR71 | Pass | Proclaim February 8, 2024, as Kentucky Nurses Day and adjourn in honor of Kentucky nurses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HCR62 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Infant Mortality Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require employees, visitors, and patients wear respirator masks while inside a health facility; establish exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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 | HR50 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognize March 2024 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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 | SB103 | Intro
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] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 154.12-330 to give preference to veterans in the issuance of small business loans; create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to require monthly veteran workforce reports; create new sections of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "covenant not to compete," "employee," and "health service provider"; prohibit a health service provider receiving 10 percent or more of its total gross revenue from state general funds from requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 311.601 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for physicians to meet the 7.5 hours of approved continuing education in KRS 218A.205; amend KRS 311.844 to require an option ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB48 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to recognize an inherent and absolute right to refuse medical treatment and remove liability protections in the event of a serious adverse reaction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB49 | Intro
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] | 2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees |
