Administrative Regulations And Proceedings
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive health services. [HB-793]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 for contraception; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exclude contraception from cost defrayal requirements; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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AN ACT relating to pregnancy resource centers. [HB-794]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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 standards for pregnancy resource centers; provide that operation or advertisement of a pregnancy resource center without a license is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that a pregnancy resource center's or health care provider's liability is neither limited nor expanded by the licensure requirement; amend KRS
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a provisional license to practice medicine. [HB-786]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311.530 to 311.620 to permit an international medical graduate to apply for a provisional license that may lead to a full and unrestricted license to practice medicine in Kentucky notwithstanding KRS 311.571; require the Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations to establish provisional licensure pathway requirements, applicant requirements, eligibility for obtaining a full and unrestricted license after completing the provisional period, establish a data collection process to evaluate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student financial aid. [HB-750]
[Student Loans ]
[Crime ]
[Education ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 164.767 to restrict eligibility for any program authorized under KRS 164.740 to 164.790 to exclude any individual who is a violent offender or who has been convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor and incarcerated individuals convicted of designated crimes; direct KHEAA to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the eligibility restrictions; amend KRS 164.7874 to delete the requirement that an eligible high school student and eligible postsecondary student not be a convicted felon for KEES eligibility
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Grossl
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 03/11/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health parity and declaring an emergency. [HB-748]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require that annual mental health parity reports be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission on or before June 1 of each year for referral to certain committees and be published by the insurance commissioner on the Department of Insurance's website; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for enforcement by the Attorney General; authorize a private cause of action by any person directly injured by a violation or likely violation of the mental
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Grossl
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact. [HB-762]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 313 to adopt the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; declare the intent and purpose of the compact; define terms; establish conditions under which an individual can practice in a remote state; authorize a home state to impose adverse action against an individual's license issued by the home state; authorize a member state's licensing authority to issue subpoenas for hearings and investigations as well as cease and desist orders to restrict, suspend, or revoke an individual's privilege to practice
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services. [HB-814]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with which the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; establish training and education requirements for doulas; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary and comply with KRS 205.525.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the family child care homes. [HB-749]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; apply definitions to Section 2 of the Act; amend KRS 199.8982 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services allow certified family child-care home providers to participate in the child care assistance program and establish requirements related to a provider's children in the program and other nonrelative children of the provider that are served in the program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Grossl
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to buprenorphine products. [HB-788]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to require that a dosage regimen for Buprenorphine-Mono-Product or Buprenorphine-Combined-with-Naloxone prescribed by a licensed physician to meet the treatment needs of a patient; require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to require that a dosage regimen for Buprenorphine-Mono-Product or Buprenorphine-Combined-with-Naloxone prescribed by a licensed advanced practice registered nurse meet the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Taken From Health Services (h) on 03/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to online protections for minors. [HB-12]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; prohibit a minor under 14 years old from contracting with a social media platform to become an account holder; require social media platforms to terminate any account held by an account holder younger than 14 years old; prohibit minors who are 14 or 15 years old from contracting with a social media platform to become an account holder without parental consent; require social media platforms to terminate the account of any minor under 15 years old if requested by a parent or the minor account
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Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Lockett
Taken From Small Business & Information Technology (h) on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to career and technical education. [HB-758]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 157.069 to apportion supplemental funds for career and technical education to be 75 percent for enrollment-based funding and 25 percent for incentive-based funding; modify incentives to permit two incentives per student; require "concentrator" status as the first incentive before eligibility for a second incentive.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Reported Favorably, To Rules on 03/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health education. [HB-706]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-8]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 158.645 to modify language on core capacities, specify the intent of K-5 education, and define terms; amend KRS 156.070 to give the state board the responsibility for adopting or rejecting the state academic standards, adopting or rejecting instructional materials collections, setting a timeline for adoption updates, and ensuring alignment of academics across the state; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to deconstruct the approved academic standards and provide free guides to districts
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Taken From Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the reporting of fines and fees. [HB-774]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 431 to define terms; require governmental entities to submit specified data to the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics regarding fines and fees assessed; require the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics to make disaggregated data available on its website; publish an annual report and submit the report to the Legislative Research Commission, the director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the Governor by November 30 of each year beginning November 30, 2026; amend KRS 151B.133 to establish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid managed care organizations. [HB-787]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 205.533 to require Medicaid managed care organizations to include certain information for providers on their websites; amend KRS 205.534 to require managed care organizations to allow providers 120 days to file an appeal or grievance related to a reduction of denial of a claim; establish penalties for a managed care organization's failure to ensure the timely disposition of any appeal or grievance; require payment of any amount owed to a provider following an appeal to be paid within 30 days; require payments made following an appeal to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program. [HB-785]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Mental Health ]
[Insurance ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; establish limitations on material changes to contracts between Medicaid managed care organizations and Medicaid-participating providers; require contracts between the Department for Medicaid Services and a managed care organization to comply with federal laws related to mental health parity; require behavioral health programs to be accredited and narcotic treatment programs to be licensed in order to be eligible for Medicaid reimbursement; amend KRS 205.522 to require the Department for Medicaid
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT establishing the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Program. [HB-732]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to define terms; establish the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Program to provide eligible classroom teachers with financial and technical support in purchasing school supplies; authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to adopt policies and promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; require the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into contracts for an online commerce platform and to identify online school supplies vendors for the program; provide that the Act may
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Imes
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to fantasy contests. [HB-742]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Gaming ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Taxes ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to authorize the corporation to regulate the conduct of fantasy contest operators; require the use of geolocation technology; require fantasy contest operators to implement procedures to prevent fraud, abuse, and money laundering; require notification to the corporation for a confirmed breach of a sport's governing body's internal rules and codes of conduct, conduct that corrupts any outcome, and confirmed illegal activities; establish licensing requirements for a fantasy contest operator; allow the corporation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to regulated beverages and declaring an emergency. [SB-202]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Amend KRS 13A.220 to make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 82) on 03/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to commercial financing. [HB-680]
[Finance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Small Business ]
Establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286, and create new sections thereof, to define terms; establish exemptions; require certain commercial financing providers to register with the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to engage in business; establish commercial financing trade practice standards and disclosure requirements for commercial financing transactions; establish penalties and exclusive enforcement by the financial institutions commissioner; provide that Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286 may be cited as the Kentucky Commercial
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025