HB-1970: An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Consent for HIV Testing and Disclosure of Related Medical Information for Insurance Purposes
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Fecteau
Carried Over, In The Same Posture, To Any Special Or Regular Session Of The 132nd Legislature, Pursuant To Joint Order Sp 800. on 06/25/2025
You have voted HB-1970: An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Consent for HIV Testing and Disclosure of Related Medical Information for Insurance Purposes.
HR-66: A RESOLUTION honoring cancer patients, survivors, and their families, remembering those who have been lost to cancer, and declaring Thursday, March 6, 2025, as Suits and Sneakers Day in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
Sponsored by: Rep. Amy Neighbors
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/06/2025
You have voted HR-66: A RESOLUTION honoring cancer patients, survivors, and their families, remembering those who have been lost to cancer, and declaring Thursday, March 6, 2025, as Suits and Sneakers Day in the Kentucky House of Representatives..
AN ACT relating to cervids. [HB-700]
[Animals ]
[Agriculture ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 150.740 and 257.550 to prohibit the export of a cervid carcass or wild cervid outside of a chronic wasting disease surveillance zone; prohibit the export of a captive cervid outside of a 10-mile radius of a chronic wasting disease positive captive cervid facility; establish exemptions to the movement of cervid parts; allow breeding of captive cervids inside the facility in which the cervid is housed; require that the chronic wasting disease surveillance zone remain disease free for a period of five years; exempt prior chronic wasting disease
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HB-700: AN ACT relating to cervids.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/06/2025
AN ACT relating to public health and safety. [HB-745]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 214.450 to define "autologous donation" and "directed donation"; amend KRS 214.452 to require blood establishments to test for spike proteins, antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and synthetic mRNA; provide that a person shall not be compelled to donate blood; require blood establishments to inform donors of the potential uses for donations; require blood to be sold to hospitals before any other entity; prohibit blood from sale for pharmaceutical production if there is a hospital blood shortage; amend KRS 214.454
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HB-745: AN ACT relating to public health and safety.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
SR-63: A RESOLUTION honoring cancer patients, survivors, and their families, remembering those who have been lost to cancer, and declaring Thursday, March 6, 2025, as Suits and Sneakers Day in the Senate.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/06/2025
You have voted SR-63: A RESOLUTION honoring cancer patients, survivors, and their families, remembering those who have been lost to cancer, and declaring Thursday, March 6, 2025, as Suits and Sneakers Day in the Senate..
AN ACT relating to blood donation. [HB-601]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 214.452 to add receipt of a COVID -19 vaccine to the blood donor risk factor statement collected by a blood establishment; amend KRS 214.458 to add donor receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine to the donor identification information affixed to a unit of donated blood; add that except in an emergency, a patient be informed if the donor of the blood to be transfused had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
HB-601: AN ACT relating to blood donation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Dotson
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
AN ACT relating to immunization policy. [HB-647]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Religion ]
[Data Privacy ]
Create a new of section KRS Chapter 164 to allow a student, staff, or faculty member to opt out of a postsecondary school's immunization policy for specified reasons; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a public entity from creating standardized documentation with the purpose of certifying vaccination status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to require written notice of vaccination exemptions for a sincerely held religious belief or medical contraindication; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption;
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HB-647: AN ACT relating to immunization policy.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
AN ACT relating to health care. [HB-688]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to permit rather than require the board to issue credentials; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees
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HB-688: AN ACT relating to health care.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis. [HB-571]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 218B.010 to add additional qualifying medical conditions for the use of medicinal cannabis; amend KRS 218B.025 to exempt medicinal cannabis resulting from at-home cultivation activities from possession limits and from the requirement that medicinal cannabis be kept in the original container received from a dispensary; amend KRS 218B.030 to conform; amend KRS 218B.035 to permit the use or consumption of medicinal cannabis by smoking while located on private property owned by the cardholder; amend KRS 218B.080 to conform; amend KRS 218B.140
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HB-571: AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
AN ACT relating to vaccines. [SB-177]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
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, employment, or medical treatment in the Commonwealth; prohibit any COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine to be administered in the Commonwealth to a minor child under the age of 18 years; sunset the provisions that relate to a minor child
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SB-177: AN ACT relating to vaccines.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Health Services (s) on 02/19/2025
AN ACT relating to rabies vaccinations. [HB-527]
[Animals ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 258.005 to define "veterinarian" and "veterinary technician"; amend KRS 258.015 to authorize a Kentucky-licensed veterinary technician to vaccinate a dog, cat, or ferret against rabies; require that a Kentucky-licensed veterinary technician authorized to vaccinate a dog, cat, or ferret against rabies be under the direct supervision of a veterinarian that is located on the premises of the facility.
HB-527: AN ACT relating to rabies vaccinations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Received In Senate on 03/12/2025
AN ACT relating to coverage for COVID-19 testing. [HB-540]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Create new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for polymerase chain reaction testing used to detect the COVID-19 virus; amend KRS 164.2871, 18A.225, 205.522, and 205.6485 to require self-insured employer group plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, the state employee health plan, Medicaid, and KCHIP to comply with the coverage requirement for polymerase chain reaction testing used to detect the COVID-19 virus; provide that various sections apply
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HB-540: AN ACT relating to coverage for COVID-19 testing.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/21/2025
AN ACT relating to dementia training. [HB-479]
[Healthcare ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 194A.545 to require the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) to require a one-hour dementia training and continuing education course using available training at no cost; require dementia training for DCBS supervisory, direct services, and adult protective services staff.
HB-479: AN ACT relating to dementia training.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
AN ACT relating to human gene therapy products and declaring an emergency. [HB-469]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Science ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to establish legislative intent; define terms; establish that a person in the Commonwealth shall not administer, by any route or modality, any human gene therapy product for any infectious disease indication, regardless of whether the administration is termed an immunization, vaccine, or any other term; exempt human gene therapy products used to treat cancer or genetic disorders; sunset the provisions on July 1, 2035, unless extended by the General Assembly; EMERGENCY.
HB-469: AN ACT relating to human gene therapy products and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Health Services (h) on 02/14/2025
AN ACT relating to coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing. [HB-401]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to define "rapid whole genome sequencing"; require any health plan offered to public employees provide coverage and reimbursement for rapid whole genome sequencing; establish conditions for coverage.
HB-401: AN ACT relating to coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
To Health Services (h) on 02/12/2025
AN ACT relating to rapid whole genome sequencing. [HB-217]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Science ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define "rapid whole genome sequencing"; require the Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations to provide coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing; establish conditions for coverage; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to provide coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing; require the Department for Medicaid Services (department) to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the department
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HB-217: AN ACT relating to rapid whole genome sequencing.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
Withdrawn on 02/06/2025