Drugs And Medicines
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-186]
Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the daily oversight of cannabis operations and to provide
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Sponsored by: Sen. Morgan McGarvey
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/22/2022
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AN ACT relating to health and welfare and declaring an emergency. [SB-178]
Amend KRS 309.0834 to require the Kentucky Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors to promulgate administrative regulations to exempt applicants for certification as clinical supervisors from meeting certain requirements for a limited amount of time if the applicants were licensed and approved on March 24, 2021; permits applicants granted certification to supervise immediately; requires applicants after the limited time period to meet all requirements for certification; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 223) on 04/20/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to controlled substances. [HB-514]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish pilot program for harm reduction centers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
Introduced In House on 02/16/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cannabis. [SB-170]
Amend KRS 260.852 and 260.858 to prohibit production of intoxicating hemp-derived products; amend KRS 260.850 and 218A.010 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Hornback
Received In House on 03/10/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public health and declaring an emergency. [HB-3]
Amend KRS 311.732, relating to performance of an abortion upon a minor, to require the informed written consent of a parent or legal guardian to include a copy of that parent's or legal guardian's government-issued identification and parent's or legal guardian's documentation; require government-issued identification for the minor; require notification to other parent with joint or physical custody with exceptions; require the physician to keep a copy of the informed written consent for at least 7 years; require the physician to execute an affidavit;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 210) on 04/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pharmacy or pharmacist services. [HB-457]
Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to prohibit insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other administrators of pharmacy benefits from imposing certain requirements on health plan insureds; create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions for pharmacy-related insurance practices; require pharmacy benefit managers to establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks; require pharmacy benefit managers to file, and the insurance commissioner to review, an annual report describing pharmacy networks; provide that information
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/22/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to step therapy protocols. [SB-140]
Amend KRS 304.17A-163 to define terms; establish requirements for clinical review criteria and clinical practice guidelines used to establish step therapy protocols; require certain notices and disclosures relating to step therapy protocols; establish requirements for exception requests, internal appeals, and external reviews of step therapy protocols; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to promulgate administrative regulations; require insurers, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers,
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 19) on 03/17/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of over-the-counter drugs. [SB-144]
Amend KRS 139.472 to exempt over-the-counter drugs from sales and use tax. EFFECTIVE August 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Sen. Morgan McGarvey
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parental rights. [HB-444]
Amend KRS 625.090 to delete grounds for involuntarily termination of parental rights related to neonatal abstinence syndrome at the time birth unless the mother is in substance abuse treatment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
Introduced In House on 02/02/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. [SB-134]
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 that the actual amount of rebates received is a trade secret; provide that compliance with the prescription drugs cost-sharing and rebate requirements shall not be in violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders. [HB-412]
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 to require a self-insured employer group health plan provided by a state postsecondary education institution to its employees to comply with the new section on postpartum mood disorder coverage; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the new section on postpartum mood disorder coverage; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/01/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION establishing that the Commonwealth of Kentucky will recognize a positive COVID-19 antibody test as equivalent to having been vaccinated against COVID-19 and declaring an emergency. [SJR-80]
Require the Commonwealth of Kentucky and any of its agencies or entities to recognize individuals whose serology test results show measurable neutralizing antibodies to COVID-19, quantified above the 20th percentile of the population of immunized individuals, as equivalent to being fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
3rd Reading, Passed 28-6-1 on 02/15/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the establishment of emergency insulin programs and declaring an emergency. [SB-126]
Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; establish the Urgent-Need Insulin Program and the Continuing Access to Insulin Program; establish eligibility guidelines; establish the application process; establish the process by which insulin is dispensed to eligible individuals; establish the responsibilities of insulin manufacturers; establish the responsibilities of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for administering the program; require manufacturers to annually report certain information to the cabinet; require the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Health & Welfare (s) on 01/31/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescriptive authority and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-354]
Amend KRS 314.042 to require that advanced practice registered nurses exempted from a CAPA-NS include certified nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwifes, and certified registered nurse anesthetists; allow the CAPA-CS to include limitations on drugs and amounts and requirements for the APRN to communicate with the physician before prescribing; establish conditions for an APRN to prescribe controlled substances without a CAPA-CS after four years of controlled substance prescribing authority under a CAPA-CS; require an APRN to confirm with the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 03/29/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to opioid overdose reversal agents. [HB-358]
Amend KRS 217.015 to define "opioid overdose reversal agent"; amend KRS 15.291, 217.177, and 217.186 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
Introduced In House on 01/25/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensing protection for health care providers and declaring an emergency. [HB-352]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit action against the license of a physician or physician assistant for a recommendation of medical treatment for COVID-19 including a prescription for a drug not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19; create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to prohibit action against the license of an advanced practice registered nurse for a recommendation of medical treatment for COVID-19, including a prescription for a drug not approved by the United States Food
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 01/24/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child fatalities and near fatalities. [SB-97]
Amend KRS 620.040 to require law enforcement to request a blood, breath, or urine test from a caregiver suspected of being under the influence at the time of a child fatality or near fatality, and to request a search warrant for the test if consent is not given by the caregiver; amend KRS 620.055 to change the number of members on the external child fatality and near fatality review panel from 15 to 17, to include the President of the Kentucky Coroners Association and a medication-assisted treatment provider selected by the Attorney General; require
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 139) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to electronic prescription records. [HB-328]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A requiring the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide a copy of a patient's electronic prescription record upon request of the patient, the patient's legal guardian, or the patient's parent or legal guardian if the patient is a minor; require the cabinet to make corrections to a patient's electronic prescription record; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement a process for requesting records; require the cabinet to respond to a request within at least 30 days of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Introduced In House on 01/20/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to contraceptive coverage. [HB-300]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; set forth requirements for health benefit plans relating to contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 164.2871 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 205.6485
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Flood
Introduced In House on 01/13/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive health services. [HB-299]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; prohibit cost sharing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to offer family planning services to certain low-income individuals; require the cabinet to report annually; amend KRS 164.2871 to require state postsecondary self-insured employer group plans to comply with
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Flood
Introduced In House on 01/13/2022