Drugs And Medicines
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefit claim verification and declaring an emergency. [SB-68]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to require the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet to contract with an independent entity to monitor all Public Employee Health Insurance Program pharmacy benefit claims; establish eligibility requirements for an entity seeking to contract with the cabinet to monitor pharmacy benefit claims; establish requirements for analyzing and monitoring claims; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; require the Department for Medicaid Services to contract with an independent entity to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
Floor Amendments (1) And (2) Filed To Committee Substitute , Floor Amendment (3-title) Filed To Bill on 03/29/2022
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A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department for Medicaid Services to request guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for Medicaid coverage on prescription digital therapeutics in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. [HJR-28]
Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to request guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for Medicaid coverage of prescription digital therapeutics; require the Department for Medicaid Services to submit a summary report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services, the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee, the Legislative Research Commission, and the Kentucky Congressional delegation by December 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 47) on 03/29/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to opioid antagonists designed to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. [SB-56]
Amend KRS 15.291, 217.177, and 217.186 to define "opioid antagonist" as naloxone or any United States Food and Drug Administration-approved opioid antagonist designed to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose; replace references to naloxone with opiod antagonist.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 154) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the possession of cannabis. [HB-225]
Propose to create a new section of the Kentucky Constitution 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 5 cannabis plants for personal use; and for the production, processing, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-derived products to be controlled by the General Assembly; specify the question to be printed on the ballot; direct the Secretary of State to publish the proposed amendment in a newspaper of general circulation; direct
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/05/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cannabis. [HB-224]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make possession of a personal use quantity of cannabis exempt from civil or criminal penalty; amend KRS 218A.010 to define "cannabis," "personal use quantity of cannabis," and "cannabis accessory"; amend KRS 218A.1422 regarding cannabis possession to conform; amend KRS 218A.1423 regarding cannabis cultivation to conform; amend KRS 218A.500 regarding drug paraphernalia to exempt personal use cannabis accessories; amend KRS 218A.1421 on cannabis trafficking to exempt personal use quantities; amend KRS 138.872
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/05/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION calling for the expediting of research regarding the safety and efficacy of the use of marijuana for medical purposes. [HCR-14]
Urge federal policymakers to expedite research regarding the safety and efficacy of the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Introduced In House on 01/05/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to consumer protection through regulation of pharmacy-related trade practices. [HB-203]
Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions for pharmacy-related insurance practices; 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 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Withdrawn on 02/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program. [SB-45]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of managed care organization contracts to operate the Medicaid program to three; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Received In House on 01/26/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to chronic pain treatments. [HB-58]
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 treatments provided by a licensed professional; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid and Medicaid managed care organizations to include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; amend KRS 218A.172 to require that a health care practitioner discuss and refer
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Flood
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to individual-directed care at the end of life. [HB-149]
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 request; permit individual to rescind request at any time; permit an attending health care provider to provide medication; establish requirements for attending health care provider to inform individuals and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified individuals; require report
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the civil liberties of parents and children and declaring an emergency. [HB-112]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 214 to define "child"; prohibit required or coerced COVID-19 vaccination of a child without the consent of all parents, custodians, and guardians; prohibit retaliation, additional requirements, limitation of activity, or reduction in health care benefit for a child not vaccinated for COVID-19; authorize legal action and civil penalties for violations; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to immunizations. [HB-52]
Amend KRS 344.010 to define "immunization"; amend KRS 344.040 to prohibit employers from discriminating against an individual who declines immunization or requiring immunization as a condition of employment or inquiring as to the employee's immunization status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to prohibit an employer from requiring an employee or applicant for employment to be immunized or inquiring regarding immunization status.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-136]
Create various new sections of KRS 218A to define terms and establish a medicinal cannabis program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to establish an excise tax on certain transfers of medicinal cannabis; amend KRS 139.470 to exempt the sale of medical cannabis from the state sales tax; amend KRS 138.870 to exempt medicinal cannabis from the excise tax on controlled substances; amend KRS 216B.402 to require hospital emergency departments to report cases of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome to the Department for Public Health; amend KRS 218A.010,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/29/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public health. [HB-99]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to exempt places of worship and religiously-affiliated schools and day care centers from vaccine and face covering requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Billy Wesley
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for diabetes treatment. [HB-90]
Amend KRS 304.17A-148 to require that cost sharing for noninsulin drugs and certain equipment and supplies necessary for the treatment of diabetes not exceed certain cost-sharing thresholds; prohibit insurers from conducting or imposing utilization review for diabetes treatment prescribed by a health care provider; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the emergency administration of medication in schools. [HB-94]
Amend KRS 158.838 to include naloxone among the medications each school shall have an employee trained to administer or to assist with self-administration; require training for naloxone; make conforming changes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
Taken From Health & Family Services (h) on 03/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the establishment of emergency insulin programs and declaring an emergency. [HB-42]
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 Kentucky Board of Pharmacy for administering the program; require manufacturers to annually report certain information to the board; require the board to report
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for injectable epinephrine devices. [HB-183]
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 and under; provide that the coverage shall not be subject to cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with the 18-and-under injectable epinephrine device coverage requirement;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the opioid abatement trust fund and declaring an emergency. [HB-92]
Amend KRS 15.293 to provide that funds received from bankruptcy proceedings shall also be allocated to the Opioid abatement trust fund and local governments; specify that any named defendant in In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, MDL No. 2804, Case No. 1:17-md-02804, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio is to be included as well.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Line Items Vetoed (acts Ch. 240) on 04/26/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT prohibiting vaccination requirements for postsecondary education students. [HB-57]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit a public postsecondary educational institution from requiring a student to receive certain vaccinations unless the student is participating in an educational program that involves the delivery of health care services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022