Drugs And Medicines
Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abortion. [SB-50]
Amend KRS 213.101 to require a report of dispensing a prescription for RU-486, cytotec, pitocin, mifeprex, misoprostol, or any other drug or combination of drugs that are intended to end a pregnancy to the Vital Statistics Branch within 15 days after the end of the month in which the prescription was dispensed; require report to be made available on the cabinet's Web site; create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to require a report of dispensing a prescription for RU-486, cytotec, pitocin, mifeprex, misoprostol, or any other drug or combination
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 191) on 03/26/2019
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AN ACT relating to service improvements in the Medicaid program. [SB-42]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of (MCO) contracts to operate the Medicaid program to three and to establish a process for selecting the three MCOs to be awarded the contracts; require that services provided in rural counties be reimbursed at least at the median amount paid to an urban health care provider within the nearest metropolitan statistical area; establish a penalty that goes to the underpaid provider.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
To Health & Welfare (s) on 01/11/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Kentucky's electronic system for monitoring controlled substances. [SB-247]
Amend KRS 218A.202 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish secure connections between Kentucky's electronic system for monitoring controlled substances and a prescribing or dispensing health care practitioner’s electronic health recordkeeping system.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Health & Welfare (s) on 02/19/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal marijuana and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-170]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; to exempt the medicinal marijuana program from existing provisions in Kentucky law to the contrary; to require the Department for Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control to implement and regulate the medicinal marijuana program in Kentucky; to establish the Division of Medicinal Marijuana within the Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; to establish restrictions on the possession of and cultivation for personal use of medicinal marijuana by qualifying patients, visiting patients,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dan Seum
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/26/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for pharmacy and pharmacist services. [SB-139]
Create new sections of KRS 304-17A to set requirements for reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy benefit manager networks; permit the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to review and approve a compensation program that is fair and reasonable; except information and data collected by the department from KRS 61.870 to 61.884; prohibit pharmacy benefit managers from taking actions related to payment and practices; permit the commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations prohibiting practices by pharmacy benefit managers; amend
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julian Carroll
Taken From Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/25/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to discussion with patients on the risks, benefits, and limitations of treatment with controlled substances. [SB-106]
Amend KRS 218A.172 to add issues that a practitioner is required to discuss with a patient prior to prescribing or dispensing a controlled substance to a patient; require that the same information is discussed prior to a third sequential prescription; require any discussion records to be kept by the practitioner.
Sponsored by: Sen. Alice Kerr
To Health & Welfare (s) on 02/08/2019
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Kentucky 2019 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-5]
Urge federal policymakers to incorporate standards for safety and efficacy in the use of medical marijuana.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/12/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Medicinal Marijuana Task Force. [HCR-121]
Create the Medicinal Marijuana Task Force to study and make recommendations related to the medicinal use of marijuana in the Commonwealth; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least bimonthly during the 2019 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2019.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Floor Amendment (2) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/04/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to physician assistants. [HB-93]
Amend KRS 311.844 to provide additional license renewal requirements for physician assistants with controlled substances prescriptive authority; amend KRS 311.854 to require the board to review and approve or deny physician assistant applications within 30 calendar days of receiving a completed application; amend KRS 311.856 to permit physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances; amend KRS 311.858 to permit physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances with specific restrictions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jerry Miller
Posted In Committee on 02/26/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to infertility treatment coverage. [HB-87]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304, relating to health benefit plans, to require coverage for infertility treatment; prohibit insurers from denying coverage for services which would otherwise be covered services solely because the services may result in infertility; require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to promulgate administrative regulations to establish guidelines and standards for the coverage required; create a new section of KRS 311.530 to 311.620 to require the State Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pharmacists. [HB-64]
Amend KRS 217.215 to permit pharmacists to dispense a prescription refill in an amount equal to the standard unit of dispensing for the drug without authorization by the prescribing practitioner in emergency situations in which such authorization may not be readily or easily obtained; require the Board of Pharmacy to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out these provisions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch.185) on 03/26/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the safe disposal of prescription medications. [HB-512]
Create a new section of KRS 217.905 to 217.919 to require a pharmacist or a pharmacist’s designee to inform persons verbally, in writing, or by posted signage of methods for the sequestration or deactivation and disposal of specified unused, unwanted, or expired legend drugs anytime a legend drug is dispensed; require a pharmacist or a pharmacist’s designee to make available at no charge a nontoxic composition for the sequestration or deactivation and disposal of specified unused, unwanted, or expired legend drugs when a legend drug is dispensed;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Booker
To Health And Family Services (h) on 02/21/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to substance use disorder treatment and recovery services and programs. [HB-513]
Amend KRS 12.500, 210.485, 210.506, 210.509, 214.185, 222.003, 222.271, 222.311, 222.421, 222.430, 222.431, 222.432, 222.433; 222.434, 222.435, 222.441, 222.460, 304.17A-660, 311B.160, 600.020, 610.127, and 620.023, to change "alcohol and other drug abuse" to "substance use disorder"; amend KRS 202A.0819 and 210.365 to delete the Kentucky Commission on Services and Supports for Individuals with Mental Illness, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Disorders, and Dual Diagnoses; make technical corrections; add the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Sheldon
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 128) on 03/26/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Kentucky's electronic system for monitoring controlled substances. [HB-506]
Amend KRS 218A.202 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish secure connections between Kentucky's electronic system for monitoring controlled substances and a prescribing or dispensing health care practitioner’s electronic health recordkeeping system.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health And Family Services (h) on 02/21/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. [HB-502]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to annually compile a list of certain prescription drugs deemed to be essential to treating diabetes and a list of such drugs that have been subject to a price increase greater than a certain percentage; require drug manufacturers to annually report to the cabinet certain information related to the cost of manufacturing and marketing such drugs and factors that contributed to a price increase; require pharmacy benefit managers to annually report
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/21/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-474]
Amend KRS 342.610 to exclude certain levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the blood from the presumption that an injury was caused by the introduction of certain substances into the employee's body.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/21/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to controlled substances. [HB-470]
Amend KRS 217.186 to allow a pharmacist to dispense naloxone to a person or agency who provides training on the use of naloxone as a part of a harm reduction program; amend KRS 218A.1412 to make a technical correction to clarify that heroin trafficking is not eligible for a Class D felony; amend KRS 507.040 to add the unlawful distribution for remuneration of a Schedule I or II drug where the drug is the proximate cause of death to the elements of manslaughter in the second degree.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad McCoy
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 130) on 03/26/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prior authorizations. [HB-449]
Amend KRS 304.17A-611 to prohibit insurers from setting requirements or using certain utilization reviews for a covered person's initial admission of up to 14 days to a short-term residential treatment facility for substance use disorder treatment; amend KRS 205.536 to prohibit the Department for Medicaid Services or a Medicaid managed care organization from requiring or conducting a prospective or concurrent review of a Medicaid recipient's initial admission of up to 14 days to a short-term residential treatment facility for substance use disorder
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Goforth
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/20/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to strengthening the controlled substances collaborative agreement between physicians and advanced practice registered nurses. [HB-440]
Amend KRS 314.042 to add requirements for the Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse's Prescriptive Authority for Controlled Substances (CAPA-CS).
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Reassigned To Health And Family Services (h) on 02/22/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to drug treatment and prevention and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-44]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to establish the Kentucky addiction prevention, recovery, and enforcement fund; establish administering committee membership; direct all revenues from the Commonwealth related to the drug epidemic to the fund; describe authorized fund expenditures; require fund reporting; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Health And Family Services (h) on 01/10/2019