Drugs And Medicines
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to psychotropic drugs. [HB-572]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; require Medicaid-enrolled providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children to provide an FDA Medication Guide to parents or legal guardians; require medical care providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children covered by Medicaid to obtain signed informed consent from a parent of guardian; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop and maintain an adverse drug reaction online reporting system; require the cabinet to compile and submit an annual report of the adverse
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
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AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis. [HB-571]
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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Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-569]
Amend KRS 342.610 to remove the presumption that the use of an illegal substance prior to an accident caused the injury; provide that the use of an illegal substance shall be the proximate cause of the injury.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-570]
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 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the practice of pharmacy. [HB-501]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to establish requirements for pharmacists when dispensing prescriptions in the event of a practitioner's death.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to chemical dependency treatment. [HB-531]
Amend KRS 216B.020 to exempt chemical dependency treatment facilities, chemical dependency services, and bed capacity of a chemical dependency treatment facility from obtaining a certificate of need; require applicable licensure.
Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To Health Services (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to chronic pain treatments. [HB-506]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses shall include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; amend KRS 205.522 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 or prescribe alternative chronic pain treatments before
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Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Moore
To Health Services (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to driving under the influence. [HB-456]
Amend KRS 189A.010 to provide that operating a motor vehicle while the person's operator's license is suspended for a previous violation of driving under the influence or KRS 189A.090 is an aggravating circumstance; expand the list of controlled substances; amend KRS 189A.070 to extend the period of license suspension for a person who is issued an ignition interlock license for a first offense from four months to six months; require each person who is issued an ignition interlock license to comply with the consecutive day requirements in KRS 189A.340
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Received In Senate on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to colorectal cancer screenings. [HB-421]
Amend KRS 304.17A-257 to require coverage for all colorectal cancer examinations and laboratory tests specified in the United States Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer guidelines for certain covered persons; require coverage for all United States Food and Drug Administration-approved bowel preparation prescribed in connection with a colorectal cancer examination or test; prohibit prior authorization requirements for colorectal cancer examinations and laboratory tests; provide an exemption from the cost sharing prohibition for Health Savings
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Reported Favorably, 2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/11/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy. [HB-419]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion during a declared emergency; amend KRS 156.496 to allow a school district to operate a family resource center that provides abortion counseling; amend KRS 205.010 to permit financial aid for an abortion; amend KRS 205.510 to include abortions or induced miscarriages as medical care; amend KRS 205.560
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Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to utilization controls for nonopioid analgesics in the Medicaid program. [SB-128]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to prohibit the Department for Medicaid Services, any Medicaid managed care organization contracted by the department, and the Medicaid state pharmacy benefit manager from denying coverage for a nonopioid analgesic in favor of opioid analgesic or establishing more restrictive or more extensive utilization controls for nonopioid analgesics than the least restrictive or extensive utilization controls for any opioid or narcotic analgesic.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Health Services (s) on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient-directed care at the end of life. [HB-408]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill patient's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; establish conditions required to make request; permit patient to rescind request at any time; permit an attending physician to provide medication; establish requirements for attending physician to inform patients and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified patients; require report by the Cabinet for Health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian
To Health Services (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. [HB-413]
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 prescription drug cost-sharing and rebate requirements shall not be in violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 304.38A-115, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate requirements
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tobacco, nicotine, or vapor product licensure. [SB-100]
Amend KRS 438.305 to define terms; create new sections of KRS 438.305 to 438.350 to create the Division of Tobacco, Nicotine, and Vapor Product Licensing within the Department of Beverage Control; give the department investigators the authority to inspect any premise where alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products are sold without obtaining a search warrant; require any retailer that sells alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products to obtain a tobacco, nicotine, and vapor products license issued by
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 78) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. [HB-389]
Amend KRS 205.529, 218A.172, 218A.205, and 304.17A.165 to remove references to a Schedule III controlled substance containing hydrocodone; amend KRS 218A.010 to add optometrist and physician assistant to the definition of "practitioner" licensed in other states; amend KRS 218A.182 to exempt charitable health care practitioners from electronic prescription requirement; amend KRS 218A.202 to require an active account with the electronic monitoring system be maintained by practitioners or pharmacists prescribing or dispensing Schedule II, III, IV,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to intranasal epinephrine. [HB-384]
Amend KRS 158.832 to include intranasal epinephrine to list of medications used to treat anaphylaxis; amend KRS 158.836 to include intranasal epinephrine as permissible for schools to keep.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Health Services (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to controlled substances. [HB-320]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 218A to create a criminal offense of trafficking a controlled substance on hospital property as a Class D felony unless a higher penalty applies; amend KRS 218A.1415 to establish possession of a controlled substance on hospital property is a Class D felony unless a higher penalty applies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Clines
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of unborn children. [SB-106]
Amend KRS 311.772, relating to the intentional termination of life of an unborn human being, to define terms; establish criminal penalties and fines for a foreign sender who provides an abortifacient or abortion-inducing drug; establish a civil cause of action that is available to a woman who receives an abortifacient; establish available relief; amend KRS 218A.100 to include abortifacients and abortion-inducing drugs as Schedule IV controlled substance.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
Introduced In Senate on 02/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of unborn children. [HB-316]
Amend KRS 311.772, relating to the intentional termination of life of an unborn human being, to define terms; establish criminal penalties and fines for a foreign sender who provides an abortifacient or abortion-inducing drug; establish a civil cause of action that is available to a woman who receives an abortifacient; establish available relief; amend KRS 218A.100 to include abortifacients and abortion-inducing drugs as Schedule IV controlled substance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive health care. [HB-357]
Amend KRS 205.592 to expand Medicaid eligibility to include pregnant women and new mothers up to 12 months postpartum regardless of citizenship or national origin; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a family planning program to provide family planning services and family planning-related services to Medicaid-eligible individuals, including individuals who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid except for their citizenship or national origin; require the Department
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/07/2025