Drugs And Medicines
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting system. [HB-764]
Amend KRS 205.529 to remove reference to a Schedule III controlled substance containing hydrocodone in the program for synchronization of medications; amend KRS 218A.010 to add optometrist and physician assistant to the definition of "practitioner"; amend KRS 218A.172 to remove reference to a Schedule III controlled substance containing hydrocodone in the medications regulated; amend KRS 218A.182 to add charitable health care providers to the exemption from the requirement for an electronic prescription for a controlled substance; amend KRS 218A.202
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Duvall
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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AN ACT relating to abortion-inducing drugs. [HB-838]
Amend KRS 216B.210 to specify that referral of complaints from the Kentucky Abortion-Inducing Drug Certification Program complaint portal may be made to the Office of the Attorney General or any other state department for enforcement.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nancy Tate
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to information on emergency use drugs and declaring an emergency. [SB-267]
Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to require that any person who administers an unapproved drug, devise, or biologic that has been approved for emergency use by the secretary of the United States Food and Drug Administration provides information to the individual receiving the unapproved drug, devise, or biologic; prohibit any person from requiring an individual to have an unapproved drug, devise, or biologic administered to him or her; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Health Services (s) on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medical orders for scope of treatment. [HB-645]
Amend KRS 311.6225 to make changes to the medical order for scope of treatment form.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
Received In Senate on 03/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for injectable epinephrine devices. [HB-556]
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 or younger; provide that the coverage shall not be subject to cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485,164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the 18-and-under injectable epinephrine device coverage requirement;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to contraceptives. [HB-536]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to drug disposal. [HB-543]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define "drug disposal method"; require the Kentucky Medicaid program to provide payment to a pharmacist or practitioner for the cost of a drug disposal method that the pharmacist or practitioner distributed upon dispensing a controlled substance that contains any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of an opioid, benzodiazepine, barbiturate, codeine, or amphetamine at no cost to a Medicaid recipient; amend KRS 218A.170 to require the Kentucky Medicaid program to provide payment for the cost of a drug
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to addiction treatment. [HB-534]
Amends KRS 205.536 to prohibit the Department for Medicaid Services or a Medicaid managed care organization from requiring or using certain utilization reviews for prescription drugs that contains an opioid antagonist; and amends KRS 304.17A-611 to prohibit insurers from requiring or using certain utilization reviews for prescriptions that contain an opioid antagonist, and to provide that the prohibition applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed after January 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Duvall
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 155) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drug price discrimination. [HB-490]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms, prohibit discrimination against 340B covered entities by pharmaceutical manufacturers, and authorize the Attorney General to investigation violations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Reassigned To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient access to pharmacy benefits. [SB-188]
Amends KRS 18A.2254 to require that the state employee health plan and state agencies comply with certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practices, to require that insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other pharmacy benefits administrators establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks, to require the filing of an annual report, to require that the insurance commissioner review pharmacy networks, to provide that information
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 104) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care for inmates. [HB-475]
Amends KRS 441.053, relating to jail health care operations, to remove the prohibition that an entity that provides medical, dental, psychological, or pharmacy services to the Department of Corrections and local jails cannot also provide claims management or plan evaluation services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Imes
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.36) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy. [HB-428]
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. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/31/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to undesignated glucagon. [HB-438]
Amend KRS 158.832 to include a definition for "undesignated glucagon"; amend KRS 158.838 to allow health care practitioners to prescribe undesignated glucagon in the name of a school to be maintained for use by a school nurse or trained school employee when necessary.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. [SB-149]
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; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 304.38A-115, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health services. [HB-408]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to require treatment centers or programs licensed as a chemical dependency treatment service to provide transportation services to residents who wish to leave the program if the resident's family, guardian, or emergency contact does not agree to transport them; outline transportation service responsibilities; provide restrictions on where a resident can be taken; require that the facilities conduct a search of any outstanding warrants; exempt all facilities not licensed as a chemical dependency treatment service
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (s) on 03/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-420]
Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use 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 oversight of cannabis operations
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to drugs and medicines and declaring an emergency. [SB-135]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that an independent institution or postsecondary education institution that requires a student to receive an immunization for disease shall allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violation of the requirement; amend KRS 209.552 to allow vaccine requirement exemptions at long-term care facilities and make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to provide that a health facility that requires an employee to receive an immunization for disease shall allow
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Health Services (s) on 01/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to purchase limits for pseudoephedrine. [HB-386]
Amends KRS 218A.1446 to remove annual and package purchase limits for pseudoephedrine.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 117) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-379]
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. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-351]
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
Introduced In House on 01/23/2024