Drugs And Medicines
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cannabis. [HB-348]
Amend KRS 260.852 and 260.858 to prohibit production of intoxicating hemp-derived products; amend KRS 260.850 and 218A.010 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Introduced In House on 02/16/2023
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AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-353]
Amend KRS 218A.500 to exclude testing equipment used to determine the presence of chemicals, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds in controlled substances from the prohibition of possession of drug paraphernalia; amend KRS 218.010 to exclude fentanyl found on testing equipment from the definition of "fentanyl."
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 166) on 03/31/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient access to pharmacy benefits. [HB-350]
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 a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish prohibited practices for pharmacy benefit managers; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service benefit plans, including limited health service contracts, and limited health service organizations; establish when legislation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the dissemination of cigarettes, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products, and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-310]
Amend KRS 438.310 to increase penalties for violations related to the sale of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products; amend KRS 438.313 to increase penalties for violations related to the distribution of cigarettes, tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products; amend KRS 138.195 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Reed
Introduced In House on 02/15/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient access to pharmacy benefits. [SB-149]
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 a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish prohibited practices for pharmacy benefit managers; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service benefit plans, including limited health service contracts, and limited health service organizations; establish when legislation
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/17/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to individual-directed care at the end of life. [HB-304]
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 the request; permit individual to rescind the request at any time; permit an attending health care provider to provide medication; establish requirements for the attending health care provider to inform individuals and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified individuals; require
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/15/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to undesignated glucagon. [HB-295]
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. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assistance with a drug overdose. [HB-292]
Amend KRS Chapter 218A.133 to amend the definition of " drug overdose" remove language that requires a layperson to reasonably believe medical assistance is required.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive health care. [HB-276]
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
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive health services. [HB-279]
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; 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 205.522, 205.6485,164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program,
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders. [HB-283]
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, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require a self-insured employer group health plan provided by a state postsecondary education institution to its employees, Medicaid, and Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the new section on postpartum mood disorder coverage; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to controlled substances. [HB-290]
Amend KRS 205.529 to revise the medications that are part of the program for synchronization of medications; amend KRS 218A.172 to revise the medications regulated; amend KRS 218A.182 to revise when a an electronic prescription is required from the practitioner issuing a prescription for a controlled substance; amend KRS 218A.202 to make technical changes; amend KRS 218A.205 to make changes to the regulations for prescribing and dispensing controlled substances; amend KRS 218A.245 to allow the cabinet to enter into contract with any federal agency
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Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
Received In Senate on 03/07/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to contraceptive coverage. [HB-278]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 446.350 to provide that nothing in the new section on contraceptive coverage
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to information on emergency use drugs and declaring an emergency. [SB-114]
Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to require that any individual who administers an unapproved drug that has been approved for emergency use by the commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration provides information; prohibit any person from being required to have an unapproved drug administered; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Health Services (s) on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hospital reporting of drug overdose information. [HB-239]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require a health care provider to order a quantitative and qualitative toxicology test to determine if a cause of an overdose is from an illicit drug if the person exhibits symptoms of an overdose in the health care provider's professional opinion or the person is known to the health care provider to have had previous overdose treatment; require a report of test findings to law enforcement and the coroner if the person dies while in the hospital; limit the public record of the test finding; provide immunity
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Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
To Health Services (h) on 02/24/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescriptive authority. [SB-94]
Amend KRS 314.042 to establish requirements related to "Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse's Prescriptive Authority for Nonscheduled Legend Drugs" (CAPA-NS) and "Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse's Prescriptive Authority for Controlled Substances" (CAPA-CS); establish the CAPA-CS Committee; establish membership and duties of the committee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to establish the Controlled Substances Prescribing Council; establish membership, duties, and reporting
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 73) on 03/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy. [SB-95]
Amend KRS 315.150, relating to the Board of Pharmacy, to change the membership qualifications and appointments; make board appointments subject to confirmation by the Senate; amend KRS 315.160 to permit a person who is not a pharmacist to be the executive director and only permit a pharmacist whose license is inactive and who is not affiliated with any organization nominating members of the board to serve as executive director.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Taken From Health Services (s) on 02/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION designating August 31, 2023, as "Overdose Awareness Day" in remembrance of the lives of Kentuckians lost to drug overdoses. [HCR-29]
Designate August 31, 2023, as "Overdose Awareness Day" in remembrance of the lives of Kentuckians lost to drug overdoses; encourage the Governor to issue an annual proclamation recognizing "overdose Awareness Day."
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roberts
Introduced In House on 02/07/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Critical Access Care Pharmacy Program. [HB-195]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to establish a Critical Access Care Pharmacy Program to ensure their sustainability as funds are available; define terms; set formula for calculating payments; permit the department to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the program; prohibit the influence of any critical access care pharmacy program payments on any other payments received for pharmacy services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Introduced In House on 02/07/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to medical cannabis. [SB-78]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to legalize the possession, sale, distribution, dispensing, use, and prescribing of cannabis for medical purposes as regulated and controlled by the General Assembly; direct the 2025 General Assembly to propose an additional new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to legalize recreational cannabis if medical cannabis is approved by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for their ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/14/2023