Health And Medical Services
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing April 2025 as Testicular Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky. [HR-75]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Recognize April 2025 as Testicular Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/28/2025
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AN ACT relating to reproductive health services. [HB-793]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
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; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exclude contraception from cost defrayal requirements; 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnancy resource centers. [HB-794]
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[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "pregnancy resource center"; require pregnancy resource centers to be licensed; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for pregnancy resource centers; provide that operation or advertisement of a pregnancy resource center without a license is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that a pregnancy resource center's or health care provider's liability is neither limited nor expanded by the licensure requirement; amend KRS
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a provisional license to practice medicine. [HB-786]
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[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311.530 to 311.620 to permit an international medical graduate to apply for a provisional license that may lead to a full and unrestricted license to practice medicine in Kentucky notwithstanding KRS 311.571; require the Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations to establish provisional licensure pathway requirements, applicant requirements, eligibility for obtaining a full and unrestricted license after completing the provisional period, establish a data collection process to evaluate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact. [HB-762]
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[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 313 to adopt the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; declare the intent and purpose of the compact; define terms; establish conditions under which an individual can practice in a remote state; authorize a home state to impose adverse action against an individual's license issued by the home state; authorize a member state's licensing authority to issue subpoenas for hearings and investigations as well as cease and desist orders to restrict, suspend, or revoke an individual's privilege to practice
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program and declaring an emergency. [HB-695]
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[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Funding ]
Retain original provisions, except delete Medicaid coverage limitations for psychoeducational services; establish that changes to the Medicaid program necessitated by requirements imposed by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or related to payment programs for university hospitals shall be exempt from the requirement that the change be authorized by the General Assembly; amend KRS 205.5371 to establish that the community engagement program shall be a mandatory waiver program; locate the Kentucky Medicaid pharmaceutical rebate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 110) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to informed consent for medical examinations. [HB-795]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; prohibit a health care provider from performing a pelvic, rectal, or prostate examination without the informed consent of the patient or the person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient; provide for certain exceptions including a court order; require violators to be subject to discipline by the appropriate professional licensing board or accrediting agency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to buprenorphine products. [HB-788]
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[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to require that a dosage regimen for Buprenorphine-Mono-Product or Buprenorphine-Combined-with-Naloxone prescribed by a licensed physician to meet the treatment needs of a patient; require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to require that a dosage regimen for Buprenorphine-Mono-Product or Buprenorphine-Combined-with-Naloxone prescribed by a licensed advanced practice registered nurse meet the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Taken From Health Services (h) on 03/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public health and safety. [HB-745]
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[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 214.450 to define "autologous donation" and "directed donation"; amend KRS 214.452 to require blood establishments to test for spike proteins, antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and synthetic mRNA; provide that a person shall not be compelled to donate blood; require blood establishments to inform donors of the potential uses for donations; require blood to be sold to hospitals before any other entity; prohibit blood from sale for pharmaceutical production if there is a hospital blood shortage; amend KRS 214.454
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid managed care organizations. [HB-787]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 205.533 to require Medicaid managed care organizations to include certain information for providers on their websites; amend KRS 205.534 to require managed care organizations to allow providers 120 days to file an appeal or grievance related to a reduction of denial of a claim; establish penalties for a managed care organization's failure to ensure the timely disposition of any appeal or grievance; require payment of any amount owed to a provider following an appeal to be paid within 30 days; require payments made following an appeal to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates. [HB-798]
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[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 196.175 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities. [HB-810]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure; establish minimum staffing requirements; prohibit long-term care facilities from admitting new residents if the facility fails to comply with the minimum staffing requirements, beginning on the second day of noncompliance and continuing until six days after the required staffing is achieved, with exceptions allowed for weather emergencies and other similar events; require additional staffing
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Infant Mortality Task Force. [HCR-52]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establish the Infant Mortality Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2025 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2025 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month. [HR-58]
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[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Recognize March 2025 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian
Introduced In House on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to liability shield products and declaring an emergency. [HB-648]
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[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; require a manufacturer of a liability shield product to subject the product to a placebo-controlled study before it is manufactured, marketed, distributed, or administered in Kentucky; establish requirements for the placebo-controlled study; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to monitor and track adverse outcomes of liability shield products; require manufacturers of liability shield products to submit documentation to the cabinet of the placebo-controlled study and results
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement an in-home-drug disposal pilot program. [HJR-37]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement a pilot program beginning January 1, 2026, to study the effectiveness of in-home prescription drug disposal in Kentucky; require consultation with the Board of Pharmacy; require submission of a report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services by December 1, 2027.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Duvall
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hospital price transparency. [SB-243]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require hospitals to disclose prices for certain items and services provided by hospitals; require hospitals to provide descriptions of different services and standard charges of those services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations, monitor each facility's compliance, and provide administrative penalties; prohibit collective action of debt for noncompliant facilities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Health Services (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health services. [HB-674]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 216.315 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Suzanne Miles
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and celebration of Dr. Matthew Milliner. [SR-64]
Adjourn in honor and celebration of Dr. Matthew Milliner.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health services. [SB-184]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 214.630 to make a technical correction.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Health Services (s) on 02/19/2025