SB-329: Provides relative to statewide protocols for pharmacists. (8/1/22)
Sponsored by: Sen. Fred Mills
Introduced In The Senate; Read By Title. Rules Suspended. Read Second Time And Referred To The Committee On Health And Welfare. on 03/14/2022
AN ACT relating to the exercise of ethics and diversity within the medical profession. [HB-570]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to define terms; prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant providers the right not to participate in or pay for services that violate their conscience; exempt providers from liability for exercising these rights; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations of these provisions.
HB-570: AN ACT relating to the exercise of ethics and diversity within the medical profession.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nancy Tate
Introduced In House on 02/23/2022
AN ACT relating to healthcare workers and declaring an emergency. [HB-573]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Healthcare Worker Loan Relief Program for qualifying healthcare workers; establish the guidelines for operating the program; create the healthcare worker loan relief fund; APPROPRIATION.
HB-573: AN ACT relating to healthcare workers and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 226) on 04/20/2022
Right To Refuse Drug Prescription [HB-388]
An Act requiring physicians to prescribe requested drugs; requiring pharmacists to fill prescriptions; and relating to prescription drug coverage under health discount plans and health care insurance plans.
HB-388: Right To Refuse Drug Prescription
Sponsored by: Rep. David Eastman
Read The First Time - Referrals on 02/22/2022
AN ACT relating to patient-directed care at the end of life. [HB-534]
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; require conditions for making 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 and Family
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HB-534: AN ACT relating to patient-directed care at the end of life.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Introduced In House on 02/17/2022
AN ACT relating to public health and declaring an emergency. [HB-3]
Amend KRS 311.732, relating to performance of an abortion upon a minor, to require the informed written consent of a parent or legal guardian to include a copy of that parent's or legal guardian's government-issued identification and parent's or legal guardian's documentation; require government-issued identification for the minor; require notification to other parent with joint or physical custody with exceptions; require the physician to keep a copy of the informed written consent for at least 7 years; require the physician to execute an affidavit;
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HB-3: AN ACT relating to public health and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 210) on 04/14/2022
AN ACT relating to pharmacy or pharmacist services. [HB-457]
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 new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions for pharmacy-related insurance practices; require pharmacy benefit managers to establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks; require pharmacy benefit managers to file, and the insurance commissioner to review, an annual report describing pharmacy networks; provide that information
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HB-457: AN ACT relating to pharmacy or pharmacist services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/22/2022
AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. [SB-134]
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; create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate
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SB-134: AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/07/2022
Health Care Services By Telehealth [SB-175]
An Act relating to telehealth; relating to the practice of medicine; relating to medical assistance coverage for services provided by telehealth; and providing for an effective date.
SB-175: Health Care Services By Telehealth
Sponsored by: Sen. David Wilson
Hss Rpt Recd W/cs Await Transmittal Nxt on 04/15/2022