Physicians And Practitioners
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnancy resource centers. [HB-794]
[Healthcare ]
[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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AN ACT relating to a provisional license to practice medicine. [HB-786]
[Healthcare ]
[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 mental health parity and declaring an emergency. [HB-748]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require that annual mental health parity reports be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission on or before June 1 of each year for referral to certain committees and be published by the insurance commissioner on the Department of Insurance's website; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for enforcement by the Attorney General; authorize a private cause of action by any person directly injured by a violation or likely violation of the mental
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Grossl
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact. [HB-762]
[Healthcare ]
[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 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]
[Healthcare ]
[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]
[Healthcare ]
[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 abortion. [HB-759]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, and 311.781 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.725, 311.727, 311.732, 311.7706, 311.772, 311.780, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when the unborn child has a lethal fetal anomaly and delineate additional medical circumstances for the performance of an abortion; allow an abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the gestational age of the fetus is 22 weeks or less; amend KRS 311.800 to provide for an abortion in a publicly owned hospital under certain circumstances; amend KRS 213.101 to add
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensees authorized to prescribe or dispense controlled substances. [HB-710]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Amend KRS 311.586 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Smith
3rd Reading, Passed 77-18 With Committee Substitute (1) And Committee Amendment (1-title) on 03/06/2025
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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]
[Healthcare ]
[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]
[Public Health ]
[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
AN ACT relating to licensed occupations. [HB-617]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 312.165 to make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Koch
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [SB-191]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Mental Health ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers' compensation, to expand the definition of " injury" to include a diagnosis of class 2 or greater post-traumatic stress disorder from a death or threatened death by direct exposure or witnessing a death, threat of death, or its immediate aftermath; define "medical professional"; amend KRS 342.020 to allow an administrative law judge to rely upon objective medical opinions or data when determining medical benefits; require a carrier or a third-party administrator to provide the guidelines relied upon to deny
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Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to blood donation. [HB-601]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 214.452 to add receipt of a COVID -19 vaccine to the blood donor risk factor statement collected by a blood establishment; amend KRS 214.458 to add donor receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine to the donor identification information affixed to a unit of donated blood; add that except in an emergency, a patient be informed if the donor of the blood to be transfused had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Dotson
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to ivermectin for human use. [HB-668]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to permit the sale or purchase of ivermectin that's been approved for human use without a prescription from a practitioner.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to providing health services to a person who is not vaccinated. [HB-629]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to prohibit the refusal to provide health services to a person who has not been vaccinated.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [HB-688]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to permit rather than require the board to issue credentials; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025