Physicians And Practitioners
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid ordering, referring, and prescribing providers. [HB-738]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; establish that the Department for Medicaid Services and any Medicaid managed care organization shall not prohibit a Medicaid beneficiary from entering into a direct primary care membership agreement or penalize a Medicaid beneficiary for receiving primary care services under a direct primary care membership agreement; establish that the department and any Medicaid managed care organization shall require a primary care provider who enters into a direct primary care membership agreement with
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
Introduced In House on 03/01/2022
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AN ACT relating to licensing. [HB-741]
Amend KRS 312.152 to modernize language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Koenig
Introduced In House on 03/01/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [SB-261]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Amend KRS 342.0011 to include a definition of "medical director"; amend KRS 342.035 to a medical director within the Department of Workers' Claims and require the commissioner to promulgate an administrative regulation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (s) on 03/02/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-582]
[Cannabis ]
[Finance ]
[Healthcare ]
[Taxes ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Funding ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and establish a medicinal cannabis program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to establish an excise tax on certain transfers of medicinal cannabis; amend KRS 342.815 to establish that the Employer’s Mutual Insurance Authority shall not be required to provide coverage to an employer if doing so would subject the authority to a violation of state or federal law; amend KRS 139.470 to exempt the sale of medical cannabis from the state sales tax; amend KRS 138.870 to exempt medicinal cannabis
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Sponsored by: Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/24/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the exercise of ethics and diversity within the medical profession. [HB-570]
[Healthcare ]
[Ethics ]
[Human Rights ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nancy Tate
Introduced In House on 02/23/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to healthcare workers and declaring an emergency. [HB-573]
[Healthcare ]
[Student Loans ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 226) on 04/20/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [SB-203]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 311.586 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Recommitted To State & Local Government (s) on 03/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [HB-540]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 311.586 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/18/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient-directed care at the end of life. [HB-534]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
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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Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Introduced In House on 02/17/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the disclosure of laboratory test results and declaring an emergency. [HB-529]
[Healthcare ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 333 to prohibit information blocking of medical laboratory reports or tests except for results that may show a finding of malignancy or could reveal genetic markers, which are prohibited from disclosure for 72 hours; amend KRS 333.150 to require medical laboratory compliance with the 21st Century Cures Act; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Killian Timoney
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 93) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health and welfare and declaring an emergency. [SB-178]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 309.0834 to require the Kentucky Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors to promulgate administrative regulations to exempt applicants for certification as clinical supervisors from meeting certain requirements for a limited amount of time if the applicants were licensed and approved on March 24, 2021; permits applicants granted certification to supervise immediately; requires applicants after the limited time period to meet all requirements for certification; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 223) on 04/20/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public utilities. [HB-478]
[Energy ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to create winter and summer temperature standards for disconnection of service by retail electric and gas utilities; require resumption of disconnection only after a 72-hour period from the temperature standard; establish a certificate of need for persons who are at risk if utility service is disconnected that can be provided by a physician, physician assistant, community-based service organization, or faith-based service organization; prohibit disconnection of service on holidays and weekends and before 8
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Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
Introduced In House on 02/10/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public health and declaring an emergency. [HB-3]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Children and Youth ]
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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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 210) on 04/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parental rights. [HB-444]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 625.090 to delete grounds for involuntarily termination of parental rights related to neonatal abstinence syndrome at the time birth unless the mother is in substance abuse treatment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
Introduced In House on 02/02/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-130]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Mental Health ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Direct the use of a total of $81,000,000 of American Rescue Plan Act State Fiscal Recovery funds in fiscal year 2022-2023 to address the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting essential need for retaining and recruiting nurses, nurse's aides, respiratory therapists, emergency medical personnel, and other critical medical staff in acute care hospitals and nursing homes; require distribution of funds of a minimum of $3,000 per licensed hospital bed and a minimum of $1,500 per licensed nursing home bed; require acute care hospitals and nursing
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to youth mental health protection and declaring an emergency. [SB-137]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Healthcare ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 define sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts, mental health professional, and public funds; to prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a person under 18 years of age or a person who is 18 years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020 or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for sexual orientation and gender identity change
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Health & Welfare (s) on 02/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION declaring March 2022 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month. [HR-60]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Declare March 2022 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
Introduced In House on 02/02/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Infant Mortality Task Force. [HCR-55]
[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 2022 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
Introduced In House on 02/01/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program. [HB-433]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Create a new section of KRS 210.370 to 210.485 to create the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program; establish duties and responsibilities; amend KRS 210.400 to establish that the community board for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability shall implement, staff, and operate the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tina Bojanowski
Introduced In House on 02/01/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers. [HB-420]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers and compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) Standards for Birth Centers; require freestanding birthing centers in medically underserved areas to meet the standard of need for a certificate of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian
Introduced In House on 02/01/2022