Physicians And Practitioners
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT protecting the exercise of medical ethics and diversity within the medical profession. [SB-90]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Rights ]
[Public Health ]
[Ethics ]
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 exerciseing these rights; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations of these provisions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Recommitted To Judiciary (s) on 03/17/2020
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AN ACT relating to surgical smoke evacuation. [SB-91]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms and to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations requiring the use of a smoke evacuation system during any surgical procedure that is likely to produce surgical smoke; amend KRS 216B.990 to establish penalties.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Health And Family Services (h) on 02/21/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of born-alive infants and abortion and declaring an emergency. [SB-9]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit a person from denying or depriving a born-alive infant of nourishment with the intent to cause or allow the death of the infant; prohibit a person from denying or depriving a born-alive infant of medically appropriate and reasonable medical care, medical treatment, or surgical care; require a physician performing an abortion to take all medically appropriate and reasonable steps to preserve the life and health of a born-alive infant; specify that if the physician is unable to perform those duties
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Vetoed on 04/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health protection and declaring an emergency. [SB-85]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 define "conversion therapy," "mental health professional," and "public funds"; prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy 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 conversion therapy; add the short title "Mental Health Protection Act"; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julian Carroll
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (s) on 01/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-239]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 01/14/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Alzheimer's and dementia training. [HB-228]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Human Services ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 15.334 to encourage the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to provide peace officers with training on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to encourage hospitals to provide staff and management with training on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders; amend KRS 311.601 to encourage physicians to participate in training on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders; amend KRS 311A.120 to encourage emergency medical technicians, advanced emergency medical technicians, emergency medical responders,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Posted In Committee on 01/21/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient-directed care at the end of life. [HB-224]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[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. Mary Marzian
To Health And Family Services (h) on 01/13/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT establishing the Kentucky Eating Disorder Council and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-82]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to establish the Kentucky Eating Disorder Council in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; set forth membership and duties; require a report annually beginning December 1, 2020; sunset the council on December 1, 2030, unless otherwise reestablished by the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 56) on 03/27/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish the Task Force on Services for Persons with Brain Injuries. [SJR-35]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Disabilities ]
Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish the Task Force on Services for Persons with Brain Injuries; establish duties of the task force; establish members of the task force; require a report to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2020; cease the task force by December 31, 2020, unless otherwise authorized by the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Posted In Committee on 03/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities. [HB-215]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to 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 based on
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Health And Family Services (h) on 01/10/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental healthcare for unaccompanied youth. [HB-213]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 214.185 to establish that any qualified mental health professional may provide outpatient mental health counseling to any child who is age 16 or older and is an unaccompanied youth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
To Health & Welfare (s) on 01/31/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to controlled substance prescription pill counts for pain management facility patients. [HB-202]
[Healthcare ]
[Crime ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 218A.175 to require pain management facilities to require patients prescribed controlled substances to report for pill counts every 3 months; require the pain management facility to report on pill counts to the electronic system for monitoring controlled substances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
To Health And Family Services (h) on 01/10/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the voluntary preceptor tax credit. [HB-205]
[Taxes ]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an individual income tax credit for Kentucky-licensed physicians who, as voluntary preceptors, administer at least three core clinical rotations for certain medical students; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting of statistics.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 01/10/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to surprise billing. [HB-179]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define "balance billing," "cost sharing," and other terms; create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the insurance commissioner or a designated nonprofit organization to establish and maintain a database of billed health care services charges collected from insurers; define "unanticipated out-of-network care," "covered person" and "usual and customary rate"; require an insurer to reimburse for unanticipated out-of-network care at the lower of the billed amount or the usual and customary rate less
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-125]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.794 to delete the definition
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health protection and declaring an emergency. [HB-199]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Rights ]
[Funding ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 define conversion therapy, mental health professional, and public funds; to prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with a person under eighteen (18) years of age or a person who is eighteen (18) years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020 or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510 in conversion therapy; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for conversion therapy; add the short title "Mental Health Protection Act";
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Health And Family Services (h) on 01/09/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to required Medicaid coverage of services. [HB-117]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Amend KRS 205.560 to require that dental and optometric services provided to eligible recipients ages 21 and over be the same as those provided to eligible children ages 21 and under; establish minimum requirements for dental services provided to all age groups; require coverage of nonemergency medically necessary transportation for eligible recipients.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to informed consent for medical examinations. [SB-59]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS 216.2950 to 216.2980 to 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: Sen. Alice Kerr
To Health & Welfare (s) on 01/08/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-136]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Insurance ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Crime ]
Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; to exempt the medicinal marijuana program from existing provisions in Kentucky law to the contrary; to require the Department for Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control to implement and regulate the medicinal marijuana program in Kentucky; to establish the Division of Medicinal Marijuana within the Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; to establish restrictions on the possession of medicinal marijuana by qualifying patients, visiting patients, and designated caregivers;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Judiciary (s) on 03/02/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to direct care staff training in dementia care. [SB-36]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require direct care staff and managers to receive training in dementia care.
Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Health & Welfare (s) on 01/08/2020