Physicians And Practitioners
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to network participation by medical laboratories. [SB-219]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-270 to include medical laboratories in the definition of "provider"; amend KRS 205.522 to require the state Medicaid program to comply with any willing provider law; make technical amendments; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to obtain any necessary waiver.
Sponsored by: Sen. Christian McDaniel
To Health Services (s) on 02/22/2024
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AN ACT relating to a provisional license to practice medicine. [HB-574]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 311.571 to allow and add requirements for a physician licensed to practice medicine in another country to obtain a provisional license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth; add requirements for a provisional license to convert to a regular license; add conditions for the Board of Medical Licensure to revoke a provisional license.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to continuing education for medical professionals. [SB-211]
[Healthcare ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Mental Health ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 314.073 to require nurses whose primary scope of practice focuses on patients 50 years of age or older to complete continuing education courses on treating Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia; amend KRS 311.844 to require physician assistants whose primary scope of practice focuses on patients 50 years of age or older to complete continuing education courses on treating Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Health Services (s) on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnancy resource centers. [HB-538]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
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; and amend
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to drug disposal. [HB-543]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define "drug disposal method"; require the Kentucky Medicaid program to provide payment to a pharmacist or practitioner for the cost of a drug disposal method that the pharmacist or practitioner distributed upon dispensing a controlled substance that contains any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of an opioid, benzodiazepine, barbiturate, codeine, or amphetamine at no cost to a Medicaid recipient; amend KRS 218A.170 to require the Kentucky Medicaid program to provide payment for the cost of a drug
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the diagnosis of sepsis. [HB-477]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish diagnosis criteria for sepsis.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 125) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to perinatal palliative care. [HB-467]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Insurance ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medical imaging. [SB-154]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
Amend KRS 311B.050 to require the Kentucky Board for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to create and enforce policies and procedures that ensure a patient's right to record any procedure performed by an individual who is licensed by the board; amend KRS 311B.110 to require practitioners licensed as an advanced imaging professional, a medical imaging technologist, a radiographer, a radiation therapist, a nuclear medicine technologist, or a limited X-ray machine operator to allow a patient to record any procedure performed upon the patient.
Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy. [HB-428]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion during a declared emergency; amend KRS 156.496 to allow a school district to operate a family resource center that provides abortion counseling; amend KRS 205.010 to permit financial aid for an abortion; amend KRS 205.510 to include abortions or induced miscarriages as medical care; amend KRS 205.560
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/31/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive health care. [HB-429]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define terms; establish privacy protections for a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish protections for any person or entity assisting a woman seeking reproductive health care out of the Commonwealth; establish a civil cause of action for violations; waive sovereign immunity protections of the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/31/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to undesignated glucagon. [HB-438]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.832 to include a definition for "undesignated glucagon"; amend KRS 158.838 to allow health care practitioners to prescribe undesignated glucagon in the name of a school to be maintained for use by a school nurse or trained school employee when necessary.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring Dr. Clifford Lowdenback for his service as the current president of the Kentucky Dental Association. [HR-65]
[Healthcare ]
Honor Dr. Clifford Lowdenback for serving as the current president of the Kentucky Dental Association.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to healthcare. [SB-145]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
.Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to allow health facilities or health care providers enrolled in the Kentucky Medicaid program to submit a current or prospective employee to a check of the child abuse and neglect or adult abuse registries maintained by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and to require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; and amends KRS 209.032 to direct the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a process of notification by which the cabinet shall notify a vulnerable adult
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.18) on 03/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-401]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Unemployment ]
Amends KRS 342.0011 to expand the definition of “physician” to include physicians with a license to practice in any jurisdiction in the United States; amends KRS 342.033 to define “physician” to include retired physicians previously authorized to practice in the Commonwealth, who surrendered a medical license while in good standing and who are not subject to an ongoing investigation for improper practices; and amends KRS 342.140 to include unemployment benefits in the average weekly wage calculation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.33) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring Dr. Clifford Lowdenback for his service as the current president of the Kentucky Dental Association. [SR-106]
[Healthcare ]
Honor Dr. Clifford Lowdenback for serving as the current president of the Kentucky Dental Association.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Adopted By Voice Vote on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Infant Mortality Task Force. [HCR-62]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Establish the Infant Mortality Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental capacity. [HB-385]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Amends KRS 311.631, relating to living wills and advance directives, to include an adult friend as an individual authorized to make health care decisions on behalf of a patient who lacks decisional capacity; amends KRS 504.060 to define “examiner” and “secretary”; amends KRS 504.070 to allow a defendant to introduce evidence of an intellectual disability bearing on the issue of guilt, punishment, or both, and to require, if a court orders an examination of the defendant’s mental condition, that the condition be reported to the court; amends KRS
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 138) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to respirator masks in health facilities. [HB-382]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require employees, visitors, and patients wear respirator masks while inside a health facility; establish exemptions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Introduced In House on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program. [HB-364]
[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 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure. [HB-361]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amends KRS 311.530 to add the chair of the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, and to allow the commissioner of public health, the dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, the vice dean for clinical affairs of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and the dean of the University of Pikeville College of Osteopathic Medicine to appoint a designee to sit on the State Board of Medical Licensure; amends KRS 311.601 to allow future practicing pediatricians to apply course curriculum
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.30) on 04/04/2024