Physicians And Practitioners
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to qualifying medical conditions for the use of medicinal cannabis. [HB-352]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 218B.010 to add additional conditions to the list of qualifying medical conditions for the use of medicinal cannabis.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/23/2024
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AN ACT relating to minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities. [SB-124]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure by January 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Health Services (s) on 01/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage of chronic pain treatments. [HB-321]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Insurance ]
[Mental Health ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan issued or renewed in the Commonwealth that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses shall include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid and Medicaid managed care organizations to include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; amend KRS 218A.172 to require that a health care practitioner discuss and refer
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prior authorization. [HB-318]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
Create a new section of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to require insurers of health benefit plans to offer a program to reduce or eliminate prior authorization requirements; establish notice requirements; establish participating provider requirements; provide that the Act applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Lockett
Taken From Banking & Insurance (h) on 03/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to youth mental health protection and declaring an emergency. [HB-330]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Rights ]
[Funding ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define "sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts," "mental health professional," and "public funds"; prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a person under 18 years of age, 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing January 23, 2024, as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day. [SR-87]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Recognize January 23, 2024, as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelley Frommeyer
Adopted By Voice Vote on 04/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health services. [HB-310]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define "health service" and "seeking, obtaining, providing, or facilitating a health service"; provide exemption from civil liability, criminal liability, or administrative investigation for seeking, obtaining, providing, or facilitating a health service that is provided outside of Kentucky to a patient who resides in Kentucky and the health service is lawful in the state in which it is to be provided; include any health service that occurs in Kentucky as a result of a patient's use of a drug provided the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/19/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prior authorization. [HB-317]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define "health care provider"; make conforming amendments; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements for prior authorization exemptions; establish requirements for rescinding prior authorization exemptions; set forth requirements for external reviews of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions; establish requirements for sending forms and notices to health care providers; provide that nothing shall be construed to authorize a health care provider
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Taken From Banking & Insurance (h) on 03/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to maternal health disparities in perinatal care. [HB-306]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 211.680 to expand the scope of the legislative intent and findings; create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; require licensed health facilities under KRS Chapter 216B to provide each patient with written information regarding the patient's rights and implement an evidence-based maternal health disparities program for all health providers involved in the perinatal care of patients within those facilities; require the Department for Public Health to track data on maternal death and severe morbidity.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2024 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month. [HR-50]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Recognize March 2024 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month.
Sponsored by: Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton
Introduced In House on 01/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to individual-directed care at the end of life. [HB-285]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill individual's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; require conditions for making the request; permit individual to rescind the request at any time; permit an attending health care provider to provide medication; establish requirements for the attending health care provider to inform individuals and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified individuals; require
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/17/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to informed consent for medical examinations. [HB-252]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 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: 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 freestanding birthing centers. [SB-103]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[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 updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Health Services (s) on 01/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers. [HB-199]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[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 updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Recommitted To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 04/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-210]
[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. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to exceptions to restrictions on maternal healthcare. [SB-99]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, 311.781, and 311.787 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.727, 311.732, 311.735, 311.7706, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when there is a lethal fetal anomaly or the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside the womb, or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the fetus has not reached viability as determined in the good-faith medical judgment of the physician; amend KRS 311.782 to establish a rebuttable presumption that the physician complied with the requirements of the section; amend KRS
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Sponsored by: Sen. Denise Harper Angel
Introduced In Senate on 01/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public utilities. [HB-180]
[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; allow resumption of disconnection only after a 72-hour period during which the temperature standard is exceeded; 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Introduced In House on 01/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient medical records. [HB-174]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Data Privacy ]
Amends KRS 311.6225 to make changes to the medical order for scope of treatment form; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 422 to establish standards and procedures for access to copies of patient medical records for a patient who is under the age of eighteen.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 164) on 04/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. [HB-166]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define “SUDEP,” to update autopsy requirements, to require the Vital Statistics Branch to forward a copy of the death certificate to the North American SUDEP Registry if sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is found to be the cause or the suspected cause of death, and to provide that the Act may be cited as Jami’s Law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 98) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to immunity from criminal liability for health care providers. [HB-159]
[Healthcare ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define “health care provider” and “health services,” and to establish that health care providers providing health services are immune from criminal liability for harm arising from a health services-related act or omission other than gross negligence or wanton, willful, malicious, or intentional misconduct.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.12) on 03/26/2024