Physicians And Practitioners
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health service providers. [HB-144]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "covenant not to compete," "employee," and "health service provider"; prohibit a health service provider receiving 10 percent or more of its total gross revenue from state general funds from requiring an employee to enter a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages that can be recovered, and limitations to bring claim; require notice of prohibited convenant not to compete be posted by the health service provider; prohibit an employer from retaliating against an employee for bringing
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
Introduced In House on 01/04/2024
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AN ACT relating to patient medical records. [HB-103]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Data Privacy ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 422 to establish standards and procedures for access to copies of patient medical records or charts for a patient who is under the age of eighteen.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medical directives. [HB-92]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 311.633 to require physicians and health care facilities to notify patients of the right to refuse compliance with advance directives or medical orders for scope of treatment; require physicians and health care facilities to provide notice of the right to request a transfer.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid managed care. [SB-24]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of managed care organizations contracted by the Department for Medicaid Services to no more than three; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Health Services (h) on 03/06/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to automated external defibrillators. [HB-22]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amends KRS 311.667 to remove the requirement for medical oversight of an automated external defibrillator program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 66) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to certificates of death. [HB-32]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 311.601 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for physicians to meet the 7.5 hours of approved continuing education in KRS 218A.205; amend KRS 311.844 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for a physician assistant; amend KRS 311A.135 to requrie an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a death certificate for paramedics; amend KRS 310.175 to require an option of one-half
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Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to practice of podiatry. [SB-28]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 311.380 to add definitions; amend KRS 311.400 to add the scope of practice for podiatric residents and podiatric assistants; amend KRS 311.420 to add qualifications to acquire a podiatry license; and amend KRS 311.480 to include podiatric resident and assistant licenses to the licenses the Board of Podiatry can deny, refuse to renew, suspend, place on probation, or revoke; amend KRS 311.410 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
Vetoed And Delivered With Veto Message To Secretary Of State on 04/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for at-home anticoagulation management. [HB-31]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization contracted for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage and reimbursement for at-home prothrombin time or international normalized ratio (INR) testing, including but not limited to coverage and reimbursement for education and training, INR monitors or testing devices, and all necessary testing supplies; authorizes the department to promulgate administrative regulations; requires the Cabinet for Health and Family
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 74) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to psychologists. [HB-35]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
Amend KRS 319.053 to reduce the five-year supervision requirement to two years for a licensed psychological associate to qualify as a licensed psychological practitioner; amend KRS 319.050 and 319.064 to extend the grace period from 60 days to 180 days allowing temporary licensure while applications are pending; remove provision that sunsetted in 2013.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 01/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the right to refuse medical treatment. [HB-48]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to recognize an inherent and absolute right to refuse medical treatment and remove liability protections in the event of a serious adverse reaction.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of medical professionals and declaring an emergency. [HB-49]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
[Ethics ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; 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; prohibit the State Board of Medical Licensure from reprimanding medical practitioners and require the board
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensing. [HB-526]
Amend KRS 312.021 to create gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Koch
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 03/02/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medical procedures. [HB-524]
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Amend KRS 311.625 relating to medical procedures, to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nancy Tate
Introduced In House on 02/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unborn human individuals. [HB-569]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 311.723, 311.727, 311.735, 311.7704, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when two physicians determine the unborn child has an abnormality that is incompatible with life outside the womb; allow an abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the gestational age of the unborn child is less than 15 weeks; establish recording requirements; amend KRS 211.603, 216B.400, 311.725, 311.7706, 311.7707, 311.772, 311.7735, and 311.787 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Gooch
Introduced In House on 02/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assault in the third degree. [HB-521]
[Crime ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 508.025 to include an employee, independent contractor, volunteer, affiliated physician, or other medical professional of a licensed hospital to persons protected by enhanced penalties if assaulted while performing duties.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Bray
Introduced In House on 02/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient medical records. [HB-543]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Data Privacy ]
Create 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. Rebecca Raymer
Introduced In House on 02/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy. [HB-518]
[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 02/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care services agencies. [HB-502]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 216.718 to define "permanent direct care staff" and "temporary direct care staff"; amend KRS 216.772, 216.724, 216.726, and 216.728 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 61) on 03/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Infant Mortality Task Force. [HCR-54]
[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 2023 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/21/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to victims of crime. [SB-283]
[Crime ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 49.280 to allow claims for hit-and-run accidents; amend KRS 49.300 to specify duties of the Crime Victims Compensation Board; amend KRS 49.310 to allow family members of the victim to file claims; amend KRS 49.330 to increase access for victims; amend KRS 49.340 to limit the time for an investigation; amend KRS 49.350 to allow a claim to be revived; amend KRS 49.360 to increase the allowable amount of emergency awards; amend KRS 49.370 to raise limits and expand the types of claims subject to payment; amend KRS 49.390 to remove the requirement
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Judiciary (s) on 02/23/2023