Physicians And Practitioners
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnancy resource centers. [HB-489]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "pregnancy resource center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for pregnancy resource centers; provide that a pregnancy resource center's or health care provider's liability is neither limited or expanded by licensure requirement; and amend KRS 216B.990 to establish penalties for violations by pregnancy resource centers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Introduced In House on 02/21/2023
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AN ACT relating to the protection of children. [HB-470]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Insurance ]
[Taxes ]
[Mental Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; state that the provision of gender transition services to a person under the age of 18 years by a health care provider or mental health care provider is unethical and unprofessional conduct; require an investigation of any report of provision of gender transition services to a person under the age of 18 years; require revocation of the provider's license if confirmed and termination of public funding for a public employee; require that providers be jointly and severally liable for all damages
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Laid On Clerk's Desk on 03/15/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [HB-479]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 311.586 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/21/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to long-term care. [HB-391]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 216.590 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and long-term care provider associations which are subject to the regulatory oversight of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate and discuss opportunities for joint training as new guidelines and regulations are announced; require the cabinet to invite representatives of these long-term care provider associations to participate in the planning process for joint surveyor and provider training sessions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Dotson
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 60) on 03/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to positron emission tomography scans. [SB-284]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish coverage requirements for positron emission tomography scans; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to prohibit hospitals from requiring patients to be discharged prior to receiving a positron emission tomography scan ordered by a health care provider; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 38A of KRS Chapter 304 and amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health service benefit plans, limited health service organizations, Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured
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Sponsored by: Sen. Denise Harper Angel
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to healthcare practitioners. [SB-276]
[Healthcare ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to establish definitions for "health care practitioner" and "adverse treatment"; establish legislative findings; establish health care practitioner scope of practice requirements; and establish requirements of health facilities related to the newly established health care practitioner scope of practice requirements.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Health Services (s) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. [HB-349]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 214.430 to permit expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted infections including but not limited to trichomoniasis, gonorrhea, or chlamydia infection; amend KRS 311.990 to remove the penalty of a Class D felony for a person who donates organs, skin, or other human tissue while being positive for the human immunodeficiency virus; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to provide that nothing in KRS 214.181, 214.265, or 214.995 shall be construed to prohibit a person from obtaining or performing a self-test to detect human immunodeficiency
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 150) on 03/31/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to individual-directed care at the end of life. [HB-304]
[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. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/15/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to telehealth. [HB-311]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Amend KRS 205.559 to prohibit the Department for Medicaid Services and any Medicaid managed care organization from requiring that a health professional or medical group maintain a physical location or address in this state to be eligible for enrollment as a Medicaid provider if the provider or group exclusively offers services via telehealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 181) on 04/06/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to undesignated glucagon. [HB-295]
[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. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to maternal mental health. [HB-282]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require all hospitals or alternative birthing centers offering obstetric services or licensed health care providers, including nurse midwives or certified professional midwives, to provide each maternity patient with information on maternal depression and available resources; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to post on its website information about providers who assist with maternal depression.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION declaring March 2023 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month. [HR-41]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Declare March 2023 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to controlled substances. [HB-290]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Insurance ]
[Cannabis ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 205.529 to revise the medications that are part of the program for synchronization of medications; amend KRS 218A.172 to revise the medications regulated; amend KRS 218A.182 to revise when a an electronic prescription is required from the practitioner issuing a prescription for a controlled substance; amend KRS 218A.202 to make technical changes; amend KRS 218A.205 to make changes to the regulations for prescribing and dispensing controlled substances; amend KRS 218A.245 to allow the cabinet to enter into contract with any federal agency
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Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
Received In Senate on 03/07/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. [SB-135]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make information on postpartum depression and a postpartum assessment tool available on its website; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop and implement a collaborative program aimed at improving the quality of prevention and treatment of postpartum depression.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 57) on 03/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program. [HB-271]
[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. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to immunity from criminal liability for health care providers. [HB-252]
[Healthcare ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define "health care provider" and "health services"; establish that health care providers 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. Jason Nemes
Introduced In House on 02/10/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to physician assistants. [HB-245]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 311.844, relating to physician assistants, to revise continuing education requirements and to clarify that proof of completed course work in an individual's graduate program can qualify for pediatric head trauma requirements for licensure renewal; amend KRS 311.854 to modify the application requirements to be a supervising physician.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
Introduced In House on 02/10/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to maternal health disparities in perinatal care. [HB-233]
[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 02/09/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescriptive authority. [SB-94]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 314.042 to establish requirements related to "Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse's Prescriptive Authority for Nonscheduled Legend Drugs" (CAPA-NS) and "Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse's Prescriptive Authority for Controlled Substances" (CAPA-CS); establish the CAPA-CS Committee; establish membership and duties of the committee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to establish the Controlled Substances Prescribing Council; establish membership, duties, and reporting
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 73) on 03/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department for Medicaid Services to study and examine Medicaid reimbursements. [SJR-54]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to develop a proposal to link Medicaid reimbursements to Area Deprivation Index scores; submit findings and proposals to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2023; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 46) on 03/22/2023