Approp: Mental Health Budget [SB-51]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Funding ]
An Act making appropriations for the operating and capital expenses of the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program; making supplemental appropriations; and providing for an effective date.
SB-51: Approp: Mental Health Budget
Sponsored by: Sen.
Read The First Time - Referrals on 01/25/2021
SB-5268: Transforming services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by increasing the capabilities of community residential settings and redesigning the long-term nature of intermediate care facilities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Keiser
Effective Date 6/9/2022. on 03/30/2022
You have voted SB-5268: Transforming services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by increasing the capabilities of community residential settings and redesigning the long-term nature of intermediate care facilities..
Nursing: Licensure; Multistate Compact [HB-14]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
An Act relating to licensure of nursing professionals; relating to a multistate nurse licensure compact; and providing for an effective date.
HB-14: Nursing: Licensure; Multistate Compact
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Thompson
Cosponsor(s): Mccabe on 03/01/2021
Income Tax; Pfd Payment/credit [HB-9]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Property Tax ]
An Act relating to the taxation of income of individuals, partners, shareholders in S corporations, trusts, and estates; relating to a payment against the individual income tax from the permanent fund dividend disbursement; repealing tax credits applied against the tax on individuals under the Alaska Net Income Tax Act; and providing for an effective date.
HB-9: Income Tax; Pfd Payment/credit
Sponsored by: Rep. Sara Hannan
Prefile Released 1/8/21 on 02/18/2021
Req's Of Medical Assistance Program [HB-20]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
An Act requiring the state medical assistance program to provide services; relating to cost containment of the state medical assistance program; relating to payment for adult dental services; and providing for an effective date.
HB-20: Req's Of Medical Assistance Program
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew Josephson
Prefile Released 1/8/21 on 02/18/2021
AN ACT relating to voter registration. [HB-182]
[Voting Rights ]
[Elections ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 116.025 to provide that a person convicted of a felony shall not be permitted to vote until his or her civil or voting rights have been restored by executive pardon or order; amend KRS 116.045 to provide for voter registration on the day of an election; amend KRS 116.0455 to provide that each application for a motor vehicle driver's license shall be a simultaneous application for voter registration unless declined by the applicant; amend KRS 116.048 to provide that each application filed through a designated voter registration agency shall
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HB-182: AN ACT relating to voter registration.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/06/2021
AN ACT relating to public assistance. [HB-68]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
Amend KRS 205.200 to require that the value of all assets held by an individual be disregarded for the purpose of determining the individual's eligibility for a means-tested public assistance program.
HB-68: AN ACT relating to public assistance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/05/2021
AN ACT relating to the Child Care Assistance Program. [HB-106]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to establish income eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.
HB-106: AN ACT relating to the Child Care Assistance Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Westrom
Introduced In House on 01/05/2021
AN ACT relating to the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance. [HB-53]
[Healthcare ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 205.540 to add one representative of a recognized consumer advocacy group representing persons reentering society following incarceration to the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance; amend KRS 205.590 to amend the membership of the Technical Advisory Committee on Consumer Rights and Client Needs, amend the membership of the Technical Advisory Committee on Behavioral Health, and to create a Technical Advisory Committee on Persons Returning to Society from Incarceration to act in an advisory capacity to the Advisory Council for Medical
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HB-53: AN ACT relating to the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 11) on 03/08/2021
AN ACT relating to Medicaid eligibility for individuals diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. [HB-16]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to request approval of a Medicaid state plan amendment from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that exempts individuals who have been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer from meeting spend-down requirements in order to be eligible for Medicaid services within 30 days of the effective date of this Act.
HB-16: AN ACT relating to Medicaid eligibility for individuals diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Introduced In House on 01/05/2021
AN ACT relating to telehealth. [HB-140]
[Healthcare ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish minimum standards to telehealth; reestablish the requirement for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and managed care organizations to study the impact of telehealth on the state's health care delivery system; prohibit certain practices in telehealth; authorize health practitioner licensure boards to promulgate administrative regulations related to telehealth; amend KRS 205.510 to revise definitions; amend KRS 205.559
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HB-140: AN ACT relating to telehealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 67) on 03/22/2021
Relating To Overpayments. [SB-1415]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
Establishes unspecified time limits in which the Director of Human Services (DHS) can recover Medicaid overpayments made to providers and DHS can recover public assistance overpayments made to recipients, under certain circumstances.
SB-1415: Relating To Overpayments.
Sponsored by: Sen. Donna Kim
The Committee On Hms Deferred The Measure. on 02/01/2019
Relating To Overpayments. [HB-659]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
Establishes unspecified time limits in which the Director of Human Services (DHS) can recover Medicaid overpayments made to providers and DHS can recover public assistance overpayments made to recipients, under certain circumstances.
HB-659: Relating To Overpayments.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Mizuno
The Committee(s) On Hsh Recommend(s) That The Measure Be Deferred. on 01/30/2019
Relating To Health. [HB-284]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
Requires the DHS to compile information regarding employers with employees who receive public assistance and to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the 50 employers with the highest number of employees receiving public assistance. Requires DLIR to share employment data with DHS. (HB284 HD1)
HB-284: Relating To Health.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Nishimoto
Reported From Lab (stand. Com. Rep. No. 157) As Amended In Hd 1, Recommending Passage On Second Reading And Referral To Hsh. on 02/08/2019