AN ACT relating to liability shield products and declaring an emergency. [HB-648]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; require a manufacturer of a liability shield product to subject the product to a placebo-controlled study before it is manufactured, marketed, distributed, or administered in Kentucky; establish requirements for the placebo-controlled study; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to monitor and track adverse outcomes of liability shield products; require manufacturers of liability shield products to submit documentation to the cabinet of the placebo-controlled study and results
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HB-648: AN ACT relating to liability shield products and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement an in-home-drug disposal pilot program. [HJR-37]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement a pilot program beginning January 1, 2026, to study the effectiveness of in-home prescription drug disposal in Kentucky; require consultation with the Board of Pharmacy; require submission of a report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services by December 1, 2027.
HJR-37: A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement an in-home-drug disposal pilot program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Duvall
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
AN ACT relating to economic relief for local communities of the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency. [HB-605]
[Economic Development ]
[Community Development ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Amend KRS 154.14-020, relating to the GRANT Program, to redefine "eligible grant applicant," "eligible project," "eligible use," "GRANT program," "GRANT program fund," "regional project," and define "qualifying federal entity"; amend KRS 154.14-030 to make technical changes; amend KRS 154.14-040 to modify the dates of the Cabinet for Economic Development's review of grant applications and provide that obligation of funds shall be no more than 12 months with a possible six month extension; amend KRS 154.14-050 to make technical changes and allow
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HB-605: AN ACT relating to economic relief for local communities of the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 71) on 03/24/2025
AN ACT relating to conditions of employment. [SB-246]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Public Health ]
[Religion ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to require employers that mandate employee immunization to allow exceptions based on religious belief or medical contraindication; provide sample form for employee affirmation; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption; require notice of exemptions; establish civil cause of action for violations and a claim under workers' compensation; amend KRS 344.040 to make it an unlawful practice for employers to require immunizations as a condition of employment from employees who hold sincere
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SB-246: AN ACT relating to conditions of employment.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
AN ACT relating to mobile services. [SB-265]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 317.410 to define "mobile barber shop"; amend KRS 317.420 to restrict a person from operating a mobile barber shop without being licensed by the Kentucky Board of Barbering; amend KRS 317.430 to authorize the board to govern mobile barber shops; amend KRS 317.440 to direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations governing the location and housing of mobile barber shops, requirements regarding its operation, and inspection criteria for mobile barber shops; direct the board to establish on its website a system that allows licensees
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SB-265: AN ACT relating to mobile services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/20/2025
SR-63: A RESOLUTION honoring cancer patients, survivors, and their families, remembering those who have been lost to cancer, and declaring Thursday, March 6, 2025, as Suits and Sneakers Day in the Senate.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/06/2025
You have voted SR-63: A RESOLUTION honoring cancer patients, survivors, and their families, remembering those who have been lost to cancer, and declaring Thursday, March 6, 2025, as Suits and Sneakers Day in the Senate..
AN ACT relating to blood donation. [HB-601]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 214.452 to add receipt of a COVID -19 vaccine to the blood donor risk factor statement collected by a blood establishment; amend KRS 214.458 to add donor receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine to the donor identification information affixed to a unit of donated blood; add that except in an emergency, a patient be informed if the donor of the blood to be transfused had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
HB-601: AN ACT relating to blood donation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Dotson
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
HCR-41: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to explore ways to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement to improve health outcomes of Kentuckians.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
You have voted HCR-41: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to explore ways to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement to improve health outcomes of Kentuckians..
AN ACT relating to ivermectin for human use. [HB-668]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to permit the sale or purchase of ivermectin that's been approved for human use without a prescription from a practitioner.
HB-668: AN ACT relating to ivermectin for human use.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
AN ACT relating to invasive plant species. [HB-640]
[Environmental ]
[Agriculture ]
[Science ]
[Energy ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
Amend KRS 224.10-100 to authorize the Energy and Environment Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to prevent the spread of invasive, non-native plant species.
HB-640: AN ACT relating to invasive plant species.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Gooch
3rd Reading, Passed 97-0 on 03/12/2025
AN ACT relating to immunization policy. [HB-647]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Religion ]
[Data Privacy ]
Create a new of section KRS Chapter 164 to allow a student, staff, or faculty member to opt out of a postsecondary school's immunization policy for specified reasons; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a public entity from creating standardized documentation with the purpose of certifying vaccination status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to require written notice of vaccination exemptions for a sincerely held religious belief or medical contraindication; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption;
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HB-647: AN ACT relating to immunization policy.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
AN ACT relating to medical products. [HB-646]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to define "medical product"; prohibit any a public or government entity or any agency or division thereof, from requiring an individual to take, receive, or disclose whether a medical product has been taken or received, unless the manufacturer of the product is liable for any death or injury caused by the product.
HB-646: AN ACT relating to medical products.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
AN ACT relating to Ibogaine research in the Commonwealth. [SB-240]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Agriculture ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Create new sections of KRS 218A to define terms; establish the intent of the General Assembly that ibogaine is worthy of clinical research, trials, and studies as a potential viable therapeutic treatment of opioid dependence and any other co-occurring mental health disorders; establish a trust and agency account entitled the ibogaine research fund; establish a process for private entities to apply to the Department of Agriculture for access to funds in the Ibogaine Research Fund.
SB-240: AN ACT relating to Ibogaine research in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
To Health Services (s) on 02/20/2025
AN ACT relating to health care. [HB-688]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to permit rather than require the board to issue credentials; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees
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HB-688: AN ACT relating to health care.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration Waiver Advisory Council - Establishment [SB-1027]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Disabilities ]
Establishing the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration Waiver Advisory Council to advise and provide recommendations to the Developmental Disabilities Administration on system design, service delivery, and quality enhancement strategies for the Medicaid waiver programs operated by the Administration.
SB-1027: Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration Waiver Advisory Council - Establishment
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Favorable With Amendments Report By Health And Government Operations on 04/07/2025
AN ACT relating to opioid antagonists. [HB-547]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 217.186 to require each public postsecondary educational institution to provide access to opioid antagonists on campus; permit access to be provided by emergency opioid antagonist cabinets; permit application for funds from the opioid abatement trust fund and other available sources to coordinate, maintain, and supply the opioid antagonists; amend KRS 15.291 to add providing access to opioid antagonists on the campuses of public postsecondary educational institutions to the list of projects that may be provided with funding from the opioid
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HB-547: AN ACT relating to opioid antagonists.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs. [SB-180]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Water ]
Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continues until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding
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SB-180: AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To Health Services (s) on 02/19/2025
AN ACT relating to vaccines. [SB-177]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, employment, or medical treatment in the Commonwealth; prohibit any COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine to be administered in the Commonwealth to a minor child under the age of 18 years; sunset the provisions that relate to a minor child
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SB-177: AN ACT relating to vaccines.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Health Services (s) on 02/19/2025