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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gender. [HB-723]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Rights ]
Create a new section to KRS Chapter 2 to officially recognize that a person has only one gender, male or female.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Dotson
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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AN ACT relating to pregnancy resource centers. [HB-794]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "pregnancy resource center"; require pregnancy resource centers to be licensed; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for pregnancy resource centers; provide that operation or advertisement of a pregnancy resource center without a license is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that a pregnancy resource center's or health care provider's liability is neither limited nor expanded by the licensure requirement; amend KRS
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the care of children. [HB-691]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-258 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for certain formulas; to suspend the the coverage requirement for certain formulas as applied to qualified health plans if cost defrayment required by the state; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require coverage for breastfeeding and lactation services without a prescription and in conjunction with the birth of each child; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the coverage requirements for formulas and breastfeeding support and equipment; amend KRS 205.560 to conform;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services. [HB-814]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with which the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; establish training and education requirements for doulas; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary and comply with KRS 205.525.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates. [HB-798]
[Healthcare ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 196.175 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abortion. [HB-759]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, and 311.781 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.725, 311.727, 311.732, 311.7706, 311.772, 311.780, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when the unborn child has a lethal fetal anomaly and delineate additional medical circumstances for the performance of an abortion; allow an abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the gestational age of the fetus is 22 weeks or less; amend KRS 311.800 to provide for an abortion in a publicly owned hospital under certain circumstances; amend KRS 213.101 to add
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Infant Mortality Task Force. [HCR-52]
[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 2025 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2025 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month. [HR-58]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Recognize March 2025 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian
Introduced In House on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders. [HB-683]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders; allow the suspension of the coverage requirement for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders under qualified health plans if cost defrayment required by the state; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, the state health employee health plan,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited employment agreements. [HB-594]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit an employer from conditioning employment or employment benefits on an employee signing specified types of releases and agreements related to unlawful acts in the workplace; create a new section of KRS Chapter 372 to prohibit specified provisions related to harassment in settlement agreements in civil and administrative actions with exceptions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment provisions for employees on parental leave. [HB-598]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide 12 weeks of paid parental leave for an employee who has been employed for at least one year; allow an employee to waive the paid parental leave; provide for the promulgation of administrative regulations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of breast pumps and related supplies. [HB-642]
[Taxes ]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 139.472 to define and exempt from sales and use tax breast pumps, breast pump storage and collection supplies, and breast pump kits from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2029, and require the Department of Revenue to report the exemption each September 1; amend KRS 131.190 to authorize the department to report the exemption to the Legislative Research Commission; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tina Bojanowski
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates. [SB-226]
[Healthcare ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 196.173 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings. [HB-627]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings to be claimed as a service for the child as part of the early and periodic, diagnostic and treatment benefit; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health plan to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings as part of a well-child or well-baby visit; to suspend the coverage requirement
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health coverage in connection with pregnancy. [HB-633]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for counseling interventions for pregnant and postpartum persons at increased risk of perinatal depression, including persons who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth; suspend the coverage requirement's application to qualified health plans if the state would be required to make cost defrayal payments; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis by patients with certain medical conditions. [HB-2972]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis by patients with certain medical conditions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mihaela Plesa
Read First Time on 03/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid eligibility. [HB-567]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 205.592 to extend Medicaid eligibility for new parents from 12 months to 24 months postpartum.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Watkins
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services. [HB-553]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Doula Advisory Council, council membership, and council duties; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary and comply with KRS 205.525.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Address Confidentiality Program [HB-104]
[Public Safety ]
[Data Privacy ]
An Act creating and relating to the address confidentiality program; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Himschoot
Sta Rpt Cs(sta) 6dp on 04/23/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Women Veterans Appreciation Day and declaring an emergency. [HB-561]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate June 12 of each year as Women Veterans Appreciation Day in the Commonwealth; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To State Government (h) on 02/25/2025