The Latest Health Legislation

Bill #

Sponsor

Summary

HB 469

Jenkins

Name the existing advisory council relating to the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program as the children's health advisory council; details.

HB 476

Watkins

Personal care homes:  permit the cabinet to submit a waiver to allow Medicaid reimbursement; require standards for certification; more.

HB 488

Brinkman

Clarify permitted use of interpretations of psychological testing by clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists; more.

HB 490

Palumbo

Create KY Board of Licensed Diabetes Educators; establish requirements for licensure and set fees.

HB 495

Floyd

Specify how the phrase “individual, private setting” shall be interpreted in informed consent situations re medical procedures; require face to face meeting.

HB 518

J. Lee

DSH changes:  require one of three pools to be percent allowable by federal law up to 19.08% for private psychiatric and state mental hospitals.

HB 520

Palumbo

Require CHFS to establish registry of persons found to have abused, neglected, or exploited an adult; prohibit health facility from hiring person on registry.

HB 523

Belcher

Kids fitness:  require fitness test at start and end of each school year, including BMI; require physical activity, with time tiered by grade levels.

HB 532

Jenkins

Require CHFS to establish registry of persons found to have abused, neglected, or exploited an adult; prohibit health facility from hiring person on registry.

HB 537

Stevens

Require that all health benefit plans provide coverage for convergence insufficiency, oculomotor dysfunction pursuit, and strabismus intermittent.

HB 543

Jenkins

Safe Pharmaceutical Disposal Act:  prohibit disposal, flushing, or emptying into public wastewater or septic systems of unused medications in solid form.

HC 198

Butler

Direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study the scope of practice for paramedics.

SB 4

Williams

Enact the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and make consistent the provisions relating to organ donation across the states.

SB 166

Denton

Develop a pilot program for the safe disposal of unused or partially used controlled substances by an ultimate user through delivery to a designated facility.

SB 173

P. Clark

Establish registry of persons found to have abused, neglected, or exploited an adult; prohibit certified facility from employing person on the registry.

SB 180

Givens

Enact the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and make consistent the provisions relating to organ donation across the states; details.