2020 REGULAR SESSION |
HEALTH CARE |
TRACKING SHEET |
UPDATED WITH APRIL 15, 2020 ACTIONS (You can access a summary & text of the bill by clicking on the Bill Number) |
Bill Number | Bill Sponsor | Summary | Last Action |
SENATE BILLS | |||
D. Carroll | Originally dealing with assisted living communities amended to include provisions for ophthalmic dispensing regulations, massage therapists regulations, and additional criteria for centralized credentialing for Medicaid | 04/14/20 - received in Senate | |
P. Wheeler | Establish the insulin assistance program | 02/26/20 - reassigned to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
S. Meredith | Require Medicaid MCOs to provide all payment schedules utilized to reimburse health care providers to the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee and require that services provided in rural counties be reimbursed at least at the median amount paid to an urban health care provider within the nearest metropolitan statistical area | 01/16/20 - to Health & Welfare (S) | |
S. Meredith | Limit the number of managed care organization (MCO) contracts to operate the Medicaid program to three. | 03/19/20 - returned to Health and Family Services (H) | |
R. Thomas | Require health insurance policies to apply the fair market value of covered health care services received by a covered person at a no-cost or reduced-cost health facility to any deductible or out-of-pocket maximum owed by the covered person under the policy | 01/13/20 - reassigned to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
S. Meredith | Prohibit the cabinet or a MCO from instituting copayments, cost sharing, or similar charges to be paid by any medical assistance recipients and prohibit copayments to be charged in the Kentucky Children`s Health Insurance Program. | 01/08/20 - to Health & Welfare (S) | |
R. Alvarado | Prohibit non-compete agreements for certain health-care providers. | 01/15/20 - to Judiciary (S) | |
M. Wise | Medicaid Pharmacy Carve Out bill | 03/27/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 70) | |
A. Kerr | Mandated coverage for medically necessary fertility preservation services. | 01/08/20 - to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
R. Alvarado | Regulating the sale of tobacco, alternative nicotine, and vapor products. | 03/26/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 35) | |
J. Higdon | Require health benefit plan coverage of long-term antibiotic therapy for covered persons with Lyme disease | 01/08/20 - to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
P. Wheeler | Cap the cost-sharing requirements for prescription insulin at $100 per 30-day supply | 01/08/20 - to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
W. Westerfield | Prohibit certain practices by insurers in the negotiation and offer of provider contracts for health plans and MCOs | 01/08/20 - to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
S. Meredith | Prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience | 03/17/20 - recommitted to Judiciary (S) | |
S. Meredith | Limit the amounts recoverable for medical costs in tort actions | 01/31/20 - reassigned to Judiciary (S) | |
R. Mills | Omnibus changes to operations at CHFS | 03/27/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 36) | |
P. Clark | Relating to the regulation of cannabis | 01/24/20 - to Appropriations & Revenue (S) | |
S. Humphries | Relating to jail health care operations, to remove the prohibition that an entity that provides medical, dental, psychological, or pharmacy services to the Department of Corrections and local jails cannot also provide claims management or plan evaluation services. | 01/29/20 - to Judiciary (S) | |
R. Thomas | Cap the cost-sharing requirements for prescription insulin at $100 per 30-day supply | 02/19/20 - floor amendment (1) filed | |
T. Buford | Athletic trainer scope of practice and licensure | 03/27/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 61) | |
A. Kerr | CHFS reorganization | 03/11/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 9) | |
R. Mills | Originally dealt with home health care aides and was amended in the process to add language for taxation of disaster relief workers and to address COVID matters including getting advice from health care workers, impact state government contracting, and to extend various administrative actions during state of emergency | 04/15/20 - to Rules (S) | |
R. Alvarado | Originally relating to out-of-network billing, House added COVID-19 Relief provisions | 03/30/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 73) | |
R. Thomas | Adopts federal health care reform provisions on pre existing conditions | 02/20/20 - to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
R. Girdler | Requires health insurers to pay for surprise medical bills, prohibits balanced bills | 02/24/20 - to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
P. Hornback | Enact and enter into the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact | 03/04/20 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S) | |
R. Girdler | Enact and enter into the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact | 03/04/20 - to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) | |
R. Alvarado | Shell bill related to health services | 03/05/20 - to Health & Welfare (S) | |
W. Schroder | Surprise billing proposal requires providers give a good faith estimate | 03/06/20 - to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
M. McGarvey | Mandated health insurance coverage for air ambulance services | 03/06/20 - to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
M. McGarvey | Mandated health insurance benefit for breast cancer treatment | 03/06/20 - to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
SENATE RESOLUTIONS | |||
SJr5 | T. Buford | Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to create a task force to study prescription drug transparency and affordability. | 01/08/20 - to Health & Welfare (S) |
SJr35 | J. Adams | Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish the Task Force on Services for Persons with Brain Injuries; establish duties of the task force; establish members of the task force; require a report to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2020; cease the task force by December 31, 2020, unless otherwise authorized by the General Assembly. | 03/17/20 - posted in committee |
SJr173 | J. Adams | Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to create the Task Force on Exceptional Support Waiver Services; require a report to the Governor, General Assembly, and the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services by August 1, 2021. | 03/17/20 - posted in committee |
SJr246 | M. McGarvey | Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to assess Kentucky’s preparedness to address the corona virus and report to the General Assembly. | 03/06/20 - to Health & Welfare (S) |
HOUSE BILLS | |||
D. Meade | Omnibus public assistance reform impacting Medicaid and SNAP | 03/18/20 - returned to Health & Welfare (S) | |
C. McCoy | Related to comparative fault actions | 03/19/20 - to Judiciary (S) | |
D. Meade | Enact and enter into the Solemn Covenant of the States to Award Prizes for Curing Diseases Interstate Compact | 03/11/20 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) | |
R. Rothenburger | Establish the Medicaid ground ambulance service provider assessment; require ground ambulance service providers to pay a Medicaid ambulance service provider assessment quarterly | 04/14/20 - delivered to Governor | |
D. Bentley | Establish a voluntary non-opioid directive form and require a practitioner to determine if a patient has filed a voluntary non-opioid directive through KASPER | 01/07/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
D. Bentley | Amend KRS 304-17A.148 to cap the cost sharing requirements for prescription insulin at $100 per 30 day supply; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021. | 04/15/20 - recommitted to Banking & Insurance (S) | |
P. Minter | Related to preexisting conditions and amends various health insurance statutory provisions | 02/28/20 - floor amendment (2) filed | |
J. Miller | Impose an excise tax on vapor products and amended to create a Small Business COVID Recovery Rask Force | 04/15/20 - posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (2) and committee amendment (2-title) | |
G. Brown Jr | Establish the rural hospital organization donation tax credit | 01/07/20 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H) | |
D. Bentley | Require a practitioner to offer a prescription for naloxone or similar for the reversal of opioid depression when prescribing an opioid and delete reference to Schedule III controlled substances containing hydrocodone and to add issues that a practitioner is required to discuss with a patient prior to prescribing or dispensing a controlled substance to a patient | 01/07/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
R. Wiederstein | Require Kentucky hospitals to annually survey employees regarding patient safety culture and practices with the results to be publicly reported on a Web site maintained by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. | 01/07/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
R. Wiederstein | Relating to community healthcare foundations by providing for the approval and oversight of not-for-profit hospital, health maintenance organization, and healthcare insurer conversions, and declaring an emergency. | 01/07/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
R. Wiederstein | Omnibus changes to Certificate of Need laws | 01/07/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
C. Massey | Changes to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure administrative hearings process and require random selection for teacher tribunals | 02/21/20 - to Judiciary (S) | |
D. Osborne | $50 million loan for UofL to purchase Jewish Hospital | 03/25/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 33) | |
R. Rothenburger | Allow a fiscal court to levy a fee on certain units for the provision of emergency medical services; define units subject to fee; require fee to be placed on tax bill; | 01/15/20 - posted in committee | |
W. Thomas | Enact and enter into the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join the compact | 01/07/20 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H) | |
N. Kulkarni | Require that dental and optometric services provided to Medicaid recipients ages 21 and over be the same as those provided to eligible children ages 21 and under | 01/07/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
D. Bentley | Amend KRS 202A.011 to expand the definition of qualified mental health professional to include a licensed pharmacist who is board certified as a psychiatric pharmacist. | 01/07/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
K. Moser | Establish the amount of funds to be allocated to and used by local health departments for employment, services, and programs and establish new requirements of allowable fees | 03/17/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 21) | |
S. Sheldon | Require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations relating the prescribing of controlled substances by physician assistants | 03/27/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 39) | |
J. Nemes | Permit and regulate medicinal marijuana | 03/02/20 - to Judiciary (S) | |
R. Wiederstein | Establish a low-volume surgery requirement and registry for hospitals and surgeons in the Commonwealth. | 01/07/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
K. Moser | Establish the Kentucky Mental Health First Aid Training Program to be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services | 03/27/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 69) | |
B. Wheatley | Ban the sale, purchase, and distribution of flavored vapor products in the Commonwealth including online transactions | 01/07/20 - to Judiciary (H) | |
C. Stevenson | Surprise billing proposal that requires payment at lesser of UCR or billed charges | 01/07/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
C. Stevenson | Mandated benefit for health insurance and Medicaid for coverage for chronic pain treatments | 01/09/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
D. Lewis | Require the pain management facility to report on pill counts to the electronic system for monitoring controlled substances | 01/10/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
K. Moser | Establish an individual income tax credit for Kentucky-licensed physicians who, as voluntary preceptors, administer at least three core clinical rotations for certain medical students | 01/10/20 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H) | |
K. Moser | Require vision testing for operator`s license renewal; | 01/10/20 - to Transportation (H) | |
W. Thomas | Include selling or fitting of hearing instruments in the definition of the practice of audiology | 01/10/20 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H) | |
W. Thomas | Enact and enter into the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact | 01/10/20 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H) | |
D. Bentley | Prohibit manufacturers and wholesalers of off-patent or generic prescription drugs from engaging in unrestricted price increases | 01/15/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
D. Bentley | Related to diabetes drugs: restricting cost sharing by insurers, requiring transparency by PBMs and manufacturers | 01/21/20 - posted in committee | |
N. Tate | Require that a parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor be informed of an intent to withhold life-prolonging treatment before an order is instituted | 01/21/20 - to Judiciary (H) | |
R. Webber | Relating to the prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses. | 03/17/20 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) | |
R. Wiederstein | Make non-compete provisions in advance practice nurse practitioner, physician, and osteopath employment contracts void and unenforceable | 01/27/20 - to Judiciary (H) | |
K. Hinkle | Establish the Kentucky addiction prevention, recovery, and enforcement fund | 01/30/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
K. Moser | Adds permissions for licensure boards to KASPER | 03/17/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 20) | |
S. Rudy | Biennial Revenue bill | 04/15/20 - delivered to Secretary of State | |
S. Rudy | Biennial Executive Branch Budget | 04/15/20 - delivered to Secretary of State | |
D. Frazier | Require reciprocity of certification or licensure for anyEMS who is a member of the United States military | 03/17/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 15) | |
D. Bentley | Exempt prescription incontinence products from sales tax | 02/05/20 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H) | |
R. Wiederstein | Provide for an all-payer claims database | 02/06/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
S. Lewis | Increase the time limit from 1 year to 4 years that local governments may contract for ambulance services with private entities | 02/27/20 - to State & Local Government (S) | |
D. Bentley | Establish the rural hospital operations and facilities revolving loan fund amended to allow budget flexibility for the Governor to acquire PPE | 04/15/20 - delivered to Governor | |
K. Moser | Prohibition of UR on medication for drug and alcohol�treatment. | 03/17/20 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) | |
S. Sheldon | Omnibus regulation of PBM`s and pharmacy benefits offered by a health plan or MCO | 02/10/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
S. Sheldon | Regulation of pharmacy audits conducted by health plans or MCOs | 02/10/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
S. Sheldon | Regulation of pharmacy affiliates of PBMs, MCOs, or health plans | 02/10/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
K. Moser | Amend membership of Advisory Council for Medical Assistance. | 04/01/20 - returned to Health & Welfare (S) | |
S. Sheldon | Prohibit certain conduct of health plans and pharmacy benefit managers related to the coverage of certified insulin | 02/14/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
S. Sheldon | Mandated benefit for lyme disease treatment coverage and physician immunity | 03/17/20 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) | |
R. Rothenburger | Establishing standards for a certificate of need for ambulance service providers | 03/03/20 - posted in committee | |
T. Burch | Puts restrictions on medicare supplement policies including medicare supplement | 02/21/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
D. Bentley | Establish certain insurance practices relating to the reimbursement of pharmacists | 02/24/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
K. Moser | Changes to nursing professions | 03/17/20 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) | |
B. Rowland | Requires MCOs to participate in individual health insurance market | 02/26/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
K. Moser | Regulate advertising for legal services | 02/26/20 - to Judiciary (H) | |
N. Kulkarni | Civil immunity for optometrists | 02/27/20 - to Judiciary (H) | |
C. McCoy | Relating to genetic and genetic-related medical testing | 03/19/20 - to Health & Welfare (S) | |
M. Prunty | Prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience | 02/28/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
K. Moser | Establish the Controlled Substance Prescribing Review and Enforcement Advisory Council to advise state licensing boards charged with enforcing prescribing practices | 03/03/20 - posted in committee | |
M. Sorolis | Require health benefits plans to cover epinephrine auto-injectors for persons 18 years of age and under; cap cost-sharing at $50 and adjust every 5 years for inflation | 03/02/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
A. Gentry | Require health benefit plans to provide coverage for prosthetic and orthotic devices and require health insurers to have providers in the network | 03/02/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
M. Cantrell | Establish limitations on commissions, benefits, bonuses, rebates, kickbacks and bribes relating to health care services by any person including any provider or health care facility | 03/02/20 - to Judiciary (H) | |
K. Moser | Remove mental health parity exclusion and require mental health parity coverage for nonquantitative treatment limitations that is in compliance with federal law | 03/02/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
C. Massey | Change the definition of "limited X-ray machine operator" and "medical imaging technologist." | 03/04/20 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H) | |
D. Frazier | Require the cabinet consolidate all home and community-based waiver application processes under the Department for Medicaid Services and require certain benefits be provided | 04/15/20 - delivered to Governor | |
C. Freeland | Allow for Medicaid recipients to be able to have a direct primary care membership agreement | 03/04/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
S. Lee | Require a health care facility to annually perform workplace safety and workplace violence assessments and have a workplace safety and workplace violence education program | 03/09/20 - posted in committee | |
P. Minter | Establish premium rate requirements for health benefit plans originally issued on or after January 1, 2014 and require health benefit plans to continue to make coverage available for adult children until the age of 26 and to cover preventive services | 03/04/20 - to Banking & Insurance (H) | |
J. Graviss | Mental health carve out for Medicaid | 03/04/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
S. Sheldon | Require the Department for Medicaid Services to set or create pharmacy benefit reimbursement rates | 03/04/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
S. Sheldon | Permit the Department for Medicaid Services to deny a contract between a pharmacy benefit manager and a pharmacy or an entity which contracts on behalf of a pharmacy. | 03/04/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) | |
K. Moser | Establish the Controlled Substance Prescribing Review and Enforcement Advisory Council to provide advice, guidance, and recommendations to state licensing boards charged with enforcing and reviewing prescribing practices | 03/04/20 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H) | |
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS | |||
HCr4 | R. Wiederstein | Urge the United States Congress to enact the Lower Health Care Costs Act. | 01/07/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) |
HCr5 | D. Bentley | Urge federal policymakers to expedite research regarding the safety and efficacy of the use of marijuana for medical purposes. | 03/09/20 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 6) |
HJr108 | K. Moser | Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to create the Task Force on Exceptional Support Waiver Services; require a report to the Governor, General Assembly, and the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services by August 1, 2021. | 02/27/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) |
HCr111 | R. Wiederstein | Create the Task Force on Alternative Reimbursement Payment Models for Rural Hospitals to consider alternative methods of helping rural hospitals in Kentucky address the challenges they face in continuing to provide access to health care services to their communities, improving health care outcomes, and increasing financial sustainability; establish membership and duties of the task force; submit any findings by December 1, 2020. | 02/28/20 - to Health and Family Services (H) |
HJr123 | K. Moser | Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to gather data from all licensed healthcare facilities, healthcare workers and healthcare professional associations to assess the status of health workplace safety in the Commonwealth and policies and programs currently in place to create and maintain safe and nonviolent health workplace settings; require reports to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services. | 03/17/20 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) |
HR126 | K. Moser | Encourage Kentucky institutions such as colleges, universities, and hospitals to create tuition benefit, loan forgiveness, or other incentivizing programs in order to improve health care in critical care access and health professional shortage areas. | 03/12/20 - to Education (H) |
HR135 | K. Moser | Encourage the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky Emergency Preparedness Task Force; establish membership and duties of the task force; require findings to be submitted by Dec. 1, 2020. | 04/15/20 - adopted by voice vote |