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Latest Action: 12/18/2008 - Approve as prefiled Bill Text
Amend KRS 216.2923 to include information on charges, quality, and outcomes of health care services and require the Health Services Data Advisory Committee to make recommendations on risk adjusting data; amend KRS 216.2925 to require reports on a quarterly basis, to add outcome data, and to require electronic reports as required under federal law; amend KRS 216.2927 to require a public use data agreement and require the Data Advisory Committee to review protocols on release of data; amend KRS 216.2929 to require information on the cabinet's Web site regarding charges, quality, and outcomes, specify sources of data, require opportunity for provider to comment on data, require use of national quality indicators and explanations about use of data.
Also tagged in: Alcoholic Beverages, Alcoholism, Alcoholism, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Emergency Medical Services, Health and Medical Services, Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicles, Nurses, Physicians and Practitioners, Traffic Safety
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text
Amend KRS 189A.103, relating to blood testing for the purpose of determining alcohol concentration or presence of a substance which may impair one's driving ability, to require that tests are performed using accepted medical practices; add paramedics to those authorized to perform tests.
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text
Amend KRS 189A.010 to establish a per se violation of the DUI statute if the driver has at least a certain amount of a controlled substance in the urine or blood; create a rebuttable presumption; reduce the alcohol concentration from 0.18 to 0.15 for an aggravating circumstance; amend KRS 189A.105 to delete statutory right of DUI suspects to make telephonic communication with an attorney upon arrest; lower the alcohol percentage from 0.18 to 0.15 for increased penalties; name the Act the Martin Mitchell Act.
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text
Amend KRS 189A.010 to establish a per se violation of the DUI statute if the driver has at least a certain amount of a controlled substance in the urine or blood; create a rebuttable presumption; reduce the alcohol concentration from 0.18 to 0.15 for an aggravating circumstance; amend KRS 189A.105 to delete statutory right of DUI suspects to make telephonic communication with an attorney upon arrest; lower the alcohol percentage from 0.18 to 0.15 for increased penalties; name the Act the Martin Mitchell Act.
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Adopted by voice vote Bill Text
Urge the United States Congress to fund programs that provide grant funds to Operation UNITE.
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - To Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 311.530 to change membership of the board; amend KRS 311.535 to limit members to two consecutive terms; amend KRS 311.540 to limit officers of the board to one year terms and permit reelection for one year; permit the board to appoint committees; permit the president of the board to serve ex officio on any committee; limit officers of committees to one year terms and permit reelection for one year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to require the State Board of Medical Licensure to recognize certification by the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians; prohibit the practice of interventional pain management without training; permit a physician certified by the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians to advertise.
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text
Amend KRS 511.040 relating to burglary in the third degree to increase the penalty where the offense involves the theft of a controlled substance or the theft of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine.
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - 2nd reading, to Rules Bill Text
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health benefit plan to cover health care services for the treatment of cancer in a clinical trial if those services would be covered if not provided in a clinical trial; require clinical trials to meet therapeutic criteria and be approved by appropriate agencies; provide that this coverage is not a health benefit mandate.
Also tagged in: Fiscal Note, Health and Medical Services, Information Technology, Medicaid, Medicaid, Peace Officers and Law Enforcement, Pharmacists, Pharmacists, Physicians and Practitioners, Police, City and County, Police, State, State Agencies
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare Bill Text
Amend KRS 218A.202 to establish an application process for receiving data from the electronic system for monitoring controlled substances; and prohibit the process from requiring personal identifying data.
Also tagged in: Corrections Impact, Courts, Circuit, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Local Mandate, Peace Officers and Law Enforcement, Police, City and County, Police, State Latest Action: 01/09/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A, relating to controlled substances, to create a registration system for persons convicted of felony controlled substances manufacture or trafficking; provide that a person with two or more convictions registers for life and a person with one conviction registers for maximum period of incarceration authorized for the offense; provide that the system is administered by Department of Kentucky State Police; provide for Internet and other access to information; provide penalties for failure to register and harboring an unregistered offender.
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Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on State Government Bill Text
Honor and commend the Tennessee Valley Authority on its 75th Anniversary.
Latest Action: 03/07/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Amend KRS 218A.202 to permit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a database supplemental to KASPER for reports of positive urine screening or blood tests for illegal drugs or misused prescription drugs and provide regulatory authority; create new sections of Subtitles 17 and 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers to cover urine drug screening or blood tests ordered by a healthcare practitioner.
Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - WITHDRAWN Bill Text
Withdrawn
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 194A.452 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to report annually to the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare concerning the Legend Drug Repository Program.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - To Health & Welfare (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 216B.015 to add "outpatient health care center" to definitions; amend KRS 216B.020 to permit an outpatient health care center to add up to 60 acute care beds without a certificate of need when the facility is located in a county of at least 60,000 and no acute or critical access hospital operates in the same county; permit the facility to convert its license to an acute care hospital without detaining a certificate of need.
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 439, relating to parole, to require the Parole Board to create a program for the supervised release of nonviolent felony drug offenders with requirements for substance abuse treatment and monitoring; create a new section of KRS Chapter 197 to require the Department of Corrections to assist the board in identifying eligible inmates.
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - To House Floor Bill Text
Urge Congress to maintain funding for the FIVCO Area Drug Task Force.
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 179) Bill Text
Amend KRS 156.4975 to define health services; amend KRS 156.4977 to permit a supplemental grant program managed by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to fund employment of a physician or nurse in a family resource or youth services center; specify the grant program may receive appropriations, gifts, or other contributions and shall not reduce the amount of the family resource youth services center grants.
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources (S) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to restrict drug use on noncaptive wildlife; amend KRS 150.025 to provide greater flexibility with regard to publishing and notification of proposed changes to administrative regulations; amend KRS 150.175 to allow selling short-term hunting licenses to Kentucky residents; amend KRS 150.179 to provide the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources with greater flexibility in providing complimentary licenses for programs conducted by entities that are not sponsored by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - To Health & Welfare (S) Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; state legislative findings about acquired infections and increasing prevalence in health care settings, the costs to treat patients with acquired infections, and that infections are preventable; require health care facilities to implement infection prevention programs in high risk areas and throughout the facility by January 1, 2009; require implementation of best practices that include identification of infected patients, contact precautions, cultures upon discharge or transfer, hand washing, written infection prevention and control policy, public posting of policies, and worker and staff education programs; require health facilities to report data on health-facility acquired infection rates and multi-drug resistant infections; require cabinet to include data on acquired infections in its dissemination of information under KRS 216.2921; permit the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; require report to Governor and Legislative [...] show full description
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