| Last Action | 03/27/24: recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H) | 
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| Title | AN ACT relating to perinatal palliative care. | 
| Bill Documents | Introduced | 
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                        Actuarial Analysis 
                             Local Mandate  | 
                
| Bill Request Number | 1830 | 
| Sponsors | N. Tate, K. Moser | 
| Summary of Original Version | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on perinatal palliative care; make technical corrections; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Part II Act; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans issued, renewed, effective, or delivered on or after January 1, 2025; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025. | 
| Index Headings of Original Version | 
                            Local Mandate - Self-insured group employer health plan, perinatal palliative care  Actuarial Analysis - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, perinatal palliative care, programs and services, list Education, Higher - Self-insured group employer health plan, perinatal palliative care Effective Dates, Delayed - Perinatal palliative care, January 1, 2025 Health and Medical Services - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women Hospitals and Nursing Homes - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women Insurance, Health - Perinatal palliative care Mental Health - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women Nurses - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women Physicians and Practitioners - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women State Agencies - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, perinatal palliative care, programs and services, list Short Titles and Popular Names - Love Them Both Part II Act Reproductive Issues - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women State Employees - Health plan, perinatal palliative care Women - Perinatal palliative care, pregnancy  | 
            
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| Amendment | House Floor Amendment 1 | 
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| Sponsor | A. Camuel | 
| Summary | Amend by deleting the definition of "baby"; replacing the word "baby" with "fetus"; effective January 1, 2025. | 
| Index Headings | 
                            Mental Health - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women  Nurses - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women Physicians and Practitioners - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women Reproductive Issues - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women State Agencies - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, perinatal palliative care, programs and services, list State Employees - Health plan, perinatal palliative care Women - Perinatal palliative care, pregnancy Short Titles and Popular Names - Love Them Both Part II Act Effective Dates, Delayed - Perinatal palliative care, January 1, 2025 Health and Medical Services - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women Hospitals and Nursing Homes - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women Insurance, Health - Perinatal palliative care  | 
            
| Amendment | House Floor Amendment 2 | 
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| Sponsor | R. Roarx | 
| Summary | Amend by deleting the reference to pregnancy termination. | 
| Index Headings | 
                            Health and Medical Services - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women  Hospitals and Nursing Homes - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women Reproductive Issues - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women Women - Perinatal palliative care, pregnancy  | 
            
| Amendment | House Floor Amendment 3 | 
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| Sponsor | L. Burke | 
| Summary | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define "fatal fetal anomaly"; permit a physician to terminate a pregnancy if the pregnancy is complicated by a fatal fetal anomaly; delete short title; provide that the new section may be cited as Ezra's Law. | 
| Index Headings | 
                            Health and Medical Services - Pregnancy termination, fatal fetal anomaly  Hospitals and Nursing Homes - Pregnancy termination, fatal fetal anomaly Physicians and Practitioners - Pregnancy termination, fatal fetal anomaly Reproductive Issues - Pregnancy termination, fatal fetal anomaly Women - Pregnancy termination, fatal fetal anomaly Short Titles and Popular Names - Ezra's Law  | 
            
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