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Abandoned infants - HB 76: HCS
Abortion, health department, prohibition against dispensing medication or device in - HB 67: HFA(3),(4)
Acquired brain injuries, personal care homes, Medicaid waivers for - HB 824
Acupuncture, regulation of practice - HB 37
Adult
  • day health care services, requirements - HB 673: SFA(1)
  • day health care services, requirements for - HB 436: SFA(1)
Advance directive, mental health treatment inclusion, study of - SB 2: HFA(1),(8)
Alzheimer's Office, long-term care facilities, dementia training for - SB 49; HB 763
Alzheimer's, long-term care facilities, employee training required for - HB 763: HCS
Ambulatory surgical center, physician's office or clinic, certificate of need required for - HB 10
Assistive
  • devices, network for the distribution of used - HJR 148
  • devices, used, study of network for the distribution of used - HJR 148: HCS
Asthma
  • medication, self-administration, permit student - HB 353; HB 353: HFA (1)
  • medications in schools, self-administration by students - HB 353: HCS
Average hourly wage, calculation, exempt health care - HB 602: HFA(7)
Bioterrorism,
  • assessment of educational needs regarding - HB 88
  • risk assessment and preparedness for - HB 88
Birth or death certificates, members of the Coast Guard - HB 113
Body piercing, written notarized parental consent for - HB 29
Breast
  • and Cervical Cancer, Medicaid coverage for - SB 56
Cabinet for Health Services, task force studying health services by - HCR 153
Cancer, urge Congress to expand Medicare coverage to include oral drugs to treat - HJR 189
Certificate
  • of need, ambulatory surgery centers, nonsubstantive review status to - SB 46
  • of need, nursing home beds, exemptions from - HB 828
Certify Radiology Practitioner Assistants, certification requirements - SB 247
Charitable health care providers, adjourning the House of Representatives in honor of - HR 76
Children in public schools - HB 553: HCS
Children's psychiatric treatment facilities, location and beds - HB 744; HB 744: HCS
CHS, CON, health facility exemption from - HB 661: SFA(5)
Cigarette
  • tax increase, and new tax on smokeless, loose, and other tobacco - HB 677
  • tax increase, smokeless, loose, and other tobacco, impose tax - HB 677: HFA(1)
Clinics, CON exemption for certain full-service - HB 661: SCS
Cloning,
  • exemption from - HB 138: SFA(5)
  • pregnancy, prohibit if intended to initiate a - HB 138: SFA(1)
  • prohibition as to humans - HB 138
Compulsive gamblers assistance fund, within Division of Substance Abuse, creation of - HB 203
Condition for licensure, student loan repayment status - HB 296
Consumer protection, health care providers, health benefit plans, prohibited billing practices - SB 290
Controlled substances, real-time electronic monitoring, pilot study of - HB 26: SCS
Coverage for women's reproductive health benefits, insurer notification of - SB 38: HFA(1)
Death certificate, notarization of - HB 701
Dental
  • hygienist, practice without direct dentist supervision by - SB 150
  • hygienists & certified dental assistants, scope of practice expansion, training & certif. - HB 467
  • hygienists and assistants, define scope of practice - SB 150: SCS
  • hygienists and dental assistants, scope of practice expansion, training and certification of - HB 467: HCS
Dentist and hygienist, charitable care, medical malpractice insurance for - SB 153: HCS
Denturists,
  • licensing, established, scope of practice defined - HB 693
Development Disabilities Council, change membership of and confirm Executive Order relating to - SB 131
Drug, alcohol dependent inmate, treatment - HB 277
Drugs,
  • advertising, urging federal restrictions on - HCR 36
  • direct-to-consumer advertising, urging federal restrictions on - HCR 7
  • direct-to-consumer, urging federal restrictions relating to all prescribers - HCR 7: HCS
Electronic
  • health network - HB 375: HFA(1)
  • health registry, permit development of - HB 161: HFA(3)
  • transmission of claims, study of - SCR 175
Emergency
  • contraceptives, prescribing and dispensing of - HB 597
  • medical services personnel, prohibit licensing felon - HB 469: SFA(2)
  • medical technicians, epinephrine administration by - SB 196; HB 469: SFA (7)
EMS personnel, call to work response time requirement for - SB 125: HCS
Family
  • practice residency program, central registry for - HB 161
  • practice residency program, common registry, contingency for development of - HB 161: HCS
  • practice residency program, electronic registry, permit development of - HB 161: HCA(2), HFA (1)
Fetal
  • homicide, health care providers not liable for - SB 115: SCS
Funeral establishments, nail and hair treatments, permissible - SB 195: SCS
Harm reduction program, creation of - HB 210
Health
  • and human services, publicly funded, study of - HCR 149
  • Care Malpractice Insurance Task Force, responsibilities of - HCR 136: HFA(2)
  • care professionals, Good Samaritan acts, civil immunity for - SB 288
  • care provider, definition of - SB 108: SFA(4)
  • departments, nurses dispensing in - HB 67; HB 67: SCS, HCS, HFA (1)
  • facility employees, study - HB 732: HCS
  • facility, CON exemption for certain full-service - HB 661: SFA(2)
  • facility, prohibit overtime - HB 732
  • insurance, contraceptive devices and services, coverage for - HB 778
  • insurance, health care provider, prohibition against erroneous balance billing by - HB 766
  • insurance, income tax deduction for vouchers - HB 280
  • insurance, services, prohibition against retroactive denial of payment for - HB 757
Hearing aids, direct sales to consumer, prohibition - HB 252
High school sports physicals, chiropractors to perform - HB 442: SCS
HIV/AIDS Advisory Council, increase membership of - SB 130
HIV/AIDS,
  • emergency medical service providers, education requirements for - HB 469: SFA(5)
Hospital
  • and long-term care facility licensure, acuity-based staffing plan - HB 91
  • licensure inspection requirements, national accreditation equivalency for - SB 164
Hospitalization, psychiatric care, consent by attorney or guardian - HB 774
Human service transportation delivery system, omnibus revision - HB 731
ICF/MR
  • respite beds, exempt from certificate of need process - SB 185; SB 185: SCS
  • respite beds, licensure requirements - SB 185: HCS
Immunization
  • registry, contingency for development of - HB 161: HCS
  • registry, creation of - HB 161
  • registry, permit development of - HB 161: HCA(2), HFA (1)
Infertility, health benefit coverage of - SB 208; HB 368
Informed consent, abortion, electronic technology use in obtaining - SB 151: SFA(1)
Insurance purchasing outlets, creation of - HB 281
Insurance,
  • inherited metabolic disease coverage, removal of cap on - HB 395
  • mail order drugs - HB 369: HCS
  • return of unearned premium - HB 149
Kentucky
  • Birth Surveillance Registry, outpatient and laboratory records submitted to - SB 219
  • Birth Surveillance Registry, outpatient and laboratory records voluntarily submitted to - SB 219: SCS
  • board of EMS, omnibus revision - HB 469
  • Board of EMS, omnibus revision - HB 469: SFA(1)
  • Breast & Cervical Cancer Treatment Act of 2002, encouraging the Governor to fund - SR 28
  • Early Intervention System, transfer of, Executive Order 2001-1322 - HB 196
  • e-Health and Telehealth Board, reporting requirements for - HB 375: HCA(1)
  • e-Health Network, activities supported by - HB 375: HCA(2)
  • e-Health Network, committee to study feasibility of - SB 108: SCS
  • e-Health Network, feasibility study, funding for - HB 161: HFA(3); HB 375: HCA (1)
  • Senior Rx Program, establishment of - SB 15
Kentucky's e-Health Network, savings from - SB 108: SFA(3)
License to practice, immediate temporary suspension, authority for - SB 11
Long-term
  • care facilities, Alzheimer's, description of training related to - SB 30
  • care facilities, immunization requirements for - HB 69
  • care ombudsman program, full-time positions for, increase - HB 840
  • care, reauthorize the task force on - HCR 239
  • care, task force, membership of - HCR 239: HCS
Medicaid
  • Services, reorganization, Executive Order 2001-1217 - HB 421
  • waiver, application, Cabinet for Health Services to provide copy of - SB 216
  • waiver, notice of intent, Cabinet for Health Services to file - SB 216: SCS
Medicaid,
  • copayment, exclusions from - HB 283: SCS
  • deaf-blind waiver, application for - HB 362
  • drug manufacturers, negotiations with - HB 664
  • drugs, reform of nonprior authorization process for - HB 60, 72
  • health care centers, reimbursement at - HB 700
  • health care provider, medical records maintained by - SB 91; SB 91: SCS
  • study on prescription dispensing fees, report required - SB 43; HB 170; HB 170: SFA (1),(2)
Medical
  • Malpractice Insurance Task Force, creation of - HCR 136; HCR 136: HFA (1)
  • malpractice insurance, request for information or recommendations relating to - HR 209
  • practice and licensure, physician assistants, requirements for - HB 617; HB 617: HFA (1),(2),(3)
Medicare supplement insurance, consumer guide - HB 213
Medicare, prescription drug coverage, urge coverage of - SR 124
Medications and health care in schools, provision of - HB 126; HB 126: HFA (1)
Mental
  • health professionals, duty to warn, immunity - SB 90: SFA(1)
  • health, Cabinet for Health Services, appropriations to - HB 177: HFA(1)
Mifepristone or other abortifacients, definition of abortion, inclusion of - SB 109
Minor license violations, sanctions expunged, dentists, physicians, & optometrists may request - HB 249: SFA(1)
Narcotic treatment programs, requirements for - SB 286; SB 286: SCS
National accreditation equivalent for hospital licensure inspection, acceptance of - SB 164: SCS
Northern Kentucky Independent Health Department, designation of official song - HB 857: HFA(2)
Nuclear terrorism, risk assessment and preparedness for - HB 88: HFA(1)
Nursing
  • facilities, requirements for - HB 817
  • homes and hospice programs, nail and hair treatments, permissible - SB 195
  • incentive scholarship fund, work requirements for - SB 161; HB 508
  • scholarship, foundation to provide - SB 289
  • scholarship, foundation, membership of - SB 289: SFA(1)
  • Workforce Foundation, add a member - SB 289: HCS
  • workforce foundation, delete requirement for provider tax funding of - SB 289: SCS
Occupational therapy, scope of practice, revision of - SB 68: SCS
Office
  • of Women's Physical and Mental Health, Executive Order 2002-25, reorganization - HB 449
  • of Women's Physical and Mental Health, grants and bequests to be accepted by - HB 327
Oncology network and regional cancer hospital, support for - SR 95; HR 174
Organ
  • donation, implied consent for - HB 843
  • donation, promotion of - SB 36
  • donor promotion program, include nondriver's ID cards - SB 36: SCS
Out-of-state
  • acquisition of controlled substance - HB 371: SFA(2)
  • dentists and dental hygienists, charitable health care services, process for licensing - SB 153
Outpatient diagnostic center, certificate of need, exemption from - HB 765
Paramedics, data collection, penalty removal, and technical corrections - HB 469: HCS
Pervasive developmental disorders, funding for - HB 455: HCS(2)
Pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates, negotiations for - HB 158
Pharmacy
  • assistance program, gambling revenue to be used for - HB 789
  • dispensing fees for Medicaid, freezing of - SB 28
Physical therapist, administrative fines, cap on amount - HB 468
Practice of dentistry, prohibition on use of assumed and corporate names, elimination of - HB 546
Pregnancy termination drugs, pharmacist may refuse to dispense without penalty - HB 249: HFA(1)
Prescription
  • drug costs, strategies to lower cost of - HB 160
  • drug coverage for low income residents, Medicaid, waiver for - HB 819: HFA(2)
  • drug coverage for seniors, creation of - SB 251
  • drug coverage for seniors, Kentucky Hospital Association, study to include input from - SCR 185: SCS
  • drug coverage for seniors, study of - SCR 185
  • drug coverage, requirements for. - HB 16
  • drug discount program, establishment of - HB 158
  • drug fund, funded with prescription drug fund fee - HB 819: HFA(3)
  • drugs, ninety-day supply, permit reimbursement of - HB 16: HCS
Professional counselor, licensing of - HB 57; HB 57: SCS, HCS
Provisional licensing of denturists, denturitry pilot project - HB 70
Public
  • health, electronic central registry for - HB 161
  • policy, disabled and frail elderly, caregivers of - HB 769: SFA(2),(3)
  • policy, disabled and frail elderly, rights and responsibilities of - HB 769; HB 769: SCS
  • safety, assessment of preparedness for bioterrorism - HB 88: SCS
  • schools, health care services in the - HB 126: HCS
Reproductive health facilities, access to - HB 665
Searches,
  • exemption for long term health care facilities removed - HB 381: SCA(1)
Security of protected health information, task force to study - HCR 207
Senior
  • Citizen Prescription Drug Assistance Program, creation of - SB 32
  • prescription drug coverage, Medicaid waiver for - SB 206
  • prescription drug coverage, Medicaid, eligibility and benefit limitations for - HB 819: HCS
  • prescription drug coverage, Medicaid, waiver for - SB 251; HB 819
September 11 terrorist incident, benefits - SB 71
Short-term nursing home insurance policies, statement included in - SB 41: HFA(3)
Sports
  • physicals, medical professionals who may perform - SB 142: HCS
  • physicals, physician assistants & advanced registered nurse practitioners, performed by - HB 442
  • physicals, physician assistants and advance registered nurse practitioners, performance by - SB 92
State programs, eligibility, prohibition from playing electronic gaming devices - HB 768: HFA(5),(38)
Supported employment services - HB 27
Task
  • force to study end-of-life care, creation of - HCR 26
  • force to study end-of-life care, membership of - HCR 26: HFA(1)
  • force to study prescription drug coverage for seniors - HB 819
Teenage
  • drinking and driving, Cabinet for Health Services, permissive study by - HJR 191: SCS
  • drinking and driving, Cabinet for Health Services, study by - HJR 191
Telehealth
  • electronic registry, contingency for development of - HB 161: HCS
  • electronic registry, permit development of - HB 161: HCA(2), HFA (1)
Telehealth, electronic central registry for - HB 161
Tobacco master settlement agreement funds, reallocation of - HB 17
Treatment
  • of intractable pain by physician, require course in - HB 565
  • of intractable pain by physician, permit use of - HB 565
Urban-county health department, ad valorem tax for - HB 464
Workers' Compensation medical fee dispute cases, attorney fees, provision for - HB 557

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