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Acquired brain injuries, services for, create legislative task force - SCR 17; SCR 17: SCS
Actions against licensure, notification of - HB 127
Adoption, biological information - HB 71
Advance directive for mental health treatment, honoring of - HB 99
Area
  • development district, long-term care ombudsman, full-time position for - HB 147
  • development district, long-term care ombudsman, funding for - HB 147: SFA(1),(2)
Assisted-living community, Alzheimer's information maintained by - SB 20: SCS
Benefit plans that may result in savings to the state, Personnel cabinet to consider - SB 198: SFA(1)
Board
  • of Chiropractic, licensee accountability, monitor and impose sanctions - HB 312
  • of Pharmacy, adulterated drugs, recommendations to reduce incidence of - SB 20: HFA(3); SB 60: HFA (4); SB 88: HFA (3); SB 145: HFA (4)
Boxers and wrestlers, required physical examination, scope of - HB 532
Breast Cancer, Advisory Committee, increase membership of - SB 88
Bullitt
  • County Medical Center expansion, express support for - HR 139
  • County medical Center expansion, support for - HR 139: HCS
Cancer,
  • urge Congress to expand Medicare coverage to include oral drugs to treat - HJR 9
  • urge Congress to reform Medicare to cover prescription drugs including oral drugs to treat - HJR 9: HCS
Certificate of Need exemption, acute care facilities in specified areas - SB 20: HFA(4); SB 107: HFA (5)
Charitable
  • health care provider, immunity for - SB 1: SFA(2),(3),(4),(5)
  • health care providers, study impact of transferring unused prescription drugs to - HR 171
  • health care providers, transfer of unused legend drugs to - HB 118
Cigarette tax increase, smokeless, loose, and other tobacco, impose tax - HB 205
Cloning
  • to produce a legislator, prohibition of - HB 265: HFA(3)
Cloning, prohibition on - HB 153; HB 265: HFA (1),(2)
Colorectal cancer screening, health insurance, required coverage by - HB 112
Compulsive gamblers assistance fund, within Division of Substance Abuse, creation of - HB 264
Contraceptive information, public funding, require parental consent before dispensing - SB 140
Controlled substances, prescribing, study of - HB 125
County prisoners, responsibility for medical costs - HB 129
Data provided by the Cabinet for Health Services, specifications for - HB 535
Death certificate, unknown cause of death - HB 19
Dental Insurance, application of prompt payment of claim statutes - SB 101: SFA(1)
Dentists, application of prompt payment law to - SB 101
Department for Public Health, vaccination program, emergency responders to participate in - HB 529; SB 60: HCS
Destructive research on human embryo, prohibit - HB 152
Drug discount program, creation of - HB 1
Drugs,
  • direct-to-consumer advertising, urging federal restrictions on - HCR 66
  • manufacturers and wholesalers, reporting by - HB 351
Elder maltreatment, home health agency, cases involving - HB 242: SFA(2), HFA (8)
Electronic
  • central registry for telehealth, public health, and family practice - HB 126
  • health network, feasibility study of - HB 269: HCA(1),(5)
Emergency
  • contraceptives, prescribing and dispensing of - HB 457
  • medical technicians, epinephrine, administration of - SB 60: HCS
Epinephrine, emergency medical technicians and paramedics authorized to administer - SB 60: HFA(1)
Faith-based initiatives, development and support of - HB 119
Family planning services, Medicaid and KCHIP, parental consent for - SB 214
Federal prescription drug discount program, study of, Cabinet for Health Services - HJR 16
Fetal homicide - SB 8; HB 29; SB 36: HFA (4),(5),(7),(8); SB 41: HFA (1)
Genetic testing, prohibition against employer's use of - HB 41
Health
  • care, liability limitations - SB 1; SB 1: SCS
  • coverage for adults, Medicaid, demonstration waiver for - HB 104
  • data collection, provisions for contracts for collection of - HB 337: SCS
  • facility, prohibit overtime - HB 480
  • information infrastructure, Congress, urge funding of - SJR 24
  • insurance coverage for infertility, study of - HR 163
  • insurance, colorectal cancer screenings, reimbursement for - HB 112: HFA(1)
  • insurance, contraceptive devices and services, coverage for - HB 278
HIV, system used by health care providers to report cases of - SB 107: HFA(1)
HIV/AIDS Advisory Council, Cabinet for Health Services, urge continued support by - SCR 61; HCR 143
HIV/AIDS, prescription drugs, prohibition on restrictions for use of - SB 196
Hospice employees, exempt from professional counselor licensure - HB 80
Human service transportation delivery program, subcontractors, reimbursement to - HB 528
Immunization registry, creation of - HB 126
Impaired physician program, exempt from liability - HB 68
Individual care plans, schools, requirements for - HB 378
Infertility, health benefit coverage of - SB 177; HB 526
Insurance, limited health benefit plans - HB 399
Jewish Hospital, Bullitt County, support for expansion into - SR 20
Kentucky
  • Early Intervention System, assessment of - HB 484; SB 60: HCS
  • Early Intervention System, evaluation of - HB 484: HCS
  • e-Health Network, feasibility study and implementation of - SB 7; HB 20, 91
  • e-Health Network, implementation of - HB 92
  • e-Health Network, voluntary participation in - HB 92: HCS
  • providers' mutual insurance authority - HB 8: HFA(1)
Licensed optometrists, violations investigated, injunctions filed against - HB 250: HCS
Long-term
  • care facility inspections, penalty for notification of - HB 148
  • care staffing committee, staffing requirements developed by - HB 149
  • care, reauthorize the task force on - HCR 22
Mail-order drugs, Medicaid and KCHIP, coverage of - HB 445
Malpractice premiums, income tax credit for - SB 197
Malpractice, review panel for civil actions - HB 393: HFA(5),(7)
Marriage and family therapist, licensing, experience requirements - SB 100
Massage therapists, licensure, health care professionals - SB 69; HB 268
Medicaid
  • buy-in program for disabled adults, study of - HB 79; SB 145: HFA (1); HB 79: HCS
  • transportation, escorts, requirements for - SB 168; SB 168: HCS
  • waiver, Cabinet for Health Services to provide copy to Interim Joint Committees - SB 107
Medicaid,
  • intermediate care facility services for the mentally retarded, tax on - HB 444
  • nursing facility level of care, criteria for - SB 167; HB 452
Medical
  • malpractice claims, procedure for - HB 546
  • malpractice claims, task force to study - SJR 77
  • malpractice insurance, hearing on rate filings - HB 379: HFA(1)
  • malpractice relief act - SB 108
  • malpractice, create the Kentucky Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Authority - SB 67; HB 393
  • malpractice, create the Kentucky Providers' Mutual Insurance Authority - HB 8: HCS
  • malpractice, creation of the Kentucky medical professional mutual insurance authority - SB 115
  • malpractice, rates must be filed - HB 379
  • professionals, out-of-state, add to definition of practitioner - HB 459
Medicare and Medicaid, congress, urge full funding by - SCR 85
Medication aides, requirements by Board of Nursing - HB 405; HB 405: HFA (1)
Medications and health care in schools, protocols for - HB 279
Mental illness, psychotropic drugs, teacher training and education relating to - HJR 67
Narcotic treatment programs, requirements for - SB 203
Naturopathy & acupuncture, licensing and certification, qualifications for - SB 217
Norton Healthcare, appreciation for - SR 123; HR 177
Nursing, clinical internship, requirements for - HB 137; HB 137: HCS
Obesity and drug addiction, universities, urge study of - HJR 132
Office of Women's Health, income tax refund, designation for - HB 447
Optometrists, licensure requirements, violations investigated, injunctions filed against - HB 250
Organ Donor Awareness Week, designation of - HB 181
OxyContin, Ohio Medicaid, urge prior authorization of - HR 193
Personal care homes, waiver of service limitations in - HB 116
Pharmaceutical
  • manufacturer transfer of drugs to charitable provided, immunity for - SB 1: SFA(4)
  • manufacturer transfer of drugs to charitable provider, immunity for - SB 1: SFA(5)
Physical examination, unlawful - HB 172
Physician conduct, gender neutral language and technical corrections - SB 212
Prescriptions, out-of-state practitioners, medical practitioners, authority to honor - HB 459: HFA(1)
Primary care centers, school-based services, requirements for - HB 328: HFA(1)
Professionals, out-of-state, require active practice - HB 459: HCA(1)
Public
  • policy, disabled and frail elderly, preferences of - HB 26: SCS
  • policy, disabled and frail elderly, rights and responsibilities of - HB 26; HB 26: HCS
Punitive damages, taxation of - HB 393: HFA(4)
Rehabilitation equipment, certification of - SB 61
Reimbursement rates, exemption from laws for preferred provider arrangements - SB 181
Reorganization, Cabinet for Health Services, Executive Order 2002-761 - SB 34
School-based
  • health care services, primary care centers, moratorium on - HB 328: HCS
  • health care services, primary care centers, provision of - HB 328
  • health care services, primary care centers, requirements for - HB 328: HCS
Schools, healthy foods and beverages provided in - HB 77
Senior prescription drug coverage, Medicaid waiver for - SB 9
Services, cigarette tax, increased funding due to - HB 85
Smoking, prohibited in university dormitories - HB 88
Students with diabetes, care of - HB 76
Substance abuse, involuntary commitment - HB 192
Task
  • Force on Health Care and Health Insurance Cost, add optometrist - HCR 98: SFA(1)
  • Force on Health Care and Health Insurance Costs - HCR 98
  • Force on Health Care and Health Insurance Costs, change in membership - HCR 98: SCA(1)
  • Force on Health Care and Health Insurance Costs, chiropractors as members of - HCR 98: HCS
Tax deduction for donated services to Medicaid recipients - HB 358
Terrorism,
  • assessment of educational needs regarding - HB 272
  • risk assessment and readiness to respond to - HB 272
Vaccination program, emergency responders, priority procedures for - HB 529: HCS

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