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Senate Bill 165

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Title AN ACT relating to healthcare decisions.
Bill Documents Bill
Bill Request Number 1121
Sponsors D. Carroll, J. Higdon
Summary of Original Version Amend KRS 311.621 to define "health information"; amend KRS 311.623 to allow health care surrogates to receive health information and make health care decisions in certain situations; amend KRS 311.625 to add the receipt of health information and ability to make health care decisions to the forms for advance directives; amend KRS 311.629 to reflect changes and allow health care surrogates to access appropriate health information; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 405 to establish a process by which a parent or custodian of a minor child can designate a surrogate to receive health information and make health care decisions in his or her absence.
Index Headings of Original Version Disabilities and the Disabled - Surrogates for healthcare decisions, process for designation of
Guardians - Surrogates for healthcare decisions, process for designation of
Health and Medical Services - Surrogates for healthcare decisions, process for designation of
Hospitals and Nursing Homes - Surrogates for healthcare decisions, process for designation of
Mental Disability - Surrogates for healthcare decisions, process for designation of
Mental Health - Surrogates for healthcare decisions, process for designation of
Substance Abuse - Surrogates for healthcare decisions, process for designation of
Aged Persons and Aging - Surrogates for healthcare decisions, process for designation of
Children and Minors - Surrogates for healthcare decisions, process for designation of

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02/09/16
  • introduced in Senate
02/11/16
  • to Health & Welfare (S)
03/02/16
  • reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
03/03/16
  • 2nd reading, to Rules
03/14/16
  • recommitted to Health & Welfare (S)


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