Senate Bill 31

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Title AN ACT relating to evidence in medical malpractice actions.
Bill Documents Bill
Impact Statements Corrections Impact
Bill Request Number 362
Sponsors R. Alvarado, D. Carroll
Summary of Original Version Create a new section of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence to prohibit the introduction of expressions of sympathy, compassion, commiseration, or a general sense of benevolence in medical malpractice actions.
Index Headings of Original Version Corrections Impact - Medical malpractice actions, inadmissibility of statements of compassion
Courts - Medical malpractice actions, inadmissibility of statements of compassion
Health and Medical Services - Medical malpractice actions, inadmissibility of statements of compassion
Hospitals and Nursing Homes - Medical malpractice actions, inadmissibility of statements of compassion
Nurses - Medical malpractice actions, inadmissibility of statements of compassion
Optometrists - Medical malpractice actions, inadmissibility of statements of compassion
Pharmacists - Medical malpractice actions, inadmissibility of statements of compassion
Physicians and Practitioners - Medical malpractice actions, inadmissibility of statements of compassion
Civil Actions - Medical malpractice actions, inadmissibility of statements of compassion
Civil Procedure - Medical malpractice actions, inadmissibility of statements of compassion
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01/06/16
  • introduced in Senate
01/07/16
  • to Judiciary (S)
02/11/16
  • reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
02/12/16
  • 2nd reading, to Rules
02/17/16
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 18, 2016
02/18/16
  • 3rd reading, passed 29-9
02/19/16
  • received in House
02/22/16
  • to Judiciary (H)


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