Kentucky
General Assembly

02/07/25	introduced in House to Committee on Committees (H)
02/12/25	to Health Services (H)
03/12/25	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) floor amendments (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) filed to Committee Substitute

Amendment	House Committee Substitute 1
Fiscal Impact Statements	Corrections Impact to House Committee Substitute 1 Local Mandate to House Committee Substitute 1
Summary	Remove original provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and freestanding birthing centers to offer to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 311.720 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723 to establish medical procedures not constituting an abortion; amend KRS 311.772 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Act of 2025; EMERGENCY.
Index Headings	Women - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant woman, requirement Short Titles and Popular Names - Love Them Both Act of 2025 Corrections Impact - Love Them Both Act of 2025 Local Mandate - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant woman, requirement Effective Dates, Emergency - Required medical care, crisis pregnancy, provision Health and Medical Services - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant women, requirement Hospitals and Nursing Homes - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant woman, requirement Mental Health - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant woman, provision Nurses - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant woman, requirement Physicians and Practitioners - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant woman, requirement Physicians and Practitioners - Pregnant woman, reasonable medical judgment, definition Reproductive Issues - Perinatal palliative care, pregnant woman, requirement Reproductive Issues - Pregnant woman, medical treatment, informed consent, requirement Women - Medical emergency, pregnant woman, treatment, reasonable medical judgment, establishment Women - Medically necessary interventions, pregnant woman, reasonable medical judgment, establishment

Amendment	House Committee Amendment 1
Sponsor	K. Moser
Summary	Make title amendment.
Index Headings	Title Amendments - HB 414

Amendment	House Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor	L. Burke
Summary	Amend to establish that a necessary medical procedure to protect the patient's life or health that is based upon a physician's good faith medical judgment is not an abortion.
Index Headings	Women - Patient, life or health protection, good faith medical judgment, abortion, exception Physicians and Practitioners - Patient, life or health protection, good faith medical judgment, abortion, exception Reproductive Issues - Patient, life or health protection, good faith medical judgment, abortion, exception

Amendment	House Floor Amendment 2
Sponsor	L. Burke
Summary	Amend to add a definition for fatal fetal anomaly; establish that a termination of a pregnancy complicated by a fatal fetal anomaly does not constitute an abortion.
Index Headings	Reproductive Issues - Fatal fetal anomaly, definition, establishment Reproductive Issues - Fatal fetal anomaly, abortion, exception, establishment Women - Pregnancy, fatal fetal anomaly, definition, establishment Women - Fatal fetal abnormality, abortion, exception, establishment

Amendment	House Floor Amendment 3
Sponsor	L. Burke
Summary	Amend to establish that the termination of a pregnancy that is the result of rape or incest does not constitute an unlawful abortion.
Index Headings	Reproductive Issues - Pregnancy, result of rape or incest, termination, exception Women - Pregnancy, result of rape or incest, termination, exception

Amendment	House Floor Amendment 4
Sponsor	A. Camuel
Summary	Amend to remove the reasonable medical judgment standard and establish the good faith clinical judgment standard.
Index Headings	Physicians and Practitioners - Reasonable medical judgment standard, good faith clinical judgment standard, replacement Reproductive Issues - Reasonable medical judgment standard, good faith clinical judgment standard, replacement Women - Reasonable medical judgment standard, good faith clinical judgment standard, replacement

Amendment	House Floor Amendment 5
Sponsor	A. Camuel
Summary	Amend to remove separating the pregnant woman from her unborn child.
Index Headings	Reproductive Issues - Pregnant woman, separation from unborn child language, removal Women - Pregnancy, separation from unborn child language, removal