26RS HB 177

House Bill 177

Actions

Last Action	01/07/26: to Committee on Committees (H)
Title	AN ACT relating to health care.
Bill Documents	Introduced
Bill Request Number	966
Sponsor	K. Moser
Summary of Original Version	Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to add credential requirements; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees of vulnerable adult service providers, to permit a state licensing board to query the cabinet for a validated substantiated finding of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation against an individual under the licensing board's jurisdiction; create a new section of KRS 158.830 to 158.838 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good-faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies; amend KRS 158.832 to add definition of "documented medical conditions" and medications to the definition of "medications"; amend KRS 158.834 to add medical conditions and medications that may be self-administered in schools with parental authorization and a prescription; amend KRS 158.836 to require students to permit bronchodilator rescue inhalers, nebulizers, glucagon, Solu-Cortef, or other prescribed medications in their possession or in the possession of school personnel; encourage schools to stock undesignated glucagon; and require policies and Good Samaritan protection for the good-faith administration of glucagon, Solu-Cortef, or other prescribed medications for authorized school employees.
Index Headings of Original Version	Boards And Commissions - Board of Nursing, licensing Boards And Commissions - Licensing boards, adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation for licensees, query Children And Minors - Diabetes, prescribed medication in schools Civil Actions - Civil immunity, undesignated glucagon, good -faith administration, schools Diseases - Diabetes, undesignated glucagon, schools Drugs And Medicines - Prescribed medications, administration in schools Drugs And Medicines - Undesignated glucagon, storage and administration in schools Education, Elementary And Secondary - Undesignated glucagon, storage and administration Health And Medical Services - Prescribed medications, administration in schools Licensing - Nurses, requirements Nurses - Licensing, requirements Nurses - School nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, health care practitioner, prescriptive authority Pharmacists - Glucagon, diabetes, dispensing authority Public Health - Nurses, licensing State Agencies - Department for Public Health, undesignated glucagon, storage Teachers - Medication administration, undesignated glucagon, diabetes