Bill and Amendment Index




Aged Persons and Aging


Tax incentive, long-term care insurance - SR 18; HR 11


Appropriations


Appropriate funds for Kentucky Kare in FY 1997-98 - SB 1: HCS
Comprehensive health insurance plan - SB 1; HB 5
Delete
  • general fund appropriation - SB 1: SFA(17)
  • general fund appropriation for high risk pool - SB 1: HFA(34)
  • the general fund appropriation for the high risk pool - SB 1: HFA(33)
Expert witnesses in rate hearings - SB 1: HFA(31)
Increase general fund appropriation - SB 1: SFA(15)
Lottery proceeds to the state employee benefit fund - SB 1: HFA(36)
Special session costs - HB 1


Attorney General


Expert witnesses in rate hearings - SB 1: HFA(31)
Health insurance rate intervention - SB 1: HFA(14),(30)
Insurance rate intervention - SB 1: SFA(14)


Commendations and Recognitions


Cox, Dr. Gary S., commending - SR 9
Crime Prevention Month, recognizing - SR 15; HR 12
du Pont Manual Magnet High School, commending - SR 10
Hopkins, Myrtle, commending - SR 8
Hughes, Kelsey, honoring - HR 10
Kentucky public education system, national award, honoring for winning - SR 16; HR 14
National 4-H Week, commending - SR 12
Public, private, and home school partnerships, commending and encouraging - HR 16
Siler, Charles L., commending - HR 9
Smith, Kelli L., commending - SR 14
University of Kentucky football team, honoring - SR 7
WKYT-TV, commending - HR 4
Yeast, Craig, commending - SR 20


Conference Committee Reports


Free conference, SB 1 - SB 1: FCCR
SB 1 - SB 1: CCR


Disabilities and the Disabled


Health
  • insurance access, genetic information - SB 1: SFA(4)
  • Insurance, genetic test disclosure - SB 1: SFA(24)
Insurance health coverage - HB 2
Ky Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan, riders - SB 1: SFA(25)


Diseases


Health insurance access - SB 1: SFA(4)


Drugs and Medicines


Premiums, savings from rebates - SB 1: HFA(57)


Education, Elementary and Secondary


Kentucky public education system, national award, honoring for winning - SR 16; HR 14
Public, private, and home school partnerships, commending and encouraging - HR 16


Effective Dates, Emergency


Health
  • insurance, omnibus reform - HB 3


Effective Dates, Retroactive


September 30, 1997 - HB 1


Emergency Medical Services


Payment for emergency medical services - SB 1: HFA(43)


Fiscal Note


Employee benefit fund, appropriation from the lottery - SB 1: HFA(36)
Funds for program, generated from - SB 1: HFA(39)
Health
  • care, deduction for - SB 1: HFA(19)
  • insurance, deduction for - SB 1: HFA(18),(20)
  • insurance, omnibus reform - HB 3
  • insurance, risk plan funding - SB 1: SFA(22)
Limit administrative costs, reporting - SB 1: SFA(7)
Money transfer, health plan fund - SB 1: HFA(40)
Special session costs - HB 1


General Assembly


Adjournment, sine die - SCR 27; HCR 21
Governor, committee to wait upon, appointment of - SR 2; HR 3
House Rules, adoption of - HR 1
Ky Kare Plan, rate freeze - SB 1: HFA(67)
Medicaid savings report - SB 1: HFA(62)
Pastors,
  • invitation to attend meeting of the Senate - SR 3
  • invitation to attend meetings of the House - HR 2
Senate Rules, adoption of - SR 1
Special session costs, appropriation for - HB 1
Tax incentive, long-term care insurance - SR 18; HR 11


Governor


Biennial
  • Budget preparation - SB 1: HFA(31)


Health and Medical Services


Delete provisions relating to certificate of need - SB 1: HFA(1),(63)
Establish three health insurance plans - SB 1: SFA(21)
Health utilization review, made by a Ky. licensed physician - SB 1: SFA(16)
Insurance health coverage - HB 2
Low income persons, health benefit plan coverage - SB 1: HFA(62)
Managed care savings - SB 1: HFA(54)
Medicaid, surcharge for non-emergency care - SB 1: SFA(5)
Payment for emergency medical services - SB 1: HFA(43)
Premiums, savings from rebates - SB 1: HFA(42)
Tax deduction for - SB 1: HFA(19)


Hospitals and Nursing Homes


Health benefit plan services, Medicaid financing - SB 1: HFA(54)


Insurance


Health insurance, funding for high risk plan - SB 1: SFA(22)
Health,
  • benefit coordination - SB 1: HFA(6)
  • comprehensive insurance plan - SB 1: SCS
  • residency requirement - SB 1: SFA(3)
Premiums, savings from rebates - SB 1: HFA(57)


Insurance, Health


Administrative costs - SB 1: HFA(9)
Allow individual with expenditures over $1,000,000 to apply for additional coverage - SB 1: SFA(8)
Amend
  • assessment procedure - SB 1: SFA(12),(20)
  • definitions - SB 1: SFA(19)
Amnesty for insurers that left the state - SB 1: HFA(45)
Assessment of Insurers - SB 1: SFA(17)
Association plan's 3rd party administrator, licensure - SB 1: HFA(12)
Benefit plans, additional coverage - SB 1: HFA(4)
Benefits, coordination of - SB 1: HFA(6)
Comprehensive
  • health insurance plan - SB 1; HB 5; SB 1: SCS, SFA (5),(21), HCS, HFA (43)
  • health insurance plan, assessments - SB 1: HFA(46)
  • health insurance plan, funding of - SB 1: HFA(48)
  • Health Insurance Plan, stop loss - SB 1: HFA(22)
  • revisions to insurance provisions - SB 1: HFA(50)
Conditions for individual reapplication for terminated insurance - SB 1: HFA(29)
Conference committee report - SB 1: CCR
Creation of program; supplement premium - SB 1: HFA(39)
Define individuals eligible for participation in the high risk pool - SB 1: HFA(38)
Delete second assessment against insurers - SB 1: SFA(15)
Discontinuance notice; time increased - SB 1: HFA(7)
Discrimination based on genetic information - SB 1: SFA(4)
Establish lower rate factor ratio for certain individuals who are not Medicare eligible - SB 1: HFA(27)
Free conference report to SB 1 - SB 1: FCCR
Genetic test disclosure - SB 1: SFA(24)
Group coverage, part-time employees - SB 1: SFA(9)
Guarantee issue, small employers - SB 1: HFA(10),(49)
Guaranteed
  • Issue Funding Program - SB 1: HFA(60),(61),(64),(66)
  • issued funding program - SB 1: HFA(47)
Health
  • benefit plan - SB 1: HFA(13)
  • insurance benefits - SB 1: HFA(24),(25)
  • insurance premiums - SB 1: HFA(17),(51)
  • insurance rate quotes - SB 1: HFA(15)
  • utilization review, made by a Ky. licensed physician - SB 1: SFA(16)
High
  • risk plan, funding - SB 1: SFA(22)
  • risk pool, eighteen months residency requirement - SB 1: SFA(3)
High-Cost Plan - SB 1: HFA(68)
Individual
  • and group health insurance - SB 1: HFA(41),(56)
  • and group plans, pre-existing condition exclusions - SB 1: HFA(5)
Kentucky
  • comprehensive health insurance plan, eligibility - SB 1: SFA(11)
  • comprehensive health insurance plan, eligibility for - SB 1: SFA(10)
  • guaranteed issued funding program - HB 3
Ky
  • Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan, riders - SB 1: SFA(25)
  • Kare Plan, rate freeze - SB 1: HFA(67)
Limit
  • administrative costs, reporting - SB 1: SFA(2),(7)
  • amnesty period for insurers that have left the state - SB 1: HFA(23)
  • amount consumer can be charged for health care services - SB 1: HFA(37)
Limitation on administration costs, formula changed - SB 1: SFA(18)
Low income persons, health benefit plan coverage - SB 1: HFA(62)
Managed
  • care savings - SB 1: HFA(54)
  • care, patient protection - SB 1: SFA(23)
Modifications to benefits - SB 1: HFA(2)
Money transfer; health plan fund - SB 1: HFA(40)
Omnibus
  • revision - SB 1: HFA(53),(55),(65)
Part-time
  • employees, access to group plans - SB 1: HFA(59)
  • employees, permit group coverage for - SB 1: HFA(8)
Patient protection act providers - SB 1: SFA(13)
Premiums, savings from rebates - SB 1: HFA(42),(57)
Prohibition against excluding part-time employees - SB 1: HFA(35)
Provide for the sale of Medicare supplement policies - SB 1: HFA(26),(69),(70)
Rate
  • filing procedure - SB 1: SFA(14)
  • intervention - SB 1: HFA(14),(30)
Rates, guaranteed loss ratio - SB 1: HFA(52)
Require
  • inclusion of part-time employees in group plan - SB 1: HFA(16)
  • reporting of high-cost enrollees who terminate coverage - SB 1: HFA(11)
State
  • contributions for health insurance - SB 1: SFA(1),(6)
  • employee group, rates and enrollment - HR 15
Tax
  • deduction for - SB 1: HFA(18),(19),(20)
  • incentive, long-term care insurance - SR 18; HR 11
Technical changes - SB 1: HFA(58)
Utilization
  • management - SB 1: HFA(28)
  • management decisions - SB 1: HFA(21)
  • review for mental health and substance abuse cases - SB 1: HFA(3)


Judges and Court Commissioners


Jefferson County Judge/Executive and Court Commissioners, urging - HR 17


Labor and Industry


Part-time employees, group health plan access - SB 1: HFA(59)


Legislative Research Commission


Special session costs, appropriation for - HB 1


Licensing


Employer-organized association health plan administrators - SB 1: HFA(12)


Local Mandate


Comprehensive health insurance plan - SB 1: HCS
Health
  • insurance, omnibus reform - HB 3


Lottery


Appropriation to the state employee benefit fund - SB 1: HFA(36)
Funds for program; generated from - SB 1: HFA(39)
Kentucky Common Health Program fund, transfer to - HB 4
Money transfer; health plan fund - SB 1: HFA(40)


Memorials


Brien, William Joseph "Toad" - SR 24; HR 20
Creason, Coy - SR 25; HR 19
Freeman, Barry D., memorializing - SR 5
Gouge, Sandra F., memorializing - SR 23
Green, Jeff, memorializing - SR 6; HR 5
Hellard, Vic, Jr., memorializing - SR 11; HR 8
Johnson, Lyman T., memorializing - SR 19; HR 13
Lewis, Katy, memorializing - SR 22
McQueary, Reba, memorializing - SR 4
Morgan, Ethel, memorialize - SR 21
Smith, Orville William, memorializing - SR 17
Strong, Pearl, memorializing - SR 26


Occupations and Professions


Health plans, pre-existing exemption exclusions - SB 1: HFA(5)
Managed care, patient protection - SB 1: SFA(23)
Patient protection act - SB 1: SFA(13)
Premiums, savings from rebates - SB 1: HFA(42)


Personnel and Employment


Ky Kare Plan, rate freeze - SB 1: HFA(67)


Pharmacists


Patient protection act providers - SB 1: SFA(13)


Physicians and Practitioners


Health utilization review, made by a Ky. licensed physician - SB 1: SFA(16)
Patient protection act providers - SB 1: SFA(13)


Piggybacked Bills


HB 3 to SB 1 - SB 1: HFA(64)


Popular Names and Short Titles


High-Risk Pool - SB 1: HFA(68)
Patient protection act - SB 1: SFA(13),(23)


Poverty


Health benefit plan coverage - SB 1: HFA(62)


Public Health


Health
  • Insurance, residency requirement - SB 1: SFA(3)
  • insurance, risk plan funding - SB 1: SFA(22)


Small Business


Health insurance, guarantee issue - SB 1: HFA(10),(49)


State Agencies


Department of Insurance; operate program - SB 1: HFA(39)
Personnel Department, health insurance plans - HR 15


State Employees


Allow the personnel commissioner to negotiate with health insurance companies - SB 1: HCS
Employee benefit fund, appropriation from the lottery - SB 1: HFA(36)
Health insurance plans, rates and enrollment - HR 15


Taxation, Income--Individual


Health
  • care, deduction for - SB 1: HFA(19)
  • insurance, deduction for - SB 1: HFA(18),(20)
Provide an income tax credit for insursance premium payments - SB 1: HFA(34)


Technical Corrections


SB 1 - SB 1: HFA(44)
SB1/SCS - SB 1: SFA(18)


Title Amendments


SB 1 - SB 1: HFA(32)


United States


Congress
  • and President, global climate change, treaties and commitments - HCR 6
  • and President, opposal of Biosphere Program, urging - HR 18
Global climate change, negotiations, urging - SR 13; HR 7


Workers' Compensation


Health benefits, coordination of - SB 1: HFA(6)


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