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HB317 - AN ACT relating to prior authorization.
Kimberly Poore Moser, Robert B. Duvall, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 11 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define "health care provider"; make conforming amendments; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements for prior authorization exemptions; establish requirements for rescinding prior authorization exemptions; set forth requirements for external reviews of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions; establish requirements for sending forms and notices to health care providers; provide that nothing shall be construed to authorize a health care provider to act outside the provider's scope of practice or require an insurer or private review agent to pay for a health care service performed in violation of law; require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to establish forms; amend KRS 304.17A-605 to establish applicability of provisions relating to prior authorization exemptions to certain insurers and private review agents; amend KRS 304.17A-607 to establish requirements for prior authorizations; amend KRS 304.17A-611 to prohibit the retrospective denial, reduction in payment, and review of health care services for which a health care provider has a prior authorization exemption and establish exceptions; amend KRS 304.17A-621 to conform; amend KRS 304.17A-627 to prohibit conflicts of interest with independent review entities and reviewers of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions; require independent review entities and reviewers of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions to submit an annual report to the Department of Insurance; amend KRS 304.17A-633 to require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to report on external reviews of prior authorization exemptions denials and rescissions; amend KRS 304.17A-706 to conform; amend KRS 205.536 to require managed care organizations contracted to provide Medicaid benefits to comply with the sections on prior authorization exemptions; apply the provisions to contracts delivered, entered, renewed, extended, or amended on or after the effective date of the Act; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB152 - AN ACT relating to elections.
Chad Aull, George A. Brown, Adrielle Camuel
Last updated 12 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 118.025 to remove straight-ticket voting as a ballot option in an election; amend KRS 63.200, 67C.103, 117.125, 118A.090, and 118A.100 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
HB166 - AN ACT relating to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
Jason Michael Nemes, Danny R. Bentley, Alan Gentry
Last updated 9 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define “SUDEP,” to update autopsy requirements, to require the Vital Statistics Branch to forward a copy of the death certificate to the North American SUDEP Registry if sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is found to be the cause or the suspected cause of death, and to provide that the Act may be cited as Jami’s Law.
STATUS
Passed
HB134 - AN ACT relating to the taxation of retirement distributions.
Ashley Tackett Laferty, George A. Brown, Alan Gentry
Last updated 12 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 141.019 to increase the retirement distribution exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110 for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB170 - AN ACT relating to civil rights.
Rachel Roberts, Alan Gentry, George A. Brown
Last updated 9 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 344.020 to include amendments made to the American with Disabilities Act of 1990; make technical corrections.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB100 - AN ACT relating to birth certificates.
Susan Tyler Witten, Sarah Stalker, Jared A. Bauman
Last updated 9 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 213.141 to establish that a homeless individual as defined in KRS 198A.700, or a homeless youth, as defined in 42 U.S.C. sec. 11434a(2), who is under the age of 25 does not have to pay a fee to get a copy of his or her birth certificate.
STATUS
Passed
HB303 - AN ACT relating to road projects and declaring an emergency.
Derrick W. Graham, Chad Aull, George A. Brown
Last updated 11 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Set out the Governor's recommended 2024-2026 Biennial Highway Construction Plan; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HB20 - AN ACT relating to a cost-of-living increase to the retirement benefits for retired state employees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Ruth Ann Palumbo, Chad Aull, Tina Bojanowski
Last updated 12 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Appropriate $227 million, $17 million, and $17 million in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to fund a one-time two percent cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2024, for Kentucky Employees Retirement System nonhazardous and hazardous duty recipients, and for State Police Retirement System recipients, respectively; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HB154 - AN ACT relating to occupational health and safety.
Beverly Chester-Burton, George A. Brown, Adrielle Camuel
Last updated 12 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued; require the secretary for the Education and Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2024 by the percentage increase, if any, in the United State Average Consumer Price Index for all Urban Customers (CPI-U); direct the secretary to begin a three year phase-in for penalty adjustments beginning August 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB209 - AN ACT relating to occupational disease claims.
Ashley Tackett Laferty, Alan Gentry
Last updated 12 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 342.125 to remove the requirement that an affected employee previously diagnosed with occupational pneumoconiosis resulting from exposure to coal dust must have an additional two years of employment in the Commonwealth wherein the employee was continuously exposed to the hazards of the disease in order to reopen a claim.
STATUS
Introduced
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