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HB317 - AN ACT relating to prior authorization.
Kimberly Poore Moser, Robert B. Duvall, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 8 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
HB837 - AN ACT relating to school buildings.
Kimberly Banta
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 162.055 to allow school property to be utilized for teacher and employee housing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to permit school boards or school district finance corporations to use land currently owned or newly leased to provide affordable housing options for teachers and school employees.
STATUS
Introduced
HB737 - AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.
Rachel Roarx, Kimberly Banta, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 7 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 241.065 to limit the number of quota retail package licenses in each council district of a consolidated local government to 16 licenses; require each quota retail package premises within a consolidated local government to be at least 700 feet from any other quota retail package premises; exempt any quota retail package licenses issued by a home rule city within a county containing a consolidated local government; grandfather existing quota retail package licenses within the consolidated local government; prohibit the renewal of a grandfathered license if the license is revoked, allowed to lapse, changes ownership, or otherwise ceases to be in effect.
STATUS
Introduced
HB834 - AN ACT relating to travel reimbursement.
Kimberly Banta
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 6.190 relating to members of the General Assembly, KRS 44.060, relating to state officials, and KRS 45.101, relating to state employees, to establish that the mileage reimbursement rate shall be equivalent to the business standard mileage rate for businesses determined annually by the Internal Revenue Service.
STATUS
Introduced
HB835 - AN ACT relating to real property.
Kimberly Banta
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 132.010 and 136.010 to include mains, pipes, pipelines, and conduits in the definition of "real property"; make technical corrections; apply to property assessed on or after January 1, 2023; RETROACTIVE.
STATUS
Introduced
HB57 - AN ACT relating to emergency medical services and declaring an emergency.
Chris Freeland, Ken Fleming, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 6 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 311A.030 to remove the classifications of ambulance services, mobile integrated healthcare programs, and medical first response providers; amends KRS 311A.142 to permit an emergency medical responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician, or paramedic in good standing in another state to be eligible for reciprocity at the same level of certification or licensure; amends KRS 142.301, 205.5602, 211.9523, 311A.010, 311A.170, and 405.075 to conform; and repeals KRS 311A.185, relating to determination of death by a paramedic; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HB93 - AN ACT relating to the establishment of the Kentucky Healthy Farm and Food Innovation Board and making an appropriation therefor.
Myron B. Dossett, Chad Aull, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 9 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 246 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Healthy Farm and Food Innovation Board and specify membership; set forth the duties of the Kentucky Healthy Farm and Food Innovation Board; establish the healthy farm and food innovation fund; amend KRS 18A.115 to exempt the Kentucky Healthy Farm and Food Innovation Board from a classified service designation; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB700 - AN ACT relating to the protection of mothers and their children.
Jason Michael Nemes, Nancy J. Tate, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 7 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of Subtitle17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special enrollment rights; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require health benefit plans that provide coverage for dependents to provide coverage for maternity care; amend KRS 304.17A-220 and 194A.099 to conform with the special enrollment requirement; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with the special enrollment and maternity coverage requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to define terms and provide for the payment of coverage premiums to eligible individuals; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid coverage for maternity services; amend KRS 205.592 to allow the Medicaid income limit for certain women and children to be increased under certain circumstances; amend KRS 205.6485 to require Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to provide maternity coverage; amend KRS 164.2847 to provide for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees for a child conceived and born as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 164.2849 to declare the interests of the Commonwealth in protecting the unborn and supporting a child conceived and born as a result of sexual assault within established parameters; amend KRS 199.011 to define a child conceived and delivered as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 199.473 to waive certain fees related to adoption proceedings; amend KRS 199.502 to include a conviction for specified criminal acts for an adoption without consent of the biological living parents; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish entitlement to nonrecurring adoption expenses under specified circumstances; amend KRS 199.894 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.8996 to establish the Child Care Assistance Program and establish eligibility requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to direct the Cabinet to provide informational material on benefits available to a victim of sexual assault and a child conceived as a result of the sexual assault; amend KRS 216B.400 to establish requirements for receipt of specified benefits related to sexual assault that results in pregnancy; create a new section of KRS Chapter 49 to establish benefits available to a child born as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 49.310 to conform; amend KRS 625.090 to add a conviction or guilty plea to any degree of rape, sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct as a basis to terminate parental rights; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver if potential cost defrayment or loss of federal funds is identified; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Act; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB11 - AN ACT relating to nicotine products.
Rebecca Raymer, Michael Pollock, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 6 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 241.060 to allow the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to conduct hearings and appeals; amends KRS 438.305 to define terms, to require the Secretary of State to create and publish a list of certain tobacco product retailers, to require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to create and maintain a tobacco noncompliance database and reporting system, to require wholesalers to verify a retailer’s presence in the database prior to transactions, to establish and impose fines for wholesalers that unlawfully sell to a retailer that is in the noncompliance database, to make any retailer with unpaid fines that are more than 60 days overdue ineligible to sell Tobacco Control Act covered products until the fines are paid, to direct manufacturers of Tobacco Control Act covered products to provide safe harbor certification to wholesalers and retailers of their products, and to prohibit a retailer from selling Tobacco Control Act products to persons under 21 years of age; and amends KRS 438.340 to create new civil penalties and appeals process; effective January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB825 - AN ACT relating to an audit of the Kentucky Department of Education.
James A. Tipton, Kim King, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 6 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a full fiscal controls and operational performance audit of the Kentucky Department of Education and to provide the report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Kentucky district HD-063
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Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Kimberly Banta is running as a Republican candidate for Indiana State Senate District 25. She was born on August 23, 1971 in Evansville, Indiana. Banta earned her Bachelor's degree in Education from Indiana State University in 1993. After college, Banta worked as a teacher and coach. She later served on the Warrick County School Board for 12 years. In 2010, Banta won election to the Indiana House of Representatives. She has servedDistrict 63 in the state legislature since 2011 focusing on education issues.read less
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