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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Mar 7, 2017

SB 95: AN ACT relating to statutorily mandated boards, councils, and reports within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Amend KRS 164.2847 to delete the required report on students participating in the tuition waiver program; amend KRS 194A.030 to change the membership of the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs; require the secretary to appoint the executive director; amend KRS 194A.090 to eliminate the Council for Families and Children; amend KRS 194A.707 to eliminate the required report on fees and costs incurred for conducting certification reviews of assisted-living communities; require that findings from certification reviews be provided upon request; amend KRS 205.201 to eliminate the required report on the special needs of the minority elderly population compared to the elderly population at large; amend KRS 205.525 to eliminate the required quarterly update on the status of the application for a waiver or waiver amendment or request for a plan amendment; amend KRS 205.5606 to eliminate the required report on the Kentucky Independence Plus Through Consumer-Directed Services Program; amend KRS 205.642 to eliminate the required report on the waiver for individuals with developmental disorders; amend KRS 205.8483 to make the required report on Medicaid fraud and abuse required upon request; delete the required provisions of the report; amend KRS 209.554 to make the required report on influenza virus, pneumococcal disease, and associated complications in long-term care facilities available upon request; amend KRS 211.350 to make the required report on sewage disposal systems available upon request; delete the required provisions of the report; amend KRS 211.494 to require all members of the statewide trauma care system to be appointed by the secretary; make the required report on the status of the development and implementation of the statewide trauma system available upon request; amend KRS 211.502 to make the required report on the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Board available upon request; amend KRS 211.575 to make the required report on the statewide stroke database available upon request; amend KRS 211.590 to amend the contents of required program summary on the Breast Cancer Research and Education Trust Fund expenditures; make the required report available upon request; amend KRS 211.752 to make the required report on the diabetes program available upon request; amend KRS 211.902 to make the required report on elevated blood lead levels available upon request; amend KRS 214.187 to make the required report on Hepatitis C available upon request; amend KRS 214.452 to eliminate the required report on the inspection compliance of blood establishments; amend KRS 214.554 to make required report on the Breast Cancer Screening Program available upon request; amend KRS 216.2923 to eliminate the required publishing of certain information; eliminate the required permanent cabinet advisory committee on consumer-oriented information related to health care; amend KRS 216.2929 to eliminate the required report on information relating to consumer-oriented information; amend KRS 216.941 to make the required report on charitable health care providers available upon request; amend KRS 403.7505 to make the required report on domestic violence services available upon request; amend KRS 194A.050, 194A.095, 194A.190, 194A.200, 205.455, 205.6487, and 216.2927 to conform; repeal 2006 Regular Session House Joint Resolution 17, Section 6; repeal KRS 199.8996, 200.100, 205.465, 205.6336, 211.480, 211.481, 211.482, 211.483, 211.735, 211.736, 211.737, 211.738, 211.739, 216.580, 216.583, 216.585, 216.587, 216B.025, 216B.030, 216B.135, 216B.339, and 403.700.

Returned to Health and Family Services (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Mar 7, 2017

HCR 101: Create a twelve-member Alcoholic Beverage Issues Subcommittee of the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations to study the structure, intent, and effect of Kentucky alcoholic beverage laws; direct the subcommittee to meet on the same days as the interim joint committee; require the subcommittee to submit a memorandum containing its recommendations by December 1, 2017.

To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
failed · Kentucky · House Mar 7, 2017

HB 296: AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. Amend KRS 342.020 to limit the obligation to pay medical benefits indefinitely for certain permanent partial disabilities; limit medical benefits to age 70 or four years after date of injury, whichever is later, except for permanent total awards or awards involving prosthetic devices which continue for as long as the employee is disabled; limit the number of urine drug screens for which an employer, insurer, or payment obligor is required to pay; amend KRS 342.035 to require the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to develop, adopt, and implement treatment guidelines and a pharmaceutical formulary on or before December 31, 2018; amend KRS 342.040 to reduce the amount of interest paid on awards; amend KRS 342.125 to clarify that the four-year reopening window begins only from the date of the original order granting or denying benefits; amend KRS 342.185 to provide a statute of repose for cumulative trauma claims; amend KRS 342.320 to increase limitation on attorney's fees to $18,000; amend KRS 342.700 to extend subrogation recovery of medical expenses and delete reference to legal fees and expense; amend KRS 342.730 to allow payment of temporary total disability benefits to be offset for net wages paid to an employee during a period of light-duty work or work in an alternative job position; amend KRS 342.990 to conform; specify the applicability of substantive changes to claims arising on or after effective date of Act and remedial changes to all claims irrespective of injury date.

Returned to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
failed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 7, 2017

SB 9: AN ACT relating to judicial redistricting. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to authorize the Supreme Court to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to perform an analysis to determine the need to rearrange the judicial circuits and districts or reallocate the number of judges relative to population and caseload; require the analysis to be completed within two years of December 31 of the year of the decennial census; require the Supreme Court to submit the analysis to the General Assembly by January 31 of the following year; provide that if the analysis indicates a need for rearrangement of judicial circuits and districts or reallocation of the number of judges due to population or caseload, the Supreme Court may submit certification as required by the Constitution of Kentucky which may include a proposal; amend KRS 23A.020 to realign the boundaries of the judicial circuits; amend KRS 23A.040 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to two judges and two divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.045 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to three judges and three divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.050 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to four judges and four divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.055 to increase the allocation of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit to six judges and six numbered divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 24A.030 to realign the boundaries of the judicial districts; amend KRS 24A.050 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to two District Judges and two numbered divisions of District Court; amend KRS 24A.060 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to three District Judges and three numbered divisions of District Court.

Returned to Judiciary (H)
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