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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 16, 2018

SB 79: AN ACT relating to surprise billing. Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define "balance billing," "cost sharing," "emergency health care services," "emergency medical condition," "health care service," "insured, maximum allowable cost," and "usual and customary rate"; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to collect information from insurers regarding billed charges, and either to select a nonprofit to distribute the information to or to publish the information annually on its Web site; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define unanticipated out-of-network care, and to require an insurer to reimburse for unanticipated out-of-network care at the usual and customary rate for the service; prohibit any lower reimbursement; prohibit balance billing from a provider who has been reimbursed in accordance with this section; allow a provider to bill for any applicable cost-sharing requirements owed by the insured; amend KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-430, 304.17B-001, 304.17B-015, 304.17B-033, 304.17C-010, 304.18-114, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.

To Banking & Insurance (S)
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 11, 2018

HB 165: AN ACT establishing the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council and making an appropriation therefor. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council; list members to be appointed by the Governor; state the duties of the council; require a report of council activities; create a rare disease trust fund to be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to finance the operation of the council and support rare disease research and treatment; require a report on expenditures from the fund; require the council to cease to exist on December 1, 2028, unless otherwise reestablished by the General Assembly; APPROPRIATION.

To Appropriations & Revenue (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 10, 2018

HB 154: AN ACT relating to administrative regulations. Amend KRS 13A.290 to require the administrative regulations compiler to compile a list of administrative regulations considered during the year, including their disposition; require the co-chairs of the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee to file the list of regulations as a simple resolution in their respective chambers; allow members to object to any resolution on the list; require the Legislative Research Commission to refer administrative regulations removed from the list to the interim joint committee with jurisdiction over the administrative regulation for additional consideration.

To State Government (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 10, 2018

HB 160: 0AN ACT relating to call centers. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require an employer intending to relocate a call center from Kentucky to a foreign country to notify the secretary of the Labor Cabinet at least 120 days prior to such relocation; require the secretary to compile a list of employers that have relocated a call center to a foreign country; amend KRS 337.990 to create a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each violation; provide short title.

To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 9, 2018

HB 152: AN ACT relating to the training of commercial driver's license holders in identifying and reporting human trafficking. Amend KRS 281A.010 to define "human trafficking"; amend KRS 281A.120 to require a person applying for a commercial driver's license to complete training related to identifying and reporting human trafficking; amend KRS 281A.130 to conform; amend KRS 281A.170 to require commercial driver's licenses to be issued with a wallet card that outlines the signs of human trafficking and how to report it, and includes the National Human Trafficking Hotline number; amend KRS 281A.320 and 281.755 to conform.

To Transportation (H)
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