Rep. Melinda Gibbons Prunty

Amend KRS 211.336 to bar professional licensure boards from prohibiting the delivery of telehealth services to residents of Kentucky who are temporarily located outside of Kentucky by health service providers credentialed in Kentucky; bar professional licensure boards from prohibiting the delivery of telehealth services to nonresidents of Kentucky who are temporarily located in Kentucky by health service providers credentialed in the person's state of residence; and bar health care providers from being required to be physically present in their credentialing state to provide telehealth services to a person who is a resident of the same state.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 214 to define "department" and "program"; establish the Lung Cancer Screening and Prevention Program within the Department for Public Health; provide that services may be undertaken by private contract or operated by the department; allow the program to provide referral, examination, and rescreening services for uninsured and underinsured individuals for whom further examination or treatment is indicated by the lung cancer screening; require the department to adopt a schedule of income-based fees to be charged for lung cancer screenings; require that the fee schedule be such that the screenings are available to the largest number of people; permit the department to accept grants or awards of funds from federal or private sources; require the department to establish a data collection system; require the promulgation of administrative regulations; establish a restricted fund to be known as the Kentucky Lung Cancer Screening and Prevention Program fund and establish parameters of the fund; require that the funds be used by the department to administer the program; require moneys in the fund to be administered by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; provide that moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year will carry forward into the succeeding fiscal year; require that interest earned on moneys in the fund will accrue to the fund; require that moneys in the fund are appropriated for the purposes of the program; require the fund to include funds distributed by the Transportation Cabinet from sales of special lung cancer prevention license plates; establish the Lung Cancer Screening Advisory Committee; establish the membership of the advisory committee; require the advisory committee to provide recommendations for implementation and conduct of the lung cancer screening program; require the advisory committee to establish and provide oversight for a lung cancer screening public awareness campaign; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to contract with the Kentucky Cancer Consortium at the University of Kentucky to provide the required support; require the amount of contracted services to be excluded from the base funding formula of the university as determined by the Council on Postsecondary Education; require the advisory committee to provide an annual report on implementation, outcomes, and recommendations; require the Kentucky Cancer Program to establish a lung cancer screening education and outreach program in each of the area development districts; require the education and outreach program to focus on individuals who lack access to lung cancer screening; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to contract with the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky to provide the required support and require the amount of contracted services to be excluded from the base funding formula of the universities as determined by the Council on Postsecondary Education; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 224.1-010 to redefine "disposal," "municipal solid waste disposal facility," "waste site or facility," "waste," and "solid waste management facility"; define "advanced recycling," "advanced recycling facility," "depolymerization," "gasification," "post-use polymer," "pyrolysis," "recovered feedstock," and "solvolysis"; amend KRS 109.012 to redefine "solid waste," "solid waste management," and "solid waste management facility."

Recognize April 2, 2022, as World Autism Awareness Day and April 2022 as Autism Acceptance Month.

Amend 2021 Kentucky Acts Chapter 171, Section 3, to appropriate Federal Funds from the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 in the amount of $127,000,000 and Federal Funds from the State Fiscal Recovery Fund of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 in the amount of $123,000,000 in fiscal year 2021-2022 to the broadband deployment fund; repeal 2021 Kentucky Acts Chapter 194, Section 17; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 405.075 to add Class I, Class II, Class III, and Class IV ground ambulance providers to the approved list of entities allowed to install and operate a newborn safety device.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require school councils or principals to adopt child abuse awareness and prevention instruction that is taught by a trained, certified teacher; establish short title of "Erin's Law."

Amend KRS 61.394 to allow specified military members who are state employees leave of absence up to six months without penalty if they are physically disabled as a result of performing active or inactive duty training or entitled to incapacitation pay.

Amend KRS 156.070 to require KHSAA to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools to designate all interscholastic athletics based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in girls' athletics; establish how to designate biological sex; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a cause of action against a school that violates these provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require a public postsecondary education institution or private postsecondary education institution that is a member of a national intercollegiate athletic association to designate all intercollegiate and intramural athletics authorized by the institution based on biological sex of students eligible to participate; require that institutions prohibit male students from participating in womens' athletics; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a cause of action against a postsecondary institution that violates these provisions; title the Act "Fairness in Womens' Sports Act."

Amend KRS 202A.0811 to clarify that the respondent be evaluated by a mental health professional and not examined, specify where and by when a qualified mental health professional's findings shall be certified, and specify when a date for a hearing shall be set; amend KRS 202A.0815 to expand the class of individuals who can have access to assisted outpatient treatment by modifying the criteria requirements for court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment.