Healthcare

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 10, 2026

HB 424: AN ACT relating to social work.

Amend KRS 335.010 to exempt student interns or trainees from social work licensure requirements; direct the Kentucky Board of Social Work to promulgate administrative regulations to define standards for student involvement in clinical social work; amend KRS 335.020 to define terms; amend KRS 335.030, 335.070, 335.080, 335.090, 335.100, 335.150, and 335.158 to establish licensure standards, including use of a multistate license, criminal background checks, and telehealth; amend KRS 335.050 to require that at least 1 licensee member of the board is a teacher actively engaged in social work education; amend KRS 387.610 and 457.090 to conform.

Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareBill exempts social work students from licensure during training, sets clinical standards, and includes telehealth - improving access to mental health services and healthcare workforce development.85% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Healthcare

signed · Kentucky · Senate Apr 10, 2026

SB 137: AN ACT relating to a provisional license to practice medicine.

Amend KRS 311.571 to allow and specify requirements for a physician licensed to practice medicine in another country to obtain a provisional license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth; specify requirements for a provisional license to convert to a regular license; add conditions for the Board of Medical Licensure to revoke a provisional license; make technical changes.

Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareAllows foreign-trained physicians to obtain provisional licenses, potentially expanding healthcare access by increasing provider availability in underserved areas.85% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Healthcare

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 10, 2026

HB 470: AN ACT relating to behavioral health services and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 222.233 to require behavioral health multi-specialty groups or any entity that bills for peer support services to only employ specifically qualified alcohol and drug peer support specialists until January 1, 2028; extend the time period in which other alcohol and other drug treatment entities and behavioral health service organizations may only employ specifically qualified alcohol and drug peer support specialists to January 1, 2028; remove references to temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialists; amend KRS 309.0805 and 309.0813 to remove references to temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialists; repeal KRS 309.0836, relating to temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialists; establish the Peer Support Professionals Work Group to submit recommendations to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services regarding the creation of a board of peer support professionals to develop statewide requirements for licensed peer support professionals; EMERGENCY.

Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareBill mandates qualified peer support specialists for mental health services, ensuring service quality and safety under licensing standards, directly supporting mental health care delivery.85% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Healthcare

signed · Kentucky · Senate Apr 7, 2026

SB 97: AN ACT relating to coverage for prostheses and orthoses.

Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for prostheses and orthoses; establish minimum requirements for the required coverage; require utilizations review decisions to be made in a nondiscriminatory manner; require an insurer or its private review agent to provide notice of certain rights of the insured; establish notice requirements for denials; establish network adequacy requirements for the provision of a prosthesis or orthosis that is required to be covered; establish reporting requirements for insurers and the commissioner of the Department of Insurance relating to the required coverage; amend KRS 164.2871 and 18A.225 to require self-insured group health plans offering by the governing board of state postsecondary education institutions and the state employee health plan to comply with the requirements relating to coverage for prostheses and orthoses; provide that the Act applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027.

Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareMandates health benefit plans to cover prostheses/orthoses, expanding patient access to essential medical devices per Health Benefit Plan Mandate subject.95% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Healthcare

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 7, 2026

HB 388: AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.

Amend KRS 205.529, 218A.172, 218A.205, and 304.17A.165 to remove references to a Schedule III controlled substance containing hydrocodone; amend KRS 218A.010 to add optometrist and physician assistant to the definition of "practitioner" licensed in other states; amend KRS 218A.182 to exempt charitable health care practitioners from electronic prescription requirement; amend KRS 218A.202 to require an active account with the electronic monitoring system be maintained by practitioners or pharmacists prescribing or dispensing Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substances; amend KRS 218A.245 to permit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to enter reciprocal agreements or contracts with any federal agency of the United States or its territories.

Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareExpands provider access by adding optometrists/physician assistants to 'practitioner' definition and exempts charitable practitioners from e-prescribing requirements, improving healthcare delivery access.85% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Healthcare

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 7, 2026

HB 393: AN ACT relating to services for Alzheimer's and related dementias.

Amend KRS 194A.601 to require the dementia services coordinator to prepare an annual report on the operations of the Office of Dementia Services and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Advisory Council and a progress report on the Kentucky Alzheimer's and Related Dementias State Plan to submit to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 194A.603 to increase the membership of the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Advisory Council from 15 to 16 by increasing the individual unpaid caregiver members by 1; change the council's annual reporting date to December 1 from July 1; require the council to develop and implement annual year-long initiative advancing a key area of the state plan; direct the council to create a provider toolkit on early detection and diagnosis as its first year-long initiative beginning December 1, 2026 to be distributed to stakeholders.

Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareMandates annual reports and expands advisory council to improve dementia care planning, strengthening oversight of healthcare services under Kentucky's state plan.85% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Healthcare

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 3, 2026

HB 266: AN ACT relating to healthcare credentials eligible for the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund.

Amend KRS 164.0401 to add a speech-language pathology or audiology license to the definition of "eligible healthcare credential" for the purpose of the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund.

Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareAdds speech-language pathology/audiology licenses to fund-eligible credentials, expanding workforce investment in healthcare professionals per bill's purpose.92% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Healthcare

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 3, 2026

HB 184: AN ACT relating to health savings account-qualified insurance plans.

Create a new section of Subtitle 1 of KRS Chapter 304 to limit the application of cost-sharing requirements that would result in a health insurance policy, certificate, plan, or contract losing its health savings account-qualified status under federal law; create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to subject cost-sharing requirements in that chapter to applicability limitation; provide that applicability limitation applies to policies, certificates, plans, and contracts issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act; provide purpose of Section 1 of the Act; state the that Section 1 of the Act may be cited as the Health Savings Account State-Federal Regulatory Coordination Model Act.

Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcarePreserves HSA-qualified insurance status, supporting tax-advantaged healthcare savings access and maintaining coverage options.90% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Healthcare

signed · Kentucky · House Apr 3, 2026

HB 164: AN ACT relating to coverage for hearing aids and related services.

Amend KRS 304.17A-132 to modify the definition of "hearing aid"; increase the coverage amount for hearing aids from $1,400 to $2,500; establish network adequacy requirements relating to the provision of hearing aids and related services that are required to be covered; amend KRS 18A.225 to increase the cap on hearing aids and hearing aid-related services under the state employee health plan from $1,400 to $2,500; direct that the Act applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027.

Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareIncreases hearing aid coverage from $1,400 to $2,500 and mandates network adequacy for related services, expanding patient access to essential hearing care under health benefit plans.95% confidence | Rep's Stance ✓ Voted Yes ✓ Supports Healthcare

passed · Kentucky · House Mar 25, 2026

HB 583: AN ACT relating to the school-based Medicaid program.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require school districts that elect to provide health care services through a school nurse to bill the school-based Medicaid program for medically necessary services provided to a student enrolled in Medicaid; establish requirements for third-party Medicaid billing vendors contracted by school districts; permit school nurses to receive preventative dental services training from the Department for Public Health; permit the school district to bill the school-based Medicaid program for preventative dental services that are within a school nurse's scope of practice.

Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareRequires school districts to bill Medicaid for student services, ensuring reimbursement and expanding access to healthcare for Medicaid-eligible students.95% confidence | Rep's Stance Voted absent

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