Sen. Don Douglas

Create the Certificate of Need (CON) Task Force to review the CON program; review the need to maintain or modify each health facility and service covered by CON; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit any findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2023.

Recognize the record number of women legislators elected to the 2023 General Assembly.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Kentucky all-payer claims database; establish purposes, definitions, and a restricted fund for the database; require the executive director of the Office of Data Analytics to develop, implement, operate, and maintain the database and promulgate administrative regulations to carry out those duties; establish an advisory council to make recommendations to the executive director; establish requirements for database administration and operations; require state-regulated health payers to report to the database; amend KRS 194A.030, 194A.101, and 304.2-100 to conform; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to enforce reporting requirements; establish time for making initial appointments and provide for staggered appointments to the advisory council; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to obtain a federal waiver within 90 days after the effective date of Act if necessary for implementation; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 315.010 to remove reference to protocols authorized by the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy from the definition of "prescription drug order."

Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to prohibit insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other administrators of pharmacy benefits from imposing certain requirements on health plan insureds; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish prohibited practices for pharmacy benefit managers; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service benefit plans, including limited health service contracts, and limited health service organizations; establish when legislation applies to health plans and contracts; provide that provisions of this Act shall be severable; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2024.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to prohibit any agency, department, division, cabinet, or branch of state government from using appropriated funds for purchases of personal gifts, novelty items, souvenirs, trinkets, or promotional items that market, advertise, or promote any administrative body of the Commonwealth.

Recognize April as Deaf Education Month in the Commonwealth and the Kentucky School for the Deaf's two centuries of outstanding service to the Commonwealth.

Amend KRS 56.580 to prohibit closing portions of Capital Avenue in Frankfort; provide exceptions for emergency personnel.

Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to submit a state plan amendment application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services no later than November 1, 2023, to establish an assisted living community services option in the Commonwealth's Medicaid state plan.

Honor the celebration of Black History Month.