HB 199 KY

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance requirements for centers; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; add requirement for medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, and 216.2970 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.

• J. Nemes Republican · primary
• K. Bratcher · primary
• S. Bratcher Republican · primary
• B. Chester-Burton Democratic · primary
• D. Fister Republican · primary
• D. Grossberg Democratic · primary
• J. Hodgson Republican · primary
• C. Massaroni Republican · primary
• R. Palumbo · primary
• M. Proctor Republican · primary
• S. Rawlings Republican · primary
• S. Stalker Democratic · primary
• L. Willner Democratic · primary

1. Jan 9, 2024 introduced in House · lower
2. Jan 9, 2024 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
3. Jan 18, 2024 to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H) · lower
4. Mar 6, 2024 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar · lower
5. Mar 7, 2024 2nd reading, to Rules · lower
6. Mar 22, 2024 floor amendment (1) filed · lower
7. Mar 25, 2024 floor amendment (2) filed · lower
8. Mar 25, 2024 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024 · lower
9. Mar 26, 2024 3rd reading, passed 69-25 with Floor Amendment (2) · lower
10. Mar 26, 2024 received in Senate · upper
11. Mar 26, 2024 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
12. Mar 26, 2024 taken from Committee on Committees (S) · upper
13. Mar 26, 2024 1st reading · lower
14. Mar 26, 2024 returned to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
15. Mar 27, 2024 taken from Committee on Committees (S) · upper
16. Mar 27, 2024 2nd reading · lower
17. Mar 27, 2024 returned to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
18. Mar 28, 2024 floor amendments (1), (2) and (3) filed · lower
19. Apr 15, 2024 recommitted to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H) · lower

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Current/Final · PDF
• Introduced · PDF