KentuckyAN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of health care professionals and declaring an emergency.
What it does
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against health care professionals who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant health care professionals the right not to participate in services that violate their conscience; exempt health care professionals from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit hiring or licensing authorities from reprimanding health care professionals; require hiring or licensing authorities to provide complaints it has received to health care professionals; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations; provide that the Act may be cited as the Health Care Heroes Recruitment and Retention Act; EMERGENCY.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Mar 132nd reading, to RulesLatest
- Mar 12floor amendments (1), (2-title) and (3) filed
- Mar 12reported favorably, 1st reading, to CalendarMinor
- Mar 11to Health Services (H)Minor
- Mar 7to Committee on Committees (H)Minor
- Vote recorded PASS SB 132. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 7received in House
- Mar 7passed 26-6Passed Senate
- Mar 7Floor Amendment (1) and Floor Amendment (2-title) withdrawn
- Mar 73rd readingMinor
- Mar 5posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 07, 2025
- Mar 5floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filedMinor
- Mar 52nd reading, to RulesMinor
- Mar 4posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 06, 2025
- Mar 4reported favorably, 1st reading, to CalendarMinor
- Feb 13to Health Services (S)Minor
- Feb 11to Committee on Committees (S)Minor
- Feb 11introduced in SenateIntroduced