Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Actuarial Analysis, Children And Minors, Effective Dates, Delayed, Health And Medical Services, Health Benefit Plan Mandate, Health Care Professionals, Insurance, Health, Local Mandate, State Employee Health Plan Mandate, State Employees
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-07 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
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.
Sponsors
- S. Heavrin (primary), primary
- G. Brown Jr. (primary), primary
- D. Grossberg (primary), primary
- DJ Johnson (primary), primary