Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Civil Actions, Corrections Impact, Crimes And Punishments, Drugs And Medicines, Health And Medical Services, Licensing, State Agencies
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-02-13 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Amend KRS 218A.100 to place an abortion-inducing drug in Schedule IV; amend KRS 218A.1413 to include an abortion-inducing drug in the offense of trafficking in a controlled substance in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.1415 to include an abortion-inducing drug in the offense of possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, except when in the possession of a pregnant woman for her own personal use; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to establish the offense of importing an abortion-inducing drug amend KRS 216.302 to include providing any drug, medication, or other substance as a means of assisting another person to commit or attempt to commit suicide; increase the penalty from a Class D felony to a Class B felony when the act is done knowingly by force or duress and from a Class C to a Class B felony when a person knowingly or intentionally provides the physical means or participates in a physical act by which another person commits or attempts suicide; create a new section of KRS 216.300 to 216.308 to establish the offense of medically assisted aid in dying as a Class B felony; amend KRS 216.308 to provide for the revocation of a license upon a criminal conviction or plea of guilty of assisted suicide or medically assisted aid in dying; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to provide a civil cause of action for any person who sustains damages resulting from receiving an abortion-inducing drug; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require the distribution of specified information to any patient who a physician or other healthcare provider believes is experiencing a complication as a result of taking an abortion-inducing drug; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make specified information available on its website.
Sponsors
- N. Tate (primary), primary
- T. Roberts (primary), primary
- S. Baker (primary), primary
- K. Banta (primary), primary
- J. Decker (primary), primary
- S. Doan (primary), primary
- R. Dotson (primary), primary
- D. Fister (primary), primary
- D. Gordon (primary), primary
- D. Hale (primary), primary
- J. Hodgson (primary), primary
- T. Huff (primary), primary
- K. King (primary), primary
- M. Lockett (primary), primary
- S. Maddox (primary), primary
- C. Massaroni (primary), primary
- K. Moser (primary), primary
- J. Nemes (primary), primary
- M. Proctor (primary), primary
- F. Rabourn (primary), primary
- T. Smith (primary), primary