Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- upper
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Civil Actions, Effective Dates, Emergency, Local Mandate, Medicaid, Nurses, Optometrists, Personnel And Employment, Pharmacists, Public Health, Short Titles And Popular Names, State Agencies
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-12 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
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.
Sponsors
- D. Douglas (primary), primary
- G. Boswell (primary), primary
- G. Elkins (primary), primary
- R. Mills (primary), primary
- M. Nunn (primary), primary
- S. Rawlings (primary), primary
- G. Williams (primary), primary
- M. Wise (primary), primary