AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of medical professionals and declaring an emergency.
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 medical care providers who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant providers the right not to participate in or pay for services that violate their conscience; exempt providers from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit the State Board of Medical Licensure from reprimanding medical practitioners and require the board to provide complaints it has received to medical practitioners; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations; provide that the Act may be cited as the Healthcare Heroes Recruitment and Retention Act; EMERGENCY.
2024 Regular Session
A medical practitioner, health care institution, or health care payer shall have the right to not participate in or pay for any health care service which violates his, her, or its conscience. A health care payer shall not decline to pay for a medical procedure or service it is contractually obligated to pay for under the terms of its contract with an insured party.
A medical practitioner, health care institution, or health care payer shall not be liable civilly, criminally, or administratively for exercising his, her, or its right of conscience with respect to a health care service.
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2024-01-02 | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-01-02 | introduced in House |