AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of health care 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 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.
2025 Regular Session
A health care professional or health care institution shall have the right to refuse to participate in any health care service which violates his, her, or its conscience. (2) A health care professional or health care institution shall not be liable civilly, criminally, or administratively for exercising his, her, or its right of conscience with respect to a health care service.
A health care professional or health care institution shall not be subject to discrimination in any manner by the Commonwealth, any of its political subdivisions, or any regulated health care entity as a result of his, her, or its decision to decline to participate in a health care service on the basis of conscience.
| date | time | type | location | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-12 | 12:00 | Hearing | Annex Room 169 | House Committee On Health Services |
| 2025-03-03 | 10:00 | Hearing | Annex Room 149 | Senate Committee On Health Services |
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2025-03-11 | to Health Services (H) |
| 2025-03-07 | 3rd reading |
| 2025-03-07 | Floor Amendment (1) and Floor Amendment (2-title) withdrawn |
| 2025-03-07 | passed 26-6 |
| 2025-03-07 | received in House |
| 2025-03-07 | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2025-03-05 | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2025-03-05 | floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed |
| 2025-03-05 | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 07, 2025 |
| 2025-03-04 | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
| 2025-03-04 | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 06, 2025 |
| 2025-02-13 | to Health Services (S) |
| 2025-02-11 | introduced in Senate |
| 2025-02-11 | to Committee on Committees (S) |