HB 49

Bill Subjects

Effective Dates, Emergency Health And Medical Services Hospitals And Nursing Homes Insurance, Health Medicaid Nurses Optometrists Personnel And Employment Pharmacists Physicians And Practitioners Public Health Short Titles And Popular Names State Agencies

Abstract

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.