We are one month into the 2022 Legislative Session and there is a lot happening! Please see below for a list of bills we are tracking so far.

Bills Filed

House Bill 27: This bill proposes to define "feminine hygiene products"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of feminine hygiene products; apply to sales or purchases made on or after August 1, 2022.
Sponsor: Scott, A. and Roberts, R.
Current Status: Introduced
House Bill 35: This bill proposes to provide Medicaid coverage for lactation support services and breastfeeding equipment.
Sponsor: Scott, A.
Current Status: Introduced
House Bill 37: This bill proposes to expand the scope of the legislative intent and findings; create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; require licensed health facilities under KRS Chapter 216B to provide each patient with written information regarding the patient's rights and implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health providers involved in the perinatal care of patients within those facilities; require the Department for Public Health to track data on maternal death and severe morbidity.
Sponsor: Scott, A.
Current Status: Introduced
House Bill 38: This bill proposes to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
Sponsor: Scott, A.
Current Status: Introduced
House Bill 39: This bill proposes to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; establish training and education requirements for doulas; permit the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary.
Sponsor: Scott, A.
Current Status: Introduced
House Bill 72: This bill proposes to establish legislative findings; to provide every individual the right to choose or refuse contraception, sterilization, to carry a pregnancy to term, give birth to a child, or terminate a pregnancy.
Sponsor: Marzian, M., Willner, L.
Current Status: Introduced
House Bill 78: This bill proposes to allow use of leave time for parents to grieve the loss of a child under the age of one year.
Sponsor: Westrom, S.
Current Status: Introduced
House Bill 98: This bill proposes to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for testing and treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in pregnant women.
Sponsor: Stevenson, C.
Current Status: Introduced
House Bill 173: This bill proposes to require Medicaid to cover behavioral health services for eligible pregnant women for 12 months postpartum; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to request federal authorization for a waiver if necessary.
Sponsor: Cantrell, M.
Current Status: Introduced
House Bill 174: This bill proposes to extend Medicaid eligibility for certain new mothers for up to 12 months postpartum; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek a federal waiver or other approval if they determine that such waiver or approval is necessary.
Sponsor: Cantrell, M.
Current Status: Introduced
House Bill 324: Relating to performance of an abortion upon a minor, to require the informed written consent of a parent or legal guardian to include a copy of that parent's or legal guardian's government-issued identification and parent's or legal guardian's documentation.
Sponsor: Prunty, M.
Current Status: Introduced
Senate Bill 123: To require a hospital or abortion provider to inform the parents about their right to determine the final disposition of the fetal remains after a spontaneous miscarriage or abortion; make parents electing a disposition method other than the customary method for that facility responsible for the costs of disposition; require the abortion provider or hospital to provide for final disposition of the fetal remains if the parents decline or do not make a determination, require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate a form through administrative regulation to document specified information for each spontaneous miscarriage or abortion; amend KRS 367.97501 to add fetal remains to the definition of "human remains," and exclude from the definition of "pathological waste."
Sponsor: Southworth, A.
Current Status: Introduced
Action to Take
We encourage you to be in touch with your legislators daily to demand an end to the attacks on reproductive healthcare. Please call the legislative message line daily at 1-800-372-7181 to register your disapproval with your legislators on these pieces of legislation. All you need to know is your address. You can reference the bill numbers listed above.

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