Rep. Robert Wiederstein
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District HD-011
Party Democrat
Bills Introduced 20
Sponsored Legislation
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Finance and Administration Cabinet to create an Evidence-Based Policymaking Task Force to study how state agencies collect and share data, and making an appropriation therefor. [HJR-9]
Direct the Finance and Administration Cabinet to create the Evidence-Based Policymaking Task Force to study how state agencies collect and share data; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Wiederstein
Posting Withdrawn on 01/14/2020
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AN ACT relating to elimination of the certificate of need and declaring an emergency. [HB-83]
Amend KRS 13B.020 to delete reference to certificate of need hearings; amend KRS 194A.010 to delete reference to the certificate of need and the state health plan; amend KRS 194A.030 to delete reference to the certificate of need; amend KRS 211.192 to correct a statutory citation; amend KRS 205.634 to delete requirement for certificate of need; amend KRS 216.361 to delete requirement for certificate of need; amend KRS 216.380 to delete requirement for certificate of need and reference to the state health plan; amend KRS 216.560 to correct a statutory
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Wiederstein
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to create a task force on neonatal intensive care units. [HCR-6]
Create the Using the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Wisely Task Force to study and make recommendations related to the utilization, effectiveness, and cost of Kentucky's Neonatal Intensive Care Units; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least three times during the 2020 interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2020.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Wiederstein
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to low-volume surgery requirements. [HB-144]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to establish a low-volume surgery requirement and registry for hospitals and surgeons in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Wiederstein
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to enact the Lower Health Care Costs Act. [HCR-4]
Urge the United States Congress to enact the Lower Health Care Costs Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Wiederstein
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient safety by requiring Kentucky hospitals to annually survey employees regarding patient safety culture and practices with the results to be publicly reported on a Web site maintained by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. [HB-74]
Create a new section of KRS 216.2920 to 216.2929 to require all hospitals to annually survey employees on patient safety culture; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to design, collect, analyze, and publish survey data; list requirements for the survey design; list requirements for the survey content; require the survey design to be completed by October 30, 2020, and the survey results to be made available by June 30 each year beginning with June 30, 2021, on the cabinet's Web site and reported to the Interim Joint Committee on Health,
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to maternal health. [HB-138]
Amend KRS 211.680 to expand the scope of the legislative intent and findings; amend KRS 211.684 and KRS 211.686 to require the existence of the state and local child and maternal fatality review teams; create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to require licensed health facilities under KRS Chapter 216B to provide each patient with written information regarding the patient's rights; define terms; require health facilities licensed under KRS 216B to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health providers involved in the perinatal
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to physician employment contracts. [HB-86]
Create a new section of KRS 311.530 to 311.620 to make non-compete provisions in physician and osteopath employment contracts void and unenforceable, except in limited circumstances when the contract is for the sale of a practice or for employment as a faculty member at a medical school.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to legislative accountability by providing for the expanded use of cost estimates, a regulatory impact assessment of pending legislation, and the limitation of bill introductions during a regular session. [HB-63]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 6 to define "fiscal note," "machine-readable," and "regulatory burden"; establish requirements for fiscal notes; allow the waiver of the fiscal note requirements; establish responsibilities of the Legislative Research Commission in regard to fiscal notes; allow for the validity of any measure duly passed by the legislature even if fiscal note or bill limit requirements are not met; create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to establish bill filing limitations for regular sessions and allow exemptions; amend various
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Sponsored by: Rep. Maria Sorolis
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to corporal punishment in schools. [HB-22]
Create a new section of KRS 158.440 to 158.449 to define "corporal punishment"; prohibit a person employed by a school district from using corporal physical discipline; amend KRS 158.444 to remove corporal punishment as a form of discipline in a school; amend KRS 503.110 to remove the exception that permitted the use of physical force by a teacher against a minor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Floor Amendment (2) Filed on 03/18/2020