Healthcare laws and bills in Kentucky

Every bill in the Kentucky Legislature that falls inside the Healthcare Legislation Tracker's scope, with where each one currently stands.

Bills in scope
178bills in scope
Past committee
61past committee
Most recent action
15 April 2026most recent action

Healthcare laws enacted in Kentucky in 2026

The 23 most recent Healthcare bills enacted in Kentucky this year are below, the latest with a last action on 14 April 2026. They lead the list below.

Healthcare bills in Kentucky

33Enacted

28Past committee

117Introduced or inactive

178 bills in scope

Enacted

25 of 33 shown

HB 500AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.EnactedHB 2AN ACT relating to Medicaid, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.EnactedSB 173AN ACT relating to legislative oversight of the Medicaid state plan and declaring an emergency.EnactedHB 676AN ACT relating to the Kentucky statewide health data utility.EnactedHB 169AN ACT relating to coverage for feeding or eating disorders.EnactedHB 176AN ACT relating to prior authorization.EnactedHB 178AN ACT relating to the psychiatric collaborative care model.EnactedHB 236AN ACT relating to medical services.EnactedHB 689AN ACT relating to the establishment of a Medicaid state-directed payment program.EnactedHB 776AN ACT relating to health care services and declaring an emergency.EnactedSCR 9A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to conduct a feasibility study for an Accountable Communities for Health Medicaid delivery model pilot project.EnactedHB 280AN ACT relating to health care and declaring an emergency.EnactedHB 424AN ACT relating to social work.EnactedHB 470AN ACT relating to behavioral health services and declaring an emergency.EnactedSB 116AN ACT relating to physician assistants.EnactedSB 137AN ACT relating to a provisional license to practice medicine.EnactedSB 18AN ACT relating to health services.EnactedHB 388AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.EnactedHB 48AN ACT relating to physical therapy.EnactedHB 510AN ACT relating to organ donation safety.EnactedHB 527AN ACT relating to insurance regulatory requirements and declaring an emergency.EnactedSB 97AN ACT relating to coverage for prostheses and orthoses.EnactedHB 36AN ACT relating to interstate licensure compacts.EnactedHB 501AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drugs.EnactedHB 305AN ACT relating to health care.Enacted

Showing the 25 furthest along of 178. Subscribers see all of them, filtered and searchable. Bill titles link to the Kentucky Legislature's own page.

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What counts as Healthcare Legislation legislation

In scope is any bill on the delivery, financing and regulation of health care: coverage mandates, prior authorization and utilization review, Medicaid and state health programmes, hospital finance, licensure and staffing, scope of practice and interstate compacts, telehealth, prescription drugs and pharmacy benefit managers, surprise billing, price transparency and medical debt, behavioral health and substance use treatment, maternal health, long-term care and emergency medical services.

Tracker scopes are model-drafted, not attorney-reviewed.

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