Kentucky
Explore the Kentucky records currently included in this collection. Coverage is not complete.
State Laws Database: 0 records
NHGRI database archive: 19 records
Status: 6 enacted or approved; 0 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Privacy (9) · Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (6) · Health Insurance Coverage (3)
Records in Kentucky
Showing 19 of 19; State Laws Database records appear first.
| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
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| Kentucky | 2021 State Bills Kentucky 2021 HB 11NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Establishes health-status eligibility rules for health benefit plans in any market. Prohibits requiring a greater premium or contribution, or different benefits coverage, on the basis of any health status-related factor, including genetic information. Prohibits pre-existing condition exclusions. Prohibits adjustment of premium or contribution amounts for group health plans on the basis of genetic information. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2021 State Bills Kentucky 2021 HB 27NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Topics | Died | Requires a health facility that provides perinatal care to provide each patient, upon admission or as soon thereafter as reasonably practical, written information regarding the patient's rights, including the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of genetic information. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2020 State Bills Kentucky 2020 HB 138NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Topics | Died | Requires a health facility that provides perinatal care inform each patient, upon admission regarding the patient's right to to be free of discrimination on the basis of various factors, including genetic information. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2020 State Bills Kentucky 2020 HB 21NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Amends language pertaining to pre-existing condition exclusions in group health insurance. Prohibits group health benefit plan coverage from adjusting premium or contribution amounts for a group covered under the plan on the basis of genetic information. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2020 State Bills Kentucky 2020 HB 496NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Other Topics | Died | Permits a patient to request and receive results of his or her genetic or genetic-related tests. Requires results of genetic or genetic-related tests to be reported and transmitted to a patient who requested the test. Permits a medical laboratory to collect a specimen from a patient for a genetic or genetic-related test requested by the patient. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2020 State Bills Kentucky 2020 SB 116NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Establishes the parent's bill of rights. Requirements set forth in the bill include parental written consent before any record of a minor child's blood or DNA is made, shared or stored unless required by law or court order. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2019 State Bills Kentucky 2019 SB 152NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Creates a parent's right to consent in writing before any record of the minor child�s blood or deoxyribonucleic acid is created, stored, or shared, unless authorized pursuant to a court order or an ongoing criminal investigation. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2019 State Bills Kentucky 2019 SB 30NHGRI archive2019 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Enacted | Requires health benefit plans to cover any genetic test for cancer risk recommended by a physician, physician's assistant, genetic counselor or nurse if the recommendation is consistent with genetic testing guidelines of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Signed by the Governor on May 19, 2019. Effective January 1, 2020. |
| Kentucky | 2018 State Bills Kentucky 2018 HB 188NHGRI archive2018 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Requires certain information holders to encrypt personally identifiable data, which is defined to include a genetic print. Information holders must report a breach of personally identifiable information to consumers. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2018 State Bills Kentucky 2018 SB 33NHGRI archive2018 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Requires certain information holders to encrypt personally identifiable data, which is defined to include a genetic print. Information holders must report a breach of personally identifiable information to consumers. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2017 State Bills Kentucky 2017 HB 483NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Makes technical changes to state statutes that prohibit the use of pre-existing condition exclusions based on genetic information. Clarifies that the prohibition applies to all insurers that offer any health benefit plan coverage. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2017 State Bills Kentucky 2017 SB 59NHGRI archive2017 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Any agency that collects, maintains, or stores personal information that determines or is notified of a security breach relating to personal information collected, maintained, or stored by the agency or by a nonaffiliated third party on behalf of the agency must take specified actions. Personal information includes a genetic print or image. Agencies covered under the law include the executive branch of state government, local government and public educational institutions. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2014 State Bills Kentucky 2014 HB 190NHGRI archive2014 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Died | Establishes mandated coverage requirements of genetic testing for mutations of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes for insured who are at risk of breast cancer or ovarian cancer or who have been diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer under the age of forty. Died. |
| Kentucky | 2014 State Bills Kentucky 2014 HB 5NHGRI archive2014 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Enacted | The bills governs the use of personal information by state institutions. The definition of personal information includes a biometric or genetic print. Signed by the Governor on April 10, 2014. |
| Kentucky | 2010 State Bills Kentucky 2010 SB 155NHGRI archive2010 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Privacy | Died | This bill prohibits the adjustment of premium or contribution amounts based on genetic information; prohibits an insurer from requesting or requiring a genetic test of a member unless made pursuant to the Common Rule, equivalent federal regulations or any applicable administrative regulation for the protection of human subjects in research; prohibits the use of genetic information for underwriting purposes; prohibits the request, requirement, or purchase of genetic information by an insurer prior to an individual's enrollment under a plan; precludes insurers from requiring genetic information for eligibility for health insurance in the individual market; and prohibits the use of genetic information for the purpose of imposing any pre-existing condition exclusion. Measure failed. |
| Kentucky | State StatuteKentucky: KRS 304.12-085NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination, Privacy | Statute | Individual or group health benefit plan or insurers may not (1) deny, cancel, or refuse to renew the benefits or coverage, or vary the premiums, terms, or conditions for the benefits or coverage, for any participant or beneficiary based on a genetic test for which symptoms have not manifested or a request or receipt of genetic services or (2) disclose any genetic test without prior authorization for each disclosure. A group or individual health benefit plan or insurer or a disability income insurer may not request or require the disclosure of any genetic test about a participant or beneficiary without prior written authorization for each disclosure. |
| Kentucky | State StatuteKentucky: KRS 304.17A-200 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | An insurer that offers health benefit plan coverage in the small group, large group, or association market may not establish rules for eligibility based on health status-related factors, including genetic information. Health insurers offering individual health benefit plan coverage may not impose a pre-existing conditions exclusion based on genetic information in the absence of a diagnosis. |
| Kentucky | State StatuteKentucky: KRS 304.17A-259NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Coverage | Statute | Requires health benefit plans to cover any genetic test for cancer risk recommended by a physician, physician's assistant, genetic counselor or nurse if the recommendation is consistent with genetic testing guidelines of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. |
| Kentucky | State StatuteKentucky: KRS 61.931 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Privacy | Statute | Public agencies and nonaffiliated third parties must implement, maintain, and update security procedures and practices to safeguard personal information, including a biometric or genetic print. |