Summary of Original Version

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on perinatal palliative care; make technical corrections; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Part II Act; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans issued, renewed, effective, or delivered on or after January 1, 2025; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.

Summary of Amendment: House Floor Amendment 1 -- A. Camuel

Summary Amend by deleting the definition of "baby"; replacing the word "baby" with "fetus"; effective January 1, 2025.

Summary of Amendment: House Floor Amendment 2 -- R. Roarx

Summary Amend by deleting the reference to pregnancy termination.

Summary of Amendment: House Floor Amendment 3 -- L. Burke

Summary Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define "fatal fetal anomaly"; permit a physician to terminate a pregnancy if the pregnancy is complicated by a fatal fetal anomaly; delete short title; provide that the new section may be cited as Ezra's Law.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 205.522, 205.6485