Health News
- Medical-marijuana Bill Clears House Committee; Cannabis-oil Bill, More Likely To Pass Into Law, Goes To Full Senate
A bill to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky passed the Kentucky Health House and Welfare Committee Thursday, but whether the issue will come up for a vote in front of the full House was unclear. Meanwhile, the Senate is moving a bill that would allow...
- State House Panel Approves Bills To Require Hpv Vaccinations Of Boys And Girls And Ban Use Of Tanning Beds By Children
The state House Health and Welfare Committee approved two bills Thursday to require that boys and girls to be vaccinated for the human papilloma virus before sixth grade and to generally ban use of tanning beds for those under 18. HPV causes cervical...
- State House Panel Oks Bill To Regulate E-cigarettes In Ky.
Electronic cigarettes would be regulated as tobacco products in Kentucky under a bill that the House Licensing and Occupations Committee approved Wednesday. HouseBill 309, sponsored by Rep. Joni Jenkins, D-Shively, would include the relatively new product...
- House Judiciary Committee Approves Two Bills To Curb Synthetic, Rx Drug Abuse
Cracking down on drugs is one of the most pressing topics of the 2012 General Assembly, and lawmakers showed they were serious about it this afternoon. (Associated Press photo by Ed Reinke of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Tilley, D-Hopkinsville)...
- Board For Nursing-home Administrators Wants A Law To Let It Issue Secret Admonitions; Bill Is In Jeopardy
A bill that was introduced late and got a fast start, but has hit speed bumps and maybe a roadblock, would allow the Kentucky Board of Licensure for Nursing Home Administrators to admonish them in secret without the action being "considered a disciplinary...
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Abortion bills die in House Health and Welfare Committee
Four bills that would have made it more difficult to have an abortion in Kentucky won't make it past the House Health and Welfare Committee.
House Bill 390 and House Bill 215 would have prohibited a woman from having abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy except in emergency cases; House Bill 374 would have required that a woman wanting an abortion meet with a doctor in person; and House Bill 243 "would have stopped a minor from another state from petitioning a court to receive an abortion if she does not have the permission of a parent," the Lexington Herald Leader's Beth Musgrave reports.
Republican Rep. David Floyd of Bardstown, left, sponsored three of the bills, but did not attend the meeting. "He had three bills, and he didn't have the guts to show up to defend his bills," committee chairman Tom Burch, D-Louisville.
Floyd said the bills should be considered by the Judiciary Committee, not the Health and Welfare, committee. "They devise the committee specifically to kill any pro-life bill," Floyd said of the health committee. The panel includes 10 Democrats and six Republicans. They voted along party lines. (Read more)
- Medical-marijuana Bill Clears House Committee; Cannabis-oil Bill, More Likely To Pass Into Law, Goes To Full Senate
A bill to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky passed the Kentucky Health House and Welfare Committee Thursday, but whether the issue will come up for a vote in front of the full House was unclear. Meanwhile, the Senate is moving a bill that would allow...
- State House Panel Approves Bills To Require Hpv Vaccinations Of Boys And Girls And Ban Use Of Tanning Beds By Children
The state House Health and Welfare Committee approved two bills Thursday to require that boys and girls to be vaccinated for the human papilloma virus before sixth grade and to generally ban use of tanning beds for those under 18. HPV causes cervical...
- State House Panel Oks Bill To Regulate E-cigarettes In Ky.
Electronic cigarettes would be regulated as tobacco products in Kentucky under a bill that the House Licensing and Occupations Committee approved Wednesday. HouseBill 309, sponsored by Rep. Joni Jenkins, D-Shively, would include the relatively new product...
- House Judiciary Committee Approves Two Bills To Curb Synthetic, Rx Drug Abuse
Cracking down on drugs is one of the most pressing topics of the 2012 General Assembly, and lawmakers showed they were serious about it this afternoon. (Associated Press photo by Ed Reinke of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Tilley, D-Hopkinsville)...
- Board For Nursing-home Administrators Wants A Law To Let It Issue Secret Admonitions; Bill Is In Jeopardy
A bill that was introduced late and got a fast start, but has hit speed bumps and maybe a roadblock, would allow the Kentucky Board of Licensure for Nursing Home Administrators to admonish them in secret without the action being "considered a disciplinary...