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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 236: AN ACT relating to coverage for epinephrine devices.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 236 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on February 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to coverage for epinephrine devices. Most recent recorded action (March 12, 2025): to Appropriations & Revenue (S).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover epinephrine devices for covered persons; limit a covered person's cost-sharing amount to $100 annually; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exempt the epinephrine device coverage requirement from being suspended under state law due to the triggering of federal cost defrayment requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485,164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the epinephrine device coverage requirement; provide that various sections apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Department of Insurance to determine whether the epinephrine devices coverage requirement would be in addition to essential health benefits required under federal law; require the Department of Insurance to obtain federal approval, if necessary; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to obtain federal approval, if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
No sponsor recorded in source data.

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  2. to Committee on Committees (S)
  3. received in Senate
  4. 3rd reading, passed 88-0
  5. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 06, 2025
  6. reported favorably, to Rules
  7. returned to Banking & Insurance (H)
  8. 2nd reading
  9. taken from Banking & Insurance (H)
  10. returned to Banking & Insurance (H)
  11. 1st reading
  12. taken from Banking & Insurance (H)

Showing 12 most recent of 15 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source