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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 389: AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.

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 389 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on February 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. Most recent recorded action (March 13, 2025): 2nd reading, to Rules.

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.

Amend KRS 205.529, 218A.172, 218A.205, and 304.17A.165 to remove references to a Schedule III controlled substance containing hydrocodone; amend KRS 218A.010 to add optometrist and physician assistant to the definition of "practitioner" licensed in other states; amend KRS 218A.182 to exempt charitable health care practitioners from electronic prescription requirement; amend KRS 218A.202 to require an active account with the electronic monitoring system be maintained by practitioners or pharmacists prescribing or dispensing Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substances; amend KRS 218A.245 to permit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to enter reciprocal agreements or contracts with any federal agency of the United States or its territories.

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. 2nd reading, to Rules
  2. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
  3. to Health Services (S)
  4. to Committee on Committees (S)
  5. received in Senate
  6. 3rd reading, passed 90-4
  7. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 04, 2025
  8. 2nd reading, to Rules
  9. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
  10. to Health Services (H)
  11. to Committee on Committees (H)
  12. introduced in House

Sources

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