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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 132: AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of health care professionals and declaring an emergency.

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

SB 132 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky Senate on February 11, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of health care professionals and declaring an emergency. 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.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against health care professionals who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant health care professionals the right not to participate in services that violate their conscience; exempt health care professionals from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit hiring or licensing authorities from reprimanding health care professionals; require hiring or licensing authorities to provide complaints it has received to health care professionals; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations; provide that the Act may be cited as the Health Care Heroes Recruitment and Retention Act; EMERGENCY.

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. floor amendments (1), (2-title) and (3) filed
  3. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
  4. to Health Services (H)
  5. to Committee on Committees (H)
  6. received in House
  7. passed 26-6
  8. Floor Amendment (1) and Floor Amendment (2-title) withdrawn
  9. 3rd reading
  10. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 07, 2025
  11. floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed
  12. 2nd reading, to Rules

Showing 12 most recent of 17 actions. Full history

Sources

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