Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Actuarial Analysis, Children And Minors, Education, Higher, Effective Dates, Delayed, Health And Medical Services, Health Benefit Plan Mandate, Insurance, Health, Local Mandate, Medicaid, Mental Health, State Agencies, State Employee Health Plan Mandate, State Employees
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-14 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings of an accompanying parent or legal guardian to be claimed as a service for the child as part of the early and periodic diagnostic, screening, and treatment benefit; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health plan to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings as part of a well-child or well-baby visit; suspend the coverage requirement for qualified health plans if the requirement results, or would result, in the state being required to defray the cost under federal law; amend KRS 164.2871 and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans offered by a state postsecondary education institution and the state employee health plan to comply with the perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings coverage requirement; provide that various sections apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to obtain federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes in the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1); EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027.
Sponsors
- A. Donworth (primary), primary
- A. Camuel (primary), primary
- T. Bojanowski (primary), primary
- B. Chester-Burton (primary), primary
- E. Hancock (primary), primary
- P. Stevenson (primary), primary
- J. Watkins (primary), primary