Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- upper
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Appropriations, Budget And Financial Administration, Drugs And Medicines, Effective Dates, Emergency, Funds, Opioids, Public Health, State Agencies
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-13 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; establish the ibogaine research and intellectual property fund to be administered by the Department of Agriculture for the purpose of allowing the department to enter a public-private partnership with a drug developer to conduct a clinical drug development trial or trials related to the use of ibogaine for the treatment of opioid use disorder, co-occurring substance use disorder, or any other neurological or mental health condition for which ibogaine demonstrates efficacy; establish requirements for the department related to how it contracts with a drug developer related to ibogaine research and intellectual property; appropriate $21 million from the opioid abatement trust fund to the ibogaine research and intellectual property development fund in fiscal year 2026-2027 and in fiscal year 2027-2028; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsors
- D. Douglas (primary), primary
- D. Carroll (primary), primary
- S. Funke Frommeyer (primary), primary
- S. Madon (primary), primary
- S. Rawlings (primary), primary
- A. Reed (primary), primary
- L. Tichenor (primary), primary