HB837 • 2026

AN ACT relating to health services.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: N. Tate
Last action: 2026-03-10
Official status: 03/10/26: to Health Services (H)
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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AN ACT relating to health services.

What This Bill Does

AN ACT relating to health services.

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Bill History

2026-03-10 Kentucky Legislative Research Commission
to Health Services (H)
2026-03-03 Kentucky Legislative Research Commission
introduced in House to Committee on Committees (H)

Official Summary Text

AN ACT relating to health services.

Current Bill Text

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AN ACT relating to health services. 1
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 2
Section 1. KRS 216.313 is amended to read as follows: 3
As used in KRS 216.310 to 216.360: 4
(1) "Hospital" means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of 5
facilities for the diagnosis, treatment, or care, for more than twenty -four (24) hours, 6
of two (2) or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, 7
deformity, or a place including nursing and convalescent homes and all institutions 8
for the care of the sick, devoted primarily to providing, for more than twenty -four 9
(24) hou rs, obstetrical or other medical or nursing care for two (2) or more 10
nonrelated individuals; 11
(2) "District" means hospital district; 12
(3) "Board" means the governing body of a hospital district; 13
(4) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or 14
his or her designee; and 15
(5) "Medical service area" means the geographic territory from which patients come or 16
are expected to come to existing or proposed health facilities a s defined by the 17
Cabinet for Health and Family Services. 18