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KNA ACTION ALERT

Posted about 5 years ago

We need your voice in Frankfort!

Call 1-800-372-7181 with these important messages, Thursday and Friday morning:

To YOUR Senators/All Senators –

MESSAGE - Please pass SB 132 with Amendment #3 to improve health care access for all Kentuckians.

To Rep. Kim Moser, House Leadership and YOUR representative –

MESSAGE - Please post SB 65 in the Health & Family Services Committee and give it a hearing.

To YOUR Representative and All Representatives –

MESSAGE - Please pass SB 1 with Amendment #1 to give local schools choice and provide mental health professionals to meet the needs of students.

MESSAGE - Please pass HB 1 as filed to provide a healthy environment for Kentucky students and teachers.

ABOUT THE BILLS:

SB 132 – which would remove the Collaborative Agreement for Prescriptive Authority for Controlled Substances (CAPA-CS) for APRNs after 4 years – has been waiting for a vote by the full Senate.  Senate President Stivers has proposed Floor Amendment #3 to the bill.   This amendment would require a CAPA-CS for Schedule II prescribing (exceptions made by psychostimulants and for patients in hospice or palliative care).  While the amendment diminishes some of what we would like to achieve, passage of SB 132 with Floor Amendment 3 would still be a win for APRNs and for the patients that they serve.  We need to get the bill voted on with amendment #3.

SB 65 – which would create a Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Task Force with a hospice nurse on it – has passed the Senate and is waiting for action in the House Health & Family Services Committee.  We need to get it going!

SB 1 – School Safety & Resiliency Act – is waiting for action on the House Floor.  Rep. Marzian has filed Floor Amendment #1 to the bill, assuring that all licensed mental health professionals (including psych nurses and APRNs) could be hired by schools to be a part of the trauma-informed team.  We want SB 1 to pass with amendment #1.

HB 1 – which would make all Kentucky public schools (kindergarten through 12th grade) smoke-free.  Some amendments have been filed to the bill which would dilute its effect.  We want HB 1 passed as filed.


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