Title XVIII, Public Health

The General Assembly hereby finds and declares that congenital anomalies, stillbirths, and high risk conditions represent problems of significant health importance about which too little is known; that conditions of this nature lead to severe mental anguish on the part of parents…

promulgate administrative regulations. (1) The Department for Public Health shall establish and maintain a Kentucky birth surveillance registry that will provide a system for the collection of information concerning birth defects, stillbirths, and high-risk conditions. The system…

(1) All lists and medical records maintained by hospitals and medical laboratories pursuant to KRS 211.660 shall be confidential. All information collected and analyzed pursuant to KRS 211.660 shall be held confidential as to the identity of the individual patient. Staff of the c…

Safe Care assessment and process. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Department" means the Department for Community Based Services within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (b) "Plan of Safe Care" means a safety-focused and preventive plan developed and administered by th…

As used in KRS 211.672 to 211.678, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (2) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department for Public Health; (3) "Department" means the Department for Public Health; and (4…

All cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) diagnosed among Kentucky resident births shall be reported to the Kentucky Department for Public Health by the facility where NAS is diagnosed. The report shall be made at the time of NAS diagnosis pursuant to guidance issued by the…

of data regarding reports made relating to neonatal abstinence syndrome. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all information reported or furnished to the Kentucky Department for Public Health pursuant to KRS 211.672 to 211.678 shall be privileged and confidential, s…

72.029. The Kentucky General Assembly declares that the purpose of KRS 211.680 to 211.686 and KRS 72.029 is to reduce the number of child and maternal fatalities. The General Assembly finds that establishing priorities and developing programs to prevent child and maternal fatalit…

laws relating to coroners. The provisions of KRS 211.680 to 211.686 and KRS 72.029 shall not be interpreted to limit, restrict, or otherwise affect any power, authority, duty, or responsibility imposed by any other provisions of law upon any coroner, but rather shall be interpret…

of state maternal fatality review team -- Annual report on child and maternal fatalities to include demographics of race, ethnicity, and geography -- Privilege in civil actions. (1) For the purposes of KRS Chapter 211: (a) "Child fatality" means the death of a person under the ag…

- Confidentiality of team proceedings and records. (1) A local child fatality response team may be established in every county or group of contiguous counties by the coroner or coroners with jurisdiction in the county or counties. The local coroner may authorize the creation of a…

(1) As used in this section and KRS 211.690: (a) "Home visitation" means a service delivery strategy with voluntary participation of at-risk parents during the prenatal period and until the child's third birthday that provides visits by nurses, social workers, and other professio…

risk parents. (1) There is established within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services the Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) Program as a voluntary statewide home visitation program, for the purpose of providing assistance to at-risk parents during the prenat…

care, and control complications. The Department for Medicaid Services, the Department for Public Health, the Office of Health Data and Analytics, and the Personnel Cabinet shall collaborate to identify goals and benchmarks while also developing individual entity plans to reduce t…

The Department for Medicaid Services, the Department for Public Health, the Office of Health Data and Analytics, and the Personnel Cabinet shall submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by January 10 of each odd-numbered year on the following: (1) The financial impa…

programs to implement KRS 211.751 and 211.752. The requirements of KRS 211.751 and 211.752 shall be limited to the diabetes information, data, initiatives, and programs within each agency prior to June 8, 2011, unless there is unobligated funding for diabetes in each agency that …

restrict -- Interference prohibited. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, a mother may breast-feed her baby or express breast milk in any location, public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be. Breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk a…

remuneration -- Registration -- Administrative regulations -- Compliance checks -- Hearings. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Body piercing" means the act of penetrating the skin or body part of a human being to make a hole, mark, or scar; (b) "Facility" means the place of busin…

(1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall have the following functions, powers, and duties: (a) To conduct a survey of all of the existing facilities within the state having to do with the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of patients with kidney disease and to prep…

KRS 211.842 to 211.852 may be cited as the "Kentucky Radiation Control Act of 1978".

property. (1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services is the radiation control agency of the State of Kentucky. (2) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall issue licenses pertaining to radioactive materials and require registration of other sources of ionizing radiati…

license. The secretary for health and family services may, by administrative regulation, require licensees of radioactive materials to provide an adequate surety or other financial arrangement, in such amount as the secretary deems reasonably appropriate to cover potential cleanu…

(1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall provide by administrative regulation for the registration and licensing of the possession or use of any source of ionizing or electronic product radiation and the handling and disposal of radioactive waste. The cabinet may pres…

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall monitor radioactive waste material sites in Kentucky for the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare. The Finance and Administration Cabinet and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall cooperate and coordinate…

(1) The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall fix a reasonable schedule of fees and charges, by regulation, to be paid by applicants for registration of radiation-producing machines and radioactive material licenses and for renewal of the certificates and …

Whenever, in the opinion of the Attorney General or the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the person is violating or is about to violate any of the provisions of KRS 211.842 to 211.852, or any regulation lawfully promulgated pursuant thereto, the Attorney G…

Exception. (1) The location of a nuclear waste disposal facility in the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall require prior approval by a majority of the members of the Kentucky House of Representatives, a majority of the members of the Kentucky Senate, and the approval of the Governor …

United States attorney. (1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services may monitor the radiation in discharges into rivers along the Kentucky border from all nuclear power plants located on either side of such rivers for the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of the ci…

The Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact is approved in the form as follows: ARTICLE I POLICY AND PURPOSE There is created the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact. The states party to this compact recognize that the Congress of…

(1) The General Assembly finds: (a) That the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact was enacted by the State of Illinois and the Commonwealth of Kentucky to provide the instrument and framework for a cooperative effort, and to provide sufficient facilities…

As used in KRS 211.861 to 211.869, unless the compact requires otherwise: (1) "Commission" means the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission; (2) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (3) "Compact" means the Central Midwest Intersta…

Kentucky -- Prohibitions -- Exemption -- Regulation of TENORM. (1) Unless otherwise authorized by the commission: (a) After July 15, 1998, no person shall deposit at a facility in Kentucky any low-level radioactive waste not generated within the region; (b) After July 15, 1998, n…

(1) The cabinet shall promulgate administrative regulations to administer and enforce the provisions of KRS 211.861 to 211.869. The administrative regulations shall be promulgated with the consultation and cooperation of the commission. (2) Administrative regulations promulgated …

The cabinet may accept donations of money, equipment, supplies, materials, and services from any person for accomplishing the purposes of KRS 211.861 to 211.869. Any donation of money shall be deposited into the State Treasury and credited to a trust and agency fund to be used by…

(1) Any person who fails to comply with any provision of KRS 211.859 or 211.863, or with any administrative regulations promulgated pursuant to KRS 211.859 or 211.865, or fails to comply with any order of the cabinet issued pursuant to KRS 211.859 or KRS 211.863 and 211.865 shall…

It is the finding of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky that the original concept of shallow-land nuclear burial sites has not been met in Kentucky in that measurable amounts of radioactivity have been released to the surrounding environment from an existing nuc…

material (NORM) -- Required revision of administrative regulations to ensure proper management of oil- and gas-related wastes containing NORM -- Report to LRC. (1) The General Assembly finds that: (a) "Naturally occurring radioactive material" or "NORM" is a term defined in KRS 2…

disposal site -- Commonwealth policy as to sites or facilities -- Contracts or agreements with federal government. (1) The Governor, the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet or any other state agency shall no…

(1) Any nuclear waste disposal facility, licensed and regulated by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, which is closed either because there is doubt as to the public safety of the site, the integrity of the site, the economic feasibility of financing perpetual ca…

The Energy and Environment Cabinet shall proceed toward the stabilization and decommissioning of any nuclear waste facility owned by the Commonwealth on July 15, 1980, as expeditiously as is reasonably possible in order to place the facility in such a condition that active ongoin…

As used in KRS 211.900 to 211.905 and KRS 211.994, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Cabinet" shall mean the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (2) "Secretary" shall mean the secretary for health and family services or his authorized representative; (3) "Lead-based…

lead poisoning -- Duties of secretary -- Authorization of local regulations and programs. (1) The secretary shall establish a statewide program for the prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of lead poisoning, including identification of the sources of such poisoning thr…

reports to be indexed and analyzed -- Information to local organizations. (1) Every physician, nurse, hospital administrator, director of a clinical laboratory, or public health officer who receives information of the existence of any person found or suspected to have a two and t…

(1) Testing for lead poisoning shall be an eligible benefit for recipients of the Commonwealth's Medical Assistance Program. In addition, testing for lead poisoning shall be made available as part of the regular immunization program offered by the cabinet and shall be provided wi…

The secretary shall establish an educational program to inform parents, teachers, personnel of human resource agencies, owners of dwellings and dwelling units, health service personnel and the general public, of the dangers, frequency, and sources of lead poisoning and the method…

elevated lead blood level -- Procedure -- Duties of cabinet -- Effect. (1) When notified that an occupant of a dwelling or dwelling unit is a child seventy-two (72) months of age or younger found to have a confirmed elevated blood level, an authorized representative of the cabine…