AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of health care professionals and declaring an emergency.

Short title: Health Care Heroes Recruitment and Retention Act

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against health care professionals who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant health care professionals the right not to participate in services that violate their conscience; exempt health care professionals from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit hiring or licensing authorities from reprimanding health care…

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This bill would protect health care professionals in Kentucky who refuse to perform medical procedures that conflict with their personal conscience or beliefs, shielding them from job penalties, licensing consequences, and legal liability for those refusals. It also gives health care workers the right to see any complaints filed against them with employers or licensing boards, and allows them to sue if those rights are violated. The bill includes an emergency clause, meaning it would…

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