AN ACT relating to administrative regulations for medications for substance use disorder and declaring an emergency.

This bill would strike down two existing state regulations and prevent Kentucky's medical licensing boards from creating rules that limit how doctors, dentists, nurses, and pharmacists can prescribe or dispense certain medications used to treat substance use disorder, including buprenorphine. It is filed as an emergency measure, meaning it would take effect immediately if signed into law. The goal is to remove regulatory barriers that the bill finds unlawfully restrict access to FDA-approved treatment medications. Who it may affect: Kentuckians seeking treatment for substance use disorder, as well as physicians, dentists, nurses, and pharmacists who prescribe or dispense these medications.

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