---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to health care providers. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define \"direct primary care membership agreement\"; establish conditions for services under a direct primary care membership agreement; exempt from KRS Chapter 304."
description: "AN ACT relating to health care providers. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define \"direct primary care membership agreement\"; establish conditions for services under a direct primary care membership agreement; exempt from KRS Chapter 304."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2017RS"
identifier: "SB 79"
citation: "Kentucky SB 79 (2017RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47700455-af9d-40d3-a163-f2547616aa8f"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/SB79.htm"
source_hash: "e8270cfd6ba8941be3656cd857122b4952e2d52264b459f203bd6aa2c828f383"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---

# Kentucky SB 79 (2017RS) — AN ACT relating to health care providers. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define "direct primary care membership agreement"; establish conditions for services under a direct primary care membership agreement; exempt from KRS Chapter 304.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HCS1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB79/HCS1.pdf)
2. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB79/bill.pdf)
3. **SB 79 (As Introduced)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB79/orig_bill.pdf)
4. **SCS1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB79/SCS1.pdf)
5. **SFA1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB79/SFA1.pdf)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2017-01-07** To Health & Welfare (S) `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-02-15** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 15, 2017
- **2017-02-15** 3rd reading, passed 35-1 with Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1) `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-16** Received in House
- **2017-02-21** To Health and Family Services (H) `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Posted in committee
- **2017-02-23** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute `reading-1`
- **2017-02-24** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2017-02-24** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017
- **2017-03-06** 3rd reading, passed 85-6 with Committee Substitute `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-06** Received in Senate
- **2017-03-07** To Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute on Tuesday, March 7, 2017
- **2017-03-07** Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute
- **2017-03-07** Bill passed 37-1
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2017-03-07** Delivered to Governor
- **2017-03-17** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 25) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47700455-af9d-40d3-a163-f2547616aa8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).