---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to organ donation. Amend KRS 311.1953 to require the medical examiner or coroner to release identifying information and relevant postmortem examination results to a procurement organization if a decedent's body or body part is medically suitable for transplantation or therapy; provide that Act may be known as Courtney's Law."
description: "AN ACT relating to organ donation. Amend KRS 311.1953 to require the medical examiner or coroner to release identifying information and relevant postmortem examination results to a procurement organization if a decedent's body or body part is medically suitable for transplantation or therapy; provide that Act may be known as Courtney's Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2018RS"
identifier: "HB 84"
citation: "Kentucky HB 84 (2018RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Moser", "L. Bechler", "M. Dossett", "M. Prunty", "R. Benvenuti III", "R. Palumbo"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-12-08"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ec80d04-54e4-40c4-a2d9-23ed7c0de41f"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB84.htm"
source_hash: "4486f9c5708c5b8b7a267334d85b587779bfede9f0c35dc0a640c2db93fdb156"
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 HB 84 (2018RS) — AN ACT relating to organ donation. Amend KRS 311.1953 to require the medical examiner or coroner to release identifying information and relevant postmortem examination results to a procurement organization if a decedent's body or body part is medically suitable for transplantation or therapy; provide that Act may be known as Courtney's Law.

## Version chain

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

1. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB84/bill.pdf)

## Sponsors

- K. Moser — primary (person)
- L. Bechler — primary (person)
- M. Dossett — primary (person)
- M. Prunty — primary (person)
- R. Benvenuti III — primary (person)
- R. Palumbo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-08** Prefiled by the sponsor(s).
- **2018-01-02** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-02** To Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H) `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-05** Posted in committee
- **2018-01-10** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar `reading-1`
- **2018-01-11** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2018-01-16** Posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 17, 2018
- **2018-01-17** Taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
- **2018-01-29** 3rd reading, passed 88-0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** Received in Senate
- **2018-01-31** To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S) `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2018-02-15** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 15, 2018
- **2018-02-15** 3rd reading, passed 33-0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-16** Received in House
- **2018-02-16** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2018-02-20** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2018-02-20** Delivered to Governor
- **2018-03-02** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 5) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ec80d04-54e4-40c4-a2d9-23ed7c0de41f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).