---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to heart attack response and treatment."
description: "Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health to establish and implement a plan for achieving continuous quality improvement in the quality of care provided under a statewide system for heart attack response and treatment; require the department to designate licensed hospitals as Comprehensive Cardiac Centers, Primary Heart Attack Centers, or Acute Heart Attack Ready hospitals; amend KRS 311A.180 to expand the protocols of emergency medical services providers to include trauma, cardiac arrest, and heart attack."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2022RS"
identifier: "HB 512"
citation: "Kentucky HB 512 (2022RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Medical Services", "Health and Medical Services", "Public Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Meade"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-08T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a148039-1274-494a-8a88-6ec2c5b54c7a"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb512.html"
source_hash: "3f12d3d8daddae842ed6b2bd759cc7f7819f7874096de1b2a4021df7aac507cb"
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 512 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to heart attack response and treatment.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health to establish and implement a plan for achieving continuous quality improvement in the quality of care provided under a statewide system for heart attack response and treatment; require the department to designate licensed hospitals as Comprehensive Cardiac Centers, Primary Heart Attack Centers, or Acute Heart Attack Ready hospitals; amend KRS 311A.180 to expand the protocols of emergency medical services providers to include trauma, cardiac arrest, and heart attack.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/hb512/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 115** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/22RS/documents/0115.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/hb512/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Passage — **pass** (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 512 w/ scs1 — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Meade — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** to Health & Family Services (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 07, 2022
- **2022-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 92-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2022-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** to Health & Welfare (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Health & Welfare (S)
- **2022-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2022-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Health & Welfare (S)
- **2022-03-23T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) as a consent bill `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 25, 2022
- **2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 34-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** passed 95-0 `passage`
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2022-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 115) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a148039-1274-494a-8a88-6ec2c5b54c7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).