---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to organ donation safety."
description: "Create a new section of Chapter 311 to define terms; establish conditions and processes for pause in procedure for an organ donation; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to implement and enforce the pause in procedure requirements; establish that the provisions should not be construed to conflict with KRS 446.400, discourage ethical organ donation, interfere with independent end-of-life decision making, conflict with the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, or authorize the Commonwealth to affect the federal certification, designation, or service area of an organ procurement organization; require the cabinet to submit report on pause in procedures to the Legislative Research Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2026RS"
identifier: "HB 510"
citation: "Kentucky HB 510 (2026RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Regulations And Proceedings", "Deaths", "Health And Medical Services", "Health Care Professionals", "Hospitals And Health Facilities", "Nurses", "Physicians", "Reports Mandated", "Safety", "State Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Elliott", "E. Callaway", "F. Rabourn", "J. Decker", "J. Nemes", "M. Proctor", "N. Tate", "T. Roberts"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-28T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-07T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ce041ae-ec45-4ac8-aa30-51c8b11fc807"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/hb510.html"
source_hash: "05b6e2ff7ab963ab91c82619b23c50f13128fee7cfa805d45474cd96f8821fc6"
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 510 (2026RS) — AN ACT relating to organ donation safety.

Create a new section of Chapter 311 to define terms; establish conditions and processes for pause in procedure for an organ donation; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to implement and enforce the pause in procedure requirements; establish that the provisions should not be construed to conflict with KRS 446.400, discourage ethical organ donation, interfere with independent end-of-life decision making, conflict with the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, or authorize the Commonwealth to affect the federal certification, designation, or service area of an organ procurement organization; require the cabinet to submit report on pause in procedures to the Legislative Research Commission.

## 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/26RS/hb510/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 43** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/26RS/documents/0043.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/hb510/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- CONSENT PASSAGE OF HB 510 — **38–0** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Elliott — primary (person)
- E. Callaway — primary (person)
- F. Rabourn — primary (person)
- J. Decker — primary (person)
- J. Nemes — primary (person)
- M. Proctor — primary (person)
- N. Tate — primary (person)
- T. Roberts — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-28T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-01-28T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Health Services (H) `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2026-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 24 2026
- **2026-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 97-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2026-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** to Health Services (S) `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill `reading-2`
- **2026-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 24 2026
- **2026-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day `passage`
- **2026-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 38-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2026-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2026-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2026-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 43) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ce041ae-ec45-4ac8-aa30-51c8b11fc807`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).