---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to fee disclosures by licensed ambulance providers. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require ambulance providers to post fee schedules and provide them to beneficiaries; require the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to assess a fee of $150 for failure to post a fee schedule and modifications to the fee schedule; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirements."
description: "AN ACT relating to fee disclosures by licensed ambulance providers. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require ambulance providers to post fee schedules and provide them to beneficiaries; require the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to assess a fee of $150 for failure to post a fee schedule and modifications to the fee schedule; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2018RS"
identifier: "HB 176"
citation: "Kentucky HB 176 (2018RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Reed", "J. Miller", "R. Rothenburger", "R. Webber", "S. Westrom"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07197f77-1591-4817-b07b-60082967fa5f"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB176.htm"
source_hash: "ab77163c3a8444feaf560deaeb7130555a40cb150750f14229bff76846264c2d"
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 176 (2018RS) — AN ACT relating to fee disclosures by licensed ambulance providers. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require ambulance providers to post fee schedules and provide them to beneficiaries; require the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to assess a fee of $150 for failure to post a fee schedule and modifications to the fee schedule; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 176 (As Introduced)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB176/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **HCA1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB176/HCA1.pdf)
3. **HFA1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB176/HFA1.pdf)
4. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB176/bill.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Reed — primary (person)
- J. Miller — primary (person)
- R. Rothenburger — primary (person)
- R. Webber — primary (person)
- S. Westrom — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-16** To Local Government (H) `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Posted in committee
- **2018-01-24** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with committee amendment (1) `reading-1`
- **2018-01-24** Floor amendment (1) filed `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-01-25** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, January 30, 2018
- **2018-01-30** 3rd reading, passed 91-0 with committee amendment (1) and floor amendment (1) `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Received in Senate
- **2018-02-01** To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S) `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-13** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar `reading-1`
- **2018-03-14** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2018-03-20** Posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 21, 2018
- **2018-03-21** 3rd reading, passed 38-0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-22** Received in House
- **2018-03-22** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2018-03-22** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2018-03-22** Delivered to Governor
- **2018-04-02** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 79) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07197f77-1591-4817-b07b-60082967fa5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).