republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2018rs/hb-4.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to the privileging of peer review activities in health care. Amend KRS 311.377 to add medical malpractice actions, actions arising out of review of credentials or retrospective review and evaluation, and actions by an applicant for or grantee of staff privileges to materials that are confidential and privileged and not subject to discovery, subpoena, or introduction into evidence, in any civil action in any court.	AN ACT relating to the privileging of peer review activities in health care. Amend KRS 311.377 to add medical malpractice actions, actions arising out of review of credentials or retrospective review and evaluation, and actions by an applicant for or grantee of staff privileges to materials that are confidential and privileged and not subject to discovery, subpoena, or introduction into evidence, in any civil action in any court.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2018RS	HB 4	Kentucky HB 4 (2018RS)	bill		enacted	A. Wuchner D. Osborne K. Moser M. Hart M. Prunty R. Benvenuti III S. Santoro	5	20	0	2018-01-03	2018-03-09	openstates	ocd-bill/c0cc1d43-e236-460f-a36d-0ad9e9634ecc	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB4.htm	657a513c38b35be814583fd3748b910ec47a6c762fa3988fb25475a0c3580fcb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 4 (2018RS) — AN ACT relating to the privileging of peer review activities in health care. Amend KRS 311.377 to add medical malpractice actions, actions arising out of review of credentials or retrospective review and evaluation, and actions by an applicant for or grantee of staff privileges to materials that are confidential and privileged and not subject to discovery, subpoena, or introduction into evidence, in any civil action in any court.

Version chain

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

1. HB 4 (As Introduced) (committee substitute) — source
2. HCS1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HFA1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HFA2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Most Recent Version (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• A. Wuchner — primary (person)
• D. Osborne — primary (person)
• K. Moser — primary (person)
• M. Hart — primary (person)
• M. Prunty — primary (person)
• R. Benvenuti III — primary (person)
• S. Santoro — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-03 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-04 To Health and Family Services (H) referral-committee
• 2018-01-11 Posted in committee
• 2018-01-25 Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute reading-1
• 2018-01-26 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2018-01-30 Floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (2) filed amendment-introduction
• 2018-02-01 Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 2, 2018
• 2018-02-08 Floor amendments (1) and (2) withdrawn
• 2018-02-09 3rd reading, passed 58-27 with Committee Substitute reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-12 Received in Senate
• 2018-02-15 To Health & Welfare (S) referral-committee
• 2018-02-21 Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar reading-1
• 2018-02-22 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2018-02-23 Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 27, 2018
• 2018-02-27 3rd reading, passed 25-13 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-28 Received in House
• 2018-02-28 Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
• 2018-02-28 Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
• 2018-02-28 Delivered to Governor
• 2018-03-09 Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 11) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0cc1d43-e236-460f-a36d-0ad9e9634ecc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).