republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2018rs/hb-84.md

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Bill	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.	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.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2018RS	HB 84	Kentucky HB 84 (2018RS)	bill		enacted	K. Moser L. Bechler M. Dossett M. Prunty R. Benvenuti III R. Palumbo	1	20	0	2017-12-08	2018-03-02	openstates	ocd-bill/6ec80d04-54e4-40c4-a2d9-23ed7c0de41f	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB84.htm	4486f9c5708c5b8b7a267334d85b587779bfede9f0c35dc0a640c2db93fdb156	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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

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; origin ocd-bill/6ec80d04-54e4-40c4-a2d9-23ed7c0de41f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).