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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage for tobacco cessation treatment. Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurance coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation medicines and services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation medication and services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage."
description: "AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage for tobacco cessation treatment. Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurance coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation medicines and services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation medication and services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2017RS"
identifier: "SB 89"
citation: "Kentucky SB 89 (2017RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/072def36-0043-4459-be92-ffc487115e0d"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/SB89.htm"
source_hash: "26894c8b2f604d20fb1c485dee9429ae3e38cdfa266b860d7e409d7a1921250b"
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 SB 89 (2017RS) — AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage for tobacco cessation treatment. Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurance coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation medicines and services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation medication and services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB89/bill.pdf)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2017-01-07** To Health & Welfare (S) `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `reading-1`
- **2017-02-16** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2017-02-17** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017
- **2017-02-22** 3rd reading, passed 35-2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-22** Received in House
- **2017-02-27** To Health and Family Services (H) `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Posted in committee
- **2017-03-02** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `reading-1`
- **2017-03-03** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2017-03-06** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 7, 2017
- **2017-03-14** 3rd reading, passed 90-1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-14** Received in Senate
- **2017-03-14** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2017-03-14** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2017-03-14** Delivered to Governor
- **2017-03-21** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 49) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/072def36-0043-4459-be92-ffc487115e0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).