House Panel Okays Changes to KASPER

The Kentucky House Judiciary Committee last week approved legislation that would reclassify the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) system as a law enforcement tool, allow drug data to be shared with state prosecutors and move the drug database from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to the state Attorney General's Office.House Bill 4, filed by House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, would require the attorney general, the state police and Kentucky medical licensing boards to share KASPER data and would open the system to access by prosecutors.Stumbo...