House, Senate Differ On Prescription Drug Bill

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...A House bill would give the Kentucky attorney general's office the responsibility of tracking doctors who overprescribe painkillers, and a version passed by the Senate would sharply limit the number of prosecutors given access to the monitoring data. Changes the Senate made to the measure on Wednesday were rejected by the House on Thursday, leading to the appointment of a conference committee to work out differences before the state Legislature's 2012 regular session ends April 12th. The original bill proposed by Democratic Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo of Prestonsburg would have given prosecutors access to prescription information under KASPER.