Mental Disability
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mobile crisis services, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-645]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define new terms; establish the mobile crisis services fund within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish requirements Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) must adhere to in order to apply for a loan; require the cabinet to determine the terms and conditions of each loan, review and adjudicate applications, monitor performance of each CMHC, and report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; require that the fund created be a trust and agency account, require
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/16/2022
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AN ACT relating to essential caregivers and declaring an emergency. [SB-243]
Amend Section 1 of 2022 RS SB 100/EN, 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 1, to include communicable disease outbreaks and resident disease status to when an essential personal care visitor is permitted; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/01/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensed occupations. [HB-612]
Amend KRS 317.420 and 317A.155 to authorize barbering, cosmetologist, esthetician, and nail technician licensees to operate outside of a licensed establishment to provide services for persons with physical mobility limitations as attested by a physician in writing, for persons residing in a long-term care nursing home or in an assisted-living facility, and for persons unable to drive.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Introduced In House on 02/28/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to essential personal caregivers and declaring an emergency. [SB-222]
Amend 2022 RS SB 100/EN, Section 1, 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 1, to define "health facilities"; add lay caregivers to description of essential care givers; include communicable disease outbreaks and resident disease status to when an essential personal care visitor is permitted; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Health & Welfare (s) on 02/28/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. [HB-359]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to establish the rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities; cite as the Frank Huffman Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 01/25/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to regional service areas for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability. [HB-349]
Amend KRS 210.370 to establish regional services areas for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability; amend KRS 210.380 to prohibit a community board for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability from providing services outside of its regional service area; and amend KRS 210.410 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Reassigned To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/10/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to essential caregivers and declaring an emergency. [SB-100]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to establish the right to designate an essential caregiver to visit a resident in-person at long-term care facilities, assisted-living communities, and state mental hospitals; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish conditions for essential caregiver visitation; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 10) on 02/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental illness. [HB-269]
Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 109) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental illness. [HB-265]
Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad McCoy
Withdrawn on 01/11/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the disposition of catalytic converters and other items containing metal. [HB-114]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 establishing the official Kentucky Mental Health Flag and directing it to be displayed in the State Capitol in May.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to long-term care facilities. [SB-11]
Amend KRS 194A.700 to delete, amend, and add definitions; amend KRS 194A.703 to replace "client" with "resident" and to include requirements for living units in a dementia care unit; amend KRS 194A.705 to allow assisted living communities to provide additional services; amend KRS 194A.707 to change the administrative procedure process of assisted living communities, to add a biennial review process, and to change the certification process to a licensure process; amend KRS 194A.709 to remove the requirement of reporting to the Division of Health
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 20) on 03/18/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to court-ordered mental health treatment. [HB-127]
Amend KRS 202A.0811 to clarify that the respondent be evaluated by a mental health professional and not examined, specify where and by when a qualified mental health professional's findings shall be certified, and specify when a date for a hearing shall be set; amend KRS 202A.0815 to expand the class of individuals who can have access to assisted outpatient treatment by modifying the criteria requirements for court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 32) on 03/25/2022
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to competency to stand trial. [SB-239]
Amend KRS 504.110 to refer certain violent criminal defendants who are incompetent to stand trial with no substantial probability of attaining competency to a new type of involuntary commitment to be created in KRS Chapter 202C; create definitions; assign guardian ad litem; establish hearing procedures and commitment criteria; establish a schedule and procedures for review hearings; create procedures and protections for patients; allow for promulgation of administrative regulations; amend KRS 31.110 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Judiciary (s) on 02/11/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote. [HB-409]
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky by replacing the language that prohibits idiots and insane persons from voting with contemporary language that instead prohibits persons from voting who are adjudicated to be mentally incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction and such adjudication has not been set aside; ballot language provided; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/09/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT establishing the official Kentucky Mental Health Flag. [HB-305]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 establishing the official Kentucky Mental Health Flag.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/03/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote. [SB-137]
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow persons convicted of a felony, other than serious felonies designated by the General Assembly, the right to vote, and to further amend the constitution by replacing the language that prohibits idiots and insane persons from voting with contemporary language; ballot language included; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Introduced In Senate on 02/02/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to defining residential care facility for persons with disabilities. [HB-257]
Amend KRS 100.982 to amend the definition of "person with a disability" and delete exclusions from the definition of persons including convicted felons or misdemeanants on probation or parole or receiving supervision or rehabilitation services as a result of their prior conviction, or mentally ill persons who have pled guilty but mentally ill to a crime or not guilty by reason of insanity to a crime and persons with current, illegal use of alcohol or any controlled substance as regulated under KRS Chapter 218A.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
Introduced In House on 01/12/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION establishing the official Kentucky Mental Health Flag. [SR-34]
Designate the official mental health flag for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Adopted By Voice Vote on 02/26/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to defining residential care facility for persons with disabilities. [HB-237]
Amend KRS 100.982 delete exclusions of persons from the definition of "person with a disability" for zoning of residential care facilities including convicted felons or misdemeanants on probation or parole or receiving supervision or rehabilitation services as a result of their prior conviction, or mentally ill persons who have pled guilty but mentally ill to a crime or not guilty by reason of insanity to a crime and persons with current, illegal use of alcohol or any controlled substance as regulated under KRS Chapter 218A.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
Introduced In House on 01/09/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to missing persons. [HB-105]
Amend KRS 39F.180 to require that any agency searching for a lost or missing person contact appropriate agencies within four hours of receiving the report and utilize existing resources, including but not limited to electronic highway signs, the Amber Alert system, law enforcement communications systems, electronic media, the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System if authorized and under conditions permitted by the federal government, and local, regional, and statewide media providers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 86) on 03/23/2021