HB 227 Kentucky House · 2017 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to physical therapists. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 327 to establish a multistate physical therapy licensure compact; set out compact purpose and definitions; allow state participation in the compact if the state meets the compact criteria; require criminal background checks for licensees and applicants; enable a licensee to exercise a compact privilege if the listed requirements are met; make a licensee practicing in another jurisdiction subject to that jurisdiction's regulatory authority; authorize active duty military personnel and their spouses to designate their home state as the state of the home of record, permanent change of station, or current residence; institute rules for enforcing adverse actions against a licensee under the compact; establish the Physical Therapy Compact Commission as a joint public agency; fix commission membership, meetings, and the executive board; set out commission powers and duties, financing, and immunity and indemnification; approve commission rulemaking authority and data system requirements; initiate the commission's oversight, dispute resolution, and enforcement powers; make rules for compact implementation, amendment, and withdrawal; delay the effective date of the compact until the date of its enactment by 10 states; insert a severability clause in the compact; create a new section of KRS Chapter 327 to allow an out-of-state physical therapist to practice in Kentucky under a compact privilege; create a new section of KRS Chapter 327 to establish procedures for criminal background investigations relating to the physical therapy compact; amend KRS 327.020 to conform.

Bill status signed all 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2017
Committee Review
Mar 2017
Senate Passage
Mar 2017
Signed into Law
Mar 2017
Introduced Feb 7, 2017 Signed Mar 21, 2017
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
26
Key actions
6
Committee
7
Mar 21, 2017
Signed into law
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 093)
legislature
Mar 14, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Passed 93-0
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Mar 14, 2017
Legislature · Passed
House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute
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Mar 14, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute
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Mar 14, 2017
Committee
To Rules (H)
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Feb 24, 2017
Committee
To Health & Welfare (S)
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Feb 15, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Posted in committee
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Feb 10, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Posted in committee
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Feb 9, 2017
Committee
To Health and Family Services (H)
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Feb 7, 2017
Introduced
Introduced in House
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0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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