A JOINT RESOLUTION directing mental health professional licensure boards to strongly consider entering into an interstate compact with other states, easing reciprocity procedures with other states, or establishing reciprocity procedures with other states to increase the mental health workforce in Kentucky, and declaring an emergency.
Summary
Require mental health professional licensure boards to either enter into an interstate compact or to ease or establish reciprocity procedures to increase the mental health workforce in Kentucky; report to the General Assembly; EMERGENCY
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2021
Committee Review
Mar 2022
House Passage
Mar 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Dec 9, 2021
Signed Apr 8, 2022
Floor votes · House Mar 25, 2022
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
8
Committee
9
Apr 8, 2022
Signed into law
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 114)
lower
Mar 29, 2022
Upper · Passed
enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
upper
Mar 29, 2022
Lower · Passed
enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
lower
Mar 25, 2022
Lower · Passed
passed 92-0
lower
Mar 25, 2022
Lower · Passed
House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
lower
Mar 24, 2022
Lower · Passed
posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
lower
Mar 17, 2022
Committee
to Rules (H)
lower
Mar 9, 2022
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and committee amendment (1-title)
lower
Feb 7, 2022
Committee
to Health & Welfare (S)
upper
Feb 3, 2022
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Jan 27, 2022
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
lower
Jan 26, 2022
Committee
to Health & Family Services (H)
lower
Jan 4, 2022
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Jan 4, 2022
Introduced
introduced in House
lower
Dec 9, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled by the sponsor(s).
lower
4 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Danny Bentley
RRepublican
P
Lisa Willner
DDemocratic
P
Melinda Gibbons Prunty
RRepublican
P
Ruth Ann Palumbo
DDemocratic
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