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Kentucky · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 470: AN ACT relating to behavioral health services and declaring an emergency.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 470 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on January 22, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to behavioral health services and declaring an emergency. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2026): signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 80).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Amend KRS 222.233 to require behavioral health multi-specialty groups or any entity that bills for peer support services to only employ specifically qualified alcohol and drug peer support specialists until January 1, 2028; extend the time period in which other alcohol and other drug treatment entities and behavioral health service organizations may only employ specifically qualified alcohol and drug peer support specialists to January 1, 2028; remove references to temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialists; amend KRS 309.0805 and 309.0813 to remove references to temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialists; repeal KRS 309.0836, relating to temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialists; establish the Peer Support Professionals Work Group to submit recommendations to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services regarding the creation of a board of peer support professionals to develop statewide requirements for licensed peer support professionals; EMERGENCY.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
No sponsor recorded in source data.

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 80)
  2. delivered to Governor
  3. enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
  4. enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
  5. passed 91-0
  6. House concurred in Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
  7. posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
  8. to Rules (H)
  9. received in House
  10. 3rd reading, passed 35-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
  11. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 19 2026
  12. 2nd reading, to Rules

Showing 12 most recent of 24 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source