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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 481: AN ACT relating to kratom products.

In committee 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 481 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on February 12, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to kratom products. Most recent recorded action (February 14, 2025): to Health Services (H).

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 217.2202 to eliminate the prohibition on kratom extracts and kratom products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine; amend KRS 217.2203 to establish that products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine shall comply with labeling requirements for kratom products but shall not be labeled or marketed as a kratom product; amend KRS 217.2205 to establish that that products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine shall be subject to administrative regulations promulgated by the Department for Public Health, except the department shall not require those products to be labeled as a kratom product or as containing kratom extracts.

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. to Health Services (H)
  2. to Committee on Committees (H)
  3. introduced in House

Sources

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