---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to occupational therapists."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 319A to include Kentucky in an interstate compact for licensure as an occupational therapist; set the compact's purpose, definitions, and requirements for state participation; allow a practitioner to hold both a home state license and a compact privilege; authorize active duty military personnel or their spouses to retain a home state during active duty; make the home state the only jurisdiction that may impose adverse action against a license; establish the Occupational Therapy Compact Commission; require the commission to develop, maintain, and use a licensee data system shared by all member states; grant the commission rulemaking power; designate oversight, dispute resolution, and enforcement authority under the compact; fix the effective date of the compact as the date the tenth member state enacts the compact into law; establish the construction, binding effect, and severability of the sections of the compact; amend KRS 319A.140 and 319A.180 to include compact licensure as a means to practice occupational therapy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2022RS"
identifier: "HB 213"
citation: "Kentucky HB 213 (2022RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Background Checks", "Compacts", "Interstate", "Disabilities and the Disabled", "Health and Medical Services", "Licensing", "Occupations and Professions", "Physicians and Practitioners"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Gentry", "B. Wheatley", "D. Lewis", "DJ Johnson", "K. Banta", "R. Palumbo", "S. Lewis"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-05T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-08T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3de3425-b969-46f0-86cd-337ff472c299"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb213.html"
source_hash: "b6bfc75ab8279ef63fb060e890383c37a70cc61be04a1f4ef4474da769bae29f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---

# Kentucky HB 213 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to occupational therapists.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 319A to include Kentucky in an interstate compact for licensure as an occupational therapist; set the compact's purpose, definitions, and requirements for state participation; allow a practitioner to hold both a home state license and a compact privilege; authorize active duty military personnel or their spouses to retain a home state during active duty; make the home state the only jurisdiction that may impose adverse action against a license; establish the Occupational Therapy Compact Commission; require the commission to develop, maintain, and use a licensee data system shared by all member states; grant the commission rulemaking power; designate oversight, dispute resolution, and enforcement authority under the compact; fix the effective date of the compact as the date the tenth member state enacts the compact into law; establish the construction, binding effect, and severability of the sections of the compact; amend KRS 319A.140 and 319A.180 to include compact licensure as a means to practice occupational therapy.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/hb213/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 164** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/22RS/documents/0164.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/hb213/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Pass — **pass** (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 213 — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Gentry — primary (person)
- B. Wheatley — primary (person)
- D. Lewis — primary (person)
- DJ Johnson — primary (person)
- K. Banta — primary (person)
- R. Palumbo — primary (person)
- S. Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-01-05T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-05T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Committee on Committees (H)
- **2022-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2022-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Committee on Committees (H)
- **2022-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
- **2022-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
- **2022-03-23T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-23T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2022-03-23T04:00:00+00:00** placed in the Orders of the Day
- **2022-03-23T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 93-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Committee on Committees (S)
- **2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Committee on Committees (S)
- **2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** to Health & Welfare (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Health & Welfare (S)
- **2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Health & Welfare (S)
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules as a consent bill `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 30, 2022
- **2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 36-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2022-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 164) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a3de3425-b969-46f0-86cd-337ff472c299`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).