---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to essential caregivers and declaring an emergency."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to establish the right to designate an essential caregiver to visit a resident in-person at long-term care facilities, assisted-living communities, and state mental hospitals; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish conditions for essential caregiver visitation; EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2022RS"
identifier: "SB 100"
citation: "Kentucky SB 100 (2022RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Regulations and Proceedings", "Aged Persons and Aging", "Disabilities and the Disabled", "Effective Dates", "Emergency", "Health and Medical Services", "Hospitals and Nursing Homes", "Mental Disability", "Mental Health", "State Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Carroll", "J. Adams", "R. Alvarado"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-18T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-02-07T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffe68cc5-0022-4e50-a21d-fd63a861e594"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb100.html"
source_hash: "735a970d2b900f9aafef44945cacb0a66c1047de2da4ab942bca2f8daf6af472"
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 SB 100 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to essential caregivers and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to establish the right to designate an essential caregiver to visit a resident in-person at long-term care facilities, assisted-living communities, and state mental hospitals; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish conditions for essential caregiver visitation; EMERGENCY.

## 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/sb100/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 10** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/22RS/documents/0010.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/sb100/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE SB 100 W/ hcs1 — **pass** (pass) · upper
- PASS SB 100 — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- D. Carroll — primary (person)
- J. Adams — primary (person)
- R. Alvarado — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-18T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-18T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18T05:00:00+00:00** to Health & Welfare (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2022-01-20T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, January 21, 2022
- **2022-01-21T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 35-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-24T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2022-01-24T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Committee on Committees (H)
- **2022-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2022-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Committee on Committees (H)
- **2022-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** to Health & Family Services (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Health & Family Services (H)
- **2022-01-26T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-26T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Health & Family Services (H)
- **2022-01-27T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2022-01-27T05:00:00+00:00** placed in the Orders of the Day
- **2022-01-27T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 94-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-27T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2022-01-27T05:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
- **2022-01-28T05:00:00+00:00** Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1)
- **2022-01-28T05:00:00+00:00** Bill passed 31-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage`
- **2022-01-31T05:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2022-01-31T05:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2022-01-31T05:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2022-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 10) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ffe68cc5-0022-4e50-a21d-fd63a861e594`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).