---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to healthcare."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to allow health facilities or health care providers enrolled in the Kentucky Medicaid program to submit a current or prospective employee to a check of the child abuse and neglect or adult abuse registries maintained by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2024RS"
identifier: "SB 145"
citation: "Kentucky SB 145 (2024RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Regulations and Proceedings", "Background Checks", "Health and Medical Services", "Hospitals and Nursing Homes", "Medicaid", "Physicians and Practitioners", "State Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Storm", "G. Neal", "J. Adams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-29T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-29T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/daf9b067-a562-489e-a3d0-745f97ba81b6"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb145.html"
source_hash: "86863525f1de4a4b0be17108ecf07767b7e2dc871af1264fdac04c676b6840b7"
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 145 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to healthcare.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to allow health facilities or health care providers enrolled in the Kentucky Medicaid program to submit a current or prospective employee to a check of the child abuse and neglect or adult abuse registries maintained by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations.

## 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/24RS/sb145/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 18** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/24RS/documents/0018.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb145/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Passage — **pass** (pass) · upper
- PASS SB 145 W/ scs1 — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Storm — primary (person)
- G. Neal — primary (person)
- J. Adams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-29T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-29T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31T05:00:00+00:00** to Families & Children (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 08, 2024
- **2024-02-08T05:00:00+00:00** passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day `passage`
- **2024-02-09T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 34-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** to Families & Children (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 25, 2024
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 95-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2024-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch.18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/daf9b067-a562-489e-a3d0-745f97ba81b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).