---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to allied animal health professional licenses."
description: "Amend KRS 321.181 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 321 to establish new allied animal health professional licenses for equine dentistry and animal chiropractic practice; create the allied animal health professional advisory board; amend KRS 321.187 regarding retention of original patient records; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 321 to conform."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2025RS"
identifier: "SB 69"
citation: "Kentucky SB 69 (2025RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Regulations and Proceedings", "Animals", "Livestock", "and Poultry", "Boards and Commissions", "Horses and Horse Racing", "Licensing", "Occupations and Professions", "Veterinarians"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-09T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-25T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d3d5567-0b07-45ec-8fff-7433a4b7dad0"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb69.html"
source_hash: "b2824df8139b290178472cb927dcf113a1873fd14fc58851435065efbe1a386d"
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 69 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to allied animal health professional licenses.

Amend KRS 321.181 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 321 to establish new allied animal health professional licenses for equine dentistry and animal chiropractic practice; create the allied animal health professional advisory board; amend KRS 321.187 regarding retention of original patient records; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 321 to conform.

## 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/25RS/sb69/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 87** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0087.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb69/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Passage — **88–0** (pass) · upper
- PASS SB 69 W/ scs1 — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-01-09T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Agriculture (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 36-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** to Agriculture (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** placed in the Orders of the Day
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 88-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2025-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 87) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d3d5567-0b07-45ec-8fff-7433a4b7dad0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).