republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2021rs/hb-44.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to mental health and making an appropriation therefor.	AN ACT relating to mental health and making an appropriation therefor.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2021RS	HB 44	Kentucky HB 44 (2021RS)	bill	Appropriations Cities Counties Education Vocational Firefighters and Fire Departments Fiscal Note Health and Medical Services Insurance Health Local Government Local Mandate Mental Disability Mental Health Safety	enacted	A. Bowling A. Gentry A. Hatton A. Scott B. McCool B. Reed B. Wesley B. Wheatley C. Freeland C. Massey C. Miller D. Graham D. Lewis DJ Johnson G. Brown Jr. J. Blanton J. Donohue J. DuPlessis J. Jenkins J. Miller J. Nemes J. Petrie K. Banta K. Fleming K. King K. Moser L. Willner M. Hart M. Meredith M. Prunty N. Kulkarni N. Tate P. Flannery P. Stevenson R. Huff R. Palumbo R. Roberts R. Webber S. Lewis S. Westrom T. Bojanowski T. Huff W. Thomas	3	27	2	2020-09-16T04:00:00+00:00	2021-03-25T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0fc76799-fa6a-415c-b6ea-5f01f7120314	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/hb44.html	b13fffb0866f3613107df652390dd26e0cf8ff99a4a380d0e0a2c2a9ca20cb26	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 44 (2021RS) — AN ACT relating to mental health and making an appropriation therefor.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 114 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Pass — pass (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 44 — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. Bowling — primary (person)
• A. Gentry — primary (person)
• A. Hatton — primary (person)
• A. Scott — primary (person)
• B. McCool — primary (person)
• B. Reed — primary (person)
• B. Wesley — primary (person)
• B. Wheatley — primary (person)
• C. Freeland — primary (person)
• C. Massey — primary (person)
• C. Miller — primary (person)
• D. Graham — primary (person)
• D. Lewis — primary (person)
• DJ Johnson — primary (person)
• G. Brown Jr. — primary (person)
• J. Blanton — primary (person)
• J. Donohue — primary (person)
• J. DuPlessis — primary (person)
• J. Jenkins — primary (person)
• J. Miller — primary (person)
• J. Nemes — primary (person)
• J. Petrie — primary (person)
• K. Banta — primary (person)
• K. Fleming — primary (person)
• K. King — primary (person)
• K. Moser — primary (person)
• L. Willner — primary (person)
• M. Hart — primary (person)
• M. Meredith — primary (person)
• M. Prunty — primary (person)
• N. Kulkarni — primary (person)
• N. Tate — primary (person)
• P. Flannery — primary (person)
• P. Stevenson — primary (person)
• R. Huff — primary (person)
• R. Palumbo — primary (person)
• R. Roberts — primary (person)
• R. Webber — primary (person)
• S. Lewis — primary (person)
• S. Westrom — primary (person)
• T. Bojanowski — primary (person)
• T. Huff — primary (person)
• W. Thomas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-09-16T04:00:00+00:00 Prefiled by the sponsor(s).
• 2021-01-05T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2021-01-05T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2021-01-13T05:00:00+00:00 to Local Government (H) referral-committee
• 2021-02-02T05:00:00+00:00 posted in committee
• 2021-02-03T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute committee-passage
• 2021-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2021-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
• 2021-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 posted in committee
• 2021-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (2) and committee amendment (1-title) committee-passage
• 2021-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 24, 2021
• 2021-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 97-0 with Committee Substitute (2) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2021-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2021-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 to Appropriations & Revenue (S) referral-committee
• 2021-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
• 2021-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2021-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
• 2021-03-11T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill committee-passage
• 2021-03-12T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 15, 2021
• 2021-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day passage
• 2021-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 36-0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2021-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2021-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2021-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2021-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 114) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0fc76799-fa6a-415c-b6ea-5f01f7120314. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).