republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2022rs/hb-213.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2022RS	HB 213	Kentucky HB 213 (2022RS)	bill	Background Checks Compacts Interstate Disabilities and the Disabled Health and Medical Services Licensing Occupations and Professions Physicians and Practitioners	enacted	A. Gentry B. Wheatley D. Lewis DJ Johnson K. Banta R. Palumbo S. Lewis	3	30	2	2022-01-05T05:00:00+00:00	2022-04-08T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a3de3425-b969-46f0-86cd-337ff472c299	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb213.html	b6bfc75ab8279ef63fb060e890383c37a70cc61be04a1f4ef4474da769bae29f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Acts Chapter 164 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/a3de3425-b969-46f0-86cd-337ff472c299. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).