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Bill AN ACT relating to healthcare services and declaring an emergency. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to define terms; prohibit discrimination against mental health care professionals, mental health care institutions, and ordained ministry for providing protected counseling services; prohibit discrimination against individuals for offering information, training, and referrals for protected counseling services; prohibit discrimination against parents and guardians who consent to their child receiving protected counseling services; prohibit reporting of a mental health care professional or mental health care institution to a hiring or licensing authority solely on the basis that it provides protected counseling services; prohibit a hiring or licensing authority from investigating a mental health care professional or mental health care institution solely on the basis that it provides protected counseling services; establish a civil cause of action for a person injured by a violation; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mental Health Counseling Protection Act; EMERGENCY. us/states/ky Kentucky General Assembly 2025RS HB 495 Kentucky HB 495 (2025RS)
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Kentucky HB 495 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to healthcare services and declaring an emergency.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to define terms; prohibit discrimination against mental health care professionals, mental health care institutions, and ordained ministry for providing protected counseling services; prohibit discrimination against individuals for offering information, training, and referrals for protected counseling services; prohibit discrimination against parents and guardians who consent to their child receiving protected counseling services; prohibit reporting of a mental health care professional or mental health care institution to a hiring or licensing authority solely on the basis that it provides protected counseling services; prohibit a hiring or licensing authority from investigating a mental health care professional or mental health care institution solely on the basis that it provides protected counseling services; establish a civil cause of action for a person injured by a violation; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mental Health Counseling Protection Act; EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Acts Chapter 107 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Final Passage — 67–19 (pass) · lower
  • Pass — 77–18 (pass) · lower
  • PASS HB 495 W/ scs1 scta1 — 28–6 (pass) · lower
  • Final Passage — 78–20 (pass) · lower
  • Override Veto Final Passage HB 495 — 31–6 (pass) · lower
  • Suspend the Rules — 88–0 (pass) · lower
  • Previous Question — 70–18 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
  • 2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
  • 2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 to State Government (H) referral-committee
  • 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
  • 2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
  • 2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 04, 2025
  • 2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendments (1), (2-title) and (3) filed
  • 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendments (4) and (5-title) filed amendment-introduction
  • 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 77-18 with Floor Amendment (4) and Floor Amendment (5-title) passage, reading-3
  • 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
  • 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
  • 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 to Health Services (S) referral-committee
  • 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Health Services (S)
  • 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
  • 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Health Services (S)
  • 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) committee-passage
  • 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute amendment-introduction
  • 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 13, 2025
  • 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading reading-3
  • 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 Floor Amendment (1) defeated
  • 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 passed 28-6 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) passage
  • 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
  • 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
  • 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 placed in the Orders of the Day
  • 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
  • 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 passed 67-19 passage
  • 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
  • 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
  • 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
  • 2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 Vetoed executive-veto
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 posted for consideration of Governor's veto
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 passed 78-20 passage
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 passed 31-6 passage
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
  • 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 107) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/35f41ddc-f13d-48cc-8701-a2817078ab90. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).

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