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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to internal police communications."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to allow law enforcement agencies to create their own wellness programs; establish that all proceedings, opinions, and records of a wellness program are privileged and not subject to subpoena; amend KRS 61.878 to include records confidentially maintained in accordance with a wellness program to the list of records not subject to an open records request."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2023RS"
identifier: "HB 207"
citation: "Kentucky HB 207 (2023RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Mandate", "Motor Vehicles", "Peace Officers and Law Enforcement", "Police", "City and County", "Police", "State", "Public Records and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-07T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-04T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63fde2d5-e646-4fee-b4d8-6c4d827aa4e9"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/hb207.html"
source_hash: "bf2bde9fa10ce7b5e05aa77ebea12d6cac04d7e3eb78b49b422415395cee4dbe"
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 HB 207 (2023RS) — AN ACT relating to internal police communications.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to allow law enforcement agencies to create their own wellness programs; establish that all proceedings, opinions, and records of a wellness program are privileged and not subject to subpoena; amend KRS 61.878 to include records confidentially maintained in accordance with a wellness program to the list of records not subject to an open records request.
## 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/23RS/hb207/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 168** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/23RS/documents/0168.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/hb207/bill.pdf)
## Votes
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 207 — **pass** (pass) · lower
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09T05:00:00+00:00** to Judiciary (H) `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2023-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 10, 2023
- **2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 93-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2023-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** to Judiciary (S) `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Judiciary (S)
- **2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Judiciary (S)
- **2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Judiciary (S)
- **2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Judiciary (S)
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 29, 2023
- **2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37 -0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2023-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2023-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2023-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 168) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63fde2d5-e646-4fee-b4d8-6c4d827aa4e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).