republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2026rs/hb-387.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to veterinarians and declaring an emergency.	Amend KRS 218A.025 to remove 1 physician and 1 nurse from the Controlled Substances Prescribing Council and to add 1 livestock veterinarian and 1 equine veterinarian.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2026RS	HB 387	Kentucky HB 387 (2026RS)	bill	Animals Livestock And Poultry Drugs And Medicines Health And Medical Services Health Care Professionals Horses And Horse Racing Opioids Substance Use Veterinarians	enacted	D. Meade V. Grossl	3	35	4	2026-01-14T05:00:00+00:00	2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f897d5ed-b9da-4ce5-a209-b33201cf9243	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/hb387.html	43be915dfb6120cc04fec109d34dee70d5827d3d1fbc44500ad513539bbe5889	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 387 (2026RS) — AN ACT relating to veterinarians and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 218A.025 to remove 1 physician and 1 nurse from the Controlled Substances Prescribing Council and to add 1 livestock veterinarian and 1 equine veterinarian.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 170 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• OVERRIDE VETO FINAL PASSAGE HB 387 — 32–6 (pass) · lower
• Veto Override — 83–16 (pass) · lower
• CONSENT PASSAGE OF HB 387 — 38–0 (pass) · lower
• Pass — 91–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• D. Meade — primary (person)
• V. Grossl — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-14T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2026-01-14T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2026-01-22T05:00:00+00:00 to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H) referral-committee
• 2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) committee-passage
• 2026-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2026-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 06 2026
• 2026-02-06T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 91-1 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-09T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2026-02-09T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2026-03-20T04:00:00+00:00 to Licensing & Occupations (S) referral-committee
• 2026-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 reassigned to Health Services (S)
• 2026-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar committee-passage
• 2026-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill reading-2
• 2026-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 27 2026
• 2026-03-31T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 38-0 passage, reading-3
• 2026-03-31T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2026-04-01T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2026-04-01T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2026-04-01T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2026-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 Vetoed executive-veto
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 posted for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 passed 83-16 passage
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 posted for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 passed 32-6 passage
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2026-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 170) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f897d5ed-b9da-4ce5-a209-b33201cf9243. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).