AN ACT relating to health care.

Amend KRS 164.0401 to add physician assistant license, dietitian license, and nutritionist certificate to the definition of "eligible healthcare credential"; amend KRS 164.0403 to limit healthcare training scholarship awards to applicants enrolled in a state registered nursing aide training and competency evaluation program; prohibit employment restrictions in healthcare training scholarships awarded to applicants enrolled in a state registered nursing aide training and competency evaluation program.

Education, Higher Nurses Occupations and Professions Physicians and Practitioners Workforce

Introduced: February 4, 2025

Last action: April 1, 2025

(Acts Ch. 150)

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This bill expands the list of healthcare credentials that qualify for certain state benefits to include physician assistants, dietitians, and nutritionists. It also adjusts rules for healthcare training scholarships, focusing a specific scholarship program on nursing aide training and removing restrictions that would have limited where scholarship recipients could work after completing that training. Who it may affect: people pursuing careers as physician assistants, dietitians, nutritionists, or nursing aides, and healthcare employers seeking to hire trained workers.

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