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…

Effective Dates, Emergency Mental Health Personnel and Employment State Agencies Medicaid Civil Actions Short Titles and Popular Names Local Mandate

Introduced: February 13, 2025

Last action: March 27, 2025

Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 107)

In effect since March 27, 2025

This act carries an emergency clause, so it took effect as soon as it became law instead of waiting the usual 90 days after the session adjourned (Ky. Constitution § 55).

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This law protects mental health care professionals, institutions, and religious clergy from discrimination for providing certain counseling services, and protects parents and guardians who consent to their child receiving those services. It also bars licensing and hiring authorities from investigating or reporting providers solely because they offer these counseling services. People who are harmed by a violation of this law may sue in court, and the law took effect immediately upon passage. Who it may affect: mental health counselors and therapists, religious clergy, mental health care facilities, licensing boards, and parents or guardians of minors seeking these counseling services.

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