AN ACT relating to recovery residences.

Amend KRS 222.504 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to notify local governments when a recovery residence initiates the certification process with a certifying organization, becomes certified, or receives disciplinary action from the cabinet; require the cabinet to provide the recovery residence contact information and consider recovery residence information to be public record; amend KRS 222.510 to permit local governments to maintain a registry of recovery residences and consider the information a public record.

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This bill requires state health officials to notify local governments when a recovery residence — a sober living home for people overcoming addiction — begins the certification process, becomes certified, or faces disciplinary action. It also allows local governments to keep their own public registries of these homes and makes related information publicly available. This gives communities more visibility into recovery residences operating in their area. Who it may affect: local government officials, residents living near recovery homes, and people in addiction recovery who live in or seek out certified recovery residences.

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