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.

Introduced: January 6, 2026

Last action: March 25, 2026

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This bill changes the rules around how recovery residences, which are sober living homes for people overcoming addiction, share information with local governments. It would require the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services to notify local governments when a recovery residence starts the certification process, becomes certified, or faces disciplinary action, and it would make that information available to the public. Local governments would also be allowed to keep their own registries of recovery residences in their area. Who it may affect: local governments, residents living near recovery homes, and people seeking certified recovery housing in their community.

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