Kentucky Senate Bill 47

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 23 2021 - 50% progression
Action: 2021-03-03 - reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 334A.010 to enact and enter into the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; establish definitions; recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for audiologists and speech-language pathologists; recognize a multistate licensure privilege for audiologists and speech-language pathologists to practice audiology and speech-language pathology via telehealth; establish provisions for active duty military personnel and their spouses; authorize a remote state to take adverse action against an audiologist or speech-language pathologist's privilege to practice within that member state; authorize a home state to take adverse action against an audiologist's or speech-language pathologist's license issued by the home state; create the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Compact Commission; provide immunity for party states, officers, employees, or representatives of the Commission who act in accordance with the compact; require the Commission to create a database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse actions, and investigative information on all licensed individuals in member states; establish procedures for rulemaking; authorize the Commission to attempt to resolve disputes related to the compact that arise among member states and between member and non-member states; require provisions of the compact to become effective the day it is enacted into law once a state enters the Compact; provide for severability for any provision in the compact that is contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance.

AN ACT relating to audiology and speech-language pathology.

Sen. Rick Girdler [R]

2021-02-22 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 1552 (Y: 34 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-03-03	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2021-03-01	House	posted in committee
2021-02-26	House	to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
2021-02-23	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2021-02-23	House	received in House
2021-02-22	Senate	3rd reading, passed 34-1 with Committee Substitute
2021-02-11	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 16, 2021
2021-02-10	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2021-02-09	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
2021-01-08	Senate	to Licensing and Occupations (S)
2021-01-05	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2021-01-05	Senate	introduced in Senate
2020-12-11	Senate	Prefiled by the sponsor(s).

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/sb47.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/sb47/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/sb47/bill.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/sb47/vote_history.pdf