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Senate committee advances licensing cleanup for physical therapy (House Bill 255)
Summary
The Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations voted to report House Bill 255 with a favorable recommendation. Sponsors said the bill modernizes an allegedly 1958-era physical therapy statute, aligns terminology, and gives the Kentucky Board of Physical Therapy limited new authorities without changing scope of practice.
House Bill 255, a cleanup of Kentucky's physical therapy statutes, passed out of the Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations with a favorable recommendation on March 27, 2025.
The bill updates statutory language that presenters said dates to 1958, aligns regulatory and statutory terminology, clarifies disciplinary provisions, and creates explicit authority for the Kentucky Board of Physical Therapy to carry out administrative tasks such as purchasing liability insurance. Representative Amy Neighbors (sponsor) and Steven Curley, executive director of the Kentucky Board of Physical Therapy, told the committee the measure does not change the scope of practice for physical therapists.
Supporters said the measure is primarily a modernization and readability effort. "This bill will update the statutes governing the Commonwealth of Kentucky's physical…
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