House updates physical therapy law and expands health-care workforce fund; multiple bills introduced
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Summary
The House approved House Bill 48 to modernize the physical therapy practice statute and approved House Bill 266 to expand the Kentucky Health Care Workforce Investment Fund to include audiologists and speech-language pathologists; clerks also read a slate of newly introduced bills and resolutions.
The Kentucky House on the floor approved two technical and workforce bills and received a long list of newly filed measures.
House Bill 48, sponsored by Representative Neighbors, was presented by the lady from Metcalfe and described as a modernization of statutes governing the Kentucky Board of Physical Therapy that clarifies and reorganizes existing law without expanding scope of practice. The clerk recorded the vote as 95 ayes and no nays, and the bill was passed.
House Bill 266, sponsored by Representative Griffey, was presented to expand the Kentucky Health Care Workforce Investment Fund by adding audiologists and speech-language pathologists to the list of credentials eligible under that fund. The presenter said the addition is intended to help grow Kentucky’s health-care workforce. The House recorded the vote and the bill was passed as presented.
Clerk also read a list of newly introduced bills and resolutions that included criminal-justice measures, appropriations, amendments to the state constitution related to citizen ballot initiatives, and resolutions urging federal action and recognizing utility workers after the May 16, 2025 tornado. Examples read into the record included House bills 594–609 and House resolutions 62 and 63.
What happens next: The passed bills will move through the normal enrollment and transmittal process; newly introduced bills were referred to committees as announced by the committee on committees.