Kentucky House Bill 199 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-2)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-09 - to Health and Family Services (H)
Pending: House Health and Family Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 define conversion therapy, mental health professional, and public funds; to prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with a person under eighteen (18) years of age or a person who is eighteen (18) years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020 or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510 in conversion therapy; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for conversion therapy; add the short title "Mental Health Protection Act"; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to mental health protection and declaring an emergency.

Rep. Lisa Willner [D]	Rep. Patti Minter [D]	Rep. Kimberly Banta [R]	Rep. Tina Bojanowski [D]
Rep. Charles Booker [D]	Rep. George Brown [D]	Rep. Thomas Burch [D]	Rep. McKenzie Cantrell [D]
Rep. Jeffery Donohue [D]	Rep. Kelly Flood [D]	Rep. Alan Gentry [D]	Rep. Derrick Graham [D]
Rep. Joe Graviss [D]	Rep. Chris Harris [D]	Rep. Cluster Howard [D]	Rep. Joni Jenkins [D]
Rep. Nima Kulkarni [D]	Rep. Mary Marzian [D]	Rep. Reginald Meeks [D]	Rep. Russ Meyer [D]
Rep. Charles Miller [D]	Rep. Jason Nemes [R]	Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]	Rep. Josie Raymond [D]
Rep. Attica Scott [D]	Rep. Maria Sorolis [D]	Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson [D]	Rep. Susan Westrom [D]
Rep. Buddy Wheatley [D]	Rep. Robert Wiederstein [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-09	House	to Health and Family Services (H)
2020-01-07	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/20RS/hb199.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/20RS/hb199/orig_bill.pdf