Kentucky legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky HB509: AN ACT relating to operations within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
Status: In committee, March 13, 2026
Amend KRS 199.430 to insert gender-neutral language.
What the bill says
An act relating to operations within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT relating to operations within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Section 1. KRS 199.430 is amended to read as follows: (1) In the discharge of the duties imposed by KRS 199.420 to 199.670 the secretary or his or her duly authorized representative may administer oaths and affirmations, take depositions, certify official acts, and issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and production of books, papers, correspondence, memoranda and other records considered necessary and relevant as evidence in connection with the administration of the cabinet. Such subpoena shall be served in the same manner as a subpoena issued out of a circuit court. Witnesses subpoenaed shall be allowed mileage allowance according to KRS 421.015 for each day their attendance is actually required at a hearing. (2) No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda or other records in response to such subpoena on the grounds that the evidence required of him or her may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty for forfeiture. No person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any suit, penalty, or forfeiture on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he or she or his or her agent …
Sponsors
- Samara Heavrin (R, HD-018) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : returned to Families & Children (H)
- : 1st reading
- : taken from Families & Children (H)
- : to Families & Children (H)
- : to Committee on Committees (H)
- : introduced in House
Subjects: State Agencies, Technical Corrections
Common questions
- What is HB509?
- HB509 is a bill in the Kentucky Legislature (2026 Regular Session): AN ACT relating to operations within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
- What does HB509 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to operations within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
- What is the status of HB509?
- In committee as of March 13, 2026. Latest action: returned to Families & Children (H) (March 13, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB509?
- Samara Heavrin (R, HD-018).
- Where is the official record for HB509?
- On the Kentucky Legislature website: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26rs/hb509.html
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