HB505 - AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug counselors.

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Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish requirements for providing alcohol and drug treatment and behavioral health service providers and to require the cabinet to seek federal approval if it determines that such approval is necessary; creates a new section of Chapter 309 to establish criteria for registration as a temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialist; amends KRS 309.080, 309.0805, 309.0813, 309.083, 309.0841, 309.0842, and 309.088 to change references to “associate alcohol and drug counselor I” and “associate alcohol and drug counselor II”; amends KRS 309.081 to make changes to the Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors; and amends KRS 309.0831 to change registration requirements for alcohol and drug peer support specialists.