Peer support specialists could get two-year reprieve under bill clearing House committee

By: Jamie Lucke

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: February 5, 2026

Words: 426

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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FRANKFORT — A bill meant to give peer support specialists a two-year reprieve from new credentialing requirements that threaten to put many of them out of work cleared its first hurdle Thursday.

House Bill 470

The House Health Services Committee approved House Bill 470 sponsored by the committee’s chair, Rep. Kim Moser, R-Taylor Mill.

The bill would help ease a “peer support workforce shortage” …

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