{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-327.045","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 327.045","heading":"Impaired physical therapy practitioners committee -- Purposes --","body":"Assessments to support functions -- Immunity of members -- Privileged\ninformation -- Annual report.\n(1) The board shall establish an impaired physical therapy practitioners comm ittee to\npromote the early identification, intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation of\nphysical therapists and physical therapist assistants who may be impaired by reason\nof illness or of alcohol or drug abuse, or as a result of any physical or mental\ncondition.\n(2) The board may enter into a contractual agreement with a nonprofit corporation,\nphysical therapy professional organization, or similar organization for the purpose\nof creating, supporting, and maintaining an impaired physical therapy practitio ners\ncommittee.\n(3) The board may promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS\nChapter 13A to effectuate and implement a committee formed by the provisions of\nthis section.\n(4) The board shall collect an assessment fee per licensee, payable  to the board, to be\nadded to each licensure renewal application fee. Proceeds from the assessment shall\nbe expended on the operation of an impaired physical therapy practitioners\ncommittee formed by the provisions of this section. The fee shall be set by the\npromulgation of administrative regulations.\n(5) Members of an impaired physical therapy practitioners committee, any\nadministrator, staff member, consultant, agent, volunteer, or employee of the\ncommittee acting within the scope of their duties and wit hout actual malice, and all\nother persons who furnish information to the committee in good faith and without\nactual malice shall not be liable for any claim or damages as a result of any\nstatement, decision, opinion, investigation, or action taken by the c ommittee or by\nan individual member of the committee.\n(6) All information, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, or other documents\nfurnished to or produced by the impaired physical therapy practitioners committee,\nall communication to or from the co mmittee, and all proceedings, findings, and\nconclusions of the committee, including those relating to intervention, treatment, or\nrehabilitation, which in any way pertain or refer to a physical therapist or physical\ntherapist assistant who is or may be impaired, shall be privileged and confidential.\n(7) All records and proceedings of the committee that pertain or refer to a licensee who\nmay be, or actually is, impaired shall be privileged and confidential and shall be\nused by the committee and its members o nly in the exercise of the proper function\nof the committee and shall not be considered public records and shall not be subject\nto court subpoena and subject to discovery or introduction as evidence in any civil,\ncriminal, or administrative proceedings except as described in subsection (8) of this\nsection.\n(8) The committee may disclose information relative to an impaired physical therapist\nor physical therapist assistant only when:\n(a) It is essential to disclose the information to persons or organizations  needing\nthe information in order to address the intervention, treatment, or\nrehabilitation needs of the impaired practitioner;\n(b) Its release is authorized in writing by the impaired physical therapist or\nphysical therapist assistant; or\n(c) The information is subject to court order or the disclosure is otherwise\nauthorized by law.\n(9) The impaired physical therapy practitioners committee shall make an annual report\nto the board.","path":["KRS Chapter 327"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=57291","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:58:21Z","sha256":"bb9e31e4a0046750f77ddf2a1bcd5da2633da014e349c475c4a7283907fd4472","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-327.040","next":"us-ky/krs-327.050"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}