Kentucky House Bill 420 was introduced, which would expand the definition of “injury” to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard.

The bill text specifically notes that this can include “a psychological, psychiatric, or stress-related change in the human organism that is not a direct result of a physical injury.”

Furthermore, the “front-line staff member” is defined in KRS 194A.065 as an employee or immediate supervisor whose duties include adult or child protective services, protective services investigations or assessments, or regularly conducting interviews, visits, contacts, or providing transportation services or other services in the homes of family members involved in adult or child protective services.