KY SB252

Creates a civil cause of action allowing individuals to sue licensed mental health professionals for damages arising from "sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts" (practices seeking to direct patients toward predetermined sexual orientation or gender identity outcomes)

Establishes extended statute of limitations: 22 years after reaching age 18 for minors, 10 years from last treatment for adults, or 5 years from discovering the psychological injury was caused by such efforts

Permits recovery of economic damages, noneconomic damages (pain and suffering), punitive damages for willful or malicious conduct, and attorney's fees; defendants are jointly and severally liable

Allows plaintiffs to establish causation through expert testimony on scientific consensus about harmfulness, without requiring proof of the precise mechanism of harm; the efforts need only be a "substantial factor" in causing injury, not the sole cause

Declares an emergency for immediate effect upon passage; amends KRS 413.140 to exempt these claims from standard one-year malpractice limitations periods