There shall be a Kentucky Board of Licensure for Long-term Care Administrators located within the Public Protection Cabinet for administrative and budgetary purposes. The board shall be composed of ten (10) members. The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, or his or her designee, shall be an ex officio member of the board. The other members of the board shall be appointed by the Governor. One (1) member shall be a practicing hospital administrator, to be appointed from a list of two (2) names submitted by the Kentucky Hospital Association. One (1) member shall be a practicing medical physician, to be appointed from a list of two (2) names submitted by the Kentucky State Medical Association. One (1) member shall be an educator in the field of allied health services. One (1) member shall be a citizen at large who is not associated with or financially interested in the practice or business regulated. One (1) member shall be a practicing long-term care administrator appointed from a list of two (2) names submitted by LeadingAge Kentucky. The other four (4) members shall be practicing long-term care administrators appointed from a list of two (2) names for each vacancy submitted by the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities and duly licensed under this chapter. No person who has been disciplined in the previous five (5) years by the board, or by another state's board of licensure governing the same profession, shall be appointed to the board.
KRS 216A.040