Verification record

How current is Kentucky’s pharmacy staffing rule, and how does RxShift know?

Last verified 2026-10-19. Read from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word; the weekly re-check on 2026-10-19 confirmed that every recorded passage is still there today.

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Passages captured from the issuing body

3,253 characters, word for word

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Official sources

apps.legislature.ky.gov

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Dated reads on file

captures taken 2026-10-16

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Automatic re-checks

newest 2026-10-19

The rule on file

201 KAR 2:450 § 2(3); KRS 337.355; KRS 337.365. No pharmacist-to-technician ratio. Instead a break rule: the Board of Pharmacy's rule on a pharmacy permit holder's conduct refers to appropriately requested rest and meal periods as permitted by KRS 337.355 and KRS 337.365, which provide every employee a paid rest period of at least 10 minutes during each 4 hours worked and a reasonable lunch period.

That is the sentence the Kentucky page states. The passages below are what the issuing body served when RxShift read it, kept as a dated record so a pharmacy and its counsel can check the sentence against the source. How a rule is read is decided by people and recorded with its date; no automated check can change a reading. RxShift reports deficiencies against this reading; it does not certify compliance, and nothing here is legal advice.

The recorded passages

Recorded word for word on the read of 2026-10-16. Each week an automated re-check opens every official source named here and confirms each passage is still on the page as served; the mark on each passage is what the newest re-check (2026-10-19) found.

3 of 3 passages found 2026-10-19

  • 201 KAR 2:450 heading, RELATES TO and STATUTORY AUTHORITY lines

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    201 KAR 2:450. Unprofessional conduct of a pharmacy permit holder. RELATES TO: KRS 315.030, 315.035, 315.0351, 315.121, 315.131, 337.355, 337.365 STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 315.191(1)(a)

    184 characters, recorded as written.

  • 201 KAR 2:450 Section 2 in full

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    Section 2. Unprofessional Conduct. Unprofessional conduct for a pharmacy permit holder includes conduct such as: (1) Introducing or enforcing policies and procedures related to the provision of pharmacy services in a manner that results in deviation from safe practices; (2) Unreasonably preventing or restricting a patient's timely access to patient records or pharmacy services; (3) Failing to identify and resolve conditions that interfere with a pharmacist's ability to practice competently and safely or creating an environment that jeopardizes patient care, including by failing to provide appropriate staffing, training, and appropriately requested rest and meal periods as permitted by KRS 337.355 and KRS 337.365; (4) Repeatedly or knowingly failing to provide resources appropriate for a pharmacist of reasonable diligence to safely complete professional duties and responsibilities under state and federal laws and regulations; (5) Requiring a pharmacist to operate a pharmacy with policies and procedures that deviate from safe practices; and (6) Taking disciplinary action or otherwise retaliating against a licensee or registrant that reports or refuses to operate a pharmacy that deviates from safe practices or a pharmacy that deviates from state and federal laws and regulations.

    1,296 characters, recorded as written.

  • 201 KAR 2:450 HISTORY line

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    HISTORY: (49 Ky.R. 693, 1454, 1757; eff. 3-9-2023.) FILED WITH LRC: February 14, 2023

    85 characters, recorded as written.

1 of 1 passages found 2026-10-19

  • KRS 337.365 in full with its history

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    337.365 Rest periods for employees. No employer shall require any employee to work without a rest period of at least ten (10) minutes during each four (4) hours worked, except those employees who are under the Federal Railway Labor Act. This shall be in addition to the regularly scheduled lunch period. This section shall not apply where a collective bargaining agreement provides for a total number of minutes that are equal to or exceed ten (10) minutes accrued for each four (4) hours of work. If a collective bargaining agreement does not contain provisions allowing rest periods, employers shall allow a rest period of at least ten (10) minutes during each four (4) hours worked. No reduction in compensation shall be made for hourly or salaried employees. Effective: March 27, 2020 History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 1, effective March 27, 2020. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 356, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 386, sec. 106. -- Created 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 36, sec. 1, effective June 19, 1958.

    1,038 characters, recorded as written.

1 of 1 passages found 2026-10-19

  • KRS 337.355 in full with its history

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    337.355 Lunch period requirements. Employers, except those subject to the Federal Railway Labor Act, shall grant their employees a reasonable period for lunch, and such time shall be as close to the middle of the employee's scheduled work shift as possible. In no case shall an employee be required to take a lunch period sooner than three (3) hours after his work shift commences, nor more than five (5) hours from the time his work shift commences. This section shall not be construed to negate any provision of a collective bargaining agreement or mutual agreement between the employee and employer. History: Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 333, sec. 1.

    650 characters, recorded as written.

Every read and every re-check, newest first

A dated read is RxShift reading the issuing body’s text and recording it in a dated report; its public note is repeated here word for word from the updates log. A re-check is the weekly automated comparison of the recorded passages against the live page. People decide every reading; a re-check never changes one.

  • 2026-10-19

    Re-check: confirmed

    The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (5 of 5, 2,745 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day.

  • 2026-10-16

    Re-check: confirmed

    The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (5 of 5, 2,745 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day.

  • 2026-10-16

    Full read

    Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.

    Kentucky sets no pharmacist-to-technician ratio and no maximum shift length, minimum rest between shifts or limit on consecutive days for pharmacy staff. Pharmacy permit holders can be disciplined for failing to provide "appropriate staffing, training, and appropriately requested rest and meal periods as permitted by KRS 337.355 and KRS 337.365" (201 KAR 2:450 Section 2(3)), and Kentucky law gives employees a 10-minute rest period for each four hours worked (KRS 337.365) plus a reasonable lunch period (KRS 337.355). All three were re-read today from the Legislative Research Commission's official texts.

    Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

  • 2026-10-15

    Re-check: no baseline

    No report with a verbatim record qualified as a baseline on that date, so there was nothing for the automated re-check to compare.

  • 2026-10-12

    Currency screen

    A check for any amendment, repeal or proposal since the last full read.

    Kentucky sets no pharmacist-to-technician ratio and no maximum shift length, minimum rest between shifts or limit on consecutive days for pharmacy staff. Pharmacy permit holders can be disciplined for failing to provide "appropriate staffing, training, and appropriately requested rest and meal periods as permitted by KRS 337.355 and KRS 337.365" (201 KAR 2:450 Section 2(3)), and Kentucky law gives employees a 10-minute rest period for each four hours worked (KRS 337.365) plus a reasonable lunch period (KRS 337.355).

    Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

  • 2026-09-17

    Report

    A dated report on file for this state.

    Kentucky does not set a pharmacist-to-technician ratio. Its technician regulation, 201 KAR 2:045, was amended effective October 22, 2025 and instead controls what a technician may do by the level of pharmacist supervision required and by whether the technician is registered or nationally certified.

    Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

What the re-check results mean

  • Confirmed: every recorded passage was still on the issuing body’s page as served that day.
  • Mismatch: at least one passage was not found. It is reported as it stands, a person looks, and the rows after it show what followed.
  • Not allowed: the issuing body’s site does not permit automated reading, so the rule rests on its dated read, by a person where the page can only be opened in a browser.
  • Nothing to match, no baseline: the record on file held no passage the re-check can match, or no report yet qualified as its baseline.
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