Administrative Regulations And Proceedings

State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to compliance with state and federal law. [HB-51] [Immigration ] [Law Enforcement ] [Education ] [Funding ] [Public Safety ] [Crime ]
Amend KRS 65.133 to require local law enforcement agencies and Kentucky State Police to enforce immigration laws; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms, including "sanctuary" and "sanctuary policy"; prohibit local governments from adopting sanctuary policies; establish hearing procedures for determination of sanctuary status; provide for the withholding of state funding from sanctuaries; create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit postsecondary educational institutions from enrolling employing or contracting with illegal (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph M. Fischer Posted In Committee on 01/15/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to hearing officers. [HB-94] [Healthcare ] [Law Enforcement ] [Education ] [Public Health ] [Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 311.591 to require the executive director of the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to request a hearing officer for administrative hearings relating to discipline of physicians or doctors of osteopathic medicine; require the hearing officer to be randomly selected by the Attorney General or his or her designee from a pool of qualified hearing officers; require the hearing officer to have at least five years of experience in the practice of law; require the hearing officer to be familiar with the law relating to licensure, qualifications, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ed Massey To Judiciary (s) on 02/21/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to voter registration. [HB-101] [Elections ] [Voting Rights ] [Education ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Amend KRS 116.045 to permit a process of voter preregistration for persons at the minimum age of 16 years; require the State Board of Elections to promulgate administrative regulations to provide for preregistration and subsequent registration confirmation; amend KRS 116.046 to direct schools and the county clerk to inform students and school personnel, not less than once each school year, about the availability of preregistration and registration forms; direct the State Board of Education to implement programs of public education, not less than (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown Introduced In House on 01/07/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to maternal health. [HB-138] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Public Health ] [Mental Health ] [Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 211.680 to expand the scope of the legislative intent and findings; amend KRS 211.684 and KRS 211.686 to require the existence of the state and local child and maternal fatality review teams; create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to require licensed health facilities under KRS Chapter 216B to provide each patient with written information regarding the patient's rights; define terms; require health facilities licensed under KRS 216B to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health providers involved in the perinatal (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick W. Graham Introduced In House on 01/07/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to patient safety by requiring Kentucky hospitals to annually survey employees regarding patient safety culture and practices with the results to be publicly reported on a Web site maintained by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. [HB-74] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Data Privacy ]
Create a new section of KRS 216.2920 to 216.2929 to require all hospitals to annually survey employees on patient safety culture; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to design, collect, analyze, and publish survey data; list requirements for the survey design; list requirements for the survey content; require the survey design to be completed by October 30, 2020, and the survey results to be made available by June 30 each year beginning with June 30, 2021, on the cabinet's Web site and reported to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown Introduced In House on 01/07/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the psychology interjurisdictional compact. [HB-110] [Healthcare ] [Telecommunications ] [Mental Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 319 to enact and enter into the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; allow a psychologist to hold one or more compact state licenses at a time; recognize the right of a psychologist licensed in the compact to practice telepsychology in other compact states the psychologist is not licensed; establish conditions under which a psychologist licensed to practice in compact state can practice telepsychology; (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Wood Thomas Introduced In House on 01/07/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to voter identification and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-2] [Elections ] [Voting Rights ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Crime ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 117 to allow a voter to cast a provisional ballot if the voter is unable to produce proof of identification, by executing a provisional voter's affidavit furnished by the State Board of Elections; describe the voting procedure for casting a provisional ballot; describe how to validate a provisional ballot or provisional absentee ballot by requiring the provisional voter to appear before the county clerk or county board of elections to provide an affidavit stating that the voter is the same individual who cast the (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer Veto Message Received In Senate on 04/14/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to school construction. [HB-93] [Education ] [Construction ]
Amend KRS 162.065 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to include "construction management-at-risk" as a project delivery method option for school construction projects.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Ann Palumbo To Education (s) on 03/17/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the recall of elected officials. [HB-162] [Elections ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 63 establishing a procedure for the recall of any elected sheriff, jailer, constable, or peace officer; amend KRS 63.990 to include a criminal penalty for giving money or anything of value in exchange for a signature on a petition.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown Posted In Committee on 01/15/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to voluntary non-opioid directives. [HB-11] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Overdose Prevention ] [Pharmaceuticals ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and to establish a voluntary non-opioid directive form to inform practitioners that an opioid drug shall not be prescribed, ordered, or administered to a patient who has filed the form with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218A.172 to require a practitioner to determine if a patient has filed a voluntary non-opioid directive and to provide the patient with a copy of the form prior to prescribing an opioid drug; amend KRS 218A.202 to establish that the electronic monitoring (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Danny R. Bentley Introduced In House on 01/07/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-44] [Elections ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to provide for the establishment of designated voting locations by the county board of elections in counties with a population of 90,000 or more.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas To State & Local Government (s) on 01/08/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to employment provisions for employees on parental leave. [HB-176] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Family-Related Legislation ] [Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide twelve weeks of paid parental leave for an employee who has been employed for at least one year; allow an employee to waive the paid parental leave; provide for the promulgation of administrative regulations.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 01/07/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to firearms and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-130] [Firearms/Gun Control ] [Crime ] [Budget and Spending ] [Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapons" and "large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize the possession of unregistered assault weapons and to require the owners of registered assault weapons to store the weapons in a manner which renders them inoperable to unauthorized users; create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to establish the assault weapons registration program (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jeffery M. Donohue Introduced In House on 01/07/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-79] [Elections ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to provide for the establishment of designated voting locations by the county board of elections in counties with a population of 90,000 or more.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown Introduced In House on 01/07/2020

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