Administrative Regulations And Proceedings
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to maternal health and declaring an emergency. [HB-90]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Insurance ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers; establish criteria for a medical director; establish requirements for obtaining written informed consent; require a written patient transfer agreement with a hospital that provides obstetric services; require a written patient transfer agreement with an emergency medical transportation service; exempt a center
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 121) on 03/28/2025
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AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers. [SB-17]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers; establish criteria for a medical director; establish requirements for obtaining written informed consent; require a written patient transfer agreement with a hospital that provides obstetric services; require a written patient transfer agreement with an emergency medical transportation service; exempt a center
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
Reported Favorably, To Rules on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to bus safety. [SB-31]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 156.153 to define "danger zone"; direct the Department of Education to consider requiring the installation of school bus sensors and interior cameras on new school buses purchased on or after July 1, 2026; direct the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the department to submit a report on the availability and effectiveness of school bus sensors to the Legislative Research Commission by June 30, 2026; amend KRS 156.990, 160.380, and 189.540 to conform; amend KRS 281.635 to encourage cities to install safety sensors
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Transportation (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. [SB-23]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 13A.010 to define "full review"; amend KRS 13A.030, 13A.270, 13A.280, 13A.290, and 13A.300 to establish the procedures for the informational review of an administrative regulation by the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee or any other legislative committee; make separate processes for full reviews compared to informational reviews; require promulgating agencies to be present and cooperate with informational reviews; allow deferrals of informational reviews under designated circumstances; amend KRS 13A.335 and 67.767 to conform;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 2) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to music therapy. [SB-42]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Arts and Culture ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to define terms; establish a licensing board for professional music therapists; require three members of the board to have engaged in the practice or teaching of music therapy for at least three years; prohibit any persons not licensed by the board from holding himself or herself out as a licensed professional music therapist; authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations; authorize the board to issue a license to practice music therapy; establish the process for license renewal, suspension,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to health care. [SB-27]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Science ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Parkinson's Disease Research Registry within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; direct the secretary of the cabinet to establish the Kentucky Parkinson's Disease Research Registry Advisory Committee and make appointments; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to designate Parkinson's disease and the identified Parkinsonisms as diseases that are required to be reported to the cabinet, establish a system of collection and dissemination of
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 85) on 03/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of medical imaging and radiation therapy. [HB-40]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 311B.020 to add and amend definitions; amend KRS 311B.030 to add magnetic resonance imaging technologists, diagnostic medical sonographers, and student medical imaging technologists to the Kentucky Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy; amend KRS 311B.050 to add authority to recognize and enforce nationally recognized professional organizations and certifying bodies and issue advisory opinions; amend KRS 311B.090 to add non-ionizing and exempt ultrasounds for therapeutic, non-medical or keepsake ultrasounds from requirements;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Amy Neighbors
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-87]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 335B.010 to 335B.070 to require hiring or licensing authorities to establish an application process that gives persons convicted of a crime an opportunity to obtain a determination about whether the crime will disqualify the individual from a position of public employment or occupational license before pursuing training; require hiring or licensing authorities to formulate policies and procedures for the application process by promulgating regulations no later than January 1, 2026; and provide an annual report
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to heat injury prevention. [SB-49]
[Agriculture ]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Health ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; require employers who provide services in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation to maintain a written heat illness prevention plan informing employees of policies and procedures to be followed when an employee is suffering from a heat illness; establish a penalty for a violation.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to governmental accountability and declaring an emergency. [HB-81]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Ethics ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13B to reinstate a person's credential or benefit if it was lost or denied due to noncompliance with an executive order or administrative regulation relating to pandemic restrictions; amend KRS 13A.190, 13A.310, 13A.315, 13A.330, 13A.335, and 13A.336 to grant the Attorney General authority over some aspects of the administrative regulation process; amend KRS 13B.120 to enable the Attorney General to accept, reject, or modify an agency head's changes that create a more adverse final order; amend KRS 13B.150 to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Felicia Rabourn
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to study the impact of administrative regulations on the Commonwealth of Kentucky. [SCR-233]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to study the effect of administrative regulations on the Commonwealth of Kentucky; require findings to be reported to the Interim Joint Committee on State Government by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne E. Southworth
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 03/21/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to vapor products and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-344]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; establish the creation and enforcement provisions of a vapor product and vapor product manufacturer list; create a restricted fund from the funds collected in for enforcement of the vapor product and vapor product manufacturing list; establish fees and penalties.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Received In House on 03/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to advanced educational opportunities. [SB-360]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 160.348 to direct secondary school-based decision making councils to adopt designated policies relating to advanced courses; provide that students who meet certain criteria shall be granted automatic enrollment in an AP course; direct the Kentucky Department of Education to establish a pilot monetary incentive program for AP students and AP teachers; amend KRS 158.6453 to require development of an accelerated learning plan for students with identified strengths; direct local board of education to adopt policies for advanced courses; establish
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To Education (s) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state employees. [SB-381]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Pensions ]
[Ethics ]
Amend KRS 18A.110 directing the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations requiring new employee compensation after the probationary period to not exceed or equal to an incumbent employee salary in the same job classification, work county, and department or office without adjustment of incumbent employee salaries in the same position job class; Evaluate and calculate salary adjustment of incumbent employees in the same job classification series; amend KRS 18A.140 to remove prohibition of classified employee to participate as a member
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne E. Southworth
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to charitable contributions to school districts. [SB-378]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Ethics ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 160.580 to require each superintendent to submit an annual charitable contribution report to the Kentucky Department of Education regarding contributions to the district; establish the minimum contents of the report; require the department to publish each annual charitable contribution report on the department's website; require the department to determine whether a charitable contribution report is delinquent or deficient and notify the public and school district of the violation; prohibit selling or using information about individual
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne E. Southworth
To Education (s) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to short-term rentals. [SB-368]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Construction ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to define; require short-term rental platforms to prompt users listing properties through their platforms with information regarding R-1 residential occupancies and a box to check regarding whether the property is an R-1 residential occupancy; require short-term rental platforms to store information regarding properties listed as R-1 residential occupancies and to provide email notifications to the person listing the property and the Department for Housing, Buildings and Construction regarding the property;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Christian McDaniel
Received In House on 03/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care to provide for an all-payer claims database and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-367]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Kentucky all-payer claims database; establish purposes, definitions, and a restricted fund for the database; require the executive director of the Office of Data Analytics to develop, implement, operate, and maintain the database and promulgate administrative regulations to carry out those duties; establish an advisory council to make recommendations to the executive director; establish requirements for database administration and operations; require state-regulated health payers to report
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Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to certified waiver providers. [SB-307]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 205.560 to define terms; establish procedures for investigating alleged violations of federal or state law by certified waiver providers.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne E. Southworth
To Health Services (s) on 02/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to create a workforce housing loan pool fund and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-268]
[Housing ]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to create the workforce housing loan pool fund to be administered by the Kentucky Housing Corporation to provide construction loans to qualifying entities for certain housing projects; specify application process; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Jack Rudy
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and declaring an emergency. [HB-829]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
Amends KRS 12.020 and KRS 194A.030 to establish the Office of Medical Cannabis, the Division of Enforcement and Compliance, and the Division of Licensure and Access within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amends KRS 218A.202 to make a technical correction; amends KRS 218B.010 to revise definitions of terms related to the medicinal cannabis program; amends KRS 218B.020 to add a pharmacist appointed by the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy to be confirmed by the Senate to the membership of the Board of Physicians and Advisors and to require the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Michael Nemes
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 195) on 04/17/2024