Administrative Regulations And Proceedings
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the acquisition of agricultural land. [HB-575]
[Agriculture ]
[Real Estate ]
[Trade ]
[Economic Development ]
[Food ]
[National Security ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms, prohibit a nonresident alien, foreign business, foreign agent, trustee, or fiduciary associated with the government of any proscribed country referenced in 22 C.F.R. sec. 126.1 from the purchase, lease, or acquisition of agricultural land in Kentucky or participation in programs administered by the Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Development Board, and Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation; allow an existing foreign-owned business to purchase adjacent agricultural land to expand
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny R. Bentley
Posted For Passage For Concurrence In Senate Committee Substitute (1) on 04/15/2024
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AN ACT relating to students. [SB-210]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow the enrollment of a child on a part-time basis in a school district; establish conditions for the part-time enrollment; amend KRS 158.120 to prohibit a district's nonresident pupil policy from discriminating against any pupil on the basis of residential address, abilities, disability, race, ethnicity, sex, or socioeconomic status; require the policy be posted on the district website; prohibit charging tuition to any child; require a board of education to establish policies for a calculation to determine
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hospital price transparency. [HB-552]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define new terms; require hospitals to disclose prices for certain items and services provided by hospitals; require hospitals to provide descriptions of different services and standard charges of those services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations, monitor each facility's compliance, and provide administrative penalties; prohibit collective action of debt for noncompliant facilities.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to contraceptives. [HB-536]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public school buildings. [HB-547]
[Education ]
[Construction ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to define "single-user toilet facilities"; require the chief state school officer not approve plans for new school buildings or alterations to school buildings unless the plans provide sufficient single-user toilet facilities; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the required number of single-user toilet facilities in school buildings, with a minimum requirement of one.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to civic education. [HB-535]
[Education ]
Amends KRS 158.141 to require, beginning with the high school freshman class of 2025-2026, either a one-half credit course in civic literacy for graduation, including early graduation, or a score of 70 percent on a 100-question civics test, with local school districts selecting which option to use, to require that school districts submit annual civics testing data to the Kentucky Department of Education and to require that the department report cumulative data to the Legislative Research Commission, to provide a list of required topics to be taught
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Signed By Governor on 04/09/2024
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AN ACT relating to the Kentucky rural veterinary student loan repayment program and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-553]
[Agriculture ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Healthcare ]
[Student Loans ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishes the Kentucky Rural Veterinary Medicine Student Loan Repayment Program for an eligible livestock practitioner who engages in veterinary medicine in an underserved rural area or veterinary shortage area for five consecutive years; allows a livestock practitioner in an underserved rural area to practice mixed animal medicine with a minimum of 30 percent work dedicated to livestock; defines “underserved rural area” as a city having a population of less than 25,000 and lying more than 20 miles from a city having a population of more than
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 161) on 04/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to bereavement leave. [HB-537]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Services ]
[Healthcare ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; require all employers to grant an employee at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a child, or death of a dependent or other immediate family member; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to define terms; provide state employees at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnancy resource centers. [HB-538]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "pregnancy resource center"; require pregnancy resource centers to be licensed; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for pregnancy resource centers; provide that operation or advertisement of a pregnancy resource center without a license is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that a pregnancy resource center's or health care provider's liability is neither limited nor expanded by the licensure requirement; and amend
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to early childhood programs. [HB-550]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to define additional eligibility requirements in the Child Care Assistance Program; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate regulations for implementation; amend KRS 157.3175 to define "at risk of educational failure" to include three and four-year old children experiencing any of the listed circumstances; require that children will be identified for preschool based on their risk
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearm safety. [HB-518]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to produce and distribute educational materials related to firearm safety, suicide prevention, and conflict resolution; require sellers of firearms, ammunition, components of firearms, components of ammunition, firearms accessories, or any combination thereof to display the educational materials; establish civil penalties for failure to display; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to enforce display requirements; require money from
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 02/13/2024
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AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development. [SB-198]
[Energy ]
[Economic Development ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Science ]
Creates a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require that the Cabinet for Economic Development create and implement a financial assistance program to support the nuclear energy ecosystem; provides for the staggering of initial appointments; requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Authority conduct a study to identify the workforce needs to develop and support the nuclear ecosystem and submit its findings to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2024; requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Delivered To Secretary Of State on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wildlife rehabilitation. [SB-197]
[Animals ]
Amend KRS 150.280 to define terms; exempt permit holders from administrative regulations regarding exhibition and display restrictions and release requirements with regard to ambassador animals; exempt volunteers from non-permit-holder restrictions with regard to wildlife rehabilitation; establish wildlife rehabilitation release requirements and exemptions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Matthew D. Deneen
To Agriculture (s) on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Public Service Commission to make all staffing, organizational, and administrative preparations necessary to be ready to discharge its regulatory duties relating to applications for the siting and construction of nuclear energy facilities in the Commonwealth. [SJR-140]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Science ]
Directs the Public Service Commission to make all staffing, organizational, and administrative preparations necessary to be ready to discharge its regulatory duties relating to applications for the siting and construction of nuclear energy facilities, including but not limited to conducting a survey of nuclear regulatory staff in other states, contracting with personnel with expertise in nuclear regulatory matters to be available to assist immediately with any nuclear siting or construction applications that may be filed with the commission, providing
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Signed By Governor on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to comprehensive universities. [SB-201]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit a comprehensive university to offer certain research doctoral degree programs upon fulfilling requirements promulgated by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE); permit a comprehensive university to describe itself as a research university or institution upon fulfilling requirements promulgated by CPE; direct CPE to promulgate administrative regulations establishing those requirements.
Sponsored by: Sen. David P. Givens
To Education (s) on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to career and technical education funding, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-499]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Repeals and reenacts KRS 157.069 to define terms, to require the Office of Career and Technical Education (CTE) within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify CTE programs or pathways as high cost or general cost, to provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for CTE based 60 percent upon weighted full-time equivalent enrollment and 40 percent upon specified incentives, to provide that state-operated area technology center operating costs be funded by the general fund appropriation to KDE, to allows funds to
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 210) on 04/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to career and technical education funding, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-192]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Repeal and reenact KRS 157.069 to define terms; require the Office of Career and Technical Education within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify career and technical education programs or pathways as high cost or general cost; provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for career and technical education based 60% upon weighted full-time equivalents enrollment and 40% upon specified incentives; provide for state-operated area technology center operating costs to be funded by the general fund appropriation
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Sponsored by: Sen. David P. Givens
To Education (s) on 02/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug counselors. [HB-505]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish requirements for providing alcohol and drug treatment and behavioral health service providers and to require the cabinet to seek federal approval if it determines that such approval is necessary; creates a new section of Chapter 309 to establish criteria for registration as a temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialist; amends KRS 309.080, 309.0805, 309.0813, 309.083, 309.0841, 309.0842, and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
Signed By Governor on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to the endowed research fund and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-1]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Education ]
[Science ]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the endowed research fund to be administered by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) for the purposes of funding research consortiums between two or more public universities; provides that the fund shall consist of appropriations, federal funds, and other proceeds made available to the fund; provides that the funds shall not lapse; provides that there shall be five consortium accounts within the fund that shall each be assigned to a unique research consortium selected by CPE; provides
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Stivers
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.41) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to patient access to pharmacy benefits. [SB-188]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Amends KRS 18A.2254 to require that the state employee health plan and state agencies comply with certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practices, to require that insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other pharmacy benefits administrators establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks, to require the filing of an annual report, to require that the insurance commissioner review pharmacy networks, to provide that information
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Maxwell Wise
Signed By Governor on 04/05/2024