Advisory Boards, Commissions, And Committees
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to energy policy and declaring an emergency. [SB-349]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to make findings and declarations; defines terms; establishes the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission and administratively attaches it to the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER); provides for membership of the commission board and executive committee; provides for gubernatorial appointments of members of the commission board and executive committee and requires Senate confirmation of those appointments; requires the election of two of the executive committee members by
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 172) on 04/12/2024
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AN ACT relating to health care to provide for an all-payer claims database and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-367]
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 telecommunicators. [SB-312]
Create a new section within KRS 15.530 to 15.590 to create the Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator academy; amend KRS 15.530 to define "public safety telecommunicator" and "public safety telecommunicator academy," and remove the "CJIS" and "non-CJIS" designations; amend KRS 15.540 to allow an agency seeking to hire a telecommunicator 90 days to certify the eligibility of an applicant to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, require training regarding the Criminal Justice
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robin Webb
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to travel reimbursement. [HB-834]
Amend KRS 6.190 relating to members of the General Assembly, KRS 44.060, relating to state officials, and KRS 45.101, relating to state employees, to establish that the mileage reimbursement rate shall be equivalent to the business standard mileage rate for businesses determined annually by the Internal Revenue Service.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to telecommunicators. [HB-782]
Creates a new section within KRS 15.530 to 15.590 to create the Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator academy and to add training provisions for part-time telecommunicators hired before and after July 1, 2026; amends KRS 15.530 to define “public safety telecommunicator” and “public safety telecommunicator academy,” and to remove the “CJIS” and “non-CJIS” designations; amends KRS 15.540 to allow an agency seeking to hire a telecommunicator 120 days to certify the eligibility
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Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Lewis
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 108) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state employee health insurance. [SB-261]
Amend KRS 18A.225 to exclude from the definition of "employee" any employer that ceases participation in the state employee health insurance plan from participating in the plan in the future; require minimal participation duration for all benefits administered by the Personnel Cabinet pursuant to KRS 18A.205 to 18A.2287; require health insurance coverage for state employees to provide minimum value that pays over 60 percent of the total cost of in-network medical services, provide minimal essential coverage as defined in 26 U.S.C. sec. 5000A(f),
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Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Nemes
Placed In The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government ethics. [SB-245]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define "lobbyist", "public agency", and "public funds"; prohibit a public agency from spending public funds to employ or contract with a lobbyist or from using public funds to pay a nonprofit association or organization that primarily represents one or more public agencies or hires or contracts with an individual who is required to register as a lobbyist; allow a taxpayer or resident of an area served by a public agency to file an action for injunctive relief and to recover attorney's fees and costs incurred
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the board of the West End Opportunity Partnership. [SB-259]
Amends KRS 65.503, relating to the board of the West End Opportunity Partnership, to stipulate that the board has the authority to set its own procedures to determine successors, to allow more than one nominee from the institutions from which members are appointed by the Governor listed in paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of the section, and to allow successor members to be appointed to the board if an institution refuses to comply with the board procedures for successor determination, in which event the institution is deemed to have forfeited its
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Sponsored by: Sen. Denise Harper Angel
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 170) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Public Service Commission. [HB-628]
Create a new section of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to require the Public Service Commission to issue final orders within six months of the filing of an application by a utility; amend KRS 278.110 to require final reports of investigations or special inquiries to be filed within the public record for the case for which it was prepared; require the contracted person to be subject to written information requests and cross-examination in any public hearing for the case in which the report was prepared.
Sponsored by: Rep. D. Wade Williams
Introduced In House on 02/21/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to behavioral health services. [HB-617]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Youth Mobile Crisis Response Program within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; set requirements for mobile crisis response teams; require the cabinet to develop protocols and issue a report to the Interim Joint Committees on Health Services and Families and Children; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; establish the Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Advisory Board; require behavioral health emergency services provided by a mobile crisis
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/20/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky rural veterinary student loan repayment program and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-553]
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 nuclear energy development. [SB-198]
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 the New State Capitol campus. [HB-513]
Amends KRS 11.027 to create a process for the Historic Properties Advisory Commission to submit plans for approval by the General Assembly prior to the installation or removal of statues, monuments, or objects of art on permanent display in the rotunda of the New State Capitol.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 183) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to access to the records and meetings of public agencies. [HB-509]
Create a new section of KRS 61.870 to 61.884, the Open Records Act, to require a public agency to furnish an officer, employee, board member, or commission member an agency email account; define terms; allow the governing body of a public agency or its appointing authority to identify, in writing, the names of specific personnel that do not require the use of an agency-furnished email account; allow a public agency to issue an email address through a third-party provider if a public is incapable of issuing an agency-furnished email account; prohibit
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
Floor Amendments (4) And (5) Filed on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Senate confirmation of appointees. [HB-501]
Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to require Senate confirmation in accordance with KRS 11.160 for all appointments or reappointments made by the Governor to boards, commissions, committees, and councils.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
Introduced In House on 02/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Animal Control Advisory Board. [SB-193]
Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 258.117 to reduce the number of board appointees from each nominating organization from two to one; add one member to be selected from a list submitted by Kentucky Animal Action; provide that on the effective date of the Act, the Animal Control Advisory Board shall be dissolved and reconstituted, and that all new members shall be appointed; provide for the staggering of initial appointments.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Received In House on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Commission on Race and Access to Opportunity. [HB-496]
Amend KRS 7.200 to establish an attendance threshold for citizen members of the Commission on Race and Access to Opportunity; establish reporting requirements for appointments and reappointments.
Sponsored by: Rep. Killian Timoney
Introduced In House on 02/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Purple Star Schools. [HB-469]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define “military-connected student” and “purple star school,” to establish the Purple Star School Program and set requirements for eligibility, and to designate the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs as the governing body of the program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Fugate
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 193) on 04/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency medical services and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-416]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311A to create the EMS Professionals Foundation Program fund; specify the ambulance services and EMS professionals that are eligible to share in the distribution of the fund; provide that the Board of Emergency Medical Services shall administer the fund and may promulgate administrative regulations to facilitate its administration; authorize reimbursement for an EMS professional's out-of-pocket costs for mental health treatment for a diagnosed post-traumatic stress injury or post-traumatic stress disorder; provide
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Perinatal Advisory Committee. [HB-405]
Create a new section of KRS 211.672 to 211.678 to establish the Perinatal Advisory Committee to review Kentucky’s system of perinatal care and make recommendations for the improvement of perinatal outcomes within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish duties, membership, and reporting requirements of the committee.
Sponsored by: Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024