Permitting Board of Occupational Therapy to require criminal history record checks [SB-462]
[Healthcare ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide the Occupational Therapy Board with the ability to require criminal background check for applicants, requiring rulemaking, and to remove a duplicative provisions related to special volunteer licenses and immunity.
SB-462: Permitting Board of Occupational Therapy to require criminal history record checks
Sponsored by: Sen. Tamejiro Takubo
To Governor 3/18/2025 - House Journal on 03/26/2025
AN ACT relating to the waiver of qualified official immunity. [HB-483]
[Education ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to waive qualified official immunity as a defense for employees or agents of public postsecondary education institutions that are not law enforcement officers; amend KRS 164.6949 to conform.
HB-483: AN ACT relating to the waiver of qualified official immunity.
Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-434]
[Education ]
[Student Loans ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from raising tuition for a postsecondary education institution more than 5% a year for Kentucky resident students and 7% a year for non-Kentucky resident students; provide a 4-year tuition freeze for an enrolled Kentucky resident student; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase in tuition or fees to be approved before March 1; amend KRS 164.7874 to require a private postsecondary institution to have a voting student
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HB-434: AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
AN ACT relating to chaplains in schools. [HB-454]
[Education ]
[Religion ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to require school districts and public charter schools to employ a chaplain or accept a chaplain as a volunteer; set eligibility for employed and volunteer chaplains; require that employed and volunteer chaplains submit background checks; amend KRS 160.380 to include a volunteer chaplain as an adult who is required to have a background check; provide that the Act may be cited as the Teachers and School Chaplains Act.
HB-454: AN ACT relating to chaplains in schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Billy Wesley
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education. [HB-484]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 164.321 to conform the size of the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky boards to the size and authority of the governing boards of all other state universities; replace the other state universities' boards of regents with boards of trustees and designate the board of trustees as the successor board; remove language regarding KCTCS; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to create the KCTCS board of regents; amend KRS 164.290 to bring the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville's establishment language into
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HB-484: AN ACT relating to postsecondary education.
Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
Withdrawn on 02/13/2025
AN ACT relating to students. [HB-440]
[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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HB-440: AN ACT relating to students.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
Modifying composition of Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board [SB-238]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to is to increase the composition of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board to 11 members, add additional county commissioners, and increase meetings to four times a year.
SB-238: Modifying composition of Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority Board
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Woodrum
Filed For Introduction on 02/12/2025
Creating Unmatched Medical Graduate Advisory Council [SB-86]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
The purpose of this bill is to create the Unmatched Medical Graduate Advisory Council; establishing findings and purpose; establishing membership of advisory council; setting forth subjects to be addressed by advisory council in reporting; providing for selection of chair and vice chair; establishing quorum; providing that administrative support be provided by the Higher Education Policy Commission; and requiring reporting of findings and recommendations by December 31, 2025.
SB-86: Creating Unmatched Medical Graduate Advisory Council
Sponsored by: Sen. Patricia Rucker
Committee Substitute Reported, But First To Finance on 03/05/2025
Clarifying when funds accumulated by boards may be transferred to General Revenue Fund [SB-231]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Finance ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide clarification regarding when funds accumulated by boards may be transferred to the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury and to limit the amount of excess funds that may be transferred to the General Revenue Fund in a single fiscal year.
SB-231: Clarifying when funds accumulated by boards may be transferred to General Revenue Fund
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Woodrum
Filed For Introduction on 02/12/2025
HB-2189: To modify local permitting deadlines for permits, licenses, variances, or other types of approval from a governing body or planning commission of a municipality or county
Sponsored by: Rep. Gary Howell
To House Local Governments on 02/17/2025
You have voted HB-2189: To modify local permitting deadlines for permits, licenses, variances, or other types of approval from a governing body or planning commission of a municipality or county.
To modify deputy sheriff’s retirement pay and the cost of receiving certain reports [HB-2090]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
The purpose of this bill is to increase certain fees collected by county sheriffs and add these increased amounts to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement Fund to provide modest increases in benefits for retired deputies.
HB-2090: To modify deputy sheriff’s retirement pay and the cost of receiving certain reports
Sponsored by: Rep. Jonathan Pinson
To House Investments on 02/17/2025
Allowing volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases [HB-2170]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to allow volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases associated with the State Auditor's West Virginia Checkbook fiscal reporting system.
HB-2170: Allowing volunteer fire departments to use fire protection funding for certain purchases
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Statler
To Government Organization on 03/03/2025
AN ACT relating to school transportation and declaring an emergency. [HB-430]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 189.540 to authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to require regular instruction of pupils in school bus safety; allow a school district to obtain an exemption from any school bus safety instruction requirement if the district transports 48 or fewer pupils in the district's gross average daily attendance of transported pupils; require exempted districts to develop and implement a school bus safety instruction policy.
HB-430: AN ACT relating to school transportation and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 151) on 04/01/2025