Creating Unmatched Medical Graduate Advisory Council [SB-723]
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, 2024.
SB-723: Creating Unmatched Medical Graduate Advisory Council
Sponsored by: Sen. Patricia Rucker
Filed For Introduction on 02/08/2024
AN ACT relating to emergency medical services. [HB-484]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to establish the emergency medical services education grant program under the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to be used for student tuition support, agency support, and emergency medical services training or educational institution support.
HB-484: AN ACT relating to emergency medical services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 217) on 04/19/2024
Relating to requiring certain transfers and disbursement of funds [HB-5508]
The purpose of this bill is to provide that the West Virginia Racing Commission annually transfer $8,000,000 from the West Virginia Greyhound Breeding Development Fund to the Fire Protection Fund and the Emergency Medical Services Equipment and Training Fund.
HB-5508: Relating to requiring certain transfers and disbursement of funds
Sponsored by: Rep. Geoff Foster
Filed For Introduction on 02/07/2024
Transferring duties and licensing from Board of Osteopathic Medicine to Board of Medicine [SB-714]
The purpose of this bill generally relates to the licensing of physicians and the transition of the duties and functions of the West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine to the West Virginia Board of Medicine, effective January 1, 2025. The bill expands the board authority to regulate genetic counselors.
SB-714: Transferring duties and licensing from Board of Osteopathic Medicine to Board of Medicine
Sponsored by: Sen. Tamejiro Takubo
Vetoed By Governor 3/27/24 on 03/27/2024
AN ACT relating to school bus safety. [HB-461]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 67 to define terms; require the use of camera monitoring systems on all school buses by all school districts, and require the enforcement of a civil penalty for stop arm camera violations recorded by a camera monitoring system; set the amount of the civil penalty; provide that the revenue generated from a civil penalty shall be retained by the county; require specific notice for a stop arm camera violation; require a form for a stop arm camera violation notice; establish defenses to a violation; establish procedures
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HB-461: AN ACT relating to school bus safety.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Received In Senate on 03/12/2024
Modifying rules regarding liquidation of property [SB-635]
The purpose of this bill is to modify when a commission, council, or a governing board may sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of any real property that was gifted or devised to it.
SB-635: Modifying rules regarding liquidation of property
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Oliverio
Introduced In House on 02/19/2024
AN ACT relating to school superintendents. [SB-171]
Amend KRS 160.350 to require a majority plus one vote instead of a four-fifths vote of board members to remove the superintendent, delete requirements for approval from the commissioner of education to remove a superintendent; provide an appeal process for the superintendent; amend KRS 160.380 to forbid a superintendent from employing persons convicted of certain sex crimes classified as a misdemeanor.
SB-171: AN ACT relating to school superintendents.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
To Education (s) on 02/06/2024
AN ACT relating to local boards of education. [SB-170]
Amend 160.210 to establish new numbers for membership of a local board of education based on district enrollment; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the required number of members every 10 years; provide for the election of additional members and for the reduction of membership; require local boards of education to report new electoral divisions to the Kentucky Board of Education and the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 160.160 to establish a one year term for chair and vice chair of the local board of education; require
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SB-170: AN ACT relating to local boards of education.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
To Education (s) on 02/06/2024
AN ACT relating to health care workers. [HB-459]
Amends KRS 311.844 to require that physician assistants complete continuing education courses on treating Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, and to allow graduating physician assistants to submit course curriculum on Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia toward the continuing education requirement; amends KRS 314.042 to create the provisional advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) applicant license; amends KRS 314.073 to require nurse licensees to complete continuing medical education courses on treating Alzheimer’s disease
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HB-459: AN ACT relating to health care workers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 218) on 04/19/2024
AN ACT relating to public school students' communication skills. [SB-167]
Amends KRS 156.160 to require that cursive writing be included as a course of study in all elementary schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; and amends KRS 158.6453 to distinguish basic handwriting or penmanship from the definition of “writing."
SB-167: AN ACT relating to public school students' communication skills.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 203) on 04/17/2024
AN ACT relating to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. [SB-159]
Create a new section of KRS 95A.200 to 95A.300 to establish a voluntary PFAS blood test reimbursement program using moneys from the Firefighters Foundation Program fund and operated by the Kentucky Fire Commission; allow for reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses for PFAS blood testing for firefighters; amend KRS 95A.210 to define "PFAS chemicals" or "PFAS"; amend KRS 95A.262 to include a program for PFAS blood testing as a permissible use of funds; amend KRS 337.010 to conform.
SB-159: AN ACT relating to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/05/2024
AN ACT relating to local boards of education. [HB-449]
Amends KRS 160.170 to amend the oath of office for local board of education members to be consistent with the requirements set forth in KRS 160.180; amends KRS 160.180 to provide alternative methods for a candidate for a board of education to evidence the candidate’s completion of twelfth grade, to provide that a member of a board of education shall be subject for removal from office pursuant to KRS 415.050 and 415.060 if the member is convicted of a felony, performs acts of malfeasance, or willfully misuses public property or funds, to provide
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HB-449: AN ACT relating to local boards of education.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 215) on 04/18/2024
AN ACT relating to medical imaging. [SB-154]
Amend KRS 311B.050 to require the Kentucky Board for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to create and enforce policies and procedures that ensure a patient's right to record any procedure performed by an individual who is licensed by the board; amend KRS 311B.110 to require practitioners licensed as an advanced imaging professional, a medical imaging technologist, a radiographer, a radiation therapist, a nuclear medicine technologist, or a limited X-ray machine operator to allow a patient to record any procedure performed upon the patient.
SB-154: AN ACT relating to medical imaging.
Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/02/2024