Boards And Commissions
Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, to revise appointing authority for statutorily created entities. [SB-933]
As introduced, modifies the appointing authority of the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives to the advisory council on workers' compensation by requiring the governor's employee appointment to be from organized labor instead of at least one of the three employee appointments of the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives to be from organized labor.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 21, relative to sign language interpreters. [SB-942]
As introduced, creates the Tennessee board of sign language interpreting. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 21.
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 21, relative to sign language interpreters. [HB-1040]
As introduced, creates the Tennessee board of sign language interpreting. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63; Title 68, Chapter 1, Part 1 and Title 71, Chapter 4, Part 21.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interscholastic athletics. [HB-292]
Amend KRS 156.070 to establish an interscholastic varsity athletics eligibility rule for transfers between member schools.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to military healthcare personnel. [HB-303]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to direct the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to develop academic career pathways and integrated academic bridge programs to prepare military healthcare personnel for licensure in various healthcare-related fields.
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, to revise appointing authority for statutorily created entities. [HB-919]
As introduced, modifies the appointing authority of the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives to the advisory council on workers' compensation by requiring the governor's employee appointment to be from organized labor instead of at least one of the three employee appointments of the governor, the speaker of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives to be from organized labor.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to physical therapy. [HB-255]
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 327, relating to the practice and regulation of physical therapy, to state legislative findings; allow a physical therapist to refer a patient for tests or examination; require a practitioner or employer to report a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant who has been convicted of a misdemeanor; require potential board members to not have been under any disciplinary action in the past five years; permit the Board of Physical Therapy to purchase professional liability insurance; authorize the board
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [HB-241]
Allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to conversion therapy. [SB-94]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (cabinet) to prohibit the direct or indirect use of state and federal funds for the practice of conversion therapy on minors; require state agencies to report providers engaged in conversion therapy efforts with a minor to the appropriate professional certification or licensing board; require the cabinet to update relevant policies and procedures to reflect the prohibition of conversion therapy on minors and to convey the dangers of conversion
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4 and Title 69, relative to the board of ground water management. [HB-894]
As introduced, increases, from two to three, the number of full consecutive terms that an appointive member of the board of ground water management may serve. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 69.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state personnel. [SB-79]
Amend KRS 18A.005 to define "intern employee" and "intern position"; amend KRS 18A.050 to require a member of the Personnel Board to vacate his or her position or have the board terminate his or her position if he or she separates from the classified service; amend KRS 18A.0751 to no longer require the Personnel Board to promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to employee fines or employee reemployment after a layoff; amend KRS 18A.110 to allow the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school districts. [HB-297]
Amend KRS 160.041 to provide a merger process for any contiguous school districts; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the terms of merger for an insolvent district if no agreement between the school districts can be reached, and to promulgate administrative regulations regarding mergers due to insolvency.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public school restroom facilities. [HB-270]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to define "single-user toilet facility"; require the chief state school officer not approve plans for specific new school buildings or alterations to school buildings unless the plans provide sufficient single-user toilet facilities, with a minimum requirement of one; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the required number of single-user toilet facilities in school buildings; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require a school where more that 25
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the licensing of professional engineers. [HB-306]
Amend KRS 322.040 to allow an individual to qualify for licensure as a professional engineer if he or she has graduated from a fire protection engineering technology program of four years or more accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensed dental hygienists. [HB-223]
Amend KRS 313.040 to expand the locations where a licensed dental hygienist may practice as a public health hygienist and provide dental hygiene services to include federally qualified health centers.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the mental health of first responders. [HB-277]
Amend KRS 95A.292 to allow rescue squad members to participate in the Alan "Chip" Terry Professional Development and Wellness Program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 39F to direct the Division of Emergency Management and the Kentucky Fire Commission to enter into an agreement to ensure that rescue squad members have access to the program.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to high school graduation requirements. [HB-239]
Amend KRS 156.160 to require any course meeting the health requirement for high school graduation to include information on the organ donation program.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reading and writing in schools. [HB-272]
Amend KRS 158.307 to define "dysgraphia"; require the Department of Education to annually review and update the dyslexia toolkit; expand dyslexia toolkit required guidance and include dysgraphia and other reading and writing difficulties; require rather than allow local boards of education to develop a policy on dyslexia; require rather than allow the policy to include certain items; require the department to compile and maintain data on dyslexia reported by local school districts; require the department to report dyslexia data to the appropriate
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-77]
Amend KRS 161.028 to allow for a designee of the chief academic officer of an independent not-for-profit college or university to serve as a member of the Education Professional Standards Board.
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4 and Title 69, Chapter 3, relative to the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas. [SB-796]
As introduced, vacates and reconstitutes the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas effective July 1, 2025. - Amends TCA Title 4 and Title 69, Chapter 3.