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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Uniform Commercial Code. [SB-64]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
Repeal and reenact KRS 355.2-102 to establish transactions subject to provisions of article; amend various sections of Articles 2, 2A, 4A, and 9 of KRS Chapter 355 to remove writing requirements; amend KRS 355.2A-102 to establish when article applies to hybrid leases; amend definition of "negotiable instrument" in KRS 355.3-104; amend KRS 355.3-105 and 355.3-604 to accommodate electronic transactions; amend KRS 355.4A-201 to modify security procedure requirements relating to funds transfers; amend KRS 355.5-116 to establish governing law standards
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Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
Taken From Judiciary (h) on 03/14/2023
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AN ACT relating to special license plates. [SB-76]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Military ]
[Veterans ]
Amend KRS 186.162 to require the Transportation Cabinet to produce motorcycle versions of all military-related special license plates identified in KRS 186.162; subject applicants for these plates to the same fees as those for motor vehicles; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Schickel
To Transportation (s) on 02/09/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to security requirements at retail establishments licensed to sell alcohol for on-premises consumption. [HB-143]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 244 to define terms; establish pre-employment requirements for bouncers; create bouncer training standards; establish agency oversight; amend KRS 244.120 to prohibit consumption of alcohol by a bouncer during work hours; amend KRS 243.500 to allow revocation or suspension of a license for failure to comply with bouncer restrictions; cite this Act as Christopher's Law; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/07/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicles. [HB-199]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Disabilities ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 186.032, as effective January 1, 2024, to define "communication disorder"; allow the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to identify other communication disorders; establish that information may be included in the Kentucky vehicle registration system database indicating that a regular passenger of the vehicle may be deaf or hard of hearing or have a communication disorder.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Taken From Rules (h) on 03/16/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to off-highway vehicles. [HB-169]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Insurance ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "off-highway vehicle" or "OHV"; allow the registration of an OHV as a motor vehicle in accordance with KRS 186.050(3)(a); require proof of insurance and the payment of all registration and clerk fees as identified in KRS 186.050(3)(a) and KRS 186.040, allow the Transportation Cabinet or a local government to prohibit OHV operation on roadways under its jurisdiction; provide for nonresident reciprocity; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; allow nonresidents
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
To Transportation (h) on 02/16/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. [SB-68]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to establish cost-sharing requirements for prescription drugs; require rebates to be passed through; establish confidentiality requirements for the rebate information; create a new section of KRS 365.880 to 365.900 to provide that the actual amount of rebates received is a trade secret; provide that compliance with the prescription drugs cost-sharing and rebate requirements shall not be in violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/09/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for medical services. [HB-170]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health insurance coverage for oocyte and sperm preservation services and medical services related to testicular and other urological cancers; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to require limited health service benefit plans and limited health service organizations to comply with coverage requirements for medical services related to testicular and other urological cancers; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and state
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 30) on 03/20/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxes. [HB-132]
[Taxes ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Property Tax ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers from state and local ad valorem taxes; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 92, 132, 133, 134, 136, 141, 186, 186A, and 235 to conform; repeal KRS 132.227. 132,485, 132.4851, 132.487, 132.760, '36.188, 186.193, and 186A.030; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-136]
[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 resident students and 7% a year for nonresident students; provide a 4-year tuition freeze for an enrolled resident students; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase to tuition or fees to be approved before March 1 of the proceeding school year; amend KRS 164.131 to add 2 additional full-time student members to the University of Kentucky
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Introduced In House on 01/06/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prior authorization. [HB-134]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements for prior authorization exemptions; establish requirements for rescinding prior authorization exemptions; set forth requirements for external reviews of prior authorization exemption denials and rescissions; establish requirements for sending forms and notices to health care providers; prohibit the retrospective denial, reduction in payment, and review of health care services for which a health care provider has a prior authorization exemption
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/24/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children's health. [HB-120]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Taxes ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit the provision of or referral for gender transition procedures to any child under the age of 18 years; define a violation as unprofessional conduct and acting recklessly for purposes of tort claims; permit an action on a violation to be taken by the parent or guardian of the child before the child attains the age of 18 years and by the child within 30 years of the child attaining the age of 18 years, with exceptions under which the time may be longer; require conditions for actions and damages; prohibit
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 01/05/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-107]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
[Taxes ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and establish a medicinal cannabis program; amend KRS 342.815 to establish that the Employer’s Mutual Insurance Authority shall not be required to provide coverage to an employer if doing so would subject the authority to a violation of state or federal law; amend KRS 139.470 to exempt the sale of medical cannabis from the state sales tax; amend KRS 138.870 to exempt medicinal cannabis from the excise tax on controlled substances; amend KRS 216B.402 to require hospital emergency departments
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis. [SB-47]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Public Health ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and establish a medicinal cannabis program; amend KRS 342.815 to establish that the Employer’s Mutual Insurance Authority shall not be required to provide coverage to an employer if doing so would subject the authority to a violation of state or federal law; amend KRS 216B.402 to require hospital emergency departments to report cases of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; amend KRS 218A.010, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 146) on 03/31/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to delivery services. [HB-102]
[Insurance ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Create a range of sections in KRS Chapter 365 to establish definitions; establish insurance requirements for delivery network companies and delivery network drivers during delivery available periods and delivery service periods; establish when a delivery network company controls, directs, or manages a personal vehicle or delivery network driver; establish disclosure requirements for delivery network companies; establish construction clauses relating to existing insurance laws and delivery or transport of goods laws; create a new section of Subtitle
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/17/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle usage tax. [HB-87]
[Taxes ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Military ]
[Veterans ]
Amend KRS 138.470 to exempt active members of the Armed Forces assigned to Kentucky who are on temporary duty in other locations and members of the Kentucky National Guard from motor vehicle usage tax on vehicles purchased from Kentucky motor vehicle dealers; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of recreational vehicles. [HB-81]
[Taxes ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Amend KRS 138.450 define "recreational vehicle" and add recreational vehicles to the definition of "motor vehicle"; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Heath
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to dual credit scholarships. [HB-18]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 164.786 to increase the dual credit tuition rate ceiling amount; add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores; expand the scholarship to include two career and technical education courses in each year of high school and four general education or career and technical education courses in any combination over the junior and senior years; amend KRS 164.787 to delete the dual credit provisions from the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program; effective July 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to special license plates. [HB-14]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to create an EMS special license plate; limit eligibility to certain licensed EMS personnel or retirees with 20 years of service; specify that the EMS plate requires no minimum number of applications prior to production; amend KRS 186.162 to establish the fees for the EMS special license plate, including an additional contribution to the Kentucky EMS Memorial Foundation; amend KRS 186.166 to update the list of special license plates to be perpetually produced; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Heath
To Transportation (h) on 03/09/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for injectable epinephrine devices. [HB-68]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover injectable epinephrine devices for persons 18 years of age and under; provide that the coverage shall not be subject to cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the 18-and-under injectable epinephrine device coverage requirement;
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/03/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sales and use tax on marketing services. [HB-44]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Small Business ]
Amend KRS 139.200 to exempt marketing services from the taxable list of services; amend KRS 139.010, 139.202, 139.260, 139.310, 139.340, and 139.470 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2023