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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal marijuana and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-107]
Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; to exempt the medicinal marijuana program from existing provisions in Kentucky law to the contrary; to require the Department for Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control to implement and regulate the medicinal marijuana program in Kentucky; to establish the Division of Medicinal Marijuana within the Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; to establish restrictions on the possession of medicinal marijuana by qualifying patients, visiting patients, and designated caregivers;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Judiciary (s) on 01/29/2020
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AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-105]
Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 245 to define terms; to allow for possession, growth, use, processing, purchasing, transfer, and consumption of cannabis; to establish limits for transfer; to allow for purchasing and manufacture of cannabis accessories; to authorize activities and operation of retail stores, consumption establishments, cultivation facilities, cannabis testing facilities, and product manufacturing facilities; to establish possession limits; to prohibit smoking cannabis in public and to establish a fine for violation; to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Perry Clark
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to police pursuit policies and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-298]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to provide definitions, require each law enforcement agency in the state to establish and enforce policies governing of a vehicle pursuit after January 1, 2021; provide the criteria for decision-making to initiate and terminate a pursuit; allow the adoption model policy, subject to certain criteria and require transmission of adopted policy to Justice Cabinet; provide for penalties for failure to transmit; require written certification that each member of the agency has received a copy of the policy and instruction
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 97) on 04/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to welding safety. [HB-306]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects requiring structural steel welding such as certification of welders and certified inspectors; provide definitions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (s) on 02/18/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. [HB-249]
Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms; to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to annually compile lists of certain prescription drugs deemed to be essential to treating diabetes; to require drug manufacturers to annually report to the cabinet certain information related to the cost of manufacturing and marketing such drugs and factors that contributed to any price increase; require pharmacy benefit managers to annually report to the cabinet certain information related to prescription drug rebates for such
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Posted In Committee on 01/21/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crime victims' rights. [SB-80]
Repeal and reenact or repeal, reenact, and amend various sections of KRS 421.500 to 421.575, the Crime Victim Bill of Rights, to change statutory definition of "victim"; require that restitution to the victim be made when possible; repeal KRS 421.540; EFFECTIVE November 3, 2020, only if voters ratify a proposed constitutional amendment providing protection of crime victims' rights.
Sponsored by: Sen. Denise Harper Angel
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 101) on 04/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to vision testing for motor vehicle operators. [HB-206]
Amend KRS 186.576 to define "trained vision assessor"; amend KRS 186.577 to require vision testing for operator's license renewal; allow an applicant to be exempt from visual acuity and visual field testing at the time of application if he or she submits a vision testing form completed by a trained vision assessor; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this section; require the Transportation Cabinet to designate trained vision assessors who may perform vision testing; permit the Transportation Cabinet
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Transportation (h) on 01/10/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to surprise billing. [HB-179]
Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define "balance billing," "cost sharing," and other terms; create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the insurance commissioner or a designated nonprofit organization to establish and maintain a database of billed health care services charges collected from insurers; define "unanticipated out-of-network care," "covered person" and "usual and customary rate"; require an insurer to reimburse for unanticipated out-of-network care at the lower of the billed amount or the usual and customary rate less
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for medically necessary fertility preservation services. [SB-54]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan issued or renewed in the Commonwealth that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses, shall include coverage for standard fertility preservation services when a necessary medical treatment may directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility to an insured; establish language to specify that fertility preservation coverage is not required to be provided or included in any employer-sponsored health benefit plan offered by an employer
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Sponsored by: Sen. Denise Harper Angel
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 01/08/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the sale of tobacco, alternative nicotine, and vapor products and declaring an emergency. [SB-56]
Amend KRS 438.305 to change the definition of "proof of age"; amend KRS 438.310 to prohibit the sale of tobacco, alternative nicotine, or vapor products to persons under the age of 21; amend KRS 438.311 to make it unlawful for persons under 21 to buy tobacco, alternative nicotine, or vapor products; establish a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500 for a person over the age of 18 who violates the age restrictions for purchasing or receiving tobacco, alternative nicotine, or vapor products; remove status offense designation for violations
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 35) on 03/26/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for Lyme disease. [SB-61]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plan coverage of long-term antibiotic therapy for covered persons with Lyme disease under certain circumstances; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 01/08/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-136]
Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; to exempt the medicinal marijuana program from existing provisions in Kentucky law to the contrary; to require the Department for Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control to implement and regulate the medicinal marijuana program in Kentucky; to establish the Division of Medicinal Marijuana within the Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; to establish restrictions on the possession of medicinal marijuana by qualifying patients, visiting patients, and designated caregivers;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Judiciary (s) on 03/02/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to an increase in tax rates. [HB-28]
Amend KRS 139.200 to provide for a sales and use tax rate of eight percent (8%) on or after January 1, 2021; amend KRS 139.230 and 139.310 to conform; amend KRS 139.471 to provide a six percent (6%) sales tax rate on property purchased for use in the performance of a lump sum, fixed fee contract, sales made under a fixed fee contract, or sales made under a fixed price contract, if the contracts were executed on or before July 10, 2019; amend 138.460 to provide for a motor vehicle usage tax rate of eight percent (8%) on vehicles purchased on or after
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Sims
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to call centers. [HB-13]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require an employer intending to relocate a call center from Kentucky to a foreign country to notify the secretary of the Labor Cabinet at least 120 days prior to such relocation; require the secretary to compile a list of employers that have relocated a call center to a foreign country; amend KRS 337.990 to create a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for each violation; provide short title.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription insulin. [SB-69]
Amend KRS 304.17A-148 to cap the cost-sharing requirements for prescription insulin at $100 per 30-day supply; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 01/08/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-45]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to specify definitions for "assault weapons," "large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices," and "ammunition sellers"; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; amend KRS 395.250 to require an estate's inventory to list each firearm; amend KRS 403.735 to require judges, when issuing an order of protection, to consider whether a person against whom the order is entered should be prohibited
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Sponsored by: Rep. Reginald Meeks
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to uninsured motorist coverage. [HB-173]
Amend KRS 304.20-020 to add property damage in limits set forth in KRS 304.39-110 as part of the minimum coverage required under the section for insureds who are legally entitled to recover damages from owners or operators of uninsured motor vehicles; make technical amendments; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Posted In Committee on 01/16/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to special purpose governmental entities. [SB-5]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65A to require proposed increases in ad valorem taxes and certain fees and the levy of new ad valorem taxes or fees by special purpose governmental entities to be submitted to the legislative body of the county or city in which the special purpose governmental entity is located for review; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform; repeal KRS 65A.100; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 90) on 04/14/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cost sharing under a health benefit plan. [SB-39]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require payments made by or on behalf of an insured for health care services, and the usual and customary rate of health care services received at a no or reduced cost health care facility, to apply toward any cost-sharing requirements under a health benefit plan; define terms; Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations; require the department to publish charge information. EFFECTIVE, January 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 01/08/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage of chronic pain treatments. [HB-198]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan issued or renewed in the Commonwealth that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses, shall include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid and Medicaid managed care organizations to include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; amend KRS 218A.172 to require that a health care practitioner discuss and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 01/09/2020