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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local taxation. [HB-724]
Amend KRS 67.083 to allow a fiscal court of any county to levy all taxes not in conflict with the Constitution of Kentucky, provided that the fee or tax is authorized by the statutes of this state; amend KRS 67A.070 to allow urban-county governments county to levy all taxes not in conflict with the Constitution of Kentucky, provided that the fee or tax is authorized by the statutes of this state; amend KRS 67C.101 to allow consolidated local government to levy all taxes not in conflict with the Constitution of Kentucky, provided that the fee or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jonathan Dixon
Reassigned To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 03/21/2024
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AN ACT relating to licensure renewal forms. [HB-780]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 324B to direct professional healthcare licensing boards to collect more comprehensive and uniform data on licensure renewal forms and to report data to the Department of Insurance and Cabinet for Health and Family Services; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Canadian money judgments. [HB-801]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 426A to define terms; establish requirements for recognition of a Canadian money judgment in this state, including supporting documents and service of process; establish relationship with the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act; provide for uniformity of interpretation; provide that the Act may be cited as the Uniform Registration of Canadian Money Judgments Act; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to telecommunicators. [HB-782]
Creates a new section within KRS 15.530 to 15.590 to create the Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator academy and to add training provisions for part-time telecommunicators hired before and after July 1, 2026; amends KRS 15.530 to define “public safety telecommunicator” and “public safety telecommunicator academy,” and to remove the “CJIS” and “non-CJIS” designations; amends KRS 15.540 to allow an agency seeking to hire a telecommunicator 120 days to certify the eligibility
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Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Lewis
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 108) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prior authorization. [SB-270]
Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define "health care provider" and "health care service"; make conforming amendments; 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; provide that nothing shall be construed to authorize
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/28/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for cranial conditions. [HB-768]
Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for the treatment of plagiocephaly; prohibit certain restrictions on coverage for the treatment of plagiocephaly; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for cranial banding when prescribed by a health care provider; prohibit certain restrictions on coverage for cranial banding; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program (KCHIP), self-insured employer plans
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the promotion of family well-being and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-734]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to require the eligibility periods for all public assistance programs administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services be extended to the maximum period of eligibility permitted under federal law; prohibit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from relying exclusively on automated, artificial-intelligence based, or algorithmic software in the identification of fraud in programs administered by the cabinet; require Cabinet for Health and Family Services personnel to review relevant documentation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Killian Timoney
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for coronary calcium imaging tests. [HB-642]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for coronary calcium imaging testing; provide that coronary calcium imaging testing shall not be considered investigational or experimental; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the coronary calcium imaging testing requirements and make technical amendments; provide that provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; require the Department of Insurance seek a waiver of cost defrayment
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Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Tyler Witten
Introduced In House on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to exempting the Commonwealth of Kentucky from the observance of daylight saving time. [HB-674]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to exempt the Commonwealth of Kentucky from the advancement of time known as daylight saving time; require the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its political subdivisions to at all time observe the standard time of the United States; EFFECTIVE November 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
Introduced In House on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to behavioral health services. [HB-617]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Youth Mobile Crisis Response Program within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; set requirements for mobile crisis response teams; require the cabinet to develop protocols and issue a report to the Interim Joint Committees on Health Services and Families and Children; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; establish the Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Advisory Board; require behavioral health emergency services provided by a mobile crisis
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/20/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to special license plates. [HB-585]
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; amend KRS 186.166 to update the list of special license plates to be perpetually produced; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Upchurch
Introduced In House on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for injectable epinephrine devices. [HB-556]
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 or younger; 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. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to contraceptives. [HB-536]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motorboats and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-521]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt federally documented vessels from property taxation; create new sections of KRS Chapter 235 to establish the waterway usage fee and the distribution of revenue generated from the fee; establish the waterway usage fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 148 to establish the Kentucky lakes and rivers tourism fund; require grants of money from the fund to go to marinas qualifying through an application process; amend KRS 235.990 to establish a penalty for nonpayment of the waterway usage fee; amend
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Upchurch
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to optional retirement benefits for hazardous duty employees participating in the County Employees Retirement System's hybrid cash balance plans. [SB-196]
Create a new section of KRS 78.510 to 78.852 to create an elective alternative benefit program that employers participating in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) may adopt for employees in hazardous positions with a membership date after January 1, 2014, in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits); provide that, if an employer participating in CERS makes a one-time election to provide an alternative benefit program, those eligible employees in hazardous positions may elect, in lieu of Tier 3 benefits, to participate in the alternative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Christian McDaniel
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient access to pharmacy benefits. [SB-188]
Amends KRS 18A.2254 to require that the state employee health plan and state agencies comply with certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practices, to require that insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other pharmacy benefits administrators establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks, to require the filing of an annual report, to require that the insurance commissioner review pharmacy networks, to provide that information
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 104) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to special license plates. [HB-481]
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 15 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; amend KRS 186.166 to update the list of special license plates to be perpetually produced; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/07/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to perinatal palliative care. [HB-467]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to worker fairness in the construction industry. [SB-176]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; establish a procedure for classifying workers as employees or independent contractors; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.145 to prohibit contractors with multiple violations from contracting with the state for five years; create new sections of KRS Chapters 341 and 342, and amend KRS 131.190, to require the Department of Revenue, Office of Unemployment Insurance, and the Department of Workers' Claims to provide one another with any assessment or orders arising
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Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
To Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (s) on 02/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Received In Senate on 03/12/2024