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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to consumer data privacy and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-15]
Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to establish consumer rights relating to personal data; defines terms; exempts certain persons or entities from the statutory provisions of this Act; establishes certain consumer rights relating to personal data, including the rights to confirm whether data is being processed, to correct any inaccuracies in the consumer’s personal data, to delete personal data provided by the consumer, to obtain a copy of the consumer’s personal data that was previously provided, and to opt out of targeted advertising, the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 72) on 04/04/2024
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AN ACT relating to land use. [HB-443]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to require that local laws dealing with subdivision plats and development plans be set out by objective standards and applied ministerially, and to set out conditions for application of discretion; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.34) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-457]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "seller of ammunition"; 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; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess handguns and assault weapons, the registration of handguns and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy. [HB-428]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion during a declared emergency; amend KRS 156.496 to allow a school district to operate a family resource center that provides abortion counseling; amend KRS 205.010 to permit financial aid for an abortion; amend KRS 205.510 to include abortions or induced miscarriages as medical care; amend KRS 205.560
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/31/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Uniform Commercial Code. [SB-155]
Amends sections of Articles 1, 2, 2A, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 9 of KRS Chapter 355 to make definitional revisions and conforming amendments; amends sections of Articles 2, 2A, 4A, and 9 of KRS Chapter 355 to remove writing requirements; repeals and reenacts KRS 355.2-102 to establish transactions subject to provisions of article; amends KRS 355.2A-102 to establish when article applies to hybrid leases; amends definition of “negotiable instrument” in KRS 355.3-104; amends KRS 355.3-105 and 355.3-604 to accommodate electronic transactions; amends KRS 355.3-417
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Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.10) on 03/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the care of children. [HB-415]
Amend KRS 304.17A-258 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for certain formulas; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for breastfeeding support and equipment; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the coverage
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings. [HB-406]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings to be claimed as a service for the child as part of the early and periodic, diagnostic and treatment benefit; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health plan to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings as part of a well-child or well-baby visit; amend KRS 164.2871 and 18A.225
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Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. [SB-149]
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; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 304.38A-115, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to compensation of members of the General Assembly. [HB-396]
Amend KRS 6.190 to provide for annual salaries for members of the General Assembly; require each member of the General Assembly to be paid on the first and fifteenth day of each month; amend KRS 6.211 to delete an old date reference; amend KRS 6.225 to allow reimbursement for travel expenses for the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives if engaged in their duties when the General Assembly is not in session, in addition to their annual salary; amend KRS 7.110 to provide travel allowances to members of the General
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to supports for pregnant women and children and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-380]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for the coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special enrollment rights; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with the special enrollment requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid to cover lactation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to law enforcement telecommunicators. [HB-359]
Amend KRS 15.420 to define terms; amend KRS 15.440 and 15.460 to include law enforcement telecommunicators as participants in the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program ( KLEFP) fund and to make their fund benefits the same as police officers; amend KRS 337.100 to protect law enforcement telecommunicators from workplace retaliation in connection to taking leave under certain circumstances; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 15, 67A, 70, 95, and 164 to conform; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Billy Wesley
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [HB-357]
Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit certain entities from requiring, incentivizing, or assigning a merchant category code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from other retailers, to prohibit keeping or causing to be kept any list, record, or registry of private firearm ownership, to require that the Attorney General enforce provisions, and provide that the Act may be cited as the Second Amendment Privacy Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch.14) on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mine subsidence insurance. [HB-371]
Amends KRS 304.44-030 to increase the maximum total insured value to be reinsured by the administrator per structure from $300,000 to $500,000, to allow the administrator to establish a different maximum total insured value reinsured per structure when certain requirements are met, to allow an insurer to implement a the maximum total insured value established by the administrator any time after receiving notice, to require that the commissioner of insurance promulgate a regulation to establish a process for notice to insurers, and to increase the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jonathan Dixon
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.31) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to taxation of breast pumps and related supplies. [HB-365]
Amend KRS 139.472 to define and exempt from sales and use tax breast pumps, breast pump storage and collection supplies, and breast pump kits from August 1, 2024, to July 31, 2028, and require the Department of Revenue to report the exemption each September 1; amend KRS 131.190 to authorize the department to report the exemption to the Legislative Research Commission; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage of chronic pain treatments. [HB-321]
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 refer
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sales and use tax exemptions. [HB-340]
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "breast pump," "breast pump collection and storage supplies," "breast pump kit," "children's diapers," "clothing," "diaper," "feminine hygiene product," "incontinence product", "incontinence underpad" and "pad, liner, and booster pad"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of baby bottles, baby wipes, breast pumps, breast pump collection and storage supplies, breast pump kits, diapers, feminine hygiene products, and incontinence products; apply to sales or purchases made on or after August
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the exemption of bullion and currency from sales and use tax. [SB-121]
Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt currency and bullion from sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage of mental health and substance use disorders. [HB-339]
Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 304.17A-660 to 304.17A-665 to define terms; require certain health plans to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorder; establish requirements relating to mental health and substance use disorder benefits and utilization review; amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require the commissioner of insurance to enforce the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 304.17A-665 to require the commissioner
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for hepatitis C virus infection. [HB-322]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for the testing of hepatitis C virus infection in pregnant women and the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in postpartum women; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer plans provided by state postsecondary institutions, and the state employee health plan to comply with the hepatitis C virus infection coverage requirement for pregnant and postpartum women; make technical amendments;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education and declaring an emergency. [HB-9]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Floor Amendments (1), (2) And (3) Filed on 02/14/2024