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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the levy of an ad valorem tax rate. [SB-69]
Repeal and reenact KRS 132.017 to require the portion of a property tax rate which will produce revenue from real property, exclusive of revenue from new property, more than four percent over the amount of revenue produced by the compensating tax rate to be subject to recall by the voters of the district; establish requirements for the ballot question, notifying the public, the election process, and recalling the rate; allow the cancellation of the election; disallow local, state, and federal tax dollars to be used to advocate for the rate; amend
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Boswell
To State & Local Government (s) on 01/08/2024
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AN ACT relating to menstrual discharge collection devices and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-148]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each public school that includes any of grades six through 12 to provide free menstrual discharge collection devices to students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free menstrual discharge collection devices; define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.010 to define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of menstrual discharge collection devices; APPROPRIATION;
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to professions and occupations. [HB-117]
Amend KRS 335B.010 to define terms related to licensing and public employment qualifications; amend KRS 335B.020 to narrow the class of offenses to which the chapter applies, to add consideration of the age of the person at the time the crime was committed, the evidence relevant to the circumstances of the crime, and evidence of rehabilitation in making licensure decisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B to prohibit disqualifying individuals from pursing a professional license solely due to conviction that has been sealed or expunged,
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the exemption of bullion and currency from sales and use tax. [HB-101]
Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt currency and bullion from sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to special license plates. [HB-97]
Amend KRS 186.162 to change extra fees for special license plates charged upon renewal to match the extra fees charged upon initial issuance; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for breast examinations. [HB-115]
Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with breast examination coverage requirements; amends KRS 304.17-316 to define terms, to make technical corrections, to prohibit cost-sharing requirements for any covered diagnostic breast examination or supplemental breast examination, to provide for additional coverage if required under federal law, and to provide exemption to Health Savings
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 97) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to off-highway vehicles. [HB-121]
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
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-107]
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 student; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase in tuition or fees to be approved before March 1; amend KRS 164.131 to add 2 additional full-time student members to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, including
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
Withdrawn on 01/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to driver license regional offices. [HB-60]
Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to require the Transportation Cabinet to establish a regional driver licensing office in each senatorial district; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid managed care. [SB-24]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of managed care organizations contracted by the Department for Medicaid Services to no more than three; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Health Services (h) on 03/06/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to menstrual discharge collection devices. [HB-64]
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of menstrual discharge collection devices; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for veterans' service animals. [HB-42]
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "disability" and "service animal"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt veterinarian services and charges for veterans' service animals from the sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Thomas
2nd Reading, To Rules on 01/31/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cannabis. [HB-72]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make possession of a personal use quantity of cannabis exempt from civil or criminal penalty; amend KRS 218A.010 to define "cannabis," "personal use quantity of cannabis," and "cannabis accessory"; amend KRS 218A.1422 regarding cannabis possession to conform; amend KRS 218A.1423 regarding cannabis cultivation to conform; amend KRS 218A.500 regarding drug paraphernalia to exempt personal use cannabis accessories; amend KRS 218A.1421 regarding cannabis trafficking to exempt personal use quantities; amend
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to consumer data privacy. [HB-24]
Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to establish consumer rights relating to personal data, including the rights to confirm whether data is being processed, 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 and the sale of data; define terms; set forth the types of data and the persons or entities to which the statutory provisions do and do not apply; set forth requirements for persons or entities that control and process consumer
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Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle license plates. [HB-68]
Amends KRS 186.162 to set fees for personalized license plates for recreational vehicles and to change extra fees for additional special license plates to match their initial fee upon renewal; and amends KRS 186.174 to allow issuance of personalized vehicle license plates to recreational vehicles registered under KRS 186.050(11), and to eliminate fees for a personalized standard-issue license plate in excess of those identified in KRS 186.162; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 95) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the promotion of family well-being and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-34]
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: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for annual pap smears. [HB-63]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require coverage for an annual pap smear without cost sharing; amend KRS 304.17A-647 to conform; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 205.522, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health service benefit plans, Medicaid, 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 pap smear coverage requirement; apply requirement to health insurance policies, certificates, plans, or contracts
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the property tax homestead exemption. [HB-61]
Amend KRS 132.810 to remove the requirement that the homestead exemption be construed to mean $6,500 in terms of the purchasing power of the dollar in 1972 and the cost-of-living indexing requirement; require the amount of the homestead exemption to be 50% of the first $250,000 in assessed value for qualifying real property; EFFECTIVE only upon the ratification by voters of an amendment to Section 170 of the Kentucky Constitution.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicles. [SB-31]
Amend KRS 304.39-087 to modify the reporting of insurance information to the Department of Vehicle Regulation; require the Department of Vehicle Regulation to establish information submission format and additional information requirements; amend KRS 186A.040 to modify the Department of Vehicle Regulation's duties relating to insurance notifications in AVIS; establish conditions for when an individual's motor vehicle registration must be revoked or a license plate surrendered; establish registration reinstatement fee; create a new section of KRS
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Sponsored by: Sen. Johnnie Turner
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to consumer data privacy. [SB-15]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; set the parameters for applicability of this Act; define various consumer rights related to data collection; require a data controller to comply with a consumer request to exercise those rights; require controllers to establish a process for consumers to appeal a controller's refusal to act on a consumer's request to exercise a right; set forth requirements for persons or entities that control or process personal data; require persons who control data to conduct data protection impact assessments;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
To Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (s) on 01/03/2024