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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to driving under the influence and declaring an emergency. [HB-262]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Amend KRS 189A.103 to remove references to manufacturer's instructions for breath testing equipment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 111) on 03/27/2023
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AN ACT relating to the administration of payroll systems and declaring an emergency. [SB-7]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 336.180 to define "political activities," "candidate," "committee," "contributing organization," "contribution," "election," "electioneering communications," "fundraiser," "independent expenditure," "labor organization," "public employee," "slate of candidates," and "testimonial affair"; amend KRS 336.134 to prohibit any deduction from the wages of any public employee for any dues, fees, or charges associated with a labor organization or for political activities without a written authorization from the public employee; create new sections
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 133) on 03/29/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to venue and declaring an emergency. [SB-126]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 452.005 to establish the method for obtaining a change of venue in specified civil actions; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jason Howell
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 131) on 03/29/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to information on emergency use drugs and declaring an emergency. [SB-114]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to require that any individual who administers an unapproved drug that has been approved for emergency use by the commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration provides information; prohibit any person from being required to have an unapproved drug administered; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Health Services (s) on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing and urging the Cabinet for Health and Family Services take actions to improve emergency medical services and declaring an emergency. [HJR-38]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Human Services ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to permit the coverage of triage, treatment, and transport of patients by emergency ambulance services and submit a state Medicaid plan amendment to cover treatment in place without transportation for emergency ambulance services; urge the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for ambulance services as funds become available; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to submit a report on actions taken by August 1,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 160) on 03/31/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television and declaring an emergency. [SB-104]
[Education ]
[Telecommunications ]
Amend KRS 168.040 to revise the membership requirements of the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television; provide that terms of current members appointed by the Governor and the term of the Council on Postsecondary Education member representing the University of Kentucky shall expire upon the effective date of the Act; amend KRS 168.050 to prescribe the term lengths for newly appointed members; amend KRS 168.060 and KRS 168.070 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
Returned To State Government (h) on 03/15/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the healthcare workforce, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-105]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Create new sections of KRS 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund to enable the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), healthcare programs, and healthcare providers and facilities to match public and private dollars for the purpose of awarding scholarships to eligible students and healthcare incentives to eligible healthcare programs; provide that the moneys in the fund appropriated by the General Assembly shall lapse after the second year in a biennium budget; direct CPE to promulgate regulations to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to disaster relief funding and declaring an emergency. [SB-99]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to define "relief fund"; direct government agency head, cabinet secretary, or appointed official to provide a report and analysis of all relief funds created to accept and expend funds recieved from any source to provide assistance to entities impacted by an emergency; direct report to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by the end of each fiscal year; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Signed By Governor(acts Ch. 91) on 03/24/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibiting the enforcement of a federal ban or regulation of firearms and declaring an emergency. [SB-98]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[National Security ]
[Defense ]
[Military ]
[Crime ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; prohibit identified entities from enforcing federal firearm bans; prohibit identified entities from adopting rules, regulations, or ordinances that require enforcement of federal firearm bans; prohibit identified entities from allocating public resources or moneys in the enforcement of federal firearm bans; establish that federal laws, orders, or regulations that infringe upon Second Amendment rights shall be invalid and not recognized in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; create liability for enforcement
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Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon Storm
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/10/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-159]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[National Security ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to define terms; prohibit an identified entity from enforcing or assisting in the enforcement of, any federal law that does not exist under the laws of Kentucky and limits firearm ownership; create a Class B misdemeanor with enhancement for subsequent offenses for any government official who violates the prohibition; grant authority to the Attorney General to file a civil action in Circuit Court to enforce the prohibition; permit citizens to file complaints with the Attorney General for violations of the prohibition;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 02/07/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department for Medicaid Services to study and examine Medicaid reimbursements. [SJR-54]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to develop a proposal to link Medicaid reimbursements to Area Deprivation Index scores; submit findings and proposals to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2023; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 46) on 03/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to essential caregivers and declaring an emergency. [HB-156]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 216.505 to include psychiatric residential treatment facilities as defined in KRS 216B.450 in the definition of "facility"; include communicable disease outbreaks and resident communicable disease status to exemptions for essential personal care visitors; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (s) on 03/10/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the retirement of fossil fuel-fired electric generating units and declaring an emergency. [SB-4]
[Energy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms; prohibit the Public Service Commission from approving a request by a utility to retire a coal-fired electric generator unless the utility demonstrates that the retirement will not have a negative impact on the reliability or the resilience of the electric grid or the affordability of the customer's electric utility rate; require the Public Service Commission to submit an annual report on retirements of electric generating units by December 1 to the Legislative Research Commission; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 118) on 03/29/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [SB-5]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "harmful to minors"; require local boards of education to adopt a complaint resolution policy to address parent complaints about materials that are harmful to minors; require the school to ensure that a student whose parent has filed a complaint does not have access to the material; require the Kentucky Department of Education to promulgate model complaint resolution policy; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 120) on 03/29/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the healthcare workforce, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-200]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Mental Health ]
Create new sections of KRS 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund to enable the CPE, healthcare programs, and healthcare providers and facilities to match public and private dollars for the purpose of awarding scholarships to eligible students and healthcare incentives to eligible healthcare programs; provide that the moneys in the fund appropriated by the General Assembly shall lapse after the second year in a biennium budget; direct CPE to promulgate regulations to administer the Act; require at least
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 65) on 03/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to youth mental health protection and declaring an emergency. [HB-162]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Rights ]
[Funding ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define "sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts," "mental health professional," and "public funds"; prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a person under 18 years of age, a person who is 18 years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020, or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for sexual orientation and gender identity
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-146]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Unemployment ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the Office of Unemployment Insurance to advise a claimant approved for benefits of additional benefits, training opportunities, and financial aid resources available; amend KRS 341.005 to add training provided under the Trade Act of 1974 to the definition of approved training, and add disaster unemployment assistance and trade readjustment allowances to the programs not considered as enhanced benefits; amend KRS 341.100 create comprehensive list of conditions the secretary shall take into consideration
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Sponsored by: Rep. Russell Webber
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 80) on 03/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to banning social media applications from public agency technology and declaring an emergency. [HB-155]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit the use or download of TikTok on any network or device under the control of a public agency; define "public agency"; direct the Commonwealth Office of Technology and public agencies to implement controls to block access to TikTok on networks or devices under the control of a public agency; permit the judicial branch of state government to implement its own ban and restrictions of TikTok; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Introduced In House on 02/07/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to deficient administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. [SB-65]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify an administrative regulation and any subsequently filed amendments after that administrative regulation was found deficient during the 2022 legislative interim; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 137) on 03/29/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children and declaring an emergency. [HB-177]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 405 to establish definitions; provide for parental rights; establish that no governmental entity shall substantially burden the rights of parents unless required by a compelling governmental interest of the highest order and in the least restrictive means; establish specific rights of parents, with some limitations; provide that specific governmental employees shall not encourage or coerce a child to withhold information from a parent; recognize additional rights beyond those enumerated; require local boards of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Judiciary (h) on 02/23/2023