AN ACT relating to the Kentucky problem gambling assistance fund, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-609]
[Gaming ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections in that chapter to establish the Kentucky problem gambling assistance fund as a revolving account; describe the authorized purposes for the use of fund moneys; establish the Kentucky Problem Gambling Assistance Board to administer, organize, invest, and distribute money from the fund; allow $150,000 from the fund for annual administrative expenses of the board; set board membership, procedures, powers, and duties; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish criteria for
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HB-609: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky problem gambling assistance fund, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Koenig
Returned To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/30/2022
You have voted HB-609: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky problem gambling assistance fund, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency..
HB-687: AN ACT relating to authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state which have been duly audited and approved according to law and have not been paid because of the lapsing or insufficiency of former appropriations against which the claims were chargeable or the lack of an appropriate procurement document in place, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 106) on 04/08/2022
You have voted HB-687: AN ACT relating to authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state which have been duly audited and approved according to law and have not been paid because of the lapsing or insufficiency of former appropriations against which the claims were chargeable or the lack of an appropriate procurement document in place, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency..
AN ACT relating to mobile crisis services, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-645]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define new terms; establish the mobile crisis services fund within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish requirements Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) must adhere to in order to apply for a loan; require the cabinet to determine the terms and conditions of each loan, review and adjudicate applications, monitor performance of each CMHC, and report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; require that the fund created be a trust and agency account, require
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HB-645: AN ACT relating to mobile crisis services, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/16/2022
AN ACT relating to employee right of action and declaring an emergency. [HB-664]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; create a cause of action brought by an employee against a private or public employer if an employee suffers an adverse reaction to a vaccination received pursuant to an employer vaccination policy; require damages; waive sovereign immunity; cite as the Citizen Health Mandate Protection Act; EMERGENCY.
HB-664: AN ACT relating to employee right of action and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 02/28/2022
AN ACT relating to essential caregivers and declaring an emergency. [SB-243]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Human Services ]
Amend Section 1 of 2022 RS SB 100/EN, 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 1, to include communicable disease outbreaks and resident disease status to when an essential personal care visitor is permitted; EMERGENCY.
SB-243: AN ACT relating to essential caregivers and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/01/2022
AN ACT relating to entertainment activities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-610]
[Gaming ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Taxes ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Public Safety ]
[Funding ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Crime ]
Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections relating to fantasy contests and online poker; define terms; establish requirements for fantasy contest procedures and for registration as a fantasy contest operator; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for the operation of fantasy contests; establish the wagering administration fund and direct the uses of that fund; require an annual audit of fantasy contest registrants; require any person offering online poker in the Commonwealth to have a license from the cabinet and require
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HB-610: AN ACT relating to entertainment activities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Koenig
Taken From Committee On Committees (h) on 03/14/2022
AN ACT relating to drugs and medicines and declaring an emergency. [SB-246]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that an independent institution or postsecondary educational institution that requires a student to receive an immunization for disease must allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violations of the requirement; amend KRS 209.52 to allow vaccine requirement exemptions at long-term care facilities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to provide that a health facility that requires an employee to receive an immunization for disease must allow exemptions; establish a cause
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SB-246: AN ACT relating to drugs and medicines and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/01/2022
AN ACT relating to incentive programs and declaring an emergency. [SB-249]
[Energy ]
[Taxes ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Amend KRS 154.20-258 to allow a tax credit of up to 40 percent if the contribution is made to an investment fund approved by the authority prior to January 1, 2023, and 25 percent if the contribution is made to an investment fund approved by the authority on or after January 1, 2023; amend KRS 65.7047 to add that if the city or county pledges occupational license taxes or fees as part of the local tax revenue to support local development areas, it may contract for the services of a qualified independent outside consultant or financial adviser, making
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SB-249: AN ACT relating to incentive programs and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 146) on 04/08/2022
You have voted SB-232: AN ACT relating to an online tangible personal property tax filing system, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency..
AN ACT relating to retirement funds of urban-county governments and declaring an emergency. [SB-224]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 67A.360 to define "surviving spouse" for purposes of surviving spouse benefits under the urban-county government police and fire pension fund; modify the name of the fund to be gender neutral; make a conforming amendment; amend KRS 67A.345, 67A.370, and 67A.655 to conform due to changing the name of the urban-county government police and fire pension fund; amend KRS 67A.430 to provide that salary shall be credited to an urban-county government police and fire pension fund member's account for periods when the member's salary is reduced
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SB-224: AN ACT relating to retirement funds of urban-county governments and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 140) on 04/08/2022
AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and declaring an emergency. [HB-605]
[Animals ]
[Tourism ]
[Public Safety ]
[Sports ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Recreation ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to conduct all procurements necessary for its performance pursuant to KRS Chapter 45A or pursuant to administrative regulations it promulgates; provide that the department's procurement procedures or administrative regulations be designed with the best interests of the Commonwealth, the department, and the public in mind; allow the department to conduct its own bidding and procurements or to utilize the services of the Finance and Administration Cabinet,
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HB-605: AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Introduced In House on 02/25/2022
AN ACT relating to reading diagnostic and intervention grants and declaring and emergency. [SB-215]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.792 to include the employment of reading interventionists as a purpose of the reading diagnostic and intervention fund; prevent the state board of education from limiting grant recipients from expending grant funds for authorized purposes; direct that grant applications currently under consideration shall be subject to this Act; EMERGENCY.
SB-215: AN ACT relating to reading diagnostic and intervention grants and declaring and emergency.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Education (s) on 02/28/2022
AN ACT relating to stream and wetland mitigation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-218]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Construction ]
[Mining ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Real Estate ]
[Energy ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 150 to establish definitions; authorize the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to make acquisitions for compensatory mitigation projects; clarify who holds interests in the property for acquisition types, including alternative delivery procurement; allow for the acquisition price of interests to be greater by no more than five percent of the appraised value when using comparable sales comparison or market approach appraisal methods; allow the department to procure construction contracting for compensatory
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SB-218: AN ACT relating to stream and wetland mitigation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robin Webb
To Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 02/28/2022
AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency. [HB-564]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Amend various sections of KRS Chapters 116, 117, 118, and 119 relating to no-excuse in-person absentee voting, establishing excused in-person absentee voting, prohibiting the early disclosure of unofficial ballot count totals, requiring a tamper resistant seal to be placed on voting equipment, recording the public counter on voting machines before and after the days of in-person absentee voting, changing the time from which the State Board of Elections is required to furnish the county clerk with the appropriate voter registration list prior to
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HB-564: AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 87) on 04/07/2022
AN ACT relating to Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources conservation officers and declaring an emergency. [HB-572]
[Animals ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Funding ]
[Human Rights ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to establish qualification requirements, salary schedules, and rate structures for conservation officers employed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and exempt them from the requirements of KRS Chapter 18A; establish years-of-service requirements for the salary schedules; establish terms and conditions for conservation officer promotions to sergeant, lieutenant, and captain; limit the number of supervisory officers to a ratio not to exceed one supervisor for every five nonsupervisory officers;
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HB-572: AN ACT relating to Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources conservation officers and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Introduced In House on 02/23/2022
AN ACT relating to aviation. [HB-545]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Aerospace ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 183 to establish the aviation development fund and appropriate moneys in the fund for the purpose of expanding educational opportunities in the field of aviation and aeronautics and promote aviation programs in the Commonwealth; direct the Department of Aviation to establish an aviation development grant program and specify expenditure levels in the aviation development fund for different purposes; set forth criteria for judging grant proposals, an application, and award schedule; create reporting requirements
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HB-545: AN ACT relating to aviation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Melinda Prunty
Returned To Transportation (s) on 03/25/2022
AN ACT relating to the disclosure of laboratory test results and declaring an emergency. [HB-529]
[Healthcare ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 333 to prohibit information blocking of medical laboratory reports or tests except for results that may show a finding of malignancy or could reveal genetic markers, which are prohibited from disclosure for 72 hours; amend KRS 333.150 to require medical laboratory compliance with the 21st Century Cures Act; EMERGENCY.
HB-529: AN ACT relating to the disclosure of laboratory test results and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Killian Timoney
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 93) on 04/08/2022
AN ACT relating to health and welfare and declaring an emergency. [SB-178]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 309.0834 to require the Kentucky Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors to promulgate administrative regulations to exempt applicants for certification as clinical supervisors from meeting certain requirements for a limited amount of time if the applicants were licensed and approved on March 24, 2021; permits applicants granted certification to supervise immediately; requires applicants after the limited time period to meet all requirements for certification; EMERGENCY.
SB-178: AN ACT relating to health and welfare and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 223) on 04/20/2022