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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages and declaring an emergency. [HB-415]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 243.027 to clarify requirements to hold direct shipper license, allow the usage of a third party to fulfill orders, require licensees to register with the Department of Revenue, and allow Kentucky manufacturers with a direct shippers license to send samples under certain conditions; amend KRS 243.028 to conform with third party shipments; amend KRS 241.060 to clarify administrative regulation for direct shipper license application; amend KRS 243.020 to allow for third party shipments and to remove limitations on storage; amend KRS 243.029
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Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Koenig
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 13) on 03/12/2021
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AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-413]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Unemployment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Taxes ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
[Economic Development ]
[Insurance ]
Create a new section of KRS 341 to implement a reporting requirement regarding the unemployment trust fund and wages subject to tax; amend KRS 341.030 to suspend any increase in the taxable wage base and utilize the taxable wage base in effect for the 2020 year; amend KRS 341.270 to indicate that employer contribution rates in 2021 and 2022 shall be determined using the rates listed in Schedule A of Table A; amend KRS 341.530 to provide that benefits related to a state of emergency or disaster declaration shall be paid from the pooled account and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 177) on 04/01/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to appropriations and declaring an emergency. [HB-405]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Appropriate funds for the payment of claims against the Commonwealth; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 176) on 04/01/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to preserving the right of Kentuckians to own and use firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-445]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[National Security ]
[Crime ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to state legislative findings and make declarations that all federal laws and regulations commandeering state or local law enforcement to enforce federal restrictions of firearms are invalid and of no effect in Kentucky and that the General Assembly has the duty to enact all measures to prevent their enforcement; that the General Assembly has the duty to protect and defend the state and federal constitutions; that proposed presidential actions relating to the acquisition, possession, and use of firearms and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Introduced In House on 02/09/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and declaring an emergency. [HB-452]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Require school districts to reopen when 80% of certified personnel and 80% of classified personnel are vaccinated for COVID-19; establish public reporting requirements for the school personnel vaccination rate; provide that an action may be filed against the local school district due to a violation of the section's requirements; prohibit mask wearing requirements in the Commonwealth related to COVID-19 once 70% of the adult population is vaccinated; provide that the Act shall expire on February 29, 2024; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 02/09/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to executive orders and declaring an emergency. [SB-213]
[Public Health ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Public Safety ]
Invalidate Executive Order 2020-0215 relating to the declaration of emergency in response to the novel coronavirus; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
Introduced In Senate on 02/09/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to water district commissioners and declaring an emergency. [HB-393]
[Water ]
Amend KRS 74.020 to allow the Public Service Commission to grant reasonable extensions of time not to exceed six months for water district commissioners to complete their training requirements; amend KRS 74.363 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Gooch
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 43) on 03/18/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug counselors and declaring an emergency. [SB-166]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Mental Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 309 to require alcohol and drug counselors to meet requirements for licensure; amend KRS 309.080 to define licensed alcohol and drug counselor; amend KRS 309.0805, KRS 309.0813, and KRS 309.088 to add licensed alcohol and drug counselor; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 107) on 03/24/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to water pollution control and declaring an emergency. [HB-386]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Energy ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of Subchapter 16 of KRS Chapter 224 to require that mixing zones for bioaccumulative chemicals of concern established on or before September 8, 2004, remain in effect until explicitly extinguished by the Energy and Environment Cabinet; require that any change or extinguishment of mixing zone assignments for bioaccumulative chemicals of concern only be accomplished through the promulgation of administrative regulations; define "rapid and complete mixing"; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to apply rapid and complete mixing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Duplessis
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 103) on 03/24/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to supplementary education and declaring an emergency. [HB-369]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allow public high school students currently enrolled in Kentucky to request to use the 2021-2022 school year as a supplemental school year to retake and supplement coursework already completed; require local boards of education to either approve or deny all requests; allow Kentucky nonpublic schools to also implement supplemental school years; ensure students utilizing supplemental school years are not ineligible to participate in KHSAA activities; raise age limit for KHSAA activities to 20 for those students utilizing supplemental school years;
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Introduced In House on 02/04/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to businesses impacted by the COVID-19 response, making an appropriation therefor and declaring an emergency. [HB-360]
[Small Business ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Economic Development ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Direct that any individual or business penalized by business license restrictions or fines under the Governor's emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic shall have their license restored and fines refunded APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/23/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to preserving the right of Kentuckians to own and use firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-361]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[National Security ]
[Crime ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to state legislative findings and make declarations that all federal laws and regulations commandeering state or local law enforcement to enforce federal restrictions of firearms are invalid and of no effect in Kentucky and that the General Assembly has the duty to enact all measures to prevent their enforcement; that the General Assembly has the duty to protect and defend the state and federal constitutions; that proposed presidential actions relating to the acquisition, possession, and use of firearms and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Melinda Prunty
Introduced In House on 02/03/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public records and declaring an emergency. [SB-130]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 61.878 to exclude from the Open Records Act photographs or videos that depict a person's death, killing, rape, or sexual assault or abuse; cite as the Bailey Holt-Preston Cope Victims Privacy Act; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/04/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pari-mutuel wagering and declaring an emergency. [SB-120]
[Gaming ]
Amend KRS 230.210 to define "licensed premises," "pari-mutuel wagering," and to amend the definition of "track"; amend KRS 230.361 to restrict wagering at simulcast facilities to pari-mutuel wagering on simulcasting; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 8) on 02/22/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to advertising devices and declaring an emergency. [HB-328]
[Media and Advertising ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Amend KRS 177.830 to redefine "advertising device" and define "compensation"; amend KRS 177.841 to establish that the section does not apply to directional or other official signs; amend KRS 177.860 to set forth devices that are not a violation; amend KRS 177.863 relating to on-premise advertising; EMERGENCY
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 44) on 03/18/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to executive branch ethics and declaring an emergency. [SB-153]
[Ethics ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Gaming ]
Amend KRS 11A.010 to include members and employees of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission in the definition of "officer"; and amend KRS 230.230 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Received In House on 03/01/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to supplementary education and declaring an emergency. [SB-128]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allow public high school students currently enrolled in Kentucky to request to use the 2021-2022 school year as a supplemental school year to retake and supplement coursework already completed; require local boards of education to either approve or deny all requests; allow Kentucky nonpublic schools to also implement supplemental school years; ensure students utilizing supplemental school years are not ineligible to participate in KHSAA activities; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 108) on 03/24/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child care and declaring an emergency. [SB-148]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Create a new section of KRS 65.870 to 65.879 to establish definitions and requirements on a local government related to certified family child-care homes; amend KRS 199.896 to specify the topics that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may promulgate administrative regulations related to child-care centers; specify that total number of children and specific class and group sizes for child-care centers cannot be below the level in place on February 1, 2020, except for a period of 30 days; amend KRS 199.8982 related to requirements on a local
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 172) on 03/30/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to social media Web sites. [SB-111]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Media and Advertising ]
[Human Rights ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 establishing that the owner or operator of a social media Web site is subject to a private cause of action by a social media Web site user in this state under specified conditions; establish entitlement to damages, including the award of reasonable attorney fees and costs; specify that hate speech shall not constitute a defense to violation of this Act; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action on behalf of a social media Web site user; establish a violation under deceptive trade practices; provide
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Introduced In Senate on 01/13/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to exceptions to immunization requirements and declaring an emergency. [SB-117]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to allow an independent institution or postsecondary educational institution to require a student to receive a vaccination for disease if exemption provisions are allowed; create a new section of KRS 216B to allow a health facility to require an employee to receive a vaccination for disease if exemption provisions are allowed; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To Education (s) on 02/04/2021