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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to female genital mutilation. [HB-285]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to define "female genital mutilation" and create the Class B felony of female genital mutilation; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop, produce, and disseminate educational materials related to female genital mutilation; amend KRS 15.334 to require law enforcement training on female genital mutilation; amend KRS 311.595 to require a conviction of female genital mutilation to result in mandatory revocation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Posting Withdrawn on 02/24/2020
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AN ACT relating to death-in-line-of-duty benefits and declaring an emergency. [HB-271]
Amend KRS 16.601 and 61.621 to remove provisions which reduce line of duty or duty-related death benefits upon remarriage; establish non-codified sections to: provide that an eligible surviving spouse who has subsequently remarried shall have their benefit increased; provide that an eligible surviving spouse of a member whose death was determined by the systems to be a direct result of an act in line of duty or a duty-related injury, but chose to receive monthly death benefits in lieu of line of duty benefits, shall receive line of duty or duty-related
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 46) on 03/27/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to technical corrections to various tax statutes and declaring an emergency. [HB-261]
Amend KRS 131.183 to clarify that the application of interest does not apply to the addition of tax for estimated tax purposes; amend KRS 131.250 to allow the Department of Revenue to determine which returns, reports, or statements should be electronically filed; amend KRS 133.225 to require certain specific information to be posted on the Department of Revenue's website related to the assessment of property and the property tax calendar; amend KRS 138.220 to clarify when motor fuel dealers are to be notified about a change to the average wholesale
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Rudy
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/26/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state-supported universities and community colleges participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [HB-262]
Amend KRS 61.522 to permit a state-supported university or community college ceasing participation in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) nonhazardous plan by June 30, 2020, under the provisions of subsection (8) of KRS 61.522 (2019 SS HB 1), to make an election to retain participation in the retirement plan for only its existing employees who began participating in the systems administered by the Kentucky Retirement Systems prior to September 1, 2008, (Tier I) and, upon its effective cessation date, cease the participation of its existing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To State Government (h) on 01/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state-supported universities and community colleges participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [SB-88]
Amend KRS 61.522 to permit a state-supported university or community college ceasing participation in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) nonhazardous plan by June 30, 2020, under the provisions of subsection (8) of KRS 61.522 (2019 SS HB 1), to make an election to retain participation in the retirement plan for only its existing employees who began participating in the systems administered by the Kentucky Retirement Systems prior to September 1, 2008, (Tier I) and, upon its effective cessation date, cease the participation of its existing
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Sponsored by: Sen. Wil Schroder
To State & Local Government (s) on 01/16/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school safety and declaring an emergency. [SB-8]
amend KRS 158.441 to clarify the definition of "school resource officer"; amend KRS 158.4412 to allow the superintendent to specify any individual to serve as the district's school safety coordinator; amend KRS 158.4414 to clarify which facilities are required to have school resource officers and to require that school resource officers are armed with a firearm; amend KRS 158.4416 to specify that the goal is to have at least one school counselor per public school and to have at least one school counselor or school-based mental health services provider
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 5) on 02/21/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of born-alive infants and abortion and declaring an emergency. [SB-9]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit a person from denying or depriving a born-alive infant of nourishment with the intent to cause or allow the death of the infant; prohibit a person from denying or depriving a born-alive infant of medically appropriate and reasonable medical care, medical treatment, or surgical care; require a physician performing an abortion to take all medically appropriate and reasonable steps to preserve the life and health of a born-alive infant; specify that if the physician is unable to perform those duties
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Vetoed on 04/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health protection and declaring an emergency. [SB-85]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 define "conversion therapy," "mental health professional," and "public funds"; prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with a person under 18 years of age or 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 conversion therapy; add the short title "Mental Health Protection Act"; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julian Carroll
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (s) on 01/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the deputy and state veterinarian and declaring an emergency. [HB-238]
Amend KRS 257.210 to remove residency requirement for the state veterinarian; make technical corrections, amend KRS 257.240 to remove residency requirement for the deputy state veterinarian; make technical corrections; EMERGENCY
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Heath
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 13) on 03/16/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hemp and declaring an emergency. [HB-236]
Amend KRS 250.355 to allow the Department of Agriculture to establish hemp testing procedures; create a new section of KRS 260.850 to 260.869 to set forth requirements for the transportation of hemp or hemp products; amend KRS 260.850 and 260.852, 260.860, 260.864, and 260.866 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 260.858 to specify unlawful conduct; amend KRS 260.862 to specify licensure requirements; repeal KRS 260.867; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Heath
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 1) on 02/10/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to commercial mobile radio service charges and declaring an emergency. [HB-208]
Amend KRS 65.7636 to remove the ability of Lifeline providers to bill and collect the CMRS service charge levied under the section from end users; make conforming changes; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rob Rothenburger
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 37) on 03/27/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health protection and declaring an emergency. [HB-199]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 define conversion therapy, mental health professional, and public funds; to prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with a person under eighteen (18) years of age or a person who is eighteen (18) years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020 or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510 in conversion therapy; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for conversion therapy; add the short title "Mental Health Protection Act";
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Health And Family Services (h) on 01/09/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency medical service fees and declaring an emergency. [HB-100]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to allow a fiscal court to levy a fee on certain units for the provision of emergency medical services; define units subject to fee; require fee to be placed on tax bill; allow collection by sheriff in the same manner as for property taxes; allow sheriff to receive up to 4.25% fee for collection; define "residential," "commercial," "charitable," and "educational" units; allow levy on occupied or unoccupied units or both, occupation determined at time of initial levy and July 1 thereafter; require fee increases
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Duplessis
Posted In Committee on 01/15/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public records and declaring an emergency. [HB-174]
Amend KRS 61.878 to exclude from the Open Records Act gruesome photographs or videos of persons prepared, owned, used, possessed, or retained by public agencies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Melinda Prunty
Returned To State & Local Government (s) on 03/18/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of pension income, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-35]
Amend KRS 141.019 to increase the pension income exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110; apply retroactively for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018; require the Department of Revenue to automatically issue refunds; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-45]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to specify definitions for "assault weapons," "large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices," and "ammunition sellers"; 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; amend KRS 395.250 to require an estate's inventory to list each firearm; amend KRS 403.735 to require judges, when issuing an order of protection, to consider whether a person against whom the order is entered should be prohibited
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Sponsored by: Rep. Reginald Meeks
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-58]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Community and Technical College endowment match fund; transfer $3 million annually to the fund from general fund; authorize promulgation of administrative regulations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Thomas
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT creating and funding a Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority loan for a qualifying public medical center located in a city of the first class, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-99]
Appropriate to the Cabinet for Economic Development General Fund moneys in the amount of $50,000,000 in fiscal year 2019-2020 for the establishment and implementation of the Direct Health Care Services and Research Facilities Operations Loan; set out parameters for the Direct Health Care Services and Research Facilities Operations Loan; direct the University of Louisville to provide an annual report detailing the status of any loan agreement granted under the Direct Health Care Services and Research Facilities Operations Loan for as long as the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 33) on 03/25/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to community healthcare foundations by providing for the approval and oversight of not-for-profit hospital, health maintenance organization, and healthcare insurer conversions, and declaring an emergency. [HB-75]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to provide definitions concerning nonprofit healthcare conversion transactions; provide notification requirements; require the Attorney General to notify a nonprofit healthcare entity regarding the status of a decision; require that the Attorney General to hold public meetings related to the proposed nonprofit healthcare conversion transaction; specify what the Attorney General must consider in determining whether to approve or disapprove a proposed nonprofit healthcare conversion transaction including a requirement
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student privacy and declaring a emergency. [HB-132]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to ensure that student privacy exists in school restrooms, locker rooms, and showers; require students born male to use only those facilities designated to be used by males and students born female to use only those facilities designated to be used by females; require schools to provide the best available accommodation to students who assert that their gender is different from their biological sex; identify consequences for using facilities designated for the opposite biological sex; identify the Act as the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Posted In Committee on 02/21/2020