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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to service credit for the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [SB-279]
Amend KRS 161.500 to allow members of the Teachers' Retirement System to recover up to 10 unpaid days that were missed to observe religious holidays; include the recovered days in count of days worked for service credit; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/28/2024
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AN ACT relating to service credit for the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [SB-274]
Amend KRS 161.500 to allow members of the Teachers' Retirement System to recover up to 10 unpaid days that were missed to observe religious holidays; include the recovered days in count of days worked for service credit; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/28/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the smoking cessation program, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-813]
Appropriate certain General Fund moneys to the Department for Public Health to support the Smoking Cessation Program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to jails and declaring an emergency. [HB-12]
Create a new section of KRS 441.420 to 441.450 to prohibit the building, reconstructing, remodeling, or renovation of a jail unless it is a regional jail and the General Assembly provides express approval; provide exceptions to the prohibition including where a court has ordered jail construction, construction is necessary to comply with state or federal law or regulations, or to replace or rebuild a facility following a catastrophic event; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to political spending by public school districts and declaring an emergency. [HB-831]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a public school district, public school, or public charter school or educational cooperative from expending any money from whatever source to advocate for against any public question that appears on the ballot; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Shane Baker
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic relief for local communities of the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency. [HB-723]
Amends KRS 147A.154 and 147A.158 to sunset the existing Government Resources Accelerating Needed Transformation (GRANT) Program as established in the Department for Local Government and to transfer the moneys in the existing fund to the Cabinet for Economic Development to be used in the GRANT Program of 2024; creates subchapter 14 within KRS Chapter 154 to establish the GRANT Program of 2024 under the cabinet, to define terms, to establish the duties of the cabinet in the implementation of the program subject to the approval of the GRANT commission,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Heath
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 188) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to venue and declaring an emergency. [HB-804]
Amends KRS 452.010, 452.030, 452.050, and 452.090 to establish application for a transfer for a change in venue in specified actions; and amends KRS 452.005 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 189) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION establishing a Workforce Attraction and Retention Task Force to study how Kentucky can attract and retain skilled workers to address workforce needs throughout the state and declaring an emergency. [SJR-176]
Establish the Workforce Attraction and Retention Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim of the General Assembly; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to hire the consulting and strategic firm and provide a report to the task force by November 1, 2024; require the task force to submit a report by December 1, 2024, for referral to the appropriate committee or committees by December 31, 2024; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Vetoed And Delivered With Veto Message To Secretary Of State on 04/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state holidays and declaring an emergency. [SB-264]
Amend KRS 2.110 to add the nineteenth day of June as a state holiday commemorating Juneteenth National Freedom Day; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to municipal payments to counties for jails and declaring an emergency. [HB-687]
Amend KRS 441.035 to require cities to enter into an interlocal agreement with the county to subsidize the cost of lodging persons in jail who were arrested in the boundaries of the city; provide for a default payment if a contract is not agreed to; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Dotson
Introduced In House on 02/23/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television and declaring an emergency. [HB-686]
Amend KRS 168.040 to revise the membership requirements of the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television; require members appointed by the Governor be confirmed by the Senate; require the executive director of the authority to recommend a member of the arts community with at least five years experience in a profession pertaining to arts and culture to the Governor, and require Senate confirmation of the appointment; provide that the term of any member appointed by the Governor who has been employed with the executive branch of state government
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Introduced In House on 02/23/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to information on emergency use drugs and declaring an emergency. [SB-267]
Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to require that any person who administers an unapproved drug, devise, or biologic that has been approved for emergency use by the secretary of the United States Food and Drug Administration provides information to the individual receiving the unapproved drug, devise, or biologic; prohibit any person from requiring an individual to have an unapproved drug, devise, or biologic administered to him or her; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Health Services (s) on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Bible literacy courses in the public schools and declaring an emergency. [HB-650]
Amend KRS 158.197 to permit school-based decision making councils to offer Bible literacy courses to students in grade seven and above, permit such courses to count as language arts courses; amend KRS 156.162 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations permitting Bible literacy courses as language arts courses, require the Kentucky Department of Education to create guidelines for schools in developing and implementing Bible literacy courses; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
To Education (h) on 02/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Office of Safer Communities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-665]
Amend KRS 12.020 to place the Office of Safer Communities under the oversight of the Cabinet for General Government; create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to establish the Office of Safer Communities; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2024-2025 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
Introduced In House on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION facilitating the deployment of broadband internet service to unserved and underserved citizens in the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency. [SJR-175]
Directs the Public Service Commission to promulgate emergency administrative regulations on utility pole attachments for broadband service providers that will address the backlog of pole attachment requests; establishes parameters for preventing delays and backlogs of requests; requires the Public Service Commission to open a docket to receive comments and requests from affected parties; and requires the Public Service Commission to issue a quarterly report to the Legislative Research Commission beginning September 30, 2024; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 71) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of medical professionals and declaring an emergency. [SB-239]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant providers the right not to participate in or pay for services that violate their conscience; exempt providers from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit the State Board of Medical Licensure from reprimanding medical practitioners and require the board
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
Received In House on 03/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [SB-232]
Repeal and reenact KRS 162.060 to establish that local boards of education shall submit all plans for new public school buildings or additions or alterations of old buildings to the chief state school officer, but prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education from requiring prior approval of the district's plans; amend KRS 156.160 to provide for the approval and appeal process for a district's purchase or disposal of real property; amend KRS 157.420 conform; establish the requirements for a district facilities plan; amend KRS 157.440, 157.615, 157.620,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to road projects and declaring an emergency. [HB-266]
Sets out the 2024-2026 Biennial Highway Construction Plan; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 153) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency. [HB-595]
Amends KRS 13B.020 to remove the Registry of Election Finance from the list of agencies exempt from conducting administrative hearings pursuant to that chapter; amends KRS 67C.135 to require that county clerks mail voters a notice informing them of their current legislative council district and member upon the completion of reapportionment; amends KRS 116.085 to require that county clerks mail voters a notice informing them of their current district number, state representative, and state senator upon the enactment of a new redistricting plan; amends
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 107) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the valuation of motor vehicles for property tax purposes and declaring an emergency. [HB-590]
Amend KRS 132.4851 to exempt a portion of the property taxes assessed on motor vehicles for the January 1, 2024, and January 1, 2025, assessment dates; mandate that the Department of Revenue and county clerks work together to establish procedures for refunds; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
Introduced In House on 02/20/2024