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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the electric vehicle power tax and declaring an emergency. [HB-398]
Amend KRS 138.477 to exclude from the electric vehicle power tax any electric vehicle power dealer with a charging station having a charging capacity of less than 50 kilowatts; RETROACTIVE to January 1, 2024; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/06/2024
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A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the release of capital construction funds to the Department of Parks for improvements to Kentucky State Parks and declaring an emergency. [HJR-56]
Authorizes the Office of State Budget Director to release capital construction funds totaling $71 million to the Department of Parks for specific upgrades to state parks; and requires reporting on the status of state park projects by the Department of Parks to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.28) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle usage tax and declaring an emergency. [HB-389]
Amend KRS 138.470 to exempt active members of the Armed Forces assigned to Kentucky who are on temporary duty in other locations and members of the Kentucky National Guard from motor vehicle usage tax on vehicles purchased from Kentucky motor vehicle dealers; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to drugs and medicines and declaring an emergency. [SB-135]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that an independent institution or postsecondary education institution that requires a student to receive an immunization for disease shall allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violation of the requirement; amend KRS 209.552 to allow vaccine requirement exemptions at long-term care facilities and make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to provide that a health facility that requires an employee to receive an immunization for disease shall allow
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Health Services (s) on 01/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local government and declaring an emergency. [HB-388]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to provide that members of local boards, commissions, committees, and other bodies created by or appointed by consolidated local governments have geographic diversity; amends KRS 67C.103 to require that the election of council members in a consolidated local government be nonpartisan; amends KRS 67C.105 to require that the election of a mayor in a consolidated local government be nonpartisan; amends KRS 67C.111, regarding incorporation and annexation of cities in a county containing a consolidated local government,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 181) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children and declaring an emergency. [HB-376]
Amend KRS 158.1415 to remove provisions related to parental rights and courses, curriculums, or programs on human sexuality, provide for a process for parents to opt out of their child receiving instruction on the subject of human sexuality; amend KRS 158.191 to remove provisions requiring a school obtain parental consent prior to providing health services or mental health services to students; remove language concerning policies to encourage or facilitate conversations between parents and students; remove language limiting Kentucky Board of Education
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Introduced In House on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teacher recruitment and retention, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-377]
Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Teacher Recruitment Student Loan Forgiveness Pilot Program, to defines eligibility for the program, to direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program, to provides monetary awards for student loan repayment for eligible students who complete qualified teaching service, to establish the Teacher Recruitment Student Loan Forgiveness Pilot Program fund, to establish the Student Teacher Stipend Program; defines eligibility for the program, to direct the Kentucky
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 139) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-345]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establish the membership of the committee; establish the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; require that the portion of the fund expended towards the council's administrative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-127]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establishes the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establishes the membership of the committee; establishes the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; requires that the portion of the fund expended toward the council’s administrative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 109) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to in line of duty disability benefits and declaring an emergency. [HB-349]
Amend KRS 61.702 and 78.5536 to provide full hospital and medical insurance benefits for a member, their spouse, and their dependents if the member becomes disabled in the line of duty with a hazardous disability; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sick leave for members of the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [SB-4]
Amend KRS 161.155 to specify that sick leave payments made to certified school employees who began participating in the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) prior to January 1, 2022, and who retire from TRS on or after July 1, 2024, shall be limited to the sick leave accrued by the employee as of June 30, 2024, plus no more than 10 additional sick leave days accrued each fiscal year thereafter; provide that the 10 additional days eligible for payment shall not include personal leave, emergency leave, or other forms of non-sick leave balances; require
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to youth mental health protection and declaring an emergency. [HB-330]
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
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education and declaring an emergency. [HB-9]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Floor Amendments (1), (2) And (3) Filed on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to vegetation around railroad crossings and declaring an emergency. [HB-315]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require railroad companies to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation upon and within the geographical bounds of its right-of-way at each intersection with a public road or highway; require the Transportation Cabinet to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation when a railroad company fails to do so; require the railroad company to reimburse the Transportation Cabinet for costs of the removal; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 01/19/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the establishment of the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board of the Kentucky General Assembly and declaring an emergency. [HB-316]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to define terms; establish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board of the Kentucky General Assembly to review, analyze, study, evaluate, provide legislative oversight, and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding any aspect of the Kentucky Medicaid Program; establish board membership, authority, and duties; amend KRS 7A.010, 7A.140, 7A.150, and 7A.180 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Received In Senate on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to road projects and declaring an emergency. [HB-303]
Set out the Governor's recommended 2024-2026 Biennial Highway Construction Plan; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 01/23/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to federal law enforcement officers as peace officers in this state and declaring an emergency. [SB-115]
Amend KRS 61.365 to remove the authority of delineated federal law enforcement officers to act as peace officers in this state; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/07/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [HB-304]
Amend KRS 158.191 to ensure parental rights and involvement by requiring notification within two business days of specific events; require a district to adopt procedures that both encourage students to speak with parents and require facilitation of the discussion with parents; forbid a district or school from adopting policies that keep any student information confidential from parents or refuse information requested by a parent with specific exceptions; forbid a district from requiring school personnel or students to use nonconforming pronouns
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Floor Amendment (2) Filed on 03/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the profession of education. [HB-300]
Amends KRS 161.120 to establish the process and procedures for the Education Professional Standards Board to receive and process a complaint against a certificate holder, to establish a specific timeline, to establish specific actions the board may take, to require confirmation of receipt of responses or correspondences to the board from a certificate holder, to requires the board to provide confirmation of receipt to superintendents who submit a report to the board and provide specific notices, to establishes a specific timeline for a hearing for
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Sponsored by: Rep. D. Wade Williams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 209) on 04/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT amending the 2022-2024 State/Executive Branch biennial budget, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-262]
Amend the 2022-2024 State/Executive Branch biennial budget to implement a cap for disaster or emergency aid funds under the Military Affairs budget unit in fiscal year 2023-2024 and for the necessary government expense under the Adult Correctional Institutions budget unit in fiscal year 2023-2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Returned To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/08/2024