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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government agencies, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-1]
Appropriates General Fund moneys from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund Account in fiscal years 2023-2024, 2024-2025, and 2025-2026 to various state agencies for miscellaneous projects and programs, and appropriates Restricted Funds from the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund to Criminal Justice Training and State Police for various projects and purchases; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 173) on 04/12/2024
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AN ACT relating to the public defender system and declaring an emergency. [HB-277]
Amends KRS 15A.020 to add new divisions to the organization of the Department of Public Advocacy (DPA); amends KRS 18A.115 to transfer the employees of the Louisville and Jefferson County Public Defender Corporation (Louisville Metro Public Defender) to the state personnel system; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to transfer employees of Louisville Metro Public Defender to DPA on July 1, 2024, to provide employment and retirement benefits to the transferred employees based on their employment date with the Louisville Metro Public Defender,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 143) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to low-speed vehicles and declaring an emergency. [HB-249]
Amend KRS 189.282, regarding low-speed vehicles, to expressly exempt low-speed vehicles which meet the standards of 49 C.F.R. sec. 571.500 from any other federal motor vehicle safety standards or any of the equipment provisions of KRS Chapter 189 that are not applicable; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
To Transportation (s) on 03/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to higher education finance and declaring an emergency. [HB-221]
Amend KRS 164.746 to modify the membership of the governing board of the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend KRS 164A.050 to modify the membership of the governing board of the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation; amend KRS 164A.055 to authorize the Asset Resolution Corporation to engage in student loan activities; remove references to administration by the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bobby McCool
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/07/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hunting and fishing licenses and declaring an emergency. [HB-217]
Amend KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands must own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a supplemental payment for recipients of a monthly retirement allowance from the systems administered by the Kentucky Retirement Systems, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-216]
Appropriate $95 million from the budget reserve trust fund in fiscal year 2023-2024 to fund one-time supplemental payments on July 1, 2024, to recipients of a retirement allowance from the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) and the State Police Retirement System (SPRS); specify that the one-time supplemental payment shall be equal to the monthly payment received by the recipient in the month of June 2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to insurance for loss of income and declaring an emergency. [HB-179]
Amends KRS 304.3-110 to authorize life and health insurers to transact disability income and paid family leave insurance, and to make technical corrections; creates new sections of Subtitle 5 of KRS Chapter 304 to define “disability income insurance” and “paid family leave insurance” and to specify how each is to be classified and filed; amends KRS 304.9-030 to include paid family leave insurance in life and health lines of authority; establishes Subtitle 53 of KRS Chapter 304 and creates new sections thereof to regulate paid family leave insurance,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 99) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the transportation of students and declaring an emergency. [SB-92]
Amend KRS 156.153 to permit school districts to use district-owned and district-leased passenger transportation vehicles to transport students to and from school under an alternative transportation plan approved by the Kentucky Department of Education; provide that vehicles shall be operated by an employee of local school district that is licensed to operate a motor vehicle within the Commonwealth; provide that the Kentucky Department of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations to establish minimum standards and specifications for an
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Transportation (s) on 01/11/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to deficient administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. [SB-65]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify three emergency administrative regulations relating to Medicaid services after those administrative regulations were found deficient during the 2023 legislative interim; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify 201 KAR 23:170, relating to social workers, after that administrative regulation was found deficient during the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 168) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to higher education finance and declaring an emergency. [SB-81]
Amends KRS 164.746 to modify the membership of the governing board of the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amends KRS 164A.050 to modify the membership of the governing board of the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation (KHESLC); and amends KRS 164A.055 to authorize the Asset Resolution Corporation to engage in student loan activities and to remove references to administration by KHESLC; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 5) on 03/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to disposition of property and declaring an emergency. [HB-155]
Amend KRS 403.190 to state that criminal misconduct against the other spouse may be considered in the disposition of marital property; provide that a spouse who is convicted of committing a felony against the other spouse shall not be entitled to claim retirement or life insurance as marital property; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Recommitted To Judiciary (s) on 04/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hunting and fishing licenses and declaring an emergency. [HB-140]
Amend KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands must own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 01/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency. [HB-161]
Establishes that a candidate who has filed nomination papers on or before January 5, 2024, and whose precinct name or number has changed since November 8, 2023, due to reapportionment and precinct establishment shall not be disqualified based solely on precinct name or number designation; RETROACTIVE to November 8, 2023; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 1) on 01/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to service credit for the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [HB-138]
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: Rep. Kim King
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to leased office space for the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority and declaring an emergency. [SB-57]
Permit the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to lease office space in Louisville Metro for its Office of Investments for up to five years with the option to renew up to maximum term of 20 years without being subject to the requirements of the Finance and Administration Cabinet; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
Withdrawn on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to soil and water conservation and declaring an emergency. [HB-130]
Amends KRS 147A.029 to allow soil and water conservation districts and watershed conservancy districts to use funds appropriated for the Local Match Participation Program for flood-related projects with federal government agencies, including the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service; amends KRS 262.240 to provide immunity to a supervisor serving on a soil and water conservation board; creates a new section of KRS 262.700 to 262.795 to establish the procedure for the discontinuance of watershed conservancy
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Heath
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 77) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages and declaring an emergency. [SB-62]
Amend KRS 241.010 to decrease the minimum number of passengers from 100 to 40 in the definition of "riverboat"; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jay Williams
Received In House on 01/19/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to swimming pools and declaring an emergency. [HB-109]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms, to establish lifeguard requirements for Class A and Class B pools, to allow swimming coaches or instructors providing instruction to count as lifeguards, to allow Class A and Class B pools to submit an alternative lifeguard staffing plan, to require that all Class A and Class B pools be equipped with an emergency shut-off switch that is accessible to lifeguards and other pool staff, to exempt single-family residences not used in connection with a home occupation or business, and to require
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 116) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance and declaring an emergency. [HB-26]
Amend KRS 341.030 to provide that reimbursements paid to volunteer firefighters for traveling to respond to emergencies or for the use of his or her personal vehicle or other equipment in responding to emergencies, shall not be considered wages for purposes of unemployment insurance; RETROACTIVE to March 6, 2020; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Fister
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the administration of estates and creating an emergency. [HB-50]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 391 to establish the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act to codify provisions for the creation, administration, modification, termination, and validity of transfer on death deeds; define terms; specify that a transfer on death deed is revocable and shall be nontestmentary; establish requirements for a transfer on death deed and specify the process of recording a transfer on death deed; specify that a transfer on death deed is effective without notice to or acceptance by the beneficiary during the transferor’s
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
2nd Reading, To Rules on 01/25/2024