Labor And Industry
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers compensation. [SB-288]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to allow the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association to establish a workers' compensation insurance program for qualified horsemen, administer the program as part of its corporate activity, establish criteria for eligible participants, declare surplus funds, contract with other insurers to help implement the program, take other necessary acts for establishment and operation of the program, as well as encouraging it to immediately provide coverage, use revenue to create a reserve fund, and establish
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AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [SB-303]
Amend KRS 342.610 to eliminate the presumption of intoxication proximately causing the employee's injury and allow an administrative law judge to consider whether an employee's intoxication by illegal, nonprescribed substance or substances or prescribed substance or substances in amounts in excess of prescribed amounts proximately caused the injury when determining an employer's liability for workers' compensation.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [SB-304]
Amend KRS 342.730 to change the factor for AMA impairment of 0 to 5 percent from .65 to 1.00 and the factor for AMA impairment of 6 percent to 10 percent from .85 to 1.00.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [HB-745]
Create Subchapter 21 of KRS Chapter 154 to require the Cabinet for Economic Development to partner with the Kentucky Association for Economic Development to implement the Kentucky Product Development Initiative; define terms; require the cabinet to administer the program; authorize the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; create fund; establish requirements for grant applications; establish the duties of the Kentucky Association for Economic Development in the implementation of the program; establish project evaluation and scoring requirements;
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment protections. [SB-273]
Amend KRS 337.420 to make an employer with one employee to be subject to the wage discrimination requirements; amend KRS 337.423 to require no wage discrimination for what has been paid to current or past employees and prohibit an employer from discriminating against an employee for discussing wages.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION relating to the establishment of a task force to complete a study to identify strategies for maintaining an adequate supply of healthcare workers in the Commonwealth. [HCR-112]
Create a task force to examine the healthcare worker shortage and study methods for increasing and retaining the healthcare workforce; require task force to create a report on its findings; require membership to be set by LRC, with four members from each chamber, of which three will be from the majority party and one from the minority party; require co-chairs to be appointed by LRC, one from each chamber.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to occupational health and safety. [HB-749]
Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued; require the secretary for the Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2022 by the percentage increase, if any, in the United State Average Consumer Price Index for all Urban Customers (CPI-U); direct the secretary to begin a three year phase-in for penalty
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to nondisclosure agreements. [HB-750]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit an employer from conditioning employment or employment benefits on an employee signing types of nondisclosure agreements related to unlawful acts in the workplace; clarify statutory construction; create a new section of KRS Chapter 372 to prohibit nondisclosure clauses related to harassment in settlement agreements in civil and administrative actions with exceptions.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [SB-261]
Amend KRS 342.0011 to include a definition of "medical director"; amend KRS 342.035 to a medical director within the Department of Workers' Claims and require the commissioner to promulgate an administrative regulation.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-649]
Amend KRS 341.415 to allow the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to waive unemployment insurance overpayment debts if recovery would be against good conscience and the overpayment was due to agency error or not due to fraud by the recipient; amend KRS 341.450 to conform to the appeal timeline in KRS 341.440; make technical changes.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employee right of action and declaring an emergency. [HB-664]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; create a cause of action brought by an employee against a private or public employer if an employee suffers an adverse reaction to a vaccination received pursuant to an employer vaccination policy; require damages; waive sovereign immunity; cite as the Citizen Health Mandate Protection Act; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wage transparency. [HB-650]
Amend KRS 337.010 to define terms including "job posting" and "wage range"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require all employers to include the wages or wage range for the advertised position in any job posting; amend KRS 95A.250 and 337.020 to conform.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [HB-596]
Amend KRS 154.10-020 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Scott M. Miller as a member of the Workers' Compensation Board in the Department of Workers' Claims. [SR-152]
Confirm the appointment of Scott M. Miller as a member of the Workers' Compensation Board in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring January 4, 2024.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. [HB-594]
Amend KRS 337.050 to provide gender neutral language.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-598]
Amend KRS 342.610 to exclude certain levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the blood from the presumption that an injury was caused by the introduction of certain substances into the employee's body.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to collective bargaining for public employees. [HB-592]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336, relating to collective bargaining for public employees; define "bargain collectively" and "public employees"; provide the secretary of the Kentucky Labor Cabinet the authority to designate a labor organization to represent the majority of public employees in Kentucky for the purposes of collective bargaining; require the Governor or designated representative to represent the Commonwealth in collective bargaining with the designated labor organization.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-550]
Amend KRS 337.010 to remove exemptions in definition of employee for agricultural workers and domestic service workers; amend KRS 342.630 to indicate that agricultural employers are subject to KRS Chapter 342; amend KRS 342.650 to remove exemptions for domestic service employees and agricultural employees from coverage under KRS Chapter 342; amend other statutes to conform.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to short-time compensation. [HB-554]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to establish the Kentucky Short-time Compensation Program; require the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to develop the requirements of the program and promulgate administrative regulations; establish rules for employers participating in the program; require an employer to submit a work plan, including a proposed schedule of employees' reduced work hours; set requirements relating to health benefits, retirement, and weekly pay.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to home and community-based services. [SB-196]
Amend KRS 337.010, 341.055, and 342.650 to remove provisions relating to home providers and community-based service providers and makes the KRS conform with the requirements of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA).