Labor And Industry
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages. [SB-13]
Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer and to define" small employer" and "large employer"; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage for small and large employers to $12.00 an hour and $15.00 an hour respectively; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
Sponsored by: Sen. Denise Harper Angel
Introduced In Senate on 01/04/2022
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AN ACT relating to economic development incentive projects. [HB-107]
Amend KRS 154.22-040, 154.32-020, 154.32-010, 154.34-110, 154. 12-204, 154.60-020, 154.28-080, 154.23-025 and 154.24-090 to update employee wage requirements for employers and businesses receiving economic development tax incentives.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Burch
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-162]
Amend KRS 342.020 to require an employer to pay for medical benefits at the time of injury and thereafter during disability instead of 780 weeks; amend KRS 342.990 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ashley Tackett Laferty
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation and declaring an emergency. [HB-54]
Amend KRS 342.0011 to define "COVID-19"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish workers' compensation liability in instances where employers require vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of employment and the employee develops an adverse reaction to the vaccine; create a rebuttable presumption that an adverse reaction was caused by the COVID-19 vaccine if it was not present prior to and arises within 14 days of receipt of the vaccine; retoactive to December 14, 2020; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Regina Huff
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-166]
Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists;
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to welding safety. [HB-117]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects requiring structural steel welding such as certification of welders and certified inspectors; provide definitions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. McKenzie Cantrell
To Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (s) on 03/03/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment leave related to COVID-19. [HB-178]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define "COVID-19" and require employers that provide paid leave to employees who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and are subsequently quarantined due to exposure to or diagnosis of COVID-19 shall also provide the same type of paid leave to employees who have not been vaccinated and are required to be quarantined due to exposure to or diagnosis of COVID-19; amend KRS 337.990 to create penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to earned paid sick leave. [HB-181]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provide that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; set forth allowable uses of earned paid sick time; designate how notice of need to use sick time is provided by employees; amend KRS 337.990 to establish the penalty for employers that fail to follow paid sick leave requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. McKenzie Cantrell
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health plan waiting periods. [HB-182]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employer-sponsored health plans from imposing a waiting period; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties; amend KRS 304.17A-220 and 304.17A-750 to conform; provide that Section 1 of the Act shall apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-83]
Amend KRS 341.370 to prohibit disqualification from benefits for workers unemployed as a result of domestic violence and abuse, dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.530 to charge benefits to pooled account for workers displaced from employment through domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.125 to require the secretary to provide training to personnel who process claims related to domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking and to report to the Legislative
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Posted For Passage In The Consent Orders Of The Day For Wednesday, March 30, 2022 on 03/30/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to immunizations. [HB-52]
Amend KRS 344.010 to define "immunization"; amend KRS 344.040 to prohibit employers from discriminating against an individual who declines immunization or requiring immunization as a condition of employment or inquiring as to the employee's immunization status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to prohibit an employer from requiring an employee or applicant for employment to be immunized or inquiring regarding immunization status.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment. [HB-199]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit indoor smoking in businesses, places of employment, and other listed public places; exempt private residences, unless used for child care or adult day care; permit smoking in designated nonenclosed areas; require posting of "no smoking" signs at specified locations; permit local governments to adopt stricter regulations by ordinance; provide for enforcement by all peace officers and designated health department and local government employees; provide for the issuance of uniform citations
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Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Westrom
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 01/19/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation and declaring an emergency. [HB-62]
Amend KRS 342.0011 to define "COVID-19"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish workers' compensation liability in instances where employers require vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of employment and the employee develops an adverse reaction to the vaccine; create a rebuttable presumption that an adverse reaction was caused by the COVID-19 vaccine if it was not present prior to and arises within 14 days of receipt of the vaccine; retoactive to December 14, 2020; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard White
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil rights. [HB-15]
Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140,
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-144]
Amend KRS 341.030 to suspend any increase in the taxable wage base for calendar year 2022 and utilize the taxable wage base in effect for the 2020 year; amend KRS 341.270 to indicate that employer contribution rates in 2022 shall be determined using the rates listed in Schedule A of Table A; amend KRS 341.614 to provide there will be no surcharge assessment for 2022; retroactively to January 1, 2022; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 29) on 03/24/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to occupational disease claims. [HB-165]
Amend KRS 342.125 to remove the requirement that an affected employee previously diagnosed with occupational pneumoconiosis resulting from exposure to coal dust must have an additional two years of employment in the Commonwealth wherein the employee was continuously exposed to the hazards of the disease in order to reopen a claim.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ashley Tackett Laferty
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-111]
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete definitions of "employer" and "employee"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Burch
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to vaccination exemption and declaring an emergency. [HB-198]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define "COVID-19," "medical practitioner," and "retaliate against"; require employers to permit employees to opt out of a COVID-19 vaccination policy based on categories of individual exemptions; create exemption eligibility requirements; create a civil cause of action; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to liability protection in emergencies. [HB-84]
Amend KRS 39A.275 to eliminate certain liability protections if an owner requires employees to receive a vaccination against COVID-19 and an employee suffers a severe adverse reaction as a result.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. [SR-214]
Honor the American Rescue Plan Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/30/2021