Labor And Industry
Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to construction contracts. [HB-431]
Amend KRS 45A.480 to require assurance that all required taxes are being paid by persons receiving state construction contracts; to require the required affidavit include a list of all subcontractors on the project; to provide that the contracting body shall have the right to take necessary steps to require compliance; to make the requirements of this section part of the solicitation for bids.
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AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-413]
Create a new section of KRS 341 to implement a reporting requirement regarding the unemployment trust fund and wages subject to tax; amend KRS 341.030 to suspend any increase in the taxable wage base and utilize the taxable wage base in effect for the 2020 year; amend KRS 341.270 to indicate that employer contribution rates in 2021 and 2022 shall be determined using the rates listed in Schedule A of Table A; amend KRS 341.530 to provide that benefits related to a state of emergency or disaster declaration shall be paid from the pooled account and
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workforce. [HB-422]
Amend KRS 29A.160 to make language gender-neutral.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [SB-184]
Amend KRS 154.10-020 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-385]
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 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance benefits, making an appropriation therefore, and declaring an emergency. [SB-7]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 341 to set waiver of overpayment criteria, allocation of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act money, waiver application deadlines, require program integrity provisions, and make an appropriation by allocating CARES money to UI trust fund.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [SB-157]
Amend KRS 342.610 to provide that contractors shall not be liable for payment of compensation to subcontractors with no employees who are not subject to KRS Chapter 342.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to paycheck protection. [SB-142]
Amend KRS 161.158 to provide that withholding of dues shall cease upon receipt of a written request from the employee; to set forth the specific language to be included on an authorization-for-withholding form and the manner in which the form shall be confirmed; amend KRS 336.135 to provide that consent of the employee may be revoked at any time and withholding of dues shall cease upon receipt of a written request from the employee; to set forth the specific language to be included on an authorization-for-withholding form and the manner in which
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the coal workers' pneumoconiosis fund. [SB-141]
Amend KRS 342.1242 and KRS 342.1243 to provide guidelines for distribution of funds remaining in the Kentucky coal workers' pneumoconiosis fund.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reorganization and declaring an emergency. [SB-126]
Amend KRS 151B.020 and 151B.280 to delete references to the Office of Unemployment Insurance, the Unemployment Insurance Commission, the Career Development Office, and the Division of Operations and Support Services; amend KRS 336.015 to include the Office of Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Insurance Commission, the Career Development Office, and the Division of Operations and Support Services in the Labor Cabinet; amend KRS 336.020 to provide that the Office of Unemployment Insurance shall be in the Labor Cabinet and headed by an executive
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-282]
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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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a drug-free workplace. [SB-144]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to provide definitions and to require public employers to have an appeals process for an employee who violates a drug-free policy using legal industrial products; amend KRS 18A.043 to require an appeals process for those public employers who require drug testing; amend KRS 304.13-167 to require that appeals process be complied with by public employers and suggested for private employers.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [SB-146]
Create a new section of KRS 336 to require criminal background checks for certain employees of the Kentucky Labor Cabinet.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-240]
Amend KRS 341.415 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; make technical changes.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to immunizations. [SB-98]
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.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to criminal histories of job applicants. [HB-228]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; title the Act "Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act."
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for volunteer firemen and other emergency personnel. [SB-85]
Amend KRS 342.140 to allow income benefits for volunteer firemen, police, and emergency management agency members or trainees to be based on fifty percent of the state average weekly wage if that is greater than the average weekly wage of their regular employment.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities. [HB-192]
The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2020-2021: $2,232,159,200, 2021-2022: $1,799,151,900; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2020-2021: $30,692,000, 2021-2022: $32,698,000; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2020-2021: $5,087,565,600, 2021-2022: $5,236,333,800; appropriate to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet: 2020-2021: $224,230,300, 2021-2022: $226,419,100; appropriate to the Energy and Environment Cabinet: 2020-2021: $301,178,900, 2021-2022:
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT related to adoption leave. [HB-210]
Amend KRS 337.015 to require employers to provide the same leave policies to adoptive parents as they provide to birth parents; change the applicable age of an adoptive child from seven to ten; create an exemption for specified categories of adoption.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the limitation of liability during the COVID-19 pandemic and declaring an emergency. [HB-10]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define "person"; to provide a defense to civil liability to a person who acts in good faith while operating a business during a state of emergency for ordinary negligence for a personal injury resulting from alleged or actual exposure to COVID-19 provided the person acts as an ordinary, reasonable, and prudent person would act under similar circumstances; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to provide that a public school official's decision to open or close a school is discretionary for purposes of
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