Labor And Industry
Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to contracting of public works projects. [HB-135]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 45A to set guidelines for awarding contracts for public works projects; set forth that public agencies awarding contracts shall not require or prohibit bidders to adhere to agreements with a labor organization relating to a public works project; set restrictions on a public agency in awarding a grant, tax abatement, or tax credit in situations contrary to the provisions of the Act.
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AN ACT relating to the coal workers' pneumoconiosis fund. [SB-263]
Amend KRS 342.1242 and 342.1243 to set forth the process to refund excess assessments to coal employers.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to paid sick leave and declaring an emergency. [SB-282]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide accrued paid sick leave to employees; provide mechanism for employees to accrue paid sick leave; establish guidelines for employers to calculate paid sick leave for employees; set forth manner in which paid sick leave can be used; amend KRS 337.990 to create a civil penalty for violation of provisions; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government procurement. [SB-255]
Amend KRS 45A.180 to require that any governmental body that accepts a proposal be limited to increasing the project price with the winning bidder by no more than ten percent or a new request for proposals shall be initiated.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to protection for entrepreneurs and workers. [SB-250]
Amend KRS 336.010 to add definitions of "contractor," "person," "prime contractor," and "subcontractor"; amend KRS 336.040 to give authority to the Labor Cabinet for purposes of determining if a person is an employee or an independent contractor; provide the procedure for the determination; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to provide the elements for determining if someone is an independent contractor; limit prime contractor liability and eliminate employee benefits and wages for independent contractors; require the cabinet to notify certain
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public protection. [HB-637]
Amend KRS 304.50-160 to change the Governor's reporting duties of the status of workers' compensation self-insured groups from the Labor and Industry Interim Joint Committee to the Economic Development and Workforce Investment Interim Joint Committee.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employee privacy. [HB-585]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define "electronic monitoring," "employee," and "employer"; require an employer to provide prior written notice to its employees if it engages in electronic monitoring of employees; provide for the type and manner of notice to be provided; allow for electronic monitoring without prior written notice if the employer has reasonable grounds to believe an employee is engaged in illegal conduct; amend KRS 336.990 to provide a civil penalty.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the misclassification of employees in the construction industry. [HB-587]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to set forth legislative findings and declarations behind employee misclassification problems; provide definitions; set forth determination of misclassified workers; set forth investigation process and violations; establish court remedies; require notice by an employer; grant commissioner authority to promulgate administrative regulations; require agencies to share the information of a misclassifying employer to other interested state agencies; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-634]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to allow for training extension benefits for eligible claimants; define "declining occupation," "high-demand occupation," and "high-technology occupation."
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wage payment. [HB-606]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to create the offense of theft of wages and establish penalties; define "employer," "employee," and "wages"; amend KRS 336.080 to indicate the secretary may enter places of employment without unreasonable delay to inspect a place of employment; amend KRS 337.020 to allow the commissioner to charge and collect past due wages; amend KRS 337.070 to require certain employers to include rate of pay, the number of hours worked, and the total amount of gross pay earned on wage statements provided to employees; amend
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to occupational disease claims. [HB-583]
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.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workforce development. [SB-220]
Amend KRS 341.150 to make language gender-neutral.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [SB-221]
Amend KRS 154.10-040 to make language gender-neutral.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [SB-215]
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 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development incentives. [HB-491]
Amend KRS 154.20-234 to change the definition of "closely related"; amend KRS 154.20-236 to change tax credit amounts; amend KRS 154.20-240 to add expiration for unclaimed credits; amend KRS 154.60-010 to change the definitions for "base employment" and "small business"; amend KRS 154.60-040 to replace "individual" with "selling farmer".
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to payment of outstanding liabilities funded through assessments upon insurance premiums. [HB-448]
Amend KRS 342.120 to require the Division of Workers' Compensation Funds to engage in a program to resolve outstanding indemnity liabilities through lump-sum payments beginning January 1, 2021; amend KRS 342.122 to set the special fund assessment rate at no less than 6.29 percent; to cap funding for financing the expenditures for certain programs in the Labor Cabinet; and to reduce the assessment rate to 1 percent for funding the Labor Cabinet through the provisions of KRS 342.122 once the special fund balance has reached a balance sufficient to
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT related to adoption leave. [HB-390]
Amend KRS 337.015 to require employers 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 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT creating the Classification of Workers in the Construction Industry Task Force. [HB-397]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to provide definitions; set forth determination of misclassified workers; set forth investigation process and violations; establish court remedies; require notice by an employer; grant the commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards authority to promulgate administrative regulations; require agencies to share the information of a misclassifying employer to other interested state agencies; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.145 to prohibit contractors with multiple
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment protections. [SB-146]
Amend KRS 337.420 to make an employer only have to have 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 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers compensation for volunteer firemen and other emergency personnel. [SB-133]
Amend KRS 342.140 to add that income benefits for volunteer firemen, police, and emergency management agency members or trainees may be based on fifty percent (50%) of the state average weekly wage if that is greater than the average weekly wage of their regular employment.