Labor And Industry
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to earned paid sick leave. [HB-138]
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 accrued earned paid sick leave; designate how notice of need to use earned paid sick leave is provided by employees; amend KRS 337.990 to establish the penalty for employers that fail to follow earned paid sick leave requirements.
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Gettr Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to criminal histories of job applicants. [HB-128]
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; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to professions and occupations. [HB-103]
Amend KRS 335B.010 to define terms related to licensing and public employment qualifications; amend KRS 335B.020 to narrow the class of offenses to which the chapter applies, prohibit disqualifying individuals from pursing a professional license solely due to a finding that the applicant lacks good character, add consideration of the age of the person at the time the crime was committed, the evidence relevant to the circumstances of the crime, and evidence of rehabilitation in making licensure decisions; amend KRS 335B.030 to require that before
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workplace harassment. [SB-51]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to define "political matters" and "religious matters"; require an employer to post notice of employees' rights; provide an employer shall not subject or threaten to subject any employee to discipline or discharge for refusal to attend employer-sponsored meetings to communicate employer's opinion concerning religious or political matters or listen to speech or view communications of which the primary purpose of which is to communicate the employer's religious or political matters; permit an employee to bring
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to individual income tax exclusions. [HB-26]
Amend KRS 141.010 to define "tips" and "overtime compensation"; amend KRS 141.019 to allow an exclusion from gross income for tax purposes for tips and overtime compensation; amend KRS 141.335 to include tips and overtime compensation amounts on employee withholding statement; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the exclusions.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to veterans. [SB-32]
Amend KRS 154.12-330 to give preference to veterans in the issuance of small business loans; create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to require monthly veteran workforce reports; create new sections of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require annual job training reports by the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs; require a report on occupational licenses by the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to review licensing practices for nurses and physicians
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages. [HB-67]
Amend KRS 337.275 to raise minimum wage for employers to $9.50 an hour on the effective date of this Act and incrementally thereafter to $15 an hour on July 1, 2029; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to five dollars an hour on the effective date of this Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment advertising. [HB-57]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employers from publishing job postings for ghost jobs; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages. [SB-11]
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; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to heat injury prevention. [SB-49]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; require employers who provide services in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation to maintain a written heat illness prevention plan informing employees of policies and procedures to be followed when an employee is suffering from a heat illness; establish a penalty for a violation.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Phillipe W. Rich as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims. [SR-224]
Confirm the appointment of Phillipe W. Rich as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Scott C. Wilhoit as commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims. [SR-223]
Confirm the reappointment of Scott C. Wilhoit as commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Grant Stewart Roark as administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims. [SR-227]
Confirm the reappointment of Grant Stewart Roark as administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to business regulation. [SB-346]
Amend KRS 14.250 to require the Secretary of State (SOS) to develop, operate, and maintain the Kentucky One-Stop Business Portal (Portal) to facilitate interaction among businesses and governmental agencies in the Commonwealth; mandate that certain elements be included in the development of the Portal; require the framework and informational exchange process to be updated by January 1, 2025; provide for the information and capabilities of the Portal and require the SOS to make the Portal available for public use no later than January 1, 2026; require
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [SB-296]
Amend KRS 342.0011 to define "medical professional"; amend KRS 342.020 to provide that failure to submit a statement for services within 45 days may render the statement for services ineligible and that denial of a claim shall toll the requirements to submit the statement for services; amend KRS 342.033 to delete "physician" and insert "medical professional" to allow medical professionals to provide direct testimony through a written medical report; amend KRS 342.125 to allow an administrative law judge to reopen and review any award or order for
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to vaccines. [SB-295]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, employment, or medical treatment in the Commonwealth.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [SB-328]
Amend KRS 154.26-050 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish a Workforce Growth and Solutions Task Force to study worker participation in the Commonwealth and identify solutions to support workforce growth. [HCR-104]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Workforce Growth and Solutions Task Force to study challenges related to workforce participation in the Commonwealth; provide recommendations on how to identify solutions to support workforce growth; require the task force to meet at least three times before the submission of its findings and recommendations; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024; provide that the Legislative Research Commission has authority
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the right to repair agricultural equipment. [HB-698]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to establish the right to repair agricultural equipment; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to beauty services. [HB-792]
Amend KRS 317A.030 to add a licensed nail technician and one additional citizen at large member to the board; direct board to collect and retain statistical data on its applicants and licensees; amend KRS 317A.120 to require the board give written tests in an applicant's first or second fluent language and provide a certified interpreter for oral exams; allow applicant to retake any failed portion of the exam one month from applicant's receipt of any failure notice and to retake any failed exam portion an unlimited number of times; cap the retesting
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