Labor And Industry
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages. [HB-797]
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 raise minimum wage of hourly and tipped employees and require adherence to any future federal increase in excess of the new state wage rates; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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AN ACT relating to contracts. [HB-772]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define "covenant not to compete" and "covered employee"; provide that an employer shall not require a covered employee to enter into a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages that can be recovered, and limitations to bring claim; provide that the provisions must be posted by the employer; indicate that an employer shall not retaliate against and employee for bringing a civil action; application of provisions; amend KRS 336.990 to provide civil penalties.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employer requirements for victims of domestic abuse. [HB-824]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms related to employer requirements for victims of domestic violence; require employers to grant leave from work for employees who seek protection or treatment for themselves or a family member due to dating violence and abuse, domestic violence and abuse, human trafficking, sexual assault, or stalking; require that employees give their employers advance notice when feasible before taking leave or by the end of the first day in which the employee takes leave when advance notice is not feasible;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to real property. [HB-778]
Amend KRS 371.160 to provide that the requirement that the retained amount held back by an owner for improvement of real estate in any contract in the amount of $500,000 or more be deposited into a separate escrow account shall be mandatory and shall not waived by contract.
Sponsored by: Rep. Randall Bridges
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-669]
Amend KRS 341.020 to include gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Branscum
Introduced In House on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to annexation. [HB-596]
Creates a new section of KRS 65.210 to 65.300 to make interlocal agreements concerning the sharing of occupational or insurance premium tax revenue between a city and a county terminable only with the consent of both parties; amends KRS 65.250 to conform; creates new sections of KRS Chapter 81A to allow a county subject to occupational tax crediting to have standing to challenge a proposed annexation, to require cities that annex territory in counties subject to occupational tax crediting to remit payments to a county or negotiate with a county
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 158) on 04/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for educators. [HB-568]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to define "educator" and set out when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims for educators when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to clarify definition of "injury" to include certain psychological injuries experienced by educators.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [HB-558]
Amend KRS 154.26-050 to include gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
Introduced In House on 02/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages. [HB-576]
Amend KRS 337.010 to change the definition of "employee" and to add the definition of "worker with a disability"; amend KRS 337.275 to require all employers to pay all employees, including workers with a disability, a minimum wage and increase the state minimum wage over the next three years to no less than 100 percent of the municipality, county, or state minimum wage or the prevailing wage as defined in 29 C.F.R. sec. 1.2; amend KRS 337.295 to remove learners, apprentices, workers with a disability, sheltered workshop employees, and students from
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to leave from employment. [HB-540]
Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to define terms; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with a crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a private right of action for improper discharge,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to bereavement leave. [HB-537]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; require all employers to grant an employee at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a child, or death of a dependent or other immediate family member; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to define terms; provide state employees at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages for employment. [HB-539]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provide previous salary, except to allow a request for information voluntarily provided in response to an offer of employment; allow previous salary to be considered when required by law, for internal transfers, and for public employee positions; require notice to be posted for employees; amend KRS 337.990
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-541]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-523]
Amend KRS 341.350 to change the number of verifiable work search activities from five to two and the number of applications for employment or interviewing for employment from three to one.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Introduced In House on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION relating to the establishment of a Workforce Innovation Task Force to complete a study of current education and workforce development programs and provide recommendations on how to provide effective workforce development programs to facilitate the training and employment of historically untapped workforce populations in the Commonwealth. [HCR-79]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Workforce Innovation Task Force to conduct a review of current education and workforce development programs and provide recommendations on how to provide effective workforce development to facilitate the training and employment of historically untapped workforce populations in the Commonwealth; 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Posted For Passage In The Regular Orders Of The Day For Friday, March 22, 2024 on 03/21/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prevailing wage. [HB-508]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to establish a prevailing wage law for all public works projects; amend KRS 12.020, 99.480, 227.487, 151B.015, 337.010, and 337.990 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 02/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages and hours. [HB-500]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to provide for certain employment activities to be exempt from minimum wage and overtime wage requirements; specify activities and instances that do not require an employer to pay minimum wage or overtime wage; provide for employer requirements regarding lunch periods; amend KRS 337.010 to change the definitions of "employee" and "agriculture"; amend KRS 337.385 to specify instances of employer liability for employee causes of action regarding unpaid wages; specify statute of limitations for employee causes
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Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-507]
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 all other definitions; 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 in the organization
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to electronic delivery of health plan communications. [SB-194]
Creates a new section of Subtitle 18 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize insurers to provide electronic communications to persons covered under an employer-sponsored group health insurance policy, plan, or contract.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.20) on 03/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-504]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms and make the termination of employment without cause unlawful; establish amount that may be recovered for wrongful discharge; specify when the employers' internal procedures are to be used.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/09/2024