Labor And Industry
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to occupational safety and health. [HB-355]
Repeal KRS 338.062, relating to occupational safety and health standards.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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AN ACT relating to leave from employment. [HB-362]
Amend KRS 337.415 to define terms "crime," "immediate family," and "victim"; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with the prosecution of 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. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-351]
Amend KRS 342.610 to exclude certain levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the blood from the presumption that an injury was caused by the introduction of certain substances into the employee's body.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
Introduced In House on 01/23/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil procedure. [HB-320]
Amends KRS 337.385 to establish a statute of limitations of three years for wage and hour violations; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations of three years for actions against an employer for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy and for a violation of KRS 344.030 to 344.110 or KRS 344.372; and amends KRS 454.210 to expand personal jurisdiction of courts over nonresidents.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 157) on 04/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local regulatory actions. [HB-337]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; create a new section in KRS Chapter 337 to define "city," "prevailing wage," "prevailing wage rate," and "public works project"; permit a city
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public contracts. [HB-326]
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 45A, 56, and 65 to require that state and local contracts contain a provision that any iron, steel, aluminum, or manufactured goods used in all state and local projects be manufactured in the United States unless a waiver is granted; amend KRS Chapters 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.070, 176.080, and 424.260 to conform; provide that Section 1 to 3 may be cited as the Kentucky Buy American Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to nondisclosure agreements. [HB-312]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit an employer from conditioning employment or employment benefits on an employee signing types of nondisclosure agreements related to unlawful acts in the workplace; clarify statutory construction; create a new section of KRS Chapter 372 to prohibit nondisclosure clauses related to harassment in settlement agreements in civil and administrative actions with exceptions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 01/19/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment discrimination. [HB-291]
Amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, 344.080, 344.100, and 344.110 to add protections against discrimination based on weight.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/17/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wage theft. [HB-284]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to prohibit theft of wages; define terms and establish penalties; amend KRS 336.080 to permit the secretary to enter places of employment without unreasonable delay; 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, number of hours worked, the total amount of gross pay earned on wage statements provided to employees; amend KRS 337.320 to require employers to keep certain records for three years; create a
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/17/2024
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Kentucky 2024 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-6]
The State/Executive Branch Budget: Details Part I, Operating Budget; details Part II, Capital Projects Budget; details Part III, General Provisions; details Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; details Part V, Funds Transfer; details Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; details Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; details Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; details Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; details Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and details Part XI, Executive Branch
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 175) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment of minors. [HB-255]
Amend KRS 339.230 to prohibit the Department of Workplace Standards from promulgating regulations on child labor that are more restrictive than those promulgated by the United States Secretary of Labor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Floor Amendment (2) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment schedules. [HB-237]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 requiring employers to give employees a good-faith schedule of hours to be worked, to have a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours, to post weekly schedules at least seven days in advance, and to provide certain rest periods for employees from being scheduled; allow employees to identify time limitations for scheduling work hours; require compensation for employer changes to the schedule; set forth unlawful practices; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/11/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-210]
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. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to earned paid sick leave. [HB-196]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to family care leave. [HB-195]
Amend KRS 337.010 to define "family care leave," "family member," "health care provider," "same employer," and "serious health condition"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employers from refusing to grant a qualified employee family care leave; entitle an employee to family care leave for the birth of a child or to take care of a family member and establish parameters.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to occupational disease claims. [HB-209]
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. Alan Gentry
Introduced In House on 01/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to veterans. [SB-94]
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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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 01/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the United States Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to adopt its proposed rule on permissible exposure limits of silica dust. [HR-34]
Urge the United States Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration to adopt its proposed rule on permissible exposure limits of silica dust consistent with existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the posting of veterans' benefits and services. [HB-168]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services document to employers and require employers to keep copies of a veterans' benefits and services document in a conspicuous and accessible place.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to occupational health and safety. [HB-154]
Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued; require the secretary for the Education and Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2024 by the percentage increase, if any, in the United State Average Consumer Price Index for all Urban Customers (CPI-U); direct the secretary to begin a three year phase-in
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/04/2024