Occupations And Professions
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to veterans. [SB-32]
[Veterans ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Education ]
[Housing ]
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 01/09/2025
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AN ACT relating to limited X-ray machine operators. [HB-72]
[Healthcare ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Amend KRS 311B.020 to redefine "limited X-ray machine operator" and "medical imaging technologist"; allow a limited X-ray machine operator to only perform limited diagnostic radiography.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 132) on 03/31/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to marriage and family therapists. [HB-49]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 335.330 to require the board to review and approve applications within the specified time frames and to issue licenses within two weeks of application completion date; amend KRS 335.332 to allow an approved acting supervisor to assume responsibility for an associate practitioner receiving qualifying experience; amend KRS 335.340 to require the board to issue renewal license within two weeks of request receipt; create a new section of KRS 335.300 to 335.399 to mandate reciprocal licensure of a practitioner licensed in another state when
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interpreters. [HB-39]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Amend KRS 309.312 to allow an interpreter in a K-12 classroom setting with a score of 4.0 or above on the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) and passage of the EIPA written test to meet certification requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to music therapy. [SB-42]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Arts and Culture ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to define terms; establish a licensing board for professional music therapists; require three members of the board to have engaged in the practice or teaching of music therapy for at least three years; prohibit any persons not licensed by the board from holding himself or herself out as a licensed professional music therapist; authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations; authorize the board to issue a license to practice music therapy; establish the process for license renewal, suspension,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to privacy protection. [HB-20]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Insurance ]
[Crime ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms related to automated license plate readers; establish limitations on use and sale of data captured by automated license plate readers; provide that captured license plate data may be retained longer than 60 days only if it is being used in a criminal or insurance investigation or has become subject to a preservation of evidence notification; provide that any recorded images or data captured by an ALPR may be made available to the National Insurance Crime Bureau or its successor organization;
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Hodgson
Taken From Judiciary (s) on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the display of child labor laws in public schools. [SB-52]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.195 to require each public school with students in grades six through 12 to display a printed abstract of certain child labor laws, including limited and prohibited occupations and work hour restrictions for minors.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong
Withdrawn on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of medical imaging and radiation therapy. [HB-40]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 311B.020 to add and amend definitions; amend KRS 311B.030 to add magnetic resonance imaging technologists, diagnostic medical sonographers, and student medical imaging technologists to the Kentucky Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy; amend KRS 311B.050 to add authority to recognize and enforce nationally recognized professional organizations and certifying bodies and issue advisory opinions; amend KRS 311B.090 to add non-ionizing and exempt ultrasounds for therapeutic, non-medical or keepsake ultrasounds from requirements;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Amy Neighbors
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-87]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 335B.010 to 335B.070 to require hiring or licensing authorities to establish an application process that gives persons convicted of a crime an opportunity to obtain a determination about whether the crime will disqualify the individual from a position of public employment or occupational license before pursuing training; require hiring or licensing authorities to formulate policies and procedures for the application process by promulgating regulations no later than January 1, 2026; and provide an annual report
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to psychologists. [HB-59]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 319.020 to expand the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology from nine members to 11 members; make one of the new members a doctoral-level psychologist and the other a masters-level psychologist; amend KRS 319.030 to require the board to submit its annual report to the Legislative Research Commission and post the report on its website; include both the average and modal time it takes the board to issue or deny a license and to complete the disciplinary process; amend KRS 319.050 to require an applicant to pass examinations related to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to business regulation. [SB-346]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Small Business ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
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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Sponsored by: Sen. Shelley Frommeyer
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to protecting access to in vitro fertilization. [SB-373]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to limit the liability of facilities that provide procedures related to in vitro fertilization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to limit the liability of health care providers that perform procedures related to in vitro fertilization.
Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
To Health Services (s) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to telecommunicators. [SB-312]
[Telecommunications ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create a new section within KRS 15.530 to 15.590 to create the Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator academy; amend KRS 15.530 to define "public safety telecommunicator" and "public safety telecommunicator academy," and remove the "CJIS" and "non-CJIS" designations; amend KRS 15.540 to allow an agency seeking to hire a telecommunicator 90 days to certify the eligibility of an applicant to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, require training regarding the Criminal Justice
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robin Webb
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION designating March 3 to 9, 2024, as School Social Work Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. [SR-185]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Designate March 3 to 9, 2024, as School Social Work Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Health Care Outcomes Task Force. [HCR-106]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Establish the Health Care Outcomes Task Force to evaluate the potential need for additional resources and programs in Kentucky to improve the overall health of Kentuckians with particular focus on providing opportunities for students to learn about a career in healthcare, and research into how Kentucky can recruit and retain health care workers; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim; require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Duvall
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensing and occupations. [HB-765]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to remove references to moral turpitude and good moral character; amend various other sections to conform; make technical changes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bobby McCool
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to beauty services. [HB-792]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
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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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensing. [HB-763]
Amend KRS 309.081 to create gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Koch
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to telecommunicators. [HB-782]
[Telecommunications ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Data Privacy ]
Creates a new section within KRS 15.530 to 15.590 to create the Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator academy and to add training provisions for part-time telecommunicators hired before and after July 1, 2026; amends KRS 15.530 to define “public safety telecommunicator” and “public safety telecommunicator academy,” and to remove the “CJIS” and “non-CJIS” designations; amends KRS 15.540 to allow an agency seeking to hire a telecommunicator 120 days to certify the eligibility
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Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Lewis
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 108) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensing. [HB-761]
Amend KRS 312.021 to create gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Koch
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024