Occupations And Professions
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to worker fairness in the construction industry. [SB-176]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; establish a procedure for classifying workers as employees or independent contractors; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.145 to prohibit contractors with multiple violations from contracting with the state for five years; create new sections of KRS Chapters 341 and 342, and amend KRS 131.190, to require the Department of Revenue, Office of Unemployment Insurance, and the Department of Workers' Claims to provide one another with any assessment or orders arising
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Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
To Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (s) on 02/08/2024
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AN ACT relating to worker benefits. [HB-465]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; permit a public or private entity to contribute funds to a portable benefit plan of a self-employed worker without establishing an employer classification.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
Posted For Passage For Concurrence In Senate Floor Amendment (1) on 03/28/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care workers. [HB-459]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Mental Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Amends KRS 311.844 to require that physician assistants complete continuing education courses on treating Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, and to allow graduating physician assistants to submit course curriculum on Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia toward the continuing education requirement; amends KRS 314.042 to create the provisional advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) applicant license; amends KRS 314.073 to require nurse licensees to complete continuing medical education courses on treating Alzheimer’s disease
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 218) on 04/19/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to building trade professions. [SB-164]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Education ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to allow articulation agreements between licensed proprietary schools and public school districts or state area technology centers to establish academic or training equivalencies needed to obtain licensure, and to require that the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction recognize and honor the articulation agreements toward licensure in the professions regulated by the department, including electricians, plumbers, and HVAC.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelley Frommeyer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.22) on 03/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to electricians. [HB-444]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Veterans ]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Military ]
[Insurance ]
Amends KRS 227A.060 to modify experience and education requirements for an electrician or master electrician license, to require an electrician applicant or master electrician applicant to have 8,000 hours or 16,000 hours of verifiable experience, respectively, which may be reduced by designated education or teaching, to authorize a master electrician or electrician applicant to qualify for licensure through teaching or attending an associate’s degree or diploma program at a college within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System or at
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Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Lewis
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 134) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. [SB-159]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Science ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Create a new section of KRS 95A.200 to 95A.300 to establish a voluntary PFAS blood test reimbursement program using moneys from the Firefighters Foundation Program fund and operated by the Kentucky Fire Commission; allow for reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses for PFAS blood testing for firefighters; amend KRS 95A.210 to define "PFAS chemicals" or "PFAS"; amend KRS 95A.262 to include a program for PFAS blood testing as a permissible use of funds; amend KRS 337.010 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to outdoor nature-based child care. [HB-423]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "outdoor nature-based child-care center"; amend KRS 194A.381 to exempt outdoor nature-based child-care centers from the requirements for youth camps; amend KRS 199.8941 to allow monetary incentives for outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8943 to expand the quality rating system to outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.895 to specify evacuation plans for outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8951 to establish epinephrine auto-injector requirements for outdoor nature-based
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to real property boards. [HB-403]
[Real Estate ]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amends KRS 198B.706 to allow the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors to promulgate administrative regulations following review of the director of the Division of Real Property Boards; amends KRS 198B.724 to establish continuing education requirements for licensees, and amends the continuing education grace period to reflect the continuing education deadline established by the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors; amends KRS 324.085 to establish continuing education requirements for licensees, and amends the continuing education grace periods to reflect
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 182) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child care programs. [HB-421]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund", "Child Care Assistance Program" and to rename and redefine the family child-care home program to the "family, friend, and neighbor child-care home"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to expand eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 199.8982 to rename the family child-care home program to the family, friend, and neighbor child-care home program; establish that certified family, friend, and neighbor child-care home providers shall be eligible
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the licensure of military-connected individuals. [HB-397]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amends KRS 12.245 to include military orders documenting a military assignment transfer to Kentucky as valid proof of military service, and to ensure that occupational licensing compacts in Kentucky take precedence for a United States military service member, Reserves or National Guard member, veteran, or their spouse.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Koch
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 137) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-401]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Unemployment ]
Amends KRS 342.0011 to expand the definition of “physician” to include physicians with a license to practice in any jurisdiction in the United States; amends KRS 342.033 to define “physician” to include retired physicians previously authorized to practice in the Commonwealth, who surrendered a medical license while in good standing and who are not subject to an ongoing investigation for improper practices; and amends KRS 342.140 to include unemployment benefits in the average weekly wage calculation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.33) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure. [HB-361]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amends KRS 311.530 to add the chair of the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, and to allow the commissioner of public health, the dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, the vice dean for clinical affairs of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and the dean of the University of Pikeville College of Osteopathic Medicine to appoint a designee to sit on the State Board of Medical Licensure; amends KRS 311.601 to allow future practicing pediatricians to apply course curriculum
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.30) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to law enforcement telecommunicators. [HB-359]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 15.420 to define terms; amend KRS 15.440 and 15.460 to include law enforcement telecommunicators as participants in the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program ( KLEFP) fund and to make their fund benefits the same as police officers; amend KRS 337.100 to protect law enforcement telecommunicators from workplace retaliation in connection to taking leave under certain circumstances; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 15, 67A, 70, 95, and 164 to conform; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Billy Wesley
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders. [HB-363]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 342.0011 to allow "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when not a direct result of a physical injury physical injury.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roberts
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-345]
[Aerospace ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Economic Development ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establish the membership of the committee; establish the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; require that the portion of the fund expended towards the council's administrative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-127]
[Aerospace ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Economic Development ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establishes the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establishes the membership of the committee; establishes the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; requires that the portion of the fund expended toward the council’s administrative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 109) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to youth mental health protection and declaring an emergency. [HB-330]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Rights ]
[Funding ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define "sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts," "mental health professional," and "public funds"; prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a person under 18 years of age, a person who is 18 years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020, or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for sexual orientation and gender identity
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to building code violations. [HB-305]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 198B.130 to establish criteria for a violation for deviation from the Uniform State Building Code.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
Introduced In House on 01/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the profession of education. [HB-300]
[Education ]
Amends KRS 161.120 to establish the process and procedures for the Education Professional Standards Board to receive and process a complaint against a certificate holder, to establish a specific timeline, to establish specific actions the board may take, to require confirmation of receipt of responses or correspondences to the board from a certificate holder, to requires the board to provide confirmation of receipt to superintendents who submit a report to the board and provide specific notices, to establishes a specific timeline for a hearing for
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Sponsored by: Rep. D. Wade Williams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 209) on 04/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to marriage and family therapists. [SB-113]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Create a new section of KRS 335.300 to 335.399 to authorize the board to grant licensure to an applicant who holds an active license from another state to practice as an independent marriage and family therapist.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 01/22/2024