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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to employment discrimination. [HB-291] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Human Rights ]
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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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION reestablishing the Early Childhood Education Task Force. [HCR-43] [Education ] [Children and Youth ] [Economic Development ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Family-Related Legislation ]
Reestablish the Early Childhood Education Task Force to study the complex issues relating to child care and early childhood education opportunities in the Commonwealth and the impacts of child care on children and families, workforce participation, and economic development; 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 1, 2024.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Heavrin Posted For Passage In The Regular Orders Of The Day For Friday, March 22, 2024 on 03/21/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. [HB-215] [Healthcare ] [Veterans ] [Military ] [Public Safety ] [Law Enforcement ] [National Security ] [Human Services ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to create the Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact; declare the intent and purpose of the compact; define terms; establish conditions under which an individual can practice in a remote state; require member states to expedite the processing of applications for licensure from veterans, active military service members, and members of the National Guard and Reserves separating from an active duty tour, as well as their spouses; authorize a home state to impose adverse action against an individual's (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart Withdrawn on 01/11/2024

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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to veterans. [SB-94] [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 (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 01/10/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for certified professional midwifery services. [SB-89] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid Services to provide coverage for certified professional midwifery services that are provided by a licensed certified professional midwife; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal 2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/15/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for certified professional midwifery services. [HB-173] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for certified professional midwifery services that are provided by a licensed certified professional midwife; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if such approval is deemed necessary.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo Introduced In House on 01/08/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Cosmetology. [HB-184] [Budget and Spending ] [Consumer Protection ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Abolish the Kentucky Board of Cosmetology by repealing KRS Chapter 317A in its entirety; amend KRS 48.315, 164.945, 165A.310, 309.352, 317.420, and 324B.030 to conform; close the Kentucky Board of Cosmetology trust and agency fund by January 1, 2025; transfer remaining moneys to the general fund; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan Introduced In House on 01/08/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to security requirements at retail establishments licensed to sell alcohol for on-premises consumption. [HB-165] [Alcoholic Beverages ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Law Enforcement ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 244 to define terms; establish preemployment requirements for bouncers; create bouncer training standards; establish agency oversight; amend KRS 244.120 to prohibit consumption of alcohol by a bouncer during work hours; amend KRS 243.500 to allow revocation or suspension of a license for failure to comply with bouncer restrictions; cite this Act as Christopher's Law; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser Introduced In House on 01/05/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to immunity from criminal liability for health care providers. [HB-159] [Healthcare ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Public Health ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define “health care provider” and “health services,” and to establish that health care providers providing health services are immune from criminal liability for harm arising from a health services-related act or omission other than gross negligence or wanton, willful, malicious, or intentional misconduct.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser Signed By Governor (acts Ch.12) on 03/26/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to cosmetology. [HB-127] [Consumer Protection ] [Public Health ] [Small Business ]
Amend KRS 317A.010 to allow fixed or mobile beauty salons, esthetic salons, nail salons, and limited beauty salons; amend KRS 317A.020 and 317A.145 to consider any type of mobile salon a "facility" and a "premises"; amend KRS 317A.060 to require the cosmetology board to set the standards for mobile and fixed salons and establish inspection schedules; direct any administrative regulations to balance licensee and public interests; amend KRS 317A.050 and 317A.155 to conform.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown Introduced In House on 01/03/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to medical directives. [HB-92] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ]
Amend KRS 311.633 to require physicians and health care facilities to notify patients of the right to refuse compliance with advance directives or medical orders for scope of treatment; require physicians and health care facilities to provide notice of the right to request a transfer.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett Introduced In House on 01/03/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-124] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B.010 to 335B.070 to require hiring and licensing authorities to establish an application process that gives persons convicted of a crime an opportunity to apply for a position of public employment or occupational license before pursuing training; amend KRS 335.020 to add criteria for hiring and licensing authorities to consider when determining if a conviction directly relates to the position of public employment or occupational license sought; amend KRS 335B.030 to require hiring or licensing authorities (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher Taken From State & Local Government (s) on 03/28/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to beauty services. [SB-14] [Consumer Protection ] [Public Health ]
Amends KRS 317A.020 to specify emergency order and hearing procedures and to allow the Board of Cosmetology to pursue injunctive remedy and refer violations of the chapter to prosecutorial agencies; and amends KRS 317A.030 to add a licensed nail technician to the board, to replace one citizen-at-large board position with a licensed esthetician, and to allow cosmetologists and nail technicians to use callus graters for callus removal.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise Signed By Governor (acts Ch.25) on 03/29/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to ophthalmic dispensers. [HB-17] [Consumer Protection ] [Healthcare ]
Amends KRS 326.080 to require that the license renewal fee for practicing ophthalmic dispensing be established by the Kentucky Board of Ophthalmic Dispensers through promulgation of administrative regulation.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Fister Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 54) on 04/04/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to licensed professionals. [HB-56] [Telecommunications ] [Healthcare ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Mental Health ] [Veterans ] [Cybersecurity ] [Data Privacy ] [Military ] [Public Safety ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 335.010 to 335.170 to declare the purpose of the Social Work Licensure Compact, to define terms, to set requirements for member states, to establish provisions for active duty military personnel or their spouses, to recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for regulated social workers in any member state, including practice via telehealth, to designate procedures for adverse actions against a social worker, to creates the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission, to establish and elect an executive (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 93) on 04/05/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to practice of podiatry. [SB-28] [Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 311.380 to add definitions; amend KRS 311.400 to add the scope of practice for podiatric residents and podiatric assistants; amend KRS 311.420 to add qualifications to acquire a podiatry license; and amend KRS 311.480 to include podiatric resident and assistant licenses to the licenses the Board of Podiatry can deny, refuse to renew, suspend, place on probation, or revoke; amend KRS 311.410 to conform.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith Vetoed And Delivered With Veto Message To Secretary Of State on 04/18/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to universal recognition of occupational licenses. [HB-34] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Military ] [Veterans ] [Consumer Protection ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 335B to allow universal recognition of occupational licenses and government certifications; include work experience as a basis for licensure or certification; explicity include military personnel and their spouses; provide that the Act may be cited as the Universal Recognition of Occupational Licenses Act.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings Introduced In House on 01/02/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to emergency medical services and declaring an emergency. [HB-57] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Law Enforcement ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Amends KRS 311A.030 to remove the classifications of ambulance services, mobile integrated healthcare programs, and medical first response providers; amends KRS 311A.142 to permit an emergency medical responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician, or paramedic in good standing in another state to be eligible for reciprocity at the same level of certification or licensure; amends KRS 142.301, 205.5602, 211.9523, 311A.010, 311A.170, and 405.075 to conform; and repeals KRS 311A.185, relating to determination of death (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 94) on 04/05/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to music therapy and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-51] [Healthcare ] [Mental Health ] [Funding ] [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 three years of the practice or teaching of music therapy; prohibit any persons not licensed under this 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, and revocation; (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 01/03/2024

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the Interstate Massage Compact. [HB-77] [Healthcare ] [Law Enforcement ] [Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 309 to adopt the Interstate Massage Compact; declare the intent and purpose of the compact; define terms; establish conditions under which an individual can practice in a remote state; authorize a home state to impose adverse action against an individual's license issued by the home state; authorize a member state's licensing authority to issue subpoenas for hearings and investigations as well as cease and desist orders to restrict, suspend, or revoke an individual's privilege to practice in the state; establish (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 01/18/2024

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