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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to an eligible caregiver tax credit. [HB-601]
[Taxes ]
[Healthcare ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an eligible caregiver tax credit against the tax imposed in KRS 141.020; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
Introduced In House on 02/20/2024
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AN ACT relating to the civics test required for high school graduation. [SB-213]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 158.141 to require school districts to report civics test data to the Kentucky Department of Education annually; require KDE to publicly post a report on the data.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne E. Southworth
To Education (s) on 02/20/2024
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AN ACT relating to teacher professional development. [HB-571]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to create a professional development training schedule for certified personnel; require each local district to implement the schedule; require an additional day to be added to the school calendar if required training cannot be completed in a single calendar day; require school districts to submit a report to the department on the status of professional development training.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Michael Nemes
To Education (h) on 02/22/2024
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AN ACT relating to public water and wastewater systems, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-563]
[Water ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms, to create a forbearance period of three years for a utility acquiring a public water or wastewater system with existing violations, to require the acquiring utility to correct past violations during the forbearance period, to defer fines and penalties during the forbearance period, to prioritize funding from the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority (KIA) for projects where the acquiring utility is making improvements to the acquired system, to allow for a waiver of accrued fines and penalties
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
Received In House on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to study the environmental impact of the use of road salt on Kentucky highways and the costs and benefits of using salt alternatives. [HJR-90]
[Environmental ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Water ]
[Climate Change ]
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to conduct a study on the environmental impact of road salt and the feasibility of alternative deicing methods; require the results of the study to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/15/2024
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AN ACT relating to child care. [HB-561]
[Children and Youth ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Education ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Housing ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms, to establish operations and requirements of a Certified Child Care Community Designation Program to be administered by the Cabinet for Economic Development for the purpose of creating new opportunities for local governments to help increase the supply of child care and early childhood education services in their communities through voluntary actions related to zoning reform and programming at the local level, and to require annual reporting to the General Assembly related to the operation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 88) on 04/05/2024
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AN ACT relating to students. [SB-210]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow the enrollment of a child on a part-time basis in a school district; establish conditions for the part-time enrollment; amend KRS 158.120 to prohibit a district's nonresident pupil policy from discriminating against any pupil on the basis of residential address, abilities, disability, race, ethnicity, sex, or socioeconomic status; require the policy be posted on the district website; prohibit charging tuition to any child; require a board of education to establish policies for a calculation to determine
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to contraceptives. [HB-536]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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AN ACT relating to Medicaid managed care organizations. [HB-530]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-515 to require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to examine and review each Medicaid managed care organization's compliance with network access requirements at the same frequency and in the same manner as any other managed care organization; require findings to be reported to the Department for Medicaid Services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna L. Frazier Gordon
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development. [SB-198]
[Energy ]
[Economic Development ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Science ]
Creates a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require that the Cabinet for Economic Development create and implement a financial assistance program to support the nuclear energy ecosystem; provides for the staggering of initial appointments; requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Authority conduct a study to identify the workforce needs to develop and support the nuclear ecosystem and submit its findings to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2024; requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Delivered To Secretary Of State on 04/12/2024
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AN ACT relating to patient access to pharmacy benefits. [SB-188]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Amends KRS 18A.2254 to require that the state employee health plan and state agencies comply with certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practices, to require that insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other pharmacy benefits administrators establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks, to require the filing of an annual report, to require that the insurance commissioner review pharmacy networks, to provide that information
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Maxwell Wise
Signed By Governor on 04/05/2024
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A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Council on Postsecondary Education to conduct a feasibility study on transforming the Hazard Community and Technical College into a four-year, residential university. [SJR-132]
[Education ]
Directs the Council on Postsecondary Education to conduct a study on transforming the Hazard Community and Technical College into a four-year, residential university; and requires that the results of the study be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Stivers
Signed By Governor on 04/16/2024
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AN ACT relating to underground facility damage prevention. [SB-174]
[Telecommunications ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Energy ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
Amends KRS 367.4903 to add definitions for “communications network,” “communications service provider,” and “communications terminal”; amends KRS 367.4909 to require that if damage is done to an underground gas or hazardous liquid facility and no attempt to locate the underground facility was made, the operator shall include in its report to the Public Service Commission the distance from the communications terminal that the damage occurred, and to require that the Public Service Commission submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jared K. Carpenter
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.21) on 03/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local boards of education. [SB-170]
[Education ]
Amend 160.210 to establish new numbers for membership of a local board of education based on district enrollment; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the required number of members every 10 years; provide for the election of additional members and for the reduction of membership; require local boards of education to report new electoral divisions to the Kentucky Board of Education and the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 160.160 to establish a one year term for chair and vice chair of the local board of education; require
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
To Education (s) on 02/06/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the prevention of physical harm. [HB-460]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Mental Health ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Healthcare ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; establish requirements for individuals in crisis to voluntarily request inclusion on a list that prohibits the purchase or possession of firearms for specified periods and to voluntarily commit their firearms to law enforcement for safe storage or permanent surrender; provide processes for individuals to be removed from the list upon request and to have a surrendered firearm returned; establish confidentiality requirements and the exclusion of list and surrender records from the Open Records
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Introduced In House on 02/02/2024
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Kentucky Housing Task Force. [HCR-68]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky Housing Task Force to study, review, and provide policy recommendations on how to address the housing shortage in the Commonwealth; require the task force to meet at least monthly during the 2024 Interim; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
3rd Reading, Adopted 89-0 on 03/26/2024
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AN ACT relating to volunteer firefighters. [SB-141]
[Taxes ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Healthcare ]
[Community Development ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable individual income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue to evaluate the impact of the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow confidential tax return information to be shared with the Legislative Research Commission and Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations
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Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/31/2024
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Infant Mortality Task Force. [HCR-62]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Establish the Infant Mortality Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/29/2024
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A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the release of capital construction funds to the Department of Parks for improvements to Kentucky State Parks and declaring an emergency. [HJR-56]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Recreation ]
Authorizes the Office of State Budget Director to release capital construction funds totaling $71 million to the Department of Parks for specific upgrades to state parks; and requires reporting on the status of state park projects by the Department of Parks to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.28) on 04/04/2024
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AN ACT relating to local government and declaring an emergency. [HB-388]
[Housing ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Elections ]
[Property Tax ]
[Construction ]
[Real Estate ]
[Public Safety ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to provide that members of local boards, commissions, committees, and other bodies created by or appointed by consolidated local governments have geographic diversity; amends KRS 67C.103 to require that the election of council members in a consolidated local government be nonpartisan; amends KRS 67C.105 to require that the election of a mayor in a consolidated local government be nonpartisan; amends KRS 67C.111, regarding incorporation and annexation of cities in a county containing a consolidated local government,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin D. Bratcher
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 181) on 04/12/2024