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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to public health. [SB-74]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Insurance ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with special enrollment and maternity coverage requirements; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with which the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for lactation consultation and breastfeeding equipment, to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
Signed By Governor on 04/18/2024
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AN ACT relating to menstrual discharge collection devices and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-148]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each public school that includes any of grades six through 12 to provide free menstrual discharge collection devices to students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free menstrual discharge collection devices; define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.010 to define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of menstrual discharge collection devices; APPROPRIATION;
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to income taxation of military pensions. [HB-123]
[Taxes ]
[Military ]
[Pensions ]
[Veterans ]
Amend KRS 141.019 to exclude all distributions from military pension plans received by retired members of the United States military and their surviving spouses or former spouse under a survivor benefit plan from income taxation for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2029; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 131.190 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/07/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to professions and occupations. [HB-117]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 335B.010 to define terms related to licensing and public employment qualifications; amend KRS 335B.020 to narrow the class of offenses to which the chapter applies, to add consideration of the age of the person at the time the crime was committed, the evidence relevant to the circumstances of the crime, and evidence of rehabilitation in making licensure decisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B to prohibit disqualifying individuals from pursing a professional license solely due to conviction that has been sealed or expunged,
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a tax credit for volunteer firefighters. [HB-133]
[Taxes ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable 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 and Revenue.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-118]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Unemployment ]
[Human Services ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 341.370 to prohibit disqualification from benefits for workers unemployed as a result of domestic violence and abuse, dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.530 to charge benefits to pooled account for workers displaced from employment through domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.125 to require the secretary to provide training to personnel who process claims related to domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking and to report to the Legislative
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to highway work zones and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-44]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Construction ]
[Crime ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "automated speed enforcement device," "owner," "program," and "recorded images"; direct the Transportation Cabinet to establish a pilot program for automated speed enforcement in highway work zones and issue a civil citation to an operator of a motor vehicle traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit when a bona fide worker is present; establish procedures for citation issuance; direct the Transportation Cabinet to install signage and to promulgate administrative regulations
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 01/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-73]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Unemployment ]
[Human Services ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Funding ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 341.370 to prohibit disqualification from benefits for workers unemployed as a result of domestic violence and abuse, dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.530 to charge benefits to pooled account for workers displaced from employment through domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.125 to require the secretary to provide training to personnel who process claims related to domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking and to report to the Legislative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Withdrawn on 01/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cannabis. [HB-72]
[Cannabis ]
[Crime ]
[Taxes ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make possession of a personal use quantity of cannabis exempt from civil or criminal penalty; amend KRS 218A.010 to define "cannabis," "personal use quantity of cannabis," and "cannabis accessory"; amend KRS 218A.1422 regarding cannabis possession to conform; amend KRS 218A.1423 regarding cannabis cultivation to conform; amend KRS 218A.500 regarding drug paraphernalia to exempt personal use cannabis accessories; amend KRS 218A.1421 regarding cannabis trafficking to exempt personal use quantities; amend
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic fiscal matters. [HB-58]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
[Economic Development ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to establish the Tax Expenditure and Economic Development Incentive Review Board and specify the board's membership, authority, powers and duties; establish requirements for board meetings; establish requirements for when the General Assembly enacts new tax expenditures or economic development incentives; require agencies to assign taxpayers a unique number for purposes of reporting tax expenditures and economic development incentives; amend KRS 11.068 to require the annual production of a detailed estimate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 01/17/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to technology in education and declaring an emergency. [SB-52]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Cybersecurity ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to make legislative findings and declarations and establish the Artificial Intelligence in Kentucky's Schools project, establish requirements for the Kentucky Department of Education to implement the project, require the department to design professional development trainings related to artificial intelligence, establish professional development requirement for teachers, administrators, school council members, and school board members, require the trainings be made available to nonpublic schools, require school
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Education (s) on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the promotion of family well-being and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-34]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Housing ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Insurance ]
[Food ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
[Agriculture ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to require the eligibility periods for all public assistance programs administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services be extended to the maximum period of eligibility permitted under federal law; prohibit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from relying exclusively on automated, artificial-intelligence based, or algorithmic software in the identification of fraud in programs administered by the cabinet; require Cabinet for Health and Family Services personnel to review relevant documentation
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Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney H. Westerfield
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Trail Town operations grant fund and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-35]
[Tourism ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
[Arts and Culture ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 148 to establish the Trail Town operations grant fund; require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Sen. Matthew D. Deneen
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-44]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Data Privacy ]
Amends KRS 30A.145 to require that the Administrative Office of the Courts prepare, on the first Tuesday of each month, a list of all persons who were excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 116 to require the Secretary of State, in cooperation with the State Board of Elections, to issue a comprehensive status report regarding voter registration records cleanup and maintenance on or before July 1 of each year, to establish information to be included in the report, to require that the report
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 177) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary institutions. [SB-6]
[Education ]
[Human Rights ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be penalized, discriminated against, or receive any adverse treatment due to the individual's refusal to support or endorse any divisive concept; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be required to endorse a specific ideology or political viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, promotion, or graduation and prohibit an institution
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Posted For Passage For Concurrence In House Committee Substitute (1) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Jail and Corrections Reform Task Force. [HCR-82]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Create the Jail and Corrections Reform Task Force; set membership and reporting date.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Brandon Reed
3rd Reading, Adopted 96-0 on 03/30/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to domestic violence. [HB-536]
[Crime ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS Chapter 209A.122 to remove requirement the the Kentucky State Police report the number of domestic violence and dating violence calls and the number of arrests in response to domestic violence calls; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide the number of orders of protection served and received by law enforcement agencies and number of orders of protection in LINK to the center; remove the requirement that LINK provide the center with information; remove the requirement that the Division of Kentucky State Medical Examiner's
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Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie A. Dietz
Taken From Judiciary (h) on 03/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Commission on Antisemitism. [HB-557]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to establish the Kentucky Commission on Antisemitism; set forth the duties and functions of the commission; authorize the commission to hold monthly meetings, seek comment and testimony, and provide research driven proposals; require the commission to submit an annual report.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 02/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to access to and awareness of postsecondary education. [HJR-71]
[Education ]
Direct the Council on Postsecondary Education and public postsecondary education institutions to collaborate to develop a proactive admissions pilot program to establish a statewide universal guaranteed admission program; direct CPE to submit a report on the pilot proactive admissions program to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by November 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Education (h) on 03/02/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state dealings with companies that engage in politically sensitive company boycotts. [HB-533]
[Finance ]
[Investments ]
[Religion ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Agriculture ]
[Energy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Trade ]
[Economic Development ]
Amend KRS 41.472 to add definitions for "agricultural commodities associated company," "firearms goods or services associated company," "petrochemical commodities associated company," "politically sensitive company boycott," and "social media information company"; amend KRS 41.474 to require the Treasurer to maintain and publish lists of all financial companies that engage in any politically sensitive company boycotts; require state governmental entity divestment in financial companies that engage in politically sensitive company boycotts; amend
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Sponsored by: Rep. Emily Callaway
Introduced In House on 02/22/2023