Retirement And Pensions
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Kentucky Employees Retirement System employers and declaring an emergency. [HB-668]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
Amend KRS 61.526 to make technical change.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Duplessis
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 192) on 04/11/2022
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AN ACT relating to retirement funds of urban-county governments and declaring an emergency. [SB-224]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 67A.360 to define "surviving spouse" for purposes of surviving spouse benefits under the urban-county government police and fire pension fund; modify the name of the fund to be gender neutral; make a conforming amendment; amend KRS 67A.345, 67A.370, and 67A.655 to conform due to changing the name of the urban-county government police and fire pension fund; amend KRS 67A.430 to provide that salary shall be credited to an urban-county government police and fire pension fund member's account for periods when the member's salary is reduced
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Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 140) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wagering and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-213]
[Gaming ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections to define “adjusted gross revenue,” “beginner,” “cabinet, “confidential information,” “entry fee,” “fantasy contest,” “fantasy contest operator," “fantasy contest participant," “highly experienced player,” “immediate family,” “location percentage,” “net poker revenue,” “online poker,” “person,” “principal stockholder,” “rake,” “registered fantasy contest operator,” “script,” “secretary,” and “wager”; establish requirements for registration as a fantasy contest operator; require the Public Protection
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/25/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state dealings with companies that engage in energy company boycotts. [SB-205]
[Energy ]
[Finance ]
[Investments ]
[Trade ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to declare findings regarding the financial harms of boycotting energy companies for dealing in fossil-fuel based energy; define terms; require the State Treasurer to publish, maintain, and update a list of financial companies engaged in energy company boycotts and to file the list with the Legislative Research Commission and the Attorney General; require state governmental entities to notify the Treasurer of the listed financial companies in which the state governmental entity owns direct or indirect holdings;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 120) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to retirement. [SB-192]
[Retirement ]
Amend KRS 61.623 to make a technical change.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/22/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency medical services. [HB-505]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Amend sections of KRS Chapter 311A to update definitions; create the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services as an independent agency of state government; change membership of the board; delete the licensure of ambulances and ambulance services from the board duties; update language and delete certificate of need language; correct references to training institutions; make conforming changes; create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to license and regulate ambulances and ambulance
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
Withdrawn on 03/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of pension income, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-463]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
Amend KRS 141.019 to increase the pension income exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110; apply retroactively for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018; require the Department of Revenue to automatically issue refunds; APPROPRIATION; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. John C. Blanton
Introduced In House on 02/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a cost-of-living increase to the retirement benefits for retired state employees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-446]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Funding ]
Appropriate $162 million and $12 million in fiscal year 2022-2023 to fund a one-time one and one-half percent cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2022, for Kentucky Employees Retirement System nonhazardous and hazardous duty retirees/beneficiaries, respectively; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick W. Graham
Introduced In House on 02/02/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [HB-384]
[Education ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
Amend KRS 161.155, 161.220, 161.540, 161.550, 161.600, 161.620, 161.655, 161.400, 161.420, 161.470, 161.507, 161.520, 161.548, 161.549, 161.605, 161.612, 161.630, and 161.661 and repeal KRS 161.633, 161.634, 161.635, and 161.636 to repeal and remove provisions of HB 258 enacted during the 2021 Regular Session that created adjusted benefits for individuals who become members of the Teachers' Retirement System on or after January 1, 2022; provide that these members shall be eligible for the benefits applicable to members who entered the system immediately
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Sponsored by: Rep. McKenzie Cantrell
Introduced In House on 01/27/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a cost-of-living increase to the retirement benefits for Kentucky State Police troopers, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-348]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Appropriate $12 million in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to be applied to the State Police Retirement Fund to prefund in fiscal year 2022-2023 and effective July 1, 2022, a 1.5 percent increase in the monthly retirement allowances paid from the State Police Retirement System to each recipient; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick W. Graham
Introduced In House on 01/24/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to appropriations and revenue measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities. [HB-285]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
[Education ]
[Energy ]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Public Safety ]
The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2021-2022: $125,187,900, 2022-2023: $2,727,314,100, 2023-2024: $2,018,630,000; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $291,800, 2022-2023: $377,258,800, 2023-2024: $32,308,300; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2021-2022: $134,400, 2022-2023: $6,791,287,300, 2023-2024: $6,938,460,600; appropriate to the Education and Labor Cabinet: 2021-2022: $5,749,500, 2022-2023: $861,376,300, 2023-2024: $818,991,800; appropriate
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Sponsored by: Rep. David W. Osborne
Introduced In House on 01/13/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the retirement and declaring an emergency. [HB-297]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Insurance ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 16.582 to clarify that standards for "total and permanent disability" relate to hazardous disability only and make technical changes; amend KRS 61.505 to expand the administrative actions that the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) may take on behalf of the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) and the County Employees Retirement System (CERS), authorize the KPPA to employ no more than 8 unclassified employees to the Office of Investments whose positions are exempt from the personnel system's classified service and related salary limitations,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jerry T. Miller
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 216) on 04/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to recontribution of a refund in the retirement systems. [HB-266]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 61.552 to provide that recontributions of a refund to the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System, made on or before January 1, 2023, shall be used to determine a member's participation date in the systems; make retroactive back to January 1, 2014, and provide that recontributions of a refund made on or after January 1, 2014, and prior to the effective date of this Act, shall be used to determine a member's participation date in the system unless the member instructs
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Sponsored by: Rep. John C. Blanton
Introduced In House on 01/10/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities. [HB-1]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
[Education ]
[Energy ]
[Finance ]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Tourism ]
The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2021-2022: $925,391,000, 2022-2023: $2,450,394,100, 2023-2024: $1,945,550,500; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $631,100, 2022-2023: $42,311,100, 2023-2024: $43,841,800; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2021-2022: $4,038,300, 2022-2023: $6,272,487,700, 2023-2024: $6,338,219,700; appropriate to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,302,200, 2022-2023: $226,803,000, 2023-2024: $228,602,800;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph M. Fischer
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 199) on 04/13/2022
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Washington 2021-2022 Regular Session
Adding a Roth option to deferred compensation plans. [HB-1752]
[Taxes ]
[Retirement ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
Adding a Roth option to deferred compensation plans.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pat Sullivan
Effective Date 6/9/2022. on 03/17/2022
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Washington 2021-2022 Regular Session
Permitting family child care providers to collectively bargain defined contribution retirement benefits. [HB-1771]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Retirement ]
[Children and Youth ]
Permitting family child care providers to collectively bargain defined contribution retirement benefits.
Sponsored by: Sen. Noel Christina Frame
Referred To Appropriations. on 01/25/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to actions in response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and declaring an emergency. [SB-25]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Retirement ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Provide up to 10 days of remote instruction per school for school districts to use at the school, classroom, grade, or group level for the 2021-2022 school year; temporarily revise retirement reemployment provisions until June 30, 2022; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Maxwell Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 4) on 01/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to taxation. [HB-201]
[Taxes ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Gaming ]
[Finance ]
[Small Business ]
Amend KRS 132.020 to freeze the state property tax rate and eliminate the tax rate reduction for qualified heavy equipment; amend KRS 136.291, 136.500, 136.505, and 136.506 to reinstate the bank franchise tax and exempt financial institutions from corporation income tax and LLET; amend KRS 138.130 to define vapor products and include vapor products in the definition of tobacco products; amend KRS 138.132, 138.135, 138.195, and 138.197 to remove references to vapor products; amend KRS 138.140 to increase the tax on cigarettes, snuff, chewing tobacco,
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for state and county employees in hazardous positions. [HB-135]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
Create a new section of KRS 16.505 to 16.652 to change the retirement benefits for members participating in the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) or in a hazardous position in either the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) or County Employees Retirement System (CERS) who are hired after January 1, 2014, but before January 1, 2023, so that, in lieu of continued participation in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits), these members receive the benefits provided to members in a hazardous position who began participating immediately
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of retirement distributions. [HB-163]
[Retirement ]
[Taxes ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Amend KRS 141.019, relating to the individual income tax, to increase the retirement distribution exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110 for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Michael Nemes
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022