Kentucky 2022 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB397
Introduced
1/28/22
Refer
1/28/22
Refer
2/3/22
Report Pass
2/8/22
Engrossed
2/17/22
Refer
2/17/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/10/22
Enrolled
3/29/22
Enrolled
3/29/22
Chaptered
3/31/22
Passed
3/31/22
Waive up to 15 student attendance days for days school districts were closed due to the western Kentucky tornado disaster; consider days waived under this Act as completed employment contract days for school personnel; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB398
Introduced
1/28/22
Refer
1/28/22
Refer
3/1/22
Amend KRS 164.7879 to allow a student who attends an out-of-state high school or Department of Defense school due to a parent's military transfer to earn a KEES award if the student earned a base amount in a previous year at a Kentucky high school.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB399
Introduced
1/31/22
Refer
1/31/22
Refer
2/1/22
Report Pass
2/2/22
Engrossed
2/8/22
Refer
2/8/22
Refer
2/10/22
Report Pass
3/9/22
Enrolled
3/29/22
Enrolled
3/29/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Amend KRS 42.455 to delete requirements for a public hearing and notifications concerning public hearings by a local government receiving economic development funds; require local governments to provide for public input into the expenditure of public funds for economic development; amend KRS 91A.040 to change audit deadlines from February to March and reporting deadlines from March to April; increase exemption for city audit from $75,000 to $150,000; require that if a city claims the exemption for 4 years, an attestation of engagement must be prepared by either a CPA or the Auditor of Public Accounts; amend KRS 174.100 to delete requirement for a public hearing and substituting a requirement for a public meeting on the expenditure of road funds; establish criteria for such a public meeting.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB4
Introduced
2/2/22
Refer
2/2/22
Refer
2/9/22
Report Pass
2/10/22
Engrossed
2/11/22
Refer
2/11/22
Refer
2/14/22
Report Pass
3/1/22
Refer
3/4/22
Enrolled
3/9/22
Enrolled
3/9/22
Vetoed
3/18/22
Refer
3/18/22
Override
3/21/22
Refer
3/21/22
Override
3/21/22
Enrolled
3/22/22
Enrolled
3/22/22
Chaptered
3/22/22
Passed
3/22/22
Amend KRS 341.005 to define "enhanced federal benefits" and "state average unemployment rate"; amend KRS 341.100 to define "suitable work" under certain circumstances; amend KRS 341.270 and KRS 341.272 to reduce the minimum period of time for an employer to qualify for a lower contribution rate to four quarters; amend KRS 341.350 to require that eligible recipients engage in five work search activities per week during each week that he or she claims eligibility for benefits; amend KRS 341.380 to change the maximum benefit payable to a worker within a benefit year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 providing for a variable duration of unemployment insurance benefits, ranging from 12 weeks to 24 weeks, based upon the state average unemployment rate at the time of each individual's application for benefits except in certain situations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to allow an employer to notify the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet about each worker who has declined suitable work or has failed to attend a first interview; amend KRS 341.370 to change the conditions under which a worker must be disqualified from receiving benefits during unemployment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to allow the General Assembly to end the Commonwealth's participation in any enhanced benefits program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the General Assembly's approval, which it may withdraw at any time, to participate in any enhanced federal benefits program; amend KRS 341.096 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 341 to allow employers to submit a plan for a shared work program to the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet for approval; make employees eligible for shared work benefits if they are employed as members of an affected group, under an approved plan, are able to work, and their normal weekly hours are reduced at least ten percent but not more than forty percent; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 explaining that the weekly shared work benefit amount shall be the product of the regular weekly unemployment compensation amount calculated in KRS 341.380 multiplied by the percentage of reduction of at least ten percent in the individual's usual weekly hours of work, and although an individual may be eligible for shared work benefits or regular benefits as appropriate, no individual shall be eligible for combined benefits in any benefit year in an amount greater than his or her maximum benefit as calculated under KRS Chapter 341.380 and no individual shall receive shared work benefits for more than 26 weeks; amend KRS 341.530, 341.080, 341.127, and 341.710 to conform; declare the provisions of this Act severable; allow the Act to be cited as the Unemployment Insurance Sustainability Act of 2022.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB40
Introduced
1/4/22
Refer
1/4/22
Amend KRS 189.030 to require the illumination of headlamps on motor vehicles during any period of precipitation that necessitates the use of windshield wipers by motorists; specify that there will be a courtesy warning period until January 1, 2023.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB400
Introduced
1/31/22
Refer
1/31/22
Amend KRS 344.040 to remove protections against employment discrimination based on an individual's status as a smoker or nonsmoker.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB401
Introduced
1/31/22
Refer
1/31/22
Failed
2/10/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects requiring structural steel welding such as certification of welders and certified inspectors; provide definitions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB402
Introduced
1/31/22
Refer
1/31/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Engrossed
3/10/22
Refer
3/10/22
Refer
3/15/22
Report Pass
3/24/22
Enrolled
3/30/22
Enrolled
3/30/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to create the crime of fraudulent assisted reproduction; define terms; authorize a civil action; establish penalty; amend KRS 311.597 to add fraudulent assisted reproduction to the list of violations that may cause a doctor to lose or be restricted in the use of his or her medical license.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB403
Introduced
1/31/22
Refer
1/31/22
Amend KRS 258.500 to define "person" as a person with a disability who has an ongoing therapeutic relationship with a health care provider; stipulate who can be a health care provider under the definition; exclude from therapeutic relationship a fee-based transaction for disability documentation absent a face-to-face consultation with a health care provider; establish requirements for an assistance dog to be granted public accommodation; affirm certain rights and privileges of public establishments as nondiscriminatory and allow additional rights for those providing accommodation in situations of tenancy; amend KRS 258.335 to make unlawful the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodation; amend KRS 258.991 to set penalty for interference with use of an assistance dog at $500 and delete jail time; make the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodations unlawful and provide for a fine of up to $1,000; require that all fines collected be paid into the animal control and care fund with 50 percent allocated to spay and neuter clinics and 50 percent allocated to county animal shelter block grants; amend KRS 525.010 to clarify the definition of "assistance dog"; amend KRS 258.119 to allocate 50 percent of fines collected to spay and neuter clinics and 50 percent to county animal shelter block grants; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB404
Introduced
1/31/22
Refer
1/31/22
Refer
2/22/22
Report Pass
2/23/22
Engrossed
3/3/22
Refer
3/3/22
Refer
3/10/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to require the Department of Workplace Standards to promulgate administrative regulations and procedures to disseminate information to employers, employees, and the general public about rendering seizure first aid.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB405
Introduced
1/31/22
Refer
1/31/22
Refer
3/14/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to create the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services 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 license issued by the home state; authorize a member state's EMS 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 the Interstate Commission for EMS Personnel Practice; provide immunity from suit and liability for members, officers, executive director, employees and representatives of the commission who act in accordance with the provisions of the compact; require the commission to develop and maintain a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, disciplinary action, and significant investigatory information on all licensed individuals participating in the compact; authorize the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of state government to enforce the provisions of the compact; establish rulemaking procedures; authorize the commission to attempt to resolve disputes related to the compact that arise among member states and between member and non-member states; require provisions of the compact to become effective on the date the compact is enacted into law in the tenth compact state; establish withdrawal guidelines for a member state that wishes to withdraw from the compact; provide for severability for any provision in the compact that is contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB406
Introduced
1/31/22
Refer
1/31/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to direct state agencies to promulgate administrative regulations within the applicable 90 day deadline; compel agency appearance before the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee for failure to meet the deadline; allow the subcommittee to grant the agency one extension lasting 30 days; amend KRS 7.110 to allow the Legislative Research Commission to seek a contempt ruling from the Franklin Circuit Court against a noncompliant agency representative; amend KRS 13A.030 and 13A.290 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB407
Introduced
2/1/22
Refer
2/1/22
Amend KRS 116.025 to require that a voter be a resident of the state and precinct on or before the day of a primary or an election for voter registration purposes; amend KRS 116.045 to allow a person who is not a registered voter prior to the time that the registration books are closed, and who possesses all other qualifications for voter registration, to register at the person's precinct of residence on the day of a primary or an election if the person confirms his or her identity, completes the registration form and a required oath; amend KRS 116.0452 to specify that timely receipt for precinct voter registration is on the day of a primary or an election; require the county clerk to provide the State Board of Elections with a report of the number of voters registering to vote at the precincts on the day of a primary or an election; amend KRS 116.0455 to provide that each application for a motor vehicle driver's license shall be a simultaneous application for voter registration unless declined by the applicant; amend KRS 116.048 to provide that each application filed through a designated voter registration agency shall be a simultaneous application for voter registration unless declined by the applicant; amend KRS 117.085 to provide convenience of the voter as a basis for absentee voting and to permit any qualified voter the ability to vote in-person absentee during normal business hours on at least any of the 12 working days and 2 Saturdays before an election; amend KRS 117.087 to extend the ending voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; amend KRS 117.225 to require that if the person is not listed on the precinct roster, that the person, subject to applicable requirements, be given the opportunity to register and to vote at the precinct on the day of an election; amend KRS 117.365 to extend ending voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; require that applications for voter registration completed at the precinct be presented to the grand jury and retained by the county clerk; amend KRS 118.035 to extend voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB408
Introduced
2/1/22
Refer
2/1/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to state legislative findings; establish definitions; provide additional free speech protections for student journalists; place limitations on additional protections; provide protection for student media advisors; require each district to adopt a written policy for time, place, and manner restrictions, and for an appeals procedure; provide that student speech not be considered school speech; provide that a student journalist or student media advisor may seek injunctive relief; establish the short title of "New Voices Act."
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB409
Introduced
2/1/22
Refer
2/1/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to create the Veteran Accelerated Licensing for Occupational Recruitment Program within the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, define the duties and requirements of the program, require the program to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection, and permit the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to create a VALOR fund for the Veteran Accelerated Licensing for the Occupational Recruitment program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.