Kentucky 2022 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB62
Introduced
1/7/22
Refer
1/7/22
Refer
1/10/22
Amend KRS 117.125 to include additional requirements for voting systems; amend KRS 117.175 to include additional instructions for voter instruction cards; amend KRS 117.275 to include additional requirements for the counting and tabulation of ballots and for the certification of election results; amend KRS 117.383 to require the State Board of Elections to include a voter notification program to notify a voter of the effect of casting multiple ballots for a single office on a paper ballot; and amend KRS 117.155, 117.205, 117.295, and 117.066 to conform
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB63
Introduced
1/7/22
Refer
1/7/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
2/17/22
Engrossed
2/28/22
Refer
2/28/22
Refer
3/15/22
Report Pass
3/23/22
Amend KRS 61.870 to define terms; amend KRS 61.878 to exempt records that would reveal the address or location of a public officer under certain conditions; create a new section KRS 61.870 to 61.884 to allow public officers to request that their personally identifiable information be designated as confidential and not publicly posted; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to create a cause of action for public officers whose personally identifiable information has been disseminated; cite as the Fred Capps Act; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB64
Introduced
1/8/22
Refer
1/8/22
Refer
1/18/22
Report Pass
1/26/22
Engrossed
2/2/22
Refer
2/2/22
Refer
3/1/22
Report Pass
3/2/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Enrolled
3/10/22
Chaptered
3/17/22
Passed
3/17/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to provide definitions, authorize any public agency to establish a peer support counseling program, and provide for confidentiality of communications within a peer support counseling program.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB65
Introduced
1/6/22
Refer
1/6/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/19/22
Engrossed
1/26/22
Refer
1/26/22
Refer
3/14/22
Report Pass
3/23/22
Refer
3/30/22
Refer
3/30/22
Enrolled
3/30/22
Enrolled
3/30/22
Vetoed
4/8/22
Refer
4/13/22
Override
4/13/22
Refer
4/13/22
Override
4/13/22
Enrolled
4/14/22
Enrolled
4/14/22
Chaptered
4/14/22
Passed
4/14/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify proposed amendments to an administrative regulation after those amendments were found deficient during the 2021 legislative interim; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB66
Introduced
1/8/22
Refer
1/8/22
Refer
1/10/22
Report Pass
1/26/22
Engrossed
2/1/22
Refer
2/1/22
Refer
3/16/22
Report Pass
3/24/22
Enrolled
3/30/22
Enrolled
3/30/22
Chaptered
4/8/22
Passed
4/8/22
Amend KRS 64.185 and 72.415 to require coroners and deputy coroners to attend eight hours of training concerning the grieving process and procedures for providing death notifications; create a new section of KRS Chapter 72 establishing procedures that coroners must follow in providing death notifications; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB67
Introduced
1/8/22
Refer
1/8/22
Refer
1/10/22
Establish a new Article 12 of KRS Chapter 355, titled "Controllable Electronic Records"; establish definitions, scope, purchaser rights, debtor discharge obligations, control requirements, and jurisdictional rules relating to controllable electronic records; amend KRS 355.3-104, 355.3-105, and 355.3-604 to modify requirements relating to instruments; amend KRS 355.1-201 and 355.9-102 to make various definitional revisions and conforming amendments; amend KRS 355.4-406 to modify bank statement of account requirements; amend KRS 355.4A-103, 355.4A-201, 355.4A-202, 355.4A-203, 355.4A-207, 355.4A-208, 355.4A-210, and 355.4A-211 to modify definitions, security procedure requirements, payment order requirements, and documentation requirements relating to funds transfers; amend KRS 355.5-102 to establish a definition for "signed"; repeal and reenact KRS 355.7-106 and 355.9-105, and create new sections of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355, to establish control requirements for an electronic copy of a document of title, a record evidencing chattel paper, intangible money, controllable accounts, and controllable payment intangibles; amend KRS 355.9-301 to establish jurisdictional rules for tangible records evidencing chattel paper; create a new section of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355 to establish perfection and priority jurisdictional rules for controllable electronic records; amend KRS 355.9-203, 355.9-207, 355.9-208, 355.9-308, 355.9-310, 355.9-312, 355.9-316, 355.9-317, 355.9-330, 355.9-332, 355.9-406, 355.9-605, and 355.9-628, and create new sections of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355, to govern security interests in controllable electronic records, intangible money, and chattel paper; amend KRS 355.1-204, 355.2A-103, 355.8-103, 355.9-313, 355.9-314, 355.9-331, 355.9-338, 355.9-601, 367.976, and 369.116 to conform; make technical corrections throughout.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB68
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Refer
1/18/22
Report Pass
1/26/22
Engrossed
2/10/22
Refer
2/10/22
Refer
3/16/22
Report Pass
3/24/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to require the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet to contract with an independent entity to monitor all Public Employee Health Insurance Program pharmacy benefit claims; establish eligibility requirements for an entity seeking to contract with the cabinet to monitor pharmacy benefit claims; establish requirements for analyzing and monitoring claims; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; require the Department for Medicaid Services to contract with an independent entity to monitor all Medicaid pharmacy benefit claims; establish eligibility requirements for an entity seeking to contract with the department to monitor pharmacy benefit claims; establish requirements for analyzing and monitoring claims; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB69
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Refer
1/13/22
Report Pass
2/16/22
Amend KRS 278.212 to prohibit an electrical interconnection with a merchant electric generating facility that either operates at an aggregate capacity in excess of 10 megawatts or occupies in aggregate 10 acres or more of land until the plans for the electrical interconnection have been filed with the Public Service Commission; amend KRS 278.216 to prohibit a utility from beginning construction on an electric generating facility that either operates at an aggregate capacity in excess of 10 megawatts or occupies in aggregate 10 acres or more of land without first obtaining a site compatibility certificate from the Public Service Commission; amend KRS 278.700 to change the definition of "merchant electric generating facility" to include facilities that occupy in aggregate 10 acres or more of land; change the definition of "commence to construct" so that site clearing and excavation work satisfy the commence to construct requirements; amend KRS 278.704 to establish setback requirements for solar merchant electric generating facilities of 50 feet from the property boundary of any nonparticipating adjoining property and 100 feet from a residence on any other property than the one on which the facility is to be located unless waived in writing; provide exceptions; require that before exercising an option to acquire any interest in real estate in a county that a merchant electric generating entity notify the heads of local government entities of jurisdiction; allow the local officials or the commission to request a public hearing on the proposed merchant electric generating project; require ongoing notification of changes to the project from the merchant electric generating entities to local officials; remove outdated language; amend KRS 278.706 to conform; amend KRS 278.708 to require the site assessment report submitted by a person proposing to construct a merchant electric generating facility to include a decommissioning plan to explain in detail how the facility and its components will be removed at the end of their useful lives; require the decommissioning plan to be reviewed as needed, but at least once every 5 years; establish minimum requirements for the decommissioning plan; amend KRS 278.710 to require the application for the construction certificate of a merchant utility generating facility to be denied until the applicant can provide documentation of compliance with all local planning and zoning requirements that existed on the date that the application was filed; include whether the proposed decommissioning plan is in the public interest as a criterion for application approval; authorize the merchant utility siting board to require the decommissioning plan to be amended to ensure that it is in the public interest; provide that the construction certificate holder and any of its successors in interest shall be required to comply on an ongoing basis with all conditions of its application approval, subject to enforcement in Franklin Circuit Court; require that prior to the commencement of construction, the holder of a construction certificate for a merchant electric generating facility shall furnish bond or other similar security to assure the decommissioning of the facility at the end of its useful life; establish the procedure for setting the bond amount; provide for review of the bond amount as needed but at least once every 5 years; provide which entities will be named as beneficiaries of the bond depending on the circumstances; require that the bond be forfeited unless the person responsible for completing the decommissioning plan begins work on the plan within 12 months of the date that the facility ceases to produce electricity for sale and completes the work within 18 months of that date; require that any forfeited bond amounts only be used to decommission facilities on the properties for which the bond was posted; require prior authorization for any transfer of control of a merchant electric generating facility; define "control" and the circumstances under which control will be considered to be transferred and the conditions for approval; require a decision to be made on the approval of the transfer of control within 90 days of the application, except that an additional 60 days may be taken for good cause shown; require that notice of an application for approval of transfer of control of a merchant electric generating facility be given to local government officials for where the facility is located; provide that the requirements of the Act shall apply to all new and current applicants for construction certificates for merchant electric generating facilities whose applications have not been approved prior to the effective date of the Act; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB7
Introduced
3/3/22
Refer
3/3/22
Refer
3/7/22
Amend KRS 336.180 to define "political activities," "candidate," "committee," "contributing organization," "contribution," "election," "electioneering communications," "fundraiser," "independent expenditure," "labor organization," "public employee," "slate of candidates," and "testimonial affair"; amend KRS 336.134 to prohibit any deduction from the wages of any public employee for any dues, fees, or charges associated with a labor organization or for political activities without a written authorization from the public employee; create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit employers from collecting financial information from public employees for the purpose of providing the financial information to a labor organization without written authorization from the public employee; amend KRS 336.135, 65.158, 161.158, and 164.365 to ensure that the notice required for the withholding of public employee earnings for payments associated with a labor organization shall comply; amend KRS 336.990 to create a penalty.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB70
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Refer
1/12/22
Amend KRS 132.485 to establish requirements for assessing motor vehicles for property tax purposes when the standard manual valuation exceeds five percent of the immediately preceding year's standard manual valuation; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB71
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Refer
1/12/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to authorize wine corkage in conjunction with a meal by a limited restaurant or NQ2 retail drink licensee; establish conditions to remove a bottle of opened wine from the premises; amend KRS 242.260 to exempt corkage from dry and moist territory violations; amend KRS 243.020, 243.034, and 243.084 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB72
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Refer
1/12/22
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate domestic cats and dogs that reside in or have been adopted from Kentucky animal shelters or rescue organizations as the official pets of Kentucky.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB73
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Refer
1/12/22
Amend KRS 260.850, KRS 260.858, and KRS 260.8635 to change the delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration threshold of hemp to one percent.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB74
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Refer
1/12/22
Amend KRS 610.030 to require a court referral for truancy cases when there is no improvement within 30 days; require a court-designated worker to make a finding if diversion is failed due to lack of parental cooperation; allow a court to refer cases back to the court-designated worker and order parental cooperation; amend KRS 610.265 to require children charged with serious felony offenses to be detained pending a detention hearing; amend KRS 610.340 to provide that confidentiality does not apply to cases in which a child has admitted to or been adjudicated for a violent felony offense; amend KRS 635.060 to require a juvenile's probationary period to remain open until any violations are resolved, if a violation is pending at the time of completion.
KY
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB75
Introduced
1/10/22
Refer
1/10/22
Refer
1/12/22
Amend KRS 132.485 to establish requirements for assessing personal motor vehicles for property tax purposes for the January 1, 2022, and January 1, 2023, assessment dates; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.