Kentucky 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB315
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Amend KRS 158.4416 to require a trauma-informed team to incorporate age-appropriate and evidence-based child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention into the training, guidance, and assistance provided by the team; require the trauma-informed toolkit to include recommendations regarding child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention; require a school's trauma-informed plan to include strategies for child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention; require the Kentucky Department of Education to send annual notification of where the standards for child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention can be found within the academic standards for health; provide that the Act may be cited as Erin's Law.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB316
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require each local school board to include at least one teacher representative; require each local school board to adopt a school board teacher representative policy.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB317
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Refer
2/17/23
Amend KRS 67B.020 to define "peace officer"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 67B to provide the general police powers of each officer employed by a metropolitan correctional services department; establish a system of disciplinary protocols relating to proceedings against an officer accused of misconduct; define "critical incident"; allow an officer to take 48 hours leave after being involved in a critical incident.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB318
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to establish income eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB319
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Refer
2/17/23
Report Pass
2/21/23
Report Pass
3/7/23
Engrossed
3/9/23
Refer
3/9/23
Refer
3/14/23
Report Pass
3/16/23
Refer
3/30/23
Enrolled
3/30/23
Enrolled
3/30/23
Chaptered
3/31/23
Passed
3/31/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to implement the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 requiring exit surveys from school personnel leaving employment; require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop a system for reporting exit survey data; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to develop a marketing program to promote the teaching profession; require CPE to provide a report on the status of the program to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by November 1, 2024; establish a trust fund for the marketing program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to direct the Kentucky Department of Education to create an online statewide job posting system for school job openings, if funds are available; amend KRS 160.380 to conform; amend KRS 164.769 to revise requirements for the Teacher Scholarship program; require the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to submit an annual program report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education; amend KRS 161.048 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to establish a process for candidates to obtain an eligible for hire letter; direct the Kentucky Department of Education to expand the GoTeachKY ambassador program to all school districts, as funds are available; require the Kentucky Department of Education to review the alternative pathway teacher certification options and processes to identify areas for improvement; require KDE to present its findings to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by October 1, 2023; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB32
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Engrossed
2/21/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
3/1/23
Report Pass
3/9/23
Enrolled
3/15/23
Enrolled
3/15/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Amend KRS 161.011 to allow for the hiring of classified personnel without a high school diploma or equivalent if the district provides the employee the opportunity to obtain a high school equivalency diploma at no cost to the employee; allow licenses or credentials issued by a government entity to substitute.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB320
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Refer
2/23/23
Report Pass
3/7/23
Engrossed
3/10/23
Refer
3/10/23
Refer
3/13/23
Report Pass
3/15/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Chaptered
3/22/23
Passed
3/22/23
Amend KRS 281A.160 to allow an applicant who has a nonresident operator's license and a commercial driver's instruction permit to take the CDL skills test within the Commonwealth; establish a nonresident testing fee of $150.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB321
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Refer
2/23/23
Create or repeal and reenacted sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; establish crimes of animal abuse in the first degree and animal abuse in the second degree; authorize law enforcement and animal control officers to seize and hold animals who are victims of cruelty or abuse; allow a seizing agency to seek forfeiture and reimbursement for reasonable costs of caring for seized animals from the owner of the animal in the criminal case; provide that the costs of caring for a seized animal shall apply to any offspring born to that animal while in custody; grant civil immunity to a person who enters a car containing a dog or cat believed in good faith to be in danger of death, subject to certain parameters; amend KRS 525.125 and 525.130 to provide for the seizure of animals from a person charged with cruelty to animals in the first degree and from a person charged with cruelty to animals in the second degree with additional available penalties; amend KRS 525.137 to allow seizure of an animal that has been the object of sexual crimes against an animal.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB322
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Refer
2/17/23
Amend KRS 342.120 to require the Division of Workers' Compensation Funds to create a program to issue lump-sum settlements for outstanding claims; amend KRS 342.122 to set the special fund assessment rate at a minimum of six percent; require the remaining claims balance to fund the programs in the Education and Labor Cabinet, with exceptions.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB323
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Refer
2/23/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to create the juvenile services fund within the Department of Juvenile Justice; appropriate moneys to the fund; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB324
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 600 to create regional citizen juvenile justice review boards and the State Citizen Juvenile Justice Review Board to periodically review the cases of all incarcerated children and develop policy recommendations; establish duties of the review boards; establish membership of the review boards.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB325
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Amend KRS 500.090 to allow consolidated local governments to destroy firearms abandoned, confiscated, or forfeited under the Kentucky Penal Code.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB326
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Refer
2/23/23
Amend KRS 194A.030 to place the Office of Safer Communities under the oversight of the Department for Public Health; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Office of Safer Communities; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2023-2024 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB327
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require African history instruction in certain middle and high school world history and civilization courses; require Native American history instruction in certain middle and high school United States history courses; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing academic standards for the required historical instructions; require superintendents to adopt curricula for required instruction; require the Kentucky Department of Education to collaborate with the Kentucky African American Heritage and the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission to develop recommended curricula and instruction guidelines for the required historical instruction, elective high school course offerings in African history and Native American history, and relevant professional development materials.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB328
Introduced
2/15/23
Refer
2/15/23
Refer
2/23/23
Report Pass
3/7/23
Engrossed
3/10/23
Refer
3/10/23
Refer
3/13/23
Amend KRS 78.510 to provide that the participation date in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) for those individuals who entered the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training's Police Corps program prior to July 1, 2003, through an agreement with a CERS employer, and who subsequently began participating in CERS as a sworn officer upon completion of the program, shall be the date training began in the Police Corps program.