All Bills - Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB167
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Refer
2/22/23
Refer
3/2/23
Report Pass
3/14/23
Refer
3/16/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Reorganize KRS Chapter 321, relating to veterinary licensing; create new sections of KRS Chapter 321 to set up rules for telehealth, records retention, and veterinary facilities; list license renewal procedures for veterinary technicians, animal euthanasia specialists, and veterinary facilities; require fingerprint-supported criminal records checks for licensing; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 321 to establish rules for occupations and facilities under the chapter, including licensing, license renewal, licensee discipline, authorized activities, and veterinarian-client-patient relationships; declare the legislative intent for KRS Chapter 321; establish procedures for allied animal health professionals; require a veterinarian to attain a doctorate in veterinary medicine; authorize veterinary practice through special permits and mobile facilities; establish board membership, board procedures, and authority of the veterinary wellness committee; permit the board to expend funds from its revolving fund for designated purposes; repeal and reenact KRS 321.181, 321.190, and 321.235 to define and redefine terms, set practice conditions and exemptions, and establish board duties, privileges, and personal immunity from suit; amend KRS 321.990 to allow criminal and civil penalties; amend KRS 321.188 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB168
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish definitions; prohibit public postsecondary education institution from engaging in certain activities with foreign countries of concern; require public postsecondary education institutions to submit certain agreements with foreign countries of concern to appropriate federal agencies for review and notice; require all postsecondary institutions, affiliated corporations, and associated organizations to submit semiannual reports to the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Auditor of Public Accounts for gifts of $50,000 or more from foreign sources; establish contents of report; require the Auditor of Public Accounts to annually audit at least 5% of the total number of gifts disclosed during the previous year; require the Auditor of Public Accounts to audit gifts upon the request of the Governor, President of the Senate, or Speaker of the House of Representatives; establish a penalty for failure to disclose to be enforced by Auditor of Public Accounts; and authorize the Attorney General to bring civil action to enforce.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB169
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Refer
2/16/23
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "off-highway vehicle" or "OHV"; allow the registration of an OHV as a motor vehicle in accordance with KRS 186.050(3)(a); require proof of insurance and the payment of all registration and clerk fees as identified in KRS 186.050(3)(a) and KRS 186.040, allow the Transportation Cabinet or a local government to prohibit OHV operation on roadways under its jurisdiction; provide for nonresident reciprocity; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; allow nonresidents to operate an OHV on roadways of the Commonwealth; outline requirements, fees, and length of permit validity; amend KRS 189.515 to specify that that section shall not apply to OHVs that have been registered as a motor vehicle; amend KRS 189.990 to establish penalties; amend KRS 186.010 to specify that OHVs registered under Section 1 or 2 of this Act shall be considered motor vehicles; amend KRS 186A.070 to allow OHVs registered as motor vehicles to operate on roadways of the Commonwealth; repeal KRS 189.281, which allows establishment of a pilot program for off-highway vehicles; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB17
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Refer
2/9/23
Amend KRS 158.060 to remove language that allows for half-day kindergarten programs; amend KRS 157.320, 157.360, and 158.030 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB170
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Refer
2/22/23
Report Pass
3/1/23
Engrossed
3/8/23
Refer
3/8/23
Refer
3/10/23
Report Pass
3/14/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Chaptered
3/20/23
Passed
3/20/23
Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health insurance coverage for oocyte and sperm preservation services and medical services related to testicular and other urological cancers; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to require limited health service benefit plans and limited health service organizations to comply with coverage requirements for medical services related to testicular and other urological cancers; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and state postsecondary education institutions to comply with coverage requirements for oocyte and sperm preservation services and medical services related to testicular and other urological cancers; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB171
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "FAFSA"; require completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form as a high school graduation requirement; provide waiver options for meeting the requirement; require local boards of education to develop policies and procedures to assist students in completing the requirement; require high schools to report potential graduate information to the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; require the authority to provide each high school FAFSA submission and completion data for the potential graduates; require local schools districts to report student completion and waiver data to the Kentucky Department of Education.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB172
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/23/23
Refer
2/23/23
Refer
3/3/23
Report Pass
3/14/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Chaptered
3/23/23
Passed
3/23/23
Amend KRS 317.450 to authorize the board to issue a license to operate a school of barbering to any person, firm, or corporation that has provided sufficient evidence that a sufficient number of licensed teachers will be employed, with at least one teacher with a minimum of 12 months experience teaching in a barber school that includes administrative experience.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB173
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Failed
3/13/23
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; make legislative findings and declarations on the rights of parents as it relates to public schools and establish a standard to protect those rights; require public schools to establish a process to receive complaints of violations; create a cause of action for violations and establish limitations; establish specific parental rights as related to public schools; require public schools to adopt policies to protect those rights; require the Kentucky Department of Education to eliminate regulations in violation and develop recommended policies to public schools for compliance; make findings and declarations related to privacy of parents and children and require public schools to adopt policies to safeguard those rights; establish a cause of action for a child encountering a person of the opposite biological sex while in a location where there is a reasonable expectation of bodily privacy; create a cause of action for those who are forced by a public school to share private quarters with specific people of the opposite biological sex and provide exclusions; make findings and declarations relating to controversial subject matter in common schools; establish a parental right of not having a child indoctrinated into any political position or being involved in advocacy in a controversial subject matter; establish limitations on school personnel related to instruction and discussion on sexual orientation, sexual preference, or gender expression; establish limitations on school personnel advocacy in the scope of employment and actions based on the immutable characteristics of students; prohibit compelling school personnel to advocate for or against anything in opposition to sincerely held beliefs and convictions; require public schools to adopt enforcement policies; establish limitations; establish a parental right to expect a child not be exposed to or given access to harmful to minors, pervasively vulgar, or obscene matter or performance or obscene imagery representing minors; require that public schools adopt policies to protect that right by making those materials and performances inaccessible and prohibit matters and performances harmful to minors, drag performances, pervasively vulgar performances, obscene performances, and any performance involving sexual conduct, nudity, or stripping; provide that none of the materials identified shall be deemed to have educational value for minors; establish limitations; amend KRS 158.148 to establish a parental right to expect a child will not be bulled at school and require public schools adopt policies to ensure notification and support of bullying victims, require an order of reporting to staff, require specific time requirements for investigations; provide for an appeal and review of incidents; require identification of actions to prevent future acts of bullying or retaliation; require procedures for supporting victims; establish a short title of the Childhood Protection in Education Act.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB174
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Refer
3/10/23
Report Pass
3/14/23
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for the educational costs of elementary and secondary school students outside of the public school system; provide ballot language for submission to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB175
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Amend KRS 220.510 to prohibit a sanitation district from imposing any fee, tax, surcharge, or other charge for the provision of service to a property unless the property is connected to a sanitary sewer owned or maintained by the sanitation district or there is an approved plan to connect the property to a sanitary sewer owned or maintained by the sanitation district within two years, the property discharges storm water to a storm sewer or storm water improvement owned or operated by the sanitation district and if discharges to a new improvement or facility that it not be more than one mile from the nearest property boundary, and the person responsible for the charge has agreed to the charges in writing with the sanitation district that provides the service; amend KRS 220.515 to conform; allow the Act to be cited as the Ensuring Fair Sewer Charges Act.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB176
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Refer
2/21/23
Report Pass
3/2/23
Engrossed
3/9/23
Refer
3/9/23
Refer
3/13/23
Report Pass
3/15/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Chaptered
3/24/23
Passed
3/24/23
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; obligate the cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop guidelines for health facilities conducting workplace safety assessments and creating a workplace safety plan; require the cabinet to audit health facilities for compliance; require health facilities to create a workplace safety assessment and a workplace safety plan; obligate health facilities to provide trainings on the workplace safety assessment and plan; obligate health facilities to develop internal reporting requirements for incidents of workplace violence; create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit discrimination against a health care worker that reports an incident of workplace violence.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB177
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Refer
2/23/23
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 405 to establish definitions; provide for parental rights; establish that no governmental entity shall substantially burden the rights of parents unless required by a compelling governmental interest of the highest order and in the least restrictive means; establish specific rights of parents, with some limitations; provide that specific governmental employees shall not encourage or coerce a child to withhold information from a parent; recognize additional rights beyond those enumerated; require local boards of education or boards of directors of public charter schools to adopt specific policies to promote involvement of parents in education; allow the Kentucky Department of Education to provide consultation and model policies that shall not be binding on schools; require a report from the Kentucky Department of Education on the consultation and model policies provided to schools; require obtaining parental consent prior to procuring, soliciting to perform, arranging for the performance of, providing a referral for, or providing medical or mental health services to a child; require verification of identity for remote parental consent; establish limits of the applicability of the requirement; establish a cause of action for violation; establish terms and conditions for the cause of action; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; specify applicability; amend KRS 160.715 to provide a procedure for requesting, inspecting, and reviewing specific information held by a school district or public charter school; and amend KRS 214.185 to establish the conditions required for providing medical or mental health services to a minor without consent of the parent or legal guardian; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB178
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Amend KRS 63.210 to change the procedure for filling a vacancy in the office of county judge/executive, requiring the Governor to choose an appointee from a list of three names submitted by the county executive committee of the same political party as the county judge/executive who held the vacant seat; amend KRS 67.705 to conform.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB179
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.010 to define terms; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a capital offense; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, and 532.100 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
KY
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB18
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/14/23
Amend KRS 164.786 to increase the dual credit tuition rate ceiling amount; add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores; expand the scholarship to include two career and technical education courses in each year of high school and four general education or career and technical education courses in any combination over the junior and senior years; amend KRS 164.787 to delete the dual credit provisions from the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program; effective July 1, 2024.