All Bills - Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB207
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
3/8/23
Engrossed
3/13/23
Refer
3/13/23
Refer
3/13/23
Report Pass
3/16/23
Enrolled
3/30/23
Enrolled
3/30/23
Chaptered
4/4/23
Passed
4/4/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to allow law enforcement agencies to create their own wellness programs; establish that all proceedings, opinions, and records of a wellness program are privileged and not subject to subpoena; amend KRS 61.878 to include records confidentially maintained in accordance with a wellness program to the list of records not subject to an open records request.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB208
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require certain health insurance policies to provide coverage for an annual mental health wellness examination of at least 45 minutes provided by a mental health professional; require the coverage to be no less extensive than coverage for medical and surgical benefits, comply with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, and not to be subject to any cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the mental health coverage requirement; create a new section of Subtitle 17C to KRS Chapter 304 to apply the mental health wellness examination requirement to limited health service contracts; create a new section of Subtitle 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to conform; direct that provisions apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the section; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2024.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB209
Introduced
2/7/23
Refer
2/7/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provide previous salary, except to allow a request for information voluntarily provided in response to an offer of employment; allow previous salary to be considered when required by law, when discovered while looking at other nonsalary information, and for public employee positions; require notice to be posted for employees; amend KRS 337.990 to assess a civil penalty for a violation.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB21
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Refer
2/9/23
Report Pass
2/21/23
Engrossed
3/2/23
Refer
3/2/23
Refer
3/9/23
Report Pass
3/15/23
Refer
3/30/23
Enrolled
3/30/23
Enrolled
3/30/23
Chaptered
4/7/23
Passed
4/7/23
Amend KRS 186.412 to require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures and forms to allow an individual without a fixed, permanent address to submit a form signed by a shelter, health care facility, or other social service agency attesting to the applicant's residence for the purpose of issuance of a renewal operator's license or an initial or renewal personal ID card and to allow use of the forms established by the cabinet to be used for application for a duplicate operator's license or personal identification card; amend KRS 186.4122 to allow a homeless minor over the age of 16 to apply for a personal identification card without a parent or guardian signature, and to retain current procedures for proving residency for homeless individuals obtaining a personal identification card until July 1, 2025, after which time these individuals will use cabinet forms; amend KRS 186.4123 to conform; amend KRS 186.531 to set the price of a personal identification card for an individual without a fixed, permanent address at $5, eliminate the fee schedule for operator's licenses and personal identification cards issued by circuit clerks, and allow the Transportation Cabinet to enter into billing arrangements with social service agencies for payment of client's fees; Section 1 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB210
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/10/23
Report Pass
2/15/23
Engrossed
2/22/23
Refer
2/22/23
Refer
3/3/23
Report Pass
3/7/23
Refer
3/13/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Enrolled
3/16/23
Chaptered
3/17/23
Passed
3/17/23
Amend various sections of Subtitle 36 of KRS Chapter 304, the Kentucky Insurance Guaranty Association Act, to make technical amendments; amend scope of Act, definitions, and obligations of the Kentucky Insurance Guaranty Association.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB211
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Amend KRS 2.110 to revise the public holidays on which public offices in the Commonwealth may be closed.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB212
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to create a hearing for the removal and banning of dog ownership or possession in cases where a person incompetent to stand trial is charged with harboring a vicious dog; amend KRS 258.990 to create a penalty for subsequent offenses of harboring a vicious dog after an ownership ban; amend KRS 258.119 and 258.235 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB213
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/23/23
Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt currency and bullion from sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2023.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB214
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/21/23
Amend KRS 15.243 to expand the Attorney General's independent inquiry of potential election irregularities from not fewer than 12 of Kentucky counties to all counties; require that the Attorney General or his or her designee conduct a hand-to-eye recount in certain randomly selected precincts and races.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB215
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/17/23
Amend KRS 68.197 to remove the population requirement and the one percent occupational license fee rate limitation; allow the crediting of city and county occupational license fees by agreement only; amend KRS 67.793 to conform; repeal KRS 68.199, relating to credit against occupational license fees in a county that attains a population of 30,000.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB216
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/23/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 establishing the employer student loan repayment tax credit, equal to fifty percent of the amount paid by an employer on an eligible student loan of a qualified employee; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to conform.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB217
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/16/23
Report Pass
2/21/23
Engrossed
2/24/23
Refer
2/24/23
Refer
3/7/23
Report Pass
3/8/23
Enrolled
3/13/23
Enrolled
3/13/23
Chaptered
3/16/23
Passed
3/16/23
Amend KRS 186A.005, 186A.017, 186A.120, 186A.125, and 186A.165, as effective January 1, 2024, to include the application for salvage titles under the electronic title application and registration system; amend KRS 186A.520 to conform; amend 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 18, sec. 19, to set a January 1, 2025, effective date for Sections 6 to 11 of that Act, regarding the centralized lien reporting system, and retain the January 1, 2024, effective date for all other codified sections of that Act; Section 6 of this bill effective January 1, 2024.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB218
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/16/23
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to define and designate the Honor and Remember flag as the state's emblem of the service and sacrifice of the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces who have given their lives in the line of duty; specify locations, dates, and circumstances under which the flag may be displayed; and provide that if Congress designates a flag to honor those service members who have given their lives in the line of duty, then that flag shall be used instead of the one created by Honor and Remember, Inc.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB219
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Amend KRS 342.0011 to allow "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when no physical injury exists.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB22
Introduced
1/3/23
Refer
1/3/23
Refer
2/23/23
Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the oversight of cannabis operations and to provide administrative support for the board; establish various one-year business licenses under the chapter; grant administrative hearings under KRS Chapter 13B to appeal a license denial or revocation; forbid an employer from discriminating against applicants or employees who use cannabis outside of working hours as long as the use does not affect job performance; prohibit a person under the age of 21 from purchasing, possessing, consuming, or using cannabis; establish a revolving account called the "cannabis fund" to collect cannabis licensing fees, fines, excise taxes, and any other funds; form the Social Impact Council as a public agency authorized to distribute moneys from the cannabis fund; set council membership, procedures, powers, and duties; create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose an excise tax at a rate set by the Cannabis Control Board on the first sale or transfer of harvested cannabis; establish excise tax reporting, collection, and liability; amend KRS 139.472 to exempt medical cannabis and accessories from sales and use taxes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize local governments to levy up to a 5% license fee on the gross receipts of a retailer or microbusiness; allow overlapping local governments to agree to levy a combined license fee, with set fee amounts absent an agreement; amend KRS 2.015 to require a person to be 21 years of age or older to purchase cannabis and its products and accessories; create new sections of KRS 218A and amend KRS 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to exempt licensed cannabis activities from criminal marijuana offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a person to petition the court to expunge the person's misdemeanor marijuana offenses; amend KRS 431.079 to exclude the expungement petition from the certification of eligibility requirement; amend KRS 131.1815 to notify the Cannabis Control Board if a cannabis licensee is a delinquent taxpayer; amend KRS 600.020 to include cannabis offenses in the list of juvenile status offenses; amend KRS 12.020 to add the governmental entities created in KRS Chapter 245 to the list of executive branch government bodies; set initial terms for members of the Cannabis Control Board and Social Impact Council; apply the excise tax beginning on July 1, 2024, and allow cannabis sales beginning on July 1, 2025; Section 31 of Act RETROACTIVE; APPROPRIATION.