Kentucky 2024 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB41
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to prohibit monetary or in-kind incentives for immunization by a fully insured health benefit plan or self-insured plan issued or renewed to public employees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school from accepting any monetary or in-kind incentives for immunization of any person; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit a public or nonpublic postsecondary educational institution from accepting any monetary or in-kind incentives for immunization of any person; amend KRS 214.036 to prohibit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or any related entity from providing any public funds for monetary or in-kind incentives for immunization of any person to any entity; prohibit any public funds from being used to provide any monetary or in-kind incentives for the immunization of any person; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216A to prohibit any health facility or health care provider from accepting any funds for providing monetary or in-kind incentives for the immunization of any person; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit a health care insurer from accepting any funds for providing monetary or in-kind incentives for the immunization of any person; create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to prohibit an employer from accepting any funds for providing monetary or in-kind incentives for the immunization of any employee.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB410
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Refer
3/1/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate June 12 of each year as Women Veterans Appreciation Day in the Commonwealth; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB411
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Amend KRS 381.697 to require the governing authority of a city to mandate the proper care of a burial ground.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB412
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB413
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable renter tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2029, in the amount of 25 percent of the qualified rent payments made during the taxable year, not to exceed $1,000; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB414
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Amend KRS 164.7881 to extend the expiration of KEES eligibility from five to eight years from high school graduation; amend KRS 164.7884 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB415
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Amend KRS 304.17A-258 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for certain formulas; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for breastfeeding support and equipment; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the coverage requirements for formulas and breastfeeding support and equipment; make technical amendments; amend KRS 205.560 to conform; provide that certain provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; 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, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB416
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311A to create the EMS Professionals Foundation Program fund; specify the ambulance services and EMS professionals that are eligible to share in the distribution of the fund; provide that the Board of Emergency Medical Services shall administer the fund and may promulgate administrative regulations to facilitate its administration; authorize reimbursement for an EMS professional's out-of-pocket costs for mental health treatment for a diagnosed post-traumatic stress injury or post-traumatic stress disorder; provide for annual supplements to ambulance providers for each EMS professional it employs; amend KRS 42.190 and 136.392 to include the EMS Professionals Foundation Program fund to the premium surcharge.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB417
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Amend KRS 337.275 to raise minimum wage for employers to $9.50 an hour on the effective date of this Act and incrementally thereafter to $15.00 an hour on July 1, 2028; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $5.00 an hour on the effective date of this Act.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB418
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Refer
2/1/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/21/24
Refer
2/21/24
Refer
2/23/24
Report Pass
3/5/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/9/24
Passed
4/9/24
Amends KRS 262.850 to decrease the minimum number of acres to qualify as an agricultural district from 250 acres to 50 acres, to add cities that are within one mile of the agricultural district to the list of entities to be notified of the proposal, approval, and withdrawal of property from an agricultural district, and to allow a district board of supervisors to consider possible dissolution of an agricultural district if an owner’s withdrawal of property results in the remaining land no longer qualifying as agricultural land.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB419
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Amend KRS 161.030 to specify authority of Education Professional Standards Board over educators hired by public schools only; amend KRS 199.894 to define "learning pods" and exclude them from the definition of "child-care center" and "family child-care home"; amend KRS 194A.381 to exclude learning pods from certain youth camp requirements.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB42
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/24/24
Report Pass
1/30/24
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "disability" and "service animal"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt veterinarian services and charges for veterans' service animals from the sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB420
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use 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; 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 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; create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose an initial excise tax rate of 9% on the first sale or transfer of harvested cannabis; allow the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board to set the excise tax rate in each subsequent year; establish excise tax reporting, collection, and liability; amend KRS 138.870 and 260.850 to exclude adult use cannabis from the definitions of "controlled substance," "marijuana," "hemp," and "hemp products"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A and amend KRS 218A.010, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to exempt licensed adult use 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 convictions; amend KRS 431.079 to exclude the expungement petition from the certification of eligibility requirement; amend KRS 131.1815 to notify the Adult Use 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 Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and Social Impact Council; apply the excise tax beginning on July 1, 2025, and allow cannabis sales beginning on July 1, 2026; Section 35 of Act, relating to expungement, is RETROACTIVE; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB421
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund", "Child Care Assistance Program" and to rename and redefine the family child-care home program to the "family, friend, and neighbor child-care home"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to expand eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 199.8982 to rename the family child-care home program to the family, friend, and neighbor child-care home program; establish that certified family, friend, and neighbor child-care home providers shall be eligible for payments from the Child Care Assistance Program; amend various other sections to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB422
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to define "in-demand industry sector" and "in-demand occupation"; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to create annual lists of in-demand industry sectors and in-demand occupations and transmit the lists to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for use in determining eligibility criteria for the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to exempt applicants whose occupation or industry sector has been designated as in-demand from the income guidelines and copayment requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.