Kentucky 2024 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB423
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "outdoor nature-based child-care center"; amend KRS 194A.381 to exempt outdoor nature-based child-care centers from the requirements for youth camps; amend KRS 199.8941 to allow monetary incentives for outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8943 to expand the quality rating system to outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.895 to specify evacuation plans for outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8951 to establish epinephrine auto-injector requirements for outdoor nature-based child-care center; amend KRS 199.896 to require licensure standards for outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8962 and 199.897 to require operational standards for outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.898 to establish the rights of operators of outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.990 to outline penalties for licensure violations of outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 311.645 related to emergency allergy treatment standards for outdoor nature-based child-care centers to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB424
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts provide a full-day preschool education program for eligible three and four-year-olds; establish eligibility for the program; require that preschool for three year old children continue to be funded through a grant process and preschool programs for four-year-old children be funded under KRS 157.310 to 157.440; require preschool programs to operate on the school district calendar; require transportation be provided; amend KRS 158.031 to include preschool education programs for four-year-old children in the primary school program; amend KRS 157.320 to remove the definition of "kindergarten full-time equivalent pupil in average daily attendance"; amend KRS 157.360 to remove a reference to the kindergarten full-time equivalent; amend KRS 158.030 to include a preschool education program for four-year-old children in the definition of "common school"; remove language allowing kindergarten to operate for less than six hours on a school day; amend KRS 158.060 and 160.1596 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB425
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize the establishment of children's early learning services taxing districts; define terms; provide a method and alternative method for the creation of each district and the funding of the district to be set at a maximum of 10 cents per 100 dollars of assessed property valuation; specify the board membership; require compliance with special purpose governmental entity reporting requirements; establish oath and expenses for directors; allow the employment of an attorney for the board; establish the authorities of the district; specify dissolution of the district and withdrawal of membership of cities and counties that are a part of the district.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB426
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164A to establish within the State Treasury a fund to be used to make contributions to Kentucky opportunity accounts; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to share information with the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend KRS 141.019 to exclude earnings from Kentucky opportunity accounts from adjusted gross income; amend KRS 205.200 to provide that ownership or activity of a Kentucky opportunity account shall not be used when conducting means-based testing for eligibility for public assistance programs.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB427
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
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 it discharges to a new improvement or facility that it not be more than one mile from the nearest property boundary, 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; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ensuring Fair Sewer Charges Act.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB428
Introduced
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion during a declared emergency; amend KRS 156.496 to allow a school district to operate a family resource center that provides abortion counseling; amend KRS 205.010 to permit financial aid for an abortion; amend KRS 205.510 to include abortions or induced miscarriages as medical care; amend KRS 205.560 to allow medical aid payments for abortion; amend KRS 211.603 to allow money in the rape crisis trust fund to be used for abortion services or education; amend KRS 212.275 to allow health departments to dispense medication for an abortion; amend KRS 213.101 to remove various reporting requirements; amend various sections to remove penalties associated with performing abortions; amend various sections to conform; repeal, reenact, and amend or repeal and reenact KRS 311.783, 311.7710, 311.820, 311.990, 311.780, 311.810, 311.572, 311.591, 311.686, and 311.852 to conform; repeal KRS 15.241, 213.098, 213.172, 213.174, 213.176, 216B.0435, 216B.200, 216B.202, 216B.204, 216B.206, 216B.208, 216B.210, 304.5-160, 311.710, 311.715, 311.720, 311.723, 311.724, 311.725, 311.727, 311.728, 311.731, 311.732, 311.733, 311.735, 311.750, 311.760, 311.765, 311.770, 311.7701, 311.7702, 311.7703, 311.7704, 311.7705, 311.7706, 311.7707, 311.7708, 311.7709, 311.7711, 311.772, 311.7731, 311.7733, 311.7734, 311.7735, 311.7736, 311.7737, 311.7739, 311.774, 311.7741, 311.7743, 311.781, 311.7811, 311.782, 311.784, 311.7841, 311.785, 311.786, 311.787, 311.790, 311.800, 311.821, 311.822, 311.823, 311.824, 311.825, 311.826, 311.827, 311.830, 311.992, and 315.315; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB429
Introduced
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define terms; establish privacy protections for a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish protections for any person or entity assisting a woman seeking reproductive health care out of the Commonwealth; establish a civil cause of action for violations; waive sovereign immunity protections of the Commonwealth.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB43
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/17/24
Engrossed
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Refer
2/23/24
Report Pass
3/13/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/5/24
Passed
4/5/24
Creates a new section of KRS 75.100 to 75.260 to require a fire protection district, volunteer fire department district, or subdistrict to host a public hearing and provide notice of the hearing when making a change to fire protection services involving communications, firefighting resources, or water supply that will likely downgrade fire service ratings.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB430
Introduced
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Amend KRS 211.690 to require the Health Access Nurturing Development Services Program to provide educational information about maternal and postpartum depression; make technical corrections.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB431
Introduced
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Amend KRS 529.160 to allow a conviction to be vacated when a person's participation in the offense is determined to be the result of being a victim of human trafficking; RETROACTIVE.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB432
Introduced
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Create a new section of KRS 164.7871 to 164.7885 to allow the use of Kentucky educational excellence scholarship funds for dual credit courses; require the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the section; amend KRS 164.7885 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB433
Introduced
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Refer
2/13/24
Amend KRS 141.020 and 141.040, relating to the exclusions from income tax earned by nonresident disaster response employees and businesses, to remove the sunset date of January 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB434
Introduced
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Refer
3/1/24
Report Pass
3/5/24
Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to define "identity document" and "third-party entity"; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures to allow third-party entities to apply to the Transportation Cabinet to be approved to accept applications for certain identity documents; set forth minimum standards for third-party issuance; and allow third-party entities to charge a fee for services provided.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB435
Introduced
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Amend KRS 218A.133 to provide that a person who seeks or renders aid to someone experiencing a possible drug overdose or is the person experiencing a possible drug overdose cannot be arrested on a warrant or be subject to revocation of his or her conditions of release if the evidence for the arrest or motion to revoke is obtained as a result of the need for aid for the possible drug overdose; establish that the immunity extends from the time law enforcement or medical personnel respond at the location of a possible overdose until law enforcement or medical personnel leave the scene; exclude certain offenses from immunity; require the Office of Drug Control Policy to conduct an overdose good samaritan education and awareness campaign; appropriate funds in the amount of $500,000 from the opioid abatement trust fund to support the campaign; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB436
Introduced
1/31/24
Refer
1/31/24
Refer
2/16/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Engrossed
2/27/24
Refer
2/27/24
Refer
3/13/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/9/24
Passed
4/9/24
Amends KRS 26A.140 to state that the guardians ad litem shall receive a fee fixed by the court and paid by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 403.715 to 403.785 to require appointment of a guardian ad litem for any unrepresented minor who is an alleged victim of domestic violence and abuse, or who is named as a respondent or petitioner in a petition for an emergency protective order or domestic violence order, and to provide that a violation of an interpersonal protective order or a domestic violence order may constitute a criminal offense if the offender is an adult or a public offense if the offender is a juvenile; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 456 to require appointment of a guardian ad litem for any unrepresented minor who is an alleged victim of dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking or who is named as a respondent or petitioner in a petition for an interpersonal protective order.