Kentucky 2024 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB531
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Refer
2/21/24
Amend KRS 138.475 to exclude hybrid vehicles and hybrid motorcycles from the ownership fee paid annually when registering an electric or hybrid vehicle; amend KRS 186.010 and 186.050 to conform; make technical corrections; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB532
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Amend KRS 65A.030 to provide that special purpose governmental entities with less than $25,000 in annual receipts or expenditures are only required to provide a yearly financial statement; make special purpose governmental entities with annual receipts or expenditures equal to or greater than $25,000 but less than $100,000 subject to attestation of engagement once every four years.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB533
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Refer
2/20/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/5/24
Refer
3/5/24
Refer
3/7/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/9/24
Passed
4/9/24
Amends KRS 103.240 to include the payment of working capital expenditures as an allowable use for moneys received from the sale of bonds; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB534
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Refer
2/23/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/7/24
Refer
3/7/24
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 205.536 to prohibit the Department for Medicaid Services or a Medicaid managed care organization from requiring or using certain utilization reviews for prescription drugs that contains an opioid antagonist; and amends KRS 304.17A-611 to prohibit insurers from requiring or using certain utilization reviews for prescriptions that contain an opioid antagonist, and to provide that the prohibition applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed after January 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB535
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Refer
2/22/24
Report Pass
3/5/24
Engrossed
3/12/24
Refer
3/12/24
Refer
3/14/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/9/24
Passed
4/9/24
Amends KRS 158.141 to require, beginning with the high school freshman class of 2025-2026, either a one-half credit course in civic literacy for graduation, including early graduation, or a score of 70 percent on a 100-question civics test, with local school districts selecting which option to use, to require that school districts submit annual civics testing data to the Kentucky Department of Education and to require that the department report cumulative data to the Legislative Research Commission, to provide a list of required topics to be taught in a civic literacy course, and to require that the Kentucky Board of Education promulgate administrative regulations establishing the academic standards for civic literacy.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB536
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; 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 institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 446.350 to provide that nothing in the new section on contraceptive coverage shall be construed to violate section; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to offer family planning services to certain low-income individuals; require the cabinet to report annually; create a new section in KRS Chapter 315 to allow pharmacists to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptives; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB537
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; require all employers to grant an employee at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a child, or death of a dependent or other immediate family member; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to define terms; provide state employees at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a child, or death of a dependent or other immediate family member; amend KRS 18A.110 to require the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate related administrative regulations; provide that the Act may be cited as the Bereavement Leave Act.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB538
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "pregnancy resource center"; require pregnancy resource centers to be licensed; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for pregnancy resource centers; provide that operation or advertisement of a pregnancy resource center without a license is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that a pregnancy resource center's or health care provider's liability is neither limited nor expanded by the licensure requirement; and amend KRS 216B.990 to establish penalties for violations by pregnancy resource centers.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB539
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
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, for internal transfers, and for public employee positions; require notice to be posted for employees; amend KRS 337.990 to assess a civil penalty for a violation.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB54
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/12/24
Failed
1/30/24
Amend KRS 227A.060 to modify experience and education requirements for an electrician or master electrician license; allow a master electrician applicant to have four years of experience in addition to other education or experience; authorize a master electrician or electrician applicant to qualify for licensure through teaching or attending an associate's degree or diploma program at a college within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System or at another accredited college or university; enable a military veteran to meet master electrician or electrician experience requirements through applicable supervised military occupational specialty experience; direct the department of Housing, Buildings and Construction to promulgate administrative regulations to establish an application form to allow submission of military experience; accept either a DD-214 form or a signed statement from the applicant's commanding officer to verify relevant military experience.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB540
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to define terms; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with a crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a private right of action for improper discharge, discrimination, retaliation, and failing to maintain confidentiality; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for employer violations.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB541
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Amend KRS 337.010 to remove exemptions in definition of employee for agricultural workers and domestic service workers; amend KRS 342.630 to indicate that agricultural employers are subject to KRS Chapter 342; amend KRS 342.650 to remove exemptions for domestic service employees and agricultural employees from coverage under KRS Chapter 342; amend other statutes to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB542
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Amend KRS 78.5520 to redefine "hazardous position" to include solid waste management services enforcement officers employed by a consolidated local government for the purpose of determining benefits of the County Employees Retirement System.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB543
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define "drug disposal method"; require the Kentucky Medicaid program to provide payment to a pharmacist or practitioner for the cost of a drug disposal method that the pharmacist or practitioner distributed upon dispensing a controlled substance that contains any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of an opioid, benzodiazepine, barbiturate, codeine, or amphetamine at no cost to a Medicaid recipient; amend KRS 218A.170 to require the Kentucky Medicaid program to provide payment for the cost of a drug disposal method; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval as necessary.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB544
Introduced
2/14/24
Refer
2/14/24
Amend KRS 211.684 to permanently establish the state child and maternal fatality review team within the Kentucky Department for Public Health; require the team to review and analyze all child fatalities or near fatalities in the Commonwealth each year that involve a person under the age of eighteen (18) years with a gunshot wound; make technical corrections.