Kentucky 2024 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB559
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Amend KRS 154.10-020 to include gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB56
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/18/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Engrossed
2/28/24
Refer
2/28/24
Refer
3/8/24
Report Pass
3/12/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/5/24
Passed
4/5/24
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 335.010 to 335.170 to declare the purpose of the Social Work Licensure Compact, to define terms, to set requirements for member states, to establish provisions for active duty military personnel or their spouses, to recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for regulated social workers in any member state, including practice via telehealth, to designate procedures for adverse actions against a social worker, to creates the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission, to establish and elect an executive committee, to provide immunity for party states, officers, employees, or representatives of the commission acting within the compact, to require the commission to create, maintain, operate, and use a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse actions, and investigative information on all member state licensees, to establish rulemaking procedures, to authorize the commission to attempt to resolve compact disputes that arise among member states and between member and nonmember states, to create member state compact withdrawal procedures, to include severability for any unconstitutional or misapplied compact provision, and to describe Kentucky state procedures that affect the applicability of the compact; amends KRS 319.050 and 319.064 to extend the grace period from 60 days to 180 days, allowing temporary licensure while applications are pending, and to remove outdated language; and amends KRS 319.053 to reduce the five-year supervision requirement to two years for a licensed psychological associate to qualify as a licensed psychological practitioner.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB560
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Amend KRS 620.050 to require that upon initial contact with a family, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services must advise a parent of his or her rights both orally and in writing; outline those rights; provide an exception to the requirement that the parent be advised immediately upon initial contact if there are exigent circumstances; amend KRS 620.055 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB561
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Refer
2/20/24
Report Pass
2/22/24
Engrossed
2/28/24
Refer
2/28/24
Refer
3/1/24
Report Pass
3/12/24
Refer
3/22/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Chaptered
4/5/24
Passed
4/5/24
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms, to establish operations and requirements of a Certified Child Care Community Designation Program to be administered by the Cabinet for Economic Development for the purpose of creating new opportunities for local governments to help increase the supply of child care and early childhood education services in their communities through voluntary actions related to zoning reform and programming at the local level, and to require annual reporting to the General Assembly related to the operation of the program; amends KRS 199.881 to remove the pilot program designation of the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership; amends KRS 199.887 to establish new requirements for an employee and a child care provider who receives child care assistance from his or her employer; amends KRS 199.888 to establish a new requirement of the cabinet to develop and implement strategies and programs to promote awareness of the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership; and establishes a new requirement in KRS Chapter 199 to require the cabinet to submit by December 1, 2024, a draft standardized application for certification and draft instructions for the Certified Child Care Communities Designation Program to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Families and Children.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB562
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 310 to enact and enter into the Dietitian License Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; establish participation requirements for states that wish to participate in the compact; recognize a licensure privilege and establish requirements; set requirements for transferring a home state license; designate home state licensure for active members of the military; establish penalties and adverse actions against a licensee; establish a joint government agency, create membership rules, establish voting requirements, and permit the government agency to establish rules and perform duties; require the compact commission to create a data system and outline the requirements; permit the executive and judicial branches within each state to enforce the compact; establish dispute resolution and outline termination procedures; establish a severability clause.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB563
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Refer
2/21/24
Report Pass
3/5/24
Engrossed
3/12/24
Refer
3/12/24
Refer
3/14/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Report Pass
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Vetoed
4/9/24
Refer
4/12/24
Override
4/12/24
Refer
4/12/24
Override
4/12/24
Enrolled
4/12/24
Enrolled
4/12/24
Chaptered
4/12/24
Passed
4/12/24
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms, to create a forbearance period of three years for a utility acquiring a public water or wastewater system with existing violations, to require the acquiring utility to correct past violations during the forbearance period, to defer fines and penalties during the forbearance period, to prioritize funding from the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority (KIA) for projects where the acquiring utility is making improvements to the acquired system, to allow for a waiver of accrued fines and penalties if all deficiencies have been corrected and the public water or wastewater system has been sold to the acquiring utility or if the utility adopts a management and operations agreement handled by a well-operated utility, to require the acquiring utility to make records available to ensure compliance after the expiration of the forbearance period, to allow the Energy and Environment Cabinet and the Public Service Commission to waive fines and penalties, collect fines and penalties, or grant a discretionary extension of the forbearance period not to exceed six months, and to prohibit an acquired water or wastewater system to which a forbearance period applied from being eligible for any additional forbearance periods; creates new sections of KRS Chapter 224A to define terms, to establish the Kentucky Water and Wastewater Assistance for Troubled or Economically Restrained Systems Program under the KIA to provide for a funding application and evaluation process for eligible public water and wastewater systems to seek funds from the General Assembly, to require the KIA to make applications available under the program, verify eligibility of proposed recipients, award funding as directed by the General Assembly, enforce compliance with funding conditions, and report quarterly to the General Assembly on the status of all funding awarded under the program, to allow the KIA board to contract or consult with third-party consultants, state agencies, or special purpose governmental entities in discharging its duties, to require that finalized funding applications be made available to the public, to allow eligible public water and wastewater systems to submit applications for regional projects, to provide for forfeiture and repayment of awarded funds, to require that the KIA board evaluate applications according to specified criteria and submit an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission containing the evaluations and scores of the proposed funding recipients and proposals for the structure of the funding to be awarded, to establish the Kentucky water and wastewater assistance for troubled or economically restrained systems fund, to provide that all moneys in the fund shall be allocated by the General Assembly for eligible projects, to provide that funding may be awarded in the form of grants, loans, no-interest loans, or forgivable loans, to require that interest rates for loans be set in the same manner as the interest rates for loans from the federally assisted wastewater and water supply resolving funds, except that the interest rates shall be one-half percent lower and shall not be below zero percent, to allow the authority to use up to one-half percent of the moneys deposited into the fund for administrative costs, to establish the emergency Kentucky water and wastewater assistance for troubled or economically restrained systems fund, to provide that moneys from the fund be dedicated for capital and non-capital expenses relating solely to restoring or avoiding imminent interruption of utility service provided by a public water or wastewater system after a statewide or local emergency has been declared, to allow the authority to require that a corrective action plan be submitted with a funding application, and to require that interest rates for loans be set in the same manner as the interest rates for loans from the federally assisted wastewater and water supply resolving funds; and amends KRS 224A.316 to require that the KIA prioritize funding for a utility acquiring a public water or wastewater system for the correction of deficiencies in the system identified in state and federal violations during the forbearance period; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB564
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Refer
2/29/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable tax credit for a dependent's qualified education expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year, not to exceed $150 per dependent; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the tax credit.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB565
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Refer
2/27/24
Report Pass
3/6/24
Engrossed
3/13/24
Refer
3/13/24
Amend KRS 109.115 to allow a director on a waste management district board to serve until his or her successor is appointed, not to exceed 60 days after the expiration of his or her term; require that the board director's position be vacated after the 60 day period; provide that the requirements of the Act apply to current directors on waste management district boards; RETROACTIVE.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB566
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Refer
2/28/24
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights five years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB567
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Amend KRS 161.030 to remove the authority of the Education Professional Standards Board to require successful completion of assessments prior to certification; amend KRS 156.101, 161.048, and 161.053 to conform; repeal KRS 161.1222, relating to a pilot teacher program.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB568
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to define "educator" and set out when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims for educators when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to clarify definition of "injury" to include certain psychological injuries experienced by educators.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB569
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Refer
2/27/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish an automatic expungement process for specific eligible misdemeanor and felony convictions; allow the Commonwealth's and county attorney to object and halt the automatic expungement of certain offenses; amend KRS 431.074 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to establish a searchable portal to allow a person to determine if his or her conviction has been expunged; amend KRS 27A.300 to provide that the centralized criminal history record information system administered pursuant to KRS 27A.310 to 27A.440 is the official record of criminal proceedings; create new section of KRS Chapter 411 to create a cause of action against criminal history providers who do not comply with an expungement order; provide that the Act may be cited as the Clean State Act.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB57
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/9/24
Report Pass
1/31/24
Engrossed
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Refer
3/6/24
Report Pass
3/13/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/5/24
Passed
4/5/24
Amends KRS 311A.030 to remove the classifications of ambulance services, mobile integrated healthcare programs, and medical first response providers; amends KRS 311A.142 to permit an emergency medical responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician, or paramedic in good standing in another state to be eligible for reciprocity at the same level of certification or licensure; amends KRS 142.301, 205.5602, 211.9523, 311A.010, 311A.170, and 405.075 to conform; and repeals KRS 311A.185, relating to determination of death by a paramedic; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB570
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to require county governments to operate at least one emergency shelter for persons experiencing homelessness or to otherwise contract with an operator of an emergency shelter; require an adequate number of beds in the emergency shelter; require the emergency shelter to conform to applicable federal and state law; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to provide standards for emergency shelters.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB571
Introduced
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Refer
2/22/24
Amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to create a professional development training schedule for certified personnel; require each local district to implement the schedule; require an additional day to be added to the school calendar if required training cannot be completed in a single calendar day; require school districts to submit a report to the department on the status of professional development training.