Kentucky 2024 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB734
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
3/5/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to require the eligibility periods for all public assistance programs administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services be extended to the maximum period of eligibility permitted under federal law; prohibit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from relying exclusively on automated, artificial-intelligence based, or algorithmic software in the identification of fraud in programs administered by the cabinet; require Cabinet for Health and Family Services personnel to review relevant documentation before denying, discontinuing, or reducing an individual's benefits; amend KRS 205.178 to conform; amend KRS 205.231 to establish a presumption of innocence for public assistance beneficiaries when appealing a decision to disqualify the individual; create a new section of Subtitle 17 of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals and specify coverage requirements; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require health benefit plans that provide coverage for dependents to cover maternity care for all covered individuals regardless of age; amend KRS 18A.225, 164.2871, 194A.099, 205.522, 205.6485, and 205.5372 to conform; amend KRS 205.592 to allow Medicaid income limits for certain women and children to be increased under certain circumstances; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid coverage for lactation support services and breastfeeding supplies; amend KRS 205.1783 to require the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training program to offer the same services as are offered to Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program participants; amend KRS 100.982 and 100.984 to permit the operation of family child-care homes in any residential zone without a conditional use permit; amend KRS 199.894 to define terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish the Child Care Assistance Program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to allow court eviction-records to be expunged after three years; require payment of back rent; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish a tuition and student fee waiver for eligible pregnant women and parents; direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Basic Health Program Design Task Force to make recommendations regarding the basic health program eligibility, cost sharing, and reimbursement rates; authorize the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a basic health program; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to prepare and submit federal waiver applications to provide supported housing and supported employment services to certain Medicaid beneficiaries; to waive the single risk pool requirement and establish a state-based reinsurance program; and to permit the cabinet to accept SNAP applications from incarcerated individuals up to six months prior to release; appropriate to the Kentucky Housing Corporation: 2024-2026: $10,000,000 for a rental assistance program for pregnant women and households that include children under the five years of age; appropriate to the Department of Agriculture: 2024-2026: $2,200,000 to establish a school nutrition reimbursement program and to support the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Assistance Program; appropriate to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services: 2024-2025: $37,094,200, 2025-2026: $67,088,400 to expand the Women, Infants, and Children Farmers Market Nutrition Assistance Program to include Jefferson County, establish a Women, Infants, and Children's Program supplemental payment, expand Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training program offerings, and fund an additional 280 slots in the Home and Community Based waiver program, an additional 2,100 slots in the Michelle P. waiver program, and an additional 800 slots in the Supports for Community Living waiver program; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval as necessary; direct the Department of Insurance to seek a federal cost defrayment waiver as necessary;provide that the Act may be cited as the Advancing Lives for Pregnancy and Healthy Alternatives Act or the ALPHA Act; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB735
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB736
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Amend KRS 241.140, 241.190, and 241.250 to require a local alcoholic beverage administrator to give an applicant a written explanation of why a license application was denied; prohibit more than one license application for the same premises within a span of 12 months; amend KRS 243.450 to deny a state alcoholic beverage license if the applicant had a license application denied for the same premises within the previous 12 months.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB737
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Amend KRS 241.065 to limit the number of quota retail package licenses in each council district of a consolidated local government to 16 licenses; require each quota retail package premises within a consolidated local government to be at least 700 feet from any other quota retail package premises; exempt any quota retail package licenses issued by a home rule city within a county containing a consolidated local government; grandfather existing quota retail package licenses within the consolidated local government; prohibit the renewal of a grandfathered license if the license is revoked, allowed to lapse, changes ownership, or otherwise ceases to be in effect.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB738
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Amend KRS 78.5520 to redefine "hazardous position" to include code enforcement and zoning inspection personnel employed by a consolidated local government for the purposes of benefits of the County Employees Retirement System.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB739
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
3/8/24
Report Pass
3/14/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; provide that an employer may petition the court for an order of protection after incidents of workplace violence; establish procedures for petitioning the court, service of process, hearings, and penalties for violating an order of protection; amend KRS Chapter 336.130 to include workplace violence, and order of protection based on workplace violence; direct that provisions of this Act are not severable; EFFECTIVE March 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB74
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office beginning August 1, 2024, and others by August 1, 2025; set each program term to one year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB740
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
3/5/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to create the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline fund; establish authorized uses for moneys in the fund; amend KRS 186.162 to add a specialized license plate for the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline fund; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB741
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
3/5/24
Report Pass
3/13/24
Refer
3/25/24
Engrossed
3/26/24
Refer
3/26/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to define terms relating to blockchain technology; allow individuals to use digital assets and self-hosted wallets; provide an exemption of income tax for transactions less than $200; allow home digital asset mining and digital asset mining businesses to operate within local ordinances relating to noise pollution; amend KRS 141.019 and 141.039 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB742
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
3/15/24
Report Pass
3/27/24
Amend KRS 61.650, relating to fiduciary duties owed to the Kentucky Retirement Systems, to make a technical correction.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB743
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
2/29/24
Amend KRS 141.023 to make a technical correction.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB744
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
2/29/24
Amend KRS 132.130 to make technical corrections.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB745
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
2/29/24
Amend KRS 131.131 to make a technical correction.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB746
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
2/29/24
Amend KRS 139.785 to make a technical correction.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB747
Introduced
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
2/29/24
Amend KRS 600.020 to change the definition of "abused and neglected child" to describe educational neglect; amend KRS 620.090 to require that a parent or guardian shall surrender public financial benefits received on behalf of the child when the child is placed outside the home due to educational neglect.