Kentucky 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HR9
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Adopt the Rules of Procedure for the 2024 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HR96
Introduced
2/21/24
Refer
2/21/24
Express concern about federal overreach on the chemical industry.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HR97
Introduced
2/21/24
Refer
2/21/24
Urge the Kentucky Department for Medicaid Services to communicate with the Commonwealth's neighboring states about entering into an interstate compact to permit 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Medicaid waiver services beneficiaries to receive covered waiver services in any of the compact states.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB1
Introduced
2/8/24
Refer
2/8/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/22/24
Engrossed
2/29/24
Refer
2/29/24
Refer
3/6/24
Report Pass
3/25/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Passed
4/4/24
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the endowed research fund to be administered by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) for the purposes of funding research consortiums between two or more public universities; provides that the fund shall consist of appropriations, federal funds, and other proceeds made available to the fund; provides that the funds shall not lapse; provides that there shall be five consortium accounts within the fund that shall each be assigned to a unique research consortium selected by CPE; provides that CPE shall solicit, accept, and review applications from research consortiums between two or more public universities to determine five research consortiums eligible to receive seed funding for a term of five years; creates a review process to determine eligibility for funding through the fund; directs CPE to fill vacancies when a research consortium is no longer eligible to receive funding through the fund; directs CPE to promulgate administrative regulations to administer this section; and directs CPE to select the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust as one of the initial five research consortiums by February 1, 2025; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB10
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
1/10/24
Engrossed
1/18/24
Refer
1/18/24
Propose to amend Section 95 of the Constitution of Kentucky to hold the election of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Commissioner of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics in even-numbered years, every four years, beginning after the November 2027 election; provide transitional calendar; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB100
Introduced
2/28/24
Refer
2/28/24
Refer
3/1/24
Amend KRS 121.150 to increase campaign contribution limits for anonymous donations, cash donations, and donations from persons under the age of 18 years; remove various campaign contribution limits and restrictions; amend KRS 121.015 to establish that no person shall become liable as surety, guarantor, or endorser for an amount of money greater than the loan given; amend KRS 121.180 to conform; remove the limit on the amount of campaign funds per event or affair that a candidate or slate of candidates can use to purchase an admission ticket for, or contribute to another candidate or slate of candidates; require that beginning in 2025, certain candidates, slates of candidates, and committees shall report contributions and expenditures to the registry every two weeks, starting on the first Wednesday after the first Monday of each year; amend KRS 121.990 and 336.180 to conform; repeal KRS 121.056.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB101
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Refer
1/11/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Engrossed
3/25/24
Refer
3/25/24
Refer
3/25/24
Report Pass
3/27/24
Amend KRS 247.801 to amend the definition of "agritourism activity"; define "working animal"; create a new section of KRS 247.800 to 247.810 to prohibit a city, town, county, or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth from restricting a person from engaging in an agritourism activity.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB102
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Refer
1/12/24
Amend KRS 75.260 to increase the maximum per meeting salary of fire district board members to $150.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB103
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Refer
1/12/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance requirements for centers; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; add requirement for medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, and 216.2970 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB104
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Refer
1/16/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to require insurance disclosures by dog owners, other persons, and insurers to persons alleging entitlement to damages resulting from a dog bite or dog attack; establish procedures for requesting additional information and amending disclosures; provide that disclosures shall not be construed as a waiver of certain rights or acceptance of liability; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and other persons subject to regulation under the Insurance Code to comply with insurance disclosure requirements.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB105
Introduced
1/12/24
Refer
1/12/24
Refer
1/16/24
Amend KRS 139.480 to define "currency" and "bullion"; exempt currency and bullion from sales and use tax on or after August 1, 2024.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB106
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Refer
1/16/24
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB107
Introduced
1/11/24
Refer
1/11/24
Refer
1/16/24
Report Pass
1/24/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Engrossed
2/22/24
Refer
2/22/24
Refer
3/1/24
Report Pass
3/12/24
Report Pass
4/15/24
Refer
4/15/24
Enrolled
4/15/24
Enrolled
4/15/24
Chaptered
4/17/24
Passed
4/17/24
Amends KRS 186.040 to direct $30 of the registration fee for vehicles in excess of 44,000 pounds to the county clerk of the county in which the truck is registered; amends KRS 186.050 to set registration fees for vehicles in excess of 44,000 pounds; creates a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to direct the state police to engage in a pilot project to provide operator’s license skills testing in five counties where testing is not currently offered, to set requirements for the state police, and to require that the state police report to the Legislative Research Commission by October 31, 2025, regarding program data, effect on existing testing efforts, and recommendations; amends KRS 186.480 to require that the Department of Kentucky State Police (KSP) include information about the organ donor program in educational materials for driver training; amends KRS 186.560 to require revocation of an operator’s license for certain highway work zone violations; amends KRS 189.010 to define “highway work zone”; amends KRS 189.221 and 189.2325 to conform; amends KRS 189.222 to provide a weight limit allowance of 400 pounds for any vehicle with an auxiliary power unit; amends KRS 189.2327 to increase fines for highway work zone traffic offenses; amends KRS 189.270 to limit the fee that the Transportation Cabinet may set for overdimensional permits to transport farm equipment; amends KRS 189.271, 189.2713, 189.2716, and 189.2717 to require that the Transportation Cabinet promulgate administrative regulations to set fees for overweight and overdimensional permits; amends KRS 189.290 to prohibit a person from operating a vehicle in or near a highway work zone in a manner that endangers persons or property and to provide that violators shall be subject to revocation of their operator’s license; amends KRS 189.340 to prohibit the operation of a truck tractor, trailer, or semitrailer in the far left lane of any roadway that has been divided into three or more clearly marked lanes for travel; amends KRS 189.930 to expand the requirement to move over or slow down when approaching an emergency or public safety vehicle to include any disabled vehicle displaying a warning signal; amends KRS 189.960 to require that operators of motor vehicles yield to workers in or near a highway work zone; amends KRS 189.990 to establish fines for causing physical injury or death to a person while operating a vehicle in or near a highway work zone; amends KRS 281.926 to require that towing companies submit their rate schedules to the nearest KSP post and all local law enforcement agencies in the companies’ service area in addition to making them available to the public upon request, and to direct that the KSP and local law enforcement agencies remove companies that do not comply with these requirements from their wrecker logs for a period of six months for the first violation and one year for any subsequent violation; and amends KRS 281.990 to allow the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to set penalties for violations of KRS 281.920 to 281.936; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB108
Introduced
1/12/24
Refer
1/12/24
Refer
1/16/24
Amend KRS 116.045 to prohibit public entities, officials, and employees authorized to assist a person in registering, transferring, and changing political party from influencing the person's decision; provide that no individual or group shall have electronic access to the voter registration information unless he or she is employed in the office of the county clerk of the county in which registration occurs; amend KRS 116.048 to require that the completed voter registration application shall only be transmitted to the county clerk of the applicant's voting residence; amend KRS 116.112 to require that each county board of elections conducts its own voter registration purge program; require that the county board of elections submit its voter registration information to the State Board of Elections on the fifth day of each month; amend KRS 116.113 to provide that the county clerk is responsible for removing a registered voter's name when necessary.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB109
Introduced
1/16/24
Refer
1/16/24
Refer
1/18/24
Amend KRS 164.7879 to increase the Kentucky educational excellence scholarship base amount for each eligible grade point average; increase the supplemental award amounts; require a supplemental award for eligible Cambridge Advanced International scores; increase the award amount for an eligible student enrolled in a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program; amend KRS 164.7874, 164.7881, 164.7884, and 164.7885 to conform; EMERGENCY.