Kentucky 2024 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB180
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to create winter and summer temperature standards for disconnection of service by retail electric and gas utilities; allow resumption of disconnection only after a 72-hour period during which the temperature standard is exceeded; establish a certificate of need for persons who are at risk if utility service is disconnected that can be provided by a physician, physician assistant, community-based service organization, or faith-based service organization; prohibit disconnection of service on holidays and weekends and before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m. on weekdays; allow for reconnection of service for partial payment with a payment plan; require waiver of termination fees, reconnection fees, and late fees for customers having obtained a certificate of need; require utility to make reasonable effort towards reestablishing service for a customer terminated after having obtained a certificate of need but no more than 24 hours after repayment is commenced; require separate, written notice 14 days prior to a disconnection to residential household; require that notice be distinguishable from the regular billing notices; establish font size and typeset for material to be printed on the notice; require a hardship reconnection order for persons at risk who have had service terminated by the utility after meeting specific repayment requirements; require the Public Service Commission to issue an order setting forth any applicable rules and procedures.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB181
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to permit a tenant to terminate a lease or rental agreement if he or she is seeking relocation due to a recent mental or physical health emergency; require the tenant to pay any rent due prorated to the effective date of termination; relieve the tenant from liability for any other rent or fees resulting from the termination.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB182
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Amend KRS 439.3401 to amend the definition of "violent offender" to include the attempted commission of any offense listed, a felony involving the death of the victim or serious physical injury to a victim, burglary in the first degree as described in KRS 511.020 if a person other than a participant in the crime was present in the building during the commission of the offense, burglary in the second degree as described in KRS 511.030 if a person other than participant in the crime was present in the dwelling during the commission of the offense, robbery in the second degree as described in KRS 515.030, arson in the first degree, arson in the second degree, and strangulation in the first degree; provide that a violent offender shall serve at least 85 percent of the sentence imposed before probation, shock probation, parole, conditional discharge, or other form of early release is permitted; provide that a violent offender shall only recieve credit on their sentence for time spent in custody prior to the commencement of the sentence; amend KRS 525.045 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB183
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Amend KRS 199.011 to define "disability"; amend KRS 199.471 to add disability as a reason upon which a petition for adoption shall not be denied; amend KRS 200.575 to require reasonable efforts and accommodations tailored to a parent's disability; amend KRS 600.020 to define "adaptive parenting equipment," "adaptive parenting techniques," "disability," and "disability support services"; amend KRS 610.125 to require a description of the reasonable efforts that have been made be provided to the court; amend KRS 620.020 to expand the definition of "reasonable efforts" to include accommodations for parents with disabilities; amend KRS 620.240 to require that a child's case progress report include a description of the reasonable efforts that have been made; amend KRS 625.090 to include disability as a reason upon which a termination cannot be solely based.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB184
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Abolish the Kentucky Board of Cosmetology by repealing KRS Chapter 317A in its entirety; amend KRS 48.315, 164.945, 165A.310, 309.352, 317.420, and 324B.030 to conform; close the Kentucky Board of Cosmetology trust and agency fund by January 1, 2025; transfer remaining moneys to the general fund; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB185
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish a coal-county paramedic scholarship to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA); define terms; establish a fund in the State Treasury to be administered by KHEAA for providing coal county paramedic scholarships; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB186
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
2/13/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Engrossed
2/22/24
Refer
2/22/24
Refer
3/4/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Refer
3/26/24
Refer
3/27/24
Refer
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/9/24
Passed
4/9/24
Repeals and reenacts KRS 6.948 to establish a process for health mandate impact statements, federal cost defrayal impact statements, and state employee health plan impact statements to be completed and transmitted; amends KRS 194A.099 to conform; and creates a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to suspend provisions of the Insurance Code that result, or would result, in the state being required to defray the cost of the provision under federal law, to set forth requirements for calculating and making cost defrayal payments, to require that qualified health plan issuers use payments received from the state to provide a rebate or reduce premiums to insureds, and to require that the commissioner of the Department of Insurance promulgate administrative regulations to enforce and effectuate the section; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB187
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
3/1/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 213 to establish the Kentucky Indigent Persons' Burial Program; create in the State Treasury a fund entitled the Kentucky indigent person burial trust fund to provide funds to defray the costs of funeral expenses for indigent persons in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; direct that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall oversee the program and fund and promulgate necessary administrative regulations.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB188
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to create a hearing for the removal and banning of dog ownership or possession in cases where a person incompetent to stand trial is charged with harboring a vicious dog; amend KRS. 258.235 to require any animal control officer or peace officer to prepare and retain a written record of impounding or destroying a vicious dog; amend KRS 258.990 to create a penalty for subsequent offenses of harboring a vicious dog; amend KRS 258.119 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB189
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to carry out this section; provide that the section shall be null and void if the community eligibility provision is terminated by the United States Department of Agriculture; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Proud School Match Act; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB19
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/18/24
Report Pass
1/23/24
Engrossed
2/1/24
Refer
2/1/24
Refer
3/1/24
Report Pass
3/13/24
Refer
3/27/24
Amend 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.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB190
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
2/15/24
Report Pass
3/7/24
Engrossed
3/13/24
Refer
3/13/24
Refer
4/12/24
Report Pass
4/15/24
Refer
4/15/24
Enrolled
4/15/24
Enrolled
4/15/24
Chaptered
4/18/24
Passed
4/18/24
Amends 2024 Ky. Acts. ch. 104, sec. 3 (2024 RS SB 188/GA, sec. 3) to define “national average drug acquisition cost,” to temporarily exempt retail chain pharmacies from minimum drug reimbursement requirement, and to make technical amendment; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB191
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
2/29/24
Amend KRS 158.192 to require the local board of education to allow parents and guardians an opportunity to orally recite passages from materials, programs, or events subject to appeal; require immediate removal of the material, program, or event if the board denies a parent or guardian the opportunity to orally recite passages.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB192
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
1/30/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "automated speed enforcement device," "owner," "program," and "recorded images"; direct the Transportation Cabinet to establish a pilot program for automated speed enforcement in highway work zones and issue a civil citation to an operator of a motor vehicle traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit when a bona fide worker is present; establish procedures for citation issuance; direct the Transportation Cabinet to install signage and to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the program; establish civil fines for violations issued under the program; specify that all fines and penalties assessed be deposited into the automated speed enforcement fund; require the Transportation Cabinet to annually report to the Legislative Research Commission the status of the program; establish the automated speed enforcement fund; specify that moneys collected be used to defray the costs of administering the program; specify that any moneys collected in excess of program costs be deposited into the highway work zone safety fund and used for the purposes of that fund; provide that the provisions be repealed effective July 1, 2028; provide that the Act may be cited as the Jared Lee Helton Act of 2024; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB193
Introduced
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
1/30/24
Engrossed
2/23/24
Refer
2/23/24
Refer
3/4/24
Report Pass
3/13/24
Refer
3/27/24
Amend 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; provide that violators shall be subject to revocation of their operator's license; amend KRS 189.960 to require operators of motor vehicles yield to workers in or near a highway work zone; remove condition that workers must be present or that work is being performed for a violation to occur; amend KRS 189.2327 to increase fines for highway work zone traffic offenses; amend 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; amend KRS 189.010 to define "highway work zone"; amend KRS 186.560 to require revocation of an operator's license for certain highway work zones violations; amend KRS 189.2325 to conform.