Kentucky 2024 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB137
Introduced
1/26/24
Refer
1/26/24
Refer
1/29/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require that when a certificate of need for a health service or health facility is considered orphaned the need for the health service or health facility shall be presumed, an application by a new entity must be granted a nonsubstantive review, and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may not receive consideration of opposition from any previous entity that had been granted a certificate of need.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB138
Introduced
1/26/24
Refer
1/26/24
Refer
1/29/24
Amend KRS 165A.370, relating to proprietary schools, to allow a license holder or applicant to seek a single accreditation for all the school locations it operates in the state; amend KRS 161.048 to specify that adjunct instructors may be employed by a district in a part-time or full-time position; amend KRS 161.046 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB139
Introduced
1/26/24
Refer
1/26/24
Refer
1/29/24
Report Pass
2/13/24
Engrossed
2/20/24
Refer
2/20/24
Refer
3/5/24
Report Pass
3/6/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Passed
4/4/24
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 292 to establish a registration exemption for private fund advisers, to establish requirements for the exemption, to direct where filings shall be made, to require that investment advisers comply with registration requirements within 90 days of becoming ineligible for exemption, and to permit the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to waive certain provisions; and amends KRS 292.330 to conform and to make technical amendments.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB14
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
2/6/24
Engrossed
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
3/1/24
Report Pass
3/6/24
Refer
3/26/24
Enrolled
3/26/24
Enrolled
3/26/24
Passed
3/29/24
Amends KRS 317A.020 to specify emergency order and hearing procedures and to allow the Board of Cosmetology to pursue injunctive remedy and refer violations of the chapter to prosecutorial agencies; and amends KRS 317A.030 to add a licensed nail technician to the board, to replace one citizen-at-large board position with a licensed esthetician, and to allow cosmetologists and nail technicians to use callus graters for callus removal.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB140
Introduced
1/29/24
Refer
1/29/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Engrossed
2/23/24
Refer
2/23/24
Refer
3/6/24
Report Pass
3/14/24
Refer
3/25/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Amends KRS 341.413 to require the secretary of the Education and Labor Cabinet to waive overpayments that were not the fault of the recipient for claims between January 27, 2020, and September 6, 2021, and to remove the limiting provisions to ensure the waiver request time frame is unlimited; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB141
Introduced
1/29/24
Refer
1/29/24
Refer
1/31/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable individual income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue to evaluate the impact of the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow confidential tax return information to be shared with the Legislative Research Commission and Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 75.400 to allow a volunteer fire department to have a minimum of six members; amend KRS 342.140, relating to workers' compensation, to allow income benefits for volunteer firemen, police, and emergency management agency members or trainees to be based on 50% of the state average weekly wage if that is greater than the average weekly wage of their regular employment.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB142
Introduced
1/29/24
Refer
1/29/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/6/24
Refer
3/6/24
Refer
3/12/24
Create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth a paid leave of absence of up to four weeks for the birth, surrogacy, or adoption of a child, or up to two weeks for the placement of a child in foster care or kinship care; establish requirements; amend KRS 18A.025 and 18A.110 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB143
Introduced
1/29/24
Refer
1/29/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/13/24
Refer
2/13/24
Refer
3/11/24
Report Pass
3/14/24
Enrolled
3/15/24
Enrolled
3/21/24
Chaptered
3/21/24
Passed
3/21/24
Proposes to amend Sections 145 and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons who are not citizens of the United States from being allowed to vote in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and provides ballot language and submission to voters for their ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB144
Introduced
1/29/24
Refer
1/29/24
Refer
1/31/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB145
Introduced
1/29/24
Refer
1/29/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/6/24
Engrossed
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/28/24
Report Pass
3/7/24
Enrolled
3/26/24
Enrolled
3/26/24
Passed
3/29/24
.Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to allow health facilities or health care providers enrolled in the Kentucky Medicaid program to submit a current or prospective employee to a check of the child abuse and neglect or adult abuse registries maintained by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and to require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; and amends KRS 209.032 to direct the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a process of notification by which the cabinet shall notify a vulnerable adult services provider if a prospective or current employee has appealed a substantiated finding of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB146
Introduced
1/29/24
Refer
1/29/24
Refer
1/31/24
Amend KRS 317.450 to require all licensed barbers receive up to one hour of domestic violence training as a condition of licensure and at no cost to the applicant or licensee; require the board to make training available online; provide civil and criminal immunity; amend KRS 317A.050 to require all persons licensed under the Board of Cosmetology to receive up to one hour of domestic violence training as a condition of licensure and at no cost to the applicant or licensee; require board to make training available online; provide civil and criminal immunity.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB147
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Refer
2/1/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/7/24
Refer
3/7/24
Refer
3/8/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in proximity to identified entities and locations; establish transition provisions for existing businesses; affirm the authority of local governmental units to supplement regulation of adult-oriented businesses; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB148
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Refer
2/1/24
Establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286 and create sections thereof to define terms; provide exemptions to the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding; prohibit engaging in the business of nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions without a license; establish licensing requirements; provide that nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions are not loans and exempt them from statute relating to interest; establish requirements for nonrecourse consumer legal funding transaction contracts; prohibit certain actions by nonrecourse consumer legal funding companies; direct that transactions made in compliance with the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding are not champerty; establish penalties; direct that the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding shall not restrict the powers or duties of the Attorney General; create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to establish disclosure requirements; establish attorney communications and responsibilities; and direct that a nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions is inadmissible as evidence; amend KRS 286.4-410, 360.010, and 372.060 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB149
Introduced
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Refer
2/1/24
Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to establish cost-sharing requirements for prescription drugs; require rebates to be passed through; establish confidentiality requirements for the rebate information; create a new section of KRS 365.880 to 365.900 to provide that the actual amount of rebates received is a trade secret; provide that compliance with the prescription drugs cost-sharing and rebate requirements shall not be in violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 304.38A-115, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate requirements for prescription drugs to limited health service benefit plans, limited health service organizations, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution; repeal KRS 304.38A-120, relating to assignment of certain benefits under limited health service organization plans, to consolidate like provisions; apply provisions to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB15
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; set the parameters for applicability of this Act; define various consumer rights related to data collection; require a data controller to comply with a consumer request to exercise those rights; require controllers to establish a process for consumers to appeal a controller's refusal to act on a consumer's request to exercise a right; set forth requirements for persons or entities that control or process personal data; require persons who control data to conduct data protection impact assessments; establish that the Attorney General has exclusive authority to enforce this Act and shall provide a controller or processor 30 days' written notice identifying the specific provisions that were violated; provide that if a controller or processor does not cure a violation within 30 days, the Attorney General may initiate an action and seek damages for up to $7,500 for each violation; create a consumer privacy fund in the State Treasury to be administered by the Office of the Attorney General and direct that all civil penalties collected with regard to enforcement actions be deposited in the fund; amend KRS 367.240 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.