All Bills - Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB491
Introduced
2/8/24
Refer
2/8/24
Refer
2/23/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/8/24
Refer
3/8/24
Refer
3/11/24
Report Pass
3/15/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Chaptered
4/5/24
Passed
4/5/24
Amends KRS 199.896 to change the requirements for when instructional programs for school-age children are exempt from all child-care licensure administrative regulations, and to provide that instructional programs for school-age children that offer recreational, educational, sports training, or vacation programs to children under 18 years of age that a child attends outside the presence of his or her parent or legal guardian, shall be exempt from all child-care licensure administrative regulations if certain criteria are met; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB492
Introduced
2/8/24
Refer
2/8/24
Refer
2/16/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Engrossed
2/28/24
Refer
2/28/24
Refer
3/1/24
Report Pass
3/13/24
Refer
3/25/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define “qualified local government,” to require that each employee of a qualified local government who has access to federal tax information submit to a criminal background check by the Department of Kentucky State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to require that the fee charged by the Department of Kentucky State Police be no more than the actual cost of processing the background check, and to authorize the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to implement this section; and amends KRS 68.197 to state that occupational license taxing continues to apply in territory annexed pursuant to KRS 81A.415, but that a city shall remit payments to the county to match the revenue the county received prior to the annexation.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB493
Introduced
2/8/24
Refer
2/8/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Engrossed
2/23/24
Refer
2/23/24
Refer
3/25/24
Report Pass
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Amends KRS 194A.705 to limit the provision of enumerated health and health-related services to assisted living communities and nursing homes.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB494
Introduced
2/8/24
Refer
2/8/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to name and designate as the official pets of Kentucky domestic cats and dogs that reside in or have been adopted from Kentucky animal shelters or rescue organizations.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB495
Introduced
2/8/24
Refer
2/8/24
Refer
2/13/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Engrossed
2/21/24
Refer
2/21/24
Refer
2/28/24
Report Pass
3/5/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Passed
4/4/24
Amends KRS 286.9-100 to modify requirements for entering into a deferred deposit transaction; amends KRS 286.9-140 to modify fee that the financial institutions commissioner shall impose for each deferred deposit database transaction; and makes technical amendments.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB496
Introduced
2/8/24
Refer
2/8/24
Amend KRS 7.200 to establish an attendance threshold for citizen members of the Commission on Race and Access to Opportunity; establish reporting requirements for appointments and reappointments.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB497
Introduced
2/8/24
Refer
2/8/24
Amend KRS 158.080 to require any individuals teaching elementary or secondary grades at a private or at-home private school to possess a high school diploma or High School Equivalency Diploma.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB498
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Refer
2/13/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Engrossed
2/23/24
Refer
2/23/24
Refer
3/11/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/9/24
Passed
4/9/24
Amends KRS 304.5-140 to limit the definition of “reciprocal jurisdiction” in certain provisions and to except certain provisions to the extent that the provisions conflict with a covered agreement; amends KRS 304.6-134 to modify exemptions from KRS 304.6-143 and 304.6-151; and amends KRS 304.37-020 to allow the commissioner of insurance to establish a timeframe for insurers to report material changes or additions to registrations.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB499
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Refer
2/15/24
Report Pass
2/20/24
Report Pass
3/12/24
Engrossed
3/15/24
Refer
3/15/24
Refer
3/21/24
Report Pass
3/26/24
Refer
4/15/24
Enrolled
4/15/24
Enrolled
4/15/24
Chaptered
4/18/24
Passed
4/18/24
Repeals and reenacts KRS 157.069 to define terms, to require the Office of Career and Technical Education (CTE) within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify CTE programs or pathways as high cost or general cost, to provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for CTE based 60 percent upon weighted full-time equivalent enrollment and 40 percent upon specified incentives, to provide that state-operated area technology center operating costs be funded by the general fund appropriation to KDE, to allows funds to be used for CTE programming for students in grades 5-8, to disburse 75 percent of administrative operating funds previously designated to state-operated facility administrative costs that were converted to locally operated facilities to the locally operated facility and 25 percent to the CTE innovation and support fund for innovation and support of CTE programs, to create the CTE support fund, to require the office to provide oversight of fund usage by recipients, to require promulgation of necessary administrative regulations by Kentucky Board of Education, to require that program qualification and funding distribution be posted on KDE’s website, to require that local boards of education provide a one-time award to qualifying employees of a converted CTE center based on raises provided for executive branch employees, to require that KDE calculate the amounts of one-time awards, to allow districts to request reimbursement for payment of one-time awards, and to appropriate funds in the amount of $170,000 to the Learning and Results Services budget unit to administer the awards; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB5
Introduced
1/9/24
Refer
1/9/24
Refer
1/18/24
Report Pass
1/19/24
Engrossed
1/26/24
Refer
1/26/24
Refer
2/7/24
Report Pass
3/14/24
Refer
3/21/24
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
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is stolen, defaced, loaded with restricted ammunition, or otherwise violates state law; amend KRS 610.070 to require a parent, legal guardian, or custodian to be present at court proceedings involving a child in the juvenile justice system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to establish penalty; amend KRS 507.020 to expand offense of murder; amend KRS 507.030 to expand offense of manslaughter in the first degree; amend KRS 507.040 to expand offense of manslaughter in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.1412 to provide increased penalties for certain trafficking offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 515 to create a new offense of carjacking; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to lower the threshold for criminal mischief in the first degree to $500; amend KRS 149.410, 506.160, and 525.220 to conform; amend KRS 520.050 to enhance promoting contraband to a Class B felony if the dangerous contraband is fentanyl, carfentanil, or a fentanyl derivative; amend KRS 16.220 to allow purchase of a confiscated firearm by a person who bids under the condition that they not take possession of the firearm, but instead leave it with the Department of Kentucky State Police for destruction; prohibit government agencies from purchasing the firearm; make technical corrections; create new sections of KRS Chapters 511, 198A, and 65 to establish the offense of criminal street camping and provide exceptions; amend KRS 503.080 to conform; amend KRS 202C.050 to reduce requirements to find a person subject to involuntary commitment pursuant to KRS Chapter 202C; amend KRS 186.417 to include felony offenders released from county jails and local correctional facilities among those who may be issued personal identification cards or operator's licenses under certain conditions; amend KRS 431.510 to define terms; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail in excess of $5,000; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail for any offense of domestic violence and abuse or dating violence and abuse, and for any offense under a civil court order or warrant under KRS 222.430 to 222.437; establish that any bond ordered forfeited following a new criminal offense shall be distributed to the victim of the new offense; require publication of records and annual reporting to the General Assembly; create new section of KRS Chapter 507 to create the offense of murder of a first responder and establish penalties; amend KRS 506.010 to conform; amend KRS 532.025 to include the murder of first responders as an aggravating circumstance for the death penalty; amend KRS 532.036 to allow restitution following a conviction for Murder of a first responder; amend KRS 439.320 to provide that members of the Parole Board shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor, that panels of the board shall consist of not less than three and not more than six members, and that all members of the panel must agree on a decision or the matter shall be referred to the full board; amend KRS 439.330 to require that parole be granted upon a two-thirds vote of the full board; amend KRS 433.236 to limit liability for shopkeepers; amend KRS 439.3401 to add a person who has been convicted of or entered a plea of guilty to a Class B felony violation of KRS 520.050 to the definition of "violent offender" and to include carjacking and attempted murder in the list of violent offenses; amend KRS 508.075 and 508.078, relating to terroristic threatening, to include any workplace or any gathering of 3 or more persons; amend KRS 524.040 to include harassing communications as conduct constituting intimidation of a participant in the legal process; amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Parole Board to order participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition of parole; amend KRS 533.030 to allow a court to require participationin a specific violence reduction program as a condition of probation or conditional discharge; amend KRS 403.763 and 456.180 to enhance a second or subsequent violation of an order of protection within a five-year period to a Class D felony; amend KRS 500.080 to include family members, members of an unmarried couple, and persons in a dating relationship, in application of a particular definition of serious physical injury; amend KRS 514.020 to reduce the time required to establish prima facie evidence of theft by deception of rented or leased property that is not returned to the owner from 10 days to four days; amend KRS 196.031 to require the annual report to also include the percentage of offenders who commit new offenses within two years; amend KRS 520.095 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the first degree to a Class C felony; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 520.100 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the second degree to a Class D felony; amend KRS 532.110 to provide sentences for two or more felony sex crimes shall run consecutively; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 158.155 to require school employees to report certain enumerated crimes to law enforcement; repeal KRS 512.040, which establishes the crime of criminal mischief in the third degree and KRS 158.154, which deals with discipline in schools; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB50
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/23/24
Report Pass
1/24/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 391 to establish the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act to codify provisions for the creation, administration, modification, termination, and validity of transfer on death deeds; define terms; specify that a transfer on death deed is revocable and shall be nontestmentary; establish requirements for a transfer on death deed and specify the process of recording a transfer on death deed; specify that a transfer on death deed is effective without notice to or acceptance by the beneficiary during the transferor’s lifetime; establish provisions for the revocation of a transfer on death deed by instrument or act; enumerate the effect of a transfer on death deed during transferor’s life; allow a beneficiary to disclaim all or part of the beneficiary’s interests; specify the impact of transfer on death deed on claims when an estate is insufficient; provide the form for creating a transfer on death deed; provide the form for revocation of a transfer on death deed; require that in applying and construing the uniform language consideration be given to the need to promote uniformity; conform to federal requirements related to electronic signatures and records; specify that the uniform act shall not affect any method of transferring property otherwise permitted; provide that Sections 1 to 13 of this Act may be cited as the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act; amend KRS 64.012 to provide the recording fee for a transfer on death deed or revocation; amend KRS 381.280, 382.110, 382.135, 391.360, 392.020, 392.070, and 403.190 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to define terms; establish requirements for a transfer of a vehicle's title to a named beneficiary upon the death of the owner; direct the Transportation Cabinet to develop a form for transfer; amend KRS 395.445 to allow the court to arder that administration of certain minors be dispensed with and the assets transferred to the surviving parents of that minor; create a new section of KRS Chapter 140 to limit inheritance taxes to deaths occurring prior to July 1, 2024; repeal KRS 140.130 and 140.140 relating to the levy and payment of the Kentucky estate tax; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB500
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Refer
2/26/24
Report Pass
2/28/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to provide for certain employment activities to be exempt from minimum wage and overtime wage requirements; specify activities and instances that do not require an employer to pay minimum wage or overtime wage; provide for employer requirements regarding lunch periods; amend KRS 337.010 to change the definitions of "employee" and "agriculture"; amend KRS 337.385 to specify instances of employer liability for employee causes of action regarding unpaid wages; specify statute of limitations for employee causes of action for unpaid wages; bar punitive damages; amend KRS 337.990 to remove penalties for repealed statutes; repeal KRS 337.050, 337.355, and 337.365; amend KRS 95A.250, 337.020, 337.420, 337.423, 337.425, 337.427, 337.430, and 337.433 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB501
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to require Senate confirmation in accordance with KRS 11.160 for all appointments or reappointments made by the Governor to boards, commissions, committees, and councils.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB502
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Refer
2/21/24
Amend KRS 286.1-440 to require the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to establish a salary schedule for examiners and assistant examiners that is substantially equivalent to salaries paid by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal supervisory agencies of similar jurisdiction; provide that the salary schedule of examiners and assistant examiners is not subject to the limitations of KRS 18A.110 or administrative regulations promulgated thereunder, relating to the establishment or amendment of compensation; provide that the salary schedule for examiners and assistant examiners is not subject to approval by the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet or the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet; amend KRS 64.640 to conform.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB503
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Amend KRS 12.245, 12.354, 14A.1-070, 16.040, 40.010, 40.310, 40.650, 42.0146, 148.0211, 158.105, 158.140, 161.048, 164.512, 164.515, 186.041, 186.163, and 186.416 to make certain LGBTQ and qualifying veterans, as defined, eligible for state veterans' benefits.