All Bills - Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB504
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms and make the termination of employment without cause unlawful; establish amount that may be recovered for wrongful discharge; specify when the employers' internal procedures are to be used.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB505
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Refer
2/20/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/7/24
Refer
3/7/24
Refer
3/11/24
Report Pass
3/22/24
Refer
3/26/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/5/24
Passed
4/5/24
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish requirements for providing alcohol and drug treatment and behavioral health service providers and to require the cabinet to seek federal approval if it determines that such approval is necessary; creates a new section of Chapter 309 to establish criteria for registration as a temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialist; amends KRS 309.080, 309.0805, 309.0813, 309.083, 309.0841, 309.0842, and 309.088 to change references to “associate alcohol and drug counselor I” and “associate alcohol and drug counselor II”; amends KRS 309.081 to make changes to the Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors; and amends KRS 309.0831 to change registration requirements for alcohol and drug peer support specialists.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB506
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Create new sections of Subchapter 1 of KRS Chapter 224 to make findings and declarations regarding the dangers of atmospheric polluting activities and the Commonwealth's authority to prohibit geoengineering; define terms; prohibit geoengineering; require the Department for Environmental Protection to issue a notice to any federal agency that has approved geoengineering activities that those activities cannot be lawfully carried out in the Commonwealth; require the department to prohibit foreign states or international bodies that engage in geoengineering from engaging in any atmospheric activities over the Commonwealth; require the department to publish quarterly notices in newspapers of general circulation and on its website to encourage the public to monitor and report geoengineering activities; allow individuals to submit evidence of geoengineering to the department; require any local or state official to report any information regarding suspected geoengineering activity to the department within 24 hours; require the department to investigate reports of excessive electromagnetic radiation or fields caused by humans; amend KRS 224.99-010 to make knowingly engaging in geoengineering a Class D felony and subject to a civil penalty of not less than $500,000.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB507
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete all other definitions; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 70.262, 78.470, and 78.480 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 345.050 to allow public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; repeal KRS 65.016 and 336.132.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB508
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to establish a prevailing wage law for all public works projects; amend KRS 12.020, 99.480, 227.487, 151B.015, 337.010, and 337.990 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB509
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/26/24
Report Pass
3/7/24
Engrossed
3/13/24
Refer
3/13/24
Refer
3/15/24
Report Pass
3/27/24
Create a new section of KRS 61.870 to 61.884, the Open Records Act, to require a public agency to furnish an officer, employee, board member, or commission member an agency email account; define terms; allow the governing body of a public agency or its appointing authority to identify, in writing, the names of specific personnel that do not require the use of an agency-furnished email account; allow a public agency to issue an email address through a third-party provider if a public is incapable of issuing an agency-furnished email account; prohibit an employee or a member of a board, commission, or public agency from using an email account other than an agency-furnished or agency-designated email account; provide that an employee or member of a board, commission, or public agency who uses an email account other than an agency-furnished or agency-designated email account is subject to discipline or removal, as appropriate; amend KRS 61.870 to amend the definition of "public record"; amend KRS 61.848 to specify that any formal action taken by a public agency that does not comply with KRS 61.840, relating to conditions placed on public attendance at meetings, are voidable by a court of competent jurisdiction; make technical corrections; amend various other sections to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB51
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to establish definitions for the section; state legislative findings and declarations; require a public school to obtain parent approval for their child's participation in any questionnaire or similar activities; establish parental rights relating to student data and privacy; require parental consent prior to using radio frequency identification technology to track students or collect student data; require school districts and public to adopt policies and procedures to comply with the restrictions on use of radio frequency identification technology; establish a cause of action for violation of the section; amend KRS 158.191 to require a local board of education to adopt policies to prohibit the administration of certain examinations or surveys without written parental consent; establish requirements for schools to obtain parental permission, create limitations of the section's applicability; provide that Section 1 may be cited as The Child and Family Privacy Act.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB510
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Amend KRS 160.280 to increase the total annual maximum of per diem and reimbursed expenses from $6,000 to $8,000; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB511
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Amend KRS 322.470 to require professional land surveyors to provide seven days' written notice of a survey to the landowner; inform landowner regarding corners that lie on the land or affect its boundaries, and provide a copy of the survey to the landowner without charge upon request; allow landowners to discuss the survey with the professional land surveyor.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB512
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/20/24
Report Pass
2/22/24
Engrossed
2/28/24
Refer
2/28/24
Refer
3/1/24
Report Pass
3/13/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Passed
4/4/24
Amends KRS 45A.690, relating to the Government Contract Review Committee, to exclude agreements between the Kentucky Horse Park and judges, officials, and entertainers contracted for events promoted by the Kentucky Horse Park from the definition of “personal service contract.”
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB513
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Engrossed
3/4/24
Refer
3/4/24
Refer
3/11/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Vetoed
4/8/24
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
Amends KRS 11.027 to create a process for the Historic Properties Advisory Commission to submit plans for approval by the General Assembly prior to the installation or removal of statues, monuments, or objects of art on permanent display in the rotunda of the New State Capitol.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB514
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
3/7/24
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB515
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/22/24
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB516
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB517
Introduced
2/13/24
Refer
2/13/24
Refer
3/1/24
Report Pass
3/7/24
Engrossed
3/12/24
Refer
3/12/24
Refer
3/14/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Vetoed
4/4/24
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
Amends KRS 6.611 to exclude from the definition of “lobbying” the action of any person whose official responsibilities do not include lobbying, who is not compensated to lobby, and who is an officer, managerial personnel, or employee with specialized knowledge assisting an entity with a direct interest in legislation on a particular issue; amends KRS 6.681 to require that the Legislative Ethics Commission provide a draft of its response to an advisory opinion or notice of its intention not to issue an opinion to a requestor five days prior to the meeting to consider the opinion; amends KRS 6.686 to allow the commission to dismiss an ethics complaint for failure to state a claim of an ethics violation, to require the commission to determine whether there is a reason to believe a person has committed or is about to commit an ethics code violation, to provide that, if the commission finds by a vote of at least five members that there is reason to believe a violation has been or is about to be committed, it shall initiate a preliminary inquiry into the alleged violations, and to provide that if fewer than five members find reason to believe a violation has been or is about to be committed, then it shall dismiss the complaint; and amends KRS 6.744 to allow a legislator to represent a client on adversarial matters related to previously issued licenses or permits, ministerial functions related to licensing and permitting, or matters related to driver licensing.