All Bills - Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB191
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/15/24
Engrossed
2/23/24
Refer
2/23/24
Refer
2/29/24
Report Pass
3/12/24
Refer
4/15/24
Enrolled
4/15/24
Enrolled
4/15/24
Chaptered
4/17/24
Passed
4/17/24
Amends KRS 164.092 to define “nontraditional age students,” to remove all references to “minority,” to require that any formula not include race-based metrics or targets, to increase the percentage of public university funding based on student success outcomes produced from 35 percent to 40 percent, to decrease the percentage of public university funding for student credit hours earned from 35 percent to 30 percent, to include in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System’s student success outcomes weighting for credentials aligned with the economic needs of the state and recognize credentials earned by nontraditional-age students, to require that the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) promulgate an emergency or amended administrative regulation to implement the amended funding formula, to require that the Postsecondary Education Working Group convene during the 2024 Interim for the sole purpose of considering how to define “underrepresented students” for the comprehensive funding model for the public postsecondary education system, to require that the recommendations be reported to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024, and to require that CPE distribute allocable resources based on first-generation college students receiving bachelor’s degrees and low-income students; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB192
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Refer
2/12/24
Repeal and reenact KRS 157.069 to define terms; require the Office of Career and Technical Education within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify career and technical education programs or pathways as high cost or general cost; provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for career and technical education based 60% upon weighted full-time equivalents enrollment and 40% upon specified incentives; provide for state-operated area technology center operating costs to be funded by the general fund appropriation to KDE; allow funds to be used for career and technical education programming for students in grades 5-8; disburse 75% 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% to the career and technical education innovation and support fund for innovation and support of career and technical programs; create the career and technical education support fund; require the Office of Career and Technical Education to provide oversight of fund usage by recipients; require promulgation of necessary administrative regulations by Kentucky Board of Education; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB193
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Engrossed
3/1/24
Refer
3/1/24
Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 258.117 to reduce the number of board appointees from each nominating organization from two to one; add one member to be selected from a list submitted by Kentucky Animal Action; provide that on the effective date of the Act, the Animal Control Advisory Board shall be dissolved and reconstituted, and that all new members shall be appointed; provide for the staggering of initial appointments.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB194
Introduced
2/9/24
Refer
2/9/24
Refer
2/12/24
Report Pass
3/5/24
Engrossed
3/11/24
Refer
3/11/24
Refer
3/12/24
Report Pass
3/13/24
Enrolled
3/26/24
Enrolled
3/26/24
Passed
3/29/24
Creates a new section of Subtitle 18 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize insurers to provide electronic communications to persons covered under an employer-sponsored group health insurance policy, plan, or contract.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB195
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies three years after completion of imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB196
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
3/22/24
Create a new section of KRS 78.510 to 78.852 to create an elective alternative benefit program that employers participating in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) may adopt for employees in hazardous positions with a membership date after January 1, 2014, in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits); provide that, if an employer participating in CERS makes a one-time election to provide an alternative benefit program, those eligible employees in hazardous positions may elect, in lieu of Tier 3 benefits, to participate in the alternative benefit program within one year of attaining or otherwise having 10 or more years in a hazardous position; provide that employees opting into the alternative benefit program who meet the requirements of a career hazardous employee receive Tier 3 benefits up to entering the alternative benefit program and an annual lifetime retirement benefit calculated as 2.25% of final compensation for each year of service in the alternative benefit program for participation between 20 and 25 years or 2.5% of final compensation for each year of service in the alternative benefit program for participation for 25 years or more; require that the annual actuarial valuation conducted by the CERS board include an assessment of the funding levels, unfunded liability, and actuarially required employer contribution rates for the alternative benefit program and require the CERS board to make adjustments to the alternative benefit program if it falls below 90% funded or if the employer contribution rate for the program is projected to exceed 16% of pay; require employers opting into the alternative benefit program to pay any additional actuarial costs to fund the program without any funding from employers who do not participate in the alternative benefit program; limit the alternative benefit program to Tier 3 members in CERS; provide that the General Assembly may alter the alternative program benefits, define terms for purposes of the alternative benefit program; amend KRS 78.5516 to provide that eligible employees who elect to participate in the alternative benefit program shall not contribute or be considered as contributing to the hybrid cash balance plan or receive employer pay credits, but shall receive interest credits based on their accumulated account balance in the hybrid cash balance plan; amend KRS 78.635 to require CERS employers participating in the alternative benefit program to pay an additional employer contribution to fund the program; amend KRS 78.510, 78.640, and 78.784 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB197
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Amend KRS 150.280 to define terms; exempt permit holders from administrative regulations regarding exhibition and display restrictions and release requirements with regard to ambassador animals; exempt volunteers from non-permit-holder restrictions with regard to wildlife rehabilitation; establish wildlife rehabilitation release requirements and exemptions.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB198
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/21/24
Engrossed
2/27/24
Refer
2/27/24
Refer
3/6/24
Report Pass
3/14/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
Enrolled
3/25/24
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
Creates a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require that the Cabinet for Economic Development create and implement a financial assistance program to support the nuclear energy ecosystem; provides for the staggering of initial appointments; requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Authority conduct a study to identify the workforce needs to develop and support the nuclear ecosystem and submit its findings to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2024; requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority contract for services to produce a site suitability study to identify the best potential locations for nuclear facility sites in the Commonwealth and report its findings to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2025; requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority contract for services to develop and implement a nuclear marketing and education plan; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; declares that the mission of the authority is to serve as the nonregulatory, trusted state government agency on nuclear energy issues and to support and facilitate the development of the nuclear energy ecosystem; establishes the membership and responsibilities of the advisory board to govern the authority; requires that the advisory board hire a director of the authority; establishes the purposes of the authority, which are to assist interested communities in understanding advanced nuclear opportunities, provide information to the public, develop the capacity for nuclear energy development in the Commonwealth, seek clarity on early nuclear site permitting, work with energy communities that have hosted nuclear-related or fossil fuel activities to assist in exploring nuclear energy opportunities, strengthen engagement with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, build the organizational capacity to convene a consortium of nuclear stakeholders to share best practices, engage with United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and private companies to develop technologies to reprocess or recycle spent nuclear fuel, and maintain awareness of potential events that could initiate or accelerate the development of new nuclear technologies in the Commonwealth; requires that the authority, with the approval of the advisory board, propose and adopt bylaws for the management and operation of the authority, develop and adopt a strategic plan for carrying out the purposes of the authority, create and update at least once every two years a nuclear energy economic impact analysis, and beginning December 1, 2025, and every December 1 thereafter, submit a report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission; and requires that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority develop criteria for a nuclear-ready community designation.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB199
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
3/6/24
Engrossed
3/11/24
Refer
3/11/24
Refer
3/15/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/9/24
Passed
4/9/24
Amends KRS 138.513 to correct a statutory reference; amends KRS 138.555 and 186A.520 to replace references to the National Automobile Dealers Association valuation manual with references to a vehicle valuation manual adopted by the Department of Revenue; amends sections of KRS 138.660 to 138.7291 to streamline application and tax filing procedures for motor carriers; amends KRS 174.990 and 224-43.350 to conform; amends KRS 186.018 to require that the Transportation Cabinet indefinitely keep driving history records of holders of commercial driver’s license (CDLs) and commercial learner’s permits; amends KRS 186.040 to set a reinstatement fee of $40 for a suspended or revoked registration, and to divide the fee evenly between the county clerk and the Transportation Cabinet; amends KRS 186.050 to specify that motor vehicles in excess of 10,000 pounds are commercial vehicles, to set registration fees for these vehicles, and to allow county clerks to retain $1 of the electric vehicle fee assessed under KRS 138.475; amends KRS 186.060 to streamline procedures for application and issuance of registration for vehicles owned or leased by units of government; amends KRS 186.1911 to establish a $5 fee for a replacement vehicle identification number plate; creates a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to require the Transportation Cabinet to report annually to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Transportation on identity document activity at each regional licensing office; amends KRS 186.410 to eliminate the stand-alone moped license; amends KRS 186.4122 to prohibit individuals from having more than one operator’s license or personal identification card; amends KRS 186.4123 to make technical corrections; amends KRS 186A.035 to apply the year-round vehicle registration system to motor vehicles with a gross weight of 10,000 pounds or less, to provide exceptions, and to require owners to supply their birth date during registration; amends KRS 186A.120 to allow that a transfer involving a motor vehicle sale from an individual in one county to an individual in a different county be processed by the county clerk of either county; amends KRS 281.720 to exempt vehicles operating on a peer-to-peer certificate from the requirement to display a motor carrier license plate; amends sections of KRS Chapter 281A regarding CDLs to define terms, to change references from “commercial driver’s instruction permit” to “commercial learner’s permit” throughout the chapter, to streamline procedures for application and testing of CDL applicants who are not residents of Kentucky, to specify the need for federally mandated entry-level driver training, to eliminate references to a moped license, to expand the testing exemption for CDL applicants who have military driving experience to include the knowledge test, to establish a lifetime CDL revocation penalty for any individual who uses a commercial motor vehicle in the commission of human trafficking, and to allow the Transportation Cabinet to adopt Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations in 49 C.F.R. pt. 383; and repeals KRS 174.450, which relates to a license to operate a municipal solid waste transportation vehicle, and KRS 281A.310, which relates to CDLs for nonresidents enrolled in instruction programs; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB2
Introduced
2/22/24
Refer
2/22/24
Refer
2/26/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/6/24
Refer
3/6/24
Refer
3/7/24
Report Pass
3/26/24
Refer
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/10/24
Passed
4/10/24
Amends KRS 156.095 to require schools to provide suicide prevention awareness twice a year and an opportunity for any student who missed the suicide prevention awareness lesson to receive the lesson at a later time, and to make conforming changes; amends KRS 156.501 to remove existing cost-sharing provisions for the registered nurse required to be employed by the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE); creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms, to establish a framework for employment of Kentucky guardians in schools, to specify qualifications of a guardian, to specify that a local board of education is immune from civil or criminal liability in all claims arising out of any action of a guardian, and to specify that guardians shall have the immunities of police officers; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require KDE to gather and compile data, coordinate training, and monitor the numbers and types of mental health professionals in schools; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create the School Mapping Data Program administered by the Center for School Safety and to outline requirements of school mapping data; amends KRS 158.441 to specify required certifications in the definition of “school resource officer” (SRO); amends 158.4414 to allow school districts to hire a guardian until a certified SRO is available as required, to allow a district with an SRO to hire guardians to provide additional school safety and security measures, and to require that the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council update and maintain SRO training; amends KRS 158.4416 to define terms, to specify that at least 60 percent of a school counselor’s time be spent providing direct services, to make conforming changes, to require the trauma-informed team to compile their activities to be used in the creation of the comprehensive school improvement plan and to submit the information to KDE, and to require KDE to annually summarize and submit the information to the state board and the Legislative Research Commission; amends KRS 158.442 to require that the Center for School Safety implement a system to certify guardians to school districts, to authorize the center to employ an individual to provide oversight of the guardian program if funds are available, and to authorize the center to administer and oversee the school mapping program; amends KRS 158.443 to conform; amends KRS 158.4451 to require that the Office of Homeland Security maintain and update the anonymous reporting tool, to require that each school district make available an anonymous reporting tool, and to provide for an alternative anonymous reporting tool; amends KRS 158.162 to allow secondary locking mechanisms in schools, and to require that school councils or principals include school mapping data, if available, in their emergency plans; amends KRS 158.4412 to require that the local school district’s safety coordinator maintain a current copy of school mapping data; and amends KRS 61.637 and 78.5540 to conform.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB20
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/5/24
Report Pass
2/8/24
Engrossed
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Refer
3/15/24
Report Pass
3/21/24
Refer
3/26/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/10/24
Passed
4/10/24
Amends KRS 635.020 to provide that a child 15 years of age or older who is charged with a Class A, B, or C felony involving the use of a firearm shall be transferred to Circuit Court to be tried as an adult, to provide that the Commonwealth’s attorney may transfer the child back to District Court after consulting with the county attorney, to provides that the Circuit Court may transfer the child back to District Court if the Circuit Court finds that fewer than two of the factors listed in KRS 640.010 favor keeping the child in Circuit Court, and to provide that a child who has been convicted of a Class A, B, or C felony involving the use of a firearm shall not be eligible for probation or conditional discharge in a proceeding consistent with KRS 640.030.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB200
Introduced
2/23/24
Refer
2/23/24
Refer
2/26/24
Amend KRS 158.070 to remove the variable student instructional year and require the student instructional year not begin prior to September 1; allow districts to extend the length of a student attendance day beyond seven hours with approval from the commissioner of education; establish proportional equivalence of district calendars with less than 170 student attendance days for the purposes of employment contracts, service credit, and funding.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB201
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit a comprehensive university to offer certain research doctoral degree programs upon fulfilling requirements promulgated by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE); permit a comprehensive university to describe itself as a research university or institution upon fulfilling requirements promulgated by CPE; direct CPE to promulgate administrative regulations establishing those requirements.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB202
Introduced
2/12/24
Refer
2/12/24
Refer
2/14/24
Report Pass
2/29/24
Engrossed
3/11/24
Refer
3/11/24
Refer
3/25/24
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 participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition of probation or conditional discharge.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB203
Introduced
2/13/24
Refer
2/13/24
Refer
2/15/24
Report Pass
2/27/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to offer an associate degree program in interdisciplinary early childhood education entrepreneurship; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish the Division of Regulated Early Childhood Education within the Office of Inspector General within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish the Division of Early Childhood Education within the Department for Community Based Services within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 164.787 to change the definition of "eligible program of study"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to create definitions, establish the innovations in early childhood education delivery fund, the foundations for early learning fund, the family early childhood educator provider fund, and the early childhood education provider start up fund; establish the requirements and operations of the funds for the purpose of offering grants to applicants for the purpose of increasing the availability of early childhood education services in the Commonwealth; amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish eligibility requirements of the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 199.8983 and 12.020 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Horizons Act.