All Bills - Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB381
Introduced
2/28/24
Refer
2/28/24
Refer
3/1/24
Amend KRS 18A.110 directing the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations requiring new employee compensation after the probationary period to not exceed or equal to an incumbent employee salary in the same job classification, work county, and department or office without adjustment of incumbent employee salaries in the same position job class; Evaluate and calculate salary adjustment of incumbent employees in the same job classification series; amend KRS 18A.140 to remove prohibition of classified employee to participate as a member of local political party committee or member of a partisan political club, or candidate for nomination or election to any paid partisan public office, and amend definition to prohibit participation in management of any political party in political campaigns to statewide constitutional offices; amend KRS 18A.355 to change the state employee annual increment to two percent.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB382
Introduced
2/28/24
Refer
2/28/24
Refer
3/1/24
Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the oversight of cannabis operations and to provide administrative support for the board; establish various one-year business licenses under the chapter; grant administrative hearings under KRS Chapter 13B to appeal a license denial or revocation; forbid an employer from discriminating against applicants or employees who use cannabis outside of working hours as long as the use does not affect job performance; prohibit a person under the age of 21 from purchasing, possessing, consuming, or using cannabis; establish a revolving account called the cannabis fund to collect cannabis licensing fees, fines, excise taxes, and any other funds; form the Social Impact Council as a public agency authorized to distribute moneys from the cannabis fund; set council membership, procedures, powers, and duties; amend KRS 2.015 to require a person to be 21 years of age or older to purchase cannabis and its products and accessories; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize local governments to levy up to a 5% license fee on the gross receipts of a retailer or microbusiness; allow overlapping local governments to agree to levy a combined license fee, with set fee amounts absent an agreement; create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose an initial excise tax rate of 9% on the first sale or transfer of harvested cannabis; allow the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board to set the excise tax rate in each subsequent year; establish excise tax reporting, collection, and liability; amend KRS 138.870 and 260.850 to exclude adult use cannabis from the definitions of "controlled substance," "marijuana," "hemp," and "hemp products"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A and amend KRS 218A.010, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to exempt licensed adult use cannabis activities from criminal marijuana offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a person to petition the court to expunge the person's misdemeanor marijuana convictions; amend KRS 431.079 to exclude the expungement petition from the certification of eligibility requirement; amend KRS 131.1815 to notify the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board if a cannabis licensee is a delinquent taxpayer; amend KRS 600.020 to include cannabis offenses in the list of juvenile status offenses; amend KRS 12.020 to add the governmental entities created in KRS Chapter 245 to the list of executive branch government bodies; set initial terms for members of the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and Social Impact Council; apply the excise tax beginning on July 1, 2025, and allow cannabis sales beginning on July 1, 2026; Section 35 of Act, relating to expungement, is RETROACTIVE; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB39
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/12/24
Amend KRS 6.811 to prohibit legislative agents or employers of legislative agents from making campaign contributions to legislators, candidates, campaign committees for legislators or candidates, caucus campaign committees, or permanent committees that donate to or make independent expenditures for legislators at any time.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB4
Introduced
1/23/24
Refer
1/23/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
2/15/24
Refer
2/15/24
Refer
2/28/24
Report Pass
3/26/24
Amend KRS 161.155 to specify that sick leave payments made to certified school employees who began participating in the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) prior to January 1, 2022, and who retire from TRS on or after July 1, 2024, shall be limited to the sick leave accrued by the employee as of June 30, 2024, plus no more than 10 additional sick leave days accrued each fiscal year thereafter; provide that the 10 additional days eligible for payment shall not include personal leave, emergency leave, or other forms of non-sick leave balances; require each school district to annually report sick leave balances to TRS beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024 and specify contents of the report; amend KRS 161.152 and 161.154 to further clarify that emergency leave and personal leave shall not be converted to sick leave under KRS 161.155; amend KRS 161.400 to require TRS to annually report in the annual actuarial valuation the total liabilities and costs of the sick leave program created by KRS 161.155; amend KRS 161.623 to allow school districts to convert excess sick leave accrued annually in excess of 10 days specified by the bill to service credit in TRS the school district pays the cost of conversion; amend KRS 161.643 to include new sick leave reporting requirements in the annual statutory reporting requirements for TRS employers; provide that the Auditor of Public Accounts shall perform a special audit of the sick leave program to ensure sick leave balances are being reported correctly to TRS and specify that TRS shall pay the costs of the audit; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB40
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
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 Senate Bill SB41
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/5/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to define "animal shelter," "breeder," "broker," and "retail pet shop"; prohibit retail pet shops from selling dogs or cats; allow retail pet shops to collaborate with animal shelters to showcase dogs or cats; require retail pet shops to maintain records documenting the source of each dog or cat it provides space to showcase for at least one year; prohibit the sale or transfer of ownership of a dog or cat in a publicly accessible space; amend KRS 258.990 to include a penalty for retail pet shop operators who violate this Act.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB42
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage for employers to $15.00 an hour; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB43
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to create the crime of theft of a motor vehicle; amend KRS 515.020 to provide increased penalty in certain circumstances; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 513 to conform.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB44
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
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; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB45
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
2/1/24
Engrossed
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Refer
3/1/24
Report Pass
3/12/24
Refer
3/26/24
Enrolled
3/27/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
4/4/24
Passed
4/4/24
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to create and operate the Kentucky Ashanti Alert System to provide public notification through the use of media providers and highway signs when an adult is missing and may have been abducted or kidnapped or may be in physical danger and the Kentucky Ian Alert System to provide public notification through the use of media providers and highway signs when a child is missing and may be in physical danger; and amends KRS 16.010 to define “missing adult” and “missing child.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB46
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/4/24
Report Pass
1/24/24
Engrossed
1/30/24
Refer
1/30/24
Refer
3/8/24
Report Pass
3/12/24
Enrolled
3/26/24
Enrolled
3/26/24
Passed
3/29/24
Amends KRS 189.110 to permit the application to a windshield of sunscreening material with a light transmittance of not less than 70 percent.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB47
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/5/24
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require a crew of at least two persons during the operation of a train or light engine; amend KRS 277.990 to include penalties for crews of less than two persons.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB48
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
2/8/24
Engrossed
2/26/24
Refer
2/26/24
Amend KRS 514.030 to increase the theft aggregate timeframe from 90 days to one year.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB49
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
Amend KRS 229.011 to redefine "exhibition"; amend KRS 229.045 to require sanctioning bodies to provide notice to the Boxing and Wrestling Commission of all combat sports exhibitions not covered under this chapter.
KY
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB5
Introduced
1/2/24
Refer
1/2/24
Refer
1/3/24
Report Pass
1/4/24
Engrossed
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Refer
2/15/24
Report Pass
2/22/24
Enrolled
2/27/24
Enrolled
2/27/24
Chaptered
2/29/24
Passed
2/29/24
Amends KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands; EMERGENCY.