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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB3

Introduced
2/26/24  
Refer
2/26/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
3/6/24  
Engrossed
3/14/24  
Refer
3/14/24  
Refer
3/21/24  
Report Pass
3/28/24  
Enrolled
3/28/24  
Enrolled
3/28/24  
Chaptered
4/4/24  
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to permit the Attorney General to establish a working group to study and discuss human trafficking in the Commonwealth; amends KRS 15.706 to include forced labor in reporting data on human trafficking from the Prosecutors Advisory Council; amends KRS 176.415 to require that the Department of Highways post signs or window clings containing contact information for assistance for victims of human trafficking; amends KRS 183.075 to require that airports post signs or window clings containing contact information for assistance for victims of human trafficking, to establish penalties for noncompliance, and to require that penalties be paid to the human trafficking victims fund; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 219 to require that hotels post signs or window clings containing contact information for assistance for victims of human trafficking, to establish penalties for noncompliance, and to require that penalties be paid to the human trafficking victims fund; amends KRS 281.767 to require that truck stops and bus stations post signs or window clings containing contact information for assistance for victims of human trafficking, to establish penalties for noncompliance, and to require that penalties be paid to the human trafficking victims fund; amends KRS 529.110 to expand the definition of promoting human trafficking; amends KRS 529.140 to conform; and amends KRS 620.029 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services include additional information regarding human trafficking in its annual report to the Legislative Research Commission.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB188

Introduced
2/8/24  
Refer
2/8/24  
Refer
2/12/24  
Report Pass
3/14/24  
Engrossed
3/26/24  
Refer
3/26/24  
Refer
3/26/24  
Report Pass
3/27/24  
Enrolled
3/28/24  
Enrolled
3/28/24  
Chaptered
4/5/24  
Amends KRS 18A.2254 to require that the state employee health plan and state agencies comply with certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practices, to require that insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other pharmacy benefits administrators establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks, to require the filing of an annual report, to require that the insurance commissioner review pharmacy networks, to provide that information and data acquired by the Department of Insurance be considered proprietary and not subject to disclosure under open records laws, to establish requirements for certain contracts between a pharmacy or pharmacist and an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager, or any other pharmacy benefits administrator, to establish prohibited conduct and requirements for certain pharmacy-related insurance practices, and to establish a complaint process for insureds, pharmacies, and pharmacists impacted by a violation of certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize the insurance commissioner to order reimbursement to persons who incurred a monetary loss as a result of a violation of certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; amends KRS 304.9-053 to require certain filings; amends KRS 304.9-054 to establish requirements for pharmacy benefit manager licensure; amends KRS 304.9-055 to require that the insurance commissioner promulgate certain administrative regulations relating to pharmacy benefit managers; amends KRS 304.14-120 to require that the insurance commissioner review certain health plan filings; amends KRS 304.17A-712 to conform; amends KRS 304.17C-125 to apply certain pharmacy-related insurance laws to limited health service benefit plans, including limited health service contracts; amends KRS 304.38A-115 to apply certain pharmacy-related insurance laws to limited health service organizations; repeals KRS 304.38A-120, relating to assignment of certain benefits under limited health service organization plans, to consolidate provisions; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to require reporting by ambulatory pharmacies to the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy; amends KRS 367.828 to establish certain requirements for health discount plans relating to prescription drugs; makes technical corrections to existing statutes throughout; applies various sections to contracts issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; and requires the insurance commissioner and the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy to promulgate implementing administrative regulations by certain dates; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HJR93

Introduced
2/20/24  
Designate the Deputy Sheriff Caleb Conley Memorial Highway in Scott County.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB208

Introduced
2/14/24  
Refer
2/14/24  
Amend KRS 600.020 to separate the definitions of "abused child" and "neglected child"; amend the definition of "physical injury" to include the requirement that it is likely to cause death or disfigurement or impairment of an organ; amend KRS 620.040 and 620.050 to require that interviews of any party by the cabinet must be recorded and retained for five years; amend KRS 620.072 to remove "neglect"; amend KRS 625.090 to remove "neglect" as a basis for a termination of parental rights; amend various KRS sections to conform.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB585

Introduced
2/16/24  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to create an EMS special license plate; limit eligibility to certain licensed EMS personnel or retirees with 20 years of service; specify that the EMS plate requires no minimum number of applications prior to production; amend KRS 186.162 to establish the fees for the EMS special license plate; amend KRS 186.166 to update the list of special license plates to be perpetually produced; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB203

Introduced
2/13/24  
Refer
2/13/24  
Refer
2/15/24  
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SR158

Introduced
2/20/24  
Refer
2/20/24  
Refer
2/22/24  
Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Deborah Parrish Gilpin.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB523

Introduced
2/13/24  
Amend KRS 341.350 to change the number of verifiable work search activities from five to two and the number of applications for employment or interviewing for employment from three to one.
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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  
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB515

Introduced
2/12/24  
Refer
2/12/24  
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
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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  
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB621

Introduced
2/21/24  
Refer
2/21/24  
Refer
2/27/24  
Report Pass
3/6/24  
Engrossed
3/11/24  
Refer
3/11/24  
Refer
3/13/24  
Report Pass
3/21/24  
Enrolled
3/27/24  
Enrolled
3/27/24  
Amends KRS 247.140 to add the North American Championship Rodeo and the National Farm Machinery Show’s Championship Tractor Pull to the list of shows and expositions owned and operated by the State Fair Board.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB596

Introduced
2/20/24  
Refer
2/20/24  
Refer
2/27/24  
Report Pass
2/28/24  
Engrossed
3/4/24  
Refer
3/4/24  
Refer
3/6/24  
Report Pass
3/13/24  
Enrolled
3/27/24  
Enrolled
3/28/24  
Chaptered
4/10/24  
Creates a new section of KRS 65.210 to 65.300 to make interlocal agreements concerning the sharing of occupational or insurance premium tax revenue between a city and a county terminable only with the consent of both parties; amends KRS 65.250 to conform; creates new sections of KRS Chapter 81A to allow a county subject to occupational tax crediting to have standing to challenge a proposed annexation, to require cities that annex territory in counties subject to occupational tax crediting to remit payments to a county or negotiate with a county for investment in a project associated with the annexation in certain circumstances, to require a city that has conducted an annexation that would be subject to the Act to submit information regarding the annexation to the Department for Local Government, to allow counties to establish designated county industrial districts, to define terms, to prohibit annexation by a city of territory within a district without consent of the county, to provide a method to establish a new district or dissolve an existing district, to require certain uses within a district, to set a maximum number and size of districts within a county, and to provide landowners and cities with standing to bring suit against a county concerning a district; amends KRS 81A.412 to require that a city located in a county subject to occupational tax crediting provide written notice to the county in the case of a voluntary annexation; and amends KRS 81A.420 to require that a city provide written notice to a county of annexation, and to eliminate the election in opposition to annexation but allow a petition to defeat annexation proposal.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB214

Introduced
2/15/24  
Refer
2/15/24  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an income tax credit for qualified contributions made to a domestic violence shelter or rape crisis center in this state; amend KRS 141.019 and 141.039 to disallow the deduction for charitable contributions if the income tax credit is claimed; create new sections of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an income tax credit for a taxpayer that rents a residential unit to a protected tenant; allow an income tax credit for the conversion of condemned property into a domestic violence shelter; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credits; and amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the tax credits.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB519

Introduced
2/13/24  
Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to lower the minimum age requirements for members of the General Assembly and the residency requirement for Senators; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.