| HB1 | KENTUCKY TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM (STUMBO, GREG; Riner, Tom; Belcher, Linda; Collins, Hubert; Denham, Mike; Glenn, Jim; Howard, Cluster; Jenkins, Joni L.; Keene, Dennis; Marzian, Mary Lou; Meyer, Russ A.; Sinnette, Kevin; Smart, Rita; Steele, Fitz; Watkins, David; Yonts, Brent) AN ACT relating to funding for the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 56.8605 to redefine "financing agreement" and "funding notes" to include financing or refinancing of pension obligations owed to Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System under KRS 161.550(1)(b); amend KRS 56.868 to authorize the Kentucky Asset/Liability Commission to issue funding notes to finance or refinance pension fund obligations owed to Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System under KRS 161.550(1)(b); authorize the Kentucky Asset/Liability Commission to issue funding notes in an amount not to exceed $3,300,000,000 in fiscal year 2016-2017; amend KRS 161.550 to provide that the state shall pay the additional amount needed to fund the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System pension fund on an actuarially sound basis beginning on July 1, 2015, and continuing for each year thereafter; provide that any funds used to finance statutory benefit improvements under KRS 161.553 that are repurposed and utilized to fund debt service on funding notes authorized under Sections 1 to 3 of this Act shall be included in the additional state appropriation required and to adjust the cost schedules of providing statutory benefit improvements for annuitants; establish intent of General Assembly to phase-into the full actuarially required contribution rate for the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System pension fund with direct state appropriations on a pro-rata basis from fiscal year 2016-2017 to fiscal year 2024-2025 and to utilize proceeds from funding notes authorized by Sections 1 to 3 of this Act to provide the additional funding needed to pay the full actuarially required contribution to the pension fund during the phase-in schedule and to pay the actuarially required contribution rate in fiscal year 2015-2016; establish non-codified language to state it is the intent of the General Assembly for biennial budgets occurring on or after July 1, 2016, to use both reductions in debt service due to previously issued bonds for the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System and funding for past statutory benefit improvements under subsections (1) and (2) of Section 5 of this Act as the debt service for funding notes issued on or after July 1, 2016, as authorized by Sections 1, 2, and 3 of this Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 3/23/2016 - received in Senate
3/22/2016 - (H) THIRD READING; floor amendment (2) defeated; passed 86-11 with Committee Substitute (1)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB1.htm |
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| HB4 | SYNTHETIC DRUGS (ADKINS, ROCKY; Denham, Mike; King, Martha; Sinnette, Kevin; Thompson, Tommy; Yonts, Brent) AN ACT relating to synthetic drugs and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 218A.1430 to provide an increased penalty structure for trafficking in or possession of synthetic drugs; amend KRS 218A.1401, 530.064, and 530.065 to conform; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/15/2016 - delivered to Governor
4/15/2016 - floor amendment (4-title) withdrawn
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB4.htm |
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| HB18 | CIVIL RIGHTS (JENKINS, JONI L.; Graham, Derrick; Marzian, Mary Lou; Meeks, Reginald; Riner, Tom) AN ACT relating to civil rights.
Amend KRS 344.030 to include within the definition of reasonable accommodations, accommodations made for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; amend KRS 344.040 to make an unlawful practice for employers who fail to accommodate an employee affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition; require employers to provide notice to all employees regarding discrimination for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. |
| | Current Status: | 4/15/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | Recent Status: | 4/12/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 2,3
4/1/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 2,3
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB18.htm |
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| HB20 | MAMMOGRAM RESULTS (DUPLESSIS, JIM; Wuchner, Addia; Hale, David; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to patient notification of mammogram results showing dense tissue.
Amend KRS 304.17-316 to require the provider of mammography services to provide information to a patient on breast density when appropriate; permit the Department for Public Health to provide update the definition of "dense breast tissue" if appropriate. |
| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1P,2T,3P
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1
3/29/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1P,2T,3P
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB20.htm |
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| HB35 | FIREARMS (BANTA, KIM; Bechler, Lynn; Couch, Tim; Crimm, Ron; DeCesare, Jim; DuPlessis, Jim; Elliott, Daniel; Fischer, Joseph M.; Hale, David; Heath, Richard; Imes, Kenny; Kerr, Thomas; Lee, Stan; Linder, Brian; Mayfield, Donna; Meade, David; Meyer, Russ A.; Miles, Suzanne; Moffett, Phil; Nelson, Rick; Rowland, Bart; Santoro, Sal; Tipton, James; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to preserving the right of Kentuckians to own and use firearms.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to declare legislative intent; invalidate and nullify all federal laws and regulations restricting ownership or possession of firearms; direct the General Assembly to take all appropriate action to safeguard Kentuckians' rights to possess firearms in accordance with the second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and Section 1 of the Constitution of Kentucky; amend KRS 527.040 to add persons who have been dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces of the United States and persons illegally or unlawfully in the United States to the list of persons who shall not possess firearms. |
| | Current Status: | 1/27/2016 - floor amendment (1) filed
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB35.htm |
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| HB37 | HEALTH INSURANCE TRUST FUND (MONTELL, BRAD; Bratcher, Kevin D.; Carney, John Bam; Crimm, Ron; DeCesare, Jim; Dossett, Myron; Fischer, Joseph M.; Hale, David; Heath, Richard; Hoover, Jeff; Imes, Kenny; Kerr, Thomas; Koenig, Adam; Lee, Stan; Linder, Brian; Meade, David; Meredith, Michael; Miles, Suzanne; Osborne, David W.; Rowland, Bart; Santoro, Sal; Shell, Jonathan; Tipton, James; Turner, Tommy; Upchurch, Ken) AN ACT relating to the Health Insurance Trust Fund and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend KRS 18A.2254 to specify how surplus funds from a prior plan year of the Public Employee Health Insurance Program shall be allocated. |
| | Current Status: | 2/2/2016 - (H) reassigned to committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB37.htm |
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| HB42 | SUBSTANCE ABUSE (KEENE, DENNIS; Belcher, Linda; Clark, Larry; Collins, Hubert; Coursey, Will; Donohue, Jeffery; Glenn, Jim; Horlander, Dennis; Howard, Cluster; Kerr, Thomas; Koenig, Adam; Meyer, Russ A.; Richards, Jody; Schamore, Dean; Simpson, Arnold; Sinnette, Kevin; Smart, Rita; Thompson, Tommy; Watkins, David; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to involuntary treatment for substance abuse.
Amend KRS 202A.011 to include substance use in the definition of "mentally ill person"; amend KRS 218A.133 to ensure that a petition may be filed pursuant to KRS Chapter 202A. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
9/4/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB42.htm |
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| HB43 | POWDERED ALCOHOL (RICHARDS, JODY; Riner, Tom; Belcher, Linda; Smart, Rita; Stone, Wilson; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to powdered or crystalline alcoholic beverage products.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to prohibit powdered or crystalline alcoholic beverage products; amend KRS 241.010 to include powdered or crystalline alcohol in the definition of an alcoholic beverage. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing and Occupations
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
9/4/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB43.htm |
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| HB47 | CHILD SERVICES (KING, KIM; AN ACT relating to school notification of persons authorized to contact or remove a child.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, if the cabinet is granted custody of a dependent, neglected, or abused child, to notify the school in which the child is enrolled of persons authorized to contact the child or remove the child from school grounds. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
9/9/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB47.htm |
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| HB61 | ABORTION SERVICES (BECHLER, LYNN; Couch, Tim; Crimm, Ron; DeCesare, Jim; DuPlessis, Jim; Floyd, David; Hale, David; Heath, Richard; Imes, Kenny; King, Martha; Lee, Stan; Linder, Brian; Mayfield, Donna; Meade, David; Rowland, Bart; Santoro, Sal; Tipton, James; Upchurch, Ken; Wuchner, Addia; York, Jill) AN ACT prohibiting the use of public resources for abortion services.
Amend KRS 311.720 to define "abortion services"; amend KRS 311.715 to define "affiliate", to provide that public funds shall not be paid to any entity or affiliate of an entity that provides abortion services, and to establish exceptions. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
10/9/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB61.htm |
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| HB62 | PUBLIC ASSISTANCE ELIGIBILITY (SHELL, JONATHAN; Meredith, Michael) AN ACT relating to eligibility for public assistance.
Amend KRS 205.200 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement a substance abuse screening program for applicants and recipients of public assistance who have a felony or misdemeanor history of substance abuse; permit the cabinet to design the program and utilize testing of blood or urine or other reliable methods of substance abuse detection; state conditions under which an adult person is ineligible for public assistance; require testing as a requirement before the receipt of public assistance and once each subsequent year; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations governing the program and testing, including requirements that applicants pay for all substance abuse screening costs and receive a reimbursement if the test is passed; grant the right to additional screenings for applicants who fail a test; require both parents in two-parent families to comply with screening requirements if both parents have a felony or misdemeanor history of substance abuse; require that an individual who fails a test receive a list of licensed substance abuse treatment providers in his or her area; require passage of a drug test before receiving benefits; permit parents or guardians who fail a test to designate another individual to receive benefits for the parent's minor children; require designated individuals to pass substance abuse screenings; create a 60-day grace period to enter a treatment program after the initial positive test; require individuals to pay for a test at the end of the 60-day grace period; provide that if they pass that test, they must pass two additional randomized testings during the next 24 months, or if an individual tests positive after the 60-day grace period, he or she must show evidence of having entered a substance abuse treatment program within 14 days, during which time, benefits may be suspended and only be payable for the benefit of any children in that recipient's home. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
10/19/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB62.htm |
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| HB63 | WELFARE TO WORK (SHELL, JONATHAN; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to welfare to work.
Amend KRS 205.200 to establish a graduated earnings disregard program to incentivize public assistance recipients to seek employment. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
10/19/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB63.htm |
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| HB66 | SYNTHETIC DRUGS (SHELL, JONATHAN; AN ACT relating to synthetic drugs.
Amend KRS 218A.1412 to include synthetic drugs in the offense of trafficking in a controlled substance in the first degree; amend KRS 218A.1415 to include synthetic drugs in the offense of possession of a controlled substance in the first degree; amend KRS 218A.1416 to remove reference to synthetic drugs; amend KRS 218A.1401 to include synthetic drugs in the offense of selling a controlled substance to a minor; amend 218A.410 to allow for the forfeiture of real property used to commit or facilitate offenses involving synthetic drugs; amend KRS 530.064 to include synthetic drugs in the offense of unlawful transaction with a minor in the first degree; amend KRS 530.065 to remove reference to synthetic drugs; repeal KRS 218A.1430, relating to synthetic drugs. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
10/21/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB66.htm |
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| HB75 | ABANDONED INFANTS (MAYFIELD, DONNA; Westrom, Susan; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to abandoned infants.
Amend KRS 405.075 and 216B.190 to add staffed churches to the list of permitted safe havens at which an abandoned infant can be dropped off; prohibit criminal or civil liability for any actions taken by safe havens; and amend KRS 620.355 to delete reference to a repealed statute. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
10/28/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB75.htm |
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| HB77 | ORAL HEALTH CARE (BURCH, TOM; AN ACT relating to oral health care and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 313 to establish the Kentucky Denturity Board; establish composition, duties, and authority of the board; require a license to practice denturity; establish licensing requirements, penalty, and appeals provisions. |
| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCA 1, HCS 1
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCA 1, HCS 1
3/29/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCA 1, HCS 1
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB77.htm |
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| HB80 | OPEN RECORDS (HARRIS, CHRIS; Riner, Tom; Glenn, Jim; Graham, Derrick; Santoro, Sal) AN ACT relating to open records.
Amend KRS 61.870 to narrow the funding criteria that determines exemptions from the definition of "public agency"in the Kentucky Open Records Act. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/15/2016 - delivered to Governor
4/15/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB80.htm |
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| HB83 | TOBACCO PRODUCTS (MCKEE, THOMAS; Denham, Mike; Heath, Richard) AN ACT relating to tobacco products.
Amend KRS 138.130 to define "reference tobacco products"; exclude reference tobacco products from the definition of "tobacco products" and "snuff"; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2016. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/22/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB83.htm |
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| HB93 | ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES (CLARK, LARRY; Donohue, Jeffery) AN ACT relating to the taxation of electronic cigarettes.
Amend KRS 138.130 to create a definition for "electronic cigarettes" and amend definition of "tobacco products" to include "electronic cigarettes"; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2016. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
11/24/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 2 - Medium |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB93.htm |
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| HB94 | MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT (BURCH, TOM; Belcher, Linda; Carney, John Bam; Flood, Kelly; Marzian, Mary Lou; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Smart, Rita) AN ACT relating to court-ordered outpatient mental health treatment.
Amend KRS 202A.081 to require that an attorney is present for a patient agreed order and allow a peer support specialist to be present; require the court to appoint a case management service or team employed by a community mental health center to develop a comprehensive treatment plan, monitor treatment adherence, and report on the person's functioning; require that the case management service or team be available 24/7 and adequately trained; provide that failure to abide by the order may result in rehospitalization provided that the criteria are met, procedures are initiated via affidavit by the case management service or team, and mental health examinations take place at community mental health centers; permit additional orders with due process; require that patient agreed order services are covered by Medicaid; require that courts report such orders to the Kentucky Commission on Services and Supports for Individuals with Mental Illness, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Disorders, and Dual Diagnoses; and rename this commitment process a patient agreed order; amend KRS 202A.261 to exempt certain hospitals from being required to provide particular services; amend KRS 202A.271 to require certain hospitals to be paid for services performed under portions of this Act at the same rates the hospital negotiates for other services; create new sections of KRS Chapter 202A to create a process for District Courts to order assisted outpatient mental health treatment; provide for transportation processes for the purposes of a mental health examination; establish eligibility and court proceedings; require a mental health examination and the development of a treatment plan; establish the process for hearings; require the court to appoint a case management team or service to monitor and report on the person under order; authorize 72-hour emergency admission for failure to comply with orders; provide for the right to stay, vacate, or modify orders; provide for a process to change a treatment plan; permit an additional period of treatment to be ordered provided certain criteria are met; require that assisted outpatient treatment services are covered by Medicaid; and name these sections of the bill "Tim's Law." |
| | Current Status: | 3/14/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 3/11/2016 - received in Senate
3/10/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 with Committee Substitute (2) committee amendment (1-title)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB94.htm |
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| HB95 | TELEHEALTH SERVICES (BURCH, TOM; Riner, Tom; Marzian, Mary Lou; Watkins, David) AN ACT relating to telehealth services.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to submit a waiver or waiver amendment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in order to provide coverage for home telemonitoring services and direct-to-patient telehealth services; define terms; amend KRS 273.443 to permit community action agencies to use federal funds to ensure adequate access to health care; create a new section of KRS 273.410 to 273.453 to require the state administering agency to establish a program to permit telehealth consultation services and require Medicaid coverage; and amend KRS 205.559 to permit state administering agencies to receive Medicaid reimbursement for telehealth consultation services. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - delivered to Governor
4/1/2016 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB95.htm |
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| HB97 | ABANDONED INFANTS (BURCH, TOM; Mayfield, Donna; Belcher, Linda; Crimm, Ron; Richards, Jody; Riner, Tom; Watkins, David; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to abandoned infants.
Amend KRS 405.075, 216B.190, 211.951, and 620.350 to increase the age limit in the definition of a newborn infant to 30 days for the purposes of The Representative Thomas J. Burch Safe Infants Act; and amend KRS 405.075 and 620.355 to delete a reference to a repealed statute. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/26/2016 - received in Senate
1/25/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 92-0 with Committee Substitutes (1) floor amendment (1)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB97.htm |
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| HB115 | COLON CANCER PREVENTION (BURCH, TOM; Riner, Tom; Belcher, Linda; DeWeese, Bob; Glenn, Jim; King, Martha; Marzian, Mary Lou; Watkins, David; Yonts, Brent) AN ACT relating to colon cancer prevention.
Amend KRS 214.542 to include eligible underinsured individuals in the colon cancer screening program; direct the Department for Public Health to promulgate administrative regulations to develop a schedule of income-based fees that may be charged for screening, examination, treatment, and rescreening and a data collection system to document the services performed under the program. |
| | Current Status: | 4/7/2016 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE
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| | Recent Status: | 4/7/2016 - Filed with Secretary of State; without Governor's signature
3/25/2016 - delivered to Governor
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB115.htm |
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| HB118 | MEDICAID CLAIMS (STUMBO, GREG; Riner, Tom; Clark, Larry; Glenn, Jim; Horlander, Dennis; Nelson, Rick; Rand, Rick; Watkins, David; Wayne, Jim) AN ACT relating to the prompt payment of Medicaid claims and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to clarify how distance is calculated by a medicaid managed care organization (MCO); create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; clarify that a medical loss ratio (MLR) is calculated as long as it supplements federal law; require the minimum MLR for an MCO to be equal to or higher than 85% for each year; establish requirements for the numerator and denominator of the MLR; require a remittance for a MLR if the 85% standard is not met; establish an attestation of accuracy and require submission of certain data; require recalculation of the MLR when a retroactive change is made to a capitation payment; prohibit bonus or incentive payments to providers or subcontractors based on whether the MLR is met or exceeded; require submission to the Department of Medicaid Services of supplemental financial schedules to reconcile expense reports; establish timeframe for submission of supplemental financial schedules; amend KRS 304.17A-730 to require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance (DOI) to enforce Kentucky's prompt payment laws as they relate to disputes between the providers of care to Medicaid recipients and Medicaid Managed care organizations and Medicaid recipients and the MCOs; allow a Medicaid recipient or provider to file a claim with the DOI for a failure to comply with Kentucky's prompt payment statutes; allow a hearing to be requested when the claim is denied or after 30 days of nonpayment; allow a hearing to be requested for a claim designated as "less than clean" after 120 days of nonpayment; allow multiple claims to be reviewed in one complaint; allow the DOI to charge a filing fee to cover its reasonable expenses; allow the DOI to investigate issues arising through the report process; require eligible claims to be filed within 30 days, require a ruling within 30 days if no hearing is held and 60 days if a hearing is held; encourage reporting form documents be forwarded to State Auditor for review; exempt fee-for-service Medicaid; permit interest rate of 14% to be charged for nonpayment and provide for additional penalties for nonpayment; require the commissioner of the DOI authority to enforce Kentucky's prompt payment laws as they relate to disputes between the DMS, Medicaid recipients, providers of care to Medicaid recipients, or a managed care company contracting with the DMS to provide care to Medicaid recipients; require the DOI to establish an internal appeals and hearing process for review of prompt payment claims; guarantee that currently existing unpaid "clean" or "less than clean" claims or any claims that arise after the effective date of the bill and before the implementation of hearing regulations shall be guaranteed interest payments and that each day shall continue to count as a separate violation even without a hearing process established; amend KRS 304.17A-722 to require additional reporting of original and corrected claims and pharmacy claims administered by insuurers; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/4/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/2/2016 - received in Senate
2/1/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 92-0 with Committee Substitute (1), committee amendment (1-title)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB118.htm |
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| HB123 | EMERGENCY RESPONSE MEDICATIONS (STUMBO, GREG; Wuchner, Addia; Riner, Tom) AN ACT relating to access to emergency response medications in child-care centers and family child-care homes.
Create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to require emergency response medications in child-care centers and family child-care homes to be stored in a secure, unlocked location, not accessible to children; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirement. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
12/10/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB123.htm |
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| HB148 | EPINEPHRINE AUTO-INJECTORS (BELCHER, LINDA; Watkins, David) AN ACT relating to emergency epinephrine auto-injectors in child-care centers and family child-care homes.
Create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to permit licensed child-care centers and certified family child-care homes to meet the requirements of KRS 311.646 to obtain a prescription for and store epinephrine auto-injectors for emergency use; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirement; amend KRS 311.645 to include licensed child-care centers and certified family child-care homes in the definition of "authorized entity." |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - delivered to Governor
4/1/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB148.htm |
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| HB153 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (MILLER, JERRY T.; Denham, Mike) AN ACT relating to volunteer service with an employer participating in Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Amend KRS 61.510 and 78.510 to provide that creditable compensation shall exclude nominal fees paid to volunteers of a participating agency who begin participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and the County Employees Retirement System on or after August 1, 2016; define "volunteer" and "nominal fee"; amend KRS 61.637 to provide that retirees of Kentucky Retirement Systems who receive reimbursements of actual expenses or nominal fees for their volunteer services shall not be subject to the required breaks in employment and prohibitions on prearranged agreements prior to retirement if the retired member did not receive creditable compensation prior to retirement from the employer for which they are providing volunteer services, any reimbursements or nominal fees received prior to retirement have not been classified as creditable compensation or used to determine retirement benefits, the retired member has not purchased or received service credit for service with the participating employer for which he or she is providing volunteer services, and the retired member does not become an employee, leased employee, or independent contractor of the employer for which he or she is providing volunteer services for a period of at least 24 months. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/22/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB153.htm |
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| HB154 | CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS (WATKINS, GERALD; AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to apply a uniform penalty of mandatory drug treatment and community service to persons convicted of possessing certain drugs and paraphernalia; amend KRS 218A.140 to lower possession of counterfeit substances from a Class D felony to a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 218A.1415 to lower possession of a controlled substance from a Class D felony to a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 218A.1437 to lower possession of a methamphetamine precursor from a Class D felony to a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 218A.276 to require that defendants convicted of possession of a counterfeit substance under KRS 218A.140, marijuana pursuant to KRS 218A.1422, synthetic drugs pursuant to 218A.1430, methamphetamine precursors pursuant to 218A.1437, salvia pursuant to KRS 218A.1451, or drug paraphernalia pursuant to KRS 218A.500 complete a drug treatment program; amend KRS 218A.275 to require that defendants convicted of possession of a controlled substance under various sections of Chapter 218A complete a drug treatment program; amend KRS 431.078 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
12/11/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB154.htm |
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| HB160 | DISPOSAL OF MEDICAL WASTE (DENHAM, MIKE; AN ACT relating to safe disposal of hypodermic needles and medical waste.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to require the Department for Public Health to establish guidelines for safe disposal of hypodermic syringes, needles, and sharps and provide these guidelines to certain medical facilities and pharmacies. |
| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - Missing Action!; for concurrence w/SCS 1
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - Missing Action!; for concurrence w/SCS 1
3/29/2016 - Missing Action!; for Concurrence w/SCS 1
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB160.htm |
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| HB161 | UNIFICATION OF COUNTIES (KOENIG, ADAM; Simpson, Arnold; Moffett, Phil) AN ACT relating to voluntary unification of counties.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 67 to establish a new procedure for the optional consolidation of counties; exclude consolidated local governments, charter county governments, urban-county governments, and unified local governments from the process; permit two or more counties to consolidate with an action initiated by public petition or local ordinance; require the signatures of 20 percent or more of the number of persons voting in last presidential election for an initiation petition; provide for the contents and certification of petitions; require the county judge/executive in the initiating county within ten days to notify the other local governments and their citizens of the proposal; require responding action in adjoining counties within 120 days or the initial action becomes void; require a special election within 90 days if adjoining counties enter the process; require approval in each county for consolidation to become effective; prescribe the language for the ballot, other election procedures, and advertisement of the election by the sheriff; require a simple majority of those voting in each county for approval; require all election costs to be paid for by the state, and prohibit any organizational changes in a newly consolidated county for ten years; prohibit any new county from becoming effective until the end of terms of current officeholders and require new officers to be elected in the same manner and at same time as other county officials; require the county judge/executive in each county to appoint six citizens to a transition committee; require transition committee to divide county into three to eight magisterial districts and to select two to five names for the new county, to be decided by the voters; require a final report of the transition committee be submitted to the judges/executive; provide for a gubernatorial appointee if necessary to break a tie vote on questions relating to the name of the new county, the formation of magisterial districts, or other issues on the ballot; require all taxes from the immediate year to remain in effect until changed by the new county; provide for the satisfaction of debts and expenditure of funds by previously existing counties and the newly consolidated county during the transition period, including by the creation of special taxing districts for repayment of prior financial obligations; require surplus funds to be spent in the areas where funds were raised; permit voters to determine the location of the new county seat from previously existing locations; require the county seat to remain at that location for not less than ten years; require other remaining county buildings to be maintained as branch offices for ten years; require the Department for Local Government to promulgate administrative regulations awarding preference points on Small Cities Community Development Block Grant program applications and provide technical and advisory assistance to consolidated counties; require, upon consolidation, all appointments to boards of special purpose governmental entities to remain in effect until the expiration of the term, at which point the appropriate appointing authority shall make new appointments; provide for election districts and judicial circuits; repeal KRS 67.190, 67.200, 67.210, 67.220, 67.230, 67.240, 67.250, 67.260, 67.270, 67.280, 67.290, and 67.310. |
| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day
3/29/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB161.htm |
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| HB163 | NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT (WUCHNER, ADDIA; DeWeese, Bob; Crimm, Ron; Marzian, Mary Lou) AN ACT relating to the nurse licensure compact.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to enact and enter into the Nurse Licensure Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for registered nurses or practical nurses; permit the Kentucky Board of Nursing to limit or revoke the multistate licensure privilege of any nurse to practice in Kentucky; establish application requirements; require reporting of any actions taken by the Kentucky Board of Nursing to the home state of the licensee; require compact states to participate in a coordinated licensure information system and provide for interchange of information; establish the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators; provide immunity for party states, officers, employees, or agents of a party state's nurse licensing board who act in accordance with the provisions of the compact; prohibit amendment of the compact unless the amendment has been enacted into the laws of all party states; provide for severability for any provision in the compact that is contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance; repeal KRS 314.470, which set forth the prior version of the Nurse Licensure Compact; EFFECTIVE December 31, 2018, or upon adoption of compact by 26 states, whichever is earlier. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2016 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute, (2-title) filed
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
3/16/2016 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB163.htm |
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| HB167 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT PENSION PLANS (SIMPSON, ARNOLD; AN ACT relating to local government pension plans.
Amend KRS 65.156 to allow local government retirement systems created pursuant to KRS 67A.320, 67A.340, 67A.360 to 67A.690, 79.080, 90.400, 90.410, 95.290, 95.520 to 95.620, 95.621 to 95.629, 95.767 to 95.784, 95.851 to 95.884, or KRS Chapter 96 to perform an actuarial valuation once every 5 years instead of every 3 if the system or fund has less than 6 active and retired members; make technical changes; amend KRS 67A.320 to provide that once all liabilities have been satisfied to all persons owed benefits from the pension, then the board of the fund shall liquidate and distribute to the urban-county government any residual assets of the fund and shall provide a report of the actions taken by the fund to liquidate the residual assets; provide that elected members of the fund's board may also be retirees; make technical and conforming amendments; amend KRS 90.400 and 90.410 to provide that once all liabilities have been satisfied to all persons owed benefits from the pension fund, then the board of the fund shall liquidate and distribute to the city any residual assets of the fund and shall provide a report of the actions taken by the fund to liquidate the residual assets; make technical and conforming amendments; amend KRS 95.290, 95.530, 95.622, and 95.869 to provide that once all liabilities have been satisfied to all persons owed benefits from the pension fund, then the board of the fund shall liquidate and distribute to the city any residual assets of the fund and shall provide a report of the actions taken by the fund to liquidate the residual assets; provide that if there are fewer than 6 active and retired members of the fund, the board shall be composed of the mayor, city treasurer or chief financial officer, and employees from the city police or fire department appointed by the mayor; make technical and conforming amendments; amend KRS 95.761 and 95.767 provide that if there are fewer than 6 active and retired members of the fund, the board shall be composed of the mayor, city treasurer or chief financial officer, and employees and members of the city legislative body appointed by the mayor; amend KRS 95.783 and 96.180 to provide that once all liabilities have been satisfied to all persons owed benefits from the pension fund, then the board of the fund shall liquidate and distribute to the city any residual assets of the fund and shall provide a report of the actions taken by the fund to liquidate the residual assets; amend KRS 67A.655, 78.531, 95.010, 95.580, 95.590, 95.610, 95.620, 95.628, 95.762, 95.765, 95.768, 95.769, 95.771, 95.772, 95.777, 95.778, 95.779, 95.859, 95.868, 95.872, 95.875, 95.890, and 427.125 to make technical and conforming amendments; repeal 95.785. |
| | Current Status: | 1/7/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB167.htm |
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| HB182 | FIREARMS (WUCHNER, ADDIA; Rader, Marie; Bechler, Lynn; Couch, Tim; Crimm, Ron; Elliott, Daniel; Imes, Kenny; Kerr, Thomas; Linder, Brian; Miles, Suzanne; Santoro, Sal; Tipton, James; Webber, Russell) AN ACT relating to preserving the right of Kentuckians to own and use firearms and declaring an emergency.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to require the General Assembly to enact laws to prevent the enforcement of federal acts that violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/7/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/6/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB182.htm |
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| HB192 | DRUG TAXATION (MEREDITH, MICHAEL; Stone, Wilson; Carney, John Bam; DeCesare, Jim; Elliott, Daniel; Heath, Richard; Kay II, James; King, Martha; Mayfield, Donna; Miles, Suzanne; Osborne, David W.; Rowland, Bart; Rudy, Steven; Schamore, Dean; Shell, Jonathan; Tipton, James; Webber, Russell; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to the taxation of drugs used in the production of cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, llamas, alpacas, buffalo, aquatic organisms, cervids, ratite birds, or equine.
Amend KRS 139.472, relating to the sales and use tax, to exempt drugs and over-the-counter drugs if used in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, llamas, alpacas, buffalo, aquatic organisms, cervids, ratite birds, or equine; EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2016. |
| | Current Status: | 1/11/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/7/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB192.htm |
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| HB196 | TANNING BEDS (WATKINS, DAVID; Burch, Tom; Glenn, Jim; Keene, Dennis; King, Martha; Marzian, Mary Lou; Smart, Rita) AN ACT relating to minor users of tanning beds.
Amend KRS 217.920 to define "phototherapy device"; amend KRS 217.924 to remove reference to consent forms; amend KRS 217.922 to prohibit an individual under the age of 18 from using a tanning device at a tanning facility, but provide an exemption for medical use of phototherapy devices. |
| | Current Status: | 2/11/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/9/2016 - received in Senate
2/8/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 55-37
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB196.htm |
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| HB197 | MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY (MEADE, DAVID; AN ACT relating to the consideration of the fair market value of property when determining Medicaid eligibility.
Create a new section of KRS 205.510 to 205.630 to define fair market value when considered for Medicaid eligibility, to mean an estimate of the value of an asset if sold at the prevailing price at the time it was actually transferred based on the value listed by the property valuation administrator or a licensed appraiser, or the price brought on the property at a public auction conducted by a licensed auctioneer. |
| | Current Status: | 1/11/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/7/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB197.htm |
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| HB210 | THIRD DEGREE ASSAULT (STONE, WILSON; Rowland, Bart; Bell, Johnny; King, Martha; Steele, Fitz; Yonts, Brent) AN ACT relating to assault in the third degree.
Amend KRS 508.025 to include assaults on local health department personnel within the offense of assault in the third degree. |
| | Current Status: | 3/4/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 3/2/2016 - received in Senate
3/1/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 88-0
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB210.htm |
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| HB226 | PHARMACY BENEFITS (HOWARD, CLUSTER; Harris, Chris; Burch, Tom; Collins, Hubert; Hale, David; Keene, Dennis; Mills, Terry; Smart, Rita; Tipton, James; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to Pharmacy benefits.
AN ACT relating to Pharmacy beCreate a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit an insurer offering a health benefit plan from requiring the use of a mail-order pharmacy to fill a prescription; create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to prohibit any plan offered by the Personnel Cabinet to require an employee or employee's covered dependent from requiring the use of a mail-order pharmacy to fill a prescription. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Banking and Insurance
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| | Recent Status: | 1/13/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking and Insurance
1/12/2016 - Introduced
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 2 - Medium |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB226.htm |
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| HB236 | FIREARMS (BANTA, KIM; Imes, Kenny; Bechler, Lynn; Butler, Denver; Carney, John Bam; Couch, Tim; Crimm, Ron; DuPlessis, Jim; Elliott, Daniel; Fischer, Joseph M.; Hale, David; Heath, Richard; Kerr, Thomas; Linder, Brian; Mayfield, Donna; Meade, David; Meredith, Michael; Meyer, Russ A.; Nelson, Rick; Rudy, Steven; Santoro, Sal; Tipton, James; Upchurch, Ken; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to preserving the right of Kentuckians to own and use firearms.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to state legislative findings and make declarations that all federal laws and regulations commandeering state or local law enforcement to enforce federal restrictions of firearms are invalid and of no effect in Kentucky and that the General Assembly has the duty to enact all measures to prevent their enforcement; that the General Assembly has the duty to protect and defend the state and federal constitutions, and that current and proposed presidential actions relating to the acquisition, possession, and use of firearms and accessories are violative of presidential powers and citizens' rights under the federal constitution. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2016 - floor amendment (1) filed
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| | Recent Status: | 1/13/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
1/12/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB236.htm |
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| HB237 | LOCAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS (DECESARE, JIM; King, Martha; Clark, Larry; Horlander, Dennis) AN ACT relating to local property tax exemptions for data centers.
Amend KRS 91.260 and 92.300 to clarify that certain classes of data centers may constitute manufacturing establishments and therefore qualify for temporary exemption from local property taxes as an inducement to their location within an applicable city or urban-county, as provided by local ordinance; provide that the amendments made by the Act shall apply prospectively only to new manufacturing establishments. |
| | Current Status: | 3/14/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/10/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/10/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB237.htm |
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| HB238 | PUBLIC PENSION PLAN REPORTING (YONTS, BRENT; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to public pension plan reporting.
Amend KRS 6.350 to specify that the actuarial analysis required on retirement legislation shall include the impact on funding levels and unfunded liabilities over time; specify the qualification requirements of the actuary completing the analysis; amend KRS 7A.240 to require the state-administered retirement systems to pay the cost of actuarial services required by amendments to KRS 7A.250; amend KRS 7A.250 to require the Public Pension Oversight Board to retain an actuary to perform an actuarial audit of the state-administered retirement systems at least once every 10 years and to review state-administered retirement system budget requests prior to each budget biennium; amend KRS 21.440, 61.670, and 161.400 to provide that all state-administered retirement systems shall include in their actuarial valuation a description of funding methods utilized or required by state law in the development of the valuation, a description of any changes in actuarial assumptions and methods that have occurred since the last valuation, the actuarially recommended employer contribution rates for the upcoming budget period, a 20-year projection of employer contribution rates, funding levels, and unfunded liabilities, and a sensitivity analysis to evaluate the impact of changes in key assumptions on employer rates, funding levels, and unfunded liabilities; require the systems to conduct an actuarial experience study at least once every 5 years and to perform a 20-year impact of the proposed changes to the systems' employer rates, funding levels, and unfunded liabilities; require the systems to perform a 20-year impact on employer rates, funding levels, and unfunded liabilities for any changes in assumptions, funding methods, retiree health subsidies, or other changes enacted by the board of trustees of the systems that impact system liabilities; require the actuary certifying the results of the annual actuarial valuation and the 5 year experience study to be a fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries or a member of the American Academy of Actuaries; require electronic distribution of actuarial valuations, experience studies, or analysis of changes made by the boards of trustees to the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) and require LRC to distribute information to chairs and committee staff of committees with jurisdiction over the systems; make technical amendments; require completion of the actuarial valuations by November 15 following the close of the fiscal year; amend KRS 48.040 to provide that on or before August 15 prior to a budget session, that the state-administered systems shall prepare a preliminary projection of the actuarially required contribution rates for the upcoming budget biennium and to provide updated values by November 15 of the same year once the actuarial valuation is completed; require submission to the state budget director's office and the LRC and require LRC upon receipt to distribute information to chairs and committee staff of committees with jurisdiction over the systems. |
| | Current Status: | 4/18/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/15/2016 - delivered to Governor
4/15/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB238.htm |
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| HB241 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (YONTS, BRENT; AN ACT relating to Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Amend KRS 16.505 to clarify that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments provided to members of the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member as it relates to "creditable compensation"; clarify that for members entering SPRS on or after September 1, 2008, compensatory time payments excluded from "creditable compensation" shall apply to lump-sum compensatory time payments; amend the definition of "final compensation" to utilize partial fiscal years in determining the final compensation of a member who began participating in SPRS on or after September 1, 2008, but prior to January 1, 2014, in situations where the member does not have three complete fiscal years of service; make technical and clerical amendments; amend KRS 16.582 to remove language which prohibited an injury or disease resulting from military service from being considered a disabling condition for hazardous members of Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 16.642 to clarify that the board of trustees shall have the power to invest SPRS funds in the same fashion as KERS funds under KRS 61.650; amend KRS 61.510 and 78.510 to utilize partial fiscal years in determining the final compensation of a member who began participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) and the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) on or after September 1, 2008, but prior to January 1, 2014, in situations where the member does not have the required three (hazardous) or five (nonhazardous) complete fiscal years of service; clarify that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member as it relates to "creditable compensation"; provide that interim positions in KERS and probationary positions in CERS shall not be renewable by the employer for the same employee unless the employee has not been employed by the agency for 12 months; clarify that for members entering KERS or CERS on or after September 1, 2008, compensatory time payments excluded from "creditable compensation" shall apply to lump-sum compensatory time payments; make technical and clerical amendments; amend KRS 61.542 to remove the requirement that the estate be designated as beneficiary of a member's account when he or she requests a refund of contributions prior to retirement; provide that the member's estate shall be beneficiary of his or her account from Kentucky Retirement Systems if prior to retirement the member fails to designate a beneficiary or the beneficiary designation is found to be void; provide that a beneficiary shall not be changed on or after the first day of the month in which a retired employee begins receiving retirement benefits; provide that reemployed retirees who establish a second retirement account will have their estate named beneficiary if they fail to designate a beneficiary for their new account; amend KRS 61.545 to remove provisions allowing a member who is simultaneously eligible for participation in more than one retirement system administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems to select participation in only one system; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.552 to clarify and conform to federal law the payment options available to members for purchasing service credit; remove service purchase provisions no longer applicable to current members; require agencies who fail to report employees to the retirement system to pay penalties and interest on employer contributions from the date the contributions should have been reported to the system; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.555 to provide that the service credit that is granted without cost to employees who are called to active duty military deployment shall be limited to those whose rights to such benefits have not been terminated under the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA); require employees participating in the hybrid cash balance plan on or after January 1, 2014, who are called to active duty military deployment to pay their employee contributions if they are granted service credit, as required by USERRA, for the period of active duty deployment; require employers to make contributions for service credited to employees who are called to active duty military deployment as required by USERRA; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.557 to make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.560 to clarify that retirees reemployed on or after September 1, 2008, shall not pay into the systems and to make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.590 to make technical changes and to clarify that a retiring employee must separate employment with all participating system employers; amend KRS 61.645 to allow the Kentucky Retirement Systems board to promulgate an administrative regulation to conduct trustee elections by electronic ballot; amend KRS 61.650 to increase the Kentucky Retirement Systems investment committee membership from five to seven trustees and to make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.680 to provide for consolidation of accounts with other state-administered retirement systems only if the member retires simultaneously from all state-administered retirement systems or retires from the other state-administered retirement systems within one month of retiring from the systems administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.702 to require Medicare-eligible retirees who are reemployed with an employer offering a group health plan to enroll in that plan in lieu of the KRS health plans; define "monthly contribution rate"; require a recipient or the spouse or dependent children of a recipient of a retirement allowance, who is eligible to participate in Medicare to participate in the plans administered by the systems for Medicare-eligible recipients; provide that a member who retired prior to July 1, 2003, who has established a second retirement account shall not receive more than the monthly contribution rate for retiree health benefits: make technical amendments; amend KRS 78.790 to clarify that the board of trustees shall have the power to invest CERS funds in the same fashion as KERS funds under KRS 61.650; amend KRS 16.520, 61.525, 61.526, 61.5525, 61.592, 78.540, 78.610, and 78.615 to make technical and conforming amendments; provide noncodified sections to provide that the successor of the additional board trustee elected by CERS that was added by SB 2 in the 2013 Regular Session shall be elected in the same period as all other CERS trustees in 2017 and shall have a shortened term from 2017 to 2021 to coincide with all other future CERS trustee terms of office; state that amendments to KRS 16.642 and 78.790 are made to conform to amendments made to KRS 61.650 in 2002 to show intent to apply KRS 61.650 changes to SPRS and CERS. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | Recent Status: | 1/13/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB241.htm |
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| HB243 | ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS (WUCHNER, ADDIA; Fischer, Joseph M.; Meredith, Michael; Richards, Jody; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to delay the effective date of ordinary administrative regulations with a major economic impact until the effective date of legislation ratifying the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.010 to define "major economic impact" as an overall annual economic impact from an administrative regulation of $500,000 or more on state and local government and regulated entities as determined by the promulgating administrative body; amend KRS 13A.250 to require the fiscal note to include a cost analysis of the administrative regulation's effect on regulated entities and a determination by the promulgating administrative body as to the overall economic impact of the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.330 and 13A.331 to conform; specify short title of the Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | Recent Status: | 1/13/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB243.htm |
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| HB247 | TOBACCO EXCISE TAXES (WATKINS, DAVID; Marzian, Mary Lou; Burch, Tom) AN ACT relating to tobacco excise taxes and making an appropriation thereof.
Amend KRS 138.130 to define "electronic cigarette" and include the term in the definition of "tobacco products"; amend KRS 138.140 to increase the cigarette excise tax by 50 cents and direct revenues from 1 cent to be used by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in the distribution of smoking cessation products; impose an excise tax on electronic cigarettes at the rate of 18% of the amount paid, increase the excise tax on units of snuff and chewing tobacco by 20%, and increase the excise tax on all other types of tobacco products from 15% to 18% of the amount paid; impose a floor stock tax on cigarettes, snuff, chewing tobacco, electronic cigarettes, and all other types of tobacco products; amend KRS 138.165 to make conforming changes; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/13/2016 - Introduced
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB247.htm |
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| HB254 | BICYCLE HELMET USE (JENKINS, JONI L.; Clark, Larry; Graham, Derrick; Mills, Terry) AN ACT relating to the use of bicycle helmets by children under the age of twelve and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to require the use of a helmet by a child under the age of 12 when operating a bicycle or being a passenger on a bicycle or any attachment to a bicycle; prohibit a parent of a guardian from permitting his or her child to operate a bicycle in violation; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to bicycle helmets; amend KRS 189.990 to establish a penalty of $25; exempt court costs and fees; allow fee to be waived for first-time offenders if the purchase of a bicycle helmet can be proven; provide that 50% of the fine be distributed to the Kentucky trauma care system fund and 50% be distributed to the Kentucky traumatic brain injury trust fund; amend KRS 211.496 to provide that funds from bicycle helmet violations that are transferred to the Kentucky trauma care system fund shall be used to purchase bicycle helmets for indigent children; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 1/19/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation
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| | Recent Status: | 1/14/2016 - Introduced
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB254.htm |
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| HB257 | UNBORN CHILDREN RIGHTS (WUCHNER, ADDIA; Fischer, Joseph M.; Bechler, Lynn; Benvenuti, Robert; Bratcher, Kevin D.; Butler, Denver; Carney, John Bam; Collins, Hubert; Couch, Tim; Coursey, Will; Crimm, Ron; DeCesare, Jim; DeWeese, Bob; Dossett, Myron; DuPlessis, Jim; Elliott, Daniel; Floyd, David; Hale, David; Heath, Richard; Hoover, Jeff; Howard, Cluster; Imes, Kenny; Kerr, Thomas; King, Martha; Koenig, Adam; Lee, Stan; Linder, Brian; Mayfield, Donna; Meade, David; Meredith, Michael; Meyer, Russ A.; Miles, Suzanne; Moffett, Phil; Montell, Brad; Nelson, Rick; Osborne, David W.; Rader, Marie; Rowland, Bart; Rudy, Steven; Santoro, Sal; Shell, Jonathan; Short, John; Steele, Fitz; Stewart, Jim; Thompson, Tommy; Tipton, James; Turner, Tommy; Upchurch, Ken; Watkins, Gerald; Webber, Russell; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to the human rights of unborn children and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 311.770 to prohibit an abortion from being performed that will resort in the dismemberment, crushing, or vivisection of the unborn child; amend KRS 311.780 to prohibit abortion after 20 weeks of fetal development; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to regulate the classifiaction of the remains of an aborted child or deceased infant; amend KRS 525.120 to classify the placement of the remains of an aborted child or deceased infant in a Kentucky landfill within the offense of abuse of a corpse; amend KRS 216B.0431 to include additional requirements relating to the disposition of remains in regulations governing abortion facilities; amend KRS 311.990 to clarify the applicable criminal penalty; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/19/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/14/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB257.htm |
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| HB263 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (YONTS, BRENT; Riner, Tom; Richards, Jody; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Retirement Systems' board of trustees.
Amend KRS 61.645, relating to the Kentucky Retirement Systems' board of trustees, to change the definition of "investment experience"; require two members of the Board of Trustees to be chartered financial analysts; provide that each appointment may be made from a list of three applicants submitted by the CFA Society of Louisville; apply to appointments or reappointments on or after the effective date of this Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/29/2016 - received in House w/Letter
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| | Recent Status: | 3/28/2016 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 36-1 with floor amendments (1-title) and (2)
3/28/2016 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 28, 2016
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB263.htm |
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| HB269 | VETERINARIANS (MCKEE, THOMAS; Stone, Wilson; Crimm, Ron; Denham, Mike; Flood, Kelly; Jenkins, Joni L.; King, Martha; Mills, Terry; Schamore, Dean; Smart, Rita; Taylor, Jeff; Thompson, Tommy; Westrom, Susan; Yonts, Brent) AN ACT relating to veterinarians.
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 321 relating to veterinarians; define "veterinary wellness program" and "student" and eliminate "veterinary technologist" designation; clarify the veterinarian-client-patient relationship to allow veterinarians to release animal welfare information to government authorities; clarify veterinary license to practice requirements; allow for additional licensing stipulations; provide conditions under which a nonresident of the United States may practice veterinary medicine; clarify a special permit to practice veterinary medicine; clarify animal control euthanasia; set out how the Board of Veterinary Examiners may allow the renewal of retired or inactive licenses; increase the size of the Board of Veterinary Examiners; provide board members immunity from personal liability in any action based on an official act of the member; allow the board to establish a veterinary wellness committee; clarify the election of a chair and vice chair of the board; limit administrative fines to $5,000 per violation; define what "private admonishment" means; describe who may be licensed as a veterinary technician; state that only a violation of KRS 321.190 is punishable under the penalty section of KRS Chapter 321; create a new section of KRS Chapter 321 to permit the board to issue an emergency order for immediate, temporary suspension of a license, and establish an appeals process; make technical corrections; repeal KRS 321.195. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture
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| | Recent Status: | 3/23/2016 - received in Senate
3/22/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 67-30 with Committee Substitutes (1) floor amendment (2)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB269.htm |
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| HB271 | PUBLIC PENSION OVERSIGHT BOARD (MILLER, JERRY T.; Simpson, Arnold; Bratcher, Kevin D.; Crimm, Ron; DeCesare, Jim; Lee, Stan; Moffett, Phil) AN ACT relating to the Public Pension Oversight Board.
Create a new section of KRS 7A.200 to 7A.260 to require the state-administered retirement systems to disclose data on each member or recipient of a benefit, including a unique identification number which shall not be the member's Social Security number or personal identification number issued by the systems, information on the retirement status, actual or projected benefits payments, and other retirement information for each member; establish noncodified sections to require the Public Pension Oversight Board to study and provide a report by December 1, 2016, as to whether or not legislative action should be taken to separate the administration of the County Employees Retirement System from the Kentucky Retirement Systems; require the Public Pension Oversight Board to study and provide a report by December 1, 2016, as to whether or not legislative action should be taken to transfer administration of the Judicial Retirement Plan and the Legislators' Retirement Plan to the Kentucky Retirement Systems; require the Public Pension Oversight Board to study and provide a report by December 1, 2016, as to whether or not legislative action should be taken to consolidate administrative and investment functions of all of the state-administered retirement systems, which shall include a review of investment returns, investment expenses, and administrative expenses. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/22/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB271.htm |
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| HB272 | RADON MITIGATION (THOMPSON, TOMMY; Meyer, Russ A.; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Santoro, Sal; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to radon mitigation.
Amend KRS 211.9107 to exempt a residential building contractor installing vent pipes from radon mitigation certification requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 4/4/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/24/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/24/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB272.htm |
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| HB273 | EMERGENCY AIR AMBULANCE SERVICES (MCKEE, THOMAS; Denham, Mike; Collins, Hubert; Donohue, Jeffery; Hale, David; Howard, Cluster; King, Martha; Mills, Terry; Nelson, Rick; Richards, Jody; Rowland, Bart; Simpson, Arnold; Smart, Rita; Stone, Wilson; Thompson, Tommy; Yonts, Brent) AN ACT relating to emergency air ambulance services.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to annually obtain charges billed by all air ambulance providers licensed and operating in the state; deem the information provided as proprietary and not subject to the Open Records Act, KRS 61.872 to 61.884; require the board to determine the average cost of air ambulance services in the state which shall be subject to the Open Records Act; require the board to submit the average cost to the commissioner of the Department of Insurance; authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a form to be completed by all air ambulance service providers to determine average cost of services; amend KRS 311A.190 to require any air ambulance service providers licensed and operating in the state to provide information regarding charges billed to the board; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to prominently provide a notice in each contract for coverage stating whether or not the contract covers air ambulance service and, if provided, the dollar amount of coverage; require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to review all health benefit plans for compliance with the notice requirement and provide the average cost of all ambulance services to all health benefit plans every three years. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Banking and Insurance
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2016 - received in Senate
3/21/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 97-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB273.htm |
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| HB278 | WAGES (STUMBO, GREG; Riner, Tom; Coursey, Will; Donohue, Jeffery) AN ACT relating to wages.
Amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on August 1, 2016, $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2017, and $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2018; amend KRS 337.010 the definition of employees of retail stores and service industries, to increase the applicable threshold of business that applies to from $95,000 to $500,000; amend KRS 337.420 to define "equivalent jobs" as those that are equal under the federal Equal Pay Act, or jobs that are dissimilar but equivalent in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; amend KRS 337.423 to prohibit wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race, or national origin by prohibiting wage differentials for employees who perform equivalent jobs; provide exceptions for wage differentials based on seniority or merit systems, systems that measure wages by quantity or quality of production, and factors other than sex, race, or national origin; amend KRS 337.425 to require the promulgation of administrative regulations to specify criteria for determining jobs that are dominated by employees of a particular sex, race, or national origin, and acceptable methodology for determining equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; require that the promulgation occur on or before July 1, 2017; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2018. |
| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA,1,2,3,4
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1,2,3,4
3/29/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1,2,3,4
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB278.htm |
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| HB279 | FOOD TAXATION (RIGGS, STEVEN; AN ACT relating to the taxation of food sold through vending machines or self-service vending systems.
Amend KRS 139.485 to exempt from sales and use tax food and food ingredients sold through a vending machines or self-service vending systems; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2014. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/20/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB279.htm |
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| HB281 | RETIREMENT BENEFITS (DECESARE, JIM; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for local elected officials.
Amend KRS 61.637 to allow a mayor or member of a city legislative body who is not participating in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) prior to retirement, but who is eligible to retire from the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) or the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) due to other employment, to retire and draw benefits from KERS or SPRS without resigning from his or her position as mayor or member of the city legislative body. |
| | Current Status: | 4/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/28/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/28/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB281.htm |
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| HB282 | BALANCE BILLINGS (BELCHER, LINDA; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to balance billings.
Create a new section of KRS 304.14-500 to 304.14-550 to prohibit health care providers from charging Medicare beneficiaries more than a reasonable charge for services as determined by the United States Secretary for Health and Human Services. |
| | Current Status: | 2/2/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/21/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
1/20/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB282.htm |
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| HB286 | ABORTION (FLOOD, KELLY; AN ACT relating to abortion.
Amend KRS 311.723 to allow the private medical consultation required between a pregnant woman and either with the physician who is to perform an abortion or with the referring physician to occur through a telehealth consultation; amend KRS 311.990 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2016 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| | Recent Status: | 1/28/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Welfare
1/27/2016 - (H) Posting Waived
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB286.htm |
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| HB289 | CPR TRAINING (GREER, JEFF; Stumbo, Greg; Smart, Rita; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation training in schools.
Retain original provisions, except require public high schools to provide CPR training while students are enrolled in a health, physical education, or Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps course that meets the physical education graduation requirement. |
| | Current Status: | 1/25/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | Recent Status: | 1/21/2016 - Introduced
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 2 - Medium |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB289.htm |
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| HB296 | REGISTERED NURSES (CARNEY, JOHN BAM; Flood, Kelly; Wuchner, Addia; Marzian, Mary Lou; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to advanced practice registered nurses.
Amend KRS 216B.020 to exempt private offices, clinics, and office buildings of advanced practice registered nurses from certificate of need; amend KRS 311.271 to include advanced practice registered nursing as part of the defined term "healing art"; amend KRS 311B.020 to include advanced practice registered nursing as part of the defined term "licensed practitioner"; amend KRS 438.065 to establish requirements for advanced practice registered nursing related to advertising or soliciting by practitioners of the healing arts. |
| | Current Status: | 3/15/2016 - Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | Recent Status: | 2/22/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
2/19/2016 - received in Senate
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 2 - Medium |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB296.htm |
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| HB299 | ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCTS (WATKINS, DAVID; Jenkins, Joni L.; Burch, Tom) AN ACT restricting tobacco, alternative nicotine, and vapor products to persons 21 years of age or older.
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 438 to raise to 21 the minimum age to buy tobacco, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products; redefine "proof of age"; specify sales restrictions to those under 21 years of age; forbid purchases by those under 21; incorporate the expanded restrictions into requirements for wholesalers, retailers, and manufacturers, vending machine sales, notice requirements, Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control inspections and duties; raise the tobacco, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products possession age to 21; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2016. |
| | Current Status: | 2/16/2016 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/12/2016 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
2/11/2016 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1,To Regular Calendar
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB299.htm |
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| HB303 | EXECUTIVE BRANCH BUDGET (RAND, RICK; AN ACT relating to appropriations and revenue measures providing financing and conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.
The State/Executive Branch Budget: appropriate from the General Fund (Tobacco), General Fund, Restricted Funds, Federal Funds, Road Fund, Bond Funds, Agency Bonds, Capital Construction Surplus, Investment Income, Statewide Deferred Maintenance Fund, and other funds, $182,013,700 in fiscal year 2015-2016, $33,287,508,100 in fiscal year 2016-2017, and $32,051,036,100 in fiscal year 2017-2018 as follows: General Government 2015-2016 $22,370,700 2016-2017 $1,504,467,800 2017-2018 $1,538,644,000 Economic Development Cabinet 2015-2016 $975,000 2016-2017 $21,082,900 2017-2018 $22,017,500 Department of Education 2016-2017 $5,015,844,100 2017-2018 $5,006,558,900 Education and Workforce Development Cabinet 2015-2016 $900,000 2016-2017 $833,470,500 2017-2018 $847,236,600 Energy and Environment Cabinet 2016-2017 $244,344,100 2017-2018 $240,848,700 Finance and Administration Cabinet 2016-2017 $874,431,800 2017-2018 $919,630,900 Health and Family Services Cabinet 2015-2016 $111,126,200 2016-2017 $12,952,760,300 2017-2018 $13,442,186,100 Justice and Public Safety Cabinet 2015-2016 $21,157,300 2016-2017 $1,038,865,300 2017-2018 $1,041,148,500 Labor Cabinet 2016-2017 $233,085,300 2017-2018 $237,495,100 Personnel Cabinet 2016-2017 $65,055,000 2017-2018 $66,863,300 Postsecondary Education 2015-2016 $3,054,500 2016-2017 $7,630,081,700 2017-2018 $8,052,714,200 Public Protection Cabinet 2016-2017 $107,373,900 2017-2018 $108,306,900 Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet 2015-2016 $15,880,000 2016-2017 $234,406,800 2017-2018 $238,146,000 Budget Reserve Trust Fund 2016-2017 $153,436,000 2017-2018 $160,960,900 Not included in the above appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows: Capital Projects 2015-2016 $6,550,000 2016-2017 $2,378,802,600 2017-2018 $128,278,500.
Full summary can be found in miscellaneous documents. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2016 - Line items vetoed
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| | Recent Status: | 4/15/2016 - delivered to Governor
4/15/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB303.htm |
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| HB321 | DRUG COSTS (KAY II, JAMES; Crimm, Ron; Marzian, Mary Lou; Meredith, Michael) AN ACT relating to drug costs under health benefit plans.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers in Kentucky to offer a percentage of health benefit plans with lower copayment and coinsurance on prescription drugs. |
| | Current Status: | 2/2/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking and Insurance
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| | Recent Status: | 2/1/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB321.htm |
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| HB322 | ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCTS (WATKINS, DAVID; AN ACT relating to the display of tobacco, alternative nicotine, and vapor products.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms, prohibit the open display at retail of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, and vapor products; allow customers to examine products before purchase; permit open conveyance for stocking, sale or conveyance; allow the use of a products menu; set stipulations for use of the menu; authorize enforcement and fines; direct administrative regulations. |
| | Current Status: | 2/18/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/2/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
2/1/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB322.htm |
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| HB325 | PUBLIC DOCUMENTS (KEENE, DENNIS; AN ACT relating to supervision of public documents and records and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS Ch.65 to create position of "regional public records and licensing administrator," establish number at 15, establish appointment criteria, make administrators, deputies, and employees eligible for state benefits, create procedures for removal of administrators; create a new section of KRS 65 to establish procedures for temporary vacancies in post; create a new section of KRS 65 to require Commonwealth to provide office space and furniture; create a new section of KRS 65 to establish compensation range for administrators and make compensation subject to annual CPI adjustment, allow advances in grade for deputies, require Department for Local Government to prepare budget request for FY 2018-2020 for administrator's offices with a minimum of 16 full-time employees per office, require each administrator beginning, FY 2020-2022, to submit a budget request to the Department for Local Government, establish minimum requirements for deputies and require Local Government and Personnel Cabinet to collaborate to create a system for administrator personnel; create a new section of KRS 65 to mandate administrators and deputies be paid from State Treasury; create a new section of KRS 65 to establish duties as the issuance of marriage licenses, recording, and keeping certain legal documents, preparation of tax bills, and other duties established by statute; create a new section of KRS 65 to require all fees collected by administrators to be remitted to the State Treasury; create a new section of KRS Ch. 65 establishing the Task Force for Uniform Indexing System, establish members, reporting date for findings, and date for promulgation of administrative regulations; amend various sections throughout the KRS to amend duties and responsibilities of county clerks and to specify duties and responsibilities of county clerks and of regional public records and licensing administrators; create a noncodified section of the KRS requiring certain executive branch departments to study issues concerning regional public records and licensing administrators and county clerks, such as electronic storage and dissemination of records, electronic filing and voting, office space and budgetary issues, require an initial report to their departments, to the Office of Policy and Management, and to the Legislative Research Commission by July 1, 2017; repeal KRS 142.015, 382.220, and 382.225; DELAYED EFFECTIVE DATE. |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 2/4/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government
2/2/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB325.htm |
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| HB326 | ASSISTED-LIVING COMMUNITES (WATKINS, DAVID; Clark, Larry; Glenn, Jim; Horlander, Dennis; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to assisted-living communities.
Create a new section of KRS 194A.700 to 194A.729 to require assisted-living community licensed under KRS Chapter 194A to provide residents with educational information on influenza disease. |
| | Current Status: | 2/22/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/19/2016 - received in Senate
2/18/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 95-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB326.htm |
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| HB330 | OPIOID ANALGESIC DRUG PRODUCTS (WUCHNER, ADDIA; Jenkins, Joni L.; Belcher, Linda; Flood, Kelly; King, Martha; Marzian, Mary Lou; Mayfield, Donna; Rader, Marie; Smart, Rita; Westrom, Susan; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drug products.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms, prohibit substitution or dispensing an equivalent drug product without documentation from a prescribing health care practitioner; create a new section of subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms and limit cost sharing for generic abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drug products; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to permit Medicaid compliance. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 3/24/2016 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees
3/24/2016 - (S) SECOND READING
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB330.htm |
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| HB333 | PROPERTY USE PROTECTION (JENKINS, JONI L.; Rand, Rick) AN ACT relating to protection of the uses of property.
Amend KRS 224.50-760 to create a setback from residential property lines for the deposition of special wastes in a special waste landfill and for the operation of the special waste landfill; establish exemption from the setback for agreements in writing between the landfill operator and the property owner. |
| | Current Status: | 2/8/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources and Environment
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| | Recent Status: | 2/4/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB333.htm |
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| HB344 | MEDICAL MALPRACTICE (DENHAM, MIKE; AN ACT relating to medical malpractice mediation.
Establish KRS Chapter 417A and create new sections thereof to establish; create within that chapter various new sections establishing a confidential, mandatory, medical malpractice mediation system to be completed prior to malpractice litigation, including sections setting out definitions, delineating covered health care facilities and providers, providing for mediator selection, and reporting on mediation results; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2017. |
| | Current Status: | 2/8/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/5/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB344.htm |
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| HB351 | PUBLIC SMOKING (WESTROM, SUSAN; Marzian, Mary Lou; Watkins, David) AN ACT prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit indoor smoking in businesses, places of employment, and other listed public places; exempt private residences, unless used for child care or adult day care; permit smoking in designated nonenclosed areas; require posting of "no smoking" signs at specified locations; permit local governments to adopt stricter regulations by ordinance; provide for enforcement by all peace officers and designated health department and local government employees; provide for the issuance of uniform citations for violations; require that employers and others not discriminate against persons reporting violations; provide for fines for violation; provide that fines go to the agency whose employee issued the citation; provide that no court costs or other fees be charged for violations; exempt certain research and manufacturing laboratories and agricultural buildings; amend KRS 344.040, relating to unlawful practices by an employer, to add reference to state law, local ordinance, or local board of health regulation relating to smoking; amend KRS 431.450, relating to uniform citations, to provide for issuing citation forms to health departments; authorize the Department of Kentucky State Police to create and issue uniform smoking violation citations; repeal various statutes permitting smoking in public buildings; provide that Sections 1 to 6 may be referred to as the Smokefree Kentucky Act. |
| | Current Status: | 2/17/2016 - floor amendment (1) filed
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| | Recent Status: | 2/10/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Welfare
2/9/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB351.htm |
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| HB353 | HEALTH BENEFIT COVERAGE (STUMBO, GREG; Combs, Leslie; Greer, Jeff; Harris, Chris; Keene, Dennis; Nelson, Rick; Richards, Jody; Short, John; Smart, Rita; Watkins, David; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage of amino acid-based elemental formula.
Amend KRS 205.560 to add amino acid-based elemental formula to the list of medicines covered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for treatment of inborn errors of metabolism or genetic conditions; amend KRS 213.141 to add amino acid-based elemental formula to the list of therapeutic foods supplied by the Division of Maternal and Child Health; amend KRS 304.17A-258 to add health benefit plan coverage for amino acid-based elemental formula; apply the health benefit plan requirement to policies issued or renewed on or after the effective date of this Act; declare short title to be "Noah's Law." |
| | Current Status: | 2/18/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/16/2016 - received in Senate
2/12/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 92-0
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB353.htm |
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| HB362 | VETERAN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES (NELSON, RICK; Richards, Jody; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to employment opportunities for veterans.
Amend KRS 205.510 to include nurse aide in the definitions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations that may allow the inclusion of military training in the medical field toward the nurse aide training course requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 2/24/2016 - House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | Recent Status: | 2/22/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety
2/9/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB362.htm |
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| HB369 | INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (BELL, JOHNNY; Belcher, Linda; Richards, Jody; Watkins, David) AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Commission on Services and Supports for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability and Other Developmental Disabilities.
Amend KRS 210.575 to add the Arc of Kentucky to the Kentucky Commission on Services and Supports for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability and Other Developmental Disabilities. |
| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - Missing Action!; for concurrence w/SCA 1T, SCS 1
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - Missing Action! for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitutes (1) committee amendment (1-title)
4/1/2016 - received in House w/Letter
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB369.htm |
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| HB373 | REORGANIZATION (MILLER, JERRY T.; AN ACT relating to reorganization.
Confirm Executive Order 2015-386, dated June 16, 2015, reorganizing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. |
| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day
3/29/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB373.htm |
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| HB378 | ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT (JENKINS, JONI L.; AN ACT relating to treatment for alcohol and other drug abuse.
Amend KRS 222.005 to define "incapacitated by alcohol and other drug abuse"; amend KRS 222.431 to permit a person meeting the definition of "incapacitated by alcohol and other drug abuse" to be ordered by court to treatment; amend KRS 222.432 to provide that court-ordered alcohol and other drug abuse treatment may be covered by a third-party payor; amend KRS 222.433 to require the court to review previous drug or alcohol assessments and drug tests in an order for treatment and require the court to review previous drug or alcohol assessments or drug tests if a respondent has failed to participate in a physical examination; amend KRS 222.470 to require Medicaid and private insurers to use comparative medical necessity and reimbursement methodology to cover alcohol and other drug abuse treatment services. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 3/10/2016 - (H) reassigned to committee House Health and Welfare
2/11/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB378.htm |
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| HB381 | CORONERS (RADER, MARIE; Denham, Mike; Imes, Kenny; Meyer, Russ A.) AN ACT relating to coroners.
Amend KRS 64.185, relating to continuing education for coroners, to clarify that the initial training is to be a 40-hour course. |
| | Current Status: | 4/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/28/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/28/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB381.htm |
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| HB384 | LOCAL HEALTH AND FITNESS INCENTIVE PROGRAMS (RINER, TOM; AN ACT relating to local health and fitness incentive programs for local emergency services personnel.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to provide for the voluntary creation of a local government emergency services personnel health and fitness-based incentive program. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/15/2016 - delivered to Governor
4/15/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB384.htm |
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| HB388 | CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES (GREER, JEFF; AN ACT relating to child protective services.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require unannounced visits to the residence or location where the reported child abuse or neglect or human trafficking of a child occurred when an investigation is required; require ongoing unannounced visits to the residence or location where the reported child abuse or neglect of a child occurred until the welfare of a child has been safeguarded; require a law enforcement officer to be present if there is a perceived risk of harm to the cabinet representative conducting a home visit; provide that this Section may be cited as the Tucker Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/22/2016 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2016 - (S) FIRST READING
3/22/2016 - (S) Taken From Committee
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB388.htm |
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| HB396 | PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (MARZIAN, MARY LOU; AN ACT relating to prescription drugs for erectile dysfunction.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to require a health care practitioner to have two office visits before prescribing a drug for erectile dysfunction to a married man who swears he will only use the prescription when having sexual relations with his current spouse. |
| | Current Status: | 2/16/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/16/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
2/11/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB396.htm |
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| HB397 | KENTUCKY BOARD OF PHARMACY (MARZIAN, MARY LOU; AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy.
Repeal KRS 315.522, which establishes reciprocity requirements for the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy's licensing of home medical equipment and services providers in bordering states. |
| | Current Status: | 2/18/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/16/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
2/11/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB397.htm |
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| HB398 | PHARMACY TECHNICIANS (MARZIAN, MARY LOU; Horlander, Dennis) AN ACT relating to pharmacy technicians.
Amend KRS 315.136 and KRS 315.138 to require new pharmacy technician applicants and applicants whose registration has been expired for one year or longer to submit to a nationwide criminal background check by the Kentucky State Police and the FBI. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2016 - received in House w/Letter
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-0 with Committee Substitutes (1) floor amendments (1) and (2-title)
4/1/2016 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, April 1, 2016
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB398.htm |
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| HB421 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (RIGGS, STEVEN; Horlander, Dennis; Yonts, Brent) AN ACT relating local government solid waste management.
Amend KRS 109.012 to establish definitions for "authorized company," "displace," "franchise," and "local government" and amend the definition of "solid waste management services" to include special wastes; create new section of KRS Chapter 109 to require hearing and notice for the displacement of waste haulers; amend KRS 224.43-315 to require contracts between the county and waste hauler to include nondesignated cities that it serves; amend KRS 224.43-345 to include representatives of cities on advisory committees; and amend KRS 224.50-760 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1,2
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1,2
3/29/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1,2
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB421.htm |
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| HB427 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (YONTS, BRENT; AN ACT relating to pension surcharges to benefit the Kentucky Retirement Systems and Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency.
Create new sections of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to create a surcharge on state contracts for personnel hired in lieu of hiring a state employee; require the surcharge to be paid to the unfunded liability trust fund created under KRS 61.706; apply to all participating employers and for all memoranda of agreement and personnel service contracts, as defined in KRS 45A.690 of the Model Procurement Code; create a surcharge on Kentucky Community and Technical College System employees not participating in Kentucky Employees Retirement System; create new section of KRS 161.220 to 161.716 to create a surcharge on Kentucky Community and Technical College System employees not participating in Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System; amend KRS 164.350, 164.365 and 164.5805 to conform; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/23/2016 - (H) posted in committee House State Government
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| | Recent Status: | 2/22/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
2/18/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB427.htm |
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| HB431 | WATER CONSERVATION (ADKINS, ROCKY; AN ACT relating to water conservation.
Amend KRS 211.350 to define gray water and black water; allow for conservation credits for gray water systems that reduce the waste flow calculations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to update daily waste flow charts for low water using fixtures and allow gray water conservation credits; prohibit any political subdivision from prohibiting use of gray water reductions from systems approved under permit by the cabinet. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - delivered to Governor
4/1/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB431.htm |
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| HB434 | OFFICE OF CORONER (DENHAM, MIKE; Rader, Marie; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to office of coroner.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 72 to establish conditions under which a coroner shall turn over records of his or her office to a successor; designate the recipient of the records; make the failure to turn over records punishable by fine; designate the collector of fine; establish a right of appeal of the fine; amend KRS 72.415 to provide that deputy coroners that fail training requirements are ineligible to perform their duties; establish notification requirements and requirements for reinstatement; suspend compensation and establish how compensation may be restored. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/22/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB434.htm |
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| HB448 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEM PARTICIPATION (YONTS, BRENT; AN ACT relating to agencies that discontinue participation in Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to provide that an employer ceasing participation in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System or the County Employees Retirement System as provided by KRS 61.522 that elects to provide an alternative retirement plan with mandatory employee contributions may "pick-up" the employee contributions in the alternative retirement plan so that the contributions will be made on a tax-deferred basis; amend KRS 141.010 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 3/22/2016 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | Recent Status: | 3/17/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
3/15/2016 - received in Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB448.htm |
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| HB452 | ORGAN DONATION (BECHLER, LYNN; AN ACT relating to organ donation.
Amend KRS 311.1953 to require the medical examiner or coroner to release identifying information and relevant postmortem examination results to a procurement organization if a decedent's body or part is medically suitable for transplantation or therapy; provide that Act shall be known as Courtney's Law. |
| | Current Status: | 2/22/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/19/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB452.htm |
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| HB454 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (RIGGS, STEVEN; AN ACT relating to local government solid waste management.
Amend KRS 109.041 to prohibit a county or waste management district from prohibiting or restricting materials recovery by a city in a county containing a consolidated local government; prohibit the consolidated local government or waste management district from hindering, delaying, impairing, prohibiting or impeding a city or its contractors from utilizing a solid waste management facility; prohibit a county or waste management district from levying a fee that is based on the composition of the solid waste stream of the city if the waste stream is in conformity with state and federal law for the use of the solid waste management facility receiving the waste; amend KRS 109.115 to provide for the mayoral appointment of a six-member board of directors of a waste management district for a county containing a consolidated local government and to restrict current appointment language to other counties; declare offices of board in county containing a consolidated local government vacant and require appointment of new board. |
| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2,3
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2,3
3/29/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2,3
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB454.htm |
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| HB475 | CHILD CARE PROVIDERS (SMART, RITA; Belcher, Linda) AN ACT relating to abuse and neglect record checks of child care providers.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to permit a parent or legal guardian to request a background check of the child abuse and neglect registry records when employing a child care provider for his or her minor child; require the cabinet to make the request form available on its Web site. |
| | Current Status: | 3/28/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 3/23/2016 - received in Senate
3/22/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 98-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and committee amendment (1-title)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB475.htm |
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| HB476 | HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION (BELCHER, LINDA; Watkins, David) AN ACT relating to homelessness prevention.
Amend KRS 194A.735 to expand eligibility, subject to sufficient funding, for the homelessness prevention project to individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness who have been admitted into hospital emergency departments at least 10 times annually, individuals in the top 10% of hospital users in hospitals at which over 10% of the patient census are diagnosed with severe mental illness, individuals being paroled, individuals aging out of foster care for up to two years after exit, and individuals outside of Oldham County; move support of the project to the Division of Behavioral Health. |
| | Current Status: | 3/14/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 3/10/2016 - received in Senate
3/9/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB476.htm |
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| HB477 | MISCLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES (OVERLY, SANNIE; Stumbo, Greg; Clark, Larry; Donohue, Jeffery; Horlander, Dennis; Marzian, Mary Lou; Riggs, Steven) AN ACT relating to the misclassification of employees in the construction industry.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to set forth legislative findings and declarations regarding employee misclassification problems; provide definitions; set forth determination of misclassified workers; set forth investigation process and violations; establish court remedies; require notice by an employer; grant commissioner authority to promulgate administrative regulations; require agencies to share the information of a misclassifying employer with other interested state agencies; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.485 to prohibit contractors with multiple violations from contracting with the state for two years; amend KRS 131.190 to require the Department of Revenue to provide copies of assessments for failure to pay income tax to three other state agencies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the Office of Employment and Training to provide copies of assessments for failure to pay income tax to three other state agencies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to require the commissioner to provide copies of orders to three other state agencies. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
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| | Recent Status: | 3/23/2016 - received in Senate
3/22/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 77-20 with Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (8)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB477.htm |
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| HB482 | ADOPTION INFORMATION (BUTLER, DENVER; Dossett, Myron; DuPlessis, Jim; Fischer, Joseph M.; Linder, Brian; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to adoption information.
Amend KRS 311.725 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to publish a list of certified adoptive homes that have been approved by the cabinet to receive a child for adoption; require the list to be provided to a woman seeking an abortion along with other required materials and to a nonprofit organization designated by the cabinet to produce a video; require a produced video of certified adoptive home parents to be shown to the pregnant woman; require videos to be placed on the nonprofit organizations Web site. |
| | Current Status: | 2/25/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/24/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB482.htm |
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| HB489 | DEATH CERTIFICATES (DEWEESE, BOB; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to death certificates.
Amend KRS 213.076 to add the physician pronouncing death to those who may receive and complete the death certificate for the medical certificate of the cause of death. |
| | Current Status: | 4/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/28/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/28/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB489.htm |
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| HB492 | ABORTION FACILITIES (WUCHNER, ADDIA; Mayfield, Donna; Bechler, Lynn; Benvenuti, Robert; Bratcher, Kevin D.; Butler, Denver; Carney, John Bam; Couch, Tim; Crimm, Ron; DeCesare, Jim; DeWeese, Bob; Dossett, Myron; DuPlessis, Jim; Elliott, Daniel; Fischer, Joseph M.; Floyd, David; Hale, David; Heath, Richard; Hoover, Jeff; Imes, Kenny; Kerr, Thomas; Koenig, Adam; Lee, Stan; Linder, Brian; Meade, David; Meredith, Michael; Miles, Suzanne; Moffett, Phil; Montell, Brad; Osborne, David W.; Rader, Marie; Rowland, Bart; Rudy, Steven; Santoro, Sal; Shell, Jonathan; Stewart, Jim; Tipton, James; Turner, Tommy; Upchurch, Ken; Webber, Russell; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to abortion facilities.
Amend KRS 216B.020 to remove abortion facilities from the exemptions for certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.0431 to exempt an abortion facility that has been licensed continuously for five years from certificate of need requirements if it meets licensure standards for an ambulatory surgical center by January 1, 2017; require other abortion facilities to comply with licensure and certificate of need standards required for certain ambulatory surgical centers as applicable to services rendered in an abortion facility by January 1, 2017, unless granted an extension; amend KRS 216B.0435 to require an abortion facility to have a health care practioner with admitting privileges at an acute care hospital within 50 miles of the abortion facility where it is performed by January 1, 2017, unless granted an extension; amend KRS 216B.990 to add a $1,000 per day penalty for an abortion facility that violates the admitting privileges requirement. |
| | Current Status: | 2/25/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/24/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB492.htm |
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| HB507 | GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (BENVENUTI, ROBERT; AN ACT relating to government contracts.
Create a new section of KRS 45A.690 to 45A.725 to establish standards and rules for contingency fee personal service contracts for legal services; require the Attorney General to make written findings of the need for a contingency fee contract; set limits on the amount of the contingency fee; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to post information regarding the contract on its Web site; require the contractor to maintain certain records; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet and the Attorney General to submit a report on all contingency fee contracts to the Government Contract Review Committee by September 1 of each year; amend KRS 45A.695 to require the Attorney General to participate in discussions with contingency fee offerors to determine their qualifications; require the Attorney General to approve of a contingency fee personal service contract for legal services before the contract may be awarded. |
| | Current Status: | 2/29/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | Recent Status: | 2/26/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB507.htm |
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| HB509 | CHILDREN (BECHLER, LYNN; Burch, Tom) AN ACT relating to children in the custody of the state.
Amend KRS 620.010 to provide that any child who is removed from his or her parents shall have access to a permanent home as quickly as possible; create new section of KRS Chapter 620 to set out duties of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services related to children who have been committed to the care of the state for a period of 15 months due to abuse, neglect, or dependency; amend KRS 625.090 to modify grounds for involuntary termination of parental rights. |
| | Current Status: | 3/22/2016 - House Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | Recent Status: | 3/17/2016 - House Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
3/16/2016 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Welfare
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB509.htm |
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| HB521 | PUBLIC ASSISTANCE FRAUD (HUFF, REGINA; Belcher, Linda; Dossett, Myron; Koenig, Adam; Mayfield, Donna; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to public assistance fraud.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to encourage the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Attorney General, State Treasury, and Department of Agriculture to prominently display information and links on their Web sites about how to report fraud and abuse of social programs; allow the Office of Inspector General to receive reports of fraud and abuse and open investigations from information received from social media postings. |
| | Current Status: | 2/29/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/26/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB521.htm |
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| HCR4 | GUN SAFETY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION TASK FORCE (MEEKS, REGINALD; A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Gun Safety and Violence Prevention Task Force.
Request that the Legislative Research Commission create the Gun Safety and Violence Prevention Task Force to study public safety, public protection, and gun safety issues. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
12/11/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HC21.htm |
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| HCR174 | INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (BURCH, TOM; Urge the Governor to request the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to designate people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a medically underserved population in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Urge the Governor to request the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to designate people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a medically underserved population in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. |
| | Current Status: | 3/28/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 3/23/2016 - received in Senate
3/22/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 92-0
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HC174.htm |
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| HJR12 | STATE FOSTER HOMES (BURCH, TOM; Riggs, Steven) A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to a per diem increase for the care of children placed in state foster homes.
direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to expend appropriated funds to provide the Department for Community Based Services foster homes with a per diem increase of six percent beginning July 1, 2016; urge the General Assembly to appropriate $1.5 million for each fiscal year to provide for the six percent increase. |
| | Current Status: | 2/8/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/5/2016 - received in Senate
2/4/2016 - (H) THIRD READING, adopted 58-33
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HJ12.htm |
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| SB4 | PUBLIC SAFETY (ADAMS, JULIE RAQUE; Alvarado, Ralph; Bowen, Joe; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Chris; Higdon, Jimmy; Parrett, Dennis; Robinson, Albert; Schroder, Wil; Seum, Dan; Thayer, Damon; West, Stephen; Westerfield, Whitney; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to full disclosure in public safety.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to specify how the phrase "individual, private setting" shall be interpreted in informed consent situations. |
| | Current Status: | 2/4/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 2/2/2016 - delivered to Governor
2/2/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB4.htm |
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| SB6 | MEDICAL REVIEW PANELS (ALVARADO, RALPH; Thayer, Damon; Bowen, Joe; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Chris; Givens, David P.; Hornback, Paul; Robinson, Albert; Seum, Dan; West, Stephen; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to medical review panels.
Establish KRS Chapter 216C; create within that chapter various new sections establishing a medical review panel system for use in civil litigation relating to health care providers, including sections setting out definitions, delineating covered health care facilities and providers, panel membership and formation, functions and deliberations of the panel, and utilization of panel results in civil actions. |
| | Current Status: | 3/18/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/23/2016 - floor amendment (20) filed to Committee Substitute
1/28/2016 - floor amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6-title) (7) (8) (9) (10) filed to Bill, floor amendments (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16)(17) (18) (19) filed to Committee Substitute
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB6.htm |
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| SB7 | PUBLIC RESOURCES (WISE, MAX; Adams, Julie Raque; Alvarado, Ralph; Bowen, Joe; Buford, Tom; Carpenter, Jared; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Chris; Givens, David P.; Higdon, Jimmy; Hornback, Paul; Humphries, Stan; McDaniel, Christian; Robinson, Albert; Schickel, John; Schroder, Wil; Seum, Dan; Thayer, Damon; West, Stephen; Westerfield, Whitney; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to the use of public resources.
Amend KRS 311.720 to define "abortion services"; amend KRS 311.715 to define "affiliate", to provide that public funds shall not be paid to any entity or affiliate of an entity that provides abortion services, and to establish exceptions. |
| | Current Status: | 2/11/2016 - floor amendment (3) filed to HFA (1)
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| | Recent Status: | 2/9/2016 - floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed
2/9/2016 - floor amendment (1) and (2-title) filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB7.htm |
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| SB13 | CANNABIS (CLARK, PERRY B.; AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefore.
Establish KRS Chapter 245 to regulate the cultivation, testing, processing, taxing, and sale of marijuana to persons aged twenty-one years and older; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 218A.1421, KRS 218A.1422, and KRS 218A.1423. |
| | Current Status: | 1/7/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
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| | Recent Status: | 1/6/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB13.htm |
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| SB17 | PHYSICIANS (ALVARADO, RALPH; Thayer, Damon) AN ACT relating to physicians.
Create a new section of KRS 311.530 to 311.620 to prohibit the Board of Medical Licensure from requiring any maintenance of certification and related continuing education requirements for licensure as a physician. |
| | Current Status: | 4/8/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/29/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB17.htm |
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| SB25 | UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT (WISE, MAX; Westerfield, Whitney; Alvarado, Ralph; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; McDaniel, Christian; Thayer, Damon; West, Stephen; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
Amend KRS 311.1911 to extend the coverage of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act to a fetus that was the subject of an induced abortion. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/27/2016 - received in House
1/27/2016 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 36-2 with Committee Substitutes (1) floor amendment (1-title)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB25.htm |
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| SB33 | CPR TRAINING (WISE, MAX; Adams, Julie Raque; Alvarado, Ralph; Buford, Tom; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Clark, Perry B.; Humphries, Stan; McDaniel, Christian; McGarvey, Morgan; Parrett, Dennis; Thomas, Reginald; Westerfield, Whitney) AN ACT relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation training in schools.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that students receive CPR training one time while enrolled in grades 7-12. |
| | Current Status: | 4/9/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/29/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB33.htm |
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| SB34 | BREAST-FEEDING (THOMAS, REGINALD; AN ACT relating to breast-feeding.
Amend KRS 211.755 to establish that a mother breast-feeding a child or expressing milk in any location, public or private, where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be shall report any violations to the local health department, independent health department, or county health department, having jurisdiction for the county in which the violation occurred; provide that the local health department, independent health department, or county health department shall conduct an investigation of any reported violation; amend KRS 211.990 to establish a fine of $500 for the first offense and $1,000 for each subsequent offense for any person or municipality that who violates of KRS 211.755(2) or(3). |
| | Current Status: | 1/7/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/6/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
11/12/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB34.htm |
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| SB45 | PUBLIC RETIREMENT INFORMATION (MCDANIEL, CHRISTIAN; Bowen, Joe; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Clark, Perry B.; Girdler, Chris; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to the disclosure of public retirement information.
Amend KRS 61.661, 161.585, and 21.540 to require the disclosure, upon request, of the retirement benefit information of current and former members of the General Assembly, including their name, status, and projected or actual retirement benefit payments and benefits of the same from Kentucky Retirement Systems, Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, Legislators' Retirement Plan, and the Judicial Retirement Plan. |
| | Current Status: | 4/12/2016 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1P,2T,3,4T
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| | Recent Status: | 4/1/2016 - floor amendment (3) and (4-title) filed
4/1/2016 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, April 1, 2016
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB45.htm |
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| SB46 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT PENSION PLANS (MCDANIEL, CHRISTIAN; Bowen, Joe; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny) AN ACT relating to local government pension plans.
Amend KRS 65.156 to allow local government retirement systems created pursuant to KRS 67A.320, 67A.340, 67A.360 to 67A.690, 79.080, 90.400, 90.410, 95.290, 95.520 to 95.620, 95.621 to 95.629, 95.767 to 95.784, 95.851 to 95.884, or KRS Chapter 96 to perform an actuarial valuation once every 5 years instead of every 3 if the system or fund has less than 6 active and retired members; make technical changes; amend KRS 67A.320 to provide that once all liabilities have been satisfied to all persons owed benefits from the pension fund covered by this section, then the board of the fund shall liquidate and distribute to the urban-county government any residual assets of the fund and shall provide a report of the actions taken by the fund to liquidate the residual assets; provide that elected members of the fund's board may also be retirees; make technical and conforming amendments; amend KRS 90.400 and 90.410 to provide that once all liabilities have been satisfied to all persons owed benefits from the pension fund covered by this section, then the board of the fund shall liquidate and distribute to the city any residual assets of the fund and shall provide a report of the actions taken by the fund to liquidate the residual assets; make technical and conforming amendments; amend KRS 95.290, 95.530, 95.622, and 95.869 to provide that once all liabilities have been satisfied to all persons owed benefits from the pension fund covered by this section, then the board of the fund shall liquidate and distribute to the city any residual assets of the fund and shall provide a report of the actions taken by the fund to liquidate the residual assets; provide that if there are fewer than 6 active and retired members of the fund, the board shall be composed of the mayor, city treasurer or chief financial officer, and employees from the city police or fire department appointed by the mayor; make technical and conforming amendments; amend KRS 95.761 and 95.767 provide that if there are fewer than 6 active and retired members of the fund, the board shall be composed of the mayor, city treasurer or chief financial officer, and employees and members of the city legislative body appointed by the mayor; amend KRS 95.783 and 96.180 to provide that once all liabilities have been satisfied to all persons owed benefits from the pension fund covered by this section, then the board of the fund shall liquidate and distribute to the city any residual assets of the fund and shall provide a report of the actions taken by the fund to liquidate the residual assets; amend KRS 67A.655, 78.531, 95.010, 95.580, 95.590, 95.610, 95.620, 95.628, 95.762, 95.765, 95.768, 95.769, 95.771, 95.772, 95.777, 95.778, 95.779, 95.859, 95.868, 95.872, 95.875, 95.890, and 427.125 to make technical and conforming amendments; repeal 95.785. |
| | Current Status: | 4/4/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/23/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/23/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB46.htm |
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| SB57 | EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS (EMBRY JR., C.B.; McDaniel, Christian) AN ACT relating to use of experimental treatments for terminal illnesses.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit eligible patients to use investigational drugs, biological products, or devices for a terminal illness; establish the conditions for use of such experimental treatments; prohibit sanctions of health care providers; clarify the duties of health care insurers regarding experimental treatments; prohibit certain actions by state officials. |
| | Current Status: | 1/7/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/6/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB57.htm |
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| SB64 | FEES (HARPER ANGEL, DENISE; McDaniel, Christian; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to property valuation administrator fees.
Amend KRS 133.047 to define "reasonable fee" and "personnel time." |
| | Current Status: | 4/5/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/24/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/24/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB64.htm |
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| SB66 | MEDICAL REVIEW ORGANIZATIONS (ALVARADO, RALPH; Schickel, John) AN ACT relating to medical review organizations.
Amend KRS 311.377 to add medical malpractice actions, actions arising out of review of credentials or of retrospective review and evaluation, and actions by an applicant for or grantee of staff privileges to materials that are confidential and privileged and not subject to discovery, subpoena, or introduction into evidence, in any civil action in any court. |
| | Current Status: | 3/16/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 3/15/2016 - received in House
3/14/2016 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 27-11
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB66.htm |
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| SB71 | TAXES (ALVARADO, RALPH; Thayer, Damon; Schickel, John; Schroder, Wil) AN ACT relating to taxes and fees imposed by special purposes governmental entities.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65A to require proposed increases in ad avalorem taxes and certain fees, and the levy of new ad valorem taxes or fees by special purpose governmental entities to be submitted to the legislative body of the county or city where the special purpose governmental entity is located for review; amend KRS 132.023 to conform; repeal KRS 65A.100; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2017. |
| | Current Status: | 2/9/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/9/2016 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1, SFA 1, SFA 2T, SFA 3, SFA 4
2/8/2016 - (S) Passed Over and retained in the Orders of the Day
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| | Position: | Oppose |
| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB71.htm |
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| SB72 | INTERIM APPROPRIATION PROCEDURES (MCDANIEL, CHRISTIAN; Givens, David P.; Higdon, Jimmy; Seum, Dan; Stivers, Robert) AN ACT relating to interim appropriation procedures.
Amend KRS 48.630 to clarify the process for interim appropriation increases relating to restricted funds and federal funds. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/26/2016 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SFA 1, 2
2/25/2016 - (S) Passed Over and retained in the Orders of the Day
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB72.htm |
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| SB78 | COLON CANCER PREVENTION (ALVARADO, RALPH; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Webb, Robin L.) AN ACT relating to colon cancer prevention and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 214.542 to include eligible underinsured individuals in the colon cancer screening program; direct the Department for Public Health to promulgate administrative regulations to develop a schedule of income-based fees that may be charged for screening, examination, treatment, and rescreening and a data collection system to document the services performed under the program; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/11/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/10/2016 - received in House
2/9/2016 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 1 - High |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB78.htm |
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| SB80 | OVERTAKING OF BICYCLES (WEBB, ROBIN L.; Thomas, Reginald; Givens, David P.; Neal, Gerald A.; Ridley, Dorsey) AN ACT relating to the overtaking of bicycles on a roadway.
Amend KRS 189.300 to require operators of bicycles to travel upon the right- hand side of the traveled portion of a highway; provide that bicyclists shall not have to ride on the shoulder of the highway; amend KRS 189.340 to require vehicles overtaking bicycles to pass at a distance of at least three feet; specify when a motor vehicle may pass a bicycle to the left of the center of a roadway. |
| | Current Status: | 2/16/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation
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| | Recent Status: | 2/10/2016 - received in House
2/9/2016 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 33-4 with Committee Substitute (1)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB80.htm |
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| SB85 | MIDWIFERY (BUFORD, TOM; Adams, Julie Raque; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Clark, Perry B.; Higdon, Jimmy; McGarvey, Morgan; Neal, Gerald A.; Ridley, Dorsey; Schickel, John; Seum, Dan; Thomas, Reginald; Webb, Robin L.; West, Stephen) AN ACT relating to midwifery and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to define terms; create the Kentucky Board of Midwifery; provide for licensure and administrative regulation requirements regarding the practice of midwifery; establish a trust and agency fund to be administered by the board to implement the licensure of midwives; set forth informed consent requirements for patient care; amend KRS 211.180 and 311.550 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/22/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
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| | Recent Status: | 2/18/2016 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
2/17/2016 - (S) FIRST READING w/SCS 1, to Regular Calendar
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB85.htm |
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| SB95 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (CLARK, PERRY B.; Parrett, Dennis) AN ACT proposing an amendment to section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky allowing partially disabled veterans and law enforcement officers a portion of the property tax homestead exemption based on the veteran's or officer's percentage disability rating, and making typographical changes of a nonsubstantive nature for clarification purposes; state ballot question; submit to voters. |
| | Current Status: | 1/19/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 1/13/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB95.htm |
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| SB108 | TANNING BEDS (CARROLL, DANNY; Alvarado, Ralph; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to minor users of tanning beds.
Amend KRS 217.920 to define "phototherapy device"; amend KRS 217.924 to remove reference to consent forms; amend KRS 217.922 to prohibit an individual under the age of 18 from using a tanning device at a tanning facility, but provide an exemption for medical use of phototherapy devices. |
| | Current Status: | 3/16/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 3/10/2016 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
3/9/2016 - (S) FIRST READING To Regular Calendar
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SA108.htm |
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| SB111 | SOLID WASTE (WEBB, ROBIN L.; AN ACT relating to solid waste.
Create new sections of Subchapter 43 of KRS Chapter 224 to prescribe requirements for the transportation of municipal solid waste so as to prevent leaks, emissions, and access to the wastes by pests; prohibit a transfer station or waste disposal facility from receiving wastes not transported in compliance with the no-leak provisions; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to study wastes containing hydrogen sulfides to limit and control odors and emissions from landfills; require the cabinet to issue a report or update as a part of the annual solid waste report to the LRC and the Governor; amend KRS 224.10-105 to grant authority to the cabinet to modify, revoke, abate and control for odor or if there are three or more violations at a landfill and to condition permits as to acceptance of wastes containing hydrogen sulfides; amend KRS 224.43-335 to require the manifest accompanying the solid waste to describe the type of waste, including wastes containing hydrogen sulfides, and require that the waste be transported in compliance with leak-proof containment of the wastes. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Natural Resources and Energy
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| | Recent Status: | 1/19/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB111.htm |
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| SB114 | MEDICAL AUTHORIZATIONS (HORNBACK, PAUL; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to medical authorizations by advanced practice registered nurses.
Amend KRS 15.382, 72.465, 186.411, 189.125, 213.076, and 387.540 to add advanced practice registered nurses to medical authorization. |
| | Current Status: | 4/9/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/29/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB114.htm |
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| SB115 | HEROIN TRAFFICKING (SCHICKEL, JOHN; Thayer, Damon; Alvarado, Ralph; Bowen, Joe; Carpenter, Jared; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Chris; Givens, David P.; Higdon, Jimmy; Hornback, Paul; Humphries, Stan; McDaniel, Christian; Robinson, Albert; Schroder, Wil; Seum, Dan; West, Stephen) AN ACT relating to trafficking in heroin.
Amend KRS 218A.1412 to require that persons who traffic in heroin or fentanyl be charged as Class C felons for the first offense. |
| | Current Status: | 2/29/2016 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/25/2016 - received in House
2/24/2016 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 31-6
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB115.htm |
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| SB123 | PHARMACISTS (JONES, RAY; AN ACT relating to pharmacists.
Amend KRS 217.182 to allow a pharmacist to dispense or sell a legend drug if certain conditions exist; and amend KRS 218A.170 to allow a pharmacist to dispense or sell a controlled substance, excluding Schedule I and Schedule II, if certain conditions exist. |
| | Current Status: | 1/27/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/25/2016 - Introduced
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| | Position: | Support |
| | Priority: | Tier 3 - Low |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB123.htm |
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| SB145 | FIRE DEPARTMENTS (JONES, RAY; AN ACT relating to fire departments.
Amend KRS 65A.010 to exclude fire departments created under KRS Chapter 273 from the definition of a "special purpose governmental entity"; amend KRS 75.430 to remove the requirement that recognized and certified volunteer fire departments created under KRS Chapter 273 comply with KRS Chapter 65A. |
| | Current Status: | 2/4/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 2/2/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB145.htm |
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| SB146 | HEALTH BENEFIT COVERAGE (JONES, RAY; AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage of amino acid-based elemental formula.
Amend KRS 205.560 to add amino acid-based elemental formula to the list of medicines covered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for treatment of inborn errors of metabolism or genetic conditions; amend KRS 213.141 to add amino acid-based elemental formula to the list of therapeutic foods supplied by the Division of Maternal and Child Health; amend KRS 304.17A-258 to add health benefit plan coverage for acid-based elemental formula; apply the health benefit plan requirement to policies issued or renewed on or after the effective date of this Act; declare short title to be "Noah's Law". |
| | Current Status: | 2/22/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/11/2016 - floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed
2/11/2016 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB146.htm |
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| SB147 | RETIREMENT BENEFITS (JONES, RAY; AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for local elected officials and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 61.637 to allow a mayor or member of a city legislative body who does not have service credit in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) for his or her service to the city, but who is otherwise eligible to retire from any system administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems due to other employment, to retire and draw benefits from the systems without resigning from his or her position as mayor or member of the city legislative body; amend KRS 78.540 to provide that a mayor or member of a city legislative body who is required to participate in CERS due to other covered employment, or because of failure to make an election to not participate as provided by this section, may elect to not participate in CERS for service as mayor or as a member of the city legislative body; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/4/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 2/2/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB147.htm |
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| SB154 | PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (BUFORD, TOM; Ridley, Dorsey) AN ACT relating to physician assistants.
Amend KRS 311.856 to allow the supervising physician, practice, or institution to determine a physician assistant's countersignature requirements; direct the supervising physician to outline the specific parameters for review in the application required by KRS 311.854. |
| | Current Status: | 4/9/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/29/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB154.htm |
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| SB161 | DIABETES AWARENESS (JONES, RAY; AN ACT relating to diabetes awareness.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to encourage all physicians and physician assistants who provide well-child care services to educate and discuss the warning signs of Type I diabetes and symptoms with the parents or guardians of each child under their care at birth, and at yearly intervals until the age of five; create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to encourage all advanced practice registered nurses who provide well-child care services to educate and discuss the warning signs of Type I diabetes and symptoms with the parents or guardians of each child under their care at birth, and at yearly intervals until the age of five. |
| | Current Status: | 2/10/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/8/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB161.htm |
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| SB165 | HEALTHCARE DECISIONS (CARROLL, DANNY; Higdon, Jimmy) AN ACT relating to healthcare decisions.
Amend KRS 311.621 to define "health information"; amend KRS 311.623 to allow health care surrogates to receive health information and make health care decisions in certain situations; amend KRS 311.625 to add the receipt of health information and ability to make health care decisions to the forms for advance directives; amend KRS 311.629 to reflect changes and allow health care surrogates to access appropriate health information; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 405 to establish a process by which a parent or custodian of a minor child can designate a surrogate to receive health information and make health care decisions in his or her absence. |
| | Current Status: | 3/14/2016 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 3/3/2016 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
3/2/2016 - (S) FIRST READING To Regular Calendar
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB165.htm |
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| SB167 | CITY GOVERNMENT (WILSON, MIKE; AN ACT relating to city government.
Amend KRS 82.083, relating to the disposition of city property, to define "independent appraisal" and allow property to be transferred for the purposes of elimination of blight, traded toward the purchase of the same or similar property, sold for its appraised fair market value when the value is $5,000 or less, as long as the sale is not to a city officer of family member of a city officer, sold for scrap or disposed of as garbage when the property has no or nominal value, or sold by the Finance and Administration Cabinet when an agreement exists between the city and the cabinet; amend KRS 83A.100 relating to city wards to allow a city, in addition to the existing process, to establish a hybrid ward system; amend KRS 95.490 relating to oaths of police officers, to not require the oath to be before the mayor; amend KRS 97.630 relating to city war memorials, to allow cities to establish an alternative number of board members for the war memorial commission; amend KRS 424.260, relating to bids for materials, supplies, equipment, and services, to exempt property being transferred between governmental agencies as set out in Section 1(4)(a) of the Act; amend KRS 424.280, relating to the due date of ad valorem taxes, to allow publication of an ordinance adopting the rate of the ad valorem tax levy to satisfy the requirements of the section if the due date of the tax is published as a component of the city ordinance levying the tax; amend KRS 381.697, relating to the maintenance of burial grounds, to allow a city to require proper care of the grounds from their owners or those having claims to the grounds. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/22/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB167.htm |
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| SB185 | AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS (ADAMS, JULIE RAQUE; Alvarado, Ralph) AN ACT relating to autism spectrum disorders.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Advisory Council on Autism Spectrum Disorders and create the Office of Autism; amend KRS 194A.135 to delete the requirement that the Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities appoint a subcommittee including members of the Kentucky Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorders to monitor the state plan and submit reports; repeal KRS 194A.620 and KRS 194A.622; confirm Executive Order 2015-397. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/24/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/24/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB185.htm |
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| SB193 | HEALTH BENEFIT COVERAGE (ALVARADO, RALPH; AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage of amino acid based elemental formula and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 205.560 to add amino acid-based elemental formula to the list of medicines covered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for treatment of inborn errors of metabolism or genetic, gastrointestinal, and food allergic conditions; amend KRS 213.141 to add amino acid-based elemental formula to the list of therapeutic foods supplied by the Division of Maternal and Child Health; amend KRS 304.17A-258 to include eosinophilic disorders, food protein allergies, food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome, and short bowel disorders in the definition of "therapeutic food, formulas, and supplements"; define "amino acid-based elemental formula"; amend KRS 18A.225 to require any policy provided to state employees to cover amino acid-based elemental formulas; declare short title to be "Noah's Law"; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/22/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB193.htm |
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| SB226 | DEATH BENEFITS (BUFORD, TOM; AN ACT relating to death benefits for social service workers.
Amend KRS 61.315 to make social service workers eligible for death in the line of duty benefits; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish criteria and procedures pertaining to the benefit. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/24/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB226.htm |
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| SCR9 | BREASTFEEDING (THOMAS, REGINALD; Alvarado, Ralph; Buford, Tom) A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the importance of removing barriers to breastfeeding in the Commonwealth.
Recognize the importance of removing barriers to breastfeeding in the Commonwealth. |
| | Current Status: | 3/14/2016 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/10/2016 - delivered to Governor
3/10/2016 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SC15.htm |
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| SCR10 | KENTUCKY ADULT DRUG COURT (BUFORD, TOM; A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study the Kentucky Adult Drug Court participant demographics and the correlation, if any, among entry into, access to, participation in, and completion of the drug court program.
Direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study Kentucky Adult Drug Court program participant demographics and associated statistical data; direct that findings be reported to the Legislative Research Commission, for distribution to the appropriate committee or committees, by December 1, 2016. |
| | Current Status: | 1/7/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2016 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
12/11/2015 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SC16.htm |
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| SJR119 | ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES (CARROLL, JULIAN M.; Girdler, Chris) A JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the Department of Corrections to allow the sale and usage of electronic cigarettes in all adult correctional institutions within the Commonwealth, including correctional facilities operating under KRS 197.505 to 197.525; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations related to the sale and safe use of electronic cigarettes in correctional facilities housing state prisoners.
Direct the Department of Corrections to allow the sale and usage of electronic cigarettes in all adult correctional institutions within the Commonwealth, including correctional facilities operating under KRS 197.505 to 197.525; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations related to the sale and safe use of electronic cigarettes in correctional facilities housing state prisoners. |
| | Current Status: | 2/11/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/9/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SJ119.htm |
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| SR96 | VYVANSE (CARROLL, DANNY; Encourage WellCare to improve reimbursement for Vyvanse by listing it on the preferred formulary.
Encourage WellCare to improve reimbursement for Vyvanse by listing it on the preferred formulary. |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2016 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/1/2016 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SR96.htm |
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