| HB1 | CHILD WELFARE (MEADE D) AN ACT relating to child welfare.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to establish the Child Welfare Oversight and Advisory Committee; amend KRS 194A.030 to remove the Office of the Ombudsman from within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services' Secretarys Office and establish it as an independent office; amend KRS 199.461 to require additional reporting of statewide, regional, and county caseload average for state social service workers; amend KRS 199.470 to change the definition of relative caregiver for adoption purposes and align placement options with the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children; amend KRS 199.641 to allow the cabinet to contract with child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies; amend KRS 199.800 to update definitions; amend KRS 199.801 to update and establish new processes for state-level and regional placement coordinators for children in the custody of the cabinet; create a new section of KRS 199.470 to 199.590 to require the cabinet to establish uniform home study processes; repeal and reenact KRS 200.575 to update and establish new processes for delivery of family preservation services; amend KRS 213.056 to change language required to be on a Kentucky birth certificate of a person adopted from outside the United States; amend KRS 213.141 to establish no birth certificate fees for a child who is in the custody of the cabinet; amend KRS 600.020 to expand the definition of “abused or neglected child”; amend KRS 605.120 to allow for a broader array of services, including monetary, for relative caregivers; amend KRS 610.040 to attempt to resolve conflicts regarding the service of process for courts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to resolve delays due to simultaneous criminal proceedings during dependency, neglect, or abuse cases; create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to allow the cabinet to charge a fee for background checks of child abuse and neglect records in certain circumstances; amend KRS 620.050 to establish new language related to Childrens Advocacy Centers in administrative hearings and access to the records and interviews; amend KRS 620.060 to clarify locations of dependency, neglect, or abuse cases for courts; amend KRS 620.070 to attempt to resolve conflicts regarding the service of process for courts; amend KRS 620.180 to lengthen the time before the first out-of-home case plan is due and require that by January 1, 2019, that CHFS shall establish and implement the processes, procedures, timelines, and requirements to ensure that children committed to the cabinet as dependent, neglected, or abused and placed in foster family homes are timely reunified with their biological family or identified for and placed in a new permanent home; amend KRS 620.270 to establish changes to the existing Citizen Foster Care Review Boards in the state to establish an interested party review to occur to allow a forum for citizens throughout the state to express their thoughts and opinions related to child welfare; amend KRS 620.090 related to notifications from the Citizen Foster Care Review Boards; amend KRS 620.310 to establish changes to the Citizen Foster Care Review Board related to the election of the chairpersons; amend KRS 625.090 related to the filing of a motion of termination of parental rights; amend KRS 625.110 related to the appeals of the termination of parental rights; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish a putative father registry in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; prescribe the data the registry will contain and who may access the data; amend KRS 199.480 and 199.990 to conform; amend KRS 406.081 to require courts to resolve cases against alleged fathers who do not comply with ordered genetic testing; amend KRS 406.091 to require the party requesting that the paternity action be filed to pay for genetic testing; amend KRS 625.065 to the putative father registry; amend KRS 199.502 related to the putative father registry; create a new section of KRS 199.640 to199.670 to require performance-based contracting and require the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to designate a study group to make recommendations regarding the creation and implementation of performance-based contracting for licensed child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies in the Commonwealth and to require a report; create a new section of KRS 620 to establish a notification be made to foster parents; require the secretary of the cabinet for Health and Family services to designate a study group to make recommendations regarding the feasibility and implementation of the privatization of all foster care services in the Commonwealth and require a report; amend KRS 199.473, 199.490, 625.040, 625.042, and 625.043 to conform; repeal KRS 199.565, 199.805, 200.580, 200.585, 200.590, 200.595, 200.600, and 200.605. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/2/2018 - delivered to Governor
4/2/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB1.htm |
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| HB3 | SCHOOL CURRICULUM (SHELL J) AN ACT relating to school curriculum.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school to provide an essential skills curriculum to students; amend KRS 158.645 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create the Council on Essential Skills; amend KRS 158.6453 to require the Council on Essential Skills to serve as a review committee for career studies; require the department to include the essential skills program on the school profile report; amend KRS 158.6457 to include work ethics certification in the definition of nonacademic factors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring the Kentucky Department of Education to develop an age-appropriate drug awareness and prevention program; require local school boards to ensure that students receive annual instruction in drug awareness and prevention. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/2/2018 - delivered to Governor
4/2/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB3.htm |
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| HB4 | HEALTH CARE PEER REVIEW (WUCHNER A) AN ACT relating to the privileging of peer review activities in health care.
Amend KRS 311.377 to add medical malpractice actions, actions arising out of review of credentials or 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: | 3/9/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 2/28/2018 - delivered to Governor
2/28/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB4.htm |
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| HB5 | GUARDIANSHIP OF PARTIALLY DISABLED ADULTS (ELLIOTT D) AN ACT regarding guardianship and conservatorship of partially disabled or disabled adults.
Amend KRS 210.290, relating to public guardianship, to specify when the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may be appointed as a resident's limited guardian, guardian, limited conservator, or conservator; amend KRS 387.510 to provide that a guardian or limited guardian is to manage the personal affairs of a disabled person; amend KRS 387.540 to allow a physician assistant to be part of an interdisciplinary evaluation team; amend KRS 387.570 and 387.580 to retain the right to a jury trial in a guardianship competency hearing if demanded by or on behalf of any party; amend KRS 387.590 to clarify that the same individual, agency, or corporation may be both a guardian and a conservator; amend KRS 387.610 to allow an advanced practice registered nurse or a physician assistant working within his or her scope of practice to verify a renewal petition for guardianship or conservatorship; amend KRS 387.660 to remove custody from a guardian's powers and duties; amend KRS 387.680 to clarify that a limited conservator or conservator may establish or place financial resources in a trust; amend KRS 387.670, 387.700, and 387.710 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/1/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/1/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB5.htm |
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| HB10 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (IMES K) AN ACT proposing to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to administrative regulations.
Propose to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit the General Assembly or an agency or committee it creates to review, approve, or disapprove any administrative regulation of the executive branch during or between regular sessions of the General Assembly; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval; supply ballot language. |
| | Current Status: | 2/12/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 2/9/2018 - received in Senate
2/8/2018 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 68-22
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB10.htm |
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| HB11 | POWER OF ATTORNEY (SHELL J) AN ACT relating to power of attorney.
Establish KRS Chapter 457 to adopt portions of the Uniform Power of Attorney Act of 2006; establish definitions for the chapter; provide that the chapter shall apply to all powers of attorney except for certain exceptions; provide that powers of attorney are durable and for their execution; provide a choice-of-law rule for determining the law that governs the meaning and effect of the power of attorney; detail the relationship between a power of attorney and a conservator or guardian; outline when a power of attorney becomes effective; detail when a power of attorney terminates; establish default rules for coagents and successor agents; allow for the reimbursement and compensation of an agent; detail how an agent accepts his or her appointment; outline an agent's duties; provide that a principal can lower the standard of liability for an agent with a few exceptions; establish a list of persons that may petition the court to review the agent's conduct; address when an agent is liable; detail how an agent can resign; provide protections for persons who accept a power of attorney in good faith; impose liability for refusal to accept a power of attorney; clarify that the principles of law and equity supplement the chapter unless displaced by a provision of the chapter; provide that the remedies under the chapter are not exclusive and do not abrogate any other cause of action or remedy; amend KRS 367.93103, relating to funeral planning declarations, to clarify that a funeral declaration included in a will or power of attorney does not invalidate the will or power of attorney; amend KRS 372.140 and 387.530 to conform; repeal KRS 386.093, relating to the effect of incapacity or death on a power of attorney. |
| | Current Status: | 4/26/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/14/2018 - delivered to Governor
4/14/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB11.htm |
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| HB25 | CHILD ABUSE (BURCH T) AN ACT relating to the reporting of child abuse, neglect, or dependency.
Amend KRS 620.030 to establish that if a person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that a child is dependent, neglected, or abused, causes an oral or written report of the dependency, neglect, or abuse to be made, is employed by a local law enforcement agency, the Department of Kentucky State Police, the cabinet or its designated representative, the Commonwealth's attorney, or a county attorney, then that person shall make the oral or written report to his or her employer and to one of the other entities authorized to receive the report. |
| | Current Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Family Services
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
6/22/2017 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB25.htm |
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| HB28 | JOB APPLICANT CRIMINAL HISTORIES (BROWN JR. G) AN ACT relating to criminal histories of job applicants.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; title the Act "Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act." |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB28.htm |
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| HB29 | TAXATION (WAYNE J) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 140.130 to decouple from changes to the federal estate tax since 2003; amend KRS 141.010 to provide for a reduction and phase-out of the pension exclusion, disallow the domestic production activities deduction, establish a cap for itemized deductions, and define "taxpayer"; amend KRS 141.020 to provide for changes to income tax rates; amend KRS 141.066 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 141.0205 to recognize and order changes in income tax credits; amend KRS 141.0401 to lower the exclusion threshold; amend KRS 141.120 to change apportionment methods to use a "throwback" rule and market-based sourcing for receipts; amend KRS 141.200 to require "combined" reporting for corporations; amend KRS 134.810, 136.310, 136.530, 141.040, 141.121, 141.206, and 141.420 to conform; amend KRS 141.205 to recognize "tax haven" foreign countries and tax all income apportioned or allocated to those countries; amend KRS 141.383, 148.544, and 148.546 to make the film industry tax credit nonrefundable and nontransferable; create a new section of KRS 6.905 to 6.935 to require review and sunset of all economic development tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to allow LRC employees to review selected tax documents; amend KRS 138.270 to reduce motor fuels dealer compensation to one percent; amend KRS 132.020 to make the real property tax rate 12.2 cents per $100, remove the rate adjustment provision, and remove the recall provisions; amend KRS 132.260 to clarify requirements for reporting of rental space for mobile or manufactured homes, private aircraft, and certain boats or vessels; amend KRS 132.730, 132.751, 132.810, and 132.815 to clarify property tax treatment of manufactured homes; amend KRS 140.300 to clarify the treatment of agricultural valuation on inherited property; amend KRS 279.200, 279.530, 279.220, and 139.530 to repeal rural electric and telephone co-op taxes; amend KRS 132.097 and 132.099 to amend the exemption for personal property shipped out of state; amend KRS 139.105, 139.200, 139.220, 139.270, 139.340 and 139.740 to impose sales tax on selected services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide for a refundable Kentucky earned income tax credit; amend KRS 243.0305 and 243.990 to recognize changes in the distilled spirits case tax; amend KRS 138.130, 138.140, and 138.143 to change the tax on cigarette rolling papers, to raise the tobacco taxes, to impose a floor stock tax, and to tax e-cigarettes; amend KRS 65.125, 65.674, 67.862, 67.938, 67A.843, 68.245, 68.248, 82.095, 97.590, 132.0225, 132.023, 132.024, 132.027, 132.029, 157.440, 160.470, 160.473, 67C.147, 78.530, 342.340, and 134.810 to remove provisions that allow for recall of certain tax rates and make conforming and technical changes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide for a refundable noise mitigation credit; repeal KRS 132.017, 132.018, 132.025, 132.720, 143A.035, and 243.710, relating to recall petitions and to various tax rates; provide that estate tax provisions apply for deaths occurring on or after August 1, 2018, sales tax provisions are effective for periods beginning on or after October 1, 2018, motor fuels compensation provisions are effective August 1, 2018, and property tax provisions are for assessments on and after January 1, 2019. |
| | Current Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
7/13/2017 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB29.htm |
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| HB35 | PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (MORGAN W) AN ACT relating to public assistance.
Amend KRS 205.200 to create a substance abuse screening program for adult recipients of public assistance, food stamps, and state medical assistance. |
| | Current Status: | 3/6/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Family Services
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Family Services
1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB35.htm |
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| HB43 | APPELLATE JUDGES (NEMES J) AN ACT relating to appellate judges.
Amend KRS 118A.110 to define "retention election" for appellate judges; create a new section of KRS Chapter 118A to create an election process for retaining appointed appellate judges, following the ratification of a constitutional amendment to provide for appointments of appellate judges; amend KRS 118A.020, 118A.030, 118A.060, 118A.100, and 118A.140 to conform; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 21A.020 to set staggered terms for appellate judges; EFFECTIVE contingently on January 1, 2020. |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2018 - (H) reassigned to committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB43.htm |
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| HB44 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (NEMES J) AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 117, 118, 119, and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the election of appellate judges.
Propose to amend Sections 117, 118, 119, and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky to fill terms of justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the Court of Appeals by appointment by the Governor from a list of three nominees provided by the judicial nominating commission; provide for appointed justices and judges who seek additional terms to stand for elections in their districts; limit individuals to two full terms of office; schedule transitional provisions; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval. |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2018 - (H) reassigned to committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB44.htm |
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| HB58 | PATIENT QUALITY OF LIFE (MEEKS R) AN ACT relating to patient quality of life.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; establish the Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and create provisions and requirements; establish the Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program within the cabinet and create provisions and requirements; require all health facilities to establish systems for identifying patients or residents who could benefit from palliative care and provide information by 2021; allow the cabinet to require action plans and impose fines for those in violation. |
| | Current Status: | 3/1/2018 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| | Recent Status: | 2/6/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Family Services
1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Family Services
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB58.htm |
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| HB62 | CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS (WATKINS G) 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 revise possession of counterfeit substances from a Class D felony to a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 218A.1415 to revise 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 under KRS 218A.1422, synthetic drugs under KRS 218A.1430, methamphetamine precursors under KRS 218A.1437, salvia under KRS 218A.1451, or drug paraphernalia under 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: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
11/17/2017 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB62.htm |
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| HB64 | TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY TREATMENT (LEE S) AN ACT relating to traumatic brain injury treatment for veterans.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit eligible veterans to use hyperbaric oxygen treatment for treatment of traumatic brain injury; establish the conditions for use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment; prohibit sanctions of health care providers; clarify the duties of health care insurers regarding hyperbaric oxygen treatment; prohibit certain actions by state officials; provide that the Act may be known as the Colonel Ron Ray Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/1/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/1/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB64.htm |
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| HB76 | CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (MOFFETT P) AN ACT relating to the taking of the sense of the people of the Commonwealth as to the necessity and expediency of calling a convention to revise or amend the Constitution of Kentucky, and the amendments that may have been made to it, as provided by Section 258 of the Constitution of Kentucky.
Propose to take the sense of the people of Kentucky regarding the calling of a convention to revise or amend the Constitution of Kentucky, as provided by Section 258 of the present Constitution. |
| | Current Status: | 1/17/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB76.htm |
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| HB80 | SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE PREVENTION (BURCH T) AN ACT relating to instruction in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and related matters.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate regulations regarding human sexuality education; require implementation of a Department of Education-Approved plan during the 2019-2020 school year; set the minimum instructional requirements for grades four through twelve; require instruction by a certified teacher. |
| | Current Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Family Services
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
12/8/2017 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB80.htm |
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| HB102 | ARRESTS (LEE S) AN ACT relating to arrests.
Amend KRS 431.015 to allow a peace officer to make an arrest when a misdemeanor is committed in the officer's presence; allow a peace officer to issue a citation when the officer has probable cause to believe that a misdemeanor was committed outside of his or her presence. |
| | Current Status: | 1/17/2018 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | Recent Status: | 1/8/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
1/4/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB102.htm |
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| HB103 | PUBLIC SAFETY FULL DISCLOSURE (FISCHER J) AN ACT relating to full disclosure in public safety and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 311.727 to require a physician or qualified technician to provide a written medical description of images depicted during a required ultrasound prior to an abortion; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/4/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Family Services
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB103.htm |
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| HB110 | ADULT EXPLOITATION (DUPLESSIS J) AN ACT relating to exploitation of adults.
Amend KRS 209.020 to change the definition of "exploitation" to include obtaining or using controlled substances prescribed to a vulnerable adult or a member of the adult's household; amend KRS 209.990 to create a Class C felony for that form of exploitation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/15/2018 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/15/2018 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
2/14/2018 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Regular Calendar
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB110.htm |
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| HB115 | PREGNANCY TERMINATIONS (MILLS R) AN ACT relating to reporting prescriptions to terminate a pregnancy.
Amend KRS 213.101 to require a physician to report a prescription for mifeprex, misoprostol, or any other drug or combination of drugs that are intended to end a pregnancy to the Vital Statistics Branch within 15 days after the end of the month in which the prescription was written; create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to require a physician to report a prescription for mifeprex, misoprostol, or any other drug or combination of drugs that are intended to end a pregnancy; amend KRS 311.723 and 311.735 to correct citations to KRS 213.101. |
| | Current Status: | 2/20/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/5/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
1/3/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB115.htm |
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| HB124 | SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT (WUCHNER A) AN ACT relating to enhanced standards and criteria for substance use disorder treatment and recovery services and programs and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to complete a comprehensive review of all current state licensure and quality standards for substance use disorder treatment and recovery services and programs; specify that licensure and quality standards be based on nationally recognized and evidence-based standards, standardized outcome measures, a reporting process, and conditions for reimbursement; permit fees for licensure; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the licensure and quality standards by January 1, 2019, repeal KRS 222.037 and 222.212; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 4/2/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/22/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB124.htm |
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| HB126 | CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS (SCOTT A) AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Amend KRS 186.990, 194A.990, 341.990, and 516.120 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for unlawful registration of a car to evade taxes, misrepresentation to receive public assistance or unemployment benefits, and unlawful use of slugs from $100 to $1,500; amend KRS 205.8461, 205.8463, 209.990, 238.995, and 434.850 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for unlawful referral practices of a Medicaid provider, fraudulent Medicaid claims, wantonly or recklessly exploiting a vulnerable adult, charitable gaming fraud, unlawful diversion of charitable gaming funds, and unlawful access to computers in the second degree from $300 to $1,500; amend KRS 209.990 to raise the threshold level for a Class C felony for knowingly exploiting a vulnerable adult from $300 to $1500; amend KRS 217.181 to raise the threshold levels for a Class C and D felony for theft of a legend drug; amend KRS 304.47-020, 434.650, 434.655, 434.660, 434.670, 434.690, 514.030, 514.040, 514.050, 514.060, 514.070, 514.080, 514.090, 514.110, 514.120, and 517.060 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for various fraud and theft crimes from $500 to $1500; and amend KRS 365.241 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for counterfeit intellectual property from $1,000 to $1,500. |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB126.htm |
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| HB130 | ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS (UPCHURCH K) AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.
Create a new section of KRS 13A.290 to 13A.335 to require the staff of the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee to submit to that committee's co-chairs an annual report on administrative regulations found deficient by a legislative committee; list the information that is necessary to complete the report; include prominent text on the first page of the report outlining potential legislative options; amend KRS 13A.290, 13A.330, and 13A.331 to allow a committee to take action on an administrative regulation within 60 days of LRC referral. |
| | Current Status: | 4/26/2018 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/14/2018 - delivered to Governor
4/14/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB130.htm |
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| HB131 | GUARDIANSHIP PROCEEDINGS (MCCOY C) AN ACT relating to the use of juries in competency hearings conducted in guardianship proceedings.
Amend KRS 387.570 to clarify when a respondent's presence may be waived at a guardianship competency hearing; allow a bench trial when the parties agree, there is no objection from interested parties, and all persons preparing the interdisciplinary report agree that the person is disabled or partially disabled; amend KRS 387.580 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB131.htm |
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| HB135 | AIR AMBULANCE COVERAGE (GREER J) AN ACT relating to emergency air ambulance coverage.
Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define balance bill and insured; create a new section of subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define registered air ambulance service provider, to prohibit a health benefit plan from using an allowed amount for air ambulance services under certain conditions, to determine when an air ambulance transport is medically necessary, to require assumption of charges by the insurer under certain conditions, to require notification to the air ambulance service of assumption by the insurer, prohibit the air ambulance provider from certain actions following receipt of notification, to establish payment requirements for the insurer, to establish the Independent Dispute Resolution program for disputed air ambulance service charges within the Department of Insurance, to require reporting by registered air ambulance service providers and the department, to set requirements for registration in the program, to set requirements to be an independent reviewer for the program, and to establish procedures for the Independent Dispute Resolution program; and amend KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-430, 304.17B-001, 304.17B-015, 304.17B-033, 304.17C-010, 304.18-114, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking and Insurance
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB135.htm |
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| HB145 | ZONING (ROTHENBURGER R) AN ACT relating to zoning.
Amend KRS 100.324 to require zoning compliance for nonbaseload generation facilities under 10 megawatts; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/17/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 1/10/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government
1/8/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB145.htm |
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| HB154 | ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS (WELLS W) AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.
Amend KRS 13A.290 to require the administrative regulations compiler to compile a list of administrative regulations considered during the year, including their disposition; require the co-chairs of the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee to file the list of regulations as a simple resolution in their respective chambers; allow members to object to any resolution on the list; require the Legislative Research Commission to refer administrative regulations removed from the list to the interim joint committee with jurisdiction over the administrative regulation for additional consideration. |
| | Current Status: | 1/10/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | Recent Status: | 1/8/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB154.htm |
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| HB163 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (WELLS W) AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to terms of members of the General Assembly.
Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prevent Representatives from serving more than eight consecutive terms in office, not including partial terms, and to prevent Senators from serving more than four consecutive terms of office, including a partial term of three years or more, beginning with those elected in 2020; allow legislators to resume service, if reelected, in the house from which they were term-limited after two years have elapsed; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/11/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
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| | Recent Status: | 1/9/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB163.htm |
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| HB165 | KENTUCKY RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL (NELSON R) AN ACT establishing the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council; list members to be appointed by the Governor; state the duties of the council; require a report of council activities; create a rare disease trust fund to be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to finance the operation of the council and support rare disease research and treatment; require a report on expenditures from the fund; require the council to cease to exist on December 1, 2028, unless otherwise reestablished by the General Assembly; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 1/11/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/9/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB165.htm |
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| HB166 | MEDICAL CANNABIS (SIMS JR. J) AN ACT relating to medical cannabis and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; restrict medical cannabis to certain patients with qualifying debilitating conditions; establish requirements for cultivation, production, processing, distribution, and sale in compassion centers; establish requirements for patients, visiting patients, and caregivers; establish professional protections for practitioners; establish protections for cardholders; establish certain protections for cardholders; establish responsibilities for cardholders; allow restrictions on possession, possession while operating a motor vehicle, and smoking; clarify that use of medical cannabis by a qualifying patient is to be treated the same as use of prescribed pharmaceutical medications; establish additional protections for medical use; clarify that nothing in the bill requires government programs or private insurers to reimburse for the costs of use or prohibits an employer from disciplining an employee for workplace impairment; establish a medical purpose defense for some uses of medical cannabis; require establishment of a Cannabis Enforcement Program by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to enforce the department's duties; establish a process for the department to increase the list of debilitating medical conditions; require testing and quality regulation of the production, cultivation, processing, and sale of medical cannabis; establish requirements for licenses, facilities security, transportation, training, packaging, labeling, health and safety; establish rules on advertising, additives, pesticides, single-serving limits for THC content, and requiring random sample testing and safe processing; require licensure and issuance of cards for all medical cannabis businesses; establish certain licensure and application fees; require department to issue registry cards to patients submitting the required information; establish procedures for denying an application; establish technical requirements for cards and for cardholders; establish cardholder fees and notification requirements; require 60% of the boards of medical cannabis businesses to be composed of individuals with 3 years of continuous Kentucky residence: establish 3 tiers of medical cannabis business regulation by gross receipts; establish requirements for applying producers, cultivators, distributors, and processors; establish requirements for cultivator businesses, including addressing expansion of crops to meet market needs; establish protections and responsibilities for compassion centers, cultivators, and safety compliance facilities; establish procedures for the department to suspend or revoke registration and licensure; establish rules for local sales, including a requirement that a local legislative body take action to approve medical cannabis businesses; establish a process for local ordinances and ballot initiatives; establish requirements for medical cannabis business agents; prohibit location of a medical cannabis business within a certain distance from a school; establish a requirement that compassion centers obtain usable medical cannabis from only certain licensed entities; establish recordkeeping requirements; protect certain records and information from disclosure via the Kentucky Open Records Act; require establishment of a verification system for use by law enforcement personnel and medical cannabis business agents; establish a 19-member oversight committee to advise the department; require an annual report to be sent to the Legislative Research Commission; establish authority for the department to promulgate regulations; establish a method by which any citizen may commence an action with the Franklin Circuit Court to compel the department to perform its duties; establish an alternative method to create a valid registry identification card if the department fails to act; clarify that the department's duties are administrative in nature; establish excise taxes of 10% for a cultivator, processor, or producer for selling directly to a compassion center; establish excise taxes of 5% for a cultivator, processor, or producer for selling to a distributor; establish excise taxes of 5% for a distributor selling to a compassion center; direct that 80% of revenues go to the administration of the medical cannabis trust fund for the operation of the Cannabis Enforcement Program; direct that 20% of revenues go to the local medical cannabis trust fund for enforcement of medical cannabis laws, medical cannabis licensing, hiring of drug recognition experts, local evidence-based drug rehabilitation projects, or educational activities within local jails; establish the medical cannabis trust fund and the local cannabis trust fund; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 3/5/2018 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | Recent Status: | 2/8/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
1/16/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB166.htm |
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| HB167 | ABANDONED INFANTS (DOSSETT M) AN ACT relating to abandoned infants.
Amend KRS 405.075 to establish a definition and allow the use of a "newborn safety device" related to the anonymous surrendering of a newborn infant in the Commonwealth. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/2/2018 - delivered to Governor
4/2/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB167.htm |
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| HB171 | BUDGET FORMS (RUDY S) AN ACT relating to budget forms.
Amend KRS 48.040, relating to budget forms, to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/10/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB171.htm |
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| HB172 | BUDGET UNIT REQUESTS (RUDY S) AN ACT relating to submission of budget unit requests.
Amend KRS 48.050, relating to submission of budget unit requests, to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/6/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/5/2018 - received in Senate
2/2/2018 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 87-0
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB172.htm |
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| HB173 | BRANCH BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS (RUDY S) AN ACT relating to branch budget recommendations.
Amend KRS 48.100, relating to branch budget recommendations, to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 3/16/2018 - (H) Returned to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 3/16/2018 - (H) SECOND READING
3/16/2018 - (H) Taken From Committee
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB173.htm |
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| HB176 | REGISTERED AMBULANCE PROVIDERS (ROTHENBURGER R) AN ACT relating to fee disclosures by licensed ambulance providers.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require ambulance providers to post fee schedules and provide them to beneficiaries; require the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to assess a fee of $150 for failure to post a fee schedule and modifications to the fee schedule; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 4/2/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/22/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB176.htm |
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| HB191 | EYE CARE CONSUMER PROTECTION (GOOCH JR. J) AN ACT relating to consumer protection in eye care and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend KRS 367.680 to define terms; amend KRS 367.681 to add requirements for prescriptions for visual aid glasses; amend KRS 367.683 and 367.684 to make applicable to all contact lens and visual aid glasses sellers and dispensers; amend KRS 367.685 to require fitting based on ocular health; amend KRS 367.686 and 367.687 to make applicable to visual aid glasses; create a new section of KRS 367.680 to 367.690 to set requirements for performance and operation of assessment mechanisms for contact lenses and visual aid glasses; amend KRS 367.688 and 367.690 to make applicable to visual aid glasses; increase the fine for violations to $11,000; create a new section of KRS 367.680 to 367.690 to provide that those sections may be cited as the Consumer Protection in Eye Care Act; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 3/30/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/20/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB191.htm |
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| HB199 | VOLUNTARY PRECEPTOR TAX CREDIT (MOSER K) AN ACT relating to the voluntary preceptor tax credit.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an individual income tax credit for Kentucky-licensed physicians who, as voluntary preceptors, administer at least three core clinical rotations for certain medical students; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting of statistics; amend sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to make conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 1/18/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/16/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB199.htm |
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| HB200 | EXECUTIVE BRANCH BUDGET (RUDY S) 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: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2017-2018: $7,018,500, 2018-2019: $1,704,291,300, 2019-2020: $1,655,441,200; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2018-2019: $31,672,600, 2019-2020: $32,384,800; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2018-2019: $4,885,519,300, 2019-2020: $4,885,920,600; appropriate to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet: 2018-2019: $630,653,700, 2019-2020: $635,306,400; appropriate to the Energy and Environment Cabinet: 2018-2019: $272,522,400, 2019-2020: $280,337,000; appropriate to the Finance and Administration Cabinet: 2018-2019: $932,955,700, 2019-2020: $962,132,700; appropriate to the Health and Family Services Cabinet: 2017-2018: $12,064,200, 2018-2019: $13,902,025,100, 2019-2020: $14,153,724,700; appropriate to the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet: 2017-2018: $22,281,300, 2018-2019: $1,279,407,200, 2019-2020: $1,315,928,100; appropriate to the Labor Cabinet: 2018-2019: $221,768,700, 2019-2020: $221,427,400; appropriate to the Personnel Cabinet: 2018-2019: $66,174,600, 2019-2020: $66,486,800; appropriate to Postsecondary Education: 2018-2019: $7,834,090,600, 2019-2020: $8,200,114,600; appropriate to the Public Protection Cabinet: 2018-2019: $123,723,400, 2019-2020: $122,273,100; appropriate to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet: 2017-2018: $8,831,600, 2018-2019: $258,238,600, 2019-2020: $261,409,800; appropriate to the Budget Reserve Trust Fund: 2018-2019: $62,414,100, 2019-2020: $183,378,000; not included in the appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows: 2017-2018 $16,500,000, 2018-2019: $2,804,425,500, 2019-2020: $342,579,500; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2018 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| | Recent Status: | 4/13/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
4/13/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB200.htm |
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| HB213 | PRESCRIPTION DRUG MONITORING INFORMATION (BENTLEY D) AN ACT relating to data-sharing of prescription drug monitoring information.
Amend KRS 218A.245 to allow KASPER data-sharing agreements with different types of jurisdictions. |
| | Current Status: | 3/28/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/16/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/16/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB213.htm |
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| HB218 | AUTISM (ROWLAND B) AN ACT relating to insurance coverage for autism benefits.
Amend KRS 304.17A-142 to remove dollar amount coverage cap; to remove age limitation on coverage; to require the coverage of all health benefit plans; to add definitions; repeal KRS 304.17A-141 and 304.17A-143. |
| | Current Status: | 4/2/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/27/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/27/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB218.htm |
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| HB219 | DRUG TREATMENT (KEENE D) AN ACT relating to drug treatment and prevention and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to establish the Kentucky addiction prevention, recovery, and enforcement fund; establish administering committee membership; direct all revenues from the Commonwealth related to the drug epidemic to the fund; describe authorized fund expenditures; require fund reporting; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 1/30/2018 - (H) reassigned to committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/23/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
1/19/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB219.htm |
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| HB225 | OPIOID AGONIST DRUGS (DONOHUE J) AN ACT relating to the advertising of opiate and opioid agonist drugs.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to prohibit the advertising of opiate and opioid agonist drugs. |
| | Current Status: | 2/20/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/24/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
1/22/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB225.htm |
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| HB226 | ARRESTS (LEE S) AN ACT relating to arrests.
Amend KRS 431.015 to allow a peace officer to arrest a person for a misdemeanor violation of KRS 512.030, 512.040, and 514.030 when committed in the officer's presence; allow a peace officer to issue a citation when the officer has probable cause to believe that a misdemeanor was committed outside of his or her presence. |
| | Current Status: | 3/19/2018 - (H) recommitted to committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 3/16/2018 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2T
3/15/2018 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2T
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB226.htm |
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| HB228 | PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (ELLIOTT D) AN ACT relating to physician assistants.
Amend KRS 311.856 to permit physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances; amend KRS 311.858 to permit physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances; create a new section of KRS 311.840 to 311.862 to establish the Physician Assistants Controlled Substance Monitoring Committee. |
| | Current Status: | 1/24/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Family Services
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| | Recent Status: | 1/22/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB228.htm |
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| HB231 | CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE MONITORING (FISCHER J) AN ACT relating to enhancement of information reported to the electronic system for monitoring controlled substances.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to require that pharmacies collect data on persons picking up prescriptions for a Schedule II to V controlled substance on behalf of a patient; require data to be reported to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require data to be shared only with those permitted under KRS 218A.202. |
| | Current Status: | 2/1/2018 - House Health and Family Services, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | Recent Status: | 1/30/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Family Services
1/24/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Family Services
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB231.htm |
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| HB234 | MEDICAL AND NURSING SCHOOLS (MARZIAN M) AN ACT relating to medical and nursing schools.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require all medical and nursing schools established and assisted financially by the Commonwealth of Kentucky to cease all training of any health care providers and the provision of any health care services; require all medical and nursing schools to refer citizens who are requesting advice or health care services to their state representative or state senator. |
| | Current Status: | 3/6/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Family Services
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| | Recent Status: | 1/25/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Family Services
1/23/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB234.htm |
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| HB235 | ABORTION WAITING PERIOD (MARZIAN M) AN ACT relating to eliminating the abortion waiting period.
Amend KRS 311.725 to delete the requirement to provide information in a physical setting 24 hours before an abortion. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| | Recent Status: | 1/25/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Family Services
1/23/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB235.htm |
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| HB238 | DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDERS (HUFF R) AN ACT relating to implementing Do Not Resuscitate orders in a hospital setting.
Create new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define "Do Not Resuscitate" or "DNR" order; require the signature of a patient or a family member of the patient before implementing a do not resuscitate order written by a health care provider in a hospital setting; permit a hospital to request that a patient complete a (MOST) Medical Order for Scope of Treatment form in accordance with KRS 311.621 to KRS 311.643. |
| | Current Status: | 1/25/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Family Services
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| | Recent Status: | 1/23/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB238.htm |
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| HB246 | MEDICATION ASSISTED THERAPY (BENTLEY D) AN ACT relating to medication assisted therapy in community pharmacies.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish a pilot program to create a community pharmacy care delivery model for medication-assisted therapy for treatment of substance abuse. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/29/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB246.htm |
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| HB258 | CONVERSION THERAPY (WAYNE J) AN ACT relating to conversion therapy and declaring an emergency.
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 311, 319, and 335 to prohibit practitioners from engaging in conversion therapy, including the compensation and advertisement for conversion therapy; require violations to be subject to board discipline and false claims laws; prohibit public funds from being used for conversion therapy; define conversion therapy and public funds; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
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| | Recent Status: | 1/25/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB258.htm |
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| HB265 | TELECOMMUNICATORS (BLANTON J) AN ACT relating to training for telecommunicators.
Amend KRS 15.550 to require telecommunicators that provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions to be trained in high-quality telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR). |
| | Current Status: | 4/26/2018 - filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
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| | Recent Status: | 4/14/2018 - delivered to Governor
4/14/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB265.htm |
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| HB279 | EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES (ROTHENBURGER R) AN ACT relating to emergency medical services.
Amend KRS 311A.010 to define "advanced emergency medical technician" and "emergency medical responder, " and update other definitions; amend KRS 311A.015 to change" first responder" to "emergency medical responder"; amend KRS 311A.020 to change "first responder" to "emergency medical responder"; add certification of advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.025 to change "first responder" to "emergency medical responder"; amend KRS 311A.030 to update licensing categories; amend KRS 311A.050 to change "first responder" to "emergency medical responder"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.055 to change "first responder" to "emergency medical responder"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.060 change "first responder" to "emergency medical responder"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.065 to update psychological or physical evaluation requirements; amend KRS 311A.075 to update board membership; amend KRS 311A.095 to change "first responder" to "emergency medical responder"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; add electronic mail application requirements; delete outdated transition language; amend KRS 311A.105 to add electronic mailing requirements; amend KRS 311A.120 to change "first responder" to "emergency medical responder"; add advanced emergency medical technicians and paramedics; amend KRS 311A.125 to delete continuing competency documentation requirement; amend KRS 311A.130 to change "first responder" to "emergency medical responder"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.140 to clarify certification and licensure requirements; change "first responder" to "emergency medical responder"; add advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 311A.190 to change "run form" to "patient care record"; create new section of KRS Chapter 311A to set requirements for advanced emergency medical technicians; amend KRS 95A.262,189.910, and 311.550 to conform; repeal KRS 311A.110, 311A.115, and 311A.127. |
| | Current Status: | 2/21/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
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| | Recent Status: | 2/20/2018 - received in Senate
2/16/2018 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 84-0
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB279.htm |
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| HB280 | DRUG TREATMENT AND PREVENTION (WELLS W) AN ACT relating to drug treatment and prevention and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to establish the Kentucky addiction prevention, recovery, and enforcement fund; establish administering committee membership; direct all revenues from the Commonwealth related to the drug epidemic to the fund; describe authorized fund expenditures; require fund reporting; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 3/16/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
1/31/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB280.htm |
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| HB294 | HUMAN TRAFFICKING (JENKINS J) AN ACT relating to human trafficking.
Amend KRS 439.3401 to include as violent offenders individuals convicted of human trafficking and promoting human trafficking; specify that individuals convicted of human trafficking or promoting human trafficking shall not be released on probation or parole until 85 percent of the sentence has been served. |
| | Current Status: | 2/20/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/5/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
2/1/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB294.htm |
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| HB443 | NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS (BENVENUTI R) AN ACT relating to nonprofit corporations.
Amend, create, and repeal and reenact various sections of KRS Chapter 273 to modernize statutes regulating nonprofit corporations. |
| | Current Status: | 4/26/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/14/2018 - delivered to Governor
4/14/2018 - floor amendment (1) withdrawn
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB443.htm |
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| SB6 | CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (KERR A) AN ACT relating to the safe disposal of controlled substances.
Amend KRS 218A.170 to require a practitioner or a pharmacist to sell or distribute a nontoxic composition, which permanently captures the controlled substance, for the sequestration or deactivation and disposal of unused, unwanted, or expired controlled substances anytime a controlled substance is sold or distributed. |
| | Current Status: | 4/11/2018 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/29/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB6.htm |
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| SB7 | KENTUCKY RARE DISEASE ADVISORY COUNCIL (ADAMS J) AN ACT establishing the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky Rare Disease Advisory Council; list members to be appointed by the Governor; state the duties of the council; require a report of council activities; create a rare disease trust fund to be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to finance the operation of the council and support rare disease research and treatment; require a report on expenditures from the fund; require the council to cease to exist on December 1, 2028, unless otherwise reestablished by the General Assembly. |
| | Current Status: | 4/2/2018 - veto message received
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| | Recent Status: | 4/2/2018 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR
3/21/2018 - delivered to Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB7.htm |
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| SB15 | RETIREMENT (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to retirement.
Amend KRS 161.525 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB15.htm |
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| SB17 | WAGES (THOMAS R) AN ACT relating to wages.
Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on July 1, 2018, to $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2019, to $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2020, to $11.00 per hour on July 1, 2021, to $12.05 per hour on July 1, 2022, to $13.10 per hour on July 1, 2023, to $13.95 per hour on July 1, 2024, and to $15.00 per hour on July 1, 2025, and to raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $2.13 per hour on the effective date of the Act, to $3.05 per hour on July 1, 2019, to $3.95 per hour on July 1, 2020, and to $4.90 per hour on July 1, 2021; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage. |
| | Current Status: | 1/3/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
11/20/2017 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB17.htm |
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| SB20 | HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS (ALVARADO R) AN ACT relating to health care providers.
Amend KRS 216C.010 to define "affidavit of merit"; create new section of Chapter 216C to require filing of medical malpractice action with an affidavit of merit; amend KRS 422.317 to regulate fees charged by a hospital or health care provider to provide a copy of medical records; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216C to limit a claimant's attorney fees in a malpractice claim against a health care provider; amend KRS 216C.030 and 311.377 to conform; create a new section of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence to prohibit the introduction of expressions of sympathy, compassion, commiseration, or a general sense of benevolence in medical malpractice actions. |
| | Current Status: | 3/9/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 3/6/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
3/2/2018 - received in House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB20.htm |
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| SB23 | CANNABIDIOL (CARROLL J) AN ACT relating to cannabidiol use.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to permit a physician to recommend the use of cannabidiol or cannabidiol products; set criteria for recommendations; prohibit the Board of Medical Licensure from prohibiting recommendations; amend KRS 218A.010 to add recommendation to the definition of marijuana. |
| | Current Status: | 1/3/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
10/18/2017 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB23.htm |
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| SB31 | KINSHIP CARE (PARRETT D) AN ACT relating to kinship care.
Amend KRS 605.120 to permanently establish a kinship care program. |
| | Current Status: | 1/3/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
10/4/2017 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB31.htm |
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| SB38 | PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION (KERR A) AN ACT relating to pregnancy-related discrimination.
Amend KRS 344.030 to include within the definition of "reasonable accommodation," accommodations made for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; define "related medical condition"; amend KRS 344.040 to make it unlawful for an employer to fail to accommodate an employee affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition; require employers to provide notice to all employees regarding the right to be free from discrimination for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. |
| | Current Status: | 3/6/2018 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/9/2018 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
2/8/2018 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB38.htm |
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| SB46 | FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (ADAMS J) AN ACT relating to female genital mutilation.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to create the Class A felony of female genital mutilation; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop, produce, and disseminate educational materials related to female genital mutilation; amend KRS 620.030 to provide that if a person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that a child is a victim of female genital mutilation, then that person shall immediately make an oral or written report to the appropriate authorities. |
| | Current Status: | 1/3/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB46.htm |
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| SB52 | VOLUNTARY PRECEPTOR TAX CREDIT (ALVARADO R) AN ACT relating to the voluntary preceptor tax credit.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an individual income tax credit for Kentucky-licensed physicians who as voluntary preceptors administer at least three core clinical rotations for certain medical students; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting of statistics; amend sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to make conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 1/4/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/3/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB52.htm |
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| SB58 | TAXATION (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 131.181 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB58.htm |
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| SB59 | TAXATION (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 131.190 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB59.htm |
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| SB59 | TAXATION (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 131.190 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB59.htm |
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| SB60 | TAXATION (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 131.030 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB60.htm |
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| SB60 | TAXATION (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 131.030 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB60.htm |
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| SB61 | FISCAL MATTERS (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to fiscal matters.
Amend KRS 131.030, relating to revenue, to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 4/2/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/21/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/21/2018 - received in Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB61.htm |
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| SB61 | FISCAL MATTERS (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to fiscal matters.
Amend KRS 131.030, relating to revenue, to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 4/2/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/21/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/21/2018 - received in Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB61.htm |
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| SB62 | BRANCH BUDGET BILLS (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to branch budget bills.
Amend KRS 48.311, relating to structure of branch budget bills, to make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB62.htm |
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| SB63 | FISCAL MATTERS (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to fiscal matters.
Amend KRS 138.230, relating to motor fuel dealer's records, to make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB63.htm |
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| SB65 | TAXATION (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 131.560 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB65.htm |
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| SB66 | RETIREMENT (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to retirement.
Amend KRS 61.530 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/12/2018 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/28/2018 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
2/27/2018 - (S) FIRST READING w/SCS 1, SCA 1T to Regular Calendar
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB66.htm |
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| SB67 | TAXATION (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amends KRS 131.020 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB67.htm |
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| SB80 | CANNABIS REGULATION (SEUM D) AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis.
Establish and create new sections of KRS Chapter 245 to define terms, allow for possession, growth, use, processing, purchasing, transfer, and consumption of cannabis; establish limits for transfer; allow for purchasing and manufacture of cannabis accessories; authorize activities and operation of retail stores, consumption establishments, cultivation facilities, cannabis testing facilities, and product manufacturing facilities; prohibit smoking cannabis in public and establish a fine for violation; prohibit operation of motor vehicles while consuming cannabis and specify that existing intoxication laws are not superseded; prohibit state or local resources to be used to investigate violations of federal Controlled Substances Act that conflict with this KRS Chapter 245; specify that an employer is not required to allow consumption, workplace intoxication, possession, or transfer of cannabis; prohibit individuals under the age of 21 from entering cannabis establishments, purchasing, using, or misrepresenting his or her age; establish penalties for violation; establish a penalty for underage possession of cannabis; establish a penalty for underage cultivation of cannabis; establish requirements for personal cultivation; establish and direct the Department for Cannabis Enforcement to administrate KRS Chapter 245 and promulgate administrative regulations relating to all aspects of cannabis establishments, cannabis manufacturing, and transfer, cultivation, packaging, and health and safety requirements; restrictions on advertising, and restrictions on additives, pesticides, visitor logs, and sample testing; require promulgation of administrative regulations within 180 days; establish timeframes for the issuance of licenses; establish a licensure requirement and separate licenses; establish a license and renewal fee and license application form; establish an excise tax on cultivation facilities, processing facilities, or retail facilities; establish a trust and agency account; establish a cannabis regulation fund and recommend the direction of certain funds; establish a civil penalty for violating KRS Chapter 245, including for failing to keep written records and submitting required reports; establish a prioritization requirement for Kentucky residents; establish the legislative intent that cannabis or cannabis products not in conformity with KRS Chapter 245 are sizable as contraband; allow for local governments to prohibit the operation of cannabis businesses; establish a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to establish excise taxes; establish a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to direct the placement of excise taxes and sales taxes relating to cannabis; amend KRS 2.015 to make the cultivation, purchase, use, and possession of cannabis a higher age of majority activity; amend KRS 610.010 to make cannabis offenses under KRS Chapter 245 committed by minors under the authority of the juvenile session of the District Court; amend KRS 630.020 to grant a court jurisdiction over cannabis offenses committed by children; amend KRS 630.120 to prohibit commitment of children over a cannabis offense; amend KRS 218A.1422 to clarify that a person is guilty of possession of marijuana when he or she has more than the possession limit established in KRS Chapter 245, and to exempt a cannabis establishment; amend KRS 218A.1423 to prohibit cultivation of more than 5 marijuana plants and to exempt cannabis establishments; amend KRS 12.020 to reflect the establishment of the Department for Cannabis Enforcement; amend KRS 12.252 to reflect the establishment of the Department for Cannabis Enforcement; establish a short title. |
| | Current Status: | 1/26/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection
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| | Recent Status: | 1/17/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB80.htm |
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| SB94 | SCHEDULED DRUG PRESCRIPTION ELECTRONIC MONITORING SYSTEM (WESTERFIELD W) AN ACT relating to the electronic system for monitoring scheduled drug prescriptions.
Amend KRS 218A.202 to permit an employer of a practitioner, pharmacist, or other person authorized to prescribe, administer, or dispense controlled substances to request data from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services as part of a bona fide specific investigation of prescribing or dispensing practices. |
| | Current Status: | 3/7/2018 - Senate Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | Recent Status: | 1/22/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
1/19/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB94.htm |
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| SB96 | HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OPERATIONS (KERR A) AN ACT relating to operations within the cabinet for health and family services.
Amend KRS 79.080, 216.577, and 216.935 to replace reference to the Kentucky Health Facilities and Health Services Certificate of Need and Licensure Board with Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 200.480 to require that the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs report to the Governor and the General Assembly upon request instead of biennially; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to amend material previously incorporated by reference in administrative regulations governing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program through technical amendment if the amendment is prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture; amend KRS 205.560 to remove smoking cessation treatment intervention programs from the list of medical services to be covered by Medicaid; amend KRS 205.561 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on the dispensing of prescription medication to eligible persons upon request instead of every three years; amend KRS 205.590 to eliminate the Technical Advisory Committee on Consumer Rights and Client Needs; amend KRS 205.690 to require that the Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services report to the General Assembly upon request instead of during each regular session; amend KRS 205.712 to permit the Department for Income Support, Child Support Enforcement to amend forms mandated by the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement and previously incorporated by reference in administrative regulations by technical amendment; amend KRS 205.713, 205.802, 211.670, and 405.11 to conform; repeal KRS 194A.090, 209.400, 209.410, 209.420, 211.665, 211.674, 213.143, 218A.150, 218A.160, and 218A.170. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/29/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB96.htm |
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| SB99 | EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS (MCGARVEY M) AN ACT relating to employment protections.
Amend KRS 337.420 to require an employer with one or more employees to be subject to the wage discrimination requirements; amend KRS 337.423 to require no wage discrimination for what has been paid to current or past employees and prohibit an employer from discriminating against an employee for discussing wages. |
| | Current Status: | 1/23/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor
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| | Recent Status: | 1/22/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB99.htm |
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| SB107 | MENTAL ILLNESS (ADAMS J) AN ACT relating to mental illness.
Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses. |
| | Current Status: | 3/15/2018 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 3/2/2018 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
3/1/2018 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB107.htm |
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| SB112 | TELEHEALTH (ALVARADO R) AN ACT relating to Telehealth.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the cabinet to regulate telehealth; set requirements for the delivery of telehealth services to Medicaid recipients; require equivalent reimbursement for telehealth services; require provision of coverage and reimbursement for telehealth; prohibit the cabinet from requiring providers to be physically present with a recipient; prohibit prior authorization, medical review, or administrative clearance if not required for the in-person service; prohibit demonstration of necessity; prohibit requiring providers to be part of a telehealth network; specify that Medicaid shall not be required to provide coverage for services that are not medically necessary or pay for transmission costs; amend KRS 205.510 to define terms; amend KRS 205.559 to add telehealth; amend 304.17A-005 to redefine "telehealth"; amend KRS 304.17A-138 to require health benefit plan coverage of telehealth to the same extent as though provided in person; prohibit health benefit plans from requiring providers to be physically present with a patient; prohibit prior authorization, medical review, or administrative clearance if not required for the in-person service; prohibit demonstration of necessity; prohibit requiring providers to be part of the telehealth network or subject to Telehealth Board oversight; specify that health benefit plans shall not be required to provide coverage for services that are not medically necessary or pay for transmission costs; amend KRS 342.315 to conform; amend KRS 18A.225 to require any fully insured health benefit plans or self-insured plans issued or renewed after July 1, 2019, to public employees to comply with KRS 304.17A-138; repeal KRS 194A.125; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2019. |
| | Current Status: | 4/26/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/14/2018 - delivered to Governor
4/14/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB112.htm |
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| SB118 | MEDICAL CANNABIS (WEST S) AN ACT relating medical cannabis.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; restrict medical cannabis to certain patients with qualifying debilitating conditions; establish requirements for cultivation, production, processing, distribution, and sale in compassion centers; establish requirements for patients, visiting patients, and caregivers; establish professional protections for practitioners; establish certain protections for cardholders; establish responsibilities for cardholders; allow restrictions on possession, possession while operating a motor vehicle, and smoking; specify that use of medical cannabis by a qualifying patient is to be treated the same as use of prescribed pharmaceutical medications; establish additional protections for medical use; specify that nothing in the bill requires government programs or private insurers to reimburse for the costs of use or prohibits an employer from disciplining an employee for workplace impairment; establish a medical purpose defense for some uses of medical cannabis; establish the Department for Medical Cannabis Administration to enforce the program's provisions; establish requirement that local law enforcement be hired or contracted with for local inspections, investigations, and administrative duties; establish a process for the department to increase the list of debilitating medical conditions; require testing and quality regulation of the production, cultivation, processing, and sale of medical cannabis; establish requirements for licenses, facilities security, transportation, training, packaging, labeling, and health and safety; establish rules on advertising, additives, pesticides, and requiring random sample testing and safe processing; require licensure and issuance of cards for all medical cannabis businesses; establish certain licensure and application fees; require the department to issue registry cards to patients submitting the required information; establish procedures for denying an application; establish technical requirements for cards and for cardholders; establish a provisional licensure process; establish cardholder fees and notification requirements; require 60% of the boards of medical cannabis businesses to be composed of individuals with 3 years of continuous Kentucky residence: establish 3 tiers of medical cannabis business regulation by gross receipts; establish requirements for applying producers, cultivators, distributors, and processors; establish requirements for cultivator businesses, including addressing expansion of crops to meet market needs; establish protections and responsibilities for compassion centers, cultivators, and safety compliance facilities; establish procedures for the department to suspend or revoke registration and licensure; establish rules for local sales, including a requirement that a local legislative body take action to approve medical cannabis businesses; establish a process for local ordinances and ballot initiatives; establish requirements for medical cannabis business agents; prohibit location of a medical cannabis business within a certain distance from a school; establish a requirement that compassion centers obtain usable medical cannabis from only certain licensed entities; establish recordkeeping requirements; protect certain records and information from disclosure via the Kentucky Open Records Act; require establishment of a verification system for use by law enforcement personnel and medical cannabis business agents; establish a 19-member oversight committee to advise the department; require an annual report to be sent to the Legislative Research Commission; establish authority for the department to promulgate administrative regulations; establish a method by which any citizen may commence an action in the Franklin Circuit Court to compel the department to perform its duties; establish an alternative method to create a valid registry identification card if the department fails to act; clarify that the department's duties are administrative in nature; establish a medical cannabis trust fund to receive fees, fines, and registration costs and administer and operate the medical cannabis program; require 5% of trust fund moneys to be returned to the compassion centers for the use of certain indigent persons; amend KRS 218A.1421 to allow and exempt conduct allowed by the medical cannabis program; amend KRS 218A.1422 to allow and exempt conduct allowed by the medical cannabis program; amend KRS 218A.1423 to allow and exempt conduct allowed by the medical cannabis program; amend KRS 12.020 and 12.242 to reflect the creation of the Department for Medical Cannabis Administration. |
| | Current Status: | 2/2/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection
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| | Recent Status: | 1/30/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB118.htm |
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| SB123 | NURSING FACILITY BEDS (STIVERS R) AN ACT relating to nursing facility beds approved by the state health plan.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to prohibit the state health plan from permitting more than a total of two applications establishing nursing facility beds in a freestanding facility or as part of an existing facility under a pilot program for post-acute transitional care; require these applications to be for facilities located in urban core-based statistical areas. |
| | Current Status: | 4/11/2018 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/29/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB123.htm |
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| SB142 | TRANING FOR TELECOMMUNICATORS (CARROLL D) AN ACT relating to training for telecommunicators.
Amend KRS 15.550 to require telecommunicators that provide dispatch for emergency medical conditions to be trained in high-quality telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR). |
| | Current Status: | 4/2/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/22/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/22/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB142.htm |
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| SB149 | PATIENT QUALITY OF LIFE (ADAMS J) AN ACT relating to patient quality of life.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; establish the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Advisory Council within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish membership and duties; establish the Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program within the cabinet; set forth purposes, duties, and requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2018 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HCA 1T
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| | Recent Status: | 4/2/2018 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HCA 1T
3/29/2018 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB149.htm |
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| SB154 | HEALTHCARE TRANSPARENCY (ALVARADO R) AN ACT relating to healthcare transparency.
Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define "covered service," "emergency medical condition," "health care service," and "insured" or "covered person"; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define "allowed amount," "average allowed amount," "comparable health care service," "nonemergency health care service," "nonparticipating provider," and "participating provider"; require, for all health benefit plans, insurers to develop and implement an incentive program for covered persons who elect to receive a comparable health care service; require insurers to establish an interactive mechanism on a publicly accessible Web site that enables covered persons to obtain information about amounts paid for health care services by their insurer and a good-faith estimate of out-of-pocket costs for a nonemergency health care service; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for certain nonemergency services provided by a nonparticipating provider at prices that are the same or less than the average allowed amount for participating providers; amend KRS 304.17A-254 and 304.17A-527 to require insurers to obtain approval of the incentive program offered by that insurer from the Department of Insurance; require contracts with participating providers to include a clause requiring the provider to provide sufficient information to covered persons for the person to receive a good-faith estimate pursuant to the Act; amend KRS 304.17A-505 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to require nonparticipating providers to disclose the price of nonemergency health care services to covered persons; require health care providers to post notice to patients of their rights under this Act and to disclose prices charged for the most common health care services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services or a managed care organization contracted to provide Medicaid services to develop, implement, establish, and provide the same incentive program, interactive mechanism, and coverage to Medicaid recipients that are required for insurers under the Act; amend KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-430, 304.17B-001, 304.17B-015, 304.17B-033, 304.17C-010, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019. |
| | Current Status: | 3/29/2018 - received in House
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2018 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 25-11 with Committee Substitute & floor amendment (1)
3/29/2018 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1, SFA 1
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB154.htm |
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| SB163 | MEDICAID SCREENING DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT BENEFITS (ALVARADO R) AN ACT relating to early periodic screening diagnostic and treatment benefits provided to all Medicaid members in a licensed prescribed pediatric extended care facility.
Create a new section of KRS 205.510 TO 205.560 to establish that the Department for Medicaid Services shall directly administer all early periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment benefits for all Medicaid members. |
| | Current Status: | 2/20/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| | Recent Status: | 2/16/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB163.htm |
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