| HB73 | ADULT PROTECTION (ROLLINS C) AN ACT relating to the protection of adults and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend and create various sections of KRS 216.785 to 216.793 to define terms; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) to establish a National and State Background Check Program for prospective employees of long-term-care facilities and providers and representatives of the cabinet who perform inspections of long- term-care facilities or providers; require a registry check of the nurse aide abuse registry and any other registry identified in administrative regulations; permit queries of available information by certain licensing bodies; require the cabinet to implement the program in phases by provider category; require each nursing facility, nursing pool providing staff to a nursing facility, assisted-living community, long-term-care facility owned, managed, or operated by the CHFS, and personal services agency to continue to request conviction information; require the cabinet to use grant moneys or other funding to cover long-term-care facilities or providers to the extent that funds are available until at least May 19, 2014; require the cabinet to promulgate regulations relating to the program, including requirements to check registries, a schedule of dates for compliance, processing of registry and background checks, and fees; require the CHFS to collaborate with the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet on continuous employment assessment following an initial background check; permit the Department of Kentucky State Police and the FBI to charge for the actual cost of processing criminal background checks and assessments; require the Kentucky State Police to promulgate regulations relating to retaining of applicant fingerprints and to immediately inform the inspector general if an employee is arrested or convicted of a crime following his or her initial criminal background check; require applicants to submit to background and registry checks; prohibit long-term-care facilities or providers, or agencies within the cabinet responsible for conducting inspections, from employing individuals listed on the registry; permit a provisional period of employment; establish an informal review process; establish a formal review process; outline notification procedures for the cabinet and procedures to be followed by a long-term-care facility or provider if an employee has a disqualifying offense; establish independent review or appeal procedures; establish a fine for continuing to employ an individual with a disqualifying offense; establish an independent review process to allow for rehabilitation of a disqualifying offense, with requirements to include a written explanation of each disqualifying offense and employment and character references; require a rehabilitation review committee to review evidence and mitigating circumstances and make a recommendation to the secretary; remove civil liability for actions taken in good faith by the cabinet, the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, a long-term-care facility or provider, or an individual acting on behalf of any of these entities; establish the National and State Background Check Program fund and provide for its operation; require prospective providers to establish an individual provider's responsibilities and rights in this process; prohibit agencies providing services to senior citizens from employing an applicant with a disqualifying offense; require agencies to request a registry check; prohibit a long-term-care facility or provider from hiring an applicant if an individual has a disqualifying offense; require a long-term-care facility or provider to request a registry and background check for each applicant; require application forms for initial employment by a long-term-care facility or provider to have certain information and statements; regulate employment of individuals with certain offenses in family-care and personal care homes; amend KRS 216.533 to require long-term-care facilities operated by the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities to require applicants to submit to registry and background checks; prohibit individuals from being hired if they have a previous disqualifying offense; permit the hiring of pardoned individuals; amend KRS 216.712 to require personal services agencies to request registry checks and criminal background checks; provide for notice of fingerprint retention; prohibit an individual from owning or working for a personal services agency if he or she has a disqualifying offense; require the secretary to promulgate administrative regulations; establish procedures for background and registry checks; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2013 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations
|
| | Recent Status: | 2/22/2013 - received in Senate
2/21/2013 - (H) THIRD READING Passed (85-14) w/HFA 5, 6T
|
| | Position: | Support |
| |
| HB80 | WAIVER SERVICES PROGRAM (ADAMS J) AN ACT relating to purchases by enrollees in a home and community-based services waiver program.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to permit an enrollee in a home and community-based services waiver program to make a direct purchase of all necessary medical devices, equipment, and supplies; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate an administrative regulation to implement the section. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2013 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations and Revenue
|
| | Recent Status: | 2/26/2013 - (H) SECOND READING to Rules
2/26/2013 - (H) Reported Favorably
|
| | Position: | Support |
| |
| HB94 | TRESPASS (JENKINS J) AN ACT relating to trespass.
Amend KRS 381.230 to established a simplified method for elderly or vulnerable adults to petition for an order to prevent or restrain other persons from trespassing onto the petitioner's residence. |
| | Current Status: | 1/9/2013 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
|
| | Recent Status: | 1/8/2013 - Introduced
|
| | Position: | Support |
| |
| HB200 | REAL PROPERTY (JENKINS J) AN ACT relating to real property.
Amend various sections of KRS 65.350 to 65.375 to clarify, revise and expand the authority of land banks to acquire and manage tax delinquent properties; amend KRS 99.715 to allow cities to transfer property to a land bank; amend KRS 134.010 to define "land bank authority"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 134 to allow counties, cities, and land bank authorities to purchase certificates of delinquency prior to the public sale required by KRS 134.128; allow counties, cities, and land bank authorities to purchase certificates of delinquency held by the county clerk that were not sold; amend KRS 134.490 to require counties, cities, and land bank authorities that purchased certificates of delinquency to provide notice to the taxpayer and offer payment plans; amend KRS 134.015 to delete reference to the 11-year statute of limitations; amend KRS 134.122 and 134.125 to conform; amend KRS 134.420 and 134.546 to change the statute of limitation from 11 years to three years for taxes that become delinquent on or after January 1, 2014; reference expedited foreclosure established by Section 9 of the Act as a remedy; create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to establish an expedited foreclosure process for counties, cities, and land bank authorities that purchase certificates of delinquency. |
| | Current Status: | 2/13/2013 - House Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
|
| | Recent Status: | 2/11/2013 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government
2/6/2013 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government
|
| |
| HB236 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS (ROLLINS C) AN ACT relating to telecommunications.
AN ACT relating to telecommunications.
Amend KRS 278.544 to require competitive local exchange service carriers who resell the services of an unaffiliated company be subject to the same requirements for basic local exchange service as incumbent local exchange carriers. |
| | Current Status: | 2/7/2013 - (H) Referred to Committee House Tourism Development and Energy
|
| | Recent Status: | 2/6/2013 - Introduced
|
| |
| HB367 | VULNERABLE ADULTS (PALUMBO R) AN ACT relating to the protection of vulnerable adults.
Create a new section of KRS 209 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 209 to require the CHFS to create and maintain an adult abuse registry; make the registry available electronically; prohibit unsubstantiated findings, prohibit placement of an individual on the registry unless all administrative appeals and judicial proceedings related to the appeal have been completed and upheld; prohibit a long-term-care facility or provider from employing an individual or volunteer whose name appears on the registry; amend KRS 209.140 to permit limited release of information related to the adult abuse registry to long term care providers. |
| | Current Status: | 3/4/2013 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
|
| | Recent Status: | 2/27/2013 - received in Senate
2/26/2013 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 with Committee Substitute
|
| | Position: | Support |
| |
| HB416 | TAXATION (STUMBO G) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 131.030 to make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2013 - Not accepted in Senate (violation of Senate Rules and Mason's Manual)
|
| | Recent Status: | 2/27/2013 - floor amendments (1) and (3) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (2-title) filed
2/27/2013 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 52-47 with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
|
| |
| SB2 | PENSION REFORM (THAYER D) AN ACT relating to retirement.
Create a new section of KRS 6.500 to 6.577 to require public employers to pay the actuarial costs for increases in final compensation in the Legislators’ Retirement Plan greater than 10% that are attributable to the salaries paid by public employers that affect benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan; authorize the Legislators' Retirement Plan to determine the cost to the employer and to establish administrative regulations to administer the provisions of this section; create a new section of KRS 16.505 to 16.652 to establish the hybrid cash balance plan for members of the State Police Retirement System, hazardous members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, and hazardous members of the County Employees Retirement System who begin participating in these systems on or after July 1, 2013; provide that the hybrid cash balance plan shall provide a benefit for these members based upon the members' accumulated account balance which shall include member contributions, an employer pay credit of 7.5% of salary... |
| | Current Status: | 4/4/2013 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
|
| | Recent Status: | 3/26/2013 - delivered to Governor
3/26/2013 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
|
| | Position: | Oppose |
| |
| SB9 | LONG-TERM CARE (DENTON J) AN ACT relating to medical review panels and long-term care facilities.
Establish KRS Chapter 216C; create within that chapter various new sections establishing a medical review panel system for use in civil litigation relating to long-term-care facilities, including sections setting out definitions, delineating covered health care facilities and providers, panel membership and formation, functions and deliberations of the panel, and utilization of panel results in civil actions. |
| | Current Status: | 3/1/2013 - posting withdrawn
|
| | Recent Status: | 2/28/2013 - (H) posted in committee House Health and Welfare
2/20/2013 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
|
| | Position: | Oppose |
| |
| SB39 | MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY (DENTON J) AN ACT relating to expansion of Medicaid eligibility and declaring and emergency.
Amend KRS 205.520 to prohibit the Commonwealth from participating in the expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless authorized by the General Assembly; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2013 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
|
| | Recent Status: | 2/25/2013 - received in House
2/22/2013 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 23-13
|
| | Position: | Oppose |
| |
| SB40 | HEALTH CARE EXCHANGES (DENTON J) AN ACT relating to health care exchanges and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS 304.17A to prohibit the Commonwealth from operating a state-based health benefit exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Actnless authorized by the General Assembly; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2013 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health and Welfare
|
| | Recent Status: | 2/25/2013 - received in House
2/22/2013 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 22-12-1
|
| | Position: | Oppose |
| |
| SB51 | NURSES (HORNBACK P) AN ACT relating to nurses.
Amend KRS 314.042 to eliminate the requirement for advanced practice registered nurses to have a "Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse's Prescriptive Authority for Nonscheduled Legend Drugs." |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2013 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations
|
| | Recent Status: | 1/11/2013 - Introduced
|
| | Position: | Support |
| |
| SB88 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS (HORNBACK P) AN ACT relating to telecommunications.
Create a new section of KRS 278.541 to 278.544 to establish an alternative regulation plan for telephone utilities that operate under the price regulation plan in KRS 278.543; eliminate Public Service Commission regulation of terms, conditions, rates, and availability of service, except basic local exchange service; require electing utilities to continue to offer basic local exchange service to existing customers in some exchanges; provide that an electing utility may be relieved of that obligation if there is alternative service available; exempt an electing utility from KRS 278.020(5) and (6), relating to commission approval of change of ownership or control, KRS 278.230(1) and (2), relating to commission access to utility books and records, KRS 278.250, relating to the commission's right to investigate the condition of the utility, and KRS 278.510, relating to commission approval of consolidation with other utilities; amend KRS 278.54611 to remove commission jurisdiction over resolution of consumer complaints and end commission authority to develop standards for eligible telecommunications carriers; provide that the commission may ensure that carriers comply with FCC rules; amend KRS 278.5462 to end commission jurisdiction over consumer complaints concerning broadband service. |
| | Current Status: | 3/12/2013 - (H) Returned to Committee House Tourism Development and Energy
|
| | Recent Status: | 3/12/2013 - (H) SECOND READING
3/12/2013 - (H) Taken From Committee
|
| | Position: | Oppose |
| |
| SB100 | PROTECTION OF ADULTS (HARPER ANGEL D) AN ACT relating to the protection of adults.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to define terms; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a registry of individuals who have been substantitated to have abused, neglected, or exploited adults; set search parameters for the registry; require that an individual's name not be placed on the registry unless all administrative appeals and any judicial proceedings have been completed; require an appeal process; state time limits for a name to remain on the adult abuse registry; restrict public access to list; create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology and the cabinet to establish a secure database to house the registry; require certain employees to apply to be listed on the registry; state cabinet's duties in running registry; state circumstances under which an individual shall be included on registry; state limit of fee to be included on list; state registries to be searched for fee; limit the entities that may access list; allow an individual to determine if his or her name is on list; require cabinet to create a Web page to allow inquiries of names on the list; require a response by the cabinet within 5 days; amend KRS 205.5606 to require that consumer-directed option providers search prospective employee's names against the list; amend KRS 210.795 to require that Hart-Supported Living Program care providers be searched against the list; amend KRS 209.140 to require the names of individuals against whom an allegation of abuse, neglect, or exploitation has been substantiated to be maintained in a confidential adult abuse registry and only permit records to be released under certain circumstances; create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to exempt the adult abuse registry from the Open Records Act; exempt all records associated with an adult abuse registry from discovery in any civil or criminal case; require that any discoverable records or records deemed subject to the Open Records Act no longer be maintained. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2013 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
|
| | Recent Status: | 2/7/2013 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
2/5/2013 - Introduced
|
| |