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SB214 - AN ACT relating to tax incentives for support provided to victims of domestic violence.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
David Yates
Last updated 11 months ago

1 Co-Sponsor

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

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SB367 - AN ACT relating to health care to provide for an all-payer claims database and making an appropriation therefor.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Donald Douglas
Last updated 11 months ago

1 Co-Sponsor

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Kentucky all-payer claims database; establish purposes, definitions, and a restricted fund for the database; require the executive director of the Office of Data Analytics to develop, implement, operate, and maintain the database and promulgate administrative regulations to carry out those duties; establish an advisory council to make recommendations to the executive director; establish requirements for database administration and operations; require state-regulated health payers to report to the database; amend KRS 194A.030, 194A.101, and 304.2-100 to conform; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to enforce reporting requirements; establish time for making initial appointments and provide for staggered appointments to the advisory council; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to obtain a federal waiver within 90 days after the effective date of Act if necessary for implementation; APPROPRIATION.

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SB74 - AN ACT relating to public health.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Shelley Frommeyer, Denise Harper Angel, Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 9 months ago

5 Co-Sponsors

Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with special enrollment and maternity coverage requirements; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with which the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for lactation consultation and breastfeeding equipment, to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver if potential cost defrayment or loss of federal funds is identified, and to require the cabinet to study doula certification programs nationally; amends new sections of KRS Chapter 205 and KRS 304.17A-145 to define “in-home program” and “telehealth” and to establish health insurance coverage for an in-home program and telehealth services; amends KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid coverage of maternity services; amends KRS 205.592 to allow that the Medicaid income limit for certain women and children be increased under certain circumstances; amends KRS 205.6485 to require that the Kentucky Children’s Health Insurance Program provide maternity coverage; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky Maternal Psychiatry Access Program (also known as the Kentucky Lifeline for Moms), to establish duties and responsibilities of the program, and to direct that the program be operated by the Department for Public Health, Division of Maternal and Child Health; amends KRS 211.122 to rename the collaborative panel related to maternal and infant health as the Kentucky Maternal and Infant Health Collaborative, to establish formal membership of the collaborative, and to require that the collaborative annually review the operations of the new Kentucky Maternal Psychiatry Access Program; amends KRS 211.575 to change the date of the required annual report of the statewide system for stroke response and treatment to September 1 of each year; amends KRS 211.684 to delete the definitions of “local child and maternal fatality response team” and “state child and maternal fatality review team,” to permit the Department for Public Health to establish a separate state child fatality review team, to provide that the team may include representatives of law enforcement agencies with investigation responsibilities for child fatalities and the Commonwealth’s and county attorney offices, to permit rather than require the development of local child fatality response teams, to delete inclusion of “maternal” in local teams, to require that state review teams cooperate with the External Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Panel, to require that the department establish a state maternal fatality review team, to provide that the state maternal fatality review team may include representatives of public health, social services, law enforcement, coroners, health care providers, and other agencies or professions deemed appropriate, to establish the duties of the state maternal fatality review team, to permit separate reports for the state child fatality review team and the state maternal fatality review team, and to add protections for proceedings, records, opinions, and deliberations of the state child fatality review team and the maternal fatality review team; amends KRS 211.686 to delete the inclusion of “maternal” in local teams, to require that the cabinet use health data collected pursuant to KRS 216.2920 to 216.2929 for annual delivery reports, and to permit the use of other sources if necessary; amends KRS 211.689 to change the definition of “home visitation” and “home visitation program,” and to make technical changes; amends KRS 211.690 to allow submission of an electronic agreement for the Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) program, to require that the program provide information related to lactation consultation, breastfeeding, and safe sleep for babies, and to establish that program participants shall participate in the home visitation program through in-person face-to-face methods or through teleservice delivery methods; amends KRS 213.046 to change the reference from “local registrar” to “state registrar” and to change a timeline for submission from 10 days to five days related to birth certificates; amends KRS 216.2929 to require that the cabinet report methods of delivery by hospital annually on its website beginning December 1, 2024; creates a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require that insurers and any exchange provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals, to specify requirements for the coverage, and to require that group plan insurers provide notice of special enrollment rights; amends KRS 304.17A-145 to require health benefit plans that provide coverage for dependents to provide coverage for maternity care; amends KRS 304.17A-220 and 194A.099 to conform with the special enrollment requirement; and amends KRS 387.540, related to individuals who compile an interdisciplinary report, to add an employee of the cabinet with relevant expertise; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.

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SB181 - AN ACT relating to sexual extortion.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Julie Adams, Lindsey Tichenor
Last updated 11 months ago

2 Co-Sponsors

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500 to include sexual extortion in the definition of "sex crime"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades 4 and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require local school boards to display posters in schools with the definition of sexual extortion and contact information for entities offering assistance to victims; amend KRS 164.2518 to require postsecondary institutions to display posters with the definition of sexual extortion and contact information for entities offering assistance to victims in residence halls, classroom buildings, and student centers.

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SB154 - AN ACT relating to medical imaging.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Whitney H. Westerfield
Last updated 11 months ago

1 Co-Sponsor

Amend KRS 311B.050 to require the Kentucky Board for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to create and enforce policies and procedures that ensure a patient's right to record any procedure performed by an individual who is licensed by the board; amend KRS 311B.110 to require practitioners licensed as an advanced imaging professional, a medical imaging technologist, a radiographer, a radiation therapist, a nuclear medicine technologist, or a limited X-ray machine operator to allow a patient to record any procedure performed upon the patient.

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SB95 - AN ACT relating to lactating students.

Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session

Introduced by
Casey Chambers Armstrong, Shelley Frommeyer, Karen Berg
Last updated about 1 year ago

3 Co-Sponsors

Create new sections of KRS Chapters 158 and 164 to require public schools, public charter schools, and public postsecondary institutions to provide reasonable accommodations to a lactating student; set forth the minimum requirements for those reasonable accommodations; require public schools, public charter schools, and public postsecondary institutions to provide lactating students a reasonable amount of time to express breast milk or breastfeed without incurring an academic penalty.

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SB214 - AN ACT relating to tax incentives for support provided to victims of domestic violence.

SR9 - A RESOLUTION honoring 2024 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, Kevin Dailey.

SB204 - AN ACT designating the state dog breed.

SB367 - AN ACT relating to health care to provide for an all-payer claims database and making an appropriation therefor.

SR5 - A RESOLUTION adopting the Rules of Procedure for the 2024 Regular Session of the Senate.

SB74 - AN ACT relating to public health.

SR110 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of James Henry Holland.

SB181 - AN ACT relating to sexual extortion.

SB301 - AN ACT relating to assisted reproduction.

SR115 - A RESOLUTION recognizing and denouncing the persecution of Christians around the world.

SR108 - A RESOLUTION designating February 2, 2024, as Wear Red Day.

SB154 - AN ACT relating to medical imaging.

SR198 - A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2024 as Irish American Heritage Month.

SR161 - A RESOLUTION honoring the Mayfield High School Cardinals football team, 2023 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Class 2A Champions.

SB95 - AN ACT relating to lactating students.