SB360 - AN ACT relating to advanced educational opportunities.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Steve West
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 160.348 to direct secondary school-based decision making councils to adopt designated policies relating to advanced courses; provide that students who meet certain criteria shall be granted automatic enrollment in an AP course; direct the Kentucky Department of Education to establish a pilot monetary incentive program for AP students and AP teachers; amend KRS 158.6453 to require development of an accelerated learning plan for students with identified strengths; direct local board of education to adopt policies for advanced courses; establish a reporting requirement for KDE related to the number of accelerated learning courses offered, the demographics of eligible students, the number of students placed in those courses, and the number of students not placed in those courses.
STATUS
Introduced
SR19 - A RESOLUTION honoring the life and accomplishments of former Kentucky Governor Brereton Chandler Jones.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Honor the life and accomplisments of former Kentucky Governor Brereton Chandler Jones.
STATUS
Failed
SR78 - A RESOLUTION commemorating and honoring the life and accomplishments of Dr. J. W. Patterson.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Reginald Thomas, Robin L. Webb
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Commemorate and honor the life and accomplishments of Dr. J. W. Patterson.
STATUS
Passed
SB169 - AN ACT relating to local boards of education.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lindsey Tichenor, Shelley Frommeyer
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to establish a process to recall a member of a local board of education; amend KRS 160.190 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
SB345 - AN ACT relating to the protection of children using the internet.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Brandon Jackson Storm
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; require covered entities to complete Data protection impact assessments before releasing new products or services; require covered entities to make Data protection impact assessments available to the Attorney General upon request; require covered entities to configure default privacy settings for children at a high level of privacy; require covered entities to provide tools for parents and guardians to exercise privacy and report concerns; prohibit covered entities from using a child's personal information in a way that the covered entity knows is likely to result in high risk; prohibit covered entities from unnecessarily profiling children; prohibit covered entities from collecting, retaining, processing, or disclosing personal information of a child in a manner that has been identified as high risk through a Data protection impact assessment; prohibit covered entities from unnecessarily collecting, selling, processing, or retaining a child's precise geolocation data; provide penalties for violations.
STATUS
Introduced
SB111 - AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of stuttering.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Whitney H. Westerfield, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 18A.225, 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 304.17C-125 to require limited health service benefit plans, Medicaid, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the speech therapy coverage requirement and to make technical amendments; creates a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health insurance coverage for speech therapy as a treatment for stuttering; provides that various sections apply to health insurance policies, certificates, plans, or contracts issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; establishes the construction of Section 1 for purposes of federal law and requires state officials to comply; and requires the Department of Insurance and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval, if necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
SB157 - AN ACT relating to the sale of dogs and cats.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jason G. Howell
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to define terms; prohibit retail pet shops from selling dogs or cats unless the animal was obtained from an animal shelter or qualified breeder; prohibit retail pet shops from selling a dog or cat that is less than eight weeks old, or selling a dog or cat to anyone under the age of eighteen; prohibit local governments from passing ordinances that conflict with this Act; amend KRS 258.990 to establish a penalty for a violation.
STATUS
Introduced
SR137 - A RESOLUTION recognizing April 2024 as Autism Acceptance and Awareness Month.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Amanda Mays Bledsoe, Danny Carroll, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 5 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Recognize April 2024 as Autism Acceptance and Awareness Month.
STATUS
Passed
SB49 - AN ACT relating to boxing and wrestling.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
David Yates
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 229.011 to redefine "exhibition"; amend KRS 229.045 to require sanctioning bodies to provide notice to the Boxing and Wrestling Commission of all combat sports exhibitions not covered under this chapter.
STATUS
Introduced
SB292 - AN ACT relating to elections.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 117.085 to provide convenience of the voter as a basis for absentee voting; amend KRS 117.076 to permit any qualified voter the ability to vote in-person absentee during normal business hours on any of the 12 working days and two Saturdays before an election; amend KRS 117.066 to require that each county board of elections petition for and use a vote center on election day.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2 - AN ACT relating to student safety.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
George Maxwell Wise, Matthew D. Deneen, Donald Douglas
Last updated 6 months ago7 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 156.095 to require schools to provide suicide prevention awareness twice a year and an opportunity for any student who missed the suicide prevention awareness lesson to receive the lesson at a later time, and to make conforming changes; amends KRS 156.501 to remove existing cost-sharing provisions for the registered nurse required to be employed by the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE); creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms, to establish a framework for employment of Kentucky guardians in schools, to specify qualifications of a guardian, to specify that a local board of education is immune from civil or criminal liability in all claims arising out of any action of a guardian, and to specify that guardians shall have the immunities of police officers; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require KDE to gather and compile data, coordinate training, and monitor the numbers and types of mental health professionals in schools; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create the School Mapping Data Program administered by the Center for School Safety and to outline requirements of school mapping data; amends KRS 158.441 to specify required certifications in the definition of “school resource officer” (SRO); amends 158.4414 to allow school districts to hire a guardian until a certified SRO is available as required, to allow a district with an SRO to hire guardians to provide additional school safety and security measures, and to require that the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council update and maintain SRO training; amends KRS 158.4416 to define terms, to specify that at least 60 percent of a school counselor’s time be spent providing direct services, to make conforming changes, to require the trauma-informed team to compile their activities to be used in the creation of the comprehensive school improvement plan and to submit the information to KDE, and to require KDE to annually summarize and submit the information to the state board and the Legislative Research Commission; amends KRS 158.442 to require that the Center for School Safety implement a system to certify guardians to school districts, to authorize the center to employ an individual to provide oversight of the guardian program if funds are available, and to authorize the center to administer and oversee the school mapping program; amends KRS 158.443 to conform; amends KRS 158.4451 to require that the Office of Homeland Security maintain and update the anonymous reporting tool, to require that each school district make available an anonymous reporting tool, and to provide for an alternative anonymous reporting tool; amends KRS 158.162 to allow secondary locking mechanisms in schools, and to require that school councils or principals include school mapping data, if available, in their emergency plans; amends KRS 158.4412 to require that the local school district’s safety coordinator maintain a current copy of school mapping data; and amends KRS 61.637 and 78.5540 to conform.
STATUS
Passed
SB317 - AN ACT relating to commercial rights to the use of names, voices, and likenesses.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Whitney H. Westerfield, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define terms; establish property rights in every individual's name, voice, or likeness; establish how those property rights may be transferred or terminated; provide for liability, enforcement, and damages resulting from violation of those property rights.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB124 - AN ACT relating to minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Reginald Thomas
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure by January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
SB356 - AN ACT relating to riverports and making an appropriation therefor.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jason G. Howell
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 136.1804 to direct the state portion of property taxes on commercial watercraft to the riverport financial assistance trust fund established in KRS 174.210; amend KRS 174.210 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
SB170 - AN ACT relating to local boards of education.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lindsey Tichenor
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Amend 160.210 to establish new numbers for membership of a local board of education based on district enrollment; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the required number of members every 10 years; provide for the election of additional members and for the reduction of membership; require local boards of education to report new electoral divisions to the Kentucky Board of Education and the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 160.160 to establish a one year term for chair and vice chair of the local board of education; require superintendents to submit reports on closed personnel investigations to the local board of education for the purposes of policy oversight and evaluation of the superintendent's performance; amend KRS 160.180 to require open records and open meetings training for local board members and make conforming changes, permit the hiring of relatives of a local board member; amend KRS amend KRS 160.190, 160.200, 160.380, 116.200, and 160.042 to conform; require the Kentucky Board of Education to implement Section 1 of this Act by December 31, 2024; require superintendents to submit reports on previous personnel investigations closed during the superintendent's contract to the local board of education within 30 days of the effective date of this Act.
STATUS
Introduced