SR105 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Kara Renae Hanks.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jay Williams, Christian McDaniel
Last updated 8 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kara Renae Hanks.
STATUS
Failed
SJR166 - A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to include Richie Weems and the Continental Five on the Country Music Highway in Pike County.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Phillip Wheeler
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to include Richie Weems and the Continental Five on the Country Music Highway and place signs on US Highway 23 in Pike County denoting the designation.
STATUS
Introduced
SR202 - A RESOLUTION recognizing April 11 to 17, 2024, as Black Maternal Health Week in Kentucky.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 5 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Recognize April 11 to17, 2024, as Black Maternal Health Week in Kentucky.
STATUS
Passed
SB122 - AN ACT relating to forcible detainer actions.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular Session
Last updated 8 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to allow a landlord to file and practice a forcible detainer action.
STATUS
Introduced
SB74 - AN ACT relating to public health.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Shelley Frommeyer, Denise Harper Angel, Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 5 months ago5 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.
STATUS
Passed
SB319 - AN ACT relating to victims of crime.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Denise Harper Angel, Whitney H. Westerfield, Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 6 months ago4 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 49.280 to expand definitions relating to crime victims compensation; amends KRS 49.300 to specify duties of the Crime Victims Compensation Board; amends KRS 49.310 to allow family members and caregivers of a victim to file claims; amends KRS 49.330 to increase access for victims to file claims; amends KRS 49.340 to limit the time for an investigation; amends KRS 49.350 to allow a claim in default to be revived; amends KRS 49.360 to increase the allowable amount of emergency awards; amends KRS 49.370 to raise award limits and expand the types of claims eligible for payment; amends KRS 49.390 to remove the requirement of financial hardship for the victim; amends KRS 49.400 to limit the penalty to the intentional filing of false information; amends KRS 216B.400 to increase the medical services eligible for reimbursement, amends KRS 216B.990 to require an online portal for reporting violations of KRS 216B.400 to aid in penalty enforcement; and amends KRS 49.380 to conform and to make technical corrections.
STATUS
Passed
SB174 - AN ACT relating to underground facility damage prevention.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jared K. Carpenter, Rick Girdler, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 6 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 367.4903 to add definitions for “communications network,” “communications service provider,” and “communications terminal”; amends KRS 367.4909 to require that if damage is done to an underground gas or hazardous liquid facility and no attempt to locate the underground facility was made, the operator shall include in its report to the Public Service Commission the distance from the communications terminal that the damage occurred, and to require that the Public Service Commission submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1, 2025, detailing the number of damage reports from communications service providers that occurred in the area where they are allowed to use nonintrusive excavation; and amends KRS 367.4915 to exempt from the underground facility damage prevention requirements nonintrusive excavating of a depth not greater than 12 inches and within 12 inches of a communication service provider’s own communications network.
STATUS
Passed
SR121 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jeannie Hensley George.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Brandon Jackson Storm
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jeannie Hensley George.
STATUS
Passed
SR61 - A RESOLUTION designating January 11, 2024, as Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lindsey Tichenor, Shelley Frommeyer, Jay Williams
Last updated 9 months ago4 Co-Sponsors
Designate January 11, 2024, as Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
STATUS
Passed
SR124 - A RESOLUTION honoring George Smith on being named pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church in Leitchfield.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jimmy Higdon, Stephen L. Meredith
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Honor George Smith on being named pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church in Leitchfield.
STATUS
Passed
SB171 - AN ACT relating to school superintendents.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Lindsey Tichenor
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 160.350 to require a majority plus one vote instead of a four-fifths vote of board members to remove the superintendent, delete requirements for approval from the commissioner of education to remove a superintendent; provide an appeal process for the superintendent; amend KRS 160.380 to forbid a superintendent from employing persons convicted of certain sex crimes classified as a misdemeanor.
STATUS
Introduced
SB130 - AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices by state agencies.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Adrienne E. Southworth, Casey Chambers Armstrong, Karen Berg
Last updated 7 months ago27 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to make it unlawful for a state agency to discriminate against a person based on his or her access to electronic means to obtain benefits or gain access to public buildings; provide that the Act may be cited as the Digital Identification Act.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB139 - AN ACT relating to investment advisers.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Christian McDaniel, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 292 to establish a registration exemption for private fund advisers, to establish requirements for the exemption, to direct where filings shall be made, to require that investment advisers comply with registration requirements within 90 days of becoming ineligible for exemption, and to permit the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to waive certain provisions; and amends KRS 292.330 to conform and to make technical amendments.
STATUS
Passed
SB27 - AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Stephen L. Meredith, Karen Berg, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 6 months ago3 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms, prohibit discrimination against 340B covered entities by pharmaceutical manufacturers, and authorize the Attorney General to investigation violations.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB311 - AN ACT relating to alternative fuels.
Kentucky - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jason G. Howell
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 152.714 to include that the Office of Energy Policy is within the Energy and Environment Cabinet.
STATUS
Introduced