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HCR62 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Infant Mortality Task Force.
Pamela D. Stevenson, Beverly Chester-Burton, George A. Brown
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Establish the Infant Mortality Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB237 - AN ACT relating to employment schedules.
Lindsey Burke, Chad Aull, George A. Brown
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 requiring employers to give employees a good-faith schedule of hours to be worked, to have a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours, to post weekly schedules at least seven days in advance, and to provide certain rest periods for employees from being scheduled; allow employees to identify time limitations for scheduling work hours; require compensation for employer changes to the schedule; set forth unlawful practices; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations.
STATUS
Introduced
HB330 - AN ACT relating to youth mental health protection and declaring an emergency.
Lisa Willner, Chad Aull, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 8 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define "sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts," "mental health professional," and "public funds"; prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a person under 18 years of age, a person who is 18 years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020, or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health and the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities to develop, produce, and disseminate educational materials regarding sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts; permit the cabinet to contract for the educational materials; cite as the Youth Mental Health Protection Act; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HB339 - AN ACT relating to coverage of mental health and substance use disorders.
Rachel Roberts, Tina Bojanowski, Chad Aull
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 304.17A-660 to 304.17A-665 to define terms; require certain health plans to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorder; establish requirements relating to mental health and substance use disorder benefits and utilization review; amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require the commissioner of insurance to enforce the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 304.17A-665 to require the commissioner of insurance to provide and publish a report on mental health parity; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-660 to 304.17A-665 to establish requirements for certain health plans with respect to prescriptions drugs for the treatment of substance use disorder; require mental health and substance use disorder benefits to be classified as emergency benefits when provided by mental health and substance use disorder emergency practitioners; require certain health plans to provide coverage for an annual comprehensive mental health wellness examination provided by a mental health professional in accordance with nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines; establish requirements for the mental health wellness examination coverage; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish penalties; amend KRS 304.17A-265 to conform; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with certain sections; make technical amendments; repeal KRS 304.17A-669; direct that provisions apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Department of Insurance to seek a waiver of cost defrayal requirements, if applicable; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
STATUS
Introduced
HB185 - AN ACT relating to paramedic education and making an appropriation therefor.
Ashley Tackett Laferty, George A. Brown, Mark Hart
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish a coal-county paramedic scholarship to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA); define terms; establish a fund in the State Treasury to be administered by KHEAA for providing coal county paramedic scholarships; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB157 - AN ACT relating to interrogation of children.
Keturah Herron, Tina Bojanowski, Jason Michael Nemes
Last updated 9 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to define terms; prohibit a child from being interrogated using deceptive methods; create a new rule of evidence to limit the admissibility of statements made in the interrogation of a child in violation of statute.
STATUS
Introduced
HB170 - AN ACT relating to civil rights.
Rachel Roberts, Alan Gentry, George A. Brown
Last updated 6 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 344.020 to include amendments made to the American with Disabilities Act of 1990; make technical corrections.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB160 - AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the possession of cannabis.
Nima Kulkarni, George A. Brown, Rachel Roberts
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to guarantee the right of an individual 21 years of age or older to possess, use, buy, or sell one ounce or less of cannabis and to cultivate, harvest, and store up to five cannabis plants for personal use; and for the production, processing, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-derived products to be controlled by the General Assembly; specify the question to be printed on the ballot; direct the Secretary of State to publish the proposed amendment in a newspaper of general circulation; direct the Secretary of State to certify the proposed amendment to the county clerk of each county.
STATUS
Introduced
HB152 - AN ACT relating to elections.
Chad Aull, George A. Brown, Adrielle Camuel
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 118.025 to remove straight-ticket voting as a ballot option in an election; amend KRS 63.200, 67C.103, 117.125, 118A.090, and 118A.100 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
HB158 - AN ACT relating to dyslexia.
Tina Bojanowski, Lisa Willner, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 9 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 158.307 to require rather than allow local boards of education to develop policy on dyslexia; require rather than allow the policy to include listed items; amend KRS 164.304 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia by the 2025-2026 school year, rather than the instruction being contingent on funding availability.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Kentucky district HD-044
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Beverly Chester Burton was born in Louisiana. She received her BBA from Southern University A&M College in 1972, and her JD from Southern University Law Center in 1975. Ms. Burton was in private practice as an attorney from 1975 to 2015. She served as an Assistant District Attorney for East Baton Rouge Parish from 1987 to 1992. From 1992 to 1996, she was a Judge in Baton Rouge City Court.read less
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Kentucky House from Kentucky
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