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HB40 - AN ACT relating to water and wastewater systems.
Bobby Wayne McCool
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creates a combined Kentucky Board of Certification of Water and Wastewater System Operators; provides for board duties and membership; requires that on or before December 31, 2024, the board, in conjunction with the Drinking Water Advisory Workgroup and the Clean Water Advisory Workgroup, make recommendations for the establishment of a voluntary certification program for supervisors of certified operators of water or sewage treatment plant systems; requires that the recommendations include suggestions for the establishment of a voluntary shared services certification program for supervisors or certified operators of combined water or sewage treatment plants or systems and suggestions for the establishment of a program or strategy for recruiting applicants to work in the operation of water treatment plants or distribution systems who are not currently participating in apprenticeships or certification programs administered by the cabinet; amends KRS 223.160, 223.170, 223.200, 223.210, and 224.73-110 to conform; provides for the staggering of the terms of initial appointments to the Kentucky Board of Certification of Water and Wastewater System Operators; and provides for the transfer of documents and the continuity of actions from the Kentucky Board of Certification of Wastewater System Operators and the Kentucky Board of Certification of Water Treatment and Distribution System Operators to the Kentucky Board of Certification of Water and Wastewater System Operators.
STATUS
Passed
HJR40 - A JOINT RESOLUTION applying for an Article V convention to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for federal government officials and members of Congress.
Bobby Wayne McCool, Shane Baker, Kevin D. Bratcher
Last updated 9 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Apply to Congress under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraint on the federal government, limit the powers and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and members of Congress; direct the Secretary of State to send copies of the joint resolution to certain federal and state officials; state that the application should be continuing until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states have made applications on the subject.
STATUS
Introduced
HB9 - AN ACT relating to postsecondary education and declaring an emergency.
Jennifer Henson Decker, Shane Baker, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 8 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the promotion of discriminatory topics, or bias incident investigations; from soliciting statements on an applicant's experience with or views on religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from requiring a course or training on diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory concepts as a program requirement; and from permitting credit from a course dedicated to the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory concepts to count towards the total number of credits required for a degree or certificate, or disseminating or profiting from any research, work product, or material that promotes or justifies discriminatory concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion; establish exclusions; require each governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to amend the institution's policy on nondiscrimination to include a clause on ideological neutrality that prohibits institutional discrimination on the basis of an individual's political or social ideology; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from requiring or encouraging any individual to endorse or condemn a specific political or social ideology or make any inquiry into the political or social ideology of students, faculty, and staff or from providing preferential or prejudicial consideration or treatment to an individual on the basis of that individual's actual or perceived political or social ideology; prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin or from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory topics; establish exclusions for legal compliance; require each governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to ensure compliance with specific sections of this Act no later than June 30, 2024; require the council and institutions to collaborate on a standardized procedure to consider denying transfer credit earned in courses dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and to develop data collection and reporting methods; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel the council or a public postsecondary education institution to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against council or a public postsecondary education institution for injunctive relief and damages arising from a violation of this Act; waive sovereign and governmental immunity; prohibit retaliation; require each public postsecondary education institution to submit and publish a certified annual report on governmentally mandated discrimination to the Legislative Research Commission by October 1 each year; provide that a public postsecondary education institution or the council cannot claim a federal, state, judicial, contractual, or accreditation mandate as a defense to a civil action filed under this Act unless the policy, practice, or procedure upon which the complaint is founded is listed and clearly and accurately described in the public institution's annual report on governmentally mandated discrimination; require the council to develop and publish an annual assessment to evaluate intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity at public postsecondary education institutions; require each institution to annually distribute the assessment to all students, faculty, and staff and publish the results; require each public postsecondary education institution to provide the Personnel Cabinet and State Treasurer the name, job title, duty station, salary or wages, and amount of any contracted severance or other form of post-employment compensation of each employee of the institution by the twentieth day of each month beginning January 1, 2025, and to post its itemized annual budget; amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from approving a degree, certificate, or diploma program that is not aligned with Section 2 of this Act; direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to consider alignment with Section 2 of this Act when considering the elimination of an existing program; direct each public postsecondary education institution and the Council on Postsecondary Education to discontinue designated programs and follow designated procedures when implementing this Act; provide specific instructions for public postsecondary education institutions and the Council on Postsecondary Education to follow in implementing this Act; direct public postsecondary education institutions and the council to submit a report on implementation of this Act; require public postsecondary education institutions to submit a series of reports on historical employment data for diversity, equity, and inclusion employees; EFFECTIVE, in part, February 1, 2025; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HB407 - AN ACT relating to comprehensive universities.
David Meade, Deanna L. Frazier Gordon, Shane Baker
Last updated 7 months ago
34 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Eastern Kentucky University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in osteopathic medicine.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB141 - AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs.
Mark Hart, William Lee Lawrence, John C. Blanton
Last updated 9 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continues until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding on all water systems it supplies.
STATUS
Introduced
HB694 - AN ACT relating to one-time payments to school district employees and making an appropriation therefor.
Chris Fugate, Scott Lewis, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 7 months ago
53 Co-Sponsors
Direct local school districts to provide a one-time payment of $2,000 to certified employees, excluding superintendents, in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium, and a one-time payment of $1,000 to classified employees in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium; appropriate $153 million from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium to the Department of Education to provide the payments; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB821 - AN ACT relating to the selection and oversight of Article V convention commissioners.
Jennifer Henson Decker, Matt Lockett, Bobby Wayne McCool
Last updated 7 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 6 providing for the selection and oversight of Article V commissioners if an Article V Convention is called and the Commonwealth is a participant; define terms; require the General Assembly to pass a resolution naming five commissioners to represent the Commonwealth in the convention; include in the resolution the commission, limitations, and allow the General Assembly to provide additional instructions; direct requirements for the commissioners; require the commissioners to execute an oath and the oath be filed with the Secretary of State; provide that a commissioner may be recalled or removed at any time for any reason by a joint resolution of the General Assembly, or if the General Assembly is not in session, recalled or suspended by the advisory committee; provide that a commissioner vacancy shall be filled by the advisory committee's selection of an interim commissioner until such time as a vote by the General Assembly shall select a permanent replacement; provide for commissioner allowances, compensation, and gift limitations; provide the duties and responsibilities of the delegation; provide quorum requirements and votes required for a decision of the delegation; establish an advisory committee; provide for membership and administration of the advisory committee; permit a commissioner to consult with the advisory committee the impact of prospective actions; require the advisory committee to respond to requests for advice by a commissioner; require the advisory committee to notify the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate if it has reason to believe that a commissioner has exceeded the scope of his or her authority; require the advisory committee to notify the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, if it recalls or suspends a commissioner.
STATUS
Introduced
HB765 - AN ACT relating to licensing and occupations.
Bobby Wayne McCool, Emily Callaway
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to remove references to moral turpitude and good moral character; amend various other sections to conform; make technical changes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB169 - AN ACT relating to emergency medical preparedness of schools.
Ruth Ann Palumbo, Kimberly Poore Moser, Chad Aull
Last updated 5 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 158.162 to require that local boards of education maintain a portable automated external defibrillator in a public, readily accessible, well-marked location in all school buildings, including elementary school buildings, and at school-sanctioned athletic practices and competitions, and to require that an annual report on compliance with portable automated external defibrillator requirements be submitted to the Kentucky Department of Education; and amends KRS 158.1622 to expand the School AED Fund to expand the medical devices the fund can be used to purchase to include medical devices to diagnose, prevent, or treat a medical condition that is harmful to student athletes.
STATUS
Passed
HB499 - AN ACT relating to career and technical education funding, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Bobby Wayne McCool, David W. Osborne, Steven Jack Rudy
Last updated 5 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Repeals and reenacts KRS 157.069 to define terms, to require the Office of Career and Technical Education (CTE) within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify CTE programs or pathways as high cost or general cost, to provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for CTE based 60 percent upon weighted full-time equivalent enrollment and 40 percent upon specified incentives, to provide that state-operated area technology center operating costs be funded by the general fund appropriation to KDE, to allows funds to be used for CTE programming for students in grades 5-8, to disburse 75 percent of administrative operating funds previously designated to state-operated facility administrative costs that were converted to locally operated facilities to the locally operated facility and 25 percent to the CTE innovation and support fund for innovation and support of CTE programs, to create the CTE support fund, to require the office to provide oversight of fund usage by recipients, to require promulgation of necessary administrative regulations by Kentucky Board of Education, to require that program qualification and funding distribution be posted on KDE’s website, to require that local boards of education provide a one-time award to qualifying employees of a converted CTE center based on raises provided for executive branch employees, to require that KDE calculate the amounts of one-time awards, to allow districts to request reimbursement for payment of one-time awards, and to appropriate funds in the amount of $170,000 to the Learning and Results Services budget unit to administer the awards; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-097
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Kentucky House
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