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HB31 - AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for at-home anticoagulation management.
Deanna L. Frazier Gordon, Chad Aull, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization contracted for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage and reimbursement for at-home prothrombin time or international normalized ratio (INR) testing, including but not limited to coverage and reimbursement for education and training, INR monitors or testing devices, and all necessary testing supplies; authorizes the department to promulgate administrative regulations; requires the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the department to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; and requires the cabinet to comply with KRS 205.525.
STATUS
Passed
HCR60 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) Task Force.
Timothy Truett, Scott Lewis, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 11 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) Task Force to study the various components of the SEEK formula, evaluate whether changes are necessary to the base, tiers, or add-ons to maintain the original goal of SEEK; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit any findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024
STATUS
Introduced
HB130 - AN ACT relating to soil and water conservation and declaring an emergency.
Shawn McPherson, Richard Heath, Daniel A. Fister
Last updated 9 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 147A.029 to allow soil and water conservation districts and watershed conservancy districts to use funds appropriated for the Local Match Participation Program for flood-related projects with federal government agencies, including the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service; amends KRS 262.240 to provide immunity to a supervisor serving on a soil and water conservation board; creates a new section of KRS 262.700 to 262.795 to establish the procedure for the discontinuance of watershed conservancy district boards, to allow any soil and water conservation district or fiscal court where the watershed conservancy district lies to initiate the discontinuance if the watershed conservancy board fails to meet over the course of one year or longer or fails to adopt and fund a budget, to provide for public notice requirements, to allow for a public hearing to be requested, to require a vote on the discontinuance to be held by the body proposing the discontinuance within 30 days of the public hearing or, if no public hearing is requested, within 30 days of the expiration of the time period in which the public hearing could be requested, to require that if the proposing body votes in favor of discontinuance, then all soil and water conservation districts and fiscal courts where any portion of the watershed conservancy district lies shall hold discontinuance votes within 30 days, to provide that if all voting entities vote in favor of discontinuance or fail to vote, then the watershed conservancy district board shall be discontinued, to provide that if the watershed conservancy district board is discontinued, then the watershed conservancy district shall remain intact and the landowners within the district shall continue to pay the watershed conservancy district tax to the soil and water conservation district or districts in which the watershed conservancy district lies, to require the soil and water conservation district board or boards where the discontinued watershed conservancy district lies to assume all of the rights and responsibilities of the watershed conservancy district board, and to allow that a discontinued watershed conservancy district board be reestablished; amends KRS 262.740 to provide immunity to a director serving on a watershed conservancy district board; amends KRS 262.742 to require that if a vacancy occurs on a watershed conservation district board, the board shall give public notice of the vacancy in the watershed conservancy district; amends KRS 262.760 to provide that if a watershed conservancy district fails to prepare and fund a budget within the first quarter of the year, the soil and water conservation district board or boards where the watershed conservancy district lies may prepare and fund a budget for the watershed conservancy district; repeals KRS 262.791 relating to district discontinuance; and amends KRS 262.793 to allow soil and water conservation board or boards that inherit funds and taxing authority from a discontinued watershed conservancy district board to make periodic adjustments to the revenues they collect and to spend the funds collected on the same works of improvement that are within the watershed conservancy district, even if they are outside of the soil and water conservation district collecting the revenue; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HB52 - AN ACT relating to coverage for cancer detection.
Deanna L. Frazier Gordon, Danny R. Bentley, Chad Aull
Last updated 9 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define “cancer screening, test, or procedure,” and to require coverage for certain cancer screenings, tests, and procedures; and amends KRS 18A.225, 164.2871, and 205.522 to require 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 cancer coverage requirement, to provide that various sections apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, to establish the construction of certain provisions for purposes of federal law and to require state officials to comply, to require that the Department of Insurance determine whether the coverage requirement for cancer detection would be in addition to essential health benefits required under federal law, and to require that the Department of Insurance and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services seek federal waivers, if necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB105 - AN ACT relating to families and children and making an appropriation therefor.
Deanna L. Frazier Gordon
Last updated 12 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 164.2847 to establish a monthly subsidy for students participating in the Kentucky foster or adopted child public postsecondary tuition waiver program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define "at -risk male student"; establish the participation and operational requirements of the Mentorship for At-Risk Male Students Grant Program; amend KRS 211.690 to establish the promotion of father engagement activities as a part of the Kentucky HANDS Program; create new sections of KRS Chapter 405 to establish the participation and operational requirements of the Responsible Fatherhood Imitative; establish the participation and operational requirements of a community grant program to address the needs of fathers in the Commonwealth; create a new section of KRS Chapter 600 to require the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to identify children that are dually involved with both systems of care and provide a report to the General Assembly each year that includes actions taken by both agencies to better serve such children; amend KRS 625.025 to establish new requirements of the youth independent living program operated by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB69 - AN ACT relating to bonds.
Deanna L. Frazier Gordon, Kimberly Poore Moser, D. Wade Williams
Last updated 12 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 431.520 to prohibit individuals who are subject to a protective order under KRS Chapter 403 or 456 from being released on the surety of, or deposit paid by, a person protected by the protective order.
STATUS
Introduced
HR37 - A RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to amend Title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the government pension offset and the windfall elimination provision.
William Lee Lawrence, Timothy Truett, Ryan Dotson
Last updated 12 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Urge the United States Congress to amend Title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the government pension offset and the windfall elimination provision.
STATUS
Introduced
HB32 - AN ACT relating to certificates of death.
Deanna L. Frazier Gordon
Last updated 12 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 311.601 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for physicians to meet the 7.5 hours of approved continuing education in KRS 218A.205; amend KRS 311.844 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for a physician assistant; amend KRS 311A.135 to requrie an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a death certificate for paramedics; amend KRS 310.175 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for chiropractors; amend KRS 313.035 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for dentists; amend KRS 314.073 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for nurses; amend KRS 213.076 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make a one-half hour continuing education course on the completion of a certificate of death available.
STATUS
Introduced
HB345 - AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Ken Fleming, Danny R. Bentley, Chad Aull
Last updated 11 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establish the membership of the committee; establish the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; require that the portion of the fund expended towards the council's administrative costs shall not exceed 4% of all gross moneys in the fund or $1,500,000 annually, whichever is less; direct the council to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out this Act; require those administrative regulations to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission for comment prior to filing; require advisory committee members to abstain from voting on a matter involving a conflict of interest; require that the council shall reserve at least 65% of all net moneys in the fund for partnership proposals between aviation programs and aviation industry partners to provide aviation training scholarships to Kentucky residents enrolled in aviation programs; direct the council to prioritize accepting partnerships to proposals targeted to reduce the workforce demand of a specific eligible aviation credential that is determined by the council to be among the highest in demand in the Commonwealth; direct that a partnership shall require a written partnership contract and establish the minimum contract requirements; direct that disbursements of moneys from the fund to support aviation training scholarships shall be made directly to an aviation program pursuant to the terms of the partnership contract; require that an aviation program that enters a partnership contract shall solicit, accept, and review aviation training scholarship applications submitted by students enrolled in the aviation program; direct that an aviation training scholarship issued by an aviation program pursuant to a partnership contract shall be made directly to a recipient pursuant to a written scholarship contract between the recipient and the aviation program; set minimum contract requirements; direct that a grantor may place restrictions upon a contribution to the fund requiring specific criteria for an aviation training scholarship or scholarships funded by the grantor's dedicated funds; direct that the aviation training scholarship contract shall grant the aviation program, the Commonwealth, or the aviation industry partner the authority to initiate recoupment proceedings for the recovery of the total amount of all aviation training scholarships awarded to an individual that fails to complete the terms of a scholarship contract; direct the council to reserve up to 35% of all net moneys in the fund for aviation equipment partnership contracts between public aviation training programs and aviation industry partners to provide aviation and aviation equipment grants; requrie that an aviation equipment partnership shall require a written partnership contract between a public aviation program, aviation industry partner, and the council; establish minimum contract requirements; direct the council to collaborate with the advisory committee to select proposals for partnership contracts; direct that the council may prioritize designated contracts; provide that the council shall require the public aviation program to submit proof that the entire amount of the aviation equipment grant is invested in the maintenance, acquisition, or lease of aviation or aviation training equipment utilized by students enrolled in a public aviation training program; require the council to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission and establish minimum report requirements; sunset the bill on June 30, 2030; provide that this Act may be cited as the Aerospace Education Reinvestment Opportunity (A.E.R.O.) Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HR45 - A RESOLUTION expressing support for the State of Israel and the Israeli people and condemning the violent events on October 7, 2023.
Daniel Grossberg, Chad Aull, Shane Baker
Last updated 11 months ago
81 Co-Sponsors
Affirm Kentucky's support for the State of Israel and the Israeli people and condemn the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.
STATUS
Passed
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