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HB274 - AN ACT relating to the practice of pharmacy.
Danny R. Bentley, Shane Baker, John C. Blanton
Last updated 9 months ago
27 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 315.010 and 315.205 to permit pharmacists to administer vaccines to children five years of age or older pursuant to prescriber-approved protocols with the consent of a parent or guardian.
STATUS
Passed
HB99 - AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority.
DJ Johnson
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends sections of KRS Chapters 16, 61, and 78 to make technical and housekeeping changes relating to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority’s (KPPA’s) administration of the systems governed by the Kentucky Retirement Systems and the County Employees Retirement System boards of trustees, including: amends KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 to make changes and additions to definitions; repeals, reenacts, and amends KRS 16.652, 61.546, and 61.692 in response to a Kentucky Supreme Court decision and makes technical changes; amends KRS 61.505 to rename the position of internal auditor to chief auditor and to conform with prior legislation; amends KRS 61.525 and 78.540 to remove outdated language and to comply with federal law regarding membership in the retirement plans; amends KRS 61.552 to require Tier 3 members to remit employee contributions before receiving military service credit; amends KRS 61.569 to provide process for repayment of employee contributions after a member’s employment is reinstated by order of a court or tribunal; amends KRS 61.615 to permit KPPA to employ vocational experts to review and evaluate employment information in disability review cases and to remove review of physical exertion requirement when disability is due solely to a mental illness; amends KRS 61.625 regarding procedures for members who receive a refund in error or who have taken a refund and subsequently have their reemployment reinstated; amends KRS 61.637 and 78.5540 to conform to the process for repayment of employee contributions after a member’s employment is reinstated by order of a court or tribunal; amends KRS 61.645 and 78.782 to permit voting by telephone in trustee elections and to extend the deadline for posting board minutes from 72 hours to three business days; amends KRS 61.665 to change the process for the review of disability applications to permit one medical examiner to review initial applications and approve a member for disability with no additional reviews required, but if disability is denied, implement up to two more examiners to achieve majority consensus for approval or disapproval of disability; amends KRS 61.705 and 78.5538 to provide that the death benefit of $5,000 is payable to a beneficiary of the member, not the member, and is not subject to garnishment, unless the beneficiary is the member’s estate or there is an overpayment of benefits or outstanding balance owed to the system; and amends KRS 61.685, 61.702, 78.530, 78.5528, 78.5536, 78.640, and 78.852 to make conforming and technical changes.
STATUS
Passed
HB212 - AN ACT relating to the mental health of first responders.
Billy Wesley, Kimberly Banta, Jared A. Bauman
Last updated 10 months ago
44 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 95A.292 to allow rescue squad members to participate in the Alan "Chip" Terry Professional Development and Wellness Program; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 39F to direct the Division of Emergency Management and the Kentucky Fire Commission to enter into an agreement to ensure that rescue squad members have access to the program.
STATUS
Engrossed
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
HCR23 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to enact legislation allowing states to permanently adopt daylight saving time.
DJ Johnson, Robert B. Duvall
Last updated 12 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Urge the United States Congress to enact legislation allowing states to permanently adopt daylight saving time.
STATUS
Introduced
HB44 - AN ACT relating to elections.
John F. Hodgson, Emily Callaway, Josh Calloway
Last updated 9 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 30A.145 to require that the Administrative Office of the Courts prepare, on the first Tuesday of each month, a list of all persons who were excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 116 to require the Secretary of State, in cooperation with the State Board of Elections, to issue a comprehensive status report regarding voter registration records cleanup and maintenance on or before July 1 of each year, to establish information to be included in the report, to require that the report be issued to the Legislative Research Commission and made available to the public on the Secretary of State’s and board’s official websites, to require that persons be contacted about their voter registrations only by mail, and to provide that anomalies and discrepancies may be reported via a publicly available web link; amends KRS 116.113 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services provide a lifetime copy of the Kentucky death records to the board on or before July 1 each year, and to require that the board remove from voter registration records the name of a person who has been excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen; amends KRS 116.0452 to conform; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to prohibit a ranked-choice voting method.
STATUS
Passed
HB155 - AN ACT relating to disposition of property and declaring an emergency.
Stephanie A. Dietz, Jason Michael Nemes, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 11 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 403.190 to state that criminal misconduct against the other spouse may be considered in the disposition of marital property; provide that a spouse who is convicted of committing a felony against the other spouse shall not be entitled to claim retirement or life insurance as marital property; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB129 - AN ACT relating to taxation of veterans' wages.
Shawn McPherson, Robert B. Duvall, Chris Fugate
Last updated 12 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 141.010 to define "veteran"; amend KRS 141.019 to exclude from income tax wages earned from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2028, in Kentucky by a resident veteran.
STATUS
Introduced
HB98 - AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
DJ Johnson
Last updated 12 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 506.040 to provide that any person who is 18 years of age or older who engages in a criminal conspiracy with a minor shall be subject to the same penalty provided for the offense which is the object of the conspiratorial agreement; amend KRS 527.100 to enhance the penalty of possession of handgun by a minor to a Class D felony for the first offense and a Class C felony for each subsequent offense.
STATUS
Introduced
HB208 - AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 183 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to education funding.
Josh Calloway, Shane Baker, Jared A. Bauman
Last updated 12 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Propose to amend Section 183 of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for a portion of the educational costs of students outside of the public school system with parents of limited financial means; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
STATUS
Introduced
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-013
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