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HB350 - AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates.
Keturah Herron, George A. Brown, Lisa Willner
Last updated 10 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 196.173 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
STATUS
Introduced
HB71 - AN ACT relating to actions for forcible entry and detainer.
Nima Kulkarni, George A. Brown, Tina Bojanowski
Last updated 11 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to provide automatic expungement of records in actions for forcible entry and detainer; amend KRS 383.250 to provide for sealing of records.
STATUS
Introduced
HB100 - AN ACT relating to birth certificates.
Susan Tyler Witten, Sarah Stalker, Jared A. Bauman
Last updated 7 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 213.141 to establish that a homeless individual as defined in KRS 198A.700, or a homeless youth, as defined in 42 U.S.C. sec. 11434a(2), who is under the age of 25 does not have to pay a fee to get a copy of his or her birth certificate.
STATUS
Passed
HB551 - AN ACT relating to cold cases.
Keturah Herron, John C. Blanton, Lisa Willner
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to allow law enforcement agencies to contract with retired peace officers to assist with homicide cold cases.
STATUS
Passed
HB828 - AN ACT relating to teachers.
Killian Timoney, George A. Brown, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 161.030 to specify that an individual who completes a preparation program and passes the required assessments shall receive a five year professional certificate; specify that an out-of-state teacher who passes the required assessments shall receive a five year professional certificate; remove the provisions for a teacher internship requirement; specify that teacher certification shall be awarded upon successful completion of an educator preparation program or alternative certification pathway and passing of the required assessment and shall not be dependent on employment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 creating a new teacher induction and mentor program; require the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) to develop standards and guidance for the program; require the EPSB to develop evaluations for new teachers; require the EPSB to submit and annual report to the Legislative Research Commission; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 161 to make conforming changes; repeal KRS 161.1222, relating to the pilot teacher internship program.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB695 - AN ACT establishing the Adaptive Kindergarten Readiness pilot project.
Kevin Jackson, Scott Lewis, Chad Aull
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to make legislative findings and declarations, to establish definitions, to establish the Adaptive Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Project, to establish the duration and terms of the pilot project, to require that the Kentucky Department of Education implement the pilot project through selection of a service provider, to establish the qualifications and duties of the service provider, to require that the department submit a report by December 1, 2025, to the Legislative Research Commission that evaluates the pilot project, to provide the required components of the report, to authorize the department to implement the section to the extent that federal funds are available, and to authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to select an entity that has already entered into a contract to provide substantially similar services to be selected as the provider for the pilot project.
STATUS
Passed
HB799 - AN ACT relating to home and hospital instruction.
Nicolas Wilson, George A. Brown, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 158.033 to allow a student admitted to an inpatient facility to receive home and hospital services effective on the day of admittance.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB605 - AN ACT relating to professional development.
Timothy Truett, Kimberly Banta, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to allow the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into an agreement with a building and construction trade organization to develop a training program for school counselors on building and construction trades; provide professional development credit to school counselors and teachers, if resources allow, who participate in the program; require the department to include the training program on the electronic consumer bulletin board.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB10 - AN ACT relating to maternal and child health.
Kimberly Poore Moser, Nancy J. Tate, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 8 months ago
35 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky maternal psychiatry access program, also known as the Kentucky Lifeline for Moms; establish duties and responsibilities of the program; direct that the program shall be operated by the Department for Public Health, Division of Maternal and Child Health; amend KRS 211.122 to establish that the collaborative panel related to maternal and infant health shall be renamed the Kentucky maternal and infant health collaborative; establish formal membership of the collaborative; require that the collaborative annually review the operations of the new Kentucky maternal psychiatry access program; amend KRS 211.690, related to the Health Access Nurturing Development Services program to require the HANDS program provide information related to lactation consultation, breastfeeding, and safe sleep for babies; establish that the program participants shall participate in the home visitation program through in-person face-to-face methods or through tele-service delivery methods; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for the coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special enrollment rights; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require health benefit plans that provide coverage for dependents to provide coverage for maternity care; amend KRS 304.17A-220 and 194A.099 to conform with the special enrollment requirement; amend 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 the special enrollment and maternity coverage requirements; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid coverage of maternity services; amend KRS 205.592 to allow Medicaid income limit for certain women and children to be increased under certain circumstances; amend KRS 205.6485 to require Kentucky Children’s Health Insurance Program to provide maternity coverage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for lactation consultation and breastfeeding equipment; 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; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study doula certification programs nationally; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB126 - AN ACT relating to menstrual products.
Beverly Chester-Burton, George A. Brown, Pamela D. Stevenson
Last updated 11 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to define "homeless shelter"; require homeless shelters to provide personal products to residents at no cost; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide any available state or federal funds, including public assistance funds, to homeless shelters to purchase personal products for residents.
STATUS
Introduced
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