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SB14 - AN ACT relating to beauty services.
Reginald Thomas, John Schickel, Rick Girdler
Last updated 8 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 317A.020 to specify emergency order and hearing procedures and to allow the Board of Cosmetology to pursue injunctive remedy and refer violations of the chapter to prosecutorial agencies; and amends KRS 317A.030 to add a licensed nail technician to the board, to replace one citizen-at-large board position with a licensed esthetician, and to allow cosmetologists and nail technicians to use callus graters for callus removal.
STATUS
Passed
SR202 - A RESOLUTION recognizing April 11 to 17, 2024, as Black Maternal Health Week in Kentucky.
Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Recognize April 11 to17, 2024, as Black Maternal Health Week in Kentucky.
STATUS
Passed
SB319 - AN ACT relating to victims of crime.
Denise Harper Angel, Whitney H. Westerfield, Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 7 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 49.280 to expand definitions relating to crime victims compensation; amends KRS 49.300 to specify duties of the Crime Victims Compensation Board; amends KRS 49.310 to allow family members and caregivers of a victim to file claims; amends KRS 49.330 to increase access for victims to file claims; amends KRS 49.340 to limit the time for an investigation; amends KRS 49.350 to allow a claim in default to be revived; amends KRS 49.360 to increase the allowable amount of emergency awards; amends KRS 49.370 to raise award limits and expand the types of claims eligible for payment; amends KRS 49.390 to remove the requirement of financial hardship for the victim; amends KRS 49.400 to limit the penalty to the intentional filing of false information; amends KRS 216B.400 to increase the medical services eligible for reimbursement, amends KRS 216B.990 to require an online portal for reporting violations of KRS 216B.400 to aid in penalty enforcement; and amends KRS 49.380 to conform and to make technical corrections.
STATUS
Passed
SB167 - AN ACT relating to public school students' communication skills.
Lindsey Tichenor, Mike Wilson, George Maxwell Wise
Last updated 7 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 156.160 to require that cursive writing be included as a course of study in all elementary schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; and amends KRS 158.6453 to distinguish basic handwriting or penmanship from the definition of “writing."
STATUS
Passed
SB142 - AN ACT relating to paid parental leave.
Amanda Mays Bledsoe, Shelley Frommeyer, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 8 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth a paid leave of absence of up to four weeks for the birth, surrogacy, or adoption of a child, or up to two weeks for the placement of a child in foster care or kinship care; establish requirements; amend KRS 18A.025 and 18A.110 to conform.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB185 - AN ACT relating to prevailing wage.
Casey Chambers Armstrong, David Yates, Karen Berg
Last updated 9 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Establish new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to create a prevailing wage law for all public works projects; amend KRS 12.020, 99.480, 227.487, 151B.015, 337.010, and 337.990 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
SB127 - AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Brandon Jackson Storm, Danny Carroll, Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Last updated 7 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establishes the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establishes the membership of the committee; establishes 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; requires that the portion of the fund expended toward the council’s administrative costs shall not exceed 0.5 percent of all gross moneys in the fund or $75,000 annually, whichever is less; directs the council to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out this Act; requires those administrative regulations to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission for comment prior to filing; requires advisory committee members to abstain from voting on a matter involving a conflict of interest; requires that the council shall reserve at least 65 percent of all net moneys in the fund for partnership proposals between aviation and aerospace programs and aviation and aerospace industry partners to provide aviation training scholarships to Kentucky residents enrolled in aviation and aerospace programs; directs the council to prioritize accepting partnerships to proposals targeted to reduce the workforce demand of a specific eligible aviation or aerospace credential the council determines to be among the highest in demand in the Commonwealth; directs that a partnership shall require a written partnership contract and establishes the minimum contract requirements; directs that disbursements of moneys from the fund to support aviation training scholarships be made directly to an aviation program pursuant to the terms of the partnership contract; requires that an aviation program that enters a partnership contract solicit, accept, and review aviation training scholarship applications submitted by students enrolled in the aviation program; directs that an aviation training scholarship issued by an aviation program pursuant to a partnership contract be made directly to a recipient pursuant to a written scholarship contract between the recipient and the aviation program, and sets minimum contract requirements; directs 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; directs that the aviation training scholarship contract 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 who fails to complete the terms of a scholarship contract; directs that the council reserve up to 35 percent 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; requires that an aviation equipment partnership require a written partnership contract between a public aviation program, aviation industry partner, and the council, and establishes minimum contract requirements; directs the council to collaborate with the advisory committee to select proposals for partnership contracts; directs that the council may prioritize designated contracts; provides 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 used by students enrolled in a public aviation training program; requires the council to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission, and establishes minimum report requirements; sunsets the bill on June 30, 2030; and provides that this Act may be cited as the Aerospace Education Reinvestment Opportunity (AERO) Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
SB291 - AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices against a person.
Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of "protective hairstyle" and "race" that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 344.020 to provide that nothing in the chapter shall be construed to prohibit reasonable workplace policies; amend KRS 158.148 to provide that school disciplinary codes shall prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, but shall not be interpreted to restrict the adoption of reasonable school safety policies; make technical corrections; provide that the Act may be cited as the C.R.O.W.N. Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SB151 - AN ACT relating to relative and fictive kin caregivers.
Julie Adams, Matthew D. Deneen, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 7 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 620.140 to allow a child to submit to the District Court the names of possible relative or fictive kin caregivers with whom the child could be placed if the court removes the child from his or her home; and amends KRS 620.142 to establish when a relative or fictive kin caregiver can apply to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to be certified as a child-specific foster home.
STATUS
Passed
SR134 - A RESOLUTION commending Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., for their impressive history of community activism and their legacy of brotherhood, and recognizing February 15, 2024, as Omega Psi Phi Day in Kentucky.
Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Recognize February 15, 2024, as Omega Psi Phi Day in Kentucky.
STATUS
Passed
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