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HB199 - AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.
Jason Michael Nemes, Kevin D. Bratcher, Steve Bratcher
Last updated 6 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance requirements for centers; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; add requirement for medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, and 216.2970 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB202 - AN ACT relating to certificate of need.
Marianne Proctor, Steve Rawlings, Emily Callaway
Last updated 9 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 216B.015 to amend the definition of "capital expenditure minimum" and define "major medical equipment expenditure minimum"; amend KRS 216B.061 to modify conditions under which a person is prohibited from taking actions without a certificate of need.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5 - AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Jared A. Bauman, Shane Baker, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 5 months ago
50 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is stolen, defaced, loaded with restricted ammunition, or otherwise violates state law; amend KRS 610.070 to require a parent, legal guardian, or custodian to be present at court proceedings involving a child in the juvenile justice system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to establish penalty; amend KRS 507.020 to expand offense of murder; amend KRS 507.030 to expand offense of manslaughter in the first degree; amend KRS 507.040 to expand offense of manslaughter in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.1412 to provide increased penalties for certain trafficking offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 515 to create a new offense of carjacking; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to lower the threshold for criminal mischief in the first degree to $500; amend KRS 149.410, 506.160, and 525.220 to conform; amend KRS 520.050 to enhance promoting contraband to a Class B felony if the dangerous contraband is fentanyl, carfentanil, or a fentanyl derivative; amend KRS 16.220 to allow purchase of a confiscated firearm by a person who bids under the condition that they not take possession of the firearm, but instead leave it with the Department of Kentucky State Police for destruction; prohibit government agencies from purchasing the firearm; make technical corrections; create new sections of KRS Chapters 511, 198A, and 65 to establish the offense of criminal street camping and provide exceptions; amend KRS 503.080 to conform; amend KRS 202C.050 to reduce requirements to find a person subject to involuntary commitment pursuant to KRS Chapter 202C; amend KRS 186.417 to include felony offenders released from county jails and local correctional facilities among those who may be issued personal identification cards or operator's licenses under certain conditions; amend KRS 431.510 to define terms; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail in excess of $5,000; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail for any offense of domestic violence and abuse or dating violence and abuse, and for any offense under a civil court order or warrant under KRS 222.430 to 222.437; establish that any bond ordered forfeited following a new criminal offense shall be distributed to the victim of the new offense; require publication of records and annual reporting to the General Assembly; create new section of KRS Chapter 507 to create the offense of murder of a first responder and establish penalties; amend KRS 506.010 to conform; amend KRS 532.025 to include the murder of first responders as an aggravating circumstance for the death penalty; amend KRS 532.036 to allow restitution following a conviction for Murder of a first responder; amend KRS 439.320 to provide that members of the Parole Board shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor, that panels of the board shall consist of not less than three and not more than six members, and that all members of the panel must agree on a decision or the matter shall be referred to the full board; amend KRS 439.330 to require that parole be granted upon a two-thirds vote of the full board; amend KRS 433.236 to limit liability for shopkeepers; amend KRS 439.3401 to add a person who has been convicted of or entered a plea of guilty to a Class B felony violation of KRS 520.050 to the definition of "violent offender" and to include carjacking and attempted murder in the list of violent offenses; amend KRS 508.075 and 508.078, relating to terroristic threatening, to include any workplace or any gathering of 3 or more persons; amend KRS 524.040 to include harassing communications as conduct constituting intimidation of a participant in the legal process; amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Parole Board to order participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition of parole; amend KRS 533.030 to allow a court to require participationin a specific violence reduction program as a condition of probation or conditional discharge; amend KRS 403.763 and 456.180 to enhance a second or subsequent violation of an order of protection within a five-year period to a Class D felony; amend KRS 500.080 to include family members, members of an unmarried couple, and persons in a dating relationship, in application of a particular definition of serious physical injury; amend KRS 514.020 to reduce the time required to establish prima facie evidence of theft by deception of rented or leased property that is not returned to the owner from 10 days to four days; amend KRS 196.031 to require the annual report to also include the percentage of offenders who commit new offenses within two years; amend KRS 520.095 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the first degree to a Class C felony; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 520.100 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the second degree to a Class D felony; amend KRS 532.110 to provide sentences for two or more felony sex crimes shall run consecutively; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 158.155 to require school employees to report certain enumerated crimes to law enforcement; repeal KRS 512.040, which establishes the crime of criminal mischief in the third degree and KRS 158.154, which deals with discipline in schools; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB222 - AN ACT relating to tax incentives for first-time home buyers.
Killian Timoney, Kimberly Banta, Kevin D. Bratcher
Last updated 9 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a tax deduction for contributions made to an eligible savings account by a first-time home buyer and allow an exclusion from income for any interest earned from an eligible savings account of a first-time home buyer effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035; require the Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 141.019 and 131.190 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
HB277 - AN ACT relating to the public defender system and declaring an emergency.
Jason Michael Nemes
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends KRS 15A.020 to add new divisions to the organization of the Department of Public Advocacy (DPA); amends KRS 18A.115 to transfer the employees of the Louisville and Jefferson County Public Defender Corporation (Louisville Metro Public Defender) to the state personnel system; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to transfer employees of Louisville Metro Public Defender to DPA on July 1, 2024, to provide employment and retirement benefits to the transferred employees based on their employment date with the Louisville Metro Public Defender, to define “membership date” for Louisville Metro Public Defender employees transferring to the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS), to transfer leases and contracts in the name of the Louisville Metro Public Defender to DPA, and to waive liability of DPA under any legal theory or for any act, omission, or negligence by or on behalf of the Louisville Metro Public Defender; amends KRS 61.510 to change the definition of “membership date” in KERS as applied to Louisville Metro Public Defender employees transferring to DPA; and provides that the Act be RETROACTIVE to employees of the Louisville Metro Public Defender hired to leadership or supervisory roles within DPA between October 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
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 8 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
HB357 - AN ACT relating to firearms.
Derek Lewis, Michael Lee Meredith, Adam Bowling
Last updated 6 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit certain entities from requiring, incentivizing, or assigning a merchant category code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from other retailers, to prohibit keeping or causing to be kept any list, record, or registry of private firearm ownership, to require that the Attorney General enforce provisions, and provide that the Act may be cited as the Second Amendment Privacy Act.
STATUS
Passed
HB180 - AN ACT relating to public utilities.
Lisa Willner, Jason Michael Nemes, Kevin D. Bratcher
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to create winter and summer temperature standards for disconnection of service by retail electric and gas utilities; allow resumption of disconnection only after a 72-hour period during which the temperature standard is exceeded; establish a certificate of need for persons who are at risk if utility service is disconnected that can be provided by a physician, physician assistant, community-based service organization, or faith-based service organization; prohibit disconnection of service on holidays and weekends and before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m. on weekdays; allow for reconnection of service for partial payment with a payment plan; require waiver of termination fees, reconnection fees, and late fees for customers having obtained a certificate of need; require utility to make reasonable effort towards reestablishing service for a customer terminated after having obtained a certificate of need but no more than 24 hours after repayment is commenced; require separate, written notice 14 days prior to a disconnection to residential household; require that notice be distinguishable from the regular billing notices; establish font size and typeset for material to be printed on the notice; require a hardship reconnection order for persons at risk who have had service terminated by the utility after meeting specific repayment requirements; require the Public Service Commission to issue an order setting forth any applicable rules and procedures.
STATUS
Introduced
HB157 - AN ACT relating to interrogation of children.
Keturah Herron, Tina Bojanowski, Jason Michael Nemes
Last updated 9 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to define terms; prohibit a child from being interrogated using deceptive methods; create a new rule of evidence to limit the admissibility of statements made in the interrogation of a child in violation of statute.
STATUS
Introduced
HB447 - AN ACT relating to the transportation of students and declaring an emergency.
Emily Callaway, Jared A. Bauman, Keturah Herron
Last updated 6 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 156.153 to permit school districts to use district-owned, leased, or contracted passenger transportation vehicles to transport students to and from school and approved school activities under an alternative transportation plan approved by the Kentucky Department of Education, to provide that vehicles shall be operated by an employee or contractor of local school district who is licensed to operate a motor vehicle within the Commonwealth, and to provide that the department shall promulgate administrative regulations to establish minimum standards and specifications for an alternative transportation plan, including drug testing requirements that align with the requirements of 49 C.F.R. pt. 40; amends KRS 156.990 to provide that an individual who operates a school bus or non-school bus passenger vehicle to transport a student or students without a current valid license to operate that motor vehicle within the Commonwealth shall be guilty of a Class D felony; and amends KRS 160.380 to require that the driver of any non-school bus passenger vehicle authorized to transport students to and from school pursuant to the alternative transportation plan submit to designated background checks and drug testing and to require certain traffic offenses or arrests to be reported to the superintendent; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-033
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Jason Michael Nemes is a Republican member of the Kentucky State House representing District 33. Nemes earned his bachelor's degree from Xavier University in 2007. He went on to receive his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College Of Law in 2010. Nemes is an attorney. He previously worked as Legislative Director & General Counsel for the Kentucky Speaker of the House. Nemes is a member of the Louisville, Kentucky and American Bar Associations.read less
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