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HB700 - AN ACT relating to the protection of mothers and their children.
Jason Michael Nemes, Nancy J. Tate, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 7 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of Subtitle17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for 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; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to define terms and provide for the payment of coverage premiums to eligible individuals; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid coverage for maternity services; amend KRS 205.592 to allow the 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; amend KRS 164.2847 to provide for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees for a child conceived and born as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 164.2849 to declare the interests of the Commonwealth in protecting the unborn and supporting a child conceived and born as a result of sexual assault within established parameters; amend KRS 199.011 to define a child conceived and delivered as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 199.473 to waive certain fees related to adoption proceedings; amend KRS 199.502 to include a conviction for specified criminal acts for an adoption without consent of the biological living parents; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish entitlement to nonrecurring adoption expenses under specified circumstances; amend KRS 199.894 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.8996 to establish the Child Care Assistance Program and establish eligibility requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to direct the Cabinet to provide informational material on benefits available to a victim of sexual assault and a child conceived as a result of the sexual assault; amend KRS 216B.400 to establish requirements for receipt of specified benefits related to sexual assault that results in pregnancy; create a new section of KRS Chapter 49 to establish benefits available to a child born as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 49.310 to conform; amend KRS 625.090 to add a conviction or guilty plea to any degree of rape, sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct as a basis to terminate parental rights; 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; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Act; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB565 - AN ACT relating to waste management districts.
Emily Callaway, Kevin D. Bratcher, John F. Hodgson
Last updated 6 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 109.115 to allow a director on a waste management district board to serve until his or her successor is appointed, not to exceed 60 days after the expiration of his or her term; require that the board director's position be vacated after the 60 day period; provide that the requirements of the Act apply to current directors on waste management district boards; RETROACTIVE.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB580 - AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.
Jennifer Henson Decker, Kevin D. Bratcher, John F. Hodgson
Last updated 5 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 116.112 to allow the Secretary of State to enter into agreements on behalf of the State Board of Elections to further voter list maintenance practices, and to require that a voter confirm that his or her residence has changed; amends KRS 117.035 to provide that appointed members of a county board of elections shall serve four-year terms that expire June 30 of the year following a presidential election, to provide that a member of the county board of elections appointed by the State Board of Elections may be removed for just cause, and to increase the amount of compensation for members of the county board of elections to not less than $50 for each day the board meets; amends KRS 117.065 to require that the county board of elections establish the voting place for each precinct not later than January 15 of each year, and to allow the county board of elections to designate certain buildings as voting places on election day and early voting days; amends KRS 117.066 to require that petitions to consolidate precincts be submitted at least 120 days before a primary election and to provide that beginning on January 1, 2025, the approved petitions shall apply for the entire year; amends KRS 117.076 to remove language requiring a sworn statement to vote by excused in-person absentee voting for voters in the last trimester of pregnancy, to allow any person prevented from voting in person at the polls on election day and from casting a no-excuse in-person absentee ballot because of absence from his or her county of residence to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot, and to require that tallies or counts of in-person absentee ballots, or any partial results, be transmitted or publicized only to the county board of elections until a certain time; amends KRS 117.085 to require that jail staff allow incarcerated voters to receive assistance from the county clerk to request an absentee ballot, to require that mail-in absentee ballots be mailed to a student’s residence or current address at the educational institution where the student is enrolled, to require that mail-in absentee ballots for persons incarcerated in jail who have been charged with but not convicted of a crime be sent to the correctional facility where the person is in custody, to allow voters who are receiving inpatient or residential medical treatment to receive a mail-in absentee ballot at the facility where they are receiving treatment, and to allow certain voters who have left an address to request a second ballot and require the county clerk to cancel the first absentee ballot; amends KRS 117.086 to make technical corrections; amends KRS 117.0861 to allow a caregiver or employee of a caregiving facility, or an employee of a jail, to handle mail-in absentee ballots if ordinarily engaged in mail delivery, as long as the ballot remains private to the voter; amends KRS 117.265 to prohibit any candidate who is disqualified in a primary from running for the same office in the regular election; amends KRS 117.275 to require that the copy of the precinct-by-precinct summary of tabulation showing the results from each precinct include votes cast during all absentee voting; amends KRS 117.295 to allow the county clerk to dispose of video surveillance of voting equipment after 60 days, or upon compliance with the Kentucky Open Records Act or the completion of an investigation or pending litigation; amends KRS 117.389 to remove the 30-day restriction for county clerks to have automatic tabulating equipment tested; amends KRS 117.900 to allow county boards of election to implement annual prize contests for students and teachers and to prescribe guidelines for these contests; amends KRS 117A.070 to inform voters who have applied for a military-overseas ballot of their ability to use a federal write-in absentee ballot; amends KRS 118.125 to remove the requirement that a candidate’s precinct be listed on his or her notification and declaration oath; amends KRS 118.215 to move the candidate certification date to the third Monday after the filing deadline for the primary; amends KRS 118.225 to require that the ballot position for all statewide office candidates or slates of candidates be determined by lot for each congressional district; amends KRS 118.345 to prohibit any candidate who is disqualified in a primary from running for the same office in the regular election; amends KRS 118.415 to remove references to participation by the Attorney General in the formation of a ballot question for a proposed constitutional amendment; amends KRS 118.445 to allow the Secretary of State to publicly designate the location where presidential electors shall convene on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December after their election; amends KRS 118.740 to require that copies of certain proclamations or writs of election be forwarded by mail to the sheriff of a county at least 63 days before an election and that the sheriff shall give notice at least 56 days before the day of an election; amends KRS 118.770 to require that certain certificates of nomination be filed at least 56 days before an election; amends KRS 118A.060 to require that names of judicial candidates be printed on the ballot in accordance with the requirements in KRS 118.129; amends KRS 118A.090 to conform; amends KRS 118A.100 to remove language to provide that this chapter applies to a vacancy in office; amends KRS 119.005 to define “election administration information system”; amends KRS 119.115 to make it a Class D felony to tamper or attempt to tamper with, disarrange, deface, impair, injure, or destroy an e-poll book or election administration information system; amends KRS 160.190 to require that candidates for school board vacancies file nominating petitions not later than the second Tuesday in August preceding the regular election, and file declarations of intent in accordance with KRS 117.265; and requires the State Board of Elections to reappoint appointed members of the county boards of elections whose terms expire on June 30, 2024, for a term of one year to expire on June, 20, 2025; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HB304 - AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.
Shane Baker, James A. Tipton, Josh Calloway
Last updated 8 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 158.191 to ensure parental rights and involvement by requiring notification within two business days of specific events; require a district to adopt procedures that both encourage students to speak with parents and require facilitation of the discussion with parents; forbid a district or school from adopting policies that keep any student information confidential from parents or refuse information requested by a parent with specific exceptions; forbid a district from requiring school personnel or students to use nonconforming pronouns for any individual instead of just students, establish the type of mental health services that the section does not prohibit a district from seeking for students; amend KRS 158.1415 to prohibit a child in any grade level from receiving instruction on a specific topic a parent has provided written notice to the school asserting an objection due to religious or moral beliefs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish a cause of action for violations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit a disciplinary action or adverse employment action for an employee informing a parent of specific information about a student or declining to use a pronoun or title inconsistent with the individual's biological sex; amend KRS 158.193 to establish that a school employee may participate in voluntary, student-initiated, student-led prayer when invited to do so; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HB442 - AN ACT relating to an exemption of sales and use tax for certain nonprofits.
James A. Tipton, Jennifer Henson Decker, Chris Fugate
Last updated 8 months ago
34 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 139.495 to exempt all sales made by resident nonprofit educational, charitable, or religious institutions.
STATUS
Introduced
HB174 - AN ACT relating to patient medical records.
Rebecca Raymer, Danny R. Bentley, Chris Fugate
Last updated 6 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 311.6225 to make changes to the medical order for scope of treatment form; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 422 to establish standards and procedures for access to copies of patient medical records for a patient who is under the age of eighteen.
STATUS
Passed
HB252 - AN ACT relating to informed consent for medical examinations.
Sarah Stalker, Kimberly Poore Moser, Chad Aull
Last updated 9 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to prohibit a health care provider from performing a pelvic, rectal, or prostate examination without the informed consent of the patient or the person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient; provide for certain exceptions including a court order; require violators to be subject to discipline by the appropriate professional licensing board or accrediting agency.
STATUS
Introduced
HB569 - AN ACT relating to criminal history.
Kevin D. Bratcher, Daniel B. Elliott, Jared A. Bauman
Last updated 7 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish an automatic expungement process for specific eligible misdemeanor and felony convictions; allow the Commonwealth's and county attorney to object and halt the automatic expungement of certain offenses; amend KRS 431.074 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to establish a searchable portal to allow a person to determine if his or her conviction has been expunged; amend KRS 27A.300 to provide that the centralized criminal history record information system administered pursuant to KRS 27A.310 to 27A.440 is the official record of criminal proceedings; create new section of KRS Chapter 411 to create a cause of action against criminal history providers who do not comply with an expungement order; provide that the Act may be cited as the Clean State Act.
STATUS
Introduced
HB652 - AN ACT relating to federal law.
Josh Calloway, Candy D. Massaroni, Emily Callaway
Last updated 7 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education from complying with a provision of any administrative regulation or guidance issued by the United States Department of Education concerning Title IX that equates gender identity to biological sex, require school districts, public schools, and public charter schools to also comply, specify that the withholding of any federal funds shall not negate the requirements of this section; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to apply the same restrictions to the Council on Postsecondary Education and any public postsecondary educational institution.
STATUS
Introduced
HB673 - AN ACT relating to the displaying of flags on personal property.
Jared A. Bauman, Kevin D. Bratcher, Emily Callaway
Last updated 7 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS 381.785 to 381.801 to define "Betsy Ross Flag"; prohibit a planned community association from preventing a home owner from placing a flag pole displaying any version of the American flag, historic versions of the American Flag including the Betsy Ross Flag, or the Kentucky state flag on private property; amend KRS 381.990 to establish a penalty.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Kentucky district HD-036
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
John F. Hodgson is a former Democratic member of the Maine State Senate, representing District 11. Hodgson earned his B.S. in Economics from Bates College in Lewiston in 1968. He served in the United States Army as a First Lieutenant from 1968 to 1970 during the Vietnam era. Hodgson was Chair of the Aroostook County Democratic Committee from 1974 to 2004. He then won election to the Maine State Senate in 2004. He served in that position until 2010, when he did not run for re-election.read less
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