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HB154 - AN ACT relating to occupational health and safety.
Beverly Chester-Burton, George A. Brown, Adrielle Camuel
Last updated 12 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued; require the secretary for the Education and Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2024 by the percentage increase, if any, in the United State Average Consumer Price Index for all Urban Customers (CPI-U); direct the secretary to begin a three year phase-in for penalty adjustments beginning August 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB279 - AN ACT relating to full-day kindergarten.
Timothy Truett, Josie Raymond
Last updated 11 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 158.060 to remove language that allows for half-day kindergarten programs; amend KRS 157.320 and 157.360 to remove references to kindergarten full-time equivalent pupils in average daily attendance for program base funding purposes; amend KRS 158.030 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB297 - AN ACT relating to the establishment of minimum wages by local governments.
Chad Aull, Lindsey Burke, Josie Raymond
Last updated 11 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 65.016 and 337.275 to allow local governments to pass an ordinance setting employees' minimum wages at a rate higher than that found in KRS 337.275 for employers located within that government's jurisdiction.
STATUS
Introduced
HB108 - AN ACT relating to English language learners.
Kevin Jackson, Tina Bojanowski, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 12 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 158.6455 to create a tiered implementation of English language learners into the accountability system.
STATUS
Introduced
HB142 - AN ACT relating to products that contain nicotine.
Mark Hart, Steve Riley, Shane Baker
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Repeals, reenacts, and amends KRS 438.345 as a new section of KRS Chapter 158; requires local boards of education to adopt policies that penalize students for possessing alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products and lists penalties; requires school districts to report annually to the Kentucky Department of Education; requires the department to report to the Legislative Research Commission the number of nicotine-related behavior incidents in schools and the number requiring medical intervention; requires schools to provide evidence-based age-appropriate nicotine prevention and cessation information to all students at the beginning of the school year and access to materials throughout the school year; requires a school to provide nicotine cessation information upon the first incident, requires a school to provide disciplinary action in accordance with the district’s code of acceptable behavior upon the second incident, and allows for in-school or out-of-school suspension and the opportunity to complete a nicotine education program for the third and subsequent incidents; authorizes the department, regional educational cooperatives, and local boards of education to identify and apply for grant opportunities relating to nicotine; and requires by August 1, 2024, that the department, after consultation with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, post nicotine awareness information
STATUS
Passed
HB285 - AN ACT relating to individual-directed care at the end of life.
Josie Raymond, Adrielle Camuel, George A. Brown
Last updated 11 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill individual's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; require conditions for making the request; permit individual to rescind the request at any time; permit an attending health care provider to provide medication; establish requirements for the attending health care provider to inform individuals and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified individuals; require a report by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish provisions for contracts, insurance policies, and beneficiaries; state that a health care provider is not required to provide medication to a qualified individual; permit health care providers to prohibit persons or entities from participating in a qualified individual's request during or on the premises of employment; prohibit reporting a health care provider to a licensing board for participating in a qualified individual's request; state that actions do not constitute suicide or homicide; create a form for a qualified individual to make a request; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish provisions for insurance policies and beneficiaries of qualified individuals; amend KRS 507.020 and 507.030 to create an affirmative defense to a charge of murder and manslaughter in the first degree; provide a severability clause; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Our Care, Our Options Act.
STATUS
Introduced
HB74 - AN ACT relating to urban youth agriculture education.
Nima Kulkarni, George A. Brown, Chad Aull
Last updated 12 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office beginning August 1, 2024, and others by August 1, 2025; set each program term to one year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility.
STATUS
Introduced
HB240 - AN ACT relating to firearms.
Lindsey Burke, Keturah Herron, Chad Aull
Last updated 12 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to require an owner or custodian of a firearm to store the firearm in a safe storage depository or to render the firearm incapable of being fired using a gun-locking device; require an owner or other person lawfully in possession of a firearm or any person who sells ammunition to report the loss or theft of the firearm or ammunition to a law enforcement agency.
STATUS
Introduced
HB100 - AN ACT relating to birth certificates.
Susan Tyler Witten, Sarah Stalker, Jared A. Bauman
Last updated 9 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
HB232 - AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices against a person.
George A. Brown, Beverly Chester-Burton, Chad Aull
Last updated 12 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of "protective hairstyle" and "race" that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 158.148 to provide that school disciplinary codes shall prohibit discrimination on the basis of race; provide that the Act may be cited as the C.R.O.W.N. Act.
STATUS
Introduced
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