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SB103 - AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.
Shelley Frommeyer, John Schickel, Julie Adams
Last updated 12 months ago
12 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
Introduced
SB97 - AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for diapers.
Casey Chambers Armstrong, Julie Adams, Karen Berg
Last updated 12 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "clothing" and "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax.
STATUS
Introduced
SB119 - AN ACT relating to animal care.
Julie Adams
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; require peace officers and animal control officers to serve notice of seizure of an animal subjected to cruelty; create procedure for seizing agencies to petition a court to order payment of animal care costs by owner; establish penalties; amend KRS 258.215 to require owners to be responsible for cost of care of an impounded animal.
STATUS
Introduced
SR1 - A RESOLUTION honoring the extraordinary service of Senator Damon Thayer to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
Julie Adams, Casey Chambers Armstrong, Karen Berg
Last updated 9 months ago
36 Co-Sponsors
Honor the extraordinary service of Senator Damon Thayer to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
STATUS
Passed
SB145 - AN ACT relating to healthcare.
Julie Adams, Gerald A. Neal, Brandon Jackson Storm
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
.Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to allow health facilities or health care providers enrolled in the Kentucky Medicaid program to submit a current or prospective employee to a check of the child abuse and neglect or adult abuse registries maintained by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and to require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; and amends KRS 209.032 to direct the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a process of notification by which the cabinet shall notify a vulnerable adult services provider if a prospective or current employee has appealed a substantiated finding of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
STATUS
Passed
SB151 - AN ACT relating to relative and fictive kin caregivers.
Julie Adams, Matthew D. Deneen, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 9 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
SR94 - A RESOLUTION honoring the 20th Black History Celebration and recognizing that Black history is American history.
Gerald A. Neal, Julie Adams, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 11 months ago
38 Co-Sponsors
Honor the 20th Black History Celebration and recognize that Black history is American history.
STATUS
Introduced
SB178 - AN ACT relating to firearms.
Karen Berg, Julie Adams
Last updated 11 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 16.220 to permit the destruction of confiscated firearms; require destruction if the firearm was used in the commission of a violent offense; amend KRS 500.090 and 500.093 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
SB181 - AN ACT relating to sexual extortion.
Julie Adams, Lindsey Tichenor
Last updated 11 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500 to include sexual extortion in the definition of "sex crime"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades 4 and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require local school boards to display posters in schools with the definition of sexual extortion and contact information for entities offering assistance to victims; amend KRS 164.2518 to require postsecondary institutions to display posters with the definition of sexual extortion and contact information for entities offering assistance to victims in residence halls, classroom buildings, and student centers.
STATUS
Introduced
SR178 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Bob Edwards.
Julie Adams
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of radio broadcaster Bob Edwards.
STATUS
Passed
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Senator from Kentucky district SD-036
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Kentucky Senate
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