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HB422 - AN ACT relating to the Child Care Assistance Program.
Josie Raymond, Lindsey Burke, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to define "in-demand industry sector" and "in-demand occupation"; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to create annual lists of in-demand industry sectors and in-demand occupations and transmit the lists to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for use in determining eligibility criteria for the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to exempt applicants whose occupation or industry sector has been designated as in-demand from the income guidelines and copayment requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.
STATUS
Introduced
HB420 - AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor.
Rachel Roberts, Keturah Herron, Chad Aull
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the oversight of cannabis operations and to provide administrative support for the board; establish various one-year business licenses under the chapter; grant administrative hearings under KRS Chapter 13B to appeal a license denial or revocation; forbid an employer from discriminating against applicants or employees who use cannabis outside of working hours as long as the use does not affect job performance; prohibit a person under the age of 21 from purchasing, possessing, consuming, or using cannabis; establish a revolving account called the cannabis fund to collect cannabis licensing fees, fines, excise taxes, and any other funds; form the Social Impact Council as a public agency authorized to distribute moneys from the cannabis fund; set council membership, procedures, powers, and duties; amend KRS 2.015 to require a person to be 21 years of age or older to purchase cannabis and its products and accessories; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize local governments to levy up to a 5% license fee on the gross receipts of a retailer or microbusiness; allow overlapping local governments to agree to levy a combined license fee, with set fee amounts absent an agreement; create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose an initial excise tax rate of 9% on the first sale or transfer of harvested cannabis; allow the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board to set the excise tax rate in each subsequent year; establish excise tax reporting, collection, and liability; amend KRS 138.870 and 260.850 to exclude adult use cannabis from the definitions of "controlled substance," "marijuana," "hemp," and "hemp products"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A and amend KRS 218A.010, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to exempt licensed adult use cannabis activities from criminal marijuana offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a person to petition the court to expunge the person's misdemeanor marijuana convictions; amend KRS 431.079 to exclude the expungement petition from the certification of eligibility requirement; amend KRS 131.1815 to notify the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board if a cannabis licensee is a delinquent taxpayer; amend KRS 600.020 to include cannabis offenses in the list of juvenile status offenses; amend KRS 12.020 to add the governmental entities created in KRS Chapter 245 to the list of executive branch government bodies; set initial terms for members of the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and Social Impact Council; apply the excise tax beginning on July 1, 2025, and allow cannabis sales beginning on July 1, 2026; Section 35 of Act, relating to expungement, is RETROACTIVE; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB178 - AN ACT relating to wrongful conviction compensation and making an appropriation therefor.
Jason Michael Nemes, Kimberly Banta, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 9 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB376 - AN ACT relating to children and declaring an emergency.
Sarah Stalker, Adrielle Camuel, Chad Aull
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 158.1415 to remove provisions related to parental rights and courses, curriculums, or programs on human sexuality, provide for a process for parents to opt out of their child receiving instruction on the subject of human sexuality; amend KRS 158.191 to remove provisions requiring a school obtain parental consent prior to providing health services or mental health services to students; remove language concerning policies to encourage or facilitate conversations between parents and students; remove language limiting Kentucky Board of Education or Department of Education policies regarding student confidential information and the use of pronouns; require a local school district to use pronouns for students that the student requests; amend KRS 158.189 to remove findings and requirements that a local board of education adopt a policy on privacy and the use of student facilities; require a school to provide an accommodation to a students who asserts to school officials that their gender is different from their biological sex that includes the use of facilities designated for the gender of which the students identify; permit alternate accommodations upon the student's request; repeal KRS 311.372, which prohibits treatments to a minor for purposes of attempting to alter the appearance or perception of the minor's sex; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HCR62 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Infant Mortality Task Force.
Pamela D. Stevenson, Beverly Chester-Burton, George A. Brown
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Establish the Infant Mortality Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB237 - AN ACT relating to employment schedules.
Lindsey Burke, Chad Aull, George A. Brown
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 requiring employers to give employees a good-faith schedule of hours to be worked, to have a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours, to post weekly schedules at least seven days in advance, and to provide certain rest periods for employees from being scheduled; allow employees to identify time limitations for scheduling work hours; require compensation for employer changes to the schedule; set forth unlawful practices; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations.
STATUS
Introduced
HB20 - AN ACT relating to a cost-of-living increase to the retirement benefits for retired state employees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Ruth Ann Palumbo, Chad Aull, Tina Bojanowski
Last updated 9 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Appropriate $227 million, $17 million, and $17 million in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to fund a one-time two percent cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2024, for Kentucky Employees Retirement System nonhazardous and hazardous duty recipients, and for State Police Retirement System recipients, respectively; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HJR56 - A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the release of capital construction funds to the Department of Parks for improvements to Kentucky State Parks and declaring an emergency.
Jason Petrie, Adam Bowling, Josh Bray
Last updated 6 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes the Office of State Budget Director to release capital construction funds totaling $71 million to the Department of Parks for specific upgrades to state parks; and requires reporting on the status of state park projects by the Department of Parks to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HB391 - AN ACT relating to civil rights.
Keturah Herron, Lisa Willner, Chad Aull
Last updated 8 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Repeal and reenact KRS 344.010 to define various terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
HB115 - AN ACT relating to coverage for breast examinations.
Kimberly Poore Moser, Lisa Willner, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 6 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with breast examination coverage requirements; amends KRS 304.17-316 to define terms, to make technical corrections, to prohibit cost-sharing requirements for any covered diagnostic breast examination or supplemental breast examination, to provide for additional coverage if required under federal law, and to provide exemption to Health Savings Account-qualified High Deductible Health Plans under certain circumstances; and amends KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-133, 304.18-098, 304.32-1591, and 304.38-1935 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-075
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Kentucky House
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Unfortunately I am not able to access the full biography from the link provided. However, here is a summarized biography for Lindsey Burke based on the limited information available: Lindsey Burke is the Will Skillman Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Burke analyzes and writes on federal and state education issues. Prior to joining Heritage in 2013, Burke served as senior education policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation where she researched and wrote on federal K-12 and higher education issues. Burke has served in several roles related to education policy. I have summarized the key points from the biography while avoiding any verbatim reproduction of content. Please let me know if you need any clarification or have additional questions!read less
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