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HB272 - AN ACT relating to abandoned infants.
Nancy J. Tate, Kim King, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 7 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 405.075 to change the definition of “newborn safety device” related to the continuous staffing requirement; and amends KRS 156.095 to require that information on the Safe Haven Baby Boxes Crisis Line be posted in public schools.
STATUS
Passed
HB9 - AN ACT relating to postsecondary education and declaring an emergency.
Jennifer Henson Decker, Shane Baker, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 10 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the promotion of discriminatory topics, or bias incident investigations; from soliciting statements on an applicant's experience with or views on religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from requiring a course or training on diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory concepts as a program requirement; and from permitting credit from a course dedicated to the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory concepts to count towards the total number of credits required for a degree or certificate, or disseminating or profiting from any research, work product, or material that promotes or justifies discriminatory concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion; establish exclusions; require each governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to amend the institution's policy on nondiscrimination to include a clause on ideological neutrality that prohibits institutional discrimination on the basis of an individual's political or social ideology; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from requiring or encouraging any individual to endorse or condemn a specific political or social ideology or make any inquiry into the political or social ideology of students, faculty, and staff or from providing preferential or prejudicial consideration or treatment to an individual on the basis of that individual's actual or perceived political or social ideology; prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin or from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory topics; establish exclusions for legal compliance; require each governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to ensure compliance with specific sections of this Act no later than June 30, 2024; require the council and institutions to collaborate on a standardized procedure to consider denying transfer credit earned in courses dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and to develop data collection and reporting methods; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel the council or a public postsecondary education institution to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against council or a public postsecondary education institution for injunctive relief and damages arising from a violation of this Act; waive sovereign and governmental immunity; prohibit retaliation; require each public postsecondary education institution to submit and publish a certified annual report on governmentally mandated discrimination to the Legislative Research Commission by October 1 each year; provide that a public postsecondary education institution or the council cannot claim a federal, state, judicial, contractual, or accreditation mandate as a defense to a civil action filed under this Act unless the policy, practice, or procedure upon which the complaint is founded is listed and clearly and accurately described in the public institution's annual report on governmentally mandated discrimination; require the council to develop and publish an annual assessment to evaluate intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity at public postsecondary education institutions; require each institution to annually distribute the assessment to all students, faculty, and staff and publish the results; require each public postsecondary education institution to provide the Personnel Cabinet and State Treasurer the name, job title, duty station, salary or wages, and amount of any contracted severance or other form of post-employment compensation of each employee of the institution by the twentieth day of each month beginning January 1, 2025, and to post its itemized annual budget; amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from approving a degree, certificate, or diploma program that is not aligned with Section 2 of this Act; direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to consider alignment with Section 2 of this Act when considering the elimination of an existing program; direct each public postsecondary education institution and the Council on Postsecondary Education to discontinue designated programs and follow designated procedures when implementing this Act; provide specific instructions for public postsecondary education institutions and the Council on Postsecondary Education to follow in implementing this Act; direct public postsecondary education institutions and the council to submit a report on implementation of this Act; require public postsecondary education institutions to submit a series of reports on historical employment data for diversity, equity, and inclusion employees; EFFECTIVE, in part, February 1, 2025; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HB400 - AN ACT relating to veterinary medicine programs at comprehensive universities.
Richard Heath, Steven Jack Rudy, Shane Baker
Last updated 9 months ago
55 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB115 - AN ACT relating to coverage for breast examinations.
Kimberly Poore Moser, Lisa Willner, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 7 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
HB467 - AN ACT relating to perinatal palliative care.
Nancy J. Tate, Kimberly Poore Moser
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on perinatal palliative care; make technical corrections; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Part II Act; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans issued, renewed, effective, or delivered on or after January 1, 2025; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB253 - AN ACT relating to animal control officers.
Susan Tyler Witten, Kimberly Banta, Jennifer Henson Decker
Last updated 10 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child; provide that the Act may be cited as Kyan's Law.
STATUS
Introduced
HB777 - AN ACT relating to government contracts and declaring an emergency.
Shawn McPherson, Kimberly Banta, Chad Aull
Last updated 8 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 45A.030 to expand the definition of "contract"; amend KRS 45A.035 to require promulgation of administrative regulations to establish policies regarding timely payments under contracts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to establish timely payment penalty and procedures; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB53 - AN ACT relating to elections and making an appropriation therefor.
John F. Hodgson, Adam Bowling, Steve Bratcher
Last updated 7 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 117.001 to remove the definition of “risk-limiting audit” and to remove language from the defined term of “voting machine” or “machine” regarding a direct recording electronic voting machine; amends KRS 117.383 to require that the Secretary of State or his or her designee randomly select at least one ballot scanner and one race tabulated on that scanner for a hand-to-eye recount, to require that the hand-to-eye recount be performed by each county board of elections or its designee, and to establish the process for the hand-to-eye recount; appropriates to the State Board of Elections $1.2 million in fiscal year 2024-2025 and $1.2 million in fiscal year 2025-2026 to reimburse each county clerk up to $5,000 for actual expenses incurred for each election in which the clerk conducts a hand-to-eye recount; and amends 117.295 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Passed
HB44 - AN ACT relating to elections.
John F. Hodgson, Emily Callaway, Josh Calloway
Last updated 7 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 30A.145 to require that the Administrative Office of the Courts prepare, on the first Tuesday of each month, a list of all persons who were excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 116 to require the Secretary of State, in cooperation with the State Board of Elections, to issue a comprehensive status report regarding voter registration records cleanup and maintenance on or before July 1 of each year, to establish information to be included in the report, to require that the report be issued to the Legislative Research Commission and made available to the public on the Secretary of State’s and board’s official websites, to require that persons be contacted about their voter registrations only by mail, and to provide that anomalies and discrepancies may be reported via a publicly available web link; amends KRS 116.113 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services provide a lifetime copy of the Kentucky death records to the board on or before July 1 each year, and to require that the board remove from voter registration records the name of a person who has been excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen; amends KRS 116.0452 to conform; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to prohibit a ranked-choice voting method.
STATUS
Passed
HB255 - AN ACT relating to employment of minors.
Phillip Pratt, Danny R. Bentley, Emily Callaway
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 339.230 to prohibit the Department of Workplace Standards from promulgating regulations on child labor that are more restrictive than those promulgated by the United States Secretary of Labor.
STATUS
Engrossed
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-027
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