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HB159 - AN ACT relating to immunity from criminal liability for health care providers.
Jason Michael Nemes, Patrick Flannery, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 6 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define “health care provider” and “health services,” and to establish that health care providers providing health services are immune from criminal liability for harm arising from a health services-related act or omission other than gross negligence or wanton, willful, malicious, or intentional misconduct.
STATUS
Passed
HB264 - AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Judicial Branch of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, boards, commissions, subdivisions, and other state-supported activities.
Jason Petrie, Adam Bowling, Josh Bray
Last updated 6 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
The Judicial Branch Budget: Details Part I, Operating Budget; details Part II, Capital Projects Budget; details Part III, General Provisions; details Part IV, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION..
STATUS
Passed
HB387 - AN ACT relating to education.
Timothy Truett, Killian Timoney, Josh Bray
Last updated 5 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to allow the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into an agreement with any building and construction trade organization to develop a training program for school counselors on building and construction trades, to provide professional development credit to school counselors, and teachers if resources allow, who participate in the program, and to require the department to include the training program on the electronic consumer bulletin board; and amends KRS 161.102 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to issue substitute teacher certificates based on education attained, to provide a one-year certificate to an applicant with a high school equivalency diploma, to provide a five-year substitute teaching certificate to an applicant with a bachelor’s degree, to provide a 10-year substitute teaching certificate to an applicant who holds a Kentucky statement of eligibility, previously held a Kentucky teaching certificate, or holds or previously held a valid out-of-state teaching certificate that required completion of a four-year teacher preparation program, and to specify the type of employment each certificate allows.
STATUS
Passed
HB400 - AN ACT relating to veterinary medicine programs at comprehensive universities.
Richard Heath, Steven Jack Rudy, Shane Baker
Last updated 7 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
HB829 - AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and declaring an emergency.
Jason Michael Nemes, Patrick Flannery, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 5 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 12.020 and KRS 194A.030 to establish the Office of Medical Cannabis, the Division of Enforcement and Compliance, and the Division of Licensure and Access within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amends KRS 218A.202 to make a technical correction; amends KRS 218B.010 to revise definitions of terms related to the medicinal cannabis program; amends KRS 218B.020 to add a pharmacist appointed by the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy to be confirmed by the Senate to the membership of the Board of Physicians and Advisors and to require the board to assist the cabinet in developing a Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Pamphlet; amends KRS 218B.035 to prohibit the use or consumption of marijuana by vaping while on any form of public transportation or in any public place; amends KRS 218B.045 to require each local board of education, each board of directors of a public charter school, and the governing body of each certified nonpublic school to establish policies related to the use of medicinal cannabis by a pupil who is a registered qualified patient on school property by December 1, 2024, and to establish basic standards for school policies related to medicinal cannabis; amends KRS 218B.050 to establish that a medicinal cannabis practitioner shall believe a patient is likely to receive safe and effective therapeutic or palliative relief from the use of medicinal cannabis before providing the patient with a written certification for the use of medicinal cannabis; amends KRS 218B.055 to require that an application for a registry identification card be accompanied by a written certification for the use of medicinal cannabis issued not more than 60 days prior to the date of application; amends KRS 218B.060 to delete provisions related to a provisional registration receipt system; amends KRS 218B.065 to make a technical correction; amends KRS 218B.070 to require a medical cannabis practitioner to make certain notifications to the cabinet; amends KRS 218B.090 to require that the cabinet prioritize the review of cannabis business licensure applications submitted by an individual or entity who is an existing Kentucky hemp business in good standing with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and to establish that a cannabis business licensed by the cabinet must comply with local government zoning and cannabis business regulations; amends KRS 218B.100 to establish the investigation and inspection powers of the Office of Medical Cannabis; amends KRS 218B.110 to establish requirements for dispensaries to provide cardholders with a copy of the Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Pamphlet and to prohibit licensed dispensaries from opening to the public or dispensing medicinal cannabis to cardholders prior to January 1, 2025; amends KRS 218B.130 to establish when a local government may act to prohibit cannabis business operations, to make technical corrections, to require that a proposal for a petition to allow cannabis business operations inside the territory of a local government that has prohibited cannabis business operations be initiated by a person or group of persons who have been registered to vote in the affected territory for at least 12 months prior to submitting the proposal, to require that a petition be signed by at least 10 percent of registered voters in the affected territory, and to require a local government that acts to prohibit cannabis business operations in its territory to provide notification of the action to the cabinet; amends KRS 218B.140 to delete the requirement that the cabinet collaborate with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, the Kentucky Board of Nursing, and the Kentucky Center for Cannabis to establish a definition of a daily supply, 10-day supply, and 30-day supply of medicinal cannabis and the amount of raw plant material that medicinal cannabis products are equivalent to, and to require that the cabinet develop a Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Pamphlet and an adverse drugs effects reporting system; amends KRS 218B.150 to establish that property and casualty insurance carriers shall not be required to reimburse a person for costs associated with the use of medicinal cannabis; and amends 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 146 (2023 SB 47), sec. 42, to establish a new effective date of July 1, 2024, for KRS 139.480, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, 218B.015, 218B.030, 218B.090, 218B.095, 218B.100, 218B.105, 218B.110, 218B.115, 218B.120, 218B.125, and 218B.155; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HB694 - AN ACT relating to one-time payments to school district employees and making an appropriation therefor.
Chris Fugate, Scott Lewis, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 7 months ago
53 Co-Sponsors
Direct local school districts to provide a one-time payment of $2,000 to certified employees, excluding superintendents, in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium, and a one-time payment of $1,000 to classified employees in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium; appropriate $153 million from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium to the Department of Education to provide the payments; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB803 - AN ACT relating to temporary restraining orders and injunctions.
Patrick Flannery
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 454 to establish protection from harm for the public and the government when a statute enacted by the General Assembly is the subject of a temporary order or injunction not limited to the parties to the dispute; declare the policy and intent of the General Assembly to ensure protection.
STATUS
Introduced
HB805 - AN ACT relating to open juvenile proceedings.
Patrick Flannery
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 610.070 to establish persons who shall be admitted to a proceeding related to dependency, neglect, and abuse, and termination of parental rights; establish guidelines for attendance; amend KRS 610.105 and 610.340 to conform; repeal KRS 21A.190, 21A.192, and 610.072, relating to the pilot project to study open juvenile proceedings.
STATUS
Introduced
HB804 - AN ACT relating to venue and declaring an emergency.
Patrick Flannery
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends KRS 452.010, 452.030, 452.050, and 452.090 to establish application for a transfer for a change in venue in specified actions; and amends KRS 452.005 to conform; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
HB808 - AN ACT relating to guardian ad litem fees.
Patrick Flannery
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 625.041, 625.080, 625.0405, and 620.100 to increase the maximum fee that can be paid to guardians ad litem and court appointed counsel to $600.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-096
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Kentucky House
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ABOUT
Patrick Flannery was born and raised in New York. He is married with five children. Flannery attended Brown University where he obtained his undergraduate degree in 2000. After college, Flannery traveled extensively but eventually settled down to raise his family. He founded an online retail company focused on sustainable products. Flannery and his family live in New York.read less
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