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HB737 - AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.
Rachel Roarx, Kimberly Banta, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 9 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 241.065 to limit the number of quota retail package licenses in each council district of a consolidated local government to 16 licenses; require each quota retail package premises within a consolidated local government to be at least 700 feet from any other quota retail package premises; exempt any quota retail package licenses issued by a home rule city within a county containing a consolidated local government; grandfather existing quota retail package licenses within the consolidated local government; prohibit the renewal of a grandfathered license if the license is revoked, allowed to lapse, changes ownership, or otherwise ceases to be in effect.
STATUS
Introduced
HB500 - AN ACT relating to wages and hours.
Phillip Pratt
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to provide for certain employment activities to be exempt from minimum wage and overtime wage requirements; specify activities and instances that do not require an employer to pay minimum wage or overtime wage; provide for employer requirements regarding lunch periods; amend KRS 337.010 to change the definitions of "employee" and "agriculture"; amend KRS 337.385 to specify instances of employer liability for employee causes of action regarding unpaid wages; specify statute of limitations for employee causes of action for unpaid wages; bar punitive damages; amend KRS 337.990 to remove penalties for repealed statutes; repeal KRS 337.050, 337.355, and 337.365; amend KRS 95A.250, 337.020, 337.420, 337.423, 337.425, 337.427, 337.430, and 337.433 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
HB621 - AN ACT relating to the State Fair Board.
Richard Heath, Daniel A. Fister, Jonathan Dixon
Last updated 7 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 247.140 to add the North American Championship Rodeo and the National Farm Machinery Show’s Championship Tractor Pull to the list of shows and expositions owned and operated by the State Fair Board.
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 9 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
HB529 - AN ACT relating to teachers.
Kimberly Banta, Tina Bojanowski, Scott Lewis
Last updated 9 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 160.160 to authorize local boards of education to establish score requirements on appropriate assessments for applicants to certified position vacancies and adopt necessary policies; amend KRS 161.030 to remove the authority of the Education Professional Standards Board to require successful completion of assessments prior to certification; amend KRS 156.101, 161.048, and 161.053 to conform; repeal KRS 161.1222, relating to a pilot teacher program.
STATUS
Introduced
HB553 - AN ACT relating to the Kentucky rural veterinary student loan repayment program and making an appropriation therefor.
Matthew R. Koch, Chad Aull, Steve Bratcher
Last updated 7 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Establishes the Kentucky Rural Veterinary Medicine Student Loan Repayment Program for an eligible livestock practitioner who engages in veterinary medicine in an underserved rural area or veterinary shortage area for five consecutive years; allows a livestock practitioner in an underserved rural area to practice mixed animal medicine with a minimum of 30 percent work dedicated to livestock; defines “underserved rural area” as a city having a population of less than 25,000 and lying more than 20 miles from a city having a population of more than 50,000; authorizes the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to promulgate administrative regulations; sets forth program eligibility requirements; authorizes the authority to award loan repayment benefits to applicants selected by the Veterinary Student Loan Repayment Selection Committee; establishes compliance requirements; creates the rural veterinary care trust fund; establishes purposes of the fund; and requires a report to the Legislative Research Commission, Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue, and Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Passed
HB443 - AN ACT relating to land use.
Steven Jack Rudy, Danny R. Bentley, Chad Aull
Last updated 7 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to require that local laws dealing with subdivision plats and development plans be set out by objective standards and applied ministerially, and to set out conditions for application of discretion; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB387 - AN ACT relating to education.
Timothy Truett, Killian Timoney, Josh Bray
Last updated 7 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
HB700 - AN ACT relating to the protection of mothers and their children.
Jason Michael Nemes, Nancy J. Tate, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 9 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of Subtitle17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special enrollment rights; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require health benefit plans that provide coverage for dependents to provide coverage for maternity care; amend KRS 304.17A-220 and 194A.099 to conform with the special enrollment requirement; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with the special enrollment and maternity coverage requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to define terms and provide for the payment of coverage premiums to eligible individuals; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid coverage for maternity services; amend KRS 205.592 to allow the Medicaid income limit for certain women and children to be increased under certain circumstances; amend KRS 205.6485 to require Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to provide maternity coverage; amend KRS 164.2847 to provide for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees for a child conceived and born as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 164.2849 to declare the interests of the Commonwealth in protecting the unborn and supporting a child conceived and born as a result of sexual assault within established parameters; amend KRS 199.011 to define a child conceived and delivered as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 199.473 to waive certain fees related to adoption proceedings; amend KRS 199.502 to include a conviction for specified criminal acts for an adoption without consent of the biological living parents; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish entitlement to nonrecurring adoption expenses under specified circumstances; amend KRS 199.894 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.8996 to establish the Child Care Assistance Program and establish eligibility requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to direct the Cabinet to provide informational material on benefits available to a victim of sexual assault and a child conceived as a result of the sexual assault; amend KRS 216B.400 to establish requirements for receipt of specified benefits related to sexual assault that results in pregnancy; create a new section of KRS Chapter 49 to establish benefits available to a child born as a result of sexual assault; amend KRS 49.310 to conform; amend KRS 625.090 to add a conviction or guilty plea to any degree of rape, sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct as a basis to terminate parental rights; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver if potential cost defrayment or loss of federal funds is identified; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Act; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
HB558 - AN ACT relating to economic development.
Phillip Pratt
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 154.26-050 to include gender-neutral language.
STATUS
Introduced
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