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HB566 - AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to voting rights.
Keturah Herron, Josie Raymond, Chad Aull
Last updated 7 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights five years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
STATUS
Introduced
HB416 - AN ACT relating to emergency medical services and making an appropriation therefor.
Mark Hart, Kevin D. Bratcher, Phillip Pratt
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311A to create the EMS Professionals Foundation Program fund; specify the ambulance services and EMS professionals that are eligible to share in the distribution of the fund; provide that the Board of Emergency Medical Services shall administer the fund and may promulgate administrative regulations to facilitate its administration; authorize reimbursement for an EMS professional's out-of-pocket costs for mental health treatment for a diagnosed post-traumatic stress injury or post-traumatic stress disorder; provide for annual supplements to ambulance providers for each EMS professional it employs; amend KRS 42.190 and 136.392 to include the EMS Professionals Foundation Program fund to the premium surcharge.
STATUS
Introduced
HB207 - AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Stephanie A. Dietz, Kimberly Poore Moser, Daniel B. Elliott
Last updated 6 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 17.500 to include distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor in the definition of “sex crime”; amends KRS 531.010 to define “child sex doll,” “computer,” “computer-generated image,” and “identifiable person”; creates a new section of KRS 531.300 to 531.370 to provide that in a prosecution where the offense involves material portraying a computer-generated image of a minor, the Commonwealth shall not be required to prove the actual identity or age of the computer-generated minor, or that the minor exists; creates new sections of KRS 531.310 to 531.370 to prohibit the possession, trafficking, importing, and promoting the use of a child sex doll; amends KRS 531.320, 531.335, 531.340, 531.350, and 531.360 to include computer-generated images of a minor as an element of those offenses; and amends KRS 531.330 to provide that in a prosecution where the offense involves a computer-generated image that used an actual minor as the source, the presumption of minority shall be based on the age of the actual minor.
STATUS
Passed
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
HB95 - AN ACT relating to theft of services.
Matt Lockett, Chad Aull, Adrielle Camuel
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 514.060, relating to theft of services, to include the conduct of a person holding the property of another under a rental agreement longer than the period agreed upon and depriving the owner of its use for future rentals.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB222 - AN ACT relating to tax incentives for first-time home buyers.
Killian Timoney, Kimberly Banta, Kevin D. Bratcher
Last updated 9 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a tax deduction for contributions made to an eligible savings account by a first-time home buyer and allow an exclusion from income for any interest earned from an eligible savings account of a first-time home buyer effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035; require the Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 141.019 and 131.190 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
HB196 - AN ACT relating to earned paid sick leave.
Cherlynn Stevenson, George A. Brown, Chad Aull
Last updated 9 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provide that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; set forth allowable uses of accrued earned paid sick leave; designate how notice of need to use earned paid sick leave is provided by employees; amend KRS 337.990 to establish the penalty for employers that fail to follow earned paid sick leave requirements.
STATUS
Introduced
HB299 - AN ACT relating to the establishment of a grant database.
Ashley Tackett Laferty, Chad Aull, Pamela D. Stevenson
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create new section of KRS Chapter 14 to define terms; require the Secretary of State to create a grant database that will be a central repository for all state grants; require agencies to report grant opportunities to the Secretary of State for inclusion in the grant database.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB199 - AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.
Jason Michael Nemes, Kevin D. Bratcher, Steve Bratcher
Last updated 6 months ago
13 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
Engrossed
HB361 - AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure.
Mike Clines, Tina Bojanowski, Steve Bratcher
Last updated 6 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 311.530 to add the chair of the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, and to allow the commissioner of public health, the dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, the vice dean for clinical affairs of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and the dean of the University of Pikeville College of Osteopathic Medicine to appoint a designee to sit on the State Board of Medical Licensure; amends KRS 311.601 to allow future practicing pediatricians to apply course curriculum to the pediatric abusive head trauma continuing education requirements; amends KRS 311.842 to change how the physician assistants on the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee are selected, to establish that the chair must be a practicing physician assistant, and to limit members to two consecutive terms; amends KRS 311.844 to remove the HIV/AIDS continuing education requirement, and to allow graduating physician assistant students to apply course curriculum to the pediatric head trauma continuing education requirements; and amends KRS 311.854 to remove the application requirement to list the name, address, and area of practice of supervising physicians.
STATUS
Passed
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-076
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Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Ruth Ann Palumbo is currently serving in the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing District 76. She was a marketing consultant for 25 years. She earned her BA from Northern Kentucky University in 1979. Palumbo served on the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government from 1991 to 1999. She was elected to the Kentucky House in 1991, she is currently serving her 13th term.read less
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