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SB20 - AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Matthew D. Deneen, Donald Douglas, Damon Thayer
Last updated 6 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 635.020 to provide that a child 15 years of age or older who is charged with a Class A, B, or C felony involving the use of a firearm shall be transferred to Circuit Court to be tried as an adult, to provide that the Commonwealth’s attorney may transfer the child back to District Court after consulting with the county attorney, to provides that the Circuit Court may transfer the child back to District Court if the Circuit Court finds that fewer than two of the factors listed in KRS 640.010 favor keeping the child in Circuit Court, and to provide that a child who has been convicted of a Class A, B, or C felony involving the use of a firearm shall not be eligible for probation or conditional discharge in a proceeding consistent with KRS 640.030.
STATUS
Passed
SB127 - AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Brandon Jackson Storm, Danny Carroll, Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Last updated 6 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establishes the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establishes the membership of the committee; establishes the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; requires that the portion of the fund expended toward the council’s administrative costs shall not exceed 0.5 percent of all gross moneys in the fund or $75,000 annually, whichever is less; directs the council to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out this Act; requires those administrative regulations to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission for comment prior to filing; requires advisory committee members to abstain from voting on a matter involving a conflict of interest; requires that the council shall reserve at least 65 percent of all net moneys in the fund for partnership proposals between aviation and aerospace programs and aviation and aerospace industry partners to provide aviation training scholarships to Kentucky residents enrolled in aviation and aerospace programs; directs the council to prioritize accepting partnerships to proposals targeted to reduce the workforce demand of a specific eligible aviation or aerospace credential the council determines to be among the highest in demand in the Commonwealth; directs that a partnership shall require a written partnership contract and establishes the minimum contract requirements; directs that disbursements of moneys from the fund to support aviation training scholarships be made directly to an aviation program pursuant to the terms of the partnership contract; requires that an aviation program that enters a partnership contract solicit, accept, and review aviation training scholarship applications submitted by students enrolled in the aviation program; directs that an aviation training scholarship issued by an aviation program pursuant to a partnership contract be made directly to a recipient pursuant to a written scholarship contract between the recipient and the aviation program, and sets minimum contract requirements; directs that a grantor may place restrictions upon a contribution to the fund requiring specific criteria for an aviation training scholarship or scholarships funded by the grantor’s dedicated funds; directs that the aviation training scholarship contract grant the aviation program, the Commonwealth, or the aviation industry partner the authority to initiate recoupment proceedings for the recovery of the total amount of all aviation training scholarships awarded to an individual who fails to complete the terms of a scholarship contract; directs that the council reserve up to 35 percent of all net moneys in the fund for aviation equipment partnership contracts between public aviation training programs and aviation industry partners to provide aviation and aviation equipment grants; requires that an aviation equipment partnership require a written partnership contract between a public aviation program, aviation industry partner, and the council, and establishes minimum contract requirements; directs the council to collaborate with the advisory committee to select proposals for partnership contracts; directs that the council may prioritize designated contracts; provides that the council shall require the public aviation program to submit proof that the entire amount of the aviation equipment grant is invested in the maintenance, acquisition, or lease of aviation or aviation training equipment used by students enrolled in a public aviation training program; requires the council to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission, and establishes minimum report requirements; sunsets the bill on June 30, 2030; and provides that this Act may be cited as the Aerospace Education Reinvestment Opportunity (AERO) Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
SB151 - AN ACT relating to relative and fictive kin caregivers.
Julie Adams, Matthew D. Deneen, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 6 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 620.140 to allow a child to submit to the District Court the names of possible relative or fictive kin caregivers with whom the child could be placed if the court removes the child from his or her home; and amends KRS 620.142 to establish when a relative or fictive kin caregiver can apply to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to be certified as a child-specific foster home.
STATUS
Passed
SB188 - AN ACT relating to patient access to pharmacy benefits.
George Maxwell Wise, Stephen L. Meredith, Karen Berg
Last updated 6 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 18A.2254 to require that the state employee health plan and state agencies comply with certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practices, to require that insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other pharmacy benefits administrators establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks, to require the filing of an annual report, to require that the insurance commissioner review pharmacy networks, to provide that information and data acquired by the Department of Insurance be considered proprietary and not subject to disclosure under open records laws, to establish requirements for certain contracts between a pharmacy or pharmacist and an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager, or any other pharmacy benefits administrator, to establish prohibited conduct and requirements for certain pharmacy-related insurance practices, and to establish a complaint process for insureds, pharmacies, and pharmacists impacted by a violation of certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize the insurance commissioner to order reimbursement to persons who incurred a monetary loss as a result of a violation of certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; amends KRS 304.9-053 to require certain filings; amends KRS 304.9-054 to establish requirements for pharmacy benefit manager licensure; amends KRS 304.9-055 to require that the insurance commissioner promulgate certain administrative regulations relating to pharmacy benefit managers; amends KRS 304.14-120 to require that the insurance commissioner review certain health plan filings; amends KRS 304.17A-712 to conform; amends KRS 304.17C-125 to apply certain pharmacy-related insurance laws to limited health service benefit plans, including limited health service contracts; amends KRS 304.38A-115 to apply certain pharmacy-related insurance laws to limited health service organizations; repeals KRS 304.38A-120, relating to assignment of certain benefits under limited health service organization plans, to consolidate provisions; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to require reporting by ambulatory pharmacies to the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy; amends KRS 367.828 to establish certain requirements for health discount plans relating to prescription drugs; makes technical corrections to existing statutes throughout; applies various sections to contracts issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; and requires the insurance commissioner and the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy to promulgate implementing administrative regulations by certain dates; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
SR213 - A RESOLUTION recognizing March 21, 2024, as World Down Syndrome Day in Kentucky.
Stephen L. Meredith
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Recognize March 21, 2024, as World Down Syndrome Day in Kentucky.
STATUS
Passed
SB295 - AN ACT relating to vaccines.
Lindsey Tichenor, Steve West, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 6 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, employment, or medical treatment in the Commonwealth.
STATUS
Engrossed
SCR187 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Health Care Disparities Task Force.
Stephen L. Meredith, Donald Douglas
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Establish the Health Care Disparities Task Force; establish task force membership; require task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
SR147 - A RESOLUTION designating March 2024 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky.
Stephen L. Meredith
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Designating March 2024 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky.
STATUS
Passed
SB135 - AN ACT relating to drugs and medicines and declaring an emergency.
Adrienne E. Southworth, Stephen L. Meredith, Greg Elkins
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that an independent institution or postsecondary education institution that requires a student to receive an immunization for disease shall allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violation of the requirement; amend KRS 209.552 to allow vaccine requirement exemptions at long-term care facilities and make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to provide that a health facility that requires an employee to receive an immunization for disease shall allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violation of the requirement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to provide that an employer that requires an employee to receive an immunization for disease shall allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violation of the requirement; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
SB358 - AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to education funding.
Jay Williams, Shelley Frommeyer, Stephen L. Meredith
Last updated 7 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for the educational costs of elementary and secondary school students outside of the public school system; provide ballot language for submission to voters for ratification or rejection.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Kentucky district SD-005
COMMITTEES
Kentucky Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Stephen L. Meredith is a Republican member of the Missouri State Senate, representing District 12. He was first elected to the chamber in 2020. Meredith earned his B.A. from the University of Missouri. His professional experience includes working as a City Administrator for the City of St. Charles, as an attorney, as an Assistant State Auditor.read less
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Kentucky Senate from Kentucky
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