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HB444 - AN ACT relating to electricians.
Steve Bratcher, Scott Lewis
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 227A.060 to modify experience and education requirements for an electrician or master electrician license, to require an electrician applicant or master electrician applicant to have 8,000 hours or 16,000 hours of verifiable experience, respectively, which may be reduced by designated education or teaching, to authorize a master electrician or electrician applicant to qualify for licensure through teaching or attending an associate’s degree or diploma program at a college within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System or at another accredited college or university, to enable a military veteran to meet master electrician or electrician experience requirements through applicable supervised military occupational specialty experience, to direct the department of Housing, Buildings and Construction to promulgate administrative regulations to establish an application form to allow submission of military experience, and to accept either a DD-214 form or a signed statement from the applicant’s commanding officer to verify relevant military experience; and amends KRS 227A.100 to renew electrician licenses once every two years, to allow the department to establish a system to issue electronic licenses instead of physical licenses, and to increase a $500,000 general liability insurance requirement to $1 million.
STATUS
Passed
HCR68 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Kentucky Housing Task Force.
Randall Bridges, Jason Michael Nemes, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 6 months ago
47 Co-Sponsors
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky Housing Task Force to study, review, and provide policy recommendations on how to address the housing shortage in the Commonwealth; require the task force to meet at least monthly during the 2024 Interim; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB258 - AN ACT relating to the torture of a dog or cat.
Susan Tyler Witten, Ryan Dotson, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 6 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 525.135 to define “serious physical injury or infirmity” and to redefine “torture,” to provide that torture of a dog or cat is a Class D felony in every instance and that each act may constitute a separate offense, and to provide what does not constitute torture of a dog or cat.
STATUS
Passed
HB459 - AN ACT relating to health care workers.
Kimberly Poore Moser, Rebecca Raymer, Steve Bratcher
Last updated 5 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 311.844 to require that physician assistants complete continuing education courses on treating Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, and to allow graduating physician assistants to submit course curriculum on Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia toward the continuing education requirement; amends KRS 314.042 to create the provisional advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) applicant license; amends KRS 314.073 to require nurse licensees to complete continuing medical education courses on treating Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, and allows graduating student practitioners to submit course curriculum on Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia toward the continuing education requirements; amends KRS 314.121 to require APRNs and registered nurses experienced in long-term care to sit on the Board of Nursing, and to explain how appointments to the board are made; amends KRS 314.131 to allow the executive director of the board to hire officers and other personnel with the approval of the board; and repeals KRS 314.193, which creates the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Council.
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
HB43 - AN ACT relating to fire protection.
John F. Hodgson, Jared A. Bauman, Kevin D. Bratcher
Last updated 6 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS 75.100 to 75.260 to require a fire protection district, volunteer fire department district, or subdistrict to host a public hearing and provide notice of the hearing when making a change to fire protection services involving communications, firefighting resources, or water supply that will likely downgrade fire service ratings.
STATUS
Passed
HB462 - AN ACT relating to recovery residences.
Steve Bratcher, Samara Rae Heavrin, Beverly Chester-Burton
Last updated 6 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 205.506 to establish the conditions under which a recovery residence may provide on-site clinical services or access to on-site clinical services; amends KRS 222.500 to define terms related to recovery residences; amends KRS 222.502 to permit a recovery residence that provides on-site clinical services or access to on-site clinical services to continue to operate without certification from a certifying organization until December 31, 2024; and amends KRS 222.504 to authorize the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and local governments to impose civil fines on uncertified recovery residences.
STATUS
Passed
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
HB166 - AN ACT relating to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
Jason Michael Nemes, Danny R. Bentley, Alan Gentry
Last updated 6 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define “SUDEP,” to update autopsy requirements, to require the Vital Statistics Branch to forward a copy of the death certificate to the North American SUDEP Registry if sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is found to be the cause or the suspected cause of death, and to provide that the Act may be cited as Jami’s Law.
STATUS
Passed
HB315 - AN ACT relating to vegetation around railroad crossings and declaring an emergency.
Nancy J. Tate, Kimberly Banta, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 8 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require railroad companies to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation upon and within the geographical bounds of its right-of-way at each intersection with a public road or highway; require the Transportation Cabinet to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation when a railroad company fails to do so; require the railroad company to reimburse the Transportation Cabinet for costs of the removal; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
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