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HR63 - A RESOLUTION urging President Joe Biden to repel the invasion at the United States' southern border.
Savannah Maddox, Felicia Rabourn, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 11 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Urge President Joe Biden to defend the southern border of the United States.
STATUS
Introduced
HB231 - AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions.
William Lee Lawrence, Kimberly Banta, Kevin D. Bratcher
Last updated 12 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from raising tuition for a postsecondary education institution more than 5% a year for resident students and 7% a year for nonresident students; provide a four-year tuition freeze for an enrolled resident student; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase in tuition or fees to be approved before March 1; amend KRS 164.131 to add two additional full-time student members to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, including one graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; amend KRS 164.821 to add two additional full-time student members to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees, including one graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; amend KRS 164.321 to add two additional full-time student members to the boards of regents, including one full-time graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; amend KRS 164.7874 to require a private postsecondary institution to have a voting student member on its governing board in order to be a participating institution for purposes of KEES eligibility; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Student Tuition Protection and Accountability Act; EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2028.
STATUS
Introduced
HB47 - AN ACT relating to restoring religious liberty.
Steve Rawlings, Shane Baker, Josh Calloway
Last updated 12 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 446.350 to define "government" and "substantially burden"; outline relief that may be sought if statute is violated; apply to laws adopted before or after enaction of this statute; include severability clause; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity.
STATUS
Introduced
HB49 - AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of medical professionals and declaring an emergency.
Steve Rawlings, Shane Baker, Josh Calloway
Last updated 12 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant providers the right not to participate in or pay for services that violate their conscience; exempt providers from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit the State Board of Medical Licensure from reprimanding medical practitioners and require the board to provide complaints it has received to medical practitioners; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations; provide that the Act may be cited as the Healthcare Heroes Recruitment and Retention Act; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HJR28 - A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to study the cost and benefits of increasing the maximum interstate highway speed limit.
Steven Doan
Last updated 12 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to conduct a study on the cost and benefits of increasing the maximum interstate highway speed limit.
STATUS
Introduced
HB51 - AN ACT relating to students.
Steve Rawlings, Josh Calloway, Steven Doan
Last updated 12 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to establish definitions for the section; state legislative findings and declarations; require a public school to obtain parent approval for their child's participation in any questionnaire or similar activities; establish parental rights relating to student data and privacy; require parental consent prior to using radio frequency identification technology to track students or collect student data; require school districts and public to adopt policies and procedures to comply with the restrictions on use of radio frequency identification technology; establish a cause of action for violation of the section; amend KRS 158.191 to require a local board of education to adopt policies to prohibit the administration of certain examinations or surveys without written parental consent; establish requirements for schools to obtain parental permission, create limitations of the section's applicability; provide that Section 1 may be cited as The Child and Family Privacy Act.
STATUS
Introduced
HB46 - AN ACT relating to KEES scholarships for students attending noncertified schools.
Steve Rawlings, Steven Doan, Mark Hart
Last updated 12 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 164.7874 to include an equivalent score on the Classic Learning Test as a KEES supplemental amount; define "eligible noncertified school graduate"; amend definitions of "KEES award," "KEES award maximum," and " KEES base amount" for an eligible noncertified school graduate; amend KRS 164.7879 to establish an equivalent grade point average for eligible noncertified school graduates based on the graduate's ACT score; amend KRS 164.7884 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
HB103 - AN ACT relating to patient medical records.
Steven Doan
Last updated 12 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 422 to establish standards and procedures for access to copies of patient medical records or charts for a patient who is under the age of eighteen.
STATUS
Introduced
HB178 - AN ACT relating to wrongful conviction compensation and making an appropriation therefor.
Jason Michael Nemes, Kimberly Banta, Danny R. Bentley
Last updated 12 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Introduced
HB278 - AN ACT relating to the protection of children.
Matt Lockett, Daniel A. Fister, Shane Baker
Last updated 9 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 15A.190 to require that the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet include crimes involving childhood sexual assault or abuse on the JC-3 form; amends KRS 160.380 to provide that a superintendent shall not employ any person who has been convicted of an offense that would classify the person as a violent offender, a sex crime, or a misdemeanor offense under KRS Chapter 510, or who is required to register as a sex offender; amends KRS 413.249 to provide that a civil action arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse shall be brought within 10 years of the victim attaining the age of 18 years; creates new sections of KRS Chapter 436 to declare legislative findings relating to pornography, to define terms, to establish a civil cause of action against any commercial entity that publishes matter harmful to minors on the internet without obtaining age verification, to require removal of personal data following review for access, to establish civil causes of action for violations, and to establish limitations on applicability and liability; amends KRS 510.050 and 510.080 to provide an enhanced penalty when the defendant is a person in a position of authority or position of special trust; amends KRS 510.155 to enhance the penalty of unlawful use of electronic means to induce a minor to a Class C felony, and to enhance the penalty to a Class B felony if the minor or perceived minor is under 12 years old, the offender is a person is in a position of authority or position of special trust, the offender is a registered sex offender, a person travels into the Commonwealth for the purpose of procuring or promoting the use of a minor, or the child procured or promoted is for human trafficking where the offense involves commercial sexual activity; amends KRS 529.100 to enhance the penalty for human trafficking to a Class B felony, unless the victim is a minor, in which case it is a Class A felony; amends KRS 529.110 to enhance the penalty for promoting human trafficking to a Class C felony unless the victim is a minor, in which case it is a Class B felony; amends KRS 531.340 to enhance the penalty for distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor to a Class C felony if the victim is under 18 years old and a Class B felony if the victim is under 12 years old, and to provide that any person convicted of distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor shall not be released on probation or parole without serving 85 percent of the sentence imposed; amends KRS 532.060 to require a person who has been convicted of a violation of KRS 529.100, 529.110, 531.320, 531.335, or 531.340 to serve five years of postincarceration supervision; and amends KRS 532.200 to redefine “violent felony offense” as an offense that would classify a person as a violent offender under KRS 439.3401.
STATUS
Passed
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-069
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Kentucky House
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Kentucky House from Kentucky
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