KY HB164 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: Engrossed on February 22 2024 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-26 - to State & Local Government (S)
Pending: Senate State & Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on February 22 2024 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-26 - to State & Local Government (S)
Pending: Senate State & Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Summary
Amend KRS 16.601, 61.621, and 78.5534 to increase minimum line of duty death benefits to a non-spouse beneficiary of a Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, or State Police Retirement System member who was working in an approved hazardous duty position or in a position that could be approved as hazardous duty for retirement purposes; specify the minimum payment to the non-spouse beneficiary shall only be payable if there is no surviving spouse beneficiary and shall be a minimum of a lump-sum payment equal to 36 months of the member's monthly rate of pay; provide that the non-spouse beneficiary may elect the minimum lump-sum payment or any other benefits the non-spouse beneficiary is eligible to receive upon the member's death, but not both.
Title
AN ACT relating to death in the line of duty benefits.
Sponsors
| Rep. Susan Tyler Witten [R] | Rep. David Osborne [R] | Rep. Jared Bauman [R] | Rep. Emily Callaway [R] |
| Rep. Derek Lewis [R] | Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D] | Rep. Rachel Roarx [D] | Rep. Wade Williams [R] |
Roll Calls
2024-02-21 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 129 (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-26 | Senate | to State & Local Government (S) |
| 2024-02-22 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-02-22 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-02-21 | House | 3rd reading, passed 95-0 |
| 2024-02-20 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 21, 2024 |
| 2024-02-16 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-02-15 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
| 2024-02-07 | House | to State Government (H) |
| 2024-01-05 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-01-05 | House | introduced in House |
