Kentucky House Bill 706 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on March 1 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-03-01 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to prohibit trainings that promote bigotry, critical social justice, or revisionist history; provide that a public employer shall not discipline a public employee for refusing to participate in a training that violates the prohibition; require public employers to review trainings to ensure compliance; provide that willful or repeated violations shall be considered a violation of the employee code of conduct that justifies disciplinary sanction, create a cause of action for a violations; require a qualified plaintiff to exhaust the administrative remedies set forth in KRS Chapter 344 prior to bringing the action; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to limit academic freedom of postsecondary faculty members or restrict the conduct or speech of students; amend KRS 344.010 to include public employee training that violates these provisions under the definition of " discrimination"; amend KRS 344.040 to provide that a pubic employer's actions to promote bigotry, critical social justice, or revisionist history shall create a presumption that the employer has knowingly created or contributed to a hostile work or learning environment; provide that the Act shall be severable; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to public employee trainings and declaring an emergency.

Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker [R]

Rep. Matt Lockett [R]

Rep. Richard Heath [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-01	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2022-03-01	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb706.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/hb706/orig_bill.pdf