| KY | HB780 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.010 to remove exemptions in definition of "employee" for agricultural workers and domestic service workers; amend KRS 342.630 to indicate that agricultural employers are subject to KRS Chapter 342; amend KRS 342.650 to remove exemptions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB801 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit all employers of 75 or more employees from demoting, dismissing, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee who misses work because of duties related to being a candidate, candidate-elect, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB803 | Intro
25% | Repeal KRS 338.062, relating to occupational safety and health standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB757 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Office of Kentucky Center for Statistics to establish a certified living wage based on occupation type and geographic area utilizing data from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics if th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB791 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to provide a remedy for employees misclassified as independent contractors; amend KRS 337.010 to define "independent contractor" and "misclassified"; repeal KRS 336.137.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB778 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB593 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.010 to define "essential employee"; amend KRS 337.275 to set a minimum wage for essential employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB656 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, 344.080, 344.100, and 344.110 to add protections against discrimination based on weight.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB692 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms and make the termination of employment without cause unlawful; establish amount that may be recovered for wrongful discharge; specify when the employers' internal procedures are to be used.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB673 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; prohibit employment of unauthorized aliens; require business entities and employers to enroll in E-Verify and verify employment eligibility of all employees; establish penalties for violations; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB599 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.010 to remove specified individuals from the definition of "employee" and to define "worker with a disability"; amend KRS 337.275 to require all employers to pay all employees, including workers with a disability, a minimum wage and inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB690 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define "covenant not to compete" and "covered employee"; provide that an employer shall not require a covered employee to enter into a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages that can be rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB632 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.415 to define terms "crime," "immediate family," and "victim"; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with the prosecut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB631 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 requiring employers to give employees a good-faith schedule of hours to be worked, to have a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours, to post weekly schedules at least seven days in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB594 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit an employer from conditioning employment or employment benefits on an employee signing specified types of releases and agreements related to unlawful acts in the workplace; create a new section of K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB598 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide 12 weeks of paid parental leave for an employee who has been employed for at least one year; allow an employee to waive the paid parental leave; provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB570 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.610 to exclude certain levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the blood from the presumption that an injury was caused by the introduction of certain substances into the employee's body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB564 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage of hourl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | SB15 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 337.010 to amend the definition of "employee" to exempt baseball players who are compensated pursuant to the terms of a contract and a collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for wages and working conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB582 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 154.14-020, relating to the Government Resources Accelerating Needed Transformation Program of 2024, to include a nonprofit corporation created by a governmental agency as created under KRS 58.180 in the definition of "eligible grant recipi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB548 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define “prohibited advertisement” and “solicit”; prohibit a person from soliciting residential property owners with a prohibited advertisement, offering value in exchange for inspecting residential p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB569 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.610 to remove the presumption that the use of an illegal substance prior to an accident caused the injury; provide that the use of an illegal substance shall be the proximate cause of the injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB536 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to require employers to develop emergency action plans for the workplace; establish minimum requirements for the plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB502 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.020, relating to the process of workers compensation claims, to establish that the 30-day and 45-day deadlines to pay for services and submit statements, respectively, begin after acceptance or determination of compensability of the cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB466 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB475 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 151B.190 to include gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB476 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 154.12-205 to include gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB477 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 154.50-323 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB467 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342, relating to workers' compensation, to define "educator;" set out when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims for educators when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to modify de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB420 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers' compensation, to expand the definition of "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the Nationa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB402 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 154.12-223 to establish two positions in the Department for Business and Community Development within the Cabinet for Economic Development to be tasked with industry recruitment and job creation in the Eastern and Western Coal Field areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB289 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB302 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the Adult Workforce Diploma Pilot Program; define terms; establish eligibility criteria for the program; direct the Education and Labor Cabinet to administer the program; provide payments to progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB229 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require every employer to establish a workplace policy that provides employees the right to disconnect from communications from the employer during nonworking hours; amend KRS 337.990 to provide a penalty fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB287 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to define terms; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB362 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.010 to define "job posting" and "wage range"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require all employers to include the wages or wage range for the advertised position in any job posting; amend KRS 95A.250 and 337.020 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB107 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 341.370 to prohibit disqualification from benefits for workers unemployed as a result of domestic violence and abuse, dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to direct the secretary of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB166 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB125 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of "protective hairstyle" and "race" that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 158.148 to provide that school disciplinary codes shall prohibit discrimination on the basis of race; provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB129 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require any employer doing business in Kentucky that receives governmental incentives or subsidies to pay its employees a living wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB138 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provide that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; set forth allowable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB128 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB165 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.125 to remove the requirement that an affected employee previously diagnosed with occupational pneumoconiosis resulting from exposure to coal dust must have an additional two years of employment in the Commonwealth wherein the employee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB67 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.275 to raise minimum wage for employers to $9.50 an hour on the effective date of this Act and incrementally thereafter to $15 an hour on July 1, 2029; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to five dollars an hour on the eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB57 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employers from publishing job postings for ghost jobs; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
