| KY | HB459 | Pass | 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 dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 218) |
| KY | HB169 | Pass | Amends KRS 158.162 to require that local boards of education maintain a portable automated external defibrillator in a public, readily accessible, well-marked location in all school buildings, including elementary school buildings, and at school-sanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 208) |
| KY | HB272 | Pass | Amends KRS 405.075 to change the definition of “newborn safety device” related to the continuous staffing requirement; and amends KRS 156.095 to require that information on the Safe Haven Baby Boxes Crisis Line be posted in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 202) |
| KY | HB155 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 403.190 to state that criminal misconduct against the other spouse may be considered in the disposition of marital property; provide that a spouse who is convicted of committing a felony against the other spouse shall not be entitled to cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB44 | Pass | Amends KRS 30A.145 to require that the Administrative Office of the Courts prepare, on the first Tuesday of each month, a list of all persons who were excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen; creates a new section of KRS Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 177) |
| KY | HB174 | Pass | Amends KRS 311.6225 to make changes to the medical order for scope of treatment form; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 422 to establish standards and procedures for access to copies of patient medical records for a patient who is under the ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 164) |
| KY | HB385 | Pass | Amends KRS 311.631, relating to living wills and advance directives, to include an adult friend as an individual authorized to make health care decisions on behalf of a patient who lacks decisional capacity; amends KRS 504.060 to define “examiner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 138) |
| KY | HB323 | Pass | Amends KRS 95A.262 to permit the Kentucky Fire Commission to establish a reimbursement program for cancer screenings for firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 142) |
| KY | HB477 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish diagnosis criteria for sepsis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 125) |
| KY | HB825 | Pass | Requires the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a full fiscal controls and operational performance audit of the Kentucky Department of Education and to provide the report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 118) |
| KY | HB436 | Pass | Amends KRS 26A.140 to state that the guardians ad litem shall receive a fee fixed by the court and paid by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 403.715 to 403.785 to require appointment of a guardian ad litem f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 135) |
| KY | HB115 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with breast examination coverage requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 97) |
| KY | HB179 | Pass | Amends KRS 304.3-110 to authorize life and health insurers to transact disability income and paid family leave insurance, and to make technical corrections; creates new sections of Subtitle 5 of KRS Chapter 304 to define “disability income insuranc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 99) |
| KY | HB505 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish requirements for providing alcohol and drug treatment and behavioral health service providers and to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 89) |
| KY | HB561 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms, to establish operations and requirements of a Certified Child Care Community Designation Program to be administered by the Cabinet for Economic Development for the purpose of creating new oppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 88) |
| KY | HB194 | Pass | Amends KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a person employed by or under contract with a health clinic, doctor’s office, dental office, long-term care facility, hospital, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 80) |
| KY | HB293 | Pass | Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms related to kratom, to prohibit the sale of kratom products to individuals under 21 years of age, to establish product safety standards, to establish labeling requirements for kratom products, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 44) |
| KY | HB30 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 40 establishing the Kentucky Service Members, Veterans, and their Families Suicide Prevention Program; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 337 requiring the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs to create a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 73) |
| KY | HB258 | Pass | 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 w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 81) |
| KY | HB482 | Pass | Amend KRS 15.315 to add the chief of police of the Owensboro Police Department and the director of the Northern Kentucky Police and Sheriff's Training Center to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 56) |
| KY | HB715 | Pass | Amends KRS 36.474 removing the post-deployment provision relating to eligibility for the military family assistance trust fund, and to make a technical correction; and amends KRS 36.477 expanding the Kentucky National Guard Adoption Assistance Progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 59) |
| KY | HB635 | Pass | Amends KRS 6.350 to require that an actuary performing an actuarial analysis clearly describe a new assumption or method and the basis for selecting the assumption or method, including any documentation, studies, written opinions, calculations, or ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 58) |
| KY | HB88 | Pass | Repeals, reenacts, and amends KRS 286.2-685 as a new section of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to make technical amendments, to remove prohibition against use of financial institution names in certain marketing and solicitations, and to establish a ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 76) |
| KY | HB207 | Pass | Amends KRS 17.500 to include distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor in the definition of “sex crime”; amends KRS 531.010 to define “child sex doll,” “computer,” “computer-generated image,” and “identifiabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.15) |
| KY | HB252 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to prohibit a health care provider from performing a pelvic, rectal, or prostate examination without the informed consent of the patient or the person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient; p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB10 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky maternal psychiatry access program, also known as the Kentucky Lifeline for Moms; establish duties and responsibilities of the program; direct that the program shall be operated by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB467 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB766 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B to require the licensing authorities of healthcare occupations to collect workforce participation data during the annual, biennial, or triennial licensure renewal process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB346 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB357 | Pass | Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit certain entities from requiring, incentivizing, or assigning a merchant category code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from other retailers, to prohibit keeping or causing to be kept any list,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch.14) |
| KY | HB159 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define “health care provider” and “health services,” and to establish that health care providers providing health services are immune from criminal liability for harm arising from a health services-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.12) |
| KY | HB274 | Pass | Amends KRS 315.010 and 315.205 to permit pharmacists to administer vaccines to children five years of age or older pursuant to prescriber-approved protocols with the consent of a parent or guardian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.11) |
| KY | HCR68 | Engross
50% | 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 d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB2 | Pass | Proposes a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for financial support for the education of students outside of the public school system; provides ballot language; and provides for submittal to voter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 8) |
| KY | HB677 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 304.17A-270 to include medical laboratories in the definition of "provider"; amend KRS 205.522 to require the state Medicaid program to comply with any willing provider law; make technical amendments; require the Cabinet for Health and Fami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HR139 | Pass | Recognize March 2024 as Irish American Heritage Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HB700 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of Subtitle17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB317 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define "health care provider"; make conforming amendments; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements for prior authorization exemptions; establish requirements fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | HB618 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 510.320 to define "sexually transmitted disease"; set requirements for tests for a sexually transmitted disease rather than human immunodeficiency virus; amend KRS 529.090 to define "sexually transmitted disease"; set requirements for tests...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB408 | Engross
50% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to require treatment centers or programs licensed as a chemical dependency treatment service to provide transportation services to residents who wish to leave the program if the resident's family, guardian, or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB316 | Engross
50% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to define terms; establish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board of the Kentucky General Assembly to review, analyze, study, evaluate, provide legislative oversight, and make recommendations to the General As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB197 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of Subchapter 1 of KRS Chapter 224 to define "recycling facility" and require a notice of violation of KRS Chapter 224 by a recycling facility be sent to the local governing body where the facility is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| KY | HB767 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.675 to require school districts to implement social media safety mechanisms in internet access policies; require social media safety policies; require social media safety instruction for students in grades six through 12; allow parents ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HR129 | Intro
25% | Express solidarity with North Korean refugees in their quest for relief from both hunger and persecution; urge the United States government to take certain steps to support North Korean refugees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB212 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 95A.292 to allow rescue squad members to participate in the Alan "Chip" Terry Professional Development and Wellness Program; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 39F to direct the Division of Emergency Management and the Kentucky Fire Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB820 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 27A to define terms; require the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) to develop and maintain a statewide database and searchable public website that contains information on state and local fines and fees asses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB768 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for the treatment of plagiocephaly; prohibit certain restrictions on coverage for the treatment of plagiocephaly; require health benefit plans ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB692 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 205.558 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB694 | Intro
25% | Direct local school districts to provide a one-time payment of $2,000 to certified employees, excluding superintendents, in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium, and a one-time payment of $1,000 to classified employees in each year of the 2024-2026 bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB680 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 216.313 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
