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KYHB214PassCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; state legislative findings for the rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities; establish a cause of action to the Attorney General; permit the Attorney General to ins...
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2024-04-18
signed by Governor
KYHB335PassAmend KRS 258.119 to allow the animal control and care fund to receive fines; amend KRS 258.500 to define "person" as a person who has an ongoing therapeutic relationship with a health care provider and stipulate who can be a health care provider und...
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2024-04-09
signed by Governor
KYHB170Engross
50%
Amend KRS 344.020 to include amendments made to the American with Disabilities Act of 1990; make technical corrections.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Committee on Committees
KYSB365Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for loss of consortium by a child when the negligent or wrongful act of a third person caused the death or total and permanent disability of a parent.
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2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
KYSB351Intro
25%
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt from property taxation the homesteads of veterans who were honorably discharged and certified as having a service-connected permanent and 100 percent total disability and the h...
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2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee
KYSB307Intro
25%
Amend KRS 205.560 to define terms; establish procedures for investigating alleged violations of federal or state law by certified waiver providers.
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2024-02-29
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYHB783Intro
25%
Amend KRS 167.017 to set timelines for appointment of a search committee for the superintendent of the Kentucky School for the Deaf and appointment of the superintendent; require prioritization of candidates that will be locally available and commit ...
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2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB643Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to ensure that home and community-based waiver programs include attendant care and nonskilled in-home care services and that adult day health and home healt...
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2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB576Intro
25%
Amend KRS 337.010 to change the definition of "employee" and to add the definition of "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 increase the st...
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2024-02-15
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB173Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the right of a parent, guardian, or limited guardian to install video recording devices in the private residential room of an individual who is receiving residential services under a federally appr...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYHB409Intro
25%
Amend KRS 164.507 to remove degree-seeking requirement for nonremarried spouse and children of a deceased veteran when utilizing educational benefits; require students to use federal grant funds toward tuition prior to the use of the waiver; amend KR...
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2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB124Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure by January 1, 2025.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Health Services Committee
KYHB238Intro
25%
Amend KRS 387.530, relating to determination of disability and appointment of a guardian or conservator, to create additional requirements for petition; amend KRS 387.580 to add specific findings to be made at a hearing; amend KRS 387.600 to make rec...
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2024-01-11
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB183Intro
25%
Amend KRS 199.011 to define "disability"; amend KRS 199.471 to add disability as a reason upon which a petition for adoption shall not be denied; amend KRS 200.575 to require reasonable efforts and accommodations tailored to a parent's disability; am...
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2024-01-08
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB181Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to permit a tenant to terminate a lease or rental agreement if he or she is seeking relocation due to a recent mental or physical health emergency; require the tenant to pay any rent due prorated to the effecti...
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2024-01-08
To House Committee On Committees
KYSB53Intro
25%
Amend various sections of KRS 387.500 to 387.770 to change the term "ward" to "protected person"; allow the respondent the right to retain private counsel; set out the respondent's right to an attorney who does not act as a guardian ad litem; increas...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee
KYSB21Intro
25%
Amend KRS 132.810 to remove the requirement that totally disabled persons filing for the homestead exemption apply annually and only require a person to reapply if the disability status of the person changes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 140 t...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYHB62Intro
25%
Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to remove the $6,500 homestead exemption amount for property taxation and provide the General Assembly the authority to set the amount of the homestead exemption; provide ballot language; s...
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2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB61Intro
25%
Amend KRS 132.810 to remove the requirement that the homestead exemption be construed to mean $6,500 in terms of the purchasing power of the dollar in 1972 and the cost-of-living indexing requirement; require the amount of the homestead exemption to ...
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2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees
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