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KYHB320PassAmends KRS 337.385 to establish a statute of limitations of three years for wage and hour violations; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations of three years for actions against an employer for wrongful discharge...
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2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 157)
KYHB277PassAmends KRS 15A.020 to add new divisions to the organization of the Department of Public Advocacy (DPA); amends KRS 18A.115 to transfer the employees of the Louisville and Jefferson County Public Defender Corporation (Louisville Metro Public Defender)...
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2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 143)
KYHB179PassAmends 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...
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2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 99)
KYHB248PassAmends KRS 95.440 to remove the requirement that a person shall be eligible for reinstatement to a police or fire department only within one year following separation from employment.
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2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 101)
KYHB456PassAmends KRS 337.285 to add sheriff’s offices and county police forces to the local government agencies eligible for an exception to overtime compensation, and to list statutory authority for other entities that work with law enforcement departments ...
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2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 86)
KYHB561PassCreates 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...
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2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 88)
KYHB124Engross
50%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B.010 to 335B.070 to require hiring and licensing authorities to establish an application process that gives persons convicted of a crime an opportunity to apply for a position of public employment or occupation...
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2024-03-28
To Senate State & Local Government Committee
KYHB500Intro
25%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to provide for certain employment activities to be exempt from minimum wage and overtime wage requirements; specify activities and instances that do not require an employer to pay minimum wage or overtime wage; ...
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2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYHB304Intro
25%
Amend KRS 158.191 to ensure parental rights and involvement by requiring notification within two business days of specific events; require a district to adopt procedures that both encourage students to speak with parents and require facilitation of t...
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2024-03-25
To House Education Committee
KYHB797Intro
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 raise minimum wage of hourly and tipped e...
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2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB772Intro
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...
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2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB756Intro
25%
Amend KRS 161.155 to provide 20 maternity days to district employees who give birth; establish the terms and conditions for use of maternity days.
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2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB502Intro
25%
Amend KRS 286.1-440 to require the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to establish a salary schedule for examiners and assistant examiners that is substantially equivalent to salaries paid by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpor...
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2024-02-21
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
KYHB168Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services document to employers and require employers to keep copies of a veterans' benefits and services...
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2024-02-16
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee
KYHB539Intro
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...
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2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB540Intro
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...
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2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB537Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; require all employers to grant an employee at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a child, or death of a depen...
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2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB541Intro
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 f...
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2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB504Intro
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.
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2024-02-09
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB483Intro
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.
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2024-02-07
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB417Intro
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 $15.00 an hour on July 1, 2028; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $5.00 an hour on the effecti...
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2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB359Intro
25%
Amend KRS 15.420 to define terms; amend KRS 15.440 and 15.460 to include law enforcement telecommunicators as participants in the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program ( KLEFP) fund and to make their fund benefits the same as police officers; a...
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2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB362Intro
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...
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2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB297Intro
25%
Amend KRS 65.016 and 337.275 to allow local governments to pass an ordinance setting employees' minimum wages at a rate higher than that found in KRS 337.275 for employers located within that government's jurisdiction.
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2024-01-18
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB291Intro
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.
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2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB284Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to prohibit theft of wages; define terms and establish penalties; amend KRS 336.080 to permit the secretary to enter places of employment without unreasonable delay; amend KRS 337.020 to allow the commissioner ...
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2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB237Intro
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...
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2024-01-11
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB196Intro
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...
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2024-01-09
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB195Intro
25%
Amend KRS 337.010 to define "family care leave," "family member," "health care provider," "same employer," and "serious health condition"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employers from refusing to grant a qualified employee famil...
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2024-01-09
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB144Intro
25%
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "covenant not to compete," "employee," and "health service provider"; prohibit a health service provider receiving 10 percent or more of its total gross revenue from state general funds from requirin...
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2024-01-04
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB89Intro
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...
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2024-01-03
To House Committee On Committees
KYHB49Intro
25%
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedu...
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2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees
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