| KY | HB320 | Pass | Amend KRS 337.385 to establish a statute of limitations of two years for wage and hour violations, and three years in the case of willful violations; amend KRS 413.125 to establish a statute of limitations of two years for a violation of KRS Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature |
| KY | HB277 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to transfer employees of the Louisville and Jefferson County Public Defender Corporation (Louisville Metro Public Defender) to the Department of Public Advocacy (DPA) on July 1, 2024, and to provide employment a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB179 | Pass | Amend KRS 304.3-110 to authorize life and health insurers to transact disability income and paid family leave insurance; make technical corrections; create new sections of Subtitle 5 of KRS Chapter 304 to define "disability income insurance" and "pai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB248 | Pass | Amend KRS 95.440 to remove the requirement that a person shall only be eligible for reinstatement to a police or fire department within one year following separation from employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB456 | Pass | Amend KRS 337.285 to add sheriff's offices and county police forces to the local government agencies eligible for an exception to overtime compensation; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB561 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms; 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 opportun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor |
| KY | HB124 | Engross
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB500 | Intro
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; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB295 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB304 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
To House Education Committee |
| KY | SB230 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of "protective hairstyle" and "race" that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 344.020 to provide that nothing in the chapter shall be construed to prohibit reasonable workplace policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee |
| KY | SB239 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB142 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth a paid leave of absence of up to four weeks for the birth, surrogacy, or adoption of a child, or up to two weeks for the placement of a child in foster care or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB381 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 18A.110 directing the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations requiring new employee compensation after the probationary period to not exceed or equal to an incumbent employee salary in the same job classification, work c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB366 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide for training for forensic lab technicians; require any forensic lab technician that completes training provided for by the department to remain emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB324 | Intro
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 from requiring an employee to enter a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB296 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.0011 to define "medical professional"; amend KRS 342.020 to provide that failure to submit a statement for services within 45 days may render the statement for services ineligible and that denial of a claim shall toll the requirements t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB273 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to define "lobbyist"; prohibit any program cabinet, department, division, branch, section, organizational unit, unit, office, or administrative body from employing a lobbyist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB291 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of "protective hairstyle" and "race" that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 344.020 to provide that nothing in the chapter shall be construed to prohibit reasonable workplace policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB797 | 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 raise minimum wage of hourly and tipped e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB772 | 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] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB756 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB502 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB168 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB205 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB539 | 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] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB541 | 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 f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB540 | 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] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB537 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB504 | 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] | 2024-02-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB176 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; establish a procedure for classifying workers as employees or independent contractors; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.145 to prohibit contractors with mul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | HB483 | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB171 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 160.350 to require a majority plus one vote instead of a four-fifths vote of board members to remove the superintendent, delete requirements for approval from the commissioner of education to remove a superintendent; provide an appeal proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HB417 | 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 $15.00 an hour on July 1, 2028; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $5.00 an hour on the effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB359 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB362 | 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] | 2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB297 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB291 | 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] | 2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB284 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB237 | 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] | 2024-01-11
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB196 | 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] | 2024-01-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB195 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB144 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB42 | 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 for empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB89 | 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] | 2024-01-03
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB49 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees |
