HB 599 Kentucky House · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to wages.

Summary
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 increase the state minimum wage over the next three years to no less than 100 percent of the municipality, county, or state minimum wage or the prevailing wage as defined in 29 C.F.R. sec. 1.2; amend KRS 337.295 to remove learners, apprentices, workers with a disability, sheltered workshop employees, and students from regulations issued by the commissioner for the Department of Workplace Standards; amend KRS 205.5605 to exclude referrals to sheltered workshop employment from the definition of "covered services and supports" as of July 1, 2028; amend KRS 154.22-040 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Employees with Disabilities Equal Pay Act.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
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Introduced Feb 18, 2025 Last action Feb 26, 2025
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Feb 26, 2025
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to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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Feb 18, 2025
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Feb 18, 2025
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