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in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 7, 2018

HB 308: AN ACT relating to employment schedules. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 requiring employers to give employees a good faith schedule of hours to be worked; require employers to have a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours and to post weekly schedules at least 7 days in advance; require employers to provide certain rest periods for employees; allow employees to identify time limitations for scheduling work hours; require compensation for employer changes to the schedule; set forth unlawful practices; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty of $500 to $2,000 for a violation of these provisions.

To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 7, 2018

HB 309: AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders. Amend KRS 342.0011 to clarify definition of injury to include psychological injuries for certain employees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to set out when the psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when no physical injury exists.

To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 6, 2018

HB 58: AN ACT relating to patient quality of life. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; establish the Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and create provisions and requirements; establish the Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program within the cabinet and create provisions and requirements; require all health facilities to establish systems for identifying patients or residents who could benefit from palliative care and provide information by 2021; allow the cabinet to require action plans and impose fines for those in violation.

Posted in committee
Mary Lou Marzian (D) Reginald Meeks (D)
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 6, 2018

SB 127: AN ACT relating to the licensing of motor vehicles. Amend KRS 186.180 to impose a $25 county clerk fee on motor vehicle license reinstatements when a vehicle license has been suspended for failure to maintain insurance; amend KRS 186.020 to raise the additional clerk fee for mail-in registration renewals from $2 to $3; amend KRS 186.040 to raise the clerk's fee on vehicle registrations and renewals from $6 to $7; amend KRS 186.162 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to establish the Kentucky Commission on Motor Vehicle Registration and Fee Modernization to recommend changes in Kentucky vehicle licensing laws, regulations, and fees; set membership, terms of office, and proxy voting procedures; Sections 2, 3, and 4 EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.

To Transportation (S)
Ernie Harris (R)
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 6, 2018

SB 125: AN ACT relating to easements of electric cooperatives. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 279 to define "electric cooperative," "communications infrastructure," "electric easement," "notice," and "property owner"; establish actions that allow an electric cooperative to modify an electric easement to install communications infrastructure for communications or broadband Internet service; specify the information to be included in the notice from the electric cooperative to the property owner of the electric easement; specify the terms of acceptance by property owner to modify the electric easement; require installation of communications infrastructure be in compliance with National Electric Safety Code; apply cost allocation and division between regulated and unregulated sides; establish right and timing for a cause of action by the property owner against the electric cooperative for damages from modifying the electric easement; require appraisals to be conducted by a licensed appraiser; require appraisal to be at property owner's cost and limit damages to amount to compensate for reduction in value to real property after including any increase in value from provision of broadband Internet service; prohibit additional compensation except for right to subscribe to service; restrict liability in case where the electric cooperative does not provide service in accordance with the plan; establish procedures for disputing appraisals; set requirements for payment of damages.

To Natural Resources & Energy (S)
Mike Wilson (R)
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