Kentucky Bills

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 8: AN ACT relating to the use of public resources. Amend KRS 311.715 relating to funding prohibitions to prohibit state and local funds from being used, granted, paid, or distributed to an entity, organization, or individual that provides abortion services; establish a funding priority for the distribution of federal funds that places state, county, and local community health clinics and federally qualified health centers first; amend KRS 311.720 to conform.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 64)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 38: AN ACT relating to timber theft. Amend KRS 364.130 to specify that a person, regardless of state of mind or whether the person believes to be authorized or not, is liable for three times the stumpage value of the timber and three times the cost of any damages to property when he or she takes the timber of another without legal right or color of title.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 66)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 304: AN ACT relating to the nurse licensure compact. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to enact and enter into the Nurse Licensure Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for registered nurses or practical nurses; permit the Kentucky Board of Nursing to limit or revoke the multistate licensure privilege of any nurse to practice in Kentucky; establish application requirements; require reporting of any actions taken by the Kentucky Board of Nursing to the home state of the licensee; require compact states to participate in a coordinated licensure information system and provide for interchange of information; establish the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators; provide immunity for party states, officers, employees, or agents of a party state's nurse licensing board who act in accordance with the provisions of the compact; prohibit amendment of the compact unless the amendment has been enacted into the laws of all party states; provide for severability for any provision in the compact that is contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance; repeal KRS 314.470, which set forth the prior version of the Nurse Licensure Compact; EFFECTIVE December 31, 2018, or upon adoption of compact by 26 states, whichever is earlier.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 084)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 197: AN ACT relating to the transfer of contract staff providing services to the Department of Criminal Justice Training and declaring an emergency. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to transfer certain contract employees of Eastern Kentucky University who are engaged in providing instructional and support services to the Department of Criminal Justice Training to state employee status within the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; require that all employees retain salaries and leave balances; require the employees to participate in KERS nonhazardous; amend KRS 18A.115 to transfer Eastern Kentucky University contract employees who are engaged in providing instructional and support services to the Department of Criminal Justice Training to the personnel system under KRS Chapter 18A; EMERGENCY.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 58)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 299: AN ACT relating to the reorganization of the Workers' Compensation Nominating Commission. Amend KRS 342.213 to abolish the Workers' Compensation Nominating Commission; create the Workers' Compensation Nominating Committee; set the number and experience of members; describe the duties and responsibilities of the committee; amend KRS 12.020, 336.020, and 342.228 to conform; confirm Executive Order 2016-319.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 083)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 238: AN ACT relating to construction and declaring an emergency. Provide authorization for the renewal of the Capital Plaza in downtown Frankfort, Kentucky, including authorization under KRS 45.763; EMERGENCY.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 103)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 226: AN ACT relating to reorganization. Amend KRS 12.020 to change the Office of Policy and Budget to the Office of Finance and Budget in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and add the Office of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs; amend KRS 194A.030 to assign responsibilities of these offices; confirm Executive Order 2016-892.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 092)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 38: AN ACT relating to sex offender registrants. Amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit sex offender registrants from being on the grounds of a publicly owned playground without advance written permission.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 76)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 306: AN ACT relating to an exemption from workers' compensation for religious organizations. Amend KRS 342.650 to include certain ministers and caretakers of a church or religious organization with employees who are exempt from workers' compensation insurance.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 085)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 242: AN ACT relating to the Department of Insurance. Amend KRS 12.020, 304.2-020, and 304.2-063 to delete the Property and Casualty Division and the Health and Life Division of the Department of Insurance; establish the Division of Insurance Product Regulation and the Division of Administrative Services; rename the Consumer Protection Division the Division of Consumer Protection; authorize the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to apply for a state innovation waiver under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and implement any state plan proposed under an approved waiver.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 094)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 502: AN ACT relating to the administration of justice and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 23A.045 to add the Sixth Judicial Circuit to the circuits which have three circuit judges, allowing for a Family Court judge in that circuit, and amend KRS 23A.040 to conform.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 75)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 183: AN ACT relating to reorganization. Confirm Executive Order 2016-832, relating to the reorganization of the Public Service Commission, which is administratively attached to the Energy and Environment Cabinet.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 56)