Kentucky Bills

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 176: AN ACT relating to military surplus vehicles. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to allow the titling of military surplus vehicles; set provisions for titling; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to the titling of these vehicles; amend KRS 186A.115 to require military surplus vehicles to be inspected prior to titling; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations relating to inspection and modifications; require the Transportation Cabinet to create a new inspection form for military surplus vehicles; make technical corrections; amend KRS 186.010 to define "military surplus vehicle"; specify that a military surplus vehicle is a motor vehicle.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 55)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 255: AN ACT relating to wages and hours in nonprofit entities. Amend 337.010(2)(a)10. to clarify the exemption for an organized nonprofit camp, religious, or nonprofit educational conference center that it must not be in operation for more than 210 days instead of 7 months in a calendar year.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 096)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 227: AN ACT relating to physical therapists. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 327 to establish a multistate physical therapy licensure compact; set out compact purpose and definitions; allow state participation in the compact if the state meets the compact criteria; require criminal background checks for licensees and applicants; enable a licensee to exercise a compact privilege if the listed requirements are met; make a licensee practicing in another jurisdiction subject to that jurisdiction's regulatory authority; authorize active duty military personnel and their spouses to designate their home state as the state of the home of record, permanent change of station, or current residence; institute rules for enforcing adverse actions against a licensee under the compact; establish the Physical Therapy Compact Commission as a joint public agency; fix commission membership, meetings, and the executive board; set out commission powers and duties, financing, and immunity and indemnification; approve commission rulemaking authority and data system requirements; initiate the commission's oversight, dispute resolution, and enforcement powers; make rules for compact implementation, amendment, and withdrawal; delay the effective date of the compact until the date of its enactment by 10 states; insert a severability clause in the compact; create a new section of KRS Chapter 327 to allow an out-of-state physical therapist to practice in Kentucky under a compact privilege; create a new section of KRS Chapter 327 to establish procedures for criminal background investigations relating to the physical therapy compact; amend KRS 327.020 to conform.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 093)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 147: AN ACT relating to advanced practice doctoral programs at comprehensive universities. Amend KRS 164.295 to remove the maximum number of advanced practice doctoral programs that may be offered by the six comprehensive universities; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to review advanced practice doctorates consistent with its review schedule for all other academic programs; prohibit a comprehensive university from offering a terminal degree in veterinary medicine, chiropractic, or optometry or a primary degree in architecture.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 51)

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 50: AN ACT relating to the school calendar. Amend KRS 158.070 to establish a school district calendar committee and determine its membership; allow inclusion of a variable student instructional year in a school calendar; define a variable student instructional year; establish school calendar adoption procedures; require notice to be given to the media for school board meetings regarding the school calendar; provide that districts adopting a school calendar with the first student attendance day no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 may use a variable student instructional year; make changes throughout to conform.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 68)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 368: AN ACT relating to tax credits. Amend KRS 144.132 to allow persons that contract with one or more certificated air carriers for the transportation by air of persons, property, or mail and that purchase and pay for the aviation fuel used for that purpose a sales and use tax credit equal to the amount in excess of $1,000,000 each fiscal year; repeal various statutes.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 71)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 271: AN ACT relating to education requirements for cosmetologists. Amend KRS 317A.050 to reduce the hours of education required for an apprentice cosmetologist license from 1,800 to 1,500; amend KRS 317A.090 to require cosmetology schools to provide courses of instruction of at least 1,500 hours instead of 1,800 hours.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 099)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 403: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Horse Park. Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 148.260 to abolish, reestablish, and reorganize the Kentucky Horse Park Commission; change the number of members on the commission; redistribute membership among different interests; provide that the Governor is to designate one member as vice chairman; confirm Executive order 2016-281; authorize administrative regulations for operation, parking, and removal of vehicles.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch.73)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 324: AN ACT relating to third-party service providers of depository institutions. Create a new section of Subtitle 1 of KRS Chapter 286 to define "commissioner" and "department" for the chapter; create a new section of Subtitle 2 of KRS Chapter 286 to subject third-party service providers of depository institutions to regulation and examination by the Department of Financial Institutions; allow the commissioner to charge fees for the cost of examinations; make confidential any reports of examination, except under certain circumstances; allow the commissioner to enter into cooperative agreements with other state of federal agencies to facilitate examinations.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 087)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 74: AN ACT relating to motor vehicle equipment. Amend KRS 189.950 to prohibit most motor vehicles from being equipped with blue lights; provide an exemption for nonhalogen headlamps that have a slight blue tint and meet USDOT regulations; amend KRS 189.993 to establish penalties for violation.

Signed by Governor

signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 21, 2017

SB 89: AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage for tobacco cessation treatment. Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurance coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation medicines and services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation medication and services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 49)

signed · Kentucky · House Mar 21, 2017

HB 270: AN ACT relating to manufactured housing. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to require filing of an affidavit of severance with the county clerk when a manufactured home is to be removed from real estate located within the county; include requirements for information included on the affidavit of severance; require the county clerk to provide a copy of the affidavit of severance to the property valuation administrator.

Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 098)