introduced · Kentucky · Senate Feb 21, 2017 SR 15: Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. James Douglas Crase. Adopted by voice vote Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 418: AN ACT relating to adoption assistance. Amend KRS 18A.202 to establish an adoption benefit program for state employees; amend KRS 36.477 to raise the adoption assistance maximums to Kentucky National Guard Adoption Assistance to $6,000 in unreimbursed direct costs related to the adoption of a child with special needs and $4,000 in unreimbursed direct costs related to the adoption of any other child. To State Government (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 508: AN ACT relating to natural resources. Amend KRS 146.100 to make grammatical and technical corrections. To Natural Resources & Energy (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 476: AN ACT relating to cosmetologists. Amend KRS 317A.155 to permit licensed cosmetologists to render free services at events sponsored by charitable organizations. To Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H) Track
introduced · Kentucky · Senate Feb 21, 2017 SR 100: Honor Kentucky farmers and recognize February 19 to 25, 2017, as Food Checkout Week. Adopted by voice vote Track
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 21, 2017 SB 244: AN ACT relating to ignition interlock devices. Amend KRS 186.570 to allow the Transportation Cabinet to address violations related to the issuance of an ignition interlock license and installation of an ignition interlock device and to promulgate administrative regulations to address out-of-state interlock ignition orders for residents and nonresidents; amend KRS 189A.005 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 189.070 to require that persons charged with a violation of KRS 189A.010 which includes aggravating circumstances, or who have refused a breath, blood, or urine test, may only receive day-for-day credit for a valid interlock license after conviction; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189A to allow any person charged with violating KRS 189A.010(1)(a), (b), (e), or (f) or who refused a breath, blood, or urine test to apply to the Transportation Cabinet for an ignition interlock license; delete the requirement that certain offenses require court approval to apply for an ignition interlock license; amend KRS 189A.085 to require proof of issuance of an ignition interlock license to avoid impoundment of a defendantâs license plate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189A to state that an employer exemption for an ignition interlock device allows the person to operate his or her employer's non-ignition interlock equipped motor vehicle in the course and scope of employment if the business entity that owns the motor vehicle is not owned or controlled by the person; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189A to provide that within thirty days of issuance of an ignition interlock license, a person must have a functioning ignition interlock device installed in his or her vehicle; amend KRS 189A.090 to make technical corrections to allow the court to revoke an ignition interlock or hardship license if the person has been convicted of a violation under KRS Chapter 189 for which points are assessed by the Transportation Cabinet and certain offenses under KRS Chapter 189A; amend KRS 189A.105 to require that at the time of a breath, blood, or urine test a person shall be informed that he or she will have to the ability to apply for an ignition interlock license; amend KRS 189A.107 to allow a person who refuses a breath, blood, or urine test to apply for an ignition interlock license if the person files a motion waiving the right to judicial review and to receive credit on a day-for-day basis after conviction; provide that a person who was not convicted of a violation of KRS 189A.010 but found by the court to have refused to submit to testing may receive credit on a day-for-day basis; amend KRS 189A.200 to revise procedure for issuance of an ignition interlock license during a suspension period for refusal to take a breath, blood, or urine test and other violations of KRS 189A.010; amend KRS 189A.240 to amend procedures related to issuance of an ignition interlock license during a pretrial suspension under KRS 189A.200(1)(a); amend KRS 189A.320 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 189A.400 to revise jurisdictional requirements of the District Court related to the issuance of ignition interlock licenses; amend KRS 189A.410 to revise eligibility requirements for issuance of a hardship driverâs license after a minimum license suspension period under KRS 189A.010(6) or KRS 189A.070; amend KRS 189A.500 to require the cabinet to create a process by which a person may seek administrative review by the cabinet related to ignition interlock devices; repeal KRS 189A.340, 189A.345, 189A.420, and 189A.440, relating to ignition interlock devices. To Transportation (S) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HJR 118: Erect signs for Kelsie May on the Country Music Highway on United States Route 23 in Lawrence County. To Transportation (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 529: AN ACT relating to workforce. Amend KRS 343.060 to make provisions gender-neutral. To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 421: AN ACT relating to administrative regulations. Amend KRS 13A.290 to require the administrative regulations compiler to compile a list of administrative regulations considered during the year, including their disposition; require the co-chairs of the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee to file the list of regulations as a simple resolution in their respective chambers; allow members to object to any resolution on the list; require the Legislative Research Commission to refer administrative regulations removed from the list to the interim joint committee with jurisdiction over the administrative regulation for additional consideration. To State Government (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 499: AN ACT relating to the Transportation Cabinet budget. Amend KRS 48.500 to require the Transportation Cabinet, when it does not start a capital project included in the Transportation Cabinet's biennial budget, to report to the Interim Joint Committees on Transportation and Appropriations and Revenue and the members of the General Assembly from the district in which the project is located, the identity of the project, the reasons why the project was not begun, and whether the cabinet will seek to reauthorize the project in the next budget; clarify that "capital" project does not include a road project contained in the biennial highway construction plan. To Transportation (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 483: AN ACT relating to mandatory benefits for health benefit plans. Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit insurers from imposing any preexisting condition exclusions, any lifetime dollar limits or unreasonable annual dollar limits on benefits, to prohibit rescission except as authorized by KRS 304.17A-240, or from discriminating against an individual in premiums or contributions based on the individuals sex, to require insurers provide coverage for essential health care benefits, guaranteed acceptance of individuals or employers who apply for coverage, and to provide coverage, not subject to cost-sharing requirements for certain preventative services; amend KRS 304.17A-005 to remove definitions for guaranteed acceptance program (GAP), GAP insurer, GAP plan, GAP qualified individual, GAP supporting individual, and high-cost condition; amend KRS 304.17A-095 to require all individual and small group health benefit plans to have a minimum loss ratio of 80% and for large group health benefit plans a minimum loss ratio of 85%; amend KRS 304.17A-0952 and 304.17A-0954 to remove gender from case characteristics for rating factors; amend KRS 304.17A-096 to make technical correction; amend KRS 304.17A-200 to prohibit any insurer offering a health benefit plan from establishing eligibility rules based on certain factors and to remove references to preexisting conditions provisions; amend KRS 304.17A-220, 304.17A-250, 304.17A-706, and 304.18-114 to remove references to preexisting condition exclusions; amend KRS 304.17A-256 to require all health benefit plans which provide dependent coverage to provide that coverage until the dependent turns 26 years old; amend KRS 304.17B-001 to make technical corrections and to remove definitions for GAP, GAP participating insurer and preexisting condition exclusion; amend KRS 304.17B-007 to remove reference to GAP and GAP participating insurer; amend KRS 304.17B-015 and 304.17B-021 to remove reference to GAP; amend KRS 304.17C-010, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to make technical corrections; repeal 304.17A-230, 304.17A-410, 304.17A-430, 304.17A-450, 304.17B-023, and 304.17B-025. To Health and Family Services (H) Track
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 21, 2017 HB 506: AN ACT relating to insurance. Amend KRS 304.48-080 to change "executive director" to "commissioner" to reflect the current organizational structure of the Department of Insurance. To Banking & Insurance (H) Track