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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 15, 2017

SB 180: AN ACT relating to the new markets development program tax credit. Amend KRS 141.432 to require that a qualified community development entity be organized or formed in and have its principal place of business in Kentucky and commit to invest federal new market tax credits in the same dollar amount as it invests state new markets tax credits; amend KRS 141.433 to require the Department of Revenue to make available to the public a list of all qualified community development entities that were certified for the credit as well as their respective credit amounts; require the Department of Revenue to report information regarding the new markets development program tax credit to the Legislative Research Commission; determine order of application of tax credits; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to conform and make technical changes.

To Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 15, 2017

SB 181: AN ACT relating to the education of children living in homes with a finding of substantiated abuse or neglect. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require a parent, guardian, or other person who has been found by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to have abused or neglected a child to send the child his or her custody to a regular public day school; require any exemption to this requirement to be approved by the court; apply penalties under KRS 159.990 for violations.

To Judiciary (S)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 365: AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefits. Amend KRS 304.17A-165 to prohibit insurers from requiring the use of mail-order pharmacies and prohibit a difference in cost-sharing between retail and mail-order pharmacies; amend KRS 18A.225 to require any plan offered by the Personnel Cabinet to prohibit the requirement of mail-order pharmacies, and to prohibit a difference in cost-sharing; amend KRS 205.522 to require a managed care organization that provides Medicaid benefits from requiring the use of mail-order pharmacies and prohibit a difference in cost-sharing between retail and mail-order; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2018.

To Health and Family Services (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 320: AN ACT relating to deferred deposit transactions. Amend KRS 286.9-010 to define "annual percentage rate," "consideration," and "interest"; amend KRS 286.9-100 to delete the service fee of $15 per $100 and establish a maximum annual percentage rate of 36% for deferred deposit transactions; provide that making a deferred deposit transaction in violation of the maximum interest provisions is an unfair, false, misleading, and deceptive practice in violation of the Consumer Protection Act and subject to its rights and remedies; prohibit a licensee from engaging in deceptive practices to evade the requirements of Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 286; amend KRS 286.9-102 to require a licensee to conspicuously display interest charges for services; create a new section of Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 286 to provide that knowing violation of the maximum allowable interest rate provisions shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest for the transaction and the person who paid the interest, or his or her legal representative, may recover twice the amount paid in any action against the lender if commenced within two years of the deferred deposit transaction.

To Banking & Insurance (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 342: AN ACT relating to conversion therapy and declaring an emergency. Create new sections of KRS Chapters 311, 319, and 335 to prohibit practitioners from engaging in conversion therapy, including the compensation and advertisement for conversion therapy; require violations to be subject to board discipline and false claims laws; prohibit public funds from being used for conversion therapy; define conversion therapy and public funds; EMERGENCY.

To Health and Family Services (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 339: AN ACT relating to taxation. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 establishing the apparently wholesome food income tax credit equaling 20% of the fair market value of apparently wholesome food donated in Kentucky; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow Department of Revenue to provide information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend various statutes to conform and to make technical changes.

To Appropriations & Revenue (H)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 15, 2017

HB 148: AN ACT relating to midwifery and making an appropriation therefor. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to establish licensing for midwifery; establish terms and create definitions; establish the Kentucky Board of Midwifery, create membership, set terms, and grant authority and duties; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations; establish the scope of practice for a licensed midwife; require informed consent for practice and require disclosures; allow the board to reprimand, deny, limit, revoke, probate, or suspend licenses; establish in the State Treasury the Kentucky Board of Midwifery trust and agency fund; amend KRS 211.180 to remove midwifery from the purview of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 311.550 to amend the definition of medicine and osteopathy to remove a reference to the Cabinet's oversight of midwifery; declare that this Act is intended to be consistent with the United States Midwifery Education, Regulation, and Association statement on licensure, July 2015; APPROPRIATION.

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