Kentucky Bills

Amend KRS 161.120 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations that establish the process and procedures for receiving and processing a complaint against a certificate holder; establish a specific timeline; establish specific action the board may take; require confirmation of receipt of responses or correspondences to the board from a certificate holder; require the board to provide confirmation of receipt to superintendents who submit a report to the board and provide specific notices; establish a specific timeline for a hearing for admonishment, remove the option for a hearing to be conducted by the board or a panel of three members of the board; require that the hearing provide all the due process rights afforded under KRS Chapter 13B; allow an appeal of a final order of the board to be filed in the Circuit Court of the county in which the certificate holder resides; RETROACTIVE to pending complaints filed with the board; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 61.637 and 78.5540 to require the Department of Education to pay to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) the health insurance premium reimbursements required for retirees who participated in a hazardous position prior to July 1, 2003, and are reemployed by a local school board; amend KRS 161.158 to provide that local school board employees who are retirees who participated in a hazardous position prior to July 1, 2003, shall have the cost of their retiree health insurance reimbursed to KPPA.

Amend KRS 223.170 to require the board of certification for water treatment and distribution system operators to submit to the Energy and Environment Cabinet on or before December 31, 2024, recommendations for the establishment of a voluntary certification program for supervisors of certified operators in primary responsible charge of water treatment plants or distribution systems as well as recommendations for the establishment of a program or strategy for recruiting applicants to work in the operation of water treatment plants or distribution systems who are not currently participating in apprenticeships or certification programs administered by the cabinet; amend KRS 224.73-110 to require the Kentucky Board of Certification of Wastewater System Operators to submit to the Energy and Environment Cabinet on or before December 31, 2024, recommendations for the establishment of a voluntary certification program for supervisors of certified operators in primary responsible charge of public or private sewage systems as well as recommendations for the establishment of a program or strategy for recruiting applicants to work in the operation of public or private sewage systems who are not currently participating in apprenticeships or certification programs administered by the cabinet.

Amend KRS 218B.010 to revise the definition of "bona fide practitioner-patient relationship"; amend KRS 218B.020 to require the Board of Physicians and Advisors to assist the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in developing a Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Pamphlet; amend KRS 218B.035 to prohibit vaping cannabis products on any form of public transportation, in any public place, or in any place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement; amend KRS 218B.045 to permit private religious schools to refuse to enroll a student who is a cardholder; allow, instead of require, local boards of education and the boards of directors of public charter schools to establish policies related to the use of medicinal cannabis on school property; require such policies, if established, to include a process by which a school nurse or other school administrator may refuse to administer medicinal cannabis to a student who is a cardholder; require the administration of medicinal cannabis on school property to occur out of view of other students; amend KRS 218B.050 prohibit a medicinal cannabis practitioner from providing a written certification for the use of medicinal cannabis to a patient who is taking a prescription drug that contraindicates the use of medicinal cannabis; amend KRS 218B.055 to require that an application for a registry identification card to include a written certification issued not more than 60 days prior to the date of the application; amend KRS 218B.065 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to conduct a criminal background check on each application for a registry identification card solely to determine if the applicant was previously convicted of a disqualifying felony offense; amend KRS 218B.070 to require a medicinal cannabis practitioner to notify the Cabinet for Health and Family Services if he or she has knowledge that a patient has died, ceased to suffer from a qualifying medical condition, or is no longer likely to receive safe and effective therapeutic or palliative benefits from the use of medicinal cannabis; amend KRS 218B.110 to establish a requirement that dispensaries provide cardholders with a copy of the Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Pamphlet; amend KRS 218B.130 to revise the process for initiating a public question related to medicinal cannabis business operations; amend KRS 218B.140 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a medicinal cannabis adverse drug effects reporting system and to produce the Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Pamphlet; amend 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 146 (2023 SB 47), sec. 42, to establish a new effective date of August 1, 2024, for KRS 139.480, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, 218B.015, 218B.030, 218B.090, 218B.095, 218B.100, 218B.105, 218B.110, 218B.115, 218B.120, 218B.125, and 218B.155; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2024.

Amend KRS 511.070 to allow notice of trespass to be given through the placement of identifying purple paint marks on property; require any owner or lessee who marks his or her real property in such a manner to also provide clear written notice forbidding entry.

Amend KRS 186.040 to direct $30 of the registration fee for vehicles in excess of 44,000 pounds to the county clerk of the county in which the truck is registered; amend KRS 186.050 to set registration fees for vehicles in excess of 44,000 pounds; amend KRS 189.340 to prohibit the operation of a truck tractor, trailer, or semitrailer in the far left lane of any roadway that has been divided into three or more clearly marked lanes for travel; amend KRS 281.926 to require towing companies to submit their rate schedules to the nearest Department of Kentucky State Police (KSP) post in addition to making them available to the public upon request, and direct the KSP to remove companies that do not comply with these requirements from the KSP wrecker log for a period of six months for the first violation and one year for any subsequent violation; amend KRS 189.222 to provide a weight limit allowance of 400 pounds for any vehicle with an auxiliary power unit; amend KRS 189.221 to conform; amend KRS 75.450 to increase the limit that subscription fire departments may charge for accident response from $500 to $1,000; amend KRS 189.270, 189.271, 189.2713, 189.2716, and 189.2717 to require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to set fees for overweight and overdimensional permits; amend KRS 132.487 to direct the state portion of vehicle property taxes on electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles to the road fund; amend KRS 186.480 to require the KSP to include information about the organ donor program in educational materials for driver training; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.

Direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to conduct a study on expanding postbaccalaureate program offerings at comprehensive universities; consult with each president of a comprehensive university to consider a regional economic development or workforce development need that may be met by a postbaccalaureate program.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "National Background Check Program" or "NBCP," "PACE," and "PACE service provider"; exempt PACE service providers from obtaining a health facility license or a certificate of need to provide PACE services; provide that a PACE service provider shall be eligible to participate and enroll in the NBCP.

Amend KRS 405.075 to change the definition of "newborn safety device" related to the continuous staffing requirement.

Amend KRS 156.160 to require cursive writing to be included as a course of study in all elementary schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to establish a public high school graduation requirement that a student demonstrate the ability to sign his or her own name in cursive; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the section and create a waiver process for students physically unable to demonstrate a cursive signature; require all public high schools to offer a course in typing and cursive writing; direct Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish academic standards for the course; require successful completion of the course to be a graduation requirement from the 2025-2026 school year through the 2028-2029 school year.

Amend KRS 131.010 to define "administrative writings"; amend KRS 131.020 to require the department to publish administrative writings within 120 days of the issuance or finalization; amend KRS 131.030, 131.081, 131.130, and 131.190 to conform.

Create a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580 to define "social media platform"; require sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor to display their full legal name on social media platforms; provide penalties.