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State Legislature US Congress

All 14,689 Active 8,035 In committee 7,985 Passed 4,536 Signed 1,954 Failed 136

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 17, 2022

SCR 60: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Congress of the United States to protect consumers and their financial institutions from harmful and intrusive Internal Revenue Service bank account reporting requirements.

Urge the United States Congress, and the Kentucky delegation to Congress, to reject proposals that would impose burdensome and intrusive IRS bank account reporting requirements on financial institutions.

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2022

HB 535: AN ACT relating to reproductive health care.

Amend KRS 205.592 to expand Medicaid eligibility to include pregnant women of any immigration status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define new terms; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a family planning program to provide family planning services and family planning-related services to Medicaid-eligible individuals, including individuals who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid except for their immigration status; require the Department for Medicaid Services to promulgate administrative regulations and collaborate with multiple divisions, agencies, and other parties to facilitate participation the family planning program; require a waiver to be requested if it is determined a waiver is needed.

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2022

HB 333: AN ACT relating to the community investment tax credit.

For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027, create a new section in KRS Chapter 141 to establish the community investment credit for financial institutions making loans to a community development financial institution; establish the annual credit cap at $20 million; require the Department of Revenue to report tax credit data to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Legislative Research Commission to receive confidential data about the new tax credit from the Department of Revenue.

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2022

HB 530: AN ACT relating to Medicaid services.

Amend KRS 205.203 to add gender-neutral language.

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2022

HB 538: AN ACT relating to commercial driver's license testing.

Amend KRS 281A.160 to allow an applicant who has a nonresident operator's license and a commercial driver's instruction permit to take the CDL skills test within the Commonwealth; establish a nonresident testing fee of $150.

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2022

HB 534: AN ACT relating to patient-directed care at the end of life.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill patient's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; require conditions for making request; permit patient to rescind request at any time; permit an attending physician to provide medication; establish requirements for attending physician to inform patients and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified patients; require report by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish provisions for contracts, insurance policies, and beneficiaries; prohibit applicability of provisions to ending a patient's life by lethal injection, mercy killing, or active euthanasia; direct that a health care provider is not required to provide medication to a qualified patient; permit health care providers to prohibit persons or entities from participating in a qualified patient's request during or on the premises of employment; prohibit reporting a health care provider to a licensing board for participating in a qualified patient's request; state that actions under this Act do not authorize lethal injection, mercy killing or active euthanasia; state that actions under this Act do not constitute suicide or homicide; create a form for a qualified patient to make a request; create a form for an interpreter for a qualified patient making a request; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish provisions for insurance policies and beneficiaries of qualified patients; amend KRS 507.020 and KRS 507.030 to create an affirmative defense to a charge of murder and manslaughter in the first degree; establish short title of the Kentucky Death with Dignity Act.

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2022

HB 520: AN ACT relating to trial commissioners.

Amend KRS 24A.100 to increase the compensation of trial commissioners to no more than $10,500 per year.

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2022

HCR 83: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force.

Create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force to study and make recommendations related to the legalization, taxation, and use of cannabis in the Commonwealth; set task force membership; require the task force to meet at least once every two months during the 2022 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2022

HB 527: AN ACT relating to educators.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish a student loan forgiveness program for teachers and administrators employed at a public school district within a federally designated promise zone; authorize the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the program; create the promise zone educator scholarship fund.

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2022

HB 533: AN ACT relating to mental illness.

Amend KRS 202A.014 to add gender-neutral language.

in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 17, 2022

HB 528: AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.

Amend KRS 533.050 to require the court to consider all sanctions, including graduated sanctions adopted by the Department of Corrections for violations of the conditions of community supervision, before revoking a sentence of probation or conditional discharge; amend KRS 439.553 to conform.

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 17, 2022

SB 172: AN ACT relating to emergency response plans for animals.

Amend KRS 39A.050 to require the Kentucky Emergency Operations Plan to establish and include an emergency response plan to coordinate with local government agencies, animal shelters, animal control officers, and other entities to develop a plan for household pets and assistance animals that would include notification requirements for lost household pets and assistance animals, protocols for returning pets and assistance animals, and minimization of euthanasia of owned household pets and assistance animals.