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in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 7, 2022

SB 130: AN ACT relating to the health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Direct the use of a total of $81,000,000 of American Rescue Plan Act State Fiscal Recovery funds in fiscal year 2022-2023 to address the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting essential need for retaining and recruiting nurses, nurse's aides, respiratory therapists, emergency medical personnel, and other critical medical staff in acute care hospitals and nursing homes; require distribution of funds of a minimum of $3,000 per licensed hospital bed and a minimum of $1,500 per licensed nursing home bed; require acute care hospitals and nursing homes to report expenditures to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require the cabinet to report to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Danny Carroll (R) Ralph Alvarado (R)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 3, 2022

HB 455: AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to recovery for injuries.

Propose an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the General Assembly the power to limit noneconomic damages for injuries resulting in death or for injuries to persons or property, and the power to provide statutes of limitation; provide for submission to the voters.
William Lawrence (R) Shawn McPherson (R) Scott Sharp (R) Melinda Gibbons Prunty (R) Jonathan Dixon (R)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 3, 2022

HB 454: AN ACT relating to peace officer certification.

Amend KRS 15.382 to prohibit anyone who has been convicted of various misdemeanor offenses and inchoate offenses under KRS Chapter 510 from being certified as a peace officer; amend KRS 15.386 to prohibit peace officers who have been convicted of various misdemeanor offenses and inchoate offenses under KRS Chapter 510 from returning to active certification from inactive status; amend KRS 15.391 to provide that a peace officer's certification shall be revoked if he or she pleads guilty to, is convicted of, or enters an Alford plea to various misdemeanor offenses and inchoate offenses under KRS Chapter 510.
Jennifer Decker (R) John Blanton (R)
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Feb 3, 2022

SB 118: AN ACT relating to permits.

Amend KRS 224.16-050 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to update and study the state assumption of the Section 404 permitting program; authorize the Governor to seek assumption; if the United States Environmental Protection Agency grants the delegation to the state, ensure the permitting process reduces duplication, streamlines the process for coal companies, and ensures permits are issued in a fair and equitable manner; require the cabinet to implement an online portal for the processing of permits issued, including the Section 404, Section 402 and Section 401 certification; require the portal to provide a flow chart of each permit process with timelines; require the portal to show when an application is complete and the expectation on when a final decision is made; restrict access to the information in the application from open records or public access; reduce the application fee for a permit that has been mishandled or delayed by the cabinet.
Phillip Wheeler (R) Brandon Smith (R) Rick Girdler (R) Jared Carpenter (R)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 3, 2022

HB 456: AN ACT relating to reorganization and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 12.020 to remove the Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation from the Department of Agriculture; amend KRS 12.023 to attach the Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 18A.115 to remove the exemption for employees of the Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation from classified service; amend KRS 246.030 to remove the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy from the Department of Agriculture's organizational structure; amend KRS 247.944 to attach the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to the Office of the Governor; authorize the Governor to appoint the members of the board of directors; allow staff services for the board to be provided by the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 248.707 to designate the Governor to serve as chairperson of the Agricultural Development Board; authorize the Governor to appoint members of the Agricultural Development Board; attach the Agricultural Development Board to the Office of the Governor, allow staff services for the board to be provided by the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 248.709 to remove reporting requirement for the executive director; transfer affairs associated with the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to the Office of the Governor; direct board members of the Agricultural Development Board and Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to serve terms as set forth; EMERGENCY.
Derrick Graham (D)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 3, 2022

HB 452: AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions.

Amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from raising tuition for a postsecondary education institution more than 5% a year for resident students and 7% a year for nonresident students; provide a 4-year tuition freeze for an enrolled resident students; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase to tuition or fees to be approved before March 1 of the proceeding school year; amend KRS 164.131 to add 2 additional full-time student members to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, including 1 graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; amend KRS 164.821 to add a second faculty member to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees; add 2 additional full-time student members to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees, including 1 graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; amend KRS 164.321 to add a second faculty member to the boards of regents of comprehensive universities; add 2 additional full-time student members to the boards of regents, including 1 full-time graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; provide that the bill may be cited as the Kentucky Student Tuition Protection and Accountability Act; EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2024.
Kevin Bratcher (R) Russell Webber (R) Kim Banta (R) Josie Raymond (D) William Lawrence (R)
in committee · Kentucky · House Feb 2, 2022

HB 449: AN ACT relating to resources for local development.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define "county"; grant any city or county the right to levy a restaurant tax not to exceed three percent of retail sales; require the revenue to be distributed between the tourist convention commission and taxing jurisdiction; specify uses; exempt restaurants subject to the restaurant tax from certain occupational license fees; mandate first-time tax rate levies and rate changes take effect at the beginning of a calendar month; amend 91A.400 to sunset the levy of a restaurant tax under this section; require distribution of at least 25 percent of revenues generated to the tourist and convention commission; specify uses; exempt restaurants subject to the tax from certain local occupational license fees; amend KRS 67.938, 91A.390, 91.200, 92.281, and 92.300 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.
Jim DuPlessis (R) Tom Smith (R)
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