HR 73: Honor the Kentucky Association for Economic Development for 50 years of remarkable contributions to the Commonwealth.
Adopted by voice vote
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HB 296: AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. Amend KRS 342.020 to limit the obligation to pay medical benefits indefinitely for certain permanent partial disabilities; limit medical benefits to age 70 or four years after date of injury, whichever is later, except for permanent total awards or awards involving prosthetic devices which continue for as long as the employee is disabled; limit the number of urine drug screens for which an employer, insurer, or payment obligor is required to pay; amend KRS 342.035 to require the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to develop, adopt, and implement treatment guidelines and a pharmaceutical formulary on or before December 31, 2018; amend KRS 342.040 to reduce the amount of interest paid on awards; amend KRS 342.125 to clarify that the four-year reopening window begins only from the date of the original order granting or denying benefits; amend KRS 342.185 to provide a statute of repose for cumulative trauma claims; amend KRS 342.320 to increase limitation on attorney's fees to $18,000; amend KRS 342.700 to extend subrogation recovery of medical expenses and delete reference to legal fees and expense; amend KRS 342.730 to allow payment of temporary total disability benefits to be offset for net wages paid to an employee during a period of light-duty work or work in an alternative job position; amend KRS 342.990 to conform; specify the applicability of substantive changes to claims arising on or after effective date of Act and remedial changes to all claims irrespective of injury date.
Returned to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
SR 153: Honor the Greenup County High School cheerleaders.
Adopted by voice vote
SR 127: Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Astor Sullivan Flanary.
Adopted by voice vote
HB 401: AN ACT relating to members of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System who are called to active military duty. Amend KRS 161.168 to require the state to pay the employee contribution for all members of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System who are called to active military duty so that the member receives service credit in the system for the period of military deployment.
To State & Local Government (S)
SR 158: Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Rita Thomas.
Adopted by voice vote
SR 155: Honor Marion Mayor Mickey Alexander upon the occasion of his retirement.
Adopted by voice vote
SB 13: AN ACT relating to the Bowling Green Veterans Center, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Authorize to the Department of Veterans' Affairs Federal Funds and Bond Funds in fiscal year 2016-2017 for the construction of the Bowling Green Veterans Center nursing home; establish conditions; provide that if debt service is required it shall be a necessary government expense to be paid from the General Fund Surplus Account or the Budget Reserve Trust Fund Account; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
HR 157: Honor the Nelson County High School girls' basketball team upon winning the 5th Region Basketball Championship.
Adopted by voice vote
SCR 78: Designate April 6, 2017, as the World War One Centennial Day throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
To Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection (H)
SR 35: Honor Paducah Police Chief Brandon Barnhill upon being named Police Chief of the Year for 2016 by the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police.
Adopted by voice vote
SR 56: Honor Mark Gormley.
Adopted by voice vote
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