Kentucky Bills

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 24, 2022

SJR 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.

to Banking & Insurance (S)

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 24, 2022

SJR 20: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services Organizational Structure, Operations, and Administration Task Force.

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in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 24, 2022

HB 348: AN ACT relating to a cost-of-living increase to the retirement benefits for Kentucky State Police troopers, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Appropriate $12 million in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to be applied to the State Police Retirement Fund to prefund in fiscal year 2022-2023 and effective July 1, 2022, a 1.5 percent increase in the monthly retirement allowances paid from the State Police Retirement System to each recipient; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 24, 2022

SB 99: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Homeschool Scholar Program and making an appropriation therefor.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Homeschool Scholar Program; direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program; establish eligibility requirements; create the Kentucky Homeschool Scholar trust fund; appropriate $500,000 in fiscal year 2022-2023 and in fiscal year 2023-2024 for the program; APPROPRIATION.

in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 24, 2022

HB 352: AN ACT relating to licensing protection for health care providers and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit action against the license of a physician or physician assistant for a recommendation of medical treatment for COVID-19 including a prescription for a drug not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19; create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to prohibit action against the license of an advanced practice registered nurse for a recommendation of medical treatment for COVID-19, including a prescription for a drug not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19; create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to prohibit a pharmacist blocking or attempting to block a patient's access to a drug prescribed by a physician, physician assistant, or APRN on the basis that the United States Food and Drug Administration has not approved the drug as a treatment for COVID-19; prohibit action against the license of a pharmacist for dispensing a prescribed drug for the treatment of COVID-19 that has not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19.

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 24, 2022

SB 103: AN ACT relating to racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements.

Create new sections of KRS Chapters 6 and 15A to make legislative findings and require racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements for certain legislation and administrative regulations.

in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 24, 2022

HB 342: AN ACT relating to utility rates.

Amend KRS 278.030 to include rate affordability when determining fair, just, and reasonable utility rates; allow the Public Service Commission to review the affordability of a utility's rate if the utility has not requested a rate adjustment within the last five years; allow the commission to order a rate increase to prevent significant increases in a single period; require affordable, fair, just, and reasonable rates to balance the interests of the utility, its investors, and the ratepayer.

in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 24, 2022

SCR 20: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services Organizational Structure, Operations, and Administration Task Force.

Create the Cabinet for Health and Family Services Organizational Structure, Operations, and Administrative Task Force to study the organizational structure, operations, and administration of programs, polices, and procedures within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2022 interim; and require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.

in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 20, 2022

HB 329: AN ACT relating to criminal offenses committed during a declared emergency.

Amend KRS 511.020, 511.030, and 511.040 to provide an enhanced penalty if the offense occurred during a declared emergency and within the area covered by the emergency declaration; amend KRS 514.030 to provide that the theft of property valued at $300 or more during a declared emergency and within the area covered by the emergency declaration is a Class D felony; amend KRS 514.110 to provide that receiving stolen property valued at $300 or more during a declared emergency and within the area covered by the emergency declaration is a Class D felony; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to require a 12-hour hold for any person charged with certain offenses; provide exceptions.

in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 20, 2022

HB 332: AN ACT relating to financial transparency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to procure an annual financial audit of all funds and accounts under its jurisdiction; require audits to be conducted in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards; allow the Administrative Office of the Courts to enter into a contract to perform an audit only after the Auditor of Public Accounts has declined to perform the audit; if the Auditor of Public Accounts performs the audit, charge the Administrative Office of the Courts for expenses incurred; if the Administrative Office of the Courts contracts to perform an audit, require a copy of the audit report and management letter to be forwarded to the Auditor of Public Accounts and the Legislative Research Commission; grant the Auditor of Public Accounts the right to review work papers and documents developed by the entity contracted to perform the audit; allow the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a special audit or examination of the Administrative Office of the Courts, with expenses to be borne by the Administrative Office of the Courts.

in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 20, 2022

HB 328: AN ACT relating to electronic prescription records.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A requiring the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide a copy of a patient's electronic prescription record upon request of the patient, the patient's legal guardian, or the patient's parent or legal guardian if the patient is a minor; require the cabinet to make corrections to a patient's electronic prescription record; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement a process for requesting records; require the cabinet to respond to a request within at least 30 days of a completed request; permit the cabinet to charge a reasonable fee for a request of a copy of a record but not for making a record correction.

in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 20, 2022

HB 338: AN ACT relating to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals.

Create a new section of Subchapter 10 of KRS Chapter 224 to define "PFAS chemicals"; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet on or before January 1, 2023, to promulgate administrative regulations establishing maximum PFAS chemical limits and monitoring requirements for drinking water provided by public and semi-public water systems and maximum PFAS chemical limits and monitoring requirements for discharges into the waters of the Commonwealth; require that maximum PFAS chemical limits be designed to protect public health and be updated; provide that nothing in the section interferes with the Energy and Environment Cabinet's responsibilities under the federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Safe Drinking Water Act.

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