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signed · Kentucky · House Mar 30, 2022

HB 171: AN ACT relating to delinquency proceedings involving insurer-members of federal home loan banks.

Amend KRS 304.33-030 to define terms and make technical corrections; create a new section of Subtitle 33 of KRS Chapter 304 for insurer delinquency proceedings relating to federal home loan bank security interests; amend KRS 304.33-050 and 304.33-170 to conform; amend KRS 304.33-240 to prohibit a liquidator from disavowing, rejecting, or repudiating certain security interests of federal home loan banks; amend KRS 304.33-290 to except certain transfers, or obligation to transfer, from insurer-members to federal home loan banks from being deemed fraudulent and avoidable; amend KRS 304.33-310 to prohibit a liquidator from avoiding preference under, or in connection with, certain federal home loan bank security interests.
Joseph M. Fischer (R)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 30, 2022

SB 121: AN ACT relating to agriculture exemption license numbers, and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 139.481 to require a person who has an agriculture exemption license number to provide it to the seller or retailer at the time of purchase; amend KRS 139.260 and 139.270 to allow a retailer to accept an agriculture exemption license number or a Streamline Sales and Use Tax Agreement Certificate of Exemption that include an agriculture exemption number instead of a certificate of exemption at the time of a sale; amend KRS 139.735 and 139.990 to conform; EMERGENCY.
David Givens (R)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 30, 2022

SB 189: AN ACT relating to fire protection.

Amend KRS 95A.520 and 95A.540 to apply existing provisions of law to departments that merge prior to the effective date of the Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to allow departments merging after the effective date of the Act to retain all qualified shares of aid that each merging department would have received prior to merger.
Steve Meredith (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 30, 2022

HB 380: AN ACT relating to insurance trade practices.

Create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to permit insurers and insurance producers to offer gifts, conduct sweepstakes or drawings, and offer products or services for free or less than market value if certain conditions are met; amend KRS 304.12-110, 304.12-100, 304.15-712, and 304.17A-098 to conform; establish purpose of Act; title Section 1 of this Act the Kentucky Rebate Reform Model Act.
Bart Rowland (R)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 30, 2022

SB 272: AN ACT relating to sound that is recorded or performed live.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; obligate a Web site or online service or owner and operator who disseminates a commercial recording or audiovisual work of a third party to disclose his or her personal information on that Web site or online service; create a civil cause of action; create civil penalties; create new sections of KRS Chapter 365 to prohibit a person from using a false, deceptive, or misleading affiliation when advertising or conducting a live musical performance in the Commonwealth; permit the Attorney General or county attorney to bring a civil cause of action and assess a civil penalty; create a private cause of action; cite as the Kentucky True Origin of Digital Goods and Truth in Musical Advertising Act.
Wil Schroder (R) Whitney Westerfield (R)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 29, 2022

SB 9: AN ACT relating to early literacy education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 158.791 to specify the Department of Education's role in assisting local school districts with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; require the department to collaborate with designated agencies on reading programming, materials, and activities; amend KRS 158.305 to define new terms; replace references to "response to intervention" systems with "multi-tiered system of supports"; require a local board of education to adopt and implement a reading universal screener and reading diagnostic assessment by January 1, 2023; permit a local school district to adopt a common comprehensive reading program for K-3; require all K-3 teachers to be trained in any reading diagnostic assessment and universal screener adopted by a local board; establish requirements for the administration of reading universal screeners by grade-level; define and establish the requirements for a reading improvement plan; establish service requirements for a student that needs accelerated intervention as demonstrated by the results of the approved reading diagnostic assessment or state annually required grade 3 assessment; require the department to establish reading teacher academies or coaching models by September 1, 2023, if funds are appropriated; remove the requirement for KDE to provide an annual report to IJCE on academic interventions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require postsecondary institutions offering early childhood or elementary teacher preparation programs to include designated instruction; require the EPSB to maintain a list of approved reading teacher preparation tests; require all new teachers seeking certification in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education or Elementary School to take an approved reading teacher preparation test; amend KRS 158.840 to require CPE to submit an annual report to IJCE on the compliance of teacher preparation programs to this Act; require regular reports to an external evaluator; amend KRS 164.0207 to redefine existing terms; require the Board of Education to pass administrative regulations that prioritize schools with the most need and schools that have not received a grant in the previous cycle when awarding reading diagnostic and intervention grants; amend KRS 158.794 to reorganize the composition of the reading diagnostic and intervention grant steering committee; amend KRS 164.0207 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish and define the read to succeed fund; provide that moneys and interest in the fund shall not lapse; designate the Act as the Read to Succeed Act.
Steve West (R) Robby Mills (R) Mike Wilson (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 29, 2022

HJR 28: A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department for Medicaid Services to request guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for Medicaid coverage on prescription digital therapeutics in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to request guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for Medicaid coverage of prescription digital therapeutics; require the Department for Medicaid Services to submit a summary report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services, the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee, the Legislative Research Commission, and the Kentucky Congressional delegation by December 1, 2022.
Jonathan Dixon (R) Kim Moser (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 29, 2022

HB 370: AN ACT relating to health care trade practices.

Create new sections of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; permit third-party access to provider network contracts if certain conditions are met; prohibit a dental carrier from canceling or otherwise ending a contractual relationship with a provider that opts out of third-party access; require a dental carrier to accept a qualified provider regardless of whether the provider opts out of third-party access; provide that a provider shall not be bound by third-party access granted in violation of the relevant provisions; establish exceptions to the third-party access provisions; allow a dental benefit plan to deny a claim for procedures included in a prior authorization when certain conditions are met; establish requirements for payments from the dental benefit plan to the dentist; require an insurer of a dental benefit plan to honor an assignment of benefits and make payments directly to the dentist or professional dental service corporation when certain conditions are met; permit a dentist or professional dental service corporation with a valid assignment of benefits to bill the insurer and notify the insurer of the assignment; require the dentist or professional dental service organization to provide the assignment of benefits to the insurer upon request; allow an assignment of benefits to be revoked when certain conditions are met; require the insurer of a dental benefit plan to send a revocation to the dentist or professional dental service corporation; establish the effective date of a revocation; require a dentist or professional dental service corporation to reimburse an insured under certain circumstances; prohibit provisions relating to third-party access, prior authorization, and assignment of benefits from being waived by contract; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require an insurer and its health insurance plans to comply with the provisions relating to third-party access, prior authorization, and assignment of benefits; amend KRS 304.17C-085 to define terms; prohibit a provider from charging more than the provider's rate for noncovered services under a limited health service benefit plan; prohibit the amount of a contractual discount for covered services from resulting in a fee less than the limited health service benefit plan would pay but for certain contractual limitations; require reimbursement by a limited health service benefit plan to be reasonable and prohibit nominal reimbursement in order to claim services are covered; amend KRS 304.17A-611 to require retrospective denials of dental services to comply with the new section on prior authorization; amend KRS 222.422 to conform; permit the commissioner of insurance to promulgate regulations.
Kevin Bratcher (R) Steve Sheldon (R) Russell Webber (R) Tom Smith (R) Shawn McPherson (R)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 29, 2022

SB 158: AN ACT relating to reorganization.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to establish the Office of Fleet Management in the Finance and Administration Cabinet; establish the Division of Maintenance and the Division of Operations and Administration within the Office of Fleet Management; amend KRS 42.0145 to include the Office of Fleet Management within the Office of the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet; amend KRS 42.0171 to abolish the Division of Fleet Management within the Office of Administrative Services; amend KRS 12.020 and 45A.625 to conform.
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