Terminate the declaration of emergency regarding the SARS-COV-2 virus in 2020 Executive Order 2020-215 and all subsequent actions directives based upon the declaration of emergency in 2020 Executive Order 2020-215; EMERGENCY.
Amend KRS 341.005 to define "enhanced federal benefits" and "state average unemployment rate"; amend KRS 341.100 to define "suitable work" under certain circumstances; amend KRS 341.270 and KRS 341.272 to reduce the minimum period of time for an employer to qualify for a lower contribution rate to four quarters; amend KRS 341.350 to require that eligible recipients engage in five work search activities per week during each week that he or she claims eligibility for benefits; amend KRS 341.380 to change the maximum benefit payable to a worker within a benefit year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 providing for a variable duration of unemployment insurance benefits, ranging from 12 weeks to 24 weeks, based upon the state average unemployment rate at the time of each individual's application for benefits except in certain situations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to allow an employer to notify the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet about each worker who has declined suitable work or has failed to attend a first interview; amend KRS 341.370 to change the conditions under which a worker must be disqualified from receiving benefits during unemployment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to allow the General Assembly to end the Commonwealth's participation in any enhanced benefits program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the General Assembly's approval, which it may withdraw at any time, to participate in any enhanced federal benefits program; amend KRS 341.096 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 341 to allow employers to submit a plan for a shared work program to the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet for approval; make employees eligible for shared work benefits if they are employed as members of an affected group, under an approved plan, are able to work, and their normal weekly hours are reduced at least ten percent but not more than forty percent; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 explaining that the weekly shared work benefit amount shall be the product of the regular weekly unemployment compensation amount calculated in KRS 341.380 multiplied by the percentage of reduction of at least ten percent in the individual's usual weekly hours of work, and although an individual may be eligible for shared work benefits or regular benefits as appropriate, no individual shall be eligible for combined benefits in any benefit year in an amount greater than his or her maximum benefit as calculated under KRS Chapter 341.380 and no individual shall receive shared work benefits for more than 26 weeks; amend KRS 341.530, 341.080, 341.127, and 341.710 to conform; declare the provisions of this Act severable; allow the Act to be cited as the Unemployment Insurance Sustainability Act of 2022.
Amend KRS 194A.700 to delete, amend, and add definitions; amend KRS 194A.703 to replace "client" with "resident" and to include requirements for living units in a dementia care unit; amend KRS 194A.705 to allow assisted living communities to provide additional services; amend KRS 194A.707 to change the administrative procedure process of assisted living communities, to add a biennial review process, and to change the certification process to a licensure process; amend KRS 194A.709 to remove the requirement of reporting to the Division of Health Care and to make technical language changes; amend KRS 194A.711 to revise the criteria to be met by residents in an assisted living community; amend KRS 194A.717 to include staffing needs pursuant to an assisted living community's service plan; amend KRS 194A.719 to require orientation education prior to independently working with residents; amend KRS 194A.727 to clarify which businesses can be licensed as an assisted living community; create multiple new sections of KRS 194A.700 to 194A.729 to provide requirements for the cabinet to consider when an applicant is seeking a license as an assisted living community with dementia care; for when a licensee chooses to voluntary relinquishment of a license as an assisted living community with dementia care; to list the responsibilities of an assisted living community with dementia care; to require continuing education training for assisted living managers of an assisted living community with dementia care; to require assisted living communities with dementia care to develop and implement additional policies; to provide staffing requirements for individuals employed in assisted living communities with dementia care; to include additional services an assisted living community with dementia care must provide; to list training requirements for staff working in dementia care units; to establish two categories of licensure for assisted living communities and to require assisted living communities to obtain a license from the cabinet to operate as a dementia care unit; to allow licensed personal care homes, under specific circumstances, to be licensed as an assisted living community or assisted living community with dementia care; to establish the rules for fines and violations of an assisted living community; amend KRS 216.510 and 216.535 to expand the definition of "long-term care facilities" to include assisted living communities; amend KRS 216.535 to amend the definition of "long-term care ombudsman" to exclude assisted living communities; amend KRS 216.530 to amend the inspection period for assisted living communities, personal care homes, and specialized personal care homes; amend KRS 216.557 to exclude assisted living communities from receiving citations as type A or type B violations; amend KRS 216.515, 216.560, 216.563, 216.565, 216.577, 216A.030, and 218A.180 to exclude assisted living communities; amend KRS 216.765 to require a specific medical examination in the admission into assisted living communities; amend KRS 216.573 to broaden the cabinet's power to institute injunctive proceedings; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to create new definitions; to establish rules for residence in a personal care home or a specialized personal care home; to allow a personal care home or specialized personal care to provide additional services in certain situations; to establish staffing requirements in personal care homes or specialized personal care homes; to require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to regulate an initial and biennial licensure review process and to establish additional procedures; and to allow the cabinet to request information and to conduct on-site visits; amend KRS 216B.015 to expand the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.155 to add the exemption of assisted living communities from specific standard requirements; amend KRS 216B.160 to allow a manager's designee in an assisted living community to conduct an ongoing assessment; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 194A and KRS 216.595 to make technical corrections and changes; repeal KRS 194A.723 and 194A.724.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to provide definitions, authorize any public agency to establish a peer support counseling program, and provide for confidentiality of communications within a peer support counseling program.
Amend KRS 304.17A-163 to define terms; establish requirements for clinical review criteria and clinical practice guidelines used to establish step therapy protocols; require certain notices and disclosures relating to step therapy protocols; establish requirements for exception requests, internal appeals, and external reviews of step therapy protocols; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to promulgate administrative regulations; require insurers, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, or private review agents to submit an annual report relating to step therapy exception requests; amend KRS 304.17A-168, 304.17A-535, 304.17A-600, 304.17A-607, 304.17A-617, and 304.17A-623 to conform; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the step therapy protocol requirements; apply to health plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after the effective date of Sections 1 to 12 of the Act; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek a federal waiver of authorization if necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to define "approved entity," "cabinet," "electronic title application and registration system," "fleet," and "title lien statement"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to require the Transportation Cabinet to establish an electronic title application and registration system that allows submission of required forms and fees electronically; allow approved entities to access the system to facilitate title transfers, fleet registrations, and permanent fleet registrations; set application fees for approved entities at $150; require annual fees for approved entities; require the cabinet to contract with third party providers to provide software and network systems to facilitate transaction; allow agreements with third party providers to include a transaction fee that may be charged to vehicle buyers; require explicit buyer notification of fee; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to set forth qualifications of approved entities and procedures for the system; repeal and reenact KRS 186A.195 to set forth procedures for the filing of title lien statements and the distribution of fees; amend KRS 186.045 to establish procedures for filing lien terminations on security interest perfected after the effective date of this Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to allow U-Drive-It certificate holders who become approved entities to use the electronic titling and registration system to apply for annual renewal of registration on their fleet or to pay the required fees and taxes to maintain permanent registration on their fleet; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to require the cabinet to establish procedures by which the owner of fleet vehicles may be issued permanent registration fleet plates; set forth requirement for vehicles, specifications of fleet plates; provide exemptions for fleet vehicles used as rental cars; set forth fees and penalties for failure to pay taxes and registration fees and failure to provide annual reconciliations to the cabinet; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 186 and 186A to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.
Amend KRS 15.315 to include the chief of police of the Bowling Green Police Department on the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council; amend KRS 15.320 to change quorum requirements for council.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to allow a person applying online for motor vehicle registration renewal to make a donation to an organ donor program; allow county clerk to ask a person applying in person for motor vehicle registration to make a donation to an organ donor program; require the Transportation Cabinet to forward funds to the Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks' Trust for Life on a monthly basis; require a county clerk to forward funds to the Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks' Trust for Life on a monthly basis; allow a person applying for online motor vehicle registration renewal to express willingness to be an organ donor; allow a county clerk to ask a person applying for motor vehicle registration if he or she would like to express willingness to be an organ donor; amend KRS 311.1917 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
Amend KRS 439.3401 to include incest, as defined in KRS 530.020, as a qualifying crime for designation of a "violent offender".
Amend KRS 132.485 to require the average trade-in value and not the rough trade-in value or clean trade-in value be used as the standard value of a motor vehicle for property tax purposes; grant tax refunds for tax overpayments; require posting of the tax refund information; apply to motor vehicles assessed or after January 1, 2022; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide protections for student athletes seeking compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements or seeking an athlete agent; provide similar protections for institutions; establish prohibitions, conditions, and limitations on athletes earning compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements; prohibit name, image, and likeness compensation as an inducement; prohibit institutions, associations, or affiliated organizations from providing compensation for name, image, and likeness of a student athlete and other similar activities; establish a process for institutions to review name, image, and likeness agreements of student athletes; authorize institutions to establish reasonable restrictions on name, image, and likeness activities of student athletes; provide protections for institutions and their employees in actions taken in the course of administering intercollegiate athletics; require institutions to provide financial literacy and life skills education to student athletes; authorize institutions to provide ongoing support to student athletes and information on name, image, and likeness to the general public; establish that name, image, and likeness agreement documents and related information in possession of public postsecondary institutions are protected student records; limit applicability; limit duration of name, image, and likeness and agency contract agreements for minors and student athletes; amend KRS 164.6903 to conform; amend KRS 156.070 to forbid KHSAA member schools from authorizing student athlete use of school logo and similar property in the athlete's name, image, and likeness activities; authorize Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate regulations to enforce rules on name, image, and likeness; authorize agreements made pursuant to Executive Order 2021-418 for one year and nullify the executive order; EMERGENCY.
Require fiscal courts to initiate reapportionment proceedings in 2023 instead of 2022; EMERGENCY.
