Rep. Jim Gooch

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to require the Public Service Commission to open an administrative case to initiate an investigation to reduce the volatility of fuel adjustment clause charges on electric utility bills within 90 days of the effective date of the Act; require the Public Service Commission to promulgate administrative regulations to implement any changes it has prescribed to reduce the volatility of fuel adjustment clause charges on electric utility bills within 60 days of issuing an order in the administrative case.

Amend KRS 353.562 to make grammatical and technical corrections.

Amend KRS 350.506 to clarify that members of the commission representing the coal mining industry are coal mine permittees; allow for smaller operators to be selected to represent different sized operators if a larger operator cannot be found; and delete obsolete language regarding initial appointments and meetings.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 224A to making findings and declarations of the General Assembly regarding the need for funding for public funding for drinking water and wastewater systems; establish a water management assistance fund which is administered by the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to provide assistance for both capital and non-capital expenses of governmental entities that provide public drinking water and wastewater services to the public; describe the various non-capital expenses that the fund can provide funding for; amend KRS 91A.040 to make permissive the requirement for the Finance and Administration Cabinet to place a hold on the funds to cities for nonperformance of required financial audits and statements; amend KRS 224A.011 to include private water associations under the definition of "governmental agency"; amend 224A.035 to authorize the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to make non-capital expenditure from funds that it governs; and amend KRS 224A.040 to allow expenditure for non-capital expenditures that improve the technical, managerial, or operational capacity of public drinking water and wastewater systems and allow for the purchase of obligations if the purchase does not cause interest on current or future state agency obligations to be included in gross federal income for federal tax purposes.

Create a new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to create the Employee Child-Care Assistance Partnership program; define terms; obligate the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to administer the program; establish reporting requirements; establish a fund for the program; authorize the cabinet to administer the fund; direct the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to effectuate the program; establish program requirements for employers and employees; establish requirements for both permissive and mandatory termination of the program contract; permit the Cabinet for Economic Development to condition program requirements on participation in this program; amend KRS 199.990 to include a penalty; cite as the Employee Child-Care Assistance Partnership; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 15.518 to include telecommunicators as eligible participants in the Law Enforcement Professional Development and Wellness Program; amend KRS 15.550 to require the telecommunicator basic course training to include instruction on and provide resources for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and work-induced stress, require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to incorporate PTSD mental health treatment into the telecommunicator training program and provide treatment resources to telecommunicators and their supervisors; amend KRS 15.560 and 15.565 to require each in-service training to include a mental health component on PTSD and work-induced stress; amend KRS 15.590 to require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to include training and resources for post-traumatic stress disorder and work-induced stress during each telecommunicator in-service training, provide guidelines and a resource list to all telecommunicators and their supervisors, and allow telecommunicators to access the Law Enforcement Professional Development and Wellness Program; this Act shall be known as the Lifeliner's Act.

Amend KRS 304.2-205 and KRS 304.3-240 to require electronic filings; amend KRS 304.2-230 to add analysts to insurance examination provisions; amend KRS 304.5-140 to provide additional authority for the insurance commissioner relating to the assuming insurer list; amend KRS 304.6-134 to remove requirement that a domestic company report total adjusted capital of at least 450% of authorized control level risk-based capital in order to qualify for an exemption from NAIC valuation manual standards; amend KRS 304.17A-300 to terminate the issuance of certificates of filing for provider-sponsored integrated health delivery networks; amend KRS 304.37-010 to modify definition of "commissioner" and add definition for "NAIC"; amend KRS 304.37-020 to add definitions; require certain insurance holding company systems to file an annual group capital calculation with a lead state insurance commissioner; require certain insurance holding company systems scoped into the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework to file liquidity stress test results with a lead state insurance commissioner; amend KRS 304.37-050 to modify confidentiality provisions relating to documents, materials, or other information in the possession of the insurance commissioner; add confidentiality provisions for group capital calculations and liquidity stress test results; make technical amendments throughout.

Waive up to 15 student attendance days for days school districts were closed due to the western Kentucky tornado disaster; consider days waived under this Act as completed employment contract days for school personnel; EMERGENCY.

Recognize April 2, 2022, as World Autism Awareness Day and April 2022 as Autism Acceptance Month.

Urge the Biden Administration to remove the barriers it has imposed on the energy industry by opening onshore and offshore federal oil and gas lease sales, supporting critical energy infrastructure projects, and reducing the federal regulatory burden on energy producers.