Create new sections of KRS Chapter 183 to establish the aviation development fund and appropriate moneys in the fund for the purpose of expanding educational opportunities in the field of aviation and aeronautics and promote aviation programs in the Commonwealth; direct the Department of Aviation to establish an aviation development grant program and specify expenditure levels in the aviation development fund for different purposes; set forth criteria for judging grant proposals, an application, and award schedule; create reporting requirements to the Interim Joint Committees on Appropriations and Revenue and Transportation on grant applications and awards; establish the Aviation Development Grant Review Committee to evaluate grant proposals and award grants, set forth membership, qualifications, and administrative procedures of the five member board; provide for staggered terms of initial citizen appointments to the committee; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY
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Declare October 9, 2022, to be PANDAS and PANS Awareness Day.
Urge the federal government to address the issue of technology transparency by mandating online platforms to provide guidelines of how the program works and prohibited content.
Amend KRS 158.060 to remove language that allows for half-day kindergarten programs; amend KRS 157.320, 157.360, and 158.030 to conform.
Express support for the State of Israel and opposition to the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement which seeks to harm the State of Israel.
Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to prohibit insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other administrators of pharmacy benefits from imposing certain requirements on health plan insureds; create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions for pharmacy-related insurance practices; require pharmacy benefit managers to establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks; require pharmacy benefit managers to file, and the insurance commissioner to review, an annual report describing pharmacy networks; provide that information and data acquired by the Department of Insurance shall be considered proprietary and not subject to disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; establish requirements for certain contracts between a pharmacy or pharmacist and a pharmacy benefit manager; establish prohibited practices for pharmacy benefit managers; establish certain requirements for insurers and pharmacy benefit managers contracting for the provision of pharmacy benefit management services; prohibit administrators from offering any incentive or discount for use of an affiliated pharmacy benefit manager; establish a Pharmacy Benefits Management Advisory Council; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize the insurance commissioner to order reimbursement to persons who incurred a monetary loss as a result of a violation of provisions of legislation; amend KRS 304.9-054 to make technical changes; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations; require pharmacy benefit managers to report certain information to the insurance commissioner; provide that certain reported information shall not be subject to disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; amend KRS 304.17A-708, 304.17A-712, and 304.17A-714 to conform; create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service benefit plans, including limited health service contracts; create a new section of Subtitle 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service organizations; amend 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with provisions of legislation; amend KRS 367.828 to establish certain requirements for the health discount plans that purport to offer discounts, or access to discounts, on prescription drugs; provide for staggered appointments to the Pharmacy Benefits Management Advisory Council; provide that provisions of this Act shall be severable; require the insurance commissioner to promulgate regulations to implement the Act on or before January 1, 2023; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define new terms; establish the mobile crisis services fund within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish requirements Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) must adhere to in order to apply for a loan; require the cabinet to determine the terms and conditions of each loan, review and adjudicate applications, monitor performance of each CMHC, and report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; require that the fund created be a trust and agency account, require moneys in the fund to be administered by the cabinet; provide that moneys remaining in the fund will accrue to the fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit identified entities from enforcing federal firearm bans; prohibit identified entities from adopting rules, regulations, or ordinances that require enforcement of federal firearm bans; and prohibit identified entities from allocating public resources or moneys in the enforcement of federal firearm bans; EMERGENCY.
Create the Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center to provide healthcare educational pathways to address the healthcare worker shortage; direct the center to be operated through a partnership of public and private organizations; direct the General Assembly to provide start-up funds to be administered through the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; direct KCTCS to provide reports to LRC; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Honor the Kentucky Historical Society.