Rep. Nancy Tate

Amend KRS 141.019 to exclude all distributions from military pension plans received by retired members of the United States military and their surviving spouses or former spouse under a survivor benefit plan from income taxation for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2029; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 131.190 to conform.

Amend KRS 139.495 to exempt all sales made by resident nonprofit educational, charitable, or religious institutions.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in proximity to identified entities and locations; establish transition provisions for existing businesses; affirm the authority of local governmental units to supplement regulation of adult-oriented businesses; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 319.053 to reduce the five-year supervision requirement to two years for a licensed psychological associate to qualify as a licensed psychological practitioner; amend KRS 319.050 and 319.064 to extend the grace period from 60 days to 180 days allowing temporary licensure while applications are pending; remove provision that sunsetted in 2013.

Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for the coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special enrollment rights; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with the special enrollment requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid to cover lactation support services and breastfeeding supplies; amend KRS 199.894 to define terms related to the Child Care Assistance Program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199.892 to 199.896 to establish the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 139.010 and 139.480 to exempt certain postnatal supplies from the sales and use tax; amend KRS 141.067 to make the existing child and dependent care tax credit refundable for tax years 2025 to 2028; create new sections of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable adoption services tax credit for tax years 2025 to 2028 and establish a nonrefundable qualified contribution tax credit for tax years 2025 to 2028; amend KRS 141.019 and 141.039 to disallow the charitable contribution deduction if the qualified contribution tax credit is take for the same contribution; amend KRS 141.0205 for ordering of tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on newly created tax credits; appropriate to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in the 2024-2026 biennium: $200,000 for expansion of the Women, Infants, and Children Farmers Market Nutrition Assistance Program to include Jefferson County; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025, and August 1, 2024.

Amend KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands must own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands; EMERGENCY.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with which the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for remote ultrasounds and remote fetal nonstress tests; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that federal approval is necessary.

Amend KRS 403.211 to add that a child support action may be filed any time following conception; add that a child support action may be filed in the county where the mother resides; amend KRS 403.212 to change the term "obligated parent" to "obligor"; establish that child support shall be retroactive to the date of the filing of a motion for support; amend KRS 406.021 to include that paternity may be determined in accordance with KRS 406.011 or by prenatal genetic testing or postnatal genetic testing; amend KRS 406.011 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to advise all pregnant women who utilize public assistance and encourage pregnant women to initiate child support proceedings as early as possible.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require railroad companies to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation upon and within the geographical bounds of its right-of-way at each intersection with a public road or highway; require the Transportation Cabinet to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation when a railroad company fails to do so; require the railroad company to reimburse the Transportation Cabinet for costs of the removal; EMERGENCY.

Affirm Kentucky's support for the State of Israel and the Israeli people and condemn the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.