Create new sections of KRS Chapter 600 to create regional citizen juvenile justice review boards and the State Citizen Juvenile Justice Review Board to periodically review the cases of all incarcerated children and develop policy recommendations; establish duties of the review boards; establish membership of the review boards.
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to establish income eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.
Amend KRS 199.894 to adjust statutory range; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.8996 to require licensed child-care centers to be tested for radon at least once every five years as part of their initial licensure and license renewal; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to encourage that specific radon measurement devices be used when licensed child-care centers are tested for radon; require the most current report to be posted in a public place within the child-care center; amend KRS 309.434 to establish new duties for the Kentucky Board of Radon Safety related to financial assistance for child-care centers and schools for radon testing and mitigation; amend KRS 309.442 to require an insurance policy for a radon laboratory; amend KRS 309.448 to establish when an administrative hearing is conducted related to radon testing and mitigation providers; amend KRS 309.452 to specify licensure requirements for a radon laboratory; amend KRS 309.454 to include grants and state and federal moneys as a part of the radon mitigation and control fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to require a landlord to conduct lead testing and inform tenants of result; APPROPRIATION.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define "child"; allow use of paid vacation or sick leave provided by the employer for bereavement following the death of a child; allow donation of time by other employees to the employee taking the leave.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require each local school board to include at least one teacher representative; require each local school board to adopt a school board teacher representative policy.
Amend KRS 500.090 to allow consolidated local governments to destroy firearms abandoned, confiscated, or forfeited under the Kentucky Penal Code.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require African history instruction in certain middle and high school world history and civilization courses; require Native American history instruction in certain middle and high school United States history courses; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing academic standards for the required historical instructions; require superintendents to adopt curricula for required instruction; require the Kentucky Department of Education to collaborate with the Kentucky African American Heritage and the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission to develop recommended curricula and instruction guidelines for the required historical instruction, elective high school course offerings in African history and Native American history, and relevant professional development materials.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill individual's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; require conditions for making the request; permit individual to rescind the request at any time; permit an attending health care provider to provide medication; establish requirements for the attending health care provider to inform individuals and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified individuals; require a report by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish provisions for contracts, insurance policies, and beneficiaries; state that a health care provider is not required to provide medication to a qualified individual; permit health care providers to prohibit persons or entities from participating in a qualified individual's request during or on the premises of employment; prohibit reporting a health care provider to a licensing board for participating in a qualified individual's request; state that actions do not constitute suicide or homicide; create a form for a qualified individual to make a request; create a new section of subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish provisions for insurance policies and beneficiaries of qualified individuals; amend KRS 507.020 and 507.030 to create an affirmative defense to a charge of murder and manslaughter in the first degree; provide a severability clause; provide that the Act may be cited as the "Kentucky Our Care, Our Options Act."
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require all hospitals or alternative birthing centers offering obstetric services or licensed health care providers, including nurse midwives or certified professional midwives, to provide each maternity patient with information on maternal depression and available resources; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to post on its website information about providers who assist with maternal depression.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require a self-insured employer group health plan provided by a state postsecondary education institution to its employees, Medicaid, and Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the new section on postpartum mood disorder coverage; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans issued on or after the effective date of the section; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.
