Create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to require tracks licensed by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to implement programs that promote responsible gambling.
Amend KRS 304.17A-145 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for counseling interventions for pregnant and postpartum persons at increased risk of perinatal depression, including persons who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with the coverage requirement for counseling interventions; make technical amendments; direct that certain provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms related to employer requirements for victims of domestic violence; require employers to grant leave from work for employees who seek protection or treatment for themselves or a family member due to dating violence and abuse, domestic violence and abuse, human trafficking, sexual assault, or stalking; require that employees give their employers advance notice when feasible before taking leave or by the end of the first day in which the employee takes leave when advance notice is not feasible; permit an employer to request verification upon an employee requesting leave; provide how an employee may satisfy the verification requirement for leave; allow for the employee to decide whether to use the employee's paid time off or unpaid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality related to an employee's requested leave except under limited circumstances; require that an employer reinstate an employee who takes leave to the employee's exact or similar position the employee was in before the employee took the leave except under limited circumstances; require an employer to maintain health care coverage for an employer who takes leave; require an employer make reasonable safety accommodations requested by an employee who is a victim of dating violence and abuse, domestic violence and abuse, human trafficking, sexual assault, or stalking; permit an employer to request verification upon an employee requesting reasonable safety accommodations; provide how an employee may satisfy the verification requirement for reasonable safety accommodations; require the employer to maintain confidentiality related to an employee's request for reasonable safety accommodations, except under limited circumstances; prohibit employers from discriminating against employees or candidates who are actual or perceived victims of dating violence and abuse, domestic violence and abuse, human trafficking, sexual assault, or stalking; allow for a private right of action for violation of Sections 1 to 7 of this Act; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 establishing the Kids Love to Read Program; specify the program is for kindergarten through grade five children; require books be sent to children's homes; require the Department for Libraries and Archives to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; appropriate $500,000 for fiscal years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026; APPROPRIATION.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require a waiting period of five business days between the sale and transfer of a firearm; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for a violation.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to create the abandoned home pool fund to be administered by the Kentucky Housing Corporation to purchase and improve vacant and abandoned homes for rental to eligible individuals and families; specify application process and criteria; APPROPRIATION.
Amend KRS 12.020 to place the Office of Safer Communities under the oversight of the Cabinet for General Government; create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to establish the Office of Safer Communities; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2024-2025 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the Cabinet for Health and Family Services' responsibilities with regard to the administration of nonemergency medical transportation services for Medicaid beneficiaries.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to allow the Freedom Flag to be flown as a Flag of Remembrance each September 11.
Amend KRS 18A.225, 78.510, 156.095, 158.038, 158.189, 158.196, 158.305, 158.4416, 160.152, 161.164, 161.220, and 218B.045 to remove references to public charter schools; repeal KRS 160.1590, 160.1591, 160.15911, 160.1592, 160.1593, 160.1594, 160.1595, 160.1596, 160.1597, 160.1598, 160.1599, and 161.141 relating to public charter schools.
