Rep. Kim Banta

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish a student loan forgiveness program for teachers obtaining certification through an expedited certification process with a residency component; authorize the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the program; create the Option 9 scholarship fund; amend KRS 161.048 to create an Option 9 expedited alternative certification pathway through the use of a residency program; establish requirements for residency program; establish eligibility for district participation; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 164.370 to define terms; require a governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to adopt a code for student conduct, establish minimum procedural requirements for a nonacademic violation when the violation is punishable by a suspension, expulsion, or termination of student housing, including a presumption of innocence, written notice, maintenance of an administrative file, the right to be present and participate meaningfully, the right to fair and impartial treatment, and the ability to bring a support person; establish enhanced minimum procedural requirements for a nonacademic violation when the violation is punishable by a suspension of 3 days or more, expulsion, or termination of student housing, including the right to be represented by counsel, to present relevant hearing evidence, and to cross-examine hearing testimony; provide a respondent that is suspended for 3 days or more, expelled, or has their campus housing terminated the right to appeal the results of a disciplinary hearing; provide that a participant has the right to appeal a Title IX allegation that does not result in a finding of a violation; provide a respondent or designated complainant shall have the right to appeal a final order of the governing board in Circuit Court; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to impede or delay law enforcement, impair an institution's ability to take reasonable interim measures in a student discipline matter, impair an institution's ability to effectuate a valid judicial order, impair an institution's ability to terminate a student's residence in campus housing for any other reason than a student disciplinary matter, or limit any addition rights afforded under Federal law; create a new section of KRS 164 to require a public postsecondary education institution to publish a report on student discipline every three years; establish the required contents of the report; permit a postsecondary education institution to apply to the Attorney General for an exemption when the institution maintains that required data cannot be adequately deidentified to conform to Federal Law; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Campus Due Process Protection Act.

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.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid reimbursement for certain services provided by certified community health workers; create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to establish community health worker certification; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to reimburse certain services provided by certified community health workers.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 214 to define "department" and "program"; establish the Lung Cancer Screening and Prevention Program within the Department for Public Health; provide that services may be undertaken by private contract or operated by the department; allow the program to provide referral, examination, and rescreening services for uninsured and underinsured individuals for whom further examination or treatment is indicated by the lung cancer screening; require the department to adopt a schedule of income-based fees to be charged for lung cancer screenings; require that the fee schedule be such that the screenings are available to the largest number of people; permit the department to accept grants or awards of funds from federal or private sources; require the department to establish a data collection system; require the promulgation of administrative regulations; establish a restricted fund to be known as the Kentucky Lung Cancer Screening and Prevention Program fund and establish parameters of the fund; require that the funds be used by the department to administer the program; require moneys in the fund to be administered by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; provide that moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year will carry forward into the succeeding fiscal year; require that interest earned on moneys in the fund will accrue to the fund; require that moneys in the fund are appropriated for the purposes of the program; require the fund to include funds distributed by the Transportation Cabinet from sales of special lung cancer prevention license plates; establish the Lung Cancer Screening Advisory Committee; establish the membership of the advisory committee; require the advisory committee to provide recommendations for implementation and conduct of the lung cancer screening program; require the advisory committee to establish and provide oversight for a lung cancer screening public awareness campaign; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to contract with the Kentucky Cancer Consortium at the University of Kentucky to provide the required support; require the amount of contracted services to be excluded from the base funding formula of the university as determined by the Council on Postsecondary Education; require the advisory committee to provide an annual report on implementation, outcomes, and recommendations; require the Kentucky Cancer Program to establish a lung cancer screening education and outreach program in each of the area development districts; require the education and outreach program to focus on individuals who lack access to lung cancer screening; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to contract with the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky to provide the required support and require the amount of contracted services to be excluded from the base funding formula of the universities as determined by the Council on Postsecondary Education; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 325.240 to allow the accountancy board to support scholarship programs at Kentucky colleges and universities; immunize former and current members of the board, its agents, and employees from suit for any discretionary good faith acts; amend KRS 325.280 to establish educational requirements for reciprocal licensure; direct international reciprocal licensure applicants to pass the uniform qualifying examination prepared by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.

Establish Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 286 and create sections thereof to define terms; prohibit engaging in the business of nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions without a license; establish licensing requirements; provide that nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions are not loans and exempt from statute relating to interest; establish requirements for nonrecourse consumer legal funding transaction contracts; prohibit certain actions by nonrecourse consumer legal funding companies; provide for attorney communications and responsibilities; establish penalties; provide that the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding shall not restrict the powers or duties of the Attorney General; amend KRS 286.4-410, 360.010, and 372.060 to conform.

Amend KRS 314.042 to require that advanced practice registered nurses exempted from a CAPA-NS include certified nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwifes, and certified registered nurse anesthetists; allow the CAPA-CS to include limitations on drugs and amounts and requirements for the APRN to communicate with the physician before prescribing; establish conditions for an APRN to prescribe controlled substances without a CAPA-CS after four years of controlled substance prescribing authority under a CAPA-CS; require an APRN to confirm with the nursing board that the APRN's license is in good standing before prescribing without a CAPA-CS; set procedures for the nursing board's license review, including promulgation of administrative regulations; exempt an equivalently qualified out-of-state APRN from the CAPA-CS requirement to prescribe under licensure by endorsement; prohibit an APRN from prescribing controlled substances without a CAPA-CS until the board has completed its review and notified the APRN in writing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to create the Controlled Substance Prescribing Boards Advisory Council within the Office of the Inspector General; establish membership of the board; require meetings to discuss matters relating to the prescribing on controlled substances; require annual report.

Amend KRS 334.020 to allow audiologists licensed under KRS Chapter 334A to engage in the sale and practice of fitting hearing instruments; amend KRS 334.030 to update the mailing address of the Kentucky Licensing Board for Specialists in Hearing; amend KRS 334A.020 to include selling or fitting of hearing instruments in the definition of "the practice of audiology"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 334A to establish requirements for any person engaged in the selling and fitting of hearing instruments; establish procedures for complaints against licensed persons; establish procedures for a client's right to cancel the purchase of a hearing instrument; require any person licensed to sell hearing instruments to maintain records of clients to whom a hearing device was sold for a minimum of three years; amend KRS 334A.040 to establish exemptions for persons licensed under KRS Chapter 334A.