Rep. Kim Moser

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Youth Mobile Crisis Response Program within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; set requirements for mobile crisis response teams; require the cabinet to develop protocols and issue a report to the Interim Joint Committees on Health Services and Families and Children; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; establish the Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Advisory Board; require behavioral health emergency services provided by a mobile crisis response team to be paid for by the state if a youth is uninsured or the services are not covered under his or her insurance plan; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health benefit or plan that provides benefits for mental health or substance abuse to provide coverage for behavioral health emergency services; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to cover behavioral health emergency services; amend KRS 205.6485 to require behavioral health emergency services to be covered by the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program; amend KRS 164.2871 to require coverage for behavioral health emergency services under self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution; amend KRS 18A.225 to require coverage for behavioral health emergency services under the state employee health plan; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if deemed necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.

Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.

Amend KRS 311.571 to allow and add requirements for a physician licensed to practice medicine in another country to obtain a provisional license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth; add requirements for a provisional license to convert to a regular license; add conditions for the Board of Medical Licensure to revoke a provisional license.

Amend KRS 431.520 to prohibit individuals who are subject to a protective order under KRS Chapter 403 or 456 from being released on the surety of, or deposit paid by, a person protected by the protective order.

Propose to amend Sections 145 and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons who are not citizens of the United States from being allowed to vote in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.

Amend KRS 205.1783 to establish a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program employment and training program and establish requirements for participation in the program.

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.

Urge Governor Andy Beshear to express support for Governor Greg Abbott and the State of Texas in their efforts to secure the border.

Amend KRS 56.580 to prohibit closing portions of Capital Avenue in Frankfort; provide exceptions for emergency personnel.

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.