Urging Congress to take appropriate steps in mitigating cyberattacks and ransomware attacks.
Sponsored bills
Amend KRS 158.070 to allow school districts to remain open if an individual school within the district is used as a polling location for an election; permit a school district to include additional days within their nontraditional instruction plan for each school district that closes to allow schools in the district to be used as a polling place for an election.
Condemning Russia's unprovoked military aggression and invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for testing and treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in pregnant women; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer plans provided by state postsecondary institutions, Medicaid, KCHIP, and the state employee health plan to comply with the hepatitis C virus infection coverage requirement; 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, 2023.
Amend KRS 164A.040, 164A.050, and 164A.060 to update references to insured student loans.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the second Wednesday in February as "Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day."
Amend KRS 6.611 to include "consulting firm" within the definition of "business"; include clients of a consulting firm to be included within the meaning of the phrase "business associate"; and amend KRS 6.787 to include the name of a client paying more than $1,000 annually to a consulting firm owned by a legislator or spouse of a legislator, or that employs a legislator or spouse of a legislator, in a statement of financial disclosure; exclude a legislator or spouse of a legislator who is an attorney from this requirement.
Amend KRS 61.315 to create a presumption that first responders who die of COVID-19 do so while in the line of duty and thus qualify for death benefits; apply subsection retroactively; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Amend KRS 413.249 to remove the statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse; to provide that every civil action arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse be accompanied by a motion to seal the record.
Designate May 1-7, 2022, as Postpartum Depression Awareness Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.