Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Darryl Owens.
Amend KRS 395.380 to modernize language; amend KRS 395.390 to remove the sheriff from being the de facto administrator upon the death of a decedent with no personal representative in a county with no public administrator and guardian; amend KRS 395.400 to conform.
Amend KRS 344.040 to remove protections against employment discrimination based on an individual's status as a smoker or nonsmoker.
Amend KRS 161.155, 161.220, 161.540, 161.550, 161.600, 161.620, 161.655, 161.400, 161.420, 161.470, 161.507, 161.520, 161.548, 161.549, 161.605, 161.612, 161.630, and 161.661 and repeal KRS 161.633, 161.634, 161.635, and 161.636 to repeal and remove provisions of HB 258 enacted during the 2021 Regular Session that created adjusted benefits for individuals who become members of the Teachers' Retirement System on or after January 1, 2022; provide that these members shall be eligible for the benefits applicable to members who entered the system immediately prior to January 1, 2022; EMERGENCY.
Recognize January 27, 2022, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Create a new section of KRS 216B.230 to 216B.239 to require hospitals, prior to discharge of a veteran with a serious physical injury or trauma, to notify the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to ensure the veteran is provided services, resources, or other qualifying entitlements for their recovery; amend KRS 40.317 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs, upon notification from the hospital or veteran, to make contact with the veteran within one business day to ensure assistance is provided; establish a short title of Keeney's Rights Act.
Amend KRS 214.155 to include cytomegalovirus (CMV) testing as part of the newborn screening program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to require the Department for Public Health in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide public educational resources related to CMV; provide that the Act may be cited as the Bella Dawn Streeval Law.
Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on the effective date of the Act, $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2023, $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2024, $11 per hour on July 1, 2025, $12.05 per hour on July 1, 2026, $13.10 per hour on July 1, 2027, $13.95 per hour on July 1, 2028, and $15 per hour on July 1, 2029; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $2.13 per hour on the effective date of the Act, $3.05 per hour on July 1, 2023, $3.95 per hour on July 1, 2024, and $4.90 per hour on July 1, 2025; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
Amend KRS 278.030 to include rate affordability when determining fair, just, and reasonable utility rates; allow the Public Service Commission to review the affordability of a utility's rate if the utility has not requested a rate adjustment within the last five years; allow the commission to order a rate increase to prevent significant increases in a single period; require affordable, fair, just, and reasonable rates to balance the interests of the utility, its investors, and the ratepayer.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit indoor smoking in businesses, places of employment, and other listed public places; exempt private residences, unless used for child care or adult day care; permit smoking in designated nonenclosed areas; require posting of "no smoking" signs at specified locations; permit local governments to adopt stricter regulations by ordinance; provide for enforcement by all peace officers and designated health department and local government employees; provide for the issuance of uniform citations for violations; prohibit employers and others from discriminating against persons who report violations; provide for fines for violations that go to the agency whose employee issued the citation; provide that no court costs or other fees be charged for violations; exempt certain research and manufacturing laboratories and agricultural buildings; amend KRS 344.040, relating to unlawful practices by an employer, to add references to state law, local ordinance, or local board of health regulation relating to smoking; amend KRS 431.450, relating to uniform citations, to provide for issuing citation forms to health departments; authorize the Department of Kentucky State Police to create and issue uniform smoking violation citations; repeal various statutes permitting smoking in public buildings; provide short title of the Smokefree Kentucky Act.
