Rep. Derek Lewis

Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to prohibit insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and other administrators of pharmacy benefits from imposing certain requirements on health plan insureds; create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions for pharmacy-related insurance practices; require pharmacy benefit managers to establish reasonably adequate and accessible pharmacy networks; require pharmacy benefit managers to file, and the insurance commissioner to review, an annual report describing pharmacy networks; provide that information and data acquired by the Department of Insurance shall be considered proprietary and not subject to disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; establish requirements for certain contracts between a pharmacy or pharmacist and a pharmacy benefit manager; establish prohibited practices for pharmacy benefit managers; establish certain requirements for insurers and pharmacy benefit managers contracting for the provision of pharmacy benefit management services; prohibit administrators from offering any incentive or discount for use of an affiliated pharmacy benefit manager; establish a Pharmacy Benefits Management Advisory Council; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize the insurance commissioner to order reimbursement to persons who incurred a monetary loss as a result of a violation of provisions of legislation; amend KRS 304.9-054 to make technical changes; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations; require pharmacy benefit managers to report certain information to the insurance commissioner; provide that certain reported information shall not be subject to disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; amend KRS 304.17A-708, 304.17A-712, and 304.17A-714 to conform; create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service benefit plans, including limited health service contracts; create a new section of Subtitle 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to apply provisions of legislation to limited health service organizations; amend 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with provisions of legislation; amend KRS 367.828 to establish certain requirements for the health discount plans that purport to offer discounts, or access to discounts, on prescription drugs; provide for staggered appointments to the Pharmacy Benefits Management Advisory Council; provide that provisions of this Act shall be severable; require the insurance commissioner to promulgate regulations to implement the Act on or before January 1, 2023; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to define "approved entity," "cabinet," "electronic title application and registration system," "fleet," and "title lien statement"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to require the Transportation Cabinet to establish an electronic title application and registration system that allows submission of required forms and fees electronically; allow approved entities to access the system to facilitate title transfers, fleet registrations, and permanent fleet registrations; set application fees for approved entities at $150; require annual fees for approved entities; require the cabinet to contract with third party providers to provide software and network systems to facilitate transaction; allow agreements with third party providers to include a transaction fee that may be charged to vehicle buyers; require explicit buyer notification of fee; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to set forth qualifications of approved entities and procedures for the system; repeal and reenact KRS 186A.195 to set forth procedures for the filing of title lien statements and the distribution of fees; amend KRS 186.045 to establish procedures for filing lien terminations on security interest perfected after the effective date of this Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to allow U-Drive-It certificate holders who become approved entities to use the electronic titling and registration system to apply for annual renewal of registration on their fleet or to pay the required fees and taxes to maintain permanent registration on their fleet; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to require the cabinet to establish procedures by which the owner of fleet vehicles may be issued permanent registration fleet plates; set forth requirement for vehicles, specifications of fleet plates; provide exemptions for fleet vehicles used as rental cars; set forth fees and penalties for failure to pay taxes and registration fees and failure to provide annual reconciliations to the cabinet; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 186 and 186A to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit identified entities from enforcing federal firearm bans; prohibit identified entities from adopting rules, regulations, or ordinances that require enforcement of federal firearm bans; and prohibit identified entities from allocating public resources or moneys in the enforcement of federal firearm bans; EMERGENCY.

Honor the Kentucky Historical Society.

Amend KRS 158.838 to include naloxone among the medications each school shall have an employee trained to administer or to assist with self-administration; require training for naloxone; make conforming changes.

Amend KRS 164.348 to define "institution," "public," and "staff"; require an institution to adopt a policy to not restrict off-campus speech; extend free speech protections to staff and the public; provide that student religious and political organizations shall be afforded equal access to facilities; provide that authority vested with a student organization to distribute student organization funding shall be contingent on viewpoint-neutral distribution of those funds; provide that there shall be no buffer zones to outdoor areas used as traditional public forums; reduce institution's authority to establish permit requirements; specify how an institution defines student-on-student harassment; waive immunity for claims brought under the Act; permit disciplinary action against a faculty member or administrator that knowingly and intentionally restricts the protected speech of another; suspend the distribution authority of a student organization that does not distribute student organization funding in accordance with the Act; prohibit retaliation against campus community members; require Council on Postsecondary Education to develop free speech instructional materials and model trainings for institutions; require institutions to present free speech instructional materials and trainings to designated individuals; require institutions to publish semiannual student organization funding reports; designate the required contents of the semiannual student organization funding report.

Amend KRS 132.485 to require the average trade-in value and not the rough trade-in value or clean trade-in value be used as the standard value of a motor vehicle for property tax purposes; grant tax refunds for tax overpayments; require posting of the tax refund information; apply to motor vehicles assessed or after January 1, 2022; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 158.838 to include an opioid reversal agent, if a local board requires it, among the medications each school shall have an employee trained to administer to assist with self-administrations; require training for opioid reversal agent, if required; and make conforming changes.

Condemning Russia's unprovoked military aggression and invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to establish qualification requirements, salary schedules, and rate structures for conservation officers employed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and exempt them from the requirements of KRS Chapter 18A; establish years-of-service requirements for the salary schedules; establish terms and conditions for conservation officer promotions to sergeant, lieutenant, and captain; limit the number of supervisory officers to a ratio not to exceed one supervisor for every five nonsupervisory officers; require that no promotion to a higher rank shall be made without competing for the position with other officers as required by the section; prohibit discrimination based on race, sex, age, national origin, color, religion, creed, or political affiliation in the officer promotional system; provide that salary supplements received from the Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund pursuant to KRS 15.460(1)(e) shall be in addition to the amounts established in the salary schedules in the section; require that beginning on July 1, 2023, annual adjustments to the salary schedules be made to incorporate increases in the Consumer Price Index; allow the commissioner for the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to establish ranks above those established by the section; amend KRS 150.090 to make the commissioner's authority with regard to employment actions subject to the requirements of the Act; require that funds needed to meet the salary requirements of the Act be paid from the game and fish fund established in KRS 150.150 and not the general fund; effective July 1, 2022; EMERGENCY.