Recognize the record number of women legislators elected to the 2023 General Assembly.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed; exempt a center from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; limit liability of center; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 216.2920, and 216.2970 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Hanan "Henry" Spilman Berg-Brousseau.
Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of "protective hairstyle" and "race" that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 158.148 to provide that school disciplinary codes shall prohibit discrimination on the basis of race; establish the short title of C.R.O.W.N. Act.
Amend KRS 49.280 to allow claims for hit-and-run accidents; amend KRS 49.300 to specify duties of the Crime Victims Compensation Board; amend KRS 49.310 to allow family members of the victim to file claims; amend KRS 49.330 to increase access for victims; amend KRS 49.340 to limit the time for an investigation; amend KRS 49.350 to allow a claim to be revived; amend KRS 49.360 to increase the allowable amount of emergency awards; amend KRS 49.370 to raise limits and expand the types of claims subject to payment; amend KRS 49.390 to remove the requirement of financial hardship for the victim; amend KRS 49.400 to limit the penalty to the intentional filing of false information; amend KRS 216B.400 to increase the medical services eligible for reimbursement, amend KRS 216B.990 to require an online portal for reporting violations or KRS 216B.400.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to require the Personnel Cabinet to study the enhanced opportunities of allowing state employees to telework; require the cabinet to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1 each year.
Amend KRS 18A.110 to allow the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations permitting telework to classified and unclassified employees.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish coverage requirements for positron emission tomography scans; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to prohibit hospitals from requiring patients to be discharged prior to receiving a positron emission tomography scan ordered by a health care provider; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 38A of KRS Chapter 304 and amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health service benefit plans, limited health service organizations, Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer sponsored plans offered by a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new coverage requirements for positron emission tomography scans; apply certain provisions to policies, certificates, plans, or contracts issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the section; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2024.
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights three years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Amend KRS 532.260 to create new requirements for eligibility to serve the remainder of a sentence under home incarceration or conditional release; require the Department of Corrections to immediately transfer a person if he or she are being held on a detainer; allow a victim or concerned citizen to appeal the decision that a person may serve the remainder of his or her sentence under home incarceration or conditional release.
