HR 256
(2018 Regular Session)
Honor Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.
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Mar 19 2018 |
Adopted By Voice Vote
Apr 02 2018
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HB 348
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to judicial districts and circuits. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to authorize the Supreme Court to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to perform an analysis to determine the need to rearrange the judicial circuits and districts or reallocate the number of judges relative to population or caseload; amend KRS 23A.040 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to two judges and two divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.045 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to three judges and three divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.050 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to four judges and four divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.055 to increase circuit judges in the Sixteenth Circuit; amend KRS 24A.030 to realign the boundaries of the judicial districts; amend KRS 24A.050 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to two District Judges and two numbered divisions of District Court; amend KRS 24A.060 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to three District Judges and three numbered divisions of District Court; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019.
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Feb 09 2018 |
Signed By Governor (Acts, Ch. 57)
Apr 02 2018
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HB 319
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to business opportunities for United States military and veterans. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to require each administrative body that issues a license, permit, certificate, or other document required to operate within a business, profession, or other occupation in the Commonwealth to issue within 30 days a license, permit, certificate, or other document to a United States military service member or veteran who is seeking a license, permit, certificate, or other document and currently holds or recently held a valid equivalent license, permit, certificate, or other document issued by another state, the District of Columbia, or any possession or territory of the United States.
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Feb 06 2018 |
Signed By Governor (Acts, Ch. 58)
Apr 02 2018
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HB 133
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to the transportation of agricultural commodities and supplies. Amend KRS 281.730 to define "agricultural commodity," "farm supply for agricultural purposes," and "planting and harvesting season"; exempt drivers of vehicles transporting agricultural commodities and farm supplies for agricultural purposes within a 150 air-mile radius from a farm or distribution point during the planting and harvesting season from any provisions of 49 C.F.R. pt. 395, relating to hours of service of drivers, adopted by Transportation Cabinet.
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Jan 04 2018 |
Signed By Governor (Acts, Ch. 102)
Apr 02 2018
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HB 289
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to disproportionate share hospital payments and making an appropriation therefor. Amend KRS 205.639 to establish definitions; amend KRS 205.640 to specify the process for submitting Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) surveys; specify the process by which initial and final DSH payments are calculated; provide for the distribution of DSH funds; require the Department for Medicaid Services and managed care organizations to provide hospitals with a paid claims list within 90 days of the end of each hospital's fiscal year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish a penalty for managed care organizations that do not provide hospitals with a paid claims list by the required deadline; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to permit the Department for Medicaid Services to promulgate administrative regulations to comply with changes in federal law regarding DSH payments and to make DSH payments contingent upon receipt of federal funds, the availability of state funds, and approval of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid; repeal KRS 205.641; APPROPRIATION.
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Jan 31 2018 |
Signed By Governor (Acts, Ch. 76)
Apr 02 2018
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HR 302
(2018 Regular Session)
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Officer Phillip L. Meacham.
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Apr 02 2018 |
Adopted By Voice Vote
Apr 02 2018
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HB 68
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to law enforcement support programs, declaring an emergency, and making an appropriation therefor. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require the Department of Criminal Justice Training to provide a law enforcement professional development and wellness program; outline standards for program; require program to be confidential; create a fund for the program's administration; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
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Nov 28 2017 |
Signed By Governor (Acts, Ch. 104)
Apr 02 2018
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HR 292
(2018 Regular Session)
Honor Robert L. King upon his retirement.
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Mar 27 2018 |
Adopted By Voice Vote
Apr 02 2018
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HB 291
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to the National Guard. Amend KRS 38.238, 38.460, and 61.394 to clarify that employment protections apply to any member of the National Guard.
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Jan 31 2018 |
Signed By Governor (Acts, Ch.82)
Apr 02 2018
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HR 295
(2018 Regular Session)
Honor Fred Clem.
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Mar 27 2018 |
Adopted By Voice Vote
Mar 29 2018
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HCR 250
(2018 Regular Session)
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to create a Task Force on Notary Public Reform to study legislative action and proposals from around the United States on changes to notary laws; report the findings to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2018.
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Mar 19 2018 |
2nd Reading, To Rules
Mar 27 2018
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HB 100
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to building industry licensure. Amend KRS 198B.650 to revise the definitions of "maintenance person or maintenance engineer," "major repair," and "routine maintenance of heating, ventilation, or air conditioning"; amend KRS 198B.658 to change the experience requirement from five years to two years for a master, and from four years to two years for a journeyman; amend KRS 198B.678 to permit a master HVAC contractor to represent more than one firm if specified criteria are met; create a new section of KRS 198B.650 to 198B.689 to require the department to grant a 180-day interim period to allow a company to use the license of a deceased master HVAC contractor; amend KRS 318.054 to require the department to grant a 180-day interim period to allow a company to use the license of a deceased master plumber; amend KRS 227.480 to require the department to grant a 180-day interim period to allow a company to use the license of a deceased electrical contractor; amend KRS 227A.140 to require the department to grant a 180-day interim period to allow a business to use the license of a deceased master electrician.
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Jan 02 2018 |
Signed By Governor (Acts, Ch. 22)
Mar 23 2018
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HB 372
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to protections of religious organizations. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to set forth legislative findings; define "discriminatory actions," "religious organization," "state benefit program," and "state government"; set forth those religious beliefs or moral convictions protected by the Act; restrict state government from taking discriminatory actions against religious organizations for certain actions; allow a person to assert a claim against state government as a defense against certain discriminatory actions; require that a person assert a claim within two years; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunities except those of liability under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution; declare that the protections of free exercise of religious beliefs afforded are in addition to protections under federal and state law and federal and state constitutions; specify that if any application or provisions of the Act that is held invalid under the law, the remainder of the Act and application of its provisions shall not be affected.
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Feb 14 2018 |
To Judiciary (S)
Mar 22 2018
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HR 279
(2018 Regular Session)
Honor Joyce Honaker upon winning the 2018 Vic Hellard Jr. Award for exemplary public service.
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Mar 22 2018 |
Adopted By Voice Vote
Mar 22 2018
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HR 251
(2018 Regular Session)
Honor Sturgill Simpson.
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Mar 19 2018 |
Adopted By Voice Vote
Mar 20 2018
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HR 252
(2018 Regular Session)
Recognize March as Irish American Heritage Month for Kentucky.
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Mar 19 2018 |
Adopted By Voice Vote
Mar 20 2018
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HB 537
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to legislative communications. Amend KRS 7.105 to require the Legislative Research Commission to email electronic versions of the "final executive action" issue of the Legislative Record and the interim Legislative Record instead of mailing hard copies; allow the Commission to mail hard copies upon written request.
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Feb 27 2018 |
To State & Local Government (S)
Mar 16 2018
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HB 445
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to the prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses. Amend KRS 314.011 to eliminate the Controlled Substance Formulary Development Committee; amend KRS 314.042 to permit advanced practice registered nurses to enter into a collaborative agreement for prescriptive authority for controlled substances with a collaborating advanced practice nurse practitioner or a physician and to permit advanced practice registered nurses to prescribe controlled substances without a collaborative agreement after four years; amend KRS 314.193 to assign to the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Council the responsibility to make recommendations to the Board of Nursing regarding limitations on prescriptions for controlled substances written by advanced practice registered nurses and to review continuing education requirements for controlled substances; amend KRS 314.196 to clarify qualifications for members of the Collaborative Prescribing Agreement Joint Advisory Committee and to clarify the committee's responsibilities.
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Feb 22 2018 |
Returned To Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs (H)
Mar 16 2018
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HR 245
(2018 Regular Session)
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Officer Scotty Hamilton.
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Mar 15 2018 |
Adopted By Voice Vote
Mar 15 2018
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HB 328
(2018 Regular Session)
AN ACT relating to mechanical systems. Amend KRS 198B.660 to eliminate certain requirements for HVAC license examinations; amend KRS 198B.6673 and 198B.6678 to allow an applicant for an inspector position with a local jurisdiction or the department to become certified after the applicant has been hired.
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Feb 07 2018 |
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
Mar 13 2018
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