| KY | SB74 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with special enrollment and maternity coverage requirements; creates a new section of KR...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 207) |
| KY | SJR176 | Veto | Establish the Workforce Attraction and Retention Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim of the General Assembly; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to hire the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Vetoed and delivered with Veto Message to Secretary of State |
| KY | SB167 | Pass | Amends KRS 156.160 to require that cursive writing be included as a course of study in all elementary schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; and amends KRS 158.6453 to distinguish basic handwriting or penmanship from the definition of “wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 203) |
| KY | SR87 | Pass | Recognize January 23, 2024, as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR167 | Pass | Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jessie "Jess" J. Adkins.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR337 | Pass | Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Brady Delaney.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR374 | Pass | Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Roger Francis Keller, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR4 | Pass | Honor Senator Denise Harper Angel upon her retirement from the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR379 | Pass | Honor Superintendent Jeff Aulick of Bracken County Schools upon the occasion of his retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR383 | Pass | Honor Superintendent Jay Brewer of Dayton Independent Schools upon the occasion of his retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR2 | Pass | Honor the extraordinary service of Senator John Schickel to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR207 | Pass | Recognize and commend the Louisville Fire Department rescue squad that executed a rescue on the Clark Memorial Bridge, and the Louisville Metro Police and emergency medical services personnel that responded to the scene.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR247 | Pass | Recognize April 18, 2024, as National Lineman Appreciation Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR1 | Pass | Honor the extraordinary service of Senator Damon Thayer to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB20 | Pass | Amends KRS 635.020 to provide that a child 15 years of age or older who is charged with a Class A, B, or C felony involving the use of a firearm shall be transferred to Circuit Court to be tried as an adult, to provide that the Commonwealth’s attor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 160) |
| KY | SB2 | Pass | Amends KRS 156.095 to require schools to provide suicide prevention awareness twice a year and an opportunity for any student who missed the suicide prevention awareness lesson to receive the lesson at a later time, and to make conforming changes; am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 165) |
| KY | SB50 | Pass | Amends KRS 243.0305 to allow a craft distiller to self-distribute up to 5,000 gallons of distilled spirits per year directly to a licensed retailer, to direct the distiller to register, deliver, report, and pay all applicable taxes on self-distribute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 110) |
| KY | SB127 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establishes the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establishes the membership of the committee; establishes the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 109) |
| KY | SB188 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.2254 to require that the state employee health plan and state agencies comply with certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 104) |
| KY | SB11 | Pass | Amends KRS 610.345 to require notice to schools prior to filing of a public offense petition against a child in certain cases; and amends KRS 158.488 and 158.153 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 51) |
| KY | SB1 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the endowed research fund to be administered by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) for the purposes of funding research consortiums between two or more public universities; provides that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.41) |
| KY | SB164 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to allow articulation agreements between licensed proprietary schools and public school districts or state area technology centers to establish academic or training equivalencies needed to obtain licensure, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.22) |
| KY | SB14 | Pass | Amends KRS 317A.020 to specify emergency order and hearing procedures and to allow the Board of Cosmetology to pursue injunctive remedy and refer violations of the chapter to prosecutorial agencies; and amends KRS 317A.030 to add a licensed nail tech...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.25) |
| KY | SR168 | Pass | Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of former Cincinnati Reds pitcher Don Gullett.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SJR194 | Engross
Sine Die | Urge the United States Congress and the Kentucky Congressional delegation to designate Big Bone Lick State Historic Site as a national historical park; direct the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to work in conjunction with the United Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SR218 | Pass | Oppose the United States' participation in the World Health Organization's Pandemic Agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB295 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB89 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid Services to provide coverage for certified professional midwifer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB142 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth a paid leave of absence of up to four weeks for the birth, surrogacy, or adoption of a child, or up to two weeks for the placement of a child in foster care or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB130 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to make it unlawful for a state agency to discriminate against a person based on his or her access to electronic means to obtain benefits or gain access to public buildings; provide that the Act may be cited as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SR203 | Pass | Honor the extraordinary service of Charles R. Blackmar Jr. to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement as Chief of Police of Augusta, Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB126 | Engross
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 77 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit the Governor's ability to grant pardons or commute sentences beginning 30 days prior to a gubernatorial election and ending at that gubernatorial inauguration; amend Section 240 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for the educational costs of elementary and secondary school students outside of the public school system; provide ballot language for submis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 14.250 to require the Secretary of State (SOS) to develop, operate, and maintain the Kentucky One-Stop Business Portal (Portal) to facilitate interaction among businesses and governmental agencies in the Commonwealth; mandate that certain e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB5 | Pass | Amends KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 2) |
| KY | SB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216B.020 to add various health facilities and services to the list of health facilities and services that are exempt from certificate of need requirements; amend KRS 216B.065 to exempt various health facilities and services from acquisition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the sustainable aviation fuel tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035; compute credit based on $2.50 per gallon of sustainable aviation fuel c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB314 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit any rule, regulation, tax, fee, or any other mandate issued by the World Health Organization, United Nations, World Economic Forum, or any other international organization from having jurisdiction wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SCR189 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Foster Care and Adoption Efficiency Task Force to examine the foster care system, evaluate timeframes and guidelines once a child comes into state custody, review barriers to foster care homes, and review funding to foster care placemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB48 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 514.030 to increase the theft aggregate timeframe from 90 days to one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to require that any person who administers an unapproved drug, devise, or biologic that has been approved for emergency use by the secretary of the United States Food and Drug Administration provides inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB7 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 164.7874 to include an equivalent score on the Classic Learning Test as a KEES supplemental amount; define "eligible noncertified school graduate"; amend definitions of "KEES award," "KEES award maximum," and " KEES base amount" for an elig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| KY | SB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SR122 | Pass | Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kara Renae Hanks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR104 | Pass | Proclaim February 8, 2024, as Kentucky Nurses Day and adjourn in honor of Kentucky nurses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to require employers that mandate employee immunization to allow exceptions based on religious belief or medical contraindication; provide sample form for employee affirmation; establish which health care provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SR123 | Pass | Call upon Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.345 to remove reference minority members of school councils; change the parent membership of the council from two to three; specify that council members are subject to KRS Chapter 45A as officers of an agency; establish an election comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB169 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to establish a process to recall a member of a local board of education; amend KRS 160.190 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
