| KY | HB319 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Cybersecurity (KentuckyCYBER) Program and governing board within the Council on Postsecondary Education; establish the purpose and duties of KentuckyCYBER Governing Board; create the Ke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB723 | Pass | Amends KRS 147A.154 and 147A.158 to sunset the existing Government Resources Accelerating Needed Transformation (GRANT) Program as established in the Department for Local Government and to transfer the moneys in the existing fund to the Cabinet for E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 188) |
| KY | SB128 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 339 to allow a nonprofit organization to apply to the Department of Workplace Standards to create a work program for minors 12 or 13 years of age, to require that the primary benefit of the work performed provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 119) |
| KY | HB179 | Pass | Amends KRS 304.3-110 to authorize life and health insurers to transact disability income and paid family leave insurance, and to make technical corrections; creates new sections of Subtitle 5 of KRS Chapter 304 to define “disability income insuranc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 99) |
| KY | HB456 | Pass | Amends KRS 337.285 to add sheriff’s offices and county police forces to the local government agencies eligible for an exception to overtime compensation, and to list statutory authority for other entities that work with law enforcement departments ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 86) |
| KY | SB140 | Pass | Amends KRS 341.413 to require the secretary of the Education and Labor Cabinet to waive overpayments that were not the fault of the recipient for claims between January 27, 2020, and September 6, 2021, and to remove the limiting provisions to ensure ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 70) |
| 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 | HB124 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B.010 to 335B.070 to require hiring and licensing authorities to establish an application process that gives persons convicted of a crime an opportunity to apply for a position of public employment or occupation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB465 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; permit a public or private entity to contribute funds to a portable benefit plan of a self-employed worker without establishing an employer classification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Rules Committee |
| KY | HB500 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to provide for certain employment activities to be exempt from minimum wage and overtime wage requirements; specify activities and instances that do not require an employer to pay minimum wage or overtime wage; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB739 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; provide that an employer may petition the court for an order of protection after incidents of workplace violence; establish procedures for petitioning the court, service of process, hearings, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B to require the licensing authorities of healthcare occupations to collect workforce participation data during the annual, biennial, or triennial licensure renewal process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| 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 | 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 | HB770 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 341.190 to provide that employer information requests include a particularized explanation for the request and is not overly broad, unduly burdensome, or outside the scope of permissible requests; amend KRS 341.990 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a Kentucky work opportunity tax credit contingent on eligibility for the federal work opportunity tax credit; set maximum credit amount of $500 per eligible employee; specify the tax is available f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the Adult Workforce Diploma Pilot Program; define terms; establish eligibility criteria for the program; direct the Kentucky Department of Education to administer the program; provide payments to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 338.062 to prohibit the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board or the secretary from enforcing any occupational safety and health administrative regulation that is more stringent than the corresponding federal provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 342.0011 to define "medical professional"; amend KRS 342.020 to provide that failure to submit a statement for services within 45 days may render the statement for services ineligible and that denial of a claim shall toll the requirements t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "covenant not to compete," "employee," and "health service provider"; prohibit a health service provider from requiring an employee to enter a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB769 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 161.048 to allow for alternative teacher certification through a state-approved local training program provided by a local district, group of districts, or educational cooperative; permit participation in the training program for those poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB792 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 317A.030 to add a licensed nail technician and one additional citizen at large member to the board; direct board to collect and retain statistical data on its applicants and licensees; amend KRS 317A.120 to require the board give written te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 324B to direct professional healthcare licensing boards to collect more comprehensive and uniform data on licensure renewal forms and to report data to the Department of Insurance and Cabinet for Health and Family ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define "covenant not to compete" and "covered employee"; provide that an employer shall not require a covered employee to enter into a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages that can be rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB824 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms related to employer requirements for victims of domestic violence; require employers to grant leave from work for employees who seek protection or treatment for themselves or a family member due ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB818 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 343.090 to make technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 342.0011 to include gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB524 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish the Kentucky Rural Jobs Act of 2024; allow the Cabinet for Economic Development to begin accepting applications from entities seeking approval as a growth fund; allow no more than $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB576 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 337.010 to change the definition of "employee" and to add the definition of "worker with a disability"; amend KRS 337.275 to require all employers to pay all employees, including workers with a disability, a minimum wage and increase the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB537 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; require all employers to grant an employee at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a child, or death of a depen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete definitions of "candidate," "committee," "contributing organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB183 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; require employers who provide services in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation to maintain a written heat illness prevention plan informing employees of policies and proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | HB507 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete all other definitions; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB504 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms and make the termination of employment without cause unlawful; establish amount that may be recovered for wrongful discharge; specify when the employers' internal procedures are to be used.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 relating to voting leave for employees; define terms; require employers to grant employees reasonable leave from work to vote; prohibit employers from discriminating against employees who request leave to vote; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund", "Child Care Assistance Program" and to rename and redefine the family child-care home program to the "family, friend, and neighbor child-care home"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB422 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to define "in-demand industry sector" and "in-demand occupation"; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to create annual lists of in-demand industry sectors and in-demand occupations and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 342.610 to remove the presumption that the use of an illegal substance prior to an accident caused the injury; provide that the use of an illegal substance shall be the proximate cause of the injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 337.415 to define terms "crime," "immediate family," and "victim"; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with the prosecut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section in KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit an employer from conditioning employment or employment benefits on an employee signing types of nondisclosure agreements related to unlawful acts in the workplace; clarify statutory construction; cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 requiring employers to give employees a good-faith schedule of hours to be worked, to have a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours, to post weekly schedules at least seven days in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 154.12-330 to give preference to veterans in the issuance of small business loans; create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to require monthly veteran workforce reports; create new sections of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 337.010 to define "family care leave," "family member," "health care provider," "same employer," and "serious health condition"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employers from refusing to grant a qualified employee famil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "covenant not to compete," "employee," and "health service provider"; prohibit a health service provider receiving 10 percent or more of its total gross revenue from state general funds from requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require any employer doing business in Kentucky that receives governmental incentives or subsidies to pay its employees a living wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Cybersecurity (KentuckyCYBER) Program and governing board within the Council on Postsecondary Education; establish the purpose and duties of KentuckyCYBER Governing Board; create the Ke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to prohibit monetary or in-kind incentives for immunization by a fully insured health benefit plan or self-insured plan issued or renewed to public employees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 335B to allow universal recognition of occupational licenses and government certifications; include work experience as a basis for licensure or certification; explicity include military personnel and their spouses; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-02
To House Committee On Committees |
