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{"bill_id":1545375,"bill_number":"SB18","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency medical personnel.","description":"Amend KRS 311A.090 to require a convicted felon licensed or certified by the Board of Emergency Medical Services to notify the board within 30 days of his or her release about the charges of which he or she was convicted and the terms of release; amend KRS 311A.200 to require an incarcerated felon with a limited certification as a first responder or emergency medical technician or limited license as a paramedic, who wishes to continue to be licensed, to apply to the board.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB18/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb18.html","sponsor":"Karen Berg"},
{"bill_id":1545376,"bill_number":"HB78","title":"AN ACT relating to bereavement medical leave for loss of an infant.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to allow use of leave time for parents to grieve the loss of a child under the age of one year.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB78/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb78.html","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1545377,"bill_number":"HB11","title":"AN ACT relating to civil rights.","description":"Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for \"sexual orientation\" and \"gender identity\"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition against discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB11/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb11.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1545378,"bill_number":"SJR6","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating honorary names for various roads and bridges.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designated the Warren Lanham Memorial Highway in Daviess County.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 187)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR6/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr6.html","sponsor":"Matt Castlen"},
{"bill_id":1545379,"bill_number":"HB148","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms.","description":"Amend KRS 527.040 to include receiving a pardon from the governor of another state as a basis for removing the prohibition of possession of a handgun.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB148/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb148.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1545380,"bill_number":"SB2","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting and declaring an emergency.","description":"(S1301B01) Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 5 to divide the Commonwealth into the following senatorial districts: DISTRICT 1 - Calloway KY, Crittenden KY, Fulton KY, Graves KY, Hickman KY, Lyon KY, Trigg KY; DISTRICT 2 - Ballard KY, Carlisle KY, Livingston KY, Marshall KY, McCracken KY; DISTRICT 3 - Caldwell KY, Christian KY, Muhlenberg KY; DISTRICT 4 - Henderson KY, Hopkins KY, Union KY, Webster KY; DISTRICT 5 - Breckinridge KY, Butler KY, Grayson KY, Meade KY, Ohio KY; DISTRICT 6 - Jefferson KY (part), Oldham KY, Trimble KY; DISTRICT 7 - Anderson KY, Henry KY, Jefferson KY (part), Shelby KY; DISTRICT 8 - Daviess KY, Hancock KY, McLean KY; DISTRICT 9 - Barren KY, Edmonson KY, Green KY, Hart KY, Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 10 - Hardin KY, Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 11 - Boone KY (part); DISTRICT 12 - Boyle KY, Fayette KY (part), Mercer KY, Woodford KY; DISTRICT 13 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 14 - Larue KY, Marion KY, Nelson KY, Spencer KY, Washington KY; DISTRICT 15 - Clinton KY, Cumberland KY, Pulaski KY, Russell KY, Wayne KY; DISTRICT 16 - Adair KY, Allen KY, Metcalfe KY, Monroe KY, Taylor KY, Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 17 - Fayette KY (part), Grant KY, Kenton KY (part), Scott KY; DISTRICT 18 - Boyd KY, Carter KY, Greenup KY, Lewis KY; DISTRICT 19 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 20 - Boone KY (part), Carroll KY, Franklin KY, Gallatin KY, Kenton KY (part), Owen KY; DISTRICT 21 - Casey KY, Laurel KY, Lincoln KY, Rockcastle KY; DISTRICT 22 - Fayette KY (part), Garrard KY, Jessamine KY; DISTRICT 23 - Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 24 - Bracken KY, Campbell KY, Kenton KY (part), Pendleton KY; DISTRICT 25 - Clay KY, Jackson KY, Knox KY, McCreary KY, Owsley KY, Whitley KY; DISTRICT 26 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 27 - Bourbon KY, Fayette KY (part), Fleming KY, Harrison KY, Mason KY, Nicholas KY, Robertson KY, Rowan KY; DISTRICT 28 - Bath KY, Clark KY, Fayette KY (part), Menifee KY, Montgomery KY; DISTRICT 29 - Bell KY, Floyd KY, Harlan KY, Knott KY, Letcher KY; DISTRICT 30 - Breathitt KY, Estill KY, Lee KY, Leslie KY, Magoffin KY, Morgan KY, Perry KY, Powell KY, Wolfe KY; DISTRICT 31 - Elliott KY, Johnson KY, Lawrence KY, Martin KY, Pike KY; DISTRICT 32 - Logan KY, Simpson KY, Todd KY, Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 33 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 34 - Fayette KY (part), Madison KY; DISTRICT 35 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 36 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 37 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 38 - Bullitt KY, Jefferson KY (part); PLAN INTEGRITY VERIFIED; amend KRS 5.010 to change dates to conform; specify how county and precinct names are to be displayed depending on whether the territory of the county or precinct is included in a particular legislative district in its entirety or in part; direct county boards of elections to change precinct boundaries to conform to legislative district boundaries; EMERGENCY","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-01-21","last_action":"filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 9)","last_action_date":"2022-01-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB2/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb2.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1545381,"bill_number":"HB191","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting and declaring an emergency.","description":"(H1261B02) Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 5 to divide the Commonwealth into the following representative districts: DISTRICT 1 - Ballard KY, Carlisle KY, Fulton KY, Hickman KY, McCracken KY (part); DISTRICT 2 - Graves KY, McCracken KY (part); DISTRICT 3 - Livingston KY, McCracken KY (part); DISTRICT 4 - Caldwell KY, Christian KY (part), Crittenden KY; DISTRICT 5 - Calloway KY, Marshall KY (part); DISTRICT 6 - Lyon KY, Marshall KY (part), Trigg KY; DISTRICT 7 - Daviess KY (part); DISTRICT 8 - Christian KY (part); DISTRICT 9 - Hopkins KY; DISTRICT 10 - Breckinridge KY, Grayson KY; DISTRICT 11 - Henderson KY; DISTRICT 12 - Daviess KY (part), McLean KY, Union KY, Webster KY; DISTRICT 13 - Daviess KY (part); DISTRICT 14 - Butler KY, Hancock KY, Ohio KY; DISTRICT 15 - Muhlenberg KY, Todd KY; DISTRICT 16 - Logan KY, Simpson KY; DISTRICT 17 - Hardin KY (part); DISTRICT 18 - Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 19 - Edmonson KY, Hart KY, Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 20 - Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 21 - Cumberland KY, Metcalfe KY, Monroe KY, Russell KY; DISTRICT 22 - Allen KY, Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 23 - Barren KY; DISTRICT 24 - Green KY, Larue KY, Marion KY; DISTRICT 25 - Hardin KY (part); DISTRICT 26 - Bullitt KY (part), Hardin KY (part); DISTRICT 27 - Hardin KY (part), Meade KY; DISTRICT 28 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 29 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 30 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 31 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 32 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 33 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 34 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 35 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 36 - Jefferson KY (part), Oldham KY (part); DISTRICT 37 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 38 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 39 - Jessamine KY (part); DISTRICT 40 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 41 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 42 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 43 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 44 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 45 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 46 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 47 - Carroll KY, Henry KY, Owen KY, Trimble KY; DISTRICT 48 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 49 - Bullitt KY (part); DISTRICT 50 - Nelson KY; DISTRICT 51 - Adair KY, Taylor KY; DISTRICT 52 - Clinton KY, McCreary KY, Wayne KY; DISTRICT 53 - Anderson KY, Spencer KY; DISTRICT 54 - Boyle KY, Casey KY; DISTRICT 55 - Jessamine KY (part), Mercer KY, Washington KY; DISTRICT 56 - Scott KY (part), Woodford KY; DISTRICT 57 - Franklin KY (part); DISTRICT 58 - Shelby KY (part); DISTRICT 59 - Oldham KY (part); DISTRICT 60 - Boone KY (part), Gallatin KY; DISTRICT 61 - Grant KY, Harrison KY, Robertson KY; DISTRICT 62 - Franklin KY (part), Scott KY (part), Shelby KY (part); DISTRICT 63 - Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 64 - Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 65 - Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 66 - Boone KY (part); DISTRICT 67 - Campbell KY (part); DISTRICT 68 - Campbell KY (part); DISTRICT 69 - Boone KY (part), Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 70 - Bracken KY, Kenton KY (part), Mason KY, Pendleton KY; DISTRICT 71 - Garrard KY, Laurel KY (part), Rockcastle KY; DISTRICT 72 - Bourbon KY, Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 73 - Clark KY, Madison KY (part); DISTRICT 74 - Bath KY, Menifee KY, Montgomery KY; DISTRICT 75 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 76 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 77 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 78 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 79 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 80 - Lincoln KY, Pulaski KY (part); DISTRICT 81 - Madison KY (part); DISTRICT 82 - Laurel KY (part), Whitley KY; DISTRICT 83 - Pulaski KY (part); DISTRICT 84 - Harlan KY (part), Leslie KY, Perry KY; DISTRICT 85 - Boone KY (part); DISTRICT 86 - Knox KY, Laurel KY (part); DISTRICT 87 - Bell KY, Harlan KY (part); DISTRICT 88 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 89 - Jackson KY, Laurel KY (part); DISTRICT 90 - Clay KY, Estill KY, Lee KY, Owsley KY; DISTRICT 91 - Breathitt KY, Magoffin KY, Powell KY, Wolfe KY; DISTRICT 92 - Madison KY (part); DISTRICT 93 - Pike KY (part); DISTRICT 94 - Knott KY, Letcher KY, Pike KY (part); DISTRICT 95 - Floyd KY, Martin KY; DISTRICT 96 - Boyd KY (part), Carter KY, Lewis KY; DISTRICT 97 - Elliott KY, Johnson KY, Morgan KY; DISTRICT 98 - Boyd KY (part), Greenup KY; DISTRICT 99 - Fleming KY, Nicholas KY, Rowan KY; DISTRICT 100 - Boyd KY (part), Lawrence KY; PLAN INTEGRITY VERIFIED; amend KRS 5.010 to change dates to conform; extend the primary filing deadline to February 8, 2022, for the 2022 primary and no other election; permit the Secretary of State or county clerk, for the 2022 primary and for no other election, to determine when the drawing for ballot positions for candidates will be held and when the certification will be determined; specify how county and precinct names are to be displayed depending on whether the territory of the county or precinct is included in a particular legislative district in its entirety or in part; direct county boards of elections to change precinct boundaries to conform to representative and senatorial district boundaries; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB191/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb191.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1545382,"bill_number":"HB179","title":"AN ACT relating to districts of the Supreme Court and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 21A.010 to divide the Commonwealth into the following Supreme Court Districts: DISTRICT 1 - Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess, Fulton, Graves, Hancock, Henderson, Hickman, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, McLean, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Todd, Trigg, Union, and Webster Counties; DISTRICT 2 - Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Larue, Logan, Meade, Monroe, Simpson, Spencer, and Warren Counties; DISTRICT 3 - Adair, Anderson, Bell, Boyle, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Garrard, Green, Harlan, Knox, Laurel, Lincoln, Marion, McCreary, Mercer, Metcalfe, Nelson, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell, Taylor, Washington, Wayne, and Whitley Counties; DISTRICT 4 - Jefferson County; DISTRICT 5 - Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Madison, Scott, and Woodford Counties; DISTRICT 6 - Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Henry, Kenton, Oldham, Owen, Pendleton, Shelby, and Trimble Counties; DISTRICT 7 - Bath, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Floyd, Greenup, Harrison, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Lewis, Magoffin, Martin, Mason, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Nicholas, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Powell, Robertson, Rowan, and Wolfe Counties; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-01-18","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 5)","last_action_date":"2022-01-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB179/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb179.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1545383,"bill_number":"SB24","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms.","description":"Amend KRS 16.220 to require the destruction of confiscated firearms; amend various sections to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB24/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb24.html","sponsor":"Karen Berg"},
{"bill_id":1545384,"bill_number":"SB25","title":"AN ACT relating to actions in response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and declaring an emergency.","description":"Provide up to 10 days of remote instruction per school for school districts to use at the school, classroom, grade, or group level for the 2021-2022 school year; temporarily revise retirement reemployment provisions until June 30, 2022; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-01-14","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 4)","last_action_date":"2022-01-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB25/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb25.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1545385,"bill_number":"HB23","title":"AN ACT relating to athletics.","description":"Amend KRS 156.070 to require KHSAA to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools to designate all interscholastic athletics based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in girls' athletics; establish how to designate biological sex; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a cause of action against a school that violates these provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require a public postsecondary education institution or private postsecondary education institution that is a member of a national intercollegiate athletic association to designate all intercollegiate and intramural athletics authorized by the institution based on biological sex of students eligible to participate; require that institutions prohibit male students from participating in womens' athletics; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a cause of action against a postsecondary institution that violates these provisions; title the Act \"Fairness in Womens' Sports Act.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB23/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb23.html","sponsor":"Ryan Dotson"},
{"bill_id":1545386,"bill_number":"HB73","title":"AN ACT relating to medical order for scope of treatment.","description":"Amend KRS 311.621 to add new definitions and amend current definitions; amend KRS 311.6225 to expand the scope of who can complete a MOST form; to require an electronically fillable version of the MOST form to be accessed online; to require a Spanish translation of the MOST form; to accept out of state versions of the form as long as certain conditions are met; and amend various sections of KRS 311 to include physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB73/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb73.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1545387,"bill_number":"HB47","title":"AN ACT relating to the promotion of organ and bone marrow donation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the employers' organ and bone marrow donation tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow disclosure of certain information on the credit to the Legislative Research Commission; declare short title to be the Living Organ and Bone Marrow Donor Assistance Act of 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB47/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb47.html","sponsor":"Shawn McPherson"},
{"bill_id":1545388,"bill_number":"HB17","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to terms of members of the General Assembly.","description":"Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prevent Senators from serving more than four terms of office, not including partial terms of two years or less, and to prevent members of the House of Representatives from serving more than six terms of office, not including partial terms of two years or less, beginning with those elected in November 2024; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB17/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb17.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1545389,"bill_number":"HB77","title":"AN ACT relating to radon safety.","description":"Repeal and reenact or repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 211.9101 to 211.9135 as new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to change the name of the Kentucky Radon Program Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Board of Radon Safety; adjust the number of members to the board; establish the responsibilities of the board; attach the board to the Department of Professional Licensing in the Public Protection Cabinet for administrative purposes; change the name of the radon mitigation and control fund to the radon control fund; increase the cap on fines to $1,000 per occurrence.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-31","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 73)","last_action_date":"2022-03-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB77/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb77.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1545390,"bill_number":"SR10","title":"A RESOLUTION designating January 22, 2022, as the Day of Tears.","description":"Designate January 22, 2022, as the Day of Tears.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-01-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR10/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr10.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1545391,"bill_number":"SB13","title":"AN ACT relating to wages.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer and to define\" small employer\" and \"large employer\"; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage for small and large employers to $12.00 an hour and $15.00 an hour respectively; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB13/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb13.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1545392,"bill_number":"HB59","title":"AN ACT relating to family care leave.","description":"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 preventing an employee to take family care leave; to entitle employee to family care leave for the birth of a child or to take care of a family member and establish parameters.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB59/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb59.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1545393,"bill_number":"HB107","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development incentive projects.","description":"Amend KRS 154.22-040, 154.32-020, 154.32-010, 154.34-110, 154. 12-204, 154.60-020, 154.28-080, 154.23-025 and 154.24-090 to update employee wage requirements for employers and businesses receiving economic development tax incentives.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB107/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb107.html","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1545394,"bill_number":"HB24","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.115 to exempt motor vehicles that are more than ten years old that meet the definiton of a salvage vehicle from rebuilt title inspection requirements; amend KRS 186A.530 to require that owners of vehicles that are exempt from rebuilt title inspections submit an affidavit that the vehicle is in roadworthy condition.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB24/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb24.html","sponsor":"Thomas Huff"},
{"bill_id":1545395,"bill_number":"HB68","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.087 and 118.035 to extend the ending voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB68/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb68.html","sponsor":"Buddy Wheatley"},
{"bill_id":1545396,"bill_number":"HB173","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for postpartum behavioral healthcare.","description":"Amend KRS 205.592 to require Medicaid to cover behavioral health services for eligible pregnant women for 12 months postpartum; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to request federal authorization for a waiver if necessary.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB173/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb173.html","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1545397,"bill_number":"HJR10","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating a portion of Kentucky Route 210 in LaRue County in honor and loving memory of Hodgenville Police Officer Mark Taulbee.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Officer Mark Taulbee Memorial Highway in LaRue County.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR10/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr10.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1545398,"bill_number":"HB125","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans' income taxation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a deduction of the first year's income for veterans who remain or move into this state immediately upon exit from the Armed Forces and maintain residency in this state for a minimum of three consecutive years thereafter; amend KRS 141.019 to allow for the deduction; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting of the deduction by the Department of Revenue to the Legislative Research Commission.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB125/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb125.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1545399,"bill_number":"SR5","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing Joseph and Mary Ruth Kunkel's 70th wedding anniversary.","description":"Commemorate the 70th wedding anniversary of Joseph and Mary Ruth Kunkel of Boone County.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR5/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr5.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1545400,"bill_number":"HB201","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 132.020 to freeze the state property tax rate and eliminate the tax rate reduction for qualified heavy equipment; amend KRS 136.291, 136.500, 136.505, and 136.506 to reinstate the bank franchise tax and exempt financial institutions from corporation income tax and LLET; amend KRS 138.130 to define vapor products and include vapor products in the definition of tobacco products; amend KRS 138.132, 138.135, 138.195, and 138.197 to remove references to vapor products; amend KRS 138.140 to increase the tax on cigarettes, snuff, chewing tobacco, and tobacco products; to remove the vapor products tax; to remove the discount for modified-risk tobacco products; amend KRS 138.143 to require a floor stock tax; amend KRS 138.510 to impose specific surtax amounts on horse racing wagers and to require the revenue generated from the surtaxes to be deposited into the general fund; amend KRS 139.010 to remove boat ramp fees from the list of fees not considered to be taxable admissions; amend KRS 139.200 to remove the tax on small animal veterinary services and to make other various services taxable; amend KRS 139.470 to remove the exemption of gross receipts from the sale of semi-trailers and trailers and to include the new taxable services in the de minimis rule; amend KRS 139.480 to remove the exemption for various types of properties; amend KRS 140.130 to impose an estate tax; amend KRS 141.010 to define married and unmarried individuals and allow a single column return and a single calculation of adjusted gross income with differing thresholds for married and unmarried individuals; amend KRS 141.019 to require a dollar-for-dollar reduction to the retirement income exclusion; to limit the itemized deduction amount for all itemized deductions except for the charitable contribution deduction; to ignore the special rules for capital gains invested in opportunity zones; amend KRS 141.020 to establish graduated tax rate brackets and a phase-out based on income level; amend KRS 141.081 to increase the standard deduction; amend KRS 141.066 to expand the family size tax credit; amend KRS 141.040 to increase the tax rate to 7%; amend KRS 141.0401 to lower the threshold amounts for determining the tax amount owed; amend KRS 141.120 to reinstate the three-factor apportionment formula and include a throw-back rule; amend KRS 141.039 to eliminate the deferred tax deduction; amend KRS 141.201 to sunset the election for consolidated reporting; amend KRS 141.202 to alter the filing requirement basis from waters-edge to world-wide; amend KRS 141.383 to reduce the annual cap; amend KRS 141.433 to sunset the new markets tax credit; amend KRS 142.303 to eliminate the cap on calculation of gross receipts; amend KRS 138.146, 139.260, and 154.61-020 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB201/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb201.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1545401,"bill_number":"HB22","title":"AN ACT relating to Women Veterans' Appreciation Day.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate June 12 as Women Veterans' Appreciation Day in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB22/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb22.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1545402,"bill_number":"HB142","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.010 to define \"kratom\"; amend KRS 218A.1412 to include kratom to the list of controlled substances that are unlawful to traffic; amend KRS 218A.1415 to include kratom in the list of controlled substances that are unlawful for a person to possess.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"returned to Health & Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB142/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb142.html","sponsor":"Josh Calloway"},
{"bill_id":1545403,"bill_number":"HB187","title":"AN ACT relating to the home modification tax credit.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow an income tax credit for qualified home modification expenses incurred by an individual equal to the actual cost of the home modifications, up to $7,500 per taxpayer per year; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report information to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB187/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb187.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1545404,"bill_number":"HB143","title":"AN ACT relating to economic fiscal matters.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to establish the Tax Expenditure and Economic Development Incentive Review Board and specify the board's membership, authority, powers and duties; establish requirements for board meetings; establish requirements for when the General Assembly enacts new tax expenditures or economic development incentives; require agencies to assign taxpayers a unique number for purposes of reporting tax expenditures and economic development incentives; amend KRS 11.068 to require the annual production of a detailed estimate of the revenue loss resulting from each tax expenditure and economic development incentive from the general fund and road fund; amend KRS 131.020 to require the Department of Revenue to collect, report, and provide data to the Tax Expenditure and Economic Development Incentive Review Board; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to provide confidential data to the Tax Expenditure and Economic Development Incentive Review Board.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB143/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb143.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1545405,"bill_number":"HB146","title":"AN ACT relating to the delivery of education and declaring an emergency.","description":"Specify that school districts that implemented a test-to-stay program for students and staff under 2021 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky Acts ch. 4, sec. 4, shall ensure that no less than two testing sites be available within the county to test students and school staff; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB146/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb146.html","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1545406,"bill_number":"HB162","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.","description":"Amend KRS 342.020 to require an employer to pay for medical benefits at the time of injury and thereafter during disability instead of 780 weeks; amend KRS 342.990 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB162/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb162.html","sponsor":"Ashley Tackett Laferty"},
{"bill_id":1545407,"bill_number":"HB200","title":"AN ACT relating to the transportation of persons.","description":"Amend KRS 281.605 to exempt motor vehicles used in the transportation of persons 18 years of age or older from the provisions of KRS Chapter 281 relating to the regulation of motor carriers, if the motor vehicle is owned or being used on behalf of a nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB200/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb200.html","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1545408,"bill_number":"HB145","title":"AN ACT relating to the delivery of education and declaring an emergency.","description":"Specify that school districts that implemented a test-to-stay program for students and staff under 2021 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky Acts ch. 4, sec. 4, can require no more than five consecutive calendar days of testing; provide that if the fifth day occurs on a nonschool or nonwork day, the student or staff member shall test upon his or her return to school or work; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB145/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb145.html","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1545409,"bill_number":"HB154","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.010 to remove the penalty enhancement for refusal of a blood test; amend KRS 189A.104 to remove blood tests from the list of alcohol or substance tests that are subject to enhancement of penalties; amend KRS 189A.105 to remove the limitations for obtaining a search warrant for a blood test and provide that a refusal of a blood test will not result in the enhancement of any criminal penalty; amend KRS 189A.107 to describe that the refusal of a blood, breath, or urine test will subject a person to license suspension; amend KRS 189A.110 to include an alcohol concentration reading of 0.15 percent as a qualifying result for the minimum four hour detention requirement; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-05","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 83)","last_action_date":"2022-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB154/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb154.html","sponsor":"Patrick Flannery"},
{"bill_id":1545410,"bill_number":"HB114","title":"AN ACT relating to the disposition of catalytic converters and other items containing metal.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 establishing the official Kentucky Mental Health Flag and directing it to be displayed in the State Capitol in May.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB114/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb114.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1545411,"bill_number":"HB118","title":"AN ACT relating to disabled persons.","description":"Amend KRS 387.350, relating to determination of disability and appointment of a guardian or conservator, to create additional requirements for petition; amend KRS 387.580 to add specific findings to be made at a hearing; amend KRS 387.600 to make recognition of the respondent's power of attorney discretionary; amend KRS 387.610 to reduce duration of a renewed appointment; amend KRS 387.620 to clarify procedure for an informal request; require jury trials to modify an order; specify that an order may include visitation arrangements and limitation of the ward's ability to enter into a contract; amend KRS 387.640 and 387.660 to specify duties of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services if that cabinet is a guardian or limited guardian; create a new section of KRS Chapter 387 to require the attorney for the respondent in a hearing to determine whether legal actions are in effect and to inform the respondent of his or her right to petition for modification.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB118/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb118.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1545412,"bill_number":"SR8","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.","description":"Honor 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR8/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr8.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1545413,"bill_number":"HB58","title":"AN ACT relating to chronic pain treatments.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan issued or renewed in the Commonwealth that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses shall include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid and Medicaid managed care organizations to include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; amend KRS 218A.172 to require that a health care practitioner discuss and refer or prescribe alternative chronic pain treatments before initially prescribing or dispensing a controlled substance; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB58/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb58.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1545414,"bill_number":"HB106","title":"AN ACT relating to the termination of automatic renewal offers and continuous service offers.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 365 to define \"affirmative consent,\" \"automatic renewal,\" \"automatic renewal offer terms,\" \"clear and conspicuous,\" \"continuous service,\" \"continuous service offer terms,\" \"gift membership,\" \"gift subscription,\" \"material change,\" \"membership,\" \"purchasing agreement,\" and \"subscription\"; require businesses to present automatic renewal or continuous service offer terms clearly and conspicuously to consumers before purchase; require businesses to obtain the consumer's consent before charging the consumer; require businesses to provide consumers with an easy-to-use mechanism for cancellation; require businesses to provide users who purchase in one medium the opportunity to terminate in the same medium, including online termination; require businesses to provide a notice regarding term changes prior to implementation; require businesses to abide by requirements before completion of the order, except that the acknowledment may be fulfilled after order completion and notice of change must be fulfilled prior to implementation; require businesses to provide notification of the expiration of a subscription; prohibit businesses from continuing to charge consumers after the completion of singular orders, orders for a definite period of time, or the expiration of subscriptions or memberships without creating an automatic renewal or continuous service; provide that goods, wares, merchandise, or products sent to the consumer shall be considered an unconditional gift if consent is not obtained by the business; amend KRS 365.990 to create penalty.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB106/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb106.html","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1545415,"bill_number":"HB97","title":"AN ACT relating to ophthalmic dispensers.","description":"Amend KRS 326.080 to require the license renewal fee for practicing ophthalmic dispensing to be established by the Kentucky Board of Ophthalmic Dispensers through promulgation of administrative regulation.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB97/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb97.html","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1545416,"bill_number":"SB23","title":"AN ACT relating to theft of mail matter.","description":"Amend KRS 514.140 to include common carriers and delivery services in protection against theft of mail matter.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 97)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB23/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb23.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1545417,"bill_number":"HB160","title":"AN ACT relating to abandoned property.","description":"Amend KRS 383.020 to specify duties of landlord with respect to abandoned personal property.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB160/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb160.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1545418,"bill_number":"HB129","title":"AN ACT relating to the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development.","description":"Amend KRS 164.0207 to provide that the funding for the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development shall be contingent the center fulfilling the statutory duties set forth in this Act; provide that the center's annual report shall summarize the action taken by the center to fulfill each of its statutory duties; provide that the KDE shall review the annual report to determine whether the center has fulfilled each of its statutory duties; provide that the center shall be subject to a probationary period of 1 year if the department determines the center is not fulfilling each of its statutory duties; require the State Treasurer to withhold all funding allocations to the center for the remainder of the biennium budget if the center has not fulfilled its statutory duties by the end of the probationary period.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB129/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb129.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1545419,"bill_number":"HB74","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle taxes.","description":"Amend KRS 138.470 to exempt motor vehicles purchased by members of the Armed Forces on duty in Kentucky and motor vehicles titled and registered in Kentucky by members of the Amed Forces on duty in Kentucky from motor vehicle usage tax.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB74/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb74.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1545420,"bill_number":"SB17","title":"AN ACT relating to digital assets.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 355A and create new sections thereof to define and establish property classifications for digital assets; supplement and modify provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, KRS Chapter 355, relating to the classification, perfection, and priority of digital assets; allow debtors located in Kentucky to file a financial statement with the Secretary of State to perfect a security interest in a digital asset; establish when a transferee takes a digital asset free of any security interest perfected by filing; for purposes of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355, establish when digital assets are located in Kentucky; classify open blockchain tokens with certain characteristics as intangible personal property; require developers and sellers of certain open blockchain tokens to file a notice of intent with the Secretary of State, and pay a filing fee, prior to sale in this state; require the Secretary of State to promulgate forms and make the forms accessible to filers; require facilitators of certain open blockchain tokens in the resale market to comply with certain requirements; establish penalties for violation of the section; provide that the Secretary of State may make referrals to law enforcement agencies; provide that section may be cited as the Kentucky Utility Token Act; create a new section of Subtitle 2 of KRS Chapter 286 to permit certain Kentucky financial institutions to elect to provide custodial services of customer currency and digital assets in accordance with the provisions of the section; establish internal control and customer contracting requirements for providing custodial services under the section; provide that digital assets held in custody under the section are not depository liabilities or assets of the financial institution; require the commissioner of financial institutions to establish a supervision fee; create a new section of Article 1 of KRS Chapter 355 to conform; amend KRS 369.103 to include transactions involving digital assets; provide that the Secretary of State and the commissioner of financial institutions shall promulgate administrative regulations to implement the Act on or before October 1, 2022; EFFECTIVE, in part, October 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB17/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb17.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1545421,"bill_number":"HB186","title":"AN ACT relating to charities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 367 to limit requirements on 501(c)3-designated charitable organizations to those which are authorized by the Kentucky Revised Statutes; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 89)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB186/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb186.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1545422,"bill_number":"HB61","title":"AN ACT relating to limited X-ray machine operators.","description":"Amend KRS 311B.020 to redefine\"limited X-ray machine operator\" and \"medical imaging technologist\" to provide limited exemptions from the place-of-employment restrictions on limited X-ray machine operators.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-01-19","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB61/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb61.html","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1545423,"bill_number":"HB65","title":"AN ACT relating to the Licensed Professional Counseling Compact.","description":"Create a new section within KRS Chapter 335.500 to 335.599 to declare the purpose of the Licensed Professional Counseling Compact; establish definitions; establish requirements for states that want to enter the compact; recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for licensed professional counselors; establish provisions for active duty military personnel or their spouses; recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for licensed professional counselors in any member state via telehealth; establish procedures for adverse actions a home and member state can take against a licensed professional counselor; create the Counseling Compact Commission; establish and elect an executive committee; provide immunity for party states, officers, employees, or representatives of the commission who act in accordance with the compact; require the commission to create, maintain, operate and use a coordinated database and reporting system containing, licensure, adverse actions, and investigative information on all licensed individuals in member states; establish procedures for rulemaking; authorize the commission to attempt to resolve disputes related to the compact that arise among member states and between member and non-member states; allow the compact to go into effect on the date the compact is enacted into law in the tenth member state; establish withdrawal procedures for a member state that withdraws from the compact; provide severability for any provision in the compact that is contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability to any government, agency, person, or circumstance.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 127)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB65/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb65.html","sponsor":"Norma Kirk-McCormick"},
{"bill_id":1545424,"bill_number":"SB29","title":"AN ACT relating to driver's licensing regional offices.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to require the Transportation Cabinet to develop a network of regional offices for the issuance of operator's licenses and personal identification cards, to establish required locations for regional offices; allow the cabinet to establish addition offices based on population, service demand, geography, and travel times.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB29/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb29.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1545425,"bill_number":"HB72","title":"AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish legislative findings; to provide every individual the right to choose or refuse contraception, sterilization, to carry a pregnancy to term, give birth to a child, or terminate a pregnancy; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB72/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb72.html","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1545426,"bill_number":"HB115","title":"AN ACT related to a tax credit for educator expense.","description":"Amend KRS 141.019 to allow taxpayers to include the federal deduction for educator expenses in adjusted gross income; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable educator expense credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022; allow for a dollar-for-dollar credit with a maximum of $250 per eligible educator for unreimbursed eligible educator expenses that are incurred during the taxable year; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the income tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow for the reporting of the credit.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB115/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb115.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1545427,"bill_number":"HB29","title":"AN ACT relating to prohibiting the enforcement of a federal ban or regulation of firearms and declaring an emergency.","description":"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.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-11","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-15","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB29/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb29.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1545428,"bill_number":"HB54","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 342.0011 to define \"COVID-19\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish workers' compensation liability in instances where employers require vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of employment and the employee develops an adverse reaction to the vaccine; create a rebuttable presumption that an adverse reaction was caused by the COVID-19 vaccine if it was not present prior to and arises within 14 days of receipt of the vaccine; retoactive to December 14, 2020; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB54/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb54.html","sponsor":"Felicia Rabourn"},
{"bill_id":1545429,"bill_number":"HB26","title":"AN ACT relating to state benefits for veterans.","description":"Amend KRS 12.245, 12.354, 14A.1-070, 16.040, 40.010, 40.310, 40.650, 42.0146, 148.0211, 158.105, 158.140, 161.048, 164.512, 164.515, 186.041, and 186.416 to make certain LGBTQ and qualifying veterans eligible for state veterans' benefits.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB26/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb26.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1545430,"bill_number":"HB21","title":"AN ACT relating to SARS-CoV-2 documentation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit a governmental body from requiring persons to provide vaccine passports to enter or obtain service from the governmental body; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a school from requiring persons to provide vaccine passports to enter or obtain service from the school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit a university board from requiring persons to provide vaccine passports to enter or obtain service from the university; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a business entity from requiring persons to provide vaccine passports to enter or obtain service from the business entity; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to impose of fine not to exceed $5,000 per violation of this Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB21/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb21.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1545431,"bill_number":"HB34","title":"AN ACT relating to medicaid coverage for individuals with mental illness.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 205.565 to 205.647 to allow treatment for adults under age 65 in psychiatric residential facilities and hospitals to be claimed as a service; and require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to request federal authorization for a waiver if necessary.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB34/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb34.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1545432,"bill_number":"HB37","title":"AN ACT relating to implicit bias in perinatal care.","description":"Amend KRS 211.680 to expand the scope of the legislative intent and findings; create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; require licensed health facilities under KRS Chapter 216B to provide each patient with written information regarding the patient's rights and implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health providers involved in the perinatal care of patients within those facilities; require the Department for Public Health to track data on maternal death and severe morbidity.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB37/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb37.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545433,"bill_number":"HB134","title":"AN ACT relating to historic properties.","description":"Amend KRS 11.027 to grant the General Assembly final approval over any removal or placement of a statue, bust, plaque, or any comparable memorial on the first floor of the New State Capitol.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB134/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb134.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1545434,"bill_number":"HB185","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.085 to allow the court to order a peace officer to seize a license plate from a person who is convicted of KRS 189A.010.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB185/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb185.html","sponsor":"Samara Heavrin"},
{"bill_id":1545435,"bill_number":"HB150","title":"AN ACT proposing an Amendment to Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to citizen ballot initiatives.","description":"Propose to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish the initiative power of the people to propose laws and to enact or reject proposed initiatives at an election; establish procedures for initiatives, effect of adopted initiatives, and parameters for the subject of any initiative; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB150/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb150.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1545436,"bill_number":"HB71","title":"AN ACT relating to animal cruelty.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; require peace officers and animal control officers to serve notice of seizure of an animal subjected to cruelty; create procedure for seizing agencies to petition a court to order payment of animal care costs by owner; establish penalties; prohibit the destruction of seized animals, except for humane reasons determined by veterinarian.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB71/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb71.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1545437,"bill_number":"HB135","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for state and county employees in hazardous positions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 16.505 to 16.652 to change the retirement benefits for members participating in the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) or in a hazardous position in either the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) or County Employees Retirement System (CERS) who are hired after January 1, 2014, but before January 1, 2023, so that, in lieu of continued participation in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits), these members receive the benefits provided to members in a hazardous position who began participating immediately prior to January 1, 2014 (Tier 2 benefits); for members participating in a hazardous position who are subject to a change from Tier 3 to Tier 2 benefits, presume that service credit in a hazardous duty position earned after January 1, 2014, is service credit earned immediately prior to January 1, 2014, and require that accumulated contributions remain in the member’s account, although any employer credit will be transferred to the retirement allowance account; allow a member participating in a hazardous position subject to a change from Tier 3 to Tier 2 benefits to make a one-time election to opt out of the change of benefits, to be made for an actively employed member, no later than January 31, 2023, or for a member returning to a qualified position, within 30 days of returning to employment; establish exclusions; amend KRS 16.576, 16.577, and 78.5514 to allow a new member who begins participating in SPRS or in a hazardous position in KERS or CERS on or after January 1, 2023, or a member who is eligible under Section 1 of the Act, to calculate retirement allowance using the same benefit factors and service credit as those members in a hazardous position who began participating immediately prior to January 1, 2014 (Tier 2 members); amend KRS 16.583 and 78.5516 to limit the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits) only to members participating in SPRS or in hazardous positions in KERS or CERS who make an election to opt out of Tier 2 benefits under Section 1 of the Act or who make an election, prior to the effective date of the Act, under KRS 61.5955; amend KRS 61.5955 to provide that only a member in a nonhazardous position who began participating in KERS or CERS as a Tier 2 member may elect to receive Tier 3 benefits in the hybrid cash balance plan in lieu of Tier 2 benefits; amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 to amend definitions of various terms to conform and make technical changes; amend KRS 16.560, 61.575, and 78.640 to allow interest credited on the accounts of members participating in SPRS or in a hazardous position in KERS or CERS to be adjusted to conform; amend KRS 16.578 to allow a beneficiary of a member participating in SPRS or in a hazardous position in KERS or CERS who begins participating on or after January 1, 2023, or who is eligible under Section 1 of the Act, to receive the same death benefits as a Tier 2 member; amend KRS 16.582 and 78.5524 to allow a member participating in SPRS or in a hazardous position in KERS or CERS who begins participating on or after January 1, 2023, or who is eligible under Section 1 of the Act to receive the same disability benefits as a Tier 2 member; amend KRS 61.546 and 78.616 to allow a member participating in SPRS or in a hazardous position in KERS who begins participating on or after January 1, 2023, or who is eligible under Section 1 of the Act, to receive the same service credit for unused sick leave as a Tier 2 member; amend KRS 61.552 to allow a member participating in SPRS or in a hazardous position in KERS or CERS, who begins participating on or after January 1, 2023, or who is eligible under Section 1 of the Act, who is also vested, to purchase service credit; amend KRS 61.597 and 78.5512 to permit early retirement from both the Tier 2 and Tier 3 plans for a member eligible for Tier 2 hazardous benefits under Section 1 of the Act, who also has nonhazardous service credit as a Tier 3 member of either KERS or CERS; amend KRS 61.615 and 78.5528 to allow, if a disability retirement allowance is reduced or discontinued, for a member participating in SPRS or in a hazardous position in KERS or CERS who begins participating on or after January 1, 2023, or who is eligible under Section 1 of the Act, to apply for early retirement benefits as provided for and subject to the same limitations as Tier 2 members; amend KRS 61.680 to require that a member who is eligible under Section 1 of the Act and who has nonhazardous service credit as a Tier 3 member of either KERS or CERS to have his or her nonhazardous and hazardous service consolidated to determine eligibility and benefits; amend KRS 78.545 to add Section 1 of this Act as one of the provisions that shall be administered for the CERS in the same manner as for the KERS.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB135/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb135.html","sponsor":"Buddy Wheatley"},
{"bill_id":1545438,"bill_number":"HB190","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 138.140 to create an additional cigarette surtax of six dollars, and to increase the rates on other tobacco and vaping products as of August 1, 2022; amend KRS 138.143 to impose floor stock taxes as of July 31, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB190/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb190.html","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1545439,"bill_number":"HB2","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting and declaring an emergency.","description":"(H1315B04) Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 5 to divide the Commonwealth into the following representative districts: DISTRICT 1 - Ballard KY, Carlisle KY, Fulton KY, Hickman KY, McCracken KY (part); DISTRICT 2 - Graves KY, McCracken KY (part); DISTRICT 3 - Livingston KY, McCracken KY (part); DISTRICT 4 - Hopkins KY; DISTRICT 5 - Calloway KY, Trigg KY (part); DISTRICT 6 - Lyon KY, Marshall KY, McCracken KY (part); DISTRICT 7 - Daviess KY (part); DISTRICT 8 - Caldwell KY, Christian KY (part), Trigg KY (part); DISTRICT 9 - Christian KY (part); DISTRICT 10 - Breckinridge KY, Hardin KY (part); DISTRICT 11 - Henderson KY; DISTRICT 12 - Crittenden KY, McLean KY, Union KY, Webster KY; DISTRICT 13 - Daviess KY (part); DISTRICT 14 - Daviess KY (part), Hancock KY, Ohio KY; DISTRICT 15 - Butler KY, Muhlenberg KY; DISTRICT 16 - Christian KY (part), Logan KY, Todd KY; DISTRICT 17 - Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 18 - Grayson KY, Hardin KY (part); DISTRICT 19 - Edmonson KY, Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 20 - Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 21 - Adair KY, Cumberland KY, Metcalfe KY, Monroe KY; DISTRICT 22 - Allen KY, Simpson KY, Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 23 - Barren KY; DISTRICT 24 - Green KY, Hart KY, Larue KY; DISTRICT 25 - Hardin KY (part); DISTRICT 26 - Bullitt KY (part), Hardin KY (part); DISTRICT 27 - Hardin KY (part), Meade KY; DISTRICT 28 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 29 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 30 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 31 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 32 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 33 - Jefferson KY (part), Oldham KY (part), Shelby KY (part); DISTRICT 34 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 35 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 36 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 37 - Bullitt KY (part), Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 38 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 39 - Fayette KY (part), Jessamine KY (part); DISTRICT 40 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 41 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 42 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 43 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 44 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 45 - Fayette KY (part), Jessamine KY (part); DISTRICT 46 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 47 - Carroll KY, Henry KY, Owen KY, Trimble KY; DISTRICT 48 - Jefferson KY (part), Oldham KY (part); DISTRICT 49 - Bullitt KY (part); DISTRICT 50 - Nelson KY; DISTRICT 51 - Marion KY, Taylor KY; DISTRICT 52 - McCreary KY, Pulaski KY (part), Wayne KY; DISTRICT 53 - Anderson KY, Spencer KY; DISTRICT 54 - Boyle KY, Casey KY; DISTRICT 55 - Jessamine KY (part), Mercer KY, Washington KY; DISTRICT 56 - Franklin KY (part), Jessamine KY (part), Woodford KY; DISTRICT 57 - Franklin KY (part); DISTRICT 58 - Shelby KY (part); DISTRICT 59 - Oldham KY (part); DISTRICT 60 - Boone KY (part); DISTRICT 61 - Boone KY (part), Gallatin KY, Grant KY, Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 62 - Scott KY (part); DISTRICT 63 - Boone KY (part), Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 64 - Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 65 - Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 66 - Boone KY (part); DISTRICT 67 - Campbell KY (part); DISTRICT 68 - Campbell KY (part); DISTRICT 69 - Boone KY (part), Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 70 - Bracken KY, Harrison KY, Mason KY, Robertson KY; DISTRICT 71 - Laurel KY (part), Madison KY (part), Pulaski KY (part), Rockcastle KY; DISTRICT 72 - Bourbon KY, Fleming KY, Nicholas KY; DISTRICT 73 - Clark KY, Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 74 - Bath KY, Menifee KY, Montgomery KY; DISTRICT 75 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 76 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 77 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 78 - Boone KY (part), Campbell KY (part), Kenton KY (part), Pendleton KY; DISTRICT 79 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 80 - Garrard KY, Lincoln KY, Pulaski KY (part); DISTRICT 81 - Madison KY (part); DISTRICT 82 - Laurel KY (part), Whitley KY; DISTRICT 83 - Clinton KY, Pulaski KY (part), Russell KY; DISTRICT 84 - Breathitt KY, Owsley KY, Perry KY; DISTRICT 85 - Laurel KY (part), Pulaski KY (part); DISTRICT 86 - Knox KY, Laurel KY (part); DISTRICT 87 - Bell KY, Harlan KY (part); DISTRICT 88 - Fayette KY (part), Scott KY (part); DISTRICT 89 - Jackson KY, Laurel KY (part), Lee KY, Madison KY (part), Wolfe KY; DISTRICT 90 - Clay KY, Laurel KY (part), Leslie KY; DISTRICT 91 - Estill KY, Madison KY (part), Powell KY; DISTRICT 92 - Knott KY, Magoffin KY, Pike KY (part); DISTRICT 93 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 94 - Harlan KY (part), Letcher KY, Pike KY (part); DISTRICT 95 - Floyd KY, Pike KY (part); DISTRICT 96 - Boyd KY (part), Carter KY, Lewis KY; DISTRICT 97 - Johnson KY, Martin KY, Pike KY (part); DISTRICT 98 - Boyd KY (part), Greenup KY; DISTRICT 99 - Elliott KY, Morgan KY, Rowan KY; DISTRICT 100 - Boyd KY (part), Lawrence KY; PLAN INTEGRITY VERIFIED; amend KRS 5.010 to change dates and conform; extend the primary filing deadline to January 25, 2022, for the 2022 primary and for no other election; permit the Secretary of State or county clerk, for the 2022 primary and for no other election, to determine when the drawing for ballot positions for candidates will be held and when the certification will be determined; grant the Speaker of the House, on behalf of the House of Representatives, standing to defend any legal challenge to this Act; specify how county and precinct names are to be displayed depending on whether the territory of the county or precinct is included in a particular legislative district in its entirety or in part; direct the county boards of elections to change precinct boundaries to conform to representative district boundaries; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 7)","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB2/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb2.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1545440,"bill_number":"HB82","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protections in health insurance.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; establish health-status eligibility rules for health benefit plans in any market; prohibit requiring a greater premium or contribution, or different benefits coverage, on the basis of any health status-related factor; prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions; require coverage for essential health benefits; prohibit insurers from establishing lifetime or annual limits on essential health benefits; require coverage for dependent children until age 26; prohibit adjustment of premium or contribution amounts for group health plans on the basis of genetic information; require the commissioner of insurance to define essential health benefits; establish when the section controls; establish opt-in for health plans not otherwise required to comply with requirements of section; establish that the section applies to health benefit plans and health plan opt-ins on or after the date as established under that section; amend various statutes to conform; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and state postsecondary education institution self-insured employer group health plans to comply with Section 1 of the Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB82/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb82.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1545441,"bill_number":"SB31","title":"AN ACT relating to pretrial release.","description":"Amend KRS 431.066 and 431.520 to require that conditions of pretrial release for a person released on an unsecured bond be the least restrictive to reasonably mitigate the risk of flight or danger to others.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB31/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb31.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1545442,"bill_number":"HB102","title":"AN ACT relating to moments of silence and reflection.","description":"Amend KRS 158.175 to require moments of silence or reflection at the start of each school day and establish guidelines.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB102/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb102.html","sponsor":"Daniel Fister"},
{"bill_id":1545443,"bill_number":"HB163","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of retirement distributions.","description":"Amend KRS 141.019, relating to the individual income tax, to increase the retirement distribution exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110 for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB163/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb163.html","sponsor":"Ashley Tackett Laferty"},
{"bill_id":1545444,"bill_number":"HB87","title":"AN ACT relating to the control of vehicular traffic.","description":"Amend KRS 56.580 to prohibit closing portions of Capital Avenue in Frankfort.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB87/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb87.html","sponsor":"Thomas Huff"},
{"bill_id":1545445,"bill_number":"HB14","title":"AN ACT relating to public education and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.183 to require a local board of education or board of a public charter school to ensure that no public school or public charter school offers any classroom instruction or discussion that incorporates designated concepts related to race, sex, and religion; provide that a school district employee that violates the prohibition is subject to disciplinary action; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the prohibition; authorize a penalty of $5,000 for each day a violation persists after the Attorney General issues notification that a violation has occurred; require the commissioner of education to deduct the penalty from funds distributed to a school district; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that no student enrolled at a public postsecondary education institution shall be required to engage in any form of mandatory gender or sexual diversity training or counseling; title the Act the \"Education Non-Discrimination Act\"; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB14/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb14.html","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1545446,"bill_number":"HB67","title":"AN ACT relating to curriculum.","description":"Amend KRS 156.160 to require public middle and high school curriculum to include instruction on the history of racism.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB67/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb67.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545447,"bill_number":"HCR11","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to enact legislation allowing states to permanently adopt daylight saving time.","description":"Urge the United States Congress to enact legislation allowing states to permanently adopt daylight saving time.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR11/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr11.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1545448,"bill_number":"HB141","title":"AN ACT relating to an exclusion from income tax for police officers.","description":"Amend KRS 141.019 to exclude the income earned by an individual while on active duty as a police officer.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB141/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb141.html","sponsor":"Ryan Dotson"},
{"bill_id":1545449,"bill_number":"HB166","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.","description":"Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be \"B\" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be \"B\" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.794 to delete the definition of \"board-certified pulmonary specialist\" and eliminate the requirement that physicians on the list of qualified \"B\" readers maintained by the commissioner include only those licensed in Kentucky and board-certified pulmonary specialists.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB166/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb166.html","sponsor":"Ashley Tackett Laferty"},
{"bill_id":1545450,"bill_number":"SB33","title":"AN ACT relating to expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 431.078 to specify time periods for eligibility of enhanceable offenses.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB33/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb33.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1545451,"bill_number":"HB149","title":"AN ACT relating to individual-directed care at the end of life.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill individual's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; require conditions for making request; permit individual to rescind request at any time; permit an attending health care provider to provide medication; establish requirements for attending health care provider to inform individuals and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified individuals; require report by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish provisions for contracts, insurance policies, and beneficiaries; state that a health care provider is not required to provide medication to a qualified individual; permit health care providers to prohibit persons or entities from participating in a qualified individual's request during or on the premises of employment; prohibit reporting a health care provider to a licensing board for participating in a qualified individual's request; state that actions do not constitute suicide or homicide; create a form for a qualified individual to make a request; create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish provisions for insurance policies and beneficiaries of qualified individuals; amend KRS 507.020 and KRS 507.030 to create an affirmative defense to a charge of murder and manslaughter in the first degree; provide a severability clause; create the short title, the \"Kentucky Our Care, Our Options Act.\"","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB149/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb149.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1545452,"bill_number":"HB172","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Effective for the 2022 primary and for no other election, extend the filing deadline for all candidates to January 25, 2022; permit the Secretary of State or the county clerk, as appropriate, to determine when the drawing for ballot positions and certifications will be held; permit the Secretary of State or the county clerk, as appropriate, to establish any other necessary elections deadlines for the 2022 primary, excluding the date of the primary; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 1)","last_action_date":"2022-01-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB172/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb172.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1545453,"bill_number":"HB66","title":"AN ACT relating to full-day kindergarten.","description":"Amend KRS 158.060 to remove language that allows for half-day kindergarten programs; amend KRS 157.320, 157.360, and 158.030 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB66/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb66.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1545454,"bill_number":"HB33","title":"AN ACT relating to school facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 157.455 deleting the Kentucky efficient school design trust fund; delete reporting requirement for efficient design; amend KRS 198B.060 to allow local plan review, inspection and enforcement of educational facilities; repeal KRS 162.062, which requires new public school buildings to provide sufficient water bottle fillings station and drinking fountains.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-31","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 66)","last_action_date":"2022-03-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB33/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb33.html","sponsor":"Joshua Branscum"},
{"bill_id":1545455,"bill_number":"HB44","title":"AN ACT relating to local school districts.","description":"Amend KRS 159.035 to require a local school district's attendance policy to include provisions for a student's mental or behavioral health status.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 228)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB44/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb44.html","sponsor":"Bobby McCool"},
{"bill_id":1545456,"bill_number":"HB117","title":"AN ACT relating to welding safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects requiring structural steel welding such as certification of welders and certified inspectors; provide definitions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB117/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb117.html","sponsor":"Bobby McCool"},
{"bill_id":1545457,"bill_number":"HB120","title":"AN ACT relating to preschool education programs.","description":"Amend KRS 157.320 to define \"at risk\"; amend KRS 157.3175 to expand eligibility for preschool education programs to children who reside in households with an income at or below 200% of the federal poverty level.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB120/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb120.html","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1545458,"bill_number":"HB60","title":"AN ACT relating to health care to provide for an all-payer claims database and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to require the executive director of the Office of Health Data and Analytics to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations regarding the creation and implementation of a Kentucky all-payer claims database; establish the Kentucky all-payer claims database fund; require the executive director to establish the database if certain conditions are met; set forth requirements for the database; amend KRS 304.2-100 to require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to assist; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations designating the assessment of a fine for persons that do not comply with reporting requirements; establish short title; permit the executive director to make an application for a grant under 42 U.S.C. sec. 247d-11; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB60/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb60.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1545459,"bill_number":"HB152","title":"AN ACT relating to rights and obligations of landlords and tenants to a residential lease.","description":"Repeal and reenact various sections of KRS Chapter 383 to update the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; create new sections of KRS Chapter 383 to conform; amend KRS 383.715 to conform; repeal KRS 383.300, 303.302, 383.500, 383.505, 383.515, 383.525, 383.540, 383.580, 383.620, and 383.665.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB152/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb152.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1545460,"bill_number":"HB132","title":"AN ACT relating to the ad valorem taxation of prefabricated home inventories.","description":"Amend KRS 132.010 to define \"manufactured home,\" \"modular home,\" and \"prefabricated home\"; amend the definition of \"mobile home\"; amend KRS 132.200 to exempt prefabricated homes held in a manufacturer's or retailer's inventory from local property taxes; apply to property assessed on or after January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB132/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb132.html","sponsor":"Chris Freeland"},
{"bill_id":1545461,"bill_number":"HB69","title":"AN ACT relating to occupational exposure to COVID-19 and declaring an emergency.","description":"Extend the provisions of paragraph 3 of 2020 Executive Order 2020-277, related to temporary disability from occupational exposure to COVID-19 from September 7, 2021, to January 31, 2023; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB69/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb69.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1545462,"bill_number":"HB18","title":"AN ACT relating to prohibited instruction and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.183 to require a local board of education or board of a public charter school to ensure that no public school or public charter school offers any classroom instruction or discussion that promotes designated concepts related to race, sex, and religion; provide that a school district employee that violates the prohibition is subject to disciplinary action; amend KRS 164.348 to prohibit classroom instruction or discussion that incorporates designated concepts related to race, sex, and religion at public postsecondary education institutions; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB18/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb18.html","sponsor":"Matt Lockett"},
{"bill_id":1545463,"bill_number":"HB164","title":"AN ACT relating to a tax credit for volunteer firefighters.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission to evaluate the impact of the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow confidential tax return information to be shared with the Legislative Research Commission.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB164/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb164.html","sponsor":"Bobby McCool"},
{"bill_id":1545464,"bill_number":"HB193","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 116.055 to extend the deadline to change one's party affiliation on his or her voter registration from December 31 immediately preceding the primary election to 30 days immediately preceding the primary election.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB193/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb193.html","sponsor":"Buddy Wheatley"},
{"bill_id":1545465,"bill_number":"HB178","title":"AN ACT relating to employment leave related to COVID-19.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define \"COVID-19\" and require employers that provide paid leave to employees who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and are subsequently quarantined due to exposure to or diagnosis of COVID-19 shall also provide the same type of paid leave to employees who have not been vaccinated and are required to be quarantined due to exposure to or diagnosis of COVID-19; amend KRS 337.990 to create penalty.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB178/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb178.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1545466,"bill_number":"HR8","title":"A RESOLUTION supporting the Hyde Amendment and encouraging its adoption by the United States Congress in its 2022 session.","description":"Support the Hyde Amendment and encourage its adoption by the United States Congress.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR8/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr8.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1545467,"bill_number":"SB14","title":"AN ACT relating to school bus lighting.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to allow the installation of auxiliary lighting on school buses; establish auxiliary lighting use restriction; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish standards and specifications.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB14/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb14.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1545468,"bill_number":"HB157","title":"AN ACT relating to children.","description":"Amend KRS 405.021 to establish that grandparent visitation rights are not adversely affected by any investigation related to abuse, neglect, dependency of a child, or termination of parental rights of the grandparent's son or daughter who is the father or mother of the child visited by the grandparent, unless the Circuit Court determines that it is in the best interest of the child to do so.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB157/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb157.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1545469,"bill_number":"SB32","title":"AN ACT relating to the Judicial Form Retirement System.","description":"Amend KRS 21.525 to define the funding components for the retirement plans administered by the Judicial Form Retirement System as the \"normal cost contribution\" and the \"actuarially accrued liability contribution;\" establish the actuarial methods to be used to compute the normal cost contribution and the actuarially accrued liability (AAL) contribution; require the total unfunded AAL be amortized over a closed 20-year period beginning with the 2023 actuarial valuation; require any increase or decrease in the unfunded AAL occurring after completion of the 2023 actuarial valuation be amortized over a closed 20-year period beginning in the year the increase or decrease is recognized; establish the circumstances that may result in an increase or decrease to the unfunded AAL; provide that if an annual valuation determines that the plan has surplus assets, the prior bases under which the unfunded AAL increases were established be eliminated, and one base equal to the surplus assets be established and amortized under an open 20-year period; amend KRS 21.540 to require that the authorization for all administrative expenses of the JFRS be included in the biennial budget unit request, branch budget recommendation, and the financial plan adopted by the General Assembly; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 6.505, 6.518, 6.520, 6.525, 21.360, 21.385, 21.402, and 21.480 to remove language that was voided due to a court ruling and to restore prior statute language and to make technical changes.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 55)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB32/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb32.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1545470,"bill_number":"HB70","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend 118.025 to remove straight ticket voting as a ballot option in an election; amend KRS 63.200, 117.125, 118A.090, and 118A.100 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB70/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb70.html","sponsor":"Buddy Wheatley"},
{"bill_id":1545471,"bill_number":"HB32","title":"AN ACT relating to biometric data collection practices.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 369 to define terms; require private entities to develop and comply with a retention and destruction schedule for biometric identifiers and information; prohibit private entities' collection, trade, and disclosure of biometric information with limited exceptions; create a standard of care for private entities collecting biometric information; create a civil cause of action for violations.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB32/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb32.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1545472,"bill_number":"HB181","title":"AN ACT relating to earned paid sick leave.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provide that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; set forth allowable uses of earned paid sick time; designate how notice of need to use sick time is provided by employees; amend KRS 337.990 to establish the penalty for employers that fail to follow paid sick leave requirements.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB181/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb181.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1545473,"bill_number":"SB19","title":"AN ACT relating to traffic control signal monitoring systems and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define the terms \"agency,\" \"owner,\" \"recorded images,\" and \"traffic control signal monitoring system\"; establish a civil penalty of $50 if a motor vehicle is recorded failing to obey the instructions of a traffic control device; set forth forms and procedures; outline defenses for citations for failing to obey a traffic control device; mandate that a person who refuses to pay the civil penalty and does not appear to contest the citation shall have the vehicle's registration suspended and to mandate that civil penalties shall not result in points against the violator's driving record; amend KRS 189.231 and KRS 189.990 to conform; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB19/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb19.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1545474,"bill_number":"HB161","title":"AN ACT relating to public funds.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to prohibit all federal, state, and local tax dollars from being used for lobbying purposes; define \"lobbying,\" \"public agency,\" and \"public agent\"; create a new section of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to permit a person to file a complaint with the Legislative Ethics Commission if a person or entity is using federal, state, or local dollars for lobbying purposes; amend KRS 6.611 to include in the definition of \"legislative agent\" any public agent who lobbies for a public agency; amend KRS 6.691 to allow the Legislative Ethics Commission to issue a fine of no less than $2,000 but no more than $10,000 to any public agency or public agency that uses federal, state, or local dollars for lobbying purposes; amend KRS 6.945 to exempt these lobbying restrictions from the requirements of KRS 6.945.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB161/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb161.html","sponsor":"Felicia Rabourn"},
{"bill_id":1545475,"bill_number":"SR1","title":"A RESOLUTION establishing the 2022 membership of the Kentucky State Senate.","description":"Establish the 2022 membership of the Kentucky State Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR1/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr1.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1545476,"bill_number":"SB12","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship.","description":"Amend the definition of \"KEES Award\" in KRS 164.7874 to include a dual credit course award amount; amend KRS 164.7879 to provide a dual credit course award amount to high school students who graduate from a nonpublic secondary school not certified by the Kentucky Board of Education.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB12/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb12.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1545477,"bill_number":"HB64","title":"AN ACT relating to assisted reproduction.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to create the crime of fraudulent assisted reproduction; define terms; authorize a civil action; establish penalty; amend KRS 311.597 to add fraudulent assisted reproduction to the list of violations that may cause a doctor to lose his or her medical license.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB64/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb64.html","sponsor":"Richard White"},
{"bill_id":1545478,"bill_number":"HB126","title":"AN ACT relating to high school graduation requirements.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form as a high school graduation requirement; provide waiver options for meeting the requirement; require local boards of education to develop policies and procedures to assist students in completing the requirement; require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop a process for local districts to report student data.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"returned to Rules","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB126/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb126.html","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1545479,"bill_number":"HR9","title":"A RESOLUTION directing the appointment of a committee to wait upon the Governor.","description":"Appoint a committee to wait upon the Governor.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR9/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr9.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1545480,"bill_number":"HB56","title":"AN ACT relating to death benefits for first responders, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 61.315 to create a presumption that first responders who die of COVID-19 do so while in the line of duty and thus qualify for death benefits; apply subsection retroactively; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB56/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb56.html","sponsor":"Thomas Huff"},
{"bill_id":1545481,"bill_number":"HB189","title":"AN ACT relating to plastic waste.","description":"Amend KRS 224.50-585 to establish definitions; prohibit the intentional release of more than 25 plastic balloons; establish a ban on plastic, single-use carryout bags by July 1, 2027; establish a ban on the provision of single-use plastic straws and Styrofoam food and beverage containers by retail food and beverage establishments by July 1, 2025; establish civil penalty of $100 per day for violation of bans.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB189/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb189.html","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1545482,"bill_number":"HB93","title":"AN ACT relating to reading diagnostic and intervention grants and declaring and emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.792 to include the employment of reading interventionists as a purpose of the reading diagnostic and intervention fund; prevent the state board of education from limiting grant recipients from expending grant funds for authorized purposes; direct that grant applications currently under consideration shall be subject to this Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB93/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb93.html","sponsor":"Derek Lewis"},
{"bill_id":1545483,"bill_number":"SR4","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Nancy Clouse Mitchell.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Nancy Clouse Mitchell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR4/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr4.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1545484,"bill_number":"HB182","title":"AN ACT relating to health plan waiting periods.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employer-sponsored health plans from imposing a waiting period; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties; amend KRS 304.17A-220 and 304.17A-750 to conform; provide that Section 1 of the Act shall apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB182/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb182.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1545485,"bill_number":"HB110","title":"AN ACT relating to bus operation safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Department of Education to develop, in cooperation with the Transportation Cabinet, a risk reduction program for school bus operators; outline requirements of the program; outline school district implementation requirements; require reporting of assaults; specify that the provisions also apply to public charter schools; require the Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to require the Transportation Cabinet to develop a risk reduction program for commercial bus operators; outline requirements; outline implementation requirements; require reporting of assaults; amend KRS 281.990 to establish an initial penalty of $5,000 for failure to implement the program required; if program is not implemented 14 days after the initial penalty is assessed, an additional fee of $250 per day shall be assessed until implementation.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB110/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb110.html","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1545486,"bill_number":"HB147","title":"AN ACT relating to the establishment of the Kentucky Early Entry Initiative pilot program and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to define \"early career teachers\"; establish the Kentucky Early Entry Initiative pilot program; define the purposes and objectives of the pilot program; outline the three-year structure of the program; require an evaluation report be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025; establish the short title of \"Kentucky Early Career Teachers Act\"; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB147/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb147.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1545487,"bill_number":"HB133","title":"AN ACT relating to state holidays.","description":"Amend KRS 2.110 to add the nineteenth of June as a state holiday commemorating Juneteenth National Freedom Day.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-08","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB133/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb133.html","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1545488,"bill_number":"HB153","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to require any contractor who has a contract related to election administration with this state to disclose to the Attorney General and Secretary of State the substance of any communication directed to the contractor or his or her employee, made by an entity or person from a foreign country, federal government agency, or federal official; prohibit any state employee, governmental entity, or governmental agency of this state from accepting private monetary funds to assist with election administration unless entered into as a lawful contract for goods or services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to require any contractor who has a contract related to election administration with local governments of this state to disclose to the Attorney General and Secretary of State the substance of any communication directed to the contractor, or his or her employee, made by an entity or person from a foreign country, federal government agency, or federal official; prohibit any local government of this state from accepting private monetary funds to assist with election administration unless entered into as a lawful contract for goods or services; amend KRS 116.045 to prohibit any county clerk or employee of any local government in this state from accepting any private monetary funds to assist with voter registration activities; amend KRS 117.015 to prohibit the State Board of Elections from accepting any private monetary funds for election administration unless accepted as part of a valid contract for goods and services; require an employee or member of the State Board of Elections to disclose in writing to the Attorney General and Secretary of State any communication related to election administration by a person or entity of a foreign country, federal government agency, or federal official; amend KRS 117.125 to prohibit voting equipment and voting systems from being capable of connecting to a public network, including the Internet; amend KRS 117.155 to require the county clerk to ensure that the voting equipment or voting system used in an election is not connected to a public network, including the Internet; amend KRS 117.995 to create a Class D felony for each offense of a person who knowingly and willfully directly connects, or attempts to directly connect, a voting system or voting equipment to a public network, including the Internet; and amend KRS 117.275 to prohibit the transmission by an election official any election results to any person or entity, except those persons, officials, or entities authorized by law to receive it.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB153/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb153.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1545489,"bill_number":"HB103","title":"AN ACT relating to contributions made to a Kentucky qualified educational expense program.","description":"Amend KRS 141.019 to allow a tax exclusion of amounts contributed to a qualified educational expense program as defined in 26 U.S.C. sec. 529, effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting of credits; add a new section to KRS Chapter 141 to provide employers a tax credit for contributions to an employee's Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust; amend KRS 141.0205 to specify ordering of credits; create a new section of KRS 164A.300 to 164A.380 relating to the Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust, to require reporting to the Department of Revenue of refunds and amounts paid for purposes other than higher education costs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB103/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb103.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1545490,"bill_number":"HB174","title":"AN ACT relating to postpartum Medicaid coverage.","description":"Amend KRS 205.592 to extend Medicaid eligibility for certain new mothers for up to 12 months postpartum; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek a federal waiver or other approval if they determine that such waiver or approval is necessary.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"floor amendment (3) and (5) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (4-title) filed to bill","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB174/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb174.html","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1545491,"bill_number":"HB43","title":"AN ACT relating to religious freedom during a declared emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 39A.100 to exclude houses of worship from emergency condemnation authority; prohibit a governmental entity from prohibiting religious services during an emergency to a greater extent than imposed on other organizations or businesses that provide essential services; require a compelling governmental interest to place a burden on a religious organization; prohibit a governmental entity from taking any discriminatory action against a religious organization on the basis that the organization is religious; define \"discriminatory action,\" \"governmental entity,\" \"religious organization,\" and \"religious services\"; allow a religious organization to assert a violation of this section as a claim against a governmental entity or as a defense and waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity to the extent of liability under the section; set out remedies available to a religious organization; require construciton in favor of protecting free exercise of religion; require a religious organization to bring an action no later than two years from the date the person should have known of the discriminatory action.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 82)","last_action_date":"2022-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB43/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb43.html","sponsor":"Shane Baker"},
{"bill_id":1545492,"bill_number":"HB194","title":"AN ACT relating to alternative education.","description":"Amend KRS 158.143 to provide that a student enrolled in a district-operated alternative education program shall be eligible to seek attainment of a High School Equivalency Diploma under certain conditions.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-01","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 78)","last_action_date":"2022-04-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB194/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb194.html","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1545493,"bill_number":"HB124","title":"AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.","description":"Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities, local governments, and units of state governement to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings, to ensure that those entities cannot prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons; amend various sections to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB124/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb124.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1545494,"bill_number":"HB36","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of firearms and ammunition.","description":"Amend KRS 139.010 to add definitions of \"firearm\" and \"ammunition\"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt firearms and ammunition from sales and use tax and require reporting related to the exemption; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB36/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb36.html","sponsor":"Daniel Fister"},
{"bill_id":1545495,"bill_number":"HB35","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for lactation support services and breastfeeding equipment.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations to provide coverage for lactation counseling, lactation consultation, and breastfeeding equipment; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to request federal authorization for a waiver if necessary.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB35/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb35.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545496,"bill_number":"SB20","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative redistricting challenges and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 5.005 to establish that an action challenging the constitutionality of any created legislative district shall be filed in the Circuit Court of the plaintiff's residence; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-01-18","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 6)","last_action_date":"2022-01-18","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB20/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb20.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1545497,"bill_number":"HB121","title":"AN ACT relating to local school board meetings.","description":"Amend KRS 160.270 to require a public comment period at local board of education meetings.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 92)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB121/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb121.html","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1545498,"bill_number":"HB83","title":"AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 341.370 to prohibit disqualification from benefits for workers unemployed as a result of domestic violence and abuse, dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.530 to charge benefits to pooled account for workers displaced from employment through domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.125 to require the secretary to provide training to personnel who process claims related to domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking and to report to the Legislative Research Commission annually the number of claims paid involving domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.360 to conform; amend KRS 341.550 to prevent benefit payments from pooled account from impacting an employer's experience rating; and create a new section pf KRS Chapter 341 to direct the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"Committee on Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB83/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb83.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1545499,"bill_number":"HB175","title":"AN ACT relating to massage therapy.","description":"Amend KRS 309.355 to authorize the board to require a national and state criminal background check of any applicant of licensure to practice massage therapy.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 63)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB175/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb175.html","sponsor":"Matthew Koch"},
{"bill_id":1545500,"bill_number":"HB195","title":"AN ACT relating to pipeline location notification.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 100.273 to 100.292 to define \"natural gas transmission pipeline,\" \"operator\", and \"person\"; limit the application of the section to cities and counties that have adopted the provisions of KRS Chapter 100 and to preliminary development plans filed on or after the effective date of the Act; establish notification requirements for developers that are locating developments within 660 feet of natural gas transmission pipelines; require a notified pipeline operator to provide pipeline location information to the developer; require the developer to include language on the final plat filed with the planning commission stating that the developer has utilized reasonable means to notify the pipeline operator and verify the pipeline location; require planning commissions to gather raw National Pipeline Mapping System geospatial data within 60 days of the effective date of the Act; exempt planning commissions from liability for development approval if it is based on the geospatial information they obtain; require pipeline operators to file the names of their registered agents with planning commissions of jurisdiction no later than August 15, 2022; prohibit planning commissions from issuing final approval for developments until the requirements of the Act have been satisfied; exempt planning commissions from liability for development approval if it is based on the information required to be submitted under the Act; provide that the Act shall not exempt developers or operators from the requirements of the Underground Facility Damage Protection Act of 1994, KRS 367.4901 to 367.4917.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-31","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 70)","last_action_date":"2022-03-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB195/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb195.html","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1545501,"bill_number":"HB16","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Repeal KRS 510.100, relating to sodomy in the fourth degree; amend KRS 194A.380 and 532.031 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB16/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb16.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1545502,"bill_number":"HB108","title":"AN ACT relating to solid waste and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of Subchapter 43 of KRS chapter 224 to define \"biodegradable,\" \"contained in,\" \"disposal,\" \"extended producer responsibility,\" \"EPR working group,\" \"full cost accounting,\" \"Kentucky Packaging Stewardship Program,\" \"Kentucky Pride Fund,\" \"packaging material,\" \"packaging waste,\" \"person,\" \"plastic material,\" \"priority waste control list,\" \"producer,\" \"producer responsibility fees,\" \"minimum recyclable content standard,\" \"sold,\" and \"waste reduction target\"; authorize and set a timetable by which the Kentucky Energy and Environment cabinet will promulgate administrative regulations to implement a program that internalizes the cost of packaging wastes to the producer of the waste called the Kentucky Packaging Stewardship Program; establish goals and considerations when implementing the program through its regulatory authority; authorize the cabinet to set waste reduction targets and minimum recyclable content standards under an extended producer responsibility designation made by the cabinet; authorize the cabinet to impose producer responsibility fees to pay for the disposal, recycling, or additional treatment of packaging wastes contributed to the solid waste stream by the producer; emphasize plastic wastes; allow the producer to reduce its exposure under the program by compliance with the waste reduction and recyclable content standards; establish goals for grants made under the Kentucky Pride Program using the producer responsibility fees; require the cabinet to characterize the waste stream, set categories for the types of packaging wastes, and place the top ten packaging wastes as prioritized by the cabinet under an extended producer responsibility designation; authorize the cabinet to set up a working group of producers under the extended producer responsibility designation which shall serve as an advisory group to the cabinet; amend KRS 224.10-620 to include packaging waste in the state environmental education program implemented by the Kentucky Department of Education and define terms; amend KRS 224.43-310 to include waste reduction targets and minimum recyclable content standards in the tools to reduce solid waste disposed of at landfills in the Commonwealth; include information about the Kentucky Packaging Stewardship Program in the triennial update on solid waste submitted by the cabinet to the Governor and the General Assembly; add the goals and priorities under the program to inform definitions made in grants and loans; allow for maximum disposal capacity limitations as a tool for achieving waste reduction targets under an extended producer responsibility designation; include in the cabinet's report to the Governor and the General Assembly information on the number and categories of extended producer responsibility designations, amount of producer fees remitted, waste reduction targets and recyclable content standards along with actuals for the review; progress in meeting the goals of the Kentucky Packaging Stewardship Program; and define terms; amend KRS 224.43-505 to authorize the producer responsibility fees to be deposited into the Pride Fund and allow for grants to be made from the fund in accordance with the goals of the Kentucky Packaging Stewardship Program and the Pride Program; allow for conditioning of grants and revocation and recovering of grants for failure to comply with the program requirements; allow for reimbursement of costs to implement the program above the $750,000 cap; define terms.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB108/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb108.html","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1545503,"bill_number":"HB158","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to define terms; prohibit an identified entity from enforcing, or assisting in the enforcement of, any federal law that does not exist under the laws of Kentucky and limits firearm ownership; create a Class B misdemeanor with enhancement for subsequent offenses for any government official who violates the prohibition; grant authority to the Attorney General to file a civil action in Circuit Court to enforce the prohibition; permit citizens to file complaints with the Attorney General for violations of the prohibition. Make federal agents subject to arrest for enforcing prohibition; or attempting to arrest local or state officials; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Second Amendment Preservation Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB158/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb158.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1545504,"bill_number":"HB12","title":"AN ACT relating to youth mental health protection and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 define sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts, mental health professional, and public funds; to prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a person under 18 years of age or a person who is 18 years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020 or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health to develop, produce, and disseminate educational materials regarding sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts; permit the cabinet to contract for the educational materials; add the short title \"Youth Mental Health Protection Act\"; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB12/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb12.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1545505,"bill_number":"HB112","title":"AN ACT relating to the civil liberties of parents and children and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 214 to define \"child\"; prohibit required or coerced COVID-19 vaccination of a child without the consent of all parents, custodians, and guardians; prohibit retaliation, additional requirements, limitation of activity, or reduction in health care benefit for a child not vaccinated for COVID-19; authorize legal action and civil penalties for violations; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB112/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb112.html","sponsor":"Shane Baker"},
{"bill_id":1545506,"bill_number":"HB25","title":"AN ACT relating to cremation.","description":"Amend KRS 367.97501 to create definition for \"alkaline hydrolysis,\" amend the definition of \"cremation\" to include \"alkaline hydrolysis,\" and amend the definition of \"cremation container\" to include alkaline hydrolysis; amend KRS 367.97514 to correct statutory reference; make conforming amendment to KRS 316.010.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB25/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb25.html","sponsor":"Buddy Wheatley"},
{"bill_id":1545507,"bill_number":"HB184","title":"AN ACT relating to theft of mail matter.","description":"Amend KRS 514.140 to include common carriers and delivery services in protection against theft of mail matter.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB184/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb184.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1545508,"bill_number":"HB45","title":"AN ACT relating to resource recovery.","description":"Amend KRS 224.1-010 to redefine \"disposal,\" \"municipal solid waste disposal facility,\" \"waste site or facility,\" \"waste,\" and \"solid waste management facility\"; define \"advanced recycling,\" \"advanced recycling facility,\" \"depolymerization,\" \"gasification,\" \"post-use polymer,\" \"pyrolysis,\" \"recovered feedstock,\" and \"solvolysis\"; amend KRS 109.012 to redefine \"solid waste,\" \"solid waste management,\" and \"solid waste management facility.\"","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-31","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 67)","last_action_date":"2022-03-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB45/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb45.html","sponsor":"Adam Bowling"},
{"bill_id":1545509,"bill_number":"HB116","title":"AN ACT relating to identity documents.","description":"Amend KRS 186.412 to require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures and forms to allow an individual without a fixed, permanent address to submit a form signed by a shelter, health care facility, or other social service agency attesting to the applicant's residence for the purpose of issuance of a renewal operator's license or an initial or renewal personal ID card; amend KRS 186.4122 and 186.4123 to conform; amend KRS 186.531 to allow the Transportation Cabinet to enter into billing arrangements with social service agencies for payment of client's fees.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB116/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb116.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1545510,"bill_number":"HB91","title":"AN ACT relating to the issuance and renewal of occupational licenses to military spouses.","description":"Amend KRS 12.357 to require administrative bodies to issue or renew regular occupational licenses to spouses of active duty members of the Armed Forces without payment of fees or dues.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 107)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB91/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb91.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1545511,"bill_number":"HB80","title":"AN ACT relating to school food programs.","description":"Establish a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to pay for any costs not reimbursed by federal funds for the operation of the federal school breakfast and lunch programs.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB80/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb80.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545512,"bill_number":"HR3","title":"A RESOLUTION extending an invitation to pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2022 Regular Session with prayer.","description":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2022 Regular Session with prayer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR3/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr3.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1545513,"bill_number":"HB52","title":"AN ACT relating to immunizations.","description":"Amend KRS 344.010 to define \"immunization\"; amend KRS 344.040 to prohibit employers from discriminating against an individual who declines immunization or requiring immunization as a condition of employment or inquiring as to the employee's immunization status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to prohibit an employer from requiring an employee or applicant for employment to be immunized or inquiring regarding immunization status.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB52/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb52.html","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1545514,"bill_number":"HB98","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for hepatitis C virus infection testing and treatment in pregnant women.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for testing and treatment of hepatitis C virus infection in pregnant women; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer plans provided by state postsecondary institutions, Medicaid, KCHIP, and the state employee health plan to comply with the hepatitis C virus infection coverage requirement; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB98/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb98.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1545515,"bill_number":"HB169","title":"AN ACT relating to retiree health benefits for hazardous duty members.","description":"Amend KRS 61.702 and 78.5536 to increase the hazardous duty under age 65 retiree health subsidy to $40 per month for each year of hazardous duty service for those career hazardous members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, who are eligible for a fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy not tied to the premium; define \"career hazardous employee\"; provide that the change shall apply to hazardous service earned prior to the effective date of this Act by eligible members, including retirees and shall continue to be adjusted annually by the 1.5% increase currently provided by statute; specify that changes to subsidies payable to impacted retirees shall begin on or after January 1, 2023, to coincide with the next health plan year; RETROACTIVE.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB169/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb169.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1545516,"bill_number":"HB196","title":"AN ACT relating to swimming pool operational standards.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 212 to define terms; establish requirements for residential swimming pool barriers, gates, and covers; establish exemptions of the residential swimming pool requirements; amend KRS 212.990 create penalties for violation of residential swimming pool requirement; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ava Grace Jenkins Law.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB196/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb196.html","sponsor":"Randy Bridges"},
{"bill_id":1545517,"bill_number":"HB40","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 189.030 to require the illumination of headlamps on motor vehicles during any period of precipitation that necessitates the use of windshield wipers by motorists; specify that there will be a courtesy warning period until January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB40/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb40.html","sponsor":"Richard White"},
{"bill_id":1545518,"bill_number":"HR7","title":"A RESOLUTION memorializing the forty-ninth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.","description":"Memorialize the forty-ninth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR7/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr7.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1545519,"bill_number":"HJR4","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION applying for an Article V convention to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for federal government officials and members of Congress.","description":"Apply to Congress under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraint on the federal government, limit the powers and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and members of Congress; direct the Secretary of State to send copies of the joint resolution to certain federal and state officials; state that the application should be continuing until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states have made applications on the subject.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR4/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr4.html","sponsor":"Matt Lockett"},
{"bill_id":1545520,"bill_number":"HB122","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms.","description":"Amend KRS 237.109 to lower the age requirement for carrying a concealed and deadly weapon from 21 to 18; amend KRS 237.110 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB122/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb122.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1545521,"bill_number":"HB19","title":"AN ACT relating to boating safety.","description":"Amend KRS 235.285 to require individuals born on or after January 1, 1975, to possess a safe boating certificate prior to operating a personal watercraft or motorboat on the waters of the Commonwealth; provide for exemption certificates; delay enforcement and require courtesy warnings for violations until July 1, 2023; amend KRS 235.990 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB19/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb19.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1545522,"bill_number":"HR2","title":"A RESOLUTION establishing the 2022 membership of the Kentucky State House of Representatives.","description":"Establish the membership of the 2022 Kentucky House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR2/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr2.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1545523,"bill_number":"HB28","title":"AN ACT relating to immunization disclosure.","description":"Create a new section in KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit public entity employers from requiring employees and applicants from disclosing his or her immunization status; create a new section in KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit postsecondary schools from requiring a student, staff, or faculty member to disclose his or her immunization status; amend KRS 344.120 to include the discrimination on the basis of \"immunization status\" as an unlawful practice; create a new section in KRS Chapter 365 to prohibit a business from requiring customers to disclose his or her immunization status as a condition for service or entry upon the premises; create a new KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a public entity from creating standardized documentation with the purpose of certifying vaccination status; amend KRS 214.036 to allow objection to immunization on the basis of \"conscientiously held beliefs\".","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-11","last_action":"returned to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB28/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb28.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1545524,"bill_number":"HB136","title":"AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create various new sections of KRS 218A to define terms and establish a medicinal cannabis program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to establish an excise tax on certain transfers of medicinal cannabis; amend KRS 139.470 to exempt the sale of medical cannabis from the state sales tax; amend KRS 138.870 to exempt medicinal cannabis from the excise tax on controlled substances; amend KRS 216B.402 to require hospital emergency departments to report cases of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome to the Department for Public Health; amend KRS 218A.010, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, and 218A.1423 to conform; amend KRS 218A.202 to require the Department for Public Health to utilize the electronic system for monitoring controlled substances to monitor medicinal cannabis; amend 218A.500 to conform; amend KRS 342.815 to establish that the Employer’s Mutual Insurance Authority shall not be required to provide coverage to an employer if doing so would subject the authority to a violation of state or federal law; some sections EFFECTIVE July 1, 2023; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB136/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb136.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1545525,"bill_number":"HB167","title":"AN ACT relating to paramedic education and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish a coal-county paramedic scholarship to be administered by KHEAA; establish a fund in the State Treasury to be administered by KHEAA for providing coal-county paramedic scholarships; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB167/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb167.html","sponsor":"Ashley Tackett Laferty"},
{"bill_id":1545526,"bill_number":"HB46","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle using a bioptic device.","description":"Amend KRS 186.578 to provide options for in-state and out-of-state drivers coming to Kentucky regarding the removal of a daytime-only restriction in the licensee's previous state for drivers using a bioptic device; amend KRS 186.579 to comply and to specify the evaluations must be performed by the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 116)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB46/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb46.html","sponsor":"Norma Kirk-McCormick"},
{"bill_id":1545527,"bill_number":"HB119","title":"AN ACT relating to corporal punishment in schools.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 158.440 to 158.449 to define \"corporal punishment\"; prohibit a person employed by a school district from using corporal physical discipline; amend KRS 158.444 to remove corporal punishment as a form of discipline in a school; amend KRS 503.110 to remove the exception that permitted the use of physical force by a teacher against a minor.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB119/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb119.html","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1545528,"bill_number":"HB20","title":"AN ACT relating to torture of a dog or cat.","description":"Amend KRS 525.135, relating to torture of a dog or cat, to add specific acts to definition of torture; make all violations a Class D felony; make each act of torture prosecutable as a separate offense; make the exemptions applicable only where there is no intent to cause, increase, or prolong the pain and suffering of the dog or cat.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 10, 2022","last_action_date":"2022-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB20/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb20.html","sponsor":"Chris Freeland"},
{"bill_id":1545529,"bill_number":"HB99","title":"AN ACT relating to public health.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to exempt places of worship and religiously-affiliated schools and day care centers from vaccine and face covering requirements.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB99/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb99.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1545530,"bill_number":"SB1","title":"AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 160.345 to require that the superintendent instead of the council determines curriculum after consulting with the principal and school council and after a stakeholder response period; require allocations to schools by local boards be determined by the principal after consultation with the council instead of being determined by the council; alter principal hiring process requiring principal to be selected by the superintendent after consultation with school council; require council members to sign a nondisclosure agreement prior to consultation; allow for a complaint process and removal of a council member for violation of the nondisclosure agreement; amend KRS 158.6453 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to provide guidelines for effective writing programs to all districts instead of all schools; remove the requirement for schools to submit policies determining the writing program to KDE.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 196)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB1/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb1.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1545531,"bill_number":"HB138","title":"AN ACT relating to dyslexia.","description":"Amend KRS 158.307 to require rather than allow local boards of education to develop policy on dyslexia; require rather than allow the policy to include listed items; change the study project period from three to six years and allow up to six districts to participate instead of three; amend KRS 164.304 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia by the 2023-2024 school year, rather than the instruction being contingent on funding availability.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB138/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb138.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1545532,"bill_number":"HB171","title":"AN ACT relating to delinquency proceedings involving insurer-members of federal home loan banks.","description":"Amend KRS 304.33-030 to define terms and make technical corrections; create a new section of Subtitle 33 of KRS Chapter 304 for insurer delinquency proceedings relating to federal home loan bank security interests; amend KRS 304.33-050 and 304.33-170 to conform; amend KRS 304.33-240 to prohibit a liquidator from disavowing, rejecting, or repudiating certain security interests of federal home loan banks; amend KRS 304.33-290 to except certain transfers, or obligation to transfer, from insurer-members to federal home loan banks from being deemed fraudulent and avoidable; amend KRS 304.33-310 to prohibit a liquidator from avoiding preference under, or in connection with, certain federal home loan bank security interests.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 61)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB171/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb171.html","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1545533,"bill_number":"SR11","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Richard \"Rick\" Longoria.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Richard \"Rick\" Longoria.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR11/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr11.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1545534,"bill_number":"HB53","title":"AN ACT relating to student loan servicers.","description":"Establish Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 286 and create sections thereof to define terms; establish licensing requirements for certain student loan servicers; establish requirements for student loan servicing activities; require student loan servicers to comply with applicable state and federal law; establish fines for violations of the subtitle; establish a private right of action for violations of the subtitle; permit the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to monitor risk to consumers relating to servicing student loans; require the commissioner to designate a student loan ombudsman; set forth requirements for student loan ombudsman; amend KRS 452.005 to conform; state that provisions of this Act shall be severable.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB53/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb53.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1545535,"bill_number":"HB95","title":"AN ACT relating to the selling and fitting of hearing instruments.","description":"Amend KRS 334.020 to allow audiologists licensed under KRS Chapter 334A to engage in the sale and practice of fitting hearing instruments; amend KRS 334.030 to update the mailing address of the Kentucky Licensing Board for Specialists in Hearing; amend KRS 334A.020 to include selling or fitting of hearing instruments in the definition of \"the practice of audiology\"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 334A to establish requirements for any person engaged in the selling and fitting of hearing instruments; establish procedures for complaints against licensed persons; establish procedures for a client's right to cancel the purchase of a hearing instrument; require any person licensed to sell hearing instruments to maintain records of clients to whom a hearing device was sold for a minimum of three years; amend KRS 334A.040 to establish exemptions for persons licensed under KRS Chapter 334A.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 46)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB95/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb95.html","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1545536,"bill_number":"HB55","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage of mental health wellness examinations.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require certain health insurance policies to provide coverage for an annual mental health wellness examination of at least 45 minutes provided by a mental health professional; require the coverage to be no less extensive than coverage for medical and surgical benefits; require the coverage to comply with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008; provide that coverage shall not be subject to cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 164.2871 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with the mental health wellness examination coverage requirement; amend KRS 205.522 to require the Medicaid benefits to comply with the mental health wellness examination coverage requirement; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the mental health examination coverage requirement; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with the mental health coverage requirement; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB55/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb55.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1545537,"bill_number":"HB63","title":"AN ACT relating to school security.","description":"Amend KRS 158.4414 to require the assignment of school resource officers to schools by August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 189)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB63/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb63.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1545538,"bill_number":"HB88","title":"AN ACT relating to historical instruction.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require African history instruction in certain middle and high school world history and civilization courses; require Native American history instruction in certain middle and high school United States history courses; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing academic standards for the required historical instructions; require local school boards to adopt curricula for required instruction; require the Department of Education to collaborate with the Kentucky African American Heritage and the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission to develop recommended curricula and instruction guidelines for the required historical instruction, elective high school course offerings in African history and Native American history, and relevant professional development materials.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB88/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb88.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545539,"bill_number":"SB28","title":"AN ACT relating to water rates.","description":"Amend KRS 278.170 to allow a utility to grant free or reduced rate service to any commercial food production operation that produces food items intended for human consumption, subject to the Public Service Commission approval of the tariff.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB28/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb28.html","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1545540,"bill_number":"HB90","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for diabetes treatment.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-148 to require that cost sharing for noninsulin drugs and certain equipment and supplies necessary for the treatment of diabetes not exceed certain cost-sharing thresholds; prohibit insurers from conducting or imposing utilization review for diabetes treatment prescribed by a health care provider; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB90/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb90.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1545541,"bill_number":"HB199","title":"AN ACT prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit indoor smoking in businesses, places of employment, and other listed public places; exempt private residences, unless used for child care or adult day care; permit smoking in designated nonenclosed areas; require posting of \"no smoking\" signs at specified locations; permit local governments to adopt stricter regulations by ordinance; provide for enforcement by all peace officers and designated health department and local government employees; provide for the issuance of uniform citations for violations; prohibit employers and others from discriminating against persons who report violations; provide for fines for violations that go to the agency whose employee issued the citation; provide that no court costs or other fees be charged for violations; exempt certain research and manufacturing laboratories and agricultural buildings; amend KRS 344.040, relating to unlawful practices by an employer, to add references to state law, local ordinance, or local board of health regulation relating to smoking; amend KRS 431.450, relating to uniform citations, to provide for issuing citation forms to health departments; authorize the Department of Kentucky State Police to create and issue uniform smoking violation citations; repeal various statutes permitting smoking in public buildings; provide short title of the Smokefree Kentucky Act.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-01-19","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB199/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb199.html","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1545542,"bill_number":"HB89","title":"AN ACT relating to real property disclosures.","description":"Amend KRS 324.360 to include proximity to a military installation on the seller's disclosure of conditions form.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB89/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb89.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1545543,"bill_number":"SR2","title":"A RESOLUTION adopting the Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Regular Session of the Senate.","description":"Adopt the Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Regular Session of the Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR2/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr2.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1545544,"bill_number":"HB188","title":"AN ACT relating to telehealth.","description":"Amend KRS 211.336 to bar professional licensure boards from prohibiting the delivery of telehealth services to residents of Kentucky who are temporarily located outside of Kentucky by health service providers credentialed in Kentucky; bar professional licensure boards from prohibiting the delivery of telehealth services to nonresidents of Kentucky who are temporarily located in Kentucky by health service providers credentialed in the person's state of residence; and bar health care providers from being required to be physically present in their credentialing state to provide telehealth services to a person who is a resident of the same state.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-31","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 68)","last_action_date":"2022-03-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB188/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb188.html","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1545545,"bill_number":"HB180","title":"AN ACT relating to the safety of canines and felines.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to provide civil immunity for damaging a vehicle if a person enters the vehicle with the reasonable, good-faith belief that a dog or cat is in immediate danger of death if not removed.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB180/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb180.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1545546,"bill_number":"SB11","title":"AN ACT relating to long-term care facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 194A.700 to delete, amend, and add definitions; amend KRS 194A.703 to replace \"client\" with \"resident\" and to include requirements for living units in a dementia care unit; amend KRS 194A.705 to allow assisted living communities to provide additional services; amend KRS 194A.707 to change the administrative procedure process of assisted living communities, to add a biennial review process, and to change the certification process to a licensure process; amend KRS 194A.709 to remove the requirement of reporting to the Division of Health Care and to make technical language changes; amend KRS 194A.711 to revise the criteria to be met by residents in an assisted living community; amend KRS 194A.717 to include staffing needs pursuant to an assisted living community's service plan; amend KRS 194A.719 to require orientation education prior to independently working with residents; amend KRS 194A.727 to clarify which businesses can be licensed as an assisted living community; create multiple new sections of KRS 194A.700 to 194A.729 to provide requirements for the cabinet to consider when an applicant is seeking a license as an assisted living community with dementia care; for when a licensee chooses to voluntary relinquishment of a license as an assisted living community with dementia care; to list the responsibilities of an assisted living community with dementia care; to require continuing education training for assisted living managers of an assisted living community with dementia care; to require assisted living communities with dementia care to develop and implement additional policies; to provide staffing requirements for individuals employed in assisted living communities with dementia care; to include additional services an assisted living community with dementia care must provide; to list training requirements for staff working in dementia care units; to establish two categories of licensure for assisted living communities and to require assisted living communities to obtain a license from the cabinet to operate as a dementia care unit; to allow licensed personal care homes, under specific circumstances, to be licensed as an assisted living community or assisted living community with dementia care; to establish the rules for fines and violations of an assisted living community; amend KRS 216.510 and 216.535 to expand the definition of \"long-term care facilities\" to include assisted living communities; amend KRS 216.535 to amend the definition of \"long-term care ombudsman\" to exclude assisted living communities; amend KRS 216.530 to amend the inspection period for assisted living communities, personal care homes, and specialized personal care homes; amend KRS 216.557 to exclude assisted living communities from receiving citations as type A or type B violations; amend KRS 216.515, 216.560, 216.563, 216.565, 216.577, 216A.030, and 218A.180 to exclude assisted living communities; amend KRS 216.765 to require a specific medical examination in the admission into assisted living communities; amend KRS 216.573 to broaden the cabinet's power to institute injunctive proceedings; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to create new definitions; to establish rules for residence in a personal care home or a specialized personal care home; to allow a personal care home or specialized personal care to provide additional services in certain situations; to establish staffing requirements in personal care homes or specialized personal care homes; to require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to regulate an initial and biennial licensure review process and to establish additional procedures; and to allow the cabinet to request information and to conduct on-site visits; amend KRS 216B.015 to expand the definition of \"health facility\"; amend KRS 216B.155 to add the exemption of assisted living communities from specific standard requirements; amend KRS 216B.160 to allow a manager's designee in an assisted living community to conduct an ongoing assessment; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 194A and KRS 216.595 to make technical corrections and changes; repeal KRS 194A.723 and 194A.724.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 20)","last_action_date":"2022-03-18","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB11/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb11.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1545547,"bill_number":"HB197","title":"AN ACT relating to identity documents.","description":"Amend KRS 186.412 to require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures and forms to allow an individual without a fixed, permanent address to submit a form signed by a shelter, health care facility, or other social service agency attesting to the applicant's residence for the purpose of issuance of a renewal operator's license or an initial or renewal personal ID card; amend KRS 186.4122 to allow a homeless minor over the age of 16 to apply for a personal identification card without a parent or guardian signature, and extend the term of a personal ID issued to any homeless individual who is a citizen or permanent resident from one to three years; amend KRS 186.4123 to conform; amend KRS 186.531 to set the price of a personal identification card for an individual without a fixed, permanent address at $5, allow the Transportation Cabinet to enter into billing arrangements with social service agencies for payment of client's fees.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-15","last_action":"returned to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB197/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb197.html","sponsor":"Randy Bridges"},
{"bill_id":1545548,"bill_number":"HB62","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 342.0011 to define \"COVID-19\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish workers' compensation liability in instances where employers require vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of employment and the employee develops an adverse reaction to the vaccine; create a rebuttable presumption that an adverse reaction was caused by the COVID-19 vaccine if it was not present prior to and arises within 14 days of receipt of the vaccine; retoactive to December 14, 2020; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB62/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb62.html","sponsor":"Richard White"},
{"bill_id":1545549,"bill_number":"HB15","title":"AN ACT relating to civil rights.","description":"Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for \"sexual orientation\" and \"gender identity\"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB15/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb15.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1545550,"bill_number":"SB22","title":"AN ACT relating to state holidays.","description":"Amend KRS 2.147 and 18A.190 to make June 19, also known as \"Juneteenth National Freedom Day,\" a state holiday for state employees.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB22/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb22.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1545551,"bill_number":"HB137","title":"AN ACT relating to supplemental payments to police officers.","description":"Amend KRS 15.420 to include certain local and Commonwealth employees within the definition \"police officer\"; amend KRS 15.440 to include certain task forces, departments and agencies within the definition of eligible unit of government; ensure that the eligible units will be reimbursed for administrative costs and retirement contributions.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 231)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB137/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb137.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1545552,"bill_number":"HB159","title":"AN ACT relating to actions for forcible entry and detainer.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 383 to provide automatic expungement of records in actions for forcible entry and detainer; amend KRS 383.250 to provide for sealing of records.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB159/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb159.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1545553,"bill_number":"HB151","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency services.","description":"Amend KRS 205.590 to establish a new technical advisory committee on emergency medical services consisting of members representing the air medical industry, the Kentucky Board of Emergency Services, emergency medical services billing industry, and ground ambulance providers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB151/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb151.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1545554,"bill_number":"HB94","title":"AN ACT relating to the emergency administration of medication in schools.","description":"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.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"returned to Health & Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB94/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb94.html","sponsor":"Derek Lewis"},
{"bill_id":1545555,"bill_number":"HB130","title":"AN ACT relating to freedom of speech at public postsecondary education institutions.","description":"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.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB130/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb130.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1545556,"bill_number":"HB105","title":"AN ACT relating to financial disclosure statements.","description":"Amend KRS 6.787, relating to legislative ethics, to include the names of clients paying more than $1,000 annually to a consulting firm owned by a legislator or spouse, or which employs a legislator or spouse, in the statement of financial disclosure; exclude legislators who are attorneys from this requirement.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB105/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb105.html","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1545557,"bill_number":"HB140","title":"AN ACT relating to railroads.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require two-person crews on trains or light engines used in connection with the movement of freight; establish civil penalties for failure to have a two-person crew.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB140/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb140.html","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1545558,"bill_number":"SR7","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the George Rogers Clark High School United States Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.","description":"Honor the George Rogers Clark High School United States Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR7/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr7.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1545559,"bill_number":"HB192","title":"AN ACT relating to electrical work.","description":"Amend KRS 227.460 to allow the electrical contractor to choose an inspection conducted by a Transportation Cabinet inspector or a local inspector for electrical work on highway projects not related to buildings for human occupancy performed beyond the service disconnect within the public right of way.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-31","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 69)","last_action_date":"2022-03-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB192/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb192.html","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1545560,"bill_number":"HB39","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services.","description":"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 doula services; establish training and education requirements for doulas; permit the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB39/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb39.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545561,"bill_number":"HB144","title":"AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 341.030 to suspend any increase in the taxable wage base for calendar year 2022 and utilize the taxable wage base in effect for the 2020 year; amend KRS 341.270 to indicate that employer contribution rates in 2022 shall be determined using the rates listed in Schedule A of Table A; amend KRS 341.614 to provide there will be no surcharge assessment for 2022; retroactively to January 1, 2022; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 29)","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB144/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb144.html","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1545562,"bill_number":"HB165","title":"AN ACT relating to occupational disease claims.","description":"Amend KRS 342.125 to remove the requirement that an affected employee previously diagnosed with occupational pneumoconiosis resulting from exposure to coal dust must have an additional two years of employment in the Commonwealth wherein the employee was continuously exposed to the hazards of the disease in order to reopen a claim.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB165/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb165.html","sponsor":"Ashley Tackett Laferty"},
{"bill_id":1545563,"bill_number":"HB42","title":"AN ACT relating to the establishment of emergency insulin programs and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; establish the Urgent-Need Insulin Program and the Continuing Access to Insulin Program; establish eligibility guidelines; establish the application process; establish the process by which insulin is dispensed to eligible individuals; establish the responsibilities of insulin manufacturers; establish the responsibilities of the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy for administering the program; require manufacturers to annually report certain information to the board; require the board to report certain information to the General Assembly upon request; establish penalties; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB42/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb42.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1545564,"bill_number":"HB127","title":"AN ACT relating to court-ordered mental health treatment.","description":"Amend KRS 202A.0811 to clarify that the respondent be evaluated by a mental health professional and not examined, specify where and by when a qualified mental health professional's findings shall be certified, and specify when a date for a hearing shall be set; amend KRS 202A.0815 to expand the class of individuals who can have access to assisted outpatient treatment by modifying the criteria requirements for court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 32)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB127/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb127.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1545565,"bill_number":"HB128","title":"AN ACT relating to student assessment and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.6453 to define a \"series of interim assessments\"; provide that the statewide assessment program may be composed of a series of interim assessments if approved by the United States Department of Education; require the results of an assement that is part of a series of summative assessments to be reported to the school within one month of the assessment date; make conforming amendments; require the commissioner of education to apply to the United States Department of Education for a waiver to the requirement of a single, summative assessment required by the Every Student Succeeds Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB128/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb128.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1545566,"bill_number":"HB139","title":"AN ACT relating to public procurement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A defining \"manufactured in Kentucky\", \"manufactured in the United States\", require a preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in Kentucky in construction and maintenance contracts and subcontracts, provide for a waiver of the Kentucky preference requirement, require preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in the United States if the Kentucky waiver is granted, provide for a waiver of the United States preference requiremen; establish a short title of \"Kentucky Buy American Act\"; amend KRS 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.080, and 424.260 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB139/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb139.html","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1545567,"bill_number":"HB85","title":"AN ACT relating to dual credit scholarships.","description":"Amend KRS 164.786 to increase the dual credit tuition rate ceiling amount; add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores; add career and technical education courses to the Dual Credit Scholarship; amend KRS 164.787 to delete the dual credit provisions from the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB85/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb85.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1545568,"bill_number":"HB176","title":"AN ACT relating to tax amnesty and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 131.400 to allow federal taxes, penalties, fees, or interest referred to the department from the federal government for collection purposes to be included within the tax amnesty program set to begin on October 1, 2022, and end on November 29, 2022; amend KRS 131.410, 131.420, 131.425, 131.440, and 131.445 to conform; amend KRS 131.435 to require the department and the Finance and Administration Cabinet to procure services necessary to implement the tax amnesty program as directed; repeal KRS 131.430; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB176/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb176.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1545569,"bill_number":"HB51","title":"AN ACT relating to COVID-19 precautions in educational settings and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 199.896 to provide that the license or certification of a child-care center shall not be refused or revoked for refusing to require facial coverings; amend KRS 199.898 to provide that parents and guardians of children enrolled in licensed, certified, or publicly funded child care facilities have a right to refuse facial coverings on behalf of their children without any retribution; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit requiring facial coverings on any public school premises, on school-sponsored transportation, or at a school-sponsored event; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit requiring facial coverings on property owned, leased, or operated by public postsecondary education institutions; provide exceptions for healthcare licensing board requirements imposed prior to January 1, 2020, and clinical research settings.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-09","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB51/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb51.html","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1545570,"bill_number":"SB16","title":"AN ACT relating to special purpose depository institutions.","description":"Create a new Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 286 to establish special purpose depository institutions that engage in a nonlending banking business; establish findings and purposes for subtitle; provide for the organization, powers, and chartering of the institution; require directors to take oaths; establish capital, bonding, contingency, and insurance requirements; establish requirements for offering depository accounts and other services; provide that certain provisions of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 286 shall apply to the institutions; establish branching requirements for in-state and out-of-state institutions; provide for administrative appeals; require the commissioner of financial institutions to adopt administrative regulations to implement the subtitle; establish administrative penalties and procedures for violations of the subtitle; establish when the commissioner shall close an institution for liquidation; establish procedures for voluntary dissolution; amend KRS 286.1-011 and 286.2-685 to conform; amend KRS 286.2-040 to allow the commissioner to examine special purpose depository institution service providers; require the commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the Act on or before October 1, 2022; EFFECTIVE, in part, on October 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB16/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb16.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1545571,"bill_number":"HB48","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 519.010 to add definition of \"emergency response\"; amend KRS 519.040 to increase the penalties for falsely reporting an incident that results in an emergency response; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to provide for a civil cause of action for damages arising from the false reporting of an incident; amend KRS 134.127 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 148)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB48/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb48.html","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1545572,"bill_number":"HB76","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 21.440, 61.670, 78.784, and 161.400 to require the Legislators' Retirement Plan, the Judicial Retirement Plan, the Kentucky Retirement Systems, the County Employees Retirement System, and the Teachers' Retirement System to perform an actuarial investigation of economic assumptions once every two years rather than once every five years while retaining a review of demographic assumptions once every five years; amend KRS 78.784 to require the County Employees Retirement System to provide a projection/analysis over a 30-year period rather than a 20-year period regarding projections in the annual actuarial valuation and as it relates to experience studies, assumption changes, and other changes made by the boards of each system; require the first actuarial investigation of economic assumptions to occur prior to 2023 actuarial valuations.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 165)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB76/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb76.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1545573,"bill_number":"HB111","title":"AN ACT relating to employment.","description":"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 \"employer\" and \"employee\"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 70.262, KRS 78.470 and KRS 78.480 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 345.050 to allow public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; repeal KRS 65.016, 336.132 and 336.134.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB111/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb111.html","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1545574,"bill_number":"HB31","title":"AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices against a person.","description":"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\".","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB31/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb31.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545575,"bill_number":"HB81","title":"AN ACT relating to income assistance and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define \"eligible recipient\" \"gross income,\" \"taxable year,\" and \"universal basic income\"; create the universal basic income fund within the State Treasury and provide that money remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not lapse but will be carried forward into the next fiscal year; establish a universal basic income of $1,000 per month payable from the fund to any eligible recipient unless his or her reported gross income exceeds 100% of the median per capita income for his or her county of residence; establish a Kentucky workers' transitional income of $500 per month payable from the fund to any person who was receiving the universal basic income but became ineligible because his or her reported gross income exceeds 100% of the median per capita income of his or her county of residence for up to 24 months or until his or her reported gross income exceeds 200% of the median per capita income of his or her county of residence; require; that receipt of the universal basic income shall not be considered taxable income or be considered in calculating state tax credits or offset any liabilities or preclude the recipient from receiving other public assistance; amend KRS 141.019 to exclude the universal basic income in calculating a taxpayer's adjusted gross income; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB81/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb81.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545576,"bill_number":"HB113","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 116.055 to allow a registered independent the ability to vote in the primary of one political party; amend KRS 117.125 to provide that voting equipment be adjusted to allow independents to vote in the primary of one political party; amend KRS 118.015 to define \"registered independent\"; amend KRS 118.125 and KRS 118.571 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB113/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb113.html","sponsor":"Buddy Wheatley"},
{"bill_id":1545577,"bill_number":"HB109","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits for airport noise mitigation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable income tax credit for the costs of mitigating noise from a commercial airport for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, but before January 1, 2026; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the department to report nonidentifying information on the credit to the Commission; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB109/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb109.html","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1545578,"bill_number":"HR6","title":"A RESOLUTION proclaiming April 26, 2022, to be Diabetic Ketoacidosis Awareness Day in Kentucky.","description":"Proclaim April 26, 2022, to be Diabetic Ketoacidosis Awareness Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR6/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr6.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1545579,"bill_number":"SR9","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Edallen York Burtner upon the occasion of his retirement as Mayor of the City of Winchester.","description":"Honor Edallen York Burtner upon the occasion of his retirement as Mayor of the City of Winchester.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR9/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr9.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1545580,"bill_number":"HB131","title":"AN ACT relating to rent control in development areas.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65.500 to 65.506, permitting the governing body of a consolidated local government to enact rent control ordinances in a development area.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB131/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb131.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545581,"bill_number":"HB50","title":"AN ACT relating to pari-mutuel tax.","description":"Amend KRS 138.510 to impose a 1.5% surtax on historical horse races, on or after October 1, 2022; amend KRS 138.513 to impose a 2.5% surtax on advance deposit account wagers; amend KRS 138.530 and 230.750 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB50/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb50.html","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1545582,"bill_number":"HB38","title":"AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates.","description":"Amend KRS 196.173 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB38/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb38.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545583,"bill_number":"HB30","title":"AN ACT relating to food products.","description":"Amend KRS 217.015 to add dried coffee and tea to the definition of home-based processor.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB30/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb30.html","sponsor":"Daniel Fister"},
{"bill_id":1545584,"bill_number":"HB96","title":"AN ACT relating to an exemption of income taxation for military pensions.","description":"Amend KRS 141.019 to exclude all distributions from military pension plans received by retired members of the United States military and their surviving spouses or former spouse under a survivor benefit plan from income taxation for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2026; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 131.190 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB96/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb96.html","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1545585,"bill_number":"HB41","title":"AN ACT relating to maternal mental health.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require all hospitals or alternative birthing centers offering obstetric services or licensed health care providers, including nurse midwives or certified professional midwives, to provide each maternity patient with information on maternal depression and available resources; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to post on its Web site information about providers who assist with maternal depression.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB41/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb41.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1545586,"bill_number":"HB123","title":"AN ACT relating to public contracts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 45A.343 to 45A.460 to prohibit a governmental body or political subdivision of this state from entering into contracts valued at or above $100,000 with a company that has ten or more employees and discriminates against firearm entities or firearm trade associations; set forth what does and does not constitute discrimination; exempt sole proprietorships.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB123/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb123.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1545587,"bill_number":"HB156","title":"AN ACT relating to wrongful conviction compensation and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; create a new section of KRS Chapter 23A to establish a new 10 dollar fee to be assessed in criminal cases; create a new section of KRS Chapter 24A to establish a new 10 dollar fee to be assessed in criminal cases; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund; amend KRS 141.019 to exclude funds received from the wrongful conviction compensation fund from adjusted gross income.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB156/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb156.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545588,"bill_number":"HJR5","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing mental health professional licensure boards to strongly consider entering into an interstate compact with other states, easing reciprocity procedures with other states, or establishing reciprocity procedures with other states to increase the mental health workforce in Kentucky, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Require mental health professional licensure boards to either enter into an interstate compact or to ease or establish reciprocity procedures to increase the mental health workforce in Kentucky; report to the General Assembly; EMERGENCY","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 114)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR5/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr5.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1545589,"bill_number":"HB183","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for injectable epinephrine devices.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover injectable epinephrine devices for persons 18 years of age and under; provide that the coverage shall not be subject to cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with the 18-and-under injectable epinephrine device coverage requirement; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB183/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb183.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1545590,"bill_number":"SB26","title":"AN ACT relating to labeling requirements for fresh produce.","description":"Amend KRS 217.015 to create a definition for \"fresh produce\"; create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to require retail food stores to provide state of origin and season of harvest information for fresh produce.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB26/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb26.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1545591,"bill_number":"SB21","title":"AN ACT relating to the screening of tenants.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 383 to limit applicant screening charges for charges made within a 60 day period; prohibit landlords from charging screening fees without notice to the applicant; require screening criteria from landlords; require landlords to return charges if the dwelling is filled before the screening; disallow landlords from considering applicant's certain previous actions, arrests, or criminal charges; require landlords provide denied applicants with a written statement pursuant to specific criteria putting forth one or more reasons for the denial.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB21/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb21.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1545592,"bill_number":"HB13","title":"AN ACT relating to health education.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of a parent or guardian and establish a procedure for a parent or guardian to opt a student out of the instruction; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to implement, administer, and enforce this section; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations requiring that each school district submit a report on healthy relationship instruction in the district biennially; require the Kentucky Department of Education to maintain a list of recommended healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; permit a parent or guardian to file an enforcement action in Circuit Court.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB13/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb13.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1545593,"bill_number":"HB27","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of feminine hygiene products.","description":"Amend KRS 139.010 to define \"feminine hygiene products\"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of feminine hygiene products; apply to sales or purchases made on or after August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB27/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb27.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1545594,"bill_number":"HCR12","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Congress of the United States to protect consumers and their financial institutions from harmful and intrusive Internal Revenue Service bank account reporting requirements.","description":"Urge the United States Congress, and the Kentucky delegation to Congress, to reject proposals that would impose burdensome and intrusive IRS bank account reporting requirements on financial institutions.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR12/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr12.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1545595,"bill_number":"HB101","title":"AN ACT relating to allowing the Freedom Flag to be flown as a Flag of Remembrance each September 11, which is known as Patriots Day.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to allow the Freedom Flag to be flown as a Flag of Remembrance each September 11.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-11","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB101/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb101.html","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1545596,"bill_number":"HB92","title":"AN ACT relating to the opioid abatement trust fund and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 15.293 to provide that funds received from bankruptcy proceedings shall also be allocated to the Opioid abatement trust fund and local governments; specify that any named defendant in In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, MDL No. 2804, Case No. 1:17-md-02804, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio is to be included as well.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2022-04-26","last_action":"line items vetoed (Acts Ch. 240)","last_action_date":"2022-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB92/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb92.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1545597,"bill_number":"SB30","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle registration and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to allow a person applying online for motor vehicle registration renewal to make a donation to an organ donor program; allow county clerk to ask a person applying in person for motor vehicle registration to make a donation to an organ donor program; require the Transportation Cabinet to forward funds to the Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks' Trust for Life on a monthly basis; require a county clerk to forward funds to the Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks' Trust for Life on a monthly basis; allow a person applying for online motor vehicle registration renewal to express willingness to be an organ donor; allow a county clerk to ask a person applying for motor vehicle registration if he or she would like to express willingness to be an organ donor; amend KRS 311.1917 to conform; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 16)","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB30/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb30.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1545598,"bill_number":"HB75","title":"AN ACT relating to DNA.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to regulate the collection, use, and transfer of human DNA samples; create penalties for violations of the prohibitions; state the Act shall be known as the Protecting DNA Privacy Act.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB75/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb75.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1545599,"bill_number":"HB57","title":"AN ACT prohibiting vaccination requirements for postsecondary education students.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit a public postsecondary educational institution from requiring a student to receive certain vaccinations unless the student is participating in an educational program that involves the delivery of health care services.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB57/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb57.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1545600,"bill_number":"HB198","title":"AN ACT relating to vaccination exemption and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define \"COVID-19,\" \"medical practitioner,\" and \"retaliate against\"; require employers to permit employees to opt out of a COVID-19 vaccination policy based on categories of individual exemptions; create exemption eligibility requirements; create a civil cause of action; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB198/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb198.html","sponsor":"Josh Calloway"},
{"bill_id":1545601,"bill_number":"HB86","title":"AN ACT relating to workforce and housing development.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to establish the nonrefundable Kentucky affordable housing credit for taxable years or periods beginning on or after January 1, 2025, for a period of five years; allow the credit to be applied to the income and insurance taxes, in an amount equal to the amount of federal low-income housing tax credit; provide that the aggregate amount of tax credit for any year shall not exceed $12.5 million; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow the credit to be applied to income and limited liability entity taxes; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the income tax credit; create new sections of KRS Chapter 136 to allow the credit to be applied to insurance tax; order the insurance tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB86/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb86.html","sponsor":"Randy Bridges"},
{"bill_id":1545602,"bill_number":"HB104","title":"AN ACT relating to the age requirement for serving alcoholic beverages.","description":"Amend KRS 244.090 to lower the minimum alcohol server age of employees to 18 provided that the employee is supervised by someone aged 21 years or older.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB104/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb104.html","sponsor":"Richard White"},
{"bill_id":1545603,"bill_number":"HB168","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Establish new chapter KRS Chapter 118C and create new sections of chapter to establish a system of electing the offices of Commonwealth's attorney, circuit clerk, county attorney, county clerk, sheriff, jailer, and coroner under a nonpartisan system; amend KRS 118.215, 118.315, 118.225, 118.325, and 118.115 to conform; EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"returned to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB168/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb168.html","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1545604,"bill_number":"HB155","title":"AN ACT relating to constables.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Ch. 70 detailing legislative findings in regards to constables; create a new section of KRS Ch. 70 providing definitions; create a new section of KRS Ch. 70 establishing the Constable Certification Program, course components and length, operating procedures; require promulgation of administrative regulations, frequency of program, funding to be provided from KLEPF fund, establish in-service training requirements for certified graduates; require county board of elections to notify Constable's Association of any elected or appointed constable within 60 days, require the Department of Criminal Justice Training to maintain records of training, designate any constable who does not complete the program as \"non-certified;\" require Kentucky Constable's Association to maintain a list of certified and non-certified members; amend KRS 17.190 to include \"certified constable or deputy constable; amend KRS 61.315 to include constable or deputy constables; include constables and deputy constables within certain benefits programs for line of duty incidents; amend KRS 61.362 to include constables; amend KRS 64.190 allow constables the same fees for services as sheriffs; amend KRS 64.250 removing provisions relating to officials in counties over 250,000; amend KRS 70.310 establish bond requirements for constables at $10,000; amend KRS 70.320 establish formula for constables in counties greater than 50,000 to appoint deputy constables; define salary for deputy constables; require that deputy constables be and remain certified; amend KRS 189.910 to include certified constable's or deputy constable's vehicles within definition of \"emergency vehicle;\" amend KRS 189.920 to require that these vehicles be equipped with blue lights, allow non-certified constables to have blue lights if authorized; amend KRS 189.450 to replace \"police\" with \"peace;\" include constables and deputy constables within the exemptions of the section; amend KRS 189.950 to remove certain requirements for blue lights; amend KRS 431.005 to include certified constables or deputy constables; amend KRS 431.007 to include certified constables or deputy constables, and exclude non-certified constables or deputy constables; repeal KRS 64.200 and 70.430; short title.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB155/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb155.html","sponsor":"Ryan Dotson"},
{"bill_id":1545605,"bill_number":"SB3","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting and declaring an emergency.","description":"(C1278B01) Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 118B to divide the Commonwealth into the following congressional districts: DISTRICT 1 - Adair KY, Allen KY, Anderson KY (part), Ballard KY, Boyle KY, Caldwell KY, Calloway KY, Carlisle KY, Casey KY, Christian KY, Clinton KY, Crittenden KY, Cumberland KY, Franklin KY, Fulton KY, Graves KY, Henderson KY, Hickman KY, Hopkins KY, Livingston KY, Logan KY (part), Lyon KY, Marion KY, Marshall KY, McCracken KY, Metcalfe KY, Monroe KY, Russell KY, Simpson KY, Taylor KY, Todd KY, Trigg KY, Union KY, Washington KY, Webster KY; DISTRICT 2 - Barren KY, Breckinridge KY, Bullitt KY, Butler KY, Daviess KY, Edmonson KY, Grayson KY, Green KY, Hancock KY, Hardin KY, Hart KY, Jefferson KY (part), Larue KY, Logan KY (part), McLean KY, Meade KY, Muhlenberg KY, Nelson KY (part), Ohio KY, Warren KY; DISTRICT 3 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 4 - Boone KY, Bracken KY, Campbell KY, Carroll KY, Carter KY (part), Gallatin KY, Grant KY, Greenup KY, Harrison KY, Henry KY, Kenton KY, Lewis KY, Mason KY, Nelson KY (part), Oldham KY, Owen KY, Pendleton KY, Robertson KY, Shelby KY, Spencer KY, Trimble KY; DISTRICT 5 - Bath KY (part), Bell KY, Boyd KY, Breathitt KY, Carter KY (part), Clay KY, Elliott KY, Floyd KY, Harlan KY, Jackson KY, Johnson KY, Knott KY, Knox KY, Laurel KY, Lawrence KY, Lee KY, Leslie KY, Letcher KY, Lincoln KY, Magoffin KY, Martin KY, McCreary KY, Menifee KY, Morgan KY, Owsley KY, Perry KY, Pike KY, Pulaski KY, Rockcastle KY, Rowan KY, Wayne KY, Whitley KY, Wolfe KY; DISTRICT 6 - Anderson KY (part), Bath KY (part), Bourbon KY, Clark KY, Estill KY, Fayette KY, Fleming KY, Garrard KY, Jessamine KY, Madison KY, Mercer KY, Montgomery KY, Nicholas KY, Powell KY, Scott KY, Woodford KY; PLAN INTEGRITY VERIFIED; amend KRS 118B.010 to change dates to conform; specify how county and precinct names are to be displayed depending on whether the territory of the county or precinct is included in a particular legislative district in its entirety or in part; direct county boards of elections to change precinct boundaries to conform to congressional district boundaries; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 8)","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB3/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb3.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1545606,"bill_number":"HB177","title":"AN ACT relating to children in out-of-home care.","description":"Amend KRS 620.150 to require all visits between a child in out-of-home care and the parent or other person exercising custodial control or supervision of the child to be in-person.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB177/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb177.html","sponsor":"Matt Lockett"},
{"bill_id":1545607,"bill_number":"SB27","title":"AN ACT relating to employment of part-time adjunct instructors for the Kentucky Fire Commission.","description":"Amend KRS 61.637 and 78.5540 to allow a part-time adjunct instructor for the Kentucky Fire Commission who has not participated in the Kentucky Employees Retirement Systems prior to retirement, but is eligible to retire from the County Employees Retirement System, to retire and draw benefits without being required to resign from his or her position as part-time adjunct instructor for the Kentucky Fire Commission.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 56)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB27/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb27.html","sponsor":"Mike Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1545608,"bill_number":"HB84","title":"AN ACT relating to liability protection in emergencies.","description":"Amend KRS 39A.275 to eliminate certain liability protections if an owner requires employees to receive a vaccination against COVID-19 and an employee suffers a severe adverse reaction as a result.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB84/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb84.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1545609,"bill_number":"HB100","title":"AN ACT relating to state symbols.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to name and designate as the official pets of Kentucky domestic cats and dogs that reside in or have been adopted from Kentucky animal shelters or rescue organizations.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB100/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb100.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1545610,"bill_number":"HR1","title":"A RESOLUTION adopting the Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.","description":"Adopt the Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-04","last_action":"adopted 72-25","last_action_date":"2022-01-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR1/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr1.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1545611,"bill_number":"HB170","title":"AN ACT relating to civil proceedings and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 387.010 to 387.280 to establish a new procedure for legal settlements with a minor when the amount of the settlement is $25,000 or less; amend KRS 387.280 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 182)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB170/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb170.html","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1545612,"bill_number":"HB79","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health.","description":"Amend KRS 15.518 to include telecommunicators as eligible participants in the Law Enforcement Professional Development and Wellness Program; amend KRS 15.550 to require the telecommunicator basic course training to include instruction on and provide resources for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and work-induced stress, require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to incorporate PTSD mental health treatment into the telecommunicator training program and provide treatment resources to telecommunicators and their supervisors; amend KRS 15.560 and 15.565 to require each in-service training to include a mental health component on PTSD and work-induced stress; amend KRS 15.590 to require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to include training and resources for post-traumatic stress disorder and work-induced stress during each telecommunicator in-service training, provide guidelines and a resource list to all telecommunicators and their supervisors, and allow telecommunicators to access the Law Enforcement Professional Development and Wellness Program; this Act shall be known as the Lifeliner's Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 128)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB79/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb79.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1545613,"bill_number":"HB49","title":"AN ACT relating to changes in pension payments due to overtime worked during a local emergency and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 61.598 to exempt from the anti-pension spiking provisions any overtime directly attributable to a local government emergency in which the Governor calls in the Kentucky National Guard; make amendments retroactive to May 30, 2020; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 100)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB49/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb49.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1546659,"bill_number":"HB225","title":"AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the possession of cannabis.","description":"Propose to create a new section of the Kentucky Constitution to guarantee the right of an individual 21 years of age or older to possess, use, buy or sell one ounce or less of cannabis and to cultivate, harvest, and store up to 5 cannabis plants for personal use; and for the production, processing, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-derived products to be controlled by the General Assembly; specify the question to be printed on the ballot; direct the Secretary of State to publish the proposed amendment in a newspaper of general circulation; direct the Secretary of State to certify the proposed amendment to the county clerk of each county.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB225/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb225.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1546662,"bill_number":"SB35","title":"AN ACT relating to boater safety and making an appropriation.","description":"Amend KRS 235.080 to require that persons provide proof of a Kentucky safe boating certification card or equivalent documentation at the time of registration or be assessed a $50 fee; amend KRS 235.285 to require a boat propelled by human power or by a direct current battery-powered motor to have safety decals affixed to it; prohibit operation of any personal watercraft or motorboat on public waters by anyone under 12; require that persons carry a Kentucky safe boating certification card or equivalent documentation from another state or the federal government when they are operating a personal watercraft or motorboat of any horsepower as proof that they have completed a boater safety course or provide proof of motorboat or personal watercraft registration for the previous five years; require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to provide safe boating certificate temporary exemptions that last no longer than 14 days from when they are issued if certain requirements are met; amend KRS 235.990 to provide that from the effective date of this Act until June 30, 2023, the only penalty for not carrying the safe boating certification card will be a courtesy notice and being advised of how to comply with the safe boating certification requirement; provide that in addition to other penalties, a boater shall be required to complete a safe boating certification course for violation of safe boating certification requirements; allow for both monetary and imprisonment penalties to apply for offenses relating to reckless or negligent boating or boating under the influence; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB35/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb35.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1546665,"bill_number":"HR15","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing March 22, 2022, as National Agriculture Day.","description":"Recognize March 22, 2022, as National Agriculture Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR15/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr15.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1546668,"bill_number":"SR14","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Francis Thomas \"Tom\" Conway.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Francis Thomas \"Tom\" Conway.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR14/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr14.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1546671,"bill_number":"HB222","title":"AN ACT relating to legal actions concerning the exercise of a person's constitutional rights.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 454 to provide definitions and establish procedures for dismissing legal actions filed in response to a party's exercise of free speech, right to petition, or right to association; allow for an immediate appeal as a matter of right; allow for costs to be awarded to the moving party if dismissal is granted; allow for costs to be awarded to responding party if the motion was found to be frivolous or filed with the intent to delay; provide that this Act may be cited as the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 233)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB222/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb222.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1546674,"bill_number":"SR16","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of David Hawpe.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of David Hawpe.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR16/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr16.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1546677,"bill_number":"HB207","title":"AN ACT relating to minimum security requirements at retail establishments licensed to sell alcohol for on-premises consumption.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 244 to define terms; establish pre-employment requirements for bouncers; create bouncer training standards; establish agency oversight; prevent confusion as to whether a law enforcement officer is on or off duty; amend KRS 244.120 to prohibit consumption of alcohol by a bouncer during work hours; amend KRS 243.500 to allow revocation or suspension of a license for failure to comply with bouncer restrictions; cite this Act as Christopher's Law; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB207/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb207.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1546680,"bill_number":"SR15","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Larry Brent Yonts.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Larry Brent Yonts.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR15/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr15.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1546683,"bill_number":"SR13","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Brooke Forde for winning a silver medal at the 2020 Olympics.","description":"Honor Brooke Forde for winning a silver medal at the 2020 Olympics.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR13/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr13.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1546686,"bill_number":"SR23","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Thomas Emby \"Tom\" Duncan.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Thomas Emby \"Tom\" Duncan.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR23/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr23.html","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1546689,"bill_number":"HB224","title":"AN ACT relating to cannabis.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make possession of a personal use quantity of cannabis exempt from civil or criminal penalty; amend KRS 218A.010 to define \"cannabis,\" \"personal use quantity of cannabis,\" and \"cannabis accessory\"; amend KRS 218A.1422 regarding cannabis possession to conform; amend KRS 218A.1423 regarding cannabis cultivation to conform; amend KRS 218A.500 regarding drug paraphernalia to exempt personal use cannabis accessories; amend KRS 218A.1421 on cannabis trafficking to exempt personal use quantities; amend KRS 138.872 to exclude personal use quantities from cannabis stamp tax; amend KRS 218A.410 and 533.030 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow expungement of certain convictions relating to cannabis.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB224/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb224.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1546692,"bill_number":"SR17","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of David Anthony Turner Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of David Anthony Turner Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR17/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr17.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1546695,"bill_number":"SB46","title":"AN ACT relating to state procurement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to prohibit a contract being awarded to a bidder if the bidder was awarded the same or similar contract through the use of an executive agency lobbyist who was convicted of a crime related to the contract for five years after the conviction of the lobbyist; amend KRS 45A.340 to prohibit any person associated with an agency from participating in the procurement of a contract for one year after termination; make Section 1 apply to contracts entered into since January 1, 2017; RETROACTIVE.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":"State Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB46/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb46.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1546698,"bill_number":"HB205","title":"AN ACT relating to leave from employment.","description":"Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with a crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a private right of action for improper discharge, discrimination, retaliation, and failing to maintain confidentiality; define terms; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties in the case of violation by employer.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB205/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb205.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1546701,"bill_number":"HB213","title":"AN ACT relating to occupational therapists.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 319A to include Kentucky in an interstate compact for licensure as an occupational therapist; set the compact's purpose, definitions, and requirements for state participation; allow a practitioner to hold both a home state license and a compact privilege; authorize active duty military personnel or their spouses to retain a home state during active duty; make the home state the only jurisdiction that may impose adverse action against a license; establish the Occupational Therapy Compact Commission; require the commission to develop, maintain, and use a licensee data system shared by all member states; grant the commission rulemaking power; designate oversight, dispute resolution, and enforcement authority under the compact; fix the effective date of the compact as the date the tenth member state enacts the compact into law; establish the construction, binding effect, and severability of the sections of the compact; amend KRS 319A.140 and 319A.180 to include compact licensure as a means to practice occupational therapy.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 164)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB213/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb213.html","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1546704,"bill_number":"SR19","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Dorothy Geraldine \"Gerry\" Biggs Montgomery.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dorothy Geraldine \"Gerry\" Biggs Montgomery.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR19/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr19.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1546707,"bill_number":"HB215","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.1410, 218A.1412, and 218A.142 to enhance the penalty for importing or trafficking carfentanil, fentanyl, or fentanyl derivatives from a minimum of 50 percent of the sentence served to a minimum of 85 percent of the sentence served and establish prohibition against the use of pretrial diversion for those criminal offenses.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 130)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB215/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb215.html","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1546710,"bill_number":"SB38","title":"AN ACT relating to incest.","description":"Amend KRS 439.3401 to include incest, as defined in KRS 530.020, as a qualifying crime for designation of a \"violent offender\".","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 14)","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB38/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb38.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1546713,"bill_number":"SB40","title":"AN ACT relating to the rights of parents.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 405 to establish findings of the General Assembly related to rights and interests of parents; create a new section of KRS Chapter 405 to establish a definition of \"parent\" and specific rights of parents; establish a short title of \"Parents' Rights Protection Act.\"","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB40/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb40.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1546716,"bill_number":"SR21","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Officer Zachary Dale Cottongim.","description":"Adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Officer Zachary Dale Cottongim.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR21/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr21.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1546719,"bill_number":"HB220","title":"AN ACT relating to intimidation of a sports official.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 518 to create the crime of intimidation of a sports official as a Class A misdemeanor.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-18","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB220/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb220.html","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1546722,"bill_number":"HR16","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 19 to 26, 2022, as FFA Week in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize February 19 to 26, 2022, as FFA Week in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR16/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr16.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1546725,"bill_number":"HB219","title":"AN ACT relating to lung cancer screening.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 214 to define \"department\" and \"program\"; establish the Lung Cancer Screening and Prevention Program within the Department for Public Health; provide that services may be undertaken by private contract or operated by the department; allow the program to provide referral, examination, and rescreening services for uninsured and underinsured individuals for whom further examination or treatment is indicated by the lung cancer screening; require the department to adopt a schedule of income-based fees to be charged for lung cancer screenings; require that the fee schedule be such that the screenings are available to the largest number of people; permit the department to accept grants or awards of funds from federal or private sources; require the department to establish a data collection system; require the promulgation of administrative regulations; establish a restricted fund to be known as the Kentucky Lung Cancer Screening and Prevention Program fund and establish parameters of the fund; require that the funds be used by the department to administer the program; require moneys in the fund to be administered by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; provide that moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year will carry forward into the succeeding fiscal year; require that interest earned on moneys in the fund will accrue to the fund; require that moneys in the fund are appropriated for the purposes of the program; require the fund to include funds distributed by the Transportation Cabinet from sales of special lung cancer prevention license plates; establish the Lung Cancer Screening Advisory Committee; establish the membership of the advisory committee; require the advisory committee to provide recommendations for implementation and conduct of the lung cancer screening program; require the advisory committee to establish and provide oversight for a lung cancer screening public awareness campaign; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to contract with the Kentucky Cancer Consortium at the University of Kentucky to provide the required support; require the amount of contracted services to be excluded from the base funding formula of the university as determined by the Council on Postsecondary Education; require the advisory committee to provide an annual report on implementation, outcomes, and recommendations; require the Kentucky Cancer Program to establish a lung cancer screening education and outreach program in each of the area development districts; require the education and outreach program to focus on individuals who lack access to lung cancer screening; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to contract with the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky to provide the required support and require the amount of contracted services to be excluded from the base funding formula of the universities as determined by the Council on Postsecondary Education; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-31","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 71)","last_action_date":"2022-03-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB219/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb219.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1546728,"bill_number":"HB226","title":"AN ACT relating to early literacy education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.791 to specify the Department of Education's role in assisting local school districts with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; require the department to collaborate with designated agencies on reading programming, materials, and activities; amend KRS 158.305 to define new terms; replace references to \"response to intervention\" systems with \"multi-tiered system of supports\"; require a local board of education to adopt and implement a reading universal screener and reading diagnostic assessment by January 1, 2023; permit a local school district to adopt a common comprehensive reading program for K-3; require all K-3 teachers to be trained in any reading diagnostic assessment and universal screener adopted by a local board; establish requirements for the administration of reading universal screeners by grade-level; define and establish the requirements for a reading improvement plan; establish service requirements for a student that needs accelerated intervention as demonstrated by the results of the approved reading diagnostic assessment or state annually required grade 3 assessment; require the department to establish reading teacher academies or coaching models by September 1, 2023, if funds are appropriated; remove the requirement for KDE to provide an annual report to IJCE on academic interventions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require postsecondary institutions offering early childhood or elementary teacher preparation programs to include designated instruction; require the EPSB to maintain a list of approved reading teacher preparation tests; require all new teachers seeking certification in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education or Elementary School to take an approved reading teacher preparation test; amend KRS 158.840 to require CPE to submit an annual report to IJCE on the compliance of teacher preparation programs to this Act; require regular reports to an external evaluator; amend KRS 164.0207 to redefine existing terms; require the Board of Education to pass administrative regulations that prioritize schools with the most need and schools that have not received a grant in the previous cycle when awarding reading diagnostic and intervention grants; amend KRS 158.794 to reorganize the composition of the reading diagnostic and intervention grant steering committee; amend KRS 164.0207 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish and define the read to succeed fund; provide that moneys and interest in the fund shall not lapse; designate the Act as the Read to Succeed Act.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"reassigned to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB226/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb226.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1546731,"bill_number":"HB208","title":"AN ACT relating to occupational safety and health.","description":"Amend KRS 338.062 to permit more stringent safety and health administrative regulations than the corresponding federal standard if those administrative regulations are being re-promulgated and were in effect on or before July 1, 2021.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB208/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb208.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1546734,"bill_number":"SR18","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of James Bernard Yates Sr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James Bernard Yates Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR18/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr18.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1546737,"bill_number":"SB34","title":"AN ACT relating to interscholastic extracurricular activities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize participation in a public school interscholastic extracurricular activity by an at-home private school student; establish criteria for participation; require a parent, guardian, or teacher of an at-home private school student participating in a public school interscholastic activity to verify the student's academic progress; declare a public school student who does not make academic progress at a public school and withdraws and enters an at-home private school program ineligible for participation in an interscholastic activity for the remainder of the school year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB34/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb34.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1546740,"bill_number":"HJR17","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION applying for an Article V convention to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to set a limit on the number of terms of office for members of Congress.","description":"Apply to Congress under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress; state that the application should be aggregated with the applications of other states limited for the purposes identified in the application; state that the application should be a continuing application until a convention is called.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR17/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr17.html","sponsor":"William Lawrence"},
{"bill_id":1546743,"bill_number":"HB217","title":"AN ACT relating to involuntary termination of parental rights.","description":"Amend KRS 625.090 to include petitions filed under KRS 625.050 as information to be considered by the court in an involuntary termination of parental rights action.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB217/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb217.html","sponsor":"William Lawrence"},
{"bill_id":1546746,"bill_number":"HB206","title":"AN ACT relating to peace officer certification.","description":"Amend KRS 15.382 to prohibit anyone who has been convicted of various misdemeanor offenses and inchoate offenses under KRS Chapter 510 from being certified as a peace officer; amend KRS 15.386 to prohibit peace officers who have been convicted of various misdemeanor offenses and inchoate offenses under KRS Chapter 510 from returing to active certification from inactive status; amend KRS 15.391 to provide that a peace officer's certification shall be revoked if he or she pleads guilty to, is convicted of, or enters an Alford plea to various misdemeanor offenses and inchoate offenses under KRS Chaper 510.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 232)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB206/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb206.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1546750,"bill_number":"HB216","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 508.075 to include domestic violence shelters as a covered location for terroristic threatening in the first degree.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 163)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB216/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb216.html","sponsor":"William Lawrence"},
{"bill_id":1546753,"bill_number":"HCR14","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION calling for the expediting of research regarding the safety and efficacy of the use of marijuana for medical purposes.","description":"Urge federal policymakers to expedite research regarding the safety and efficacy of the use of marijuana for medical purposes.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR14/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr14.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1546756,"bill_number":"HB221","title":"AN ACT relating to school bus safety.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 67 to define \"owner,\" \"code enforcement board,\" \"county,\" \"camera monitoring system,\" \"recorded images,\" and \"stop arm camera violation\"; permit the legislative body of a county to enact an ordinance to authorize the use of camera monitoring systems by a local school district and permit the enforcement of a civil penalty for a stop arm camera violation recorded by a camera monitoring system; permit the legislative body of a county to enter into an interlocal agreement to implement and enforce such ordinances; provide that a legislative body shall set the amount of the civil penalty; provide that the revenue generated from a civil penalty shall be retained by the county; require specific notice for a stop arm camera violation; require the legislative body of a county to designate a form for a stop arm camera violation; establish defenses to a stop arm camera violation; define the procedures for a contest to a stop arm camera violation; require a recipient of a stop arm camera violation to pay or contest the violation within 60 days; allow for suspension of registration for failure to pay a fine; require a county to notify the Transportation Cabinet of the need to release a suspension within one business day of payment; amend KRS 189.990 to increase the maximum fine from $200 to $300 for the first offense of failing to stop for a school bus or church bus that is receiving or discharging passengers; amend KRS 189.370 to require traffic in the opposite direction of a school bus to stop for a school bus on highways that are not divided by a raised barrier or unpaved median.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"recommitted to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB221/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb221.html","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1546759,"bill_number":"SB9","title":"AN ACT relating to early literacy education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.791 to specify the Department of Education's role in assisting local school districts with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; require the department to collaborate with designated agencies on reading programming, materials, and activities; amend KRS 158.305 to define new terms; replace references to \"response to intervention\" systems with \"multi-tiered system of supports\"; require a local board of education to adopt and implement a reading universal screener and reading diagnostic assessment by January 1, 2023; permit a local school district to adopt a common comprehensive reading program for K-3; require all K-3 teachers to be trained in any reading diagnostic assessment and universal screener adopted by a local board; establish requirements for the administration of reading universal screeners by grade-level; define and establish the requirements for a reading improvement plan; establish service requirements for a student that needs accelerated intervention as demonstrated by the results of the approved reading diagnostic assessment or state annually required grade 3 assessment; require the department to establish reading teacher academies or coaching models by September 1, 2023, if funds are appropriated; remove the requirement for KDE to provide an annual report to IJCE on academic interventions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require postsecondary institutions offering early childhood or elementary teacher preparation programs to include designated instruction; require the EPSB to maintain a list of approved reading teacher preparation tests; require all new teachers seeking certification in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education or Elementary School to take an approved reading teacher preparation test; amend KRS 158.840 to require CPE to submit an annual report to IJCE on the compliance of teacher preparation programs to this Act; require regular reports to an external evaluator; amend KRS 164.0207 to redefine existing terms; require the Board of Education to pass administrative regulations that prioritize schools with the most need and schools that have not received a grant in the previous cycle when awarding reading diagnostic and intervention grants; amend KRS 158.794 to reorganize the composition of the reading diagnostic and intervention grant steering committee; amend KRS 164.0207 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish and define the read to succeed fund; provide that moneys and interest in the fund shall not lapse; designate the Act as the Read to Succeed Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 40)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB9/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb9.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1546762,"bill_number":"SR22","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Darryl Owens.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Darryl Owens.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR22/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr22.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1546765,"bill_number":"HB204","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 160.345 to specify that the superintendent instead of the council determines curriculum after consulting with the principal and school council; alter principal hiring process to require the principal to be selected by the superintendent after consultation with the school council; require the council to adopt policy consistent with board policy on the procedures for posting proposed new curriculum and providing results to the superintendent; allow the council to review no more than three principal candidates preferred by the superintendent; require the local board to adopt a policy on public notice of approved curriculum and a process for filing an educational grievance.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB204/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb204.html","sponsor":"Steve Sheldon"},
{"bill_id":1546768,"bill_number":"SR12","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of William Victor Slone.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of William Victor Slone.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR12/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr12.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1546771,"bill_number":"HJR13","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating a Greenup County bridge in honor and memory of Dr. Adrian N. Collins.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge on US Highway 23 in Greenup County in honor and memory of Dr. Adrian N. Collins.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR13/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr13.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1546774,"bill_number":"HB203","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protection through regulation of pharmacy-related trade practices.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions for pharmacy-related insurance practices; 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 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 health discount plans that purport to offer discounts, or access to discounts, on prescription drugs; 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.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB203/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb203.html","sponsor":"Steve Sheldon"},
{"bill_id":1546777,"bill_number":"SB42","title":"AN ACT relating to procurement.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.380 to specify additional food items that are exempted from competitive negotation requirements in certain circumstances; amend KRS 424.260 to specify additional food items that are exempted from the newspaper notice requirement for competitive bidding for local government procurement.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 150)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB42/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb42.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1546780,"bill_number":"HB209","title":"AN ACT relating to salary increments for state employees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate moneys to the State Salary and Compensation Fund to provide an increment of five percent in each fiscal year on the base salary or wages of each eligible state employee within the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB209/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb209.html","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1546783,"bill_number":"HB211","title":"AN ACT relating to jails.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to provide that the state pay a per diem, to include additional fees that may be applicable under KRS 532.100(7), for the amount of time an inmate serves in a jail or other local correctional facility when the inmate is convicted of a felony and the sentence in whole or in part includes the amount of time served prior to conviction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"returned to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB211/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb211.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1546786,"bill_number":"SB37","title":"AN ACT relating to assisted-living communities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 194A.700 to 194A.729 to prohibit certification or certification renewal of an assisted-living community if it is owned, managed, or operated by any person convicted of certain crimes or listed on an abuse list; exempt owner of an assisted-living facility certified as of July 1, 2021; amend KRS 194A.700 to amend definitions; amend KRS 194A.707 to make changes to the appeals and renewal processes; amend KRS 194A.717 to prohibit on-site staff person from being shared with another level of care; amend KRS 194A.723 to permit the cabinet to initiate injunctive relief in Circuit Court.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB37/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb37.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1546789,"bill_number":"SB41","title":"AN ACT relating to plastic waste.","description":"Amend KRS 224.50-585 to establish definitions; prohibit the intentional release of more than 25 plastic balloons; establish a ban on plastic, single-use carryout bags by July 1, 2027; establish a ban the provision of single-use plastic straws and Styrofoam food and beverage containers by retail food and beverage establishments by July 1, 2025; establish civil penalty of $100 per day for violation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB41/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb41.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1546792,"bill_number":"SB43","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative oversight of health, welfare, and family services issues.","description":"Amend KRS 21A.190, 157.065, 194A.030, 194A.365, 199.665, 199.8943, 199.8983, 211.684, 605.120, 620.055, 620.320, and 620.345 to remove reference to the Child Welfare Oversight and Advisory Committee; amend KRS 200.575 to remove reference to the Child Welfare Oversight and Advisory Committee and replace it with Legislative Research Commission; repeal KRS 6.940, relating to the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee and KRS 6.943, relating to the Child Welfare Oversight and Advisory Committee; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"State Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB43/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb43.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1546795,"bill_number":"SB39","title":"AN ACT relating to Down syndrome and spina bifida information.","description":"Amend KRS 211.192 to require annual documentation of the provision of information on Down syndrome and spina bifida to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; condition payment or reimbursement for health care services upon documentation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB39/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb39.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1546798,"bill_number":"HB212","title":"AN ACT relating to county reapportionment and declaring an emergency.","description":"Require fiscal courts to initiate reapportionment proceedings in 2023 instead of 2022; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 11)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB212/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb212.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1546801,"bill_number":"SCR20","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services Organizational Structure, Operations, and Administration Task Force.","description":"Create the Cabinet for Health and Family Services Organizational Structure, Operations, and Administrative Task Force to study the organizational structure, operations, and administration of programs, polices, and procedures within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2022 interim; and require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR20/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr20.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1546804,"bill_number":"SB45","title":"AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of managed care organization contracts to operate the Medicaid program to three; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-26","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB45/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb45.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1546807,"bill_number":"HB223","title":"AN ACT relating to hate crimes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide an enhanced term of imprisonment for any defendant convicted of certain crimes when he or she intentionally selected the person because of that person's actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; amend KRS 15.420 to define \"hate crime\"; amend KRS 15.440 to require law enforcement agencies to possess a written policy and procedures manual related to hate crimes by January 1, 2023; amend KRS 15.334 and 17.1523 to include the identification and reporting of crimes committed due to the victim's actual or perceived ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; amend KRS 15.340, 15.460, 15.512, and15.520 to conform; repeal KRS 49.320 and 532.031.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-08-22","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB223/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb223.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1546810,"bill_number":"SB36","title":"AN ACT relating to health disparity impacts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to define \"health disparity impact\" and \"health disparity impact review\"; require Legislative Research Commission staff to identify a bill, amendment, or committee substitute that may result in a health disparity impact and notify the sponsor and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require the cabinet to determine if a health disparity impact review is necessary, notify the Legislative Research Commission, and complete the review if appropriate; require other state agencies to provide requested information for the review; permit a new review to be requested if there is an amendment or committee substitute; require any bill, amendment, or committee substitute that requires a review to have a completed review before a vote is taken; permit a majority of members of the Senate or House of Representatives to request a review; permit a majority of members of any standing committee to request a review; require reviews to include information on any health disparity impact and be completed within thirty days; require the cabinet to create a form to be used to complete the review.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB36/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb36.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1546813,"bill_number":"SR3","title":"A RESOLUTION extending an invitation to pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2022 Regular Session with prayer.","description":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2022 Regular Session with prayer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR3/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr3.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1546816,"bill_number":"SB44","title":"AN ACT relating to public safety.","description":"Amend KRS 500.080 to define \"emergency services personnel,\" \"firework,\" and \"riot\"; amend KRS 503.055 to allow a person to use defensive force; create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide enhanced term of imprisonment for any defendant convicted of crimes committed during the course of a riot; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to restrict when a person shall be released after an arrest for a violation of an offense of during the course of a riot; amend KRS 508.025, 520.090, 525.015, and 525.140 to provide enhanced penalties for violations of these offenses during the course of a riot; create a new section of KRS Chapter 511 to create the crime of unlawful camping on property owned by the Commonwealth; amend KRS 508.025, 508.030, 525.020, 525.030, and 525.060 to provide additional elements; amend KRS 439.3401 to add violations of KRS 508.020 and 508.025 committed during the course of a riot to the definition of violent offender; amend KRS 532.032 to require restitution be ordered in all cases where a person committed a crime during the course of a riot; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to state legislative findings and declarations; amend KRS 411.100 to require gross negligence for a cause of action for property damaged by riotous or tumultuous assemblage of people that a local government could have prevented; amend KRS 61.912, 61.914, 61.168, 525.010, 532.100, and 525.200 to make conforming changes; state the Act may be cited as the Community and First Responder Protection Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB44/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb44.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1546819,"bill_number":"HB202","title":"AN ACT relating to personalized motor vehicle license plates.","description":"Amend KRS 186.174 to allow personalized vehicle license plates to be issued to recreational vehicles registered under KRS 186.050(11); amend KRS 186.162 to set fees for such licenses.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-11","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB202/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb202.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1546822,"bill_number":"HB218","title":"AN ACT relating to expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 431.073 to reduce fees and waiting period for felony expungement; amend KRS 431.076 to reduce the waiting period for expungement of record of acquitted or dismissed charge; amend KRS 431.078 to reduce fees and waiting period for misdemeanor, violation, and infraction expungement; repeal KRS 431.0795.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB218/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb218.html","sponsor":"Thomas Huff"},
{"bill_id":1546825,"bill_number":"SB47","title":"AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030, to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040, to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB47/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb47.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1546828,"bill_number":"HB214","title":"AN ACT relating to judicial districts and circuits and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 23A.020 to move Edmonson County from the 38th Judicial Circuit into the 8th Judicial Circuit; amend KRS 23A.040 (Effective January 2, 2023) to add the 56th Judicial Circuit to the list of judicial circuits with 2 Circuit Judges; amend KRS 23A.045 (Effective January 2, 2023) to remove the 3rd, 6th, 14th, and 27th Judicial Circuits from the list of judicial circuits with 3 Circuit Judges; amend KRS 23A.050 to add the 3rd, 6th, 14th, and 27th Judicial Circuits to the list of judicial circuits with 4 Circuit Judges; create KRS 23A.052 to establish that the 8th and 25th Judicial Circuits shall be entitled to 5 Circuit Judges; amend KRS 23A.055 to establish that the 16th Judicial Circuit shall be entitled to 6 Circuit Judges; amend KRS 24A.030 (Effective January 2, 2023) to move Edmonson County from the 38th Judicial District into the 8th Judicial District, move Russell and Wayne Counties from the 40th Judicial District into the 57th Judicial District, move Nelson County from the 57th Judicial District into the 58th Judicial District, move Cumberland and Monroe Counties from the 59th Judicial District into the 40th Judicial District, move Marshall County from the 58th Judicial District into the 42nd Judicial District, and eliminate the 59th Judicial District; amend KRS 24A.050 to remove the 4th, 31st, 38th, 41st, and 51st Districts from the list of Judicial Districts with 2 District Judges; amend KRS 24A.090 to remove 1 District Court division of the 16th Judicial District; request that the Circuit Court Judges added under KRS 23A.050 in the 3rd, 6th, 14th, 16th, and 27th Judicial Circuits be designated as family court divisions with an effective date of January 2, 2023; request that the District Court judgeships eliminated in the 4th, 13th, 31st, 41st, 51st, and the realignment of the Judicial Districts take effect January 1, 2027, unless a vacancy occurs earlier; provide transitional language; EFFECTIVE in part January 2, 2023, and January 1, 2027; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 129)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB214/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb214.html","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1546831,"bill_number":"HJR18","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to designate the PFC David L. Johnson Memorial Highway in Fleming County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the PFC David L. Johnson Memorial Highway in Fleming County and erect appropriate signage.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-05","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-05","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR18/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr18.html","sponsor":"William Lawrence"},
{"bill_id":1546834,"bill_number":"HB210","title":"AN ACT relating to peer-to-peer car sharing.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 365 to establish definitions relating to peer-to-peer car sharing; establish insurance, disclosure, recordkeeping, verification, equipment liability, and airport contracting requirements for peer-to-peer car sharing programs; establish requirements for shared vehicle owners that receive an actual notice of safety recall on a shared vehicle; establish an exemption for peer-to-peer car sharing programs and shared vehicle owners from vicarious liability; create a new section of Subtitle 39 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish certain rights of insurers relating to accidents involving shared vehicles; establish certain requirements for insurers that issue policies covering shared vehicles; create a new section of Subtitle 14 of KRS Chapter 304 to provide peer-to-peer car sharing programs with an insurable interest in shared vehicles during the car sharing period; amend KRS 138.462 and KRS 186.630 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB210/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb210.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1548009,"bill_number":"HB236","title":"AN ACT relating to hate crimes.","description":"Amend KRS 15.420 to define \"hate crime\"; amend KRS 15.440 to require law enforcement agencies to possess a written policy and procedures manual related to hate crimes by January 1, 2023; amend KRS 15.334 and 17.1523 to include the identification and reporting of crimes committed due to the victim's actual or perceived ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; amend KRS 15.340, 15.460, 15.512, and 15.520 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-06","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB236/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb236.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1548010,"bill_number":"SR29","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of William R. \"Bill\" Haine.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William R. \"Bill\" Haine.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR29/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr29.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1548011,"bill_number":"SR30","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Vaston Steve Brooks.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Vaston Steve Brooks.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR30/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr30.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1548012,"bill_number":"HB237","title":"AN ACT relating to education required by the Board of Examiners of Psychology.","description":"Amend KRS 319.032 to require three contact hours of continuing education per three-year renewal period on the topic of social and cultural factors that affect health, functioning, and quality of life; amend KRS 319.064 to allow individuals with education equivalent to a master’s degree who have been accepted into a psychology predoctoral program to qualify for a psychological associate license.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 34)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB237/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb237.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1548014,"bill_number":"HJR19","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Roy Darrell Herald Memorial Highway in Breathitt County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Roy Darrell Herald Memorial Highway in Breathitt County.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-06","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR19/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr19.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1548015,"bill_number":"HB228","title":"AN ACT relating to driver's licensing regional offices.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to require the transportation Cabinet to develop a network of regional offices for the issuance of operator's licenses and personal identification cards; establish required locations for regional offices; allow the cabinet to establish addition offices based on population, service demand, geography, and travel times.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB228/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb228.html","sponsor":"Derek Lewis"},
{"bill_id":1548016,"bill_number":"HJR20","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the \"Edna Thomas Memorial Highway\" in Lee County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 3332 in Lee County in honor and memory of Edna Thomas.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-06","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR20/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr20.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1548017,"bill_number":"HR22","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing April 2022 as National Soybean Month in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize April 2022 as National Soybean Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR22/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr22.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1548020,"bill_number":"SR34","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Pastor Cleddie Alton Keith Jr.","description":"Honor Pastor Cleddie Alton Keith Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR34/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr34.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1548021,"bill_number":"HB229","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of veteran's organizations.","description":"Amend KRS 139.495 to include certain veterans' organizations; amend KRS 139.010 and KRS 139.200 to conform; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-06","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB229/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb229.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1548022,"bill_number":"SB51","title":"AN ACT relating to deceptive lawsuit advertising and solicitation practices.","description":"Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to regulate advertising for legal services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB51/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb51.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1548023,"bill_number":"SB60","title":"AN ACT relating to preschool education.","description":"Amend KRS 157.3175 to remove the requirement that a preschool program proposal include a certification from a Head Start director that the Head Start program is fully utilized.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-11","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 190)","last_action_date":"2022-04-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB60/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb60.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1548024,"bill_number":"SB49","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.040, to eliminate the requirement that an individual's registration must be revoked three times within a 12 month period before the revocations constitute a violation of KRS 304.39-080 and the individual is referred to the County Attorney for prosecution; instead, a single revocation under KRS 186A.040 would constitute a violation of KRS 304-39-080 and trigger the referral for prosecution.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"recommitted to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB49/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb49.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1548025,"bill_number":"HB231","title":"AN ACT relating to compliance with state and federal law.","description":"Amend KRS 65.133 to require local law enforcement agencies and Kentucky State Police to enforce all laws; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms, including \"sanctuary\" and \"sanctuary policy\"; prohibit local governments from adopting sanctuary policies; establish hearing procedures for determination of sanctuary status; provide for the withholding of state funding from sanctuaries; create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit postsecondary educational institutions from enrolling, employing, or contracting with illegal aliens; require postsecondary educational institutions to keep records of immigration status; provide for the withholding of state funding from postsecondary educational institutions that enroll, employ, or contract with illegal aliens; limit who may be considered a Kentucky resident for in-state tuition purposes; EFFECTIVE in part January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-06","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB231/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb231.html","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1548026,"bill_number":"SR27","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Marie Therese Schickel Rottschaefer.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Marie Therese Schickel Rottschaefer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR27/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr27.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1548028,"bill_number":"HB233","title":"AN ACT relating to CPA licensure.","description":"Amend KRS 325.240 to allow the State Board of Accountancy to support scholarship programs that assist students enrolled in a Kentucky-based college or university; give current members of the board, its agents, and employees immunity from suit for an official act or acts performed in good faith; amend KRS 325.280 to allow CPAs from other states who did not obtain a license in their home state within five years of passing the CPA exam to get a Kentucky license.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-01-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB233/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb233.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1548030,"bill_number":"SR33","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Linda Padgett.","description":"Honor Linda Padgett.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR33/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr33.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1548031,"bill_number":"HB230","title":"AN ACT relating to actions of the General Assembly and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to authorize intervention by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in actions challenging any legislative act, executive or state agency order, or administrative regulation; reaffirm legislative or other privilege and immunity for the members or staff of the General Assembly or Legislative Research Commission; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB230/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb230.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1548032,"bill_number":"SR28","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jerry Lee Crowder.","description":"Adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jerry Lee Crowder.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR28/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr28.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1548035,"bill_number":"SR25","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Carmel Lester Powell.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Carmel Lester Powell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR25/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr25.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1548036,"bill_number":"SB52","title":"AN ACT relating to agricultural land and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 132.454 to require a $100 per acre state conversion charge on land which has been converted from agricultural or horticultural to any other use and require the charge to be deposited into the agricultural enhancement fund; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB52/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb52.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1548037,"bill_number":"SB53","title":"AN ACT relating to the acquisition of conservation equipment.","description":"Amend KRS 262.330 to include heavy or specialized equipment acquired by the Soil and Water Conservation Commission with the types of equipment that the board of a conservation district may make available or lease to landowners and occupiers within the district; amend KRS 262.610 to allow a conservation district to apply jointly with a person residing in the district to the Soil and Water Conservation Commission to acquire heavy or specialized equipment; prohibit the joint application by conservation districts and persons for the acquisition of infrastructure; include references to leasing fees from lessees in a conservation district when determining an amortization schedule for equipment acquired from the Soil and Water Conservation Commission; amend KRS 262.660 to require the Soil and Water Conservation Commission on or before January 1, 2023, to promulgate administrative regulations that shall at a minimum set forth the form and manner in which a person and a conservation district may jointly request the acquisition of heavy or specialized equipment, the terms of loans for heavy or specialized equipment that the commission makes available to districts for lease to persons within those districts, and the terms of the lease agreements between districts and persons in those district for use of the heavy or specialized equipment.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB53/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb53.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1548038,"bill_number":"SB58","title":"AN ACT relating to barbering.","description":"Amend KRS 317.450 to delete the requirement that there be at least one teacher with a minimum 36 months experience teaching in a barber school.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Rules (H)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB58/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb58.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1548039,"bill_number":"SB65","title":"AN ACT relating to deficient administrative regulations and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify proposed amendments to an administrative regulation after those amendments were found deficient during the 2021 legislative interim; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 217)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB65/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb65.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1548042,"bill_number":"SB56","title":"AN ACT relating to opioid antagonists designed to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.","description":"Amend KRS 15.291, 217.177, and 217.186 to define \"opioid antagonist\" as naloxone or any United States Food and Drug Administration-approved opioid antagonist designed to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose; replace references to naloxone with opiod antagonist.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 154)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB56/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb56.html","sponsor":"Donald Douglas"},
{"bill_id":1548043,"bill_number":"HB10","title":"AN ACT relating to the pre-session filing of bills.","description":"Amend KRS 7.090 to remove the ability of interim joint committees to pre-file bills; repeal KRS 6.245, relating to pre-session filing of bills.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-01","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 74)","last_action_date":"2022-04-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB10/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb10.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1548044,"bill_number":"HB227","title":"AN ACT relating to First Responder, Doctor, Nurse, and Health Care Professional Recognition Day.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the first Saturday of October of each year as \"First Responder, Doctor, Nurse, and Health Care Professional Recognition Day\"; require the Governor to proclaim the date each year and require state flags to be lowered to half-mast on state public buildings from sunrise to sunset on that day.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB227/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb227.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1548045,"bill_number":"SJR32","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating a portion of Kentucky Route 8 in Boone County in honor and memory of Specialist Five Edward \"Eddie\" A. Barlow.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of KY Route 8 in Boone County in honor and memory of SP5 Edward \"Eddie\" A. Barlow; direct the cabinet to install appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR32/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr32.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1548046,"bill_number":"HB235","title":"AN ACT relating to soil conservation and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 262 to establish a Healthy Soils Program and a Healthy Soils Program fund in the Department for Natural Resources, Division of Conservation; require the department to provide technical advice and assistance and to assist with soil health assessments and soil health plans; require the commissioner to approve applications for grants and other types of financial assistance under the Healthy Soils Program; authorize the department to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the Healthy Soils Program and the Healthy Soils Program fund; amend KRS 146.100 to require the director of the Division of Conservation to have experience in healthy soil practices; amend KRS 224.71-110 to require the Agriculture Water Quality Authority to promote soil restoration and include an organic agriculture organization among appointments to the authority and add healthy soil practices as a committee; amend KRS 262.010 to define \"healthy soil practices,\" \"soil health,\" \"soil health assessment, \"and \"watershed health\"; amend KRS 262.020 to add restoration, biological diversity, watershed health, and healthy soil practices to the purpose of soil and water conservation districts; amend KRS 262.748 and 262.778 to conform; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-06","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB235/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb235.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1548047,"bill_number":"HB234","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship program.","description":"Amend KRS 164.7874 to add proprietary schools to KEES eligible institutions; define \"proprietary school.\"","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"floor amendment (3) filed","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB234/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb234.html","sponsor":"William Lawrence"},
{"bill_id":1548049,"bill_number":"SJR24","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION applying for an Article V convention to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to set a limit on the number of terms of office for members of Congress.","description":"Apply to Congress under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress; state that the application should be aggregated with the applications of other states limited for the purposes identified in the applications; state that the application should be a continuing application until a convention is called or until the application is withdrawn by the Kentucky General Assembly.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR24/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr24.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1548050,"bill_number":"SB55","title":"AN ACT relating to certified stroke centers.","description":"Amend KRS 216B.0425 to change \"primary stroke center\" to \"certified stroke center\"; add thrombectomy capable stroke centers to the required list of certified acute stroke ready hospitals; amend KRS 211.575 to change \"primary stroke center\" to \"certified stroke center.\"","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 33)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB55/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb55.html","sponsor":"Donald Douglas"},
{"bill_id":1548052,"bill_number":"SB59","title":"AN ACT relating to the statewide education accountability system.","description":"Amend KRS 158.6453 to delete the tenth grade college admissions examination; amend KRS 158.6455 to add postsecondary readiness indicators to the statewide accountability system.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 137)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB59/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb59.html","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1548053,"bill_number":"SB57","title":"AN ACT relating to school facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 157.455 to delete the Kentucky efficient school design trust fund; delete the reporting requirement for efficient design; repeal KRS 162.062, relating to requirements for water bottle filling stations and drinking fountains in new schools to be built.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB57/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb57.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1548055,"bill_number":"HR21","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing October 12, 2022, as National Farmers Day.","description":"Recognize October 12, 2022, as National Farmers Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR21/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr21.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1548056,"bill_number":"SR26","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Kentucky's farmers for helping provide citizens with the most nutritious and affordable food in the world, and recognizing February 20 to 26, 2022, as Food Check-Out Week in Kentucky.","description":"Honor Kentucky farmers and recognize February 20 to 26, 2022, as Food Check-Out Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR26/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr26.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1548057,"bill_number":"SB54","title":"AN ACT relating to soil and water conservation.","description":"Amend KRS 146.090 to allow the Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts to submit names of nominees; amend KRS 262.210 to require candidates be at least 21 years of age; amend KRS 262.240 to require a supervisor to be at least 21 years of age.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB54/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb54.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1548058,"bill_number":"SB48","title":"AN ACT relating to recovery of prior appropriations.","description":"Require the recovery of $15,000,000 appropriated to the Cabinet for Economic Development in 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 176, secs. 1 and 3.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB48/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb48.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1548059,"bill_number":"HB232","title":"AN ACT relating to sewer charges imposed by sanitation districts.","description":"Amend KRS 220.510 to prohibit a sanitation district from imposing any fee, tax, surcharge, or other charge for the provision of service to a property unless the property is connected to a sanitary sewer owned or maintained by the sanitation district, there is an approved plan to connect the property to a sanitary sewer owned or maintained by the sanitation district within five years, the property discharges storm water to a storm sewer or storm water improvement owned or operated by the sanitation district, the sanitation district's storm sewer controls storm water that flows to the property, or the person responsible for the charge has contracted with the sanitation district to provide the service; amend KRS 220.515 to conform; allow the Act to be cited as the Ensuring Fair Sewer Charges Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-06","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-06","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB232/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb232.html","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1548060,"bill_number":"SB61","title":"AN ACT relating to early high school graduation.","description":"Amend KRS 158.142 to delete end-of-course examination and ACT benchmark requirements from the early high school graduation program.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 54)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB61/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb61.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1548061,"bill_number":"SR31","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Thomas \"Tom\" Cobb.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Thomas \"Tom\" Cobb.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR31/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr31.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1548679,"bill_number":"HB239","title":"AN ACT relating to local government and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 70 to prohibit any constable elected for the first time after January 1, 2023, from exercising general police powers unless certified, leaving all other constables unchanged; amend various KRS sections as they relate to constable powers and duties, especially those with police powers; allow constables to apply for training at any KLEC-approved basic training course, cost allocation determined; require the Department of Criminal Justice Training to accept one qualified constable per training class for training; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 90)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB239/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb239.html","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1548695,"bill_number":"SB63","title":"AN ACT relating to personal information and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 61.870 to define terms; amend KRS 61.878 to exempt records that would reveal the address or location of a public officer under certain conditions; create a new section KRS 61.870 to 61.884 to allow public officers to request that their personally identifiable information be designated as confidential and not publicly posted; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to create a cause of action for public officers whose personally identifiable information has been disseminated; cite as the Fred Capps Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 25, 2022","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB63/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb63.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1548714,"bill_number":"HR24","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 13 to 19, 2022, as Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda Week.","description":"Recognize February 13 to 19, 2022, as Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR24/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr24.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1548732,"bill_number":"SB62","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.125 to include additional requirements for voting systems; amend KRS 117.175 to include additional instructions for voter instruction cards; amend KRS 117.275 to include additional requirements for the counting and tabulation of ballots and for the certification of election results; amend KRS 117.383 to require the State Board of Elections to include a voter notification program to notify a voter of the effect of casting multiple ballots for a single office on a paper ballot; and amend KRS 117.155, 117.205, 117.295, and 117.066 to conform","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-07","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB62/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb62.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1548750,"bill_number":"HB1","title":"AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.","description":"The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2021-2022: $925,391,000, 2022-2023: $2,450,394,100, 2023-2024: $1,945,550,500; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $631,100, 2022-2023: $42,311,100, 2023-2024: $43,841,800; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2021-2022: $4,038,300, 2022-2023: $6,272,487,700, 2023-2024: $6,338,219,700; appropriate to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,302,200, 2022-2023: $226,803,000, 2023-2024: $228,602,800; appropriate to the Energy and Environment Cabinet: 2021-2022: $7,288,800, 2022-2023: $286,829,000, 2023-2024: $293,691,700; appropriate to the Finance and Administration Cabinet: 2021-2022: $144,212,800, 2022-2023: $973,840,400, 2023-2024: $983,730,600; appropriate to the Health and Family Services Cabinet: 2021-2022: $829,642,400, 2022-2023: $19,075,453,600, 2023-2024: $19,366,023,400; appropriate to the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet: 2021-2022: $29,301,600, 2022-2023: $1,404,716,500, 2023-2024: $1,426,598,900; appropriate to the Labor Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,206,200, 2022-2023: $566,497,600, 2023-2024: $546,164,200; appropriate to the Personnel Cabinet: 2021-2022: $857,800, 2022-2023: $160,656,600, 2023-2024: $156,161,800; appropriate to Postsecondary Education: 2021-2022: $1,067,800, 2022-2023: $11,925,169,400, 2023-2024: $16,130,308,100; appropriate to the Public Protection Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,857,700, 2022-2023: $134,773,200, 2023-2024: $136,708,300; appropriate to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet: 2021-2022: $25,708,200, 2022-2023: $306,414,300, 2023-2024: $322,190,100; not included in the appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows: 2021-2022: $4,739,000, 2022-2023: $12,585,526,731, 2023-2024: $905,877,600; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 199)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB1/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb1.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1548765,"bill_number":"HB241","title":"AN ACT relating to appropriations providing financing and conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Transportation Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"The Transportation Cabinet Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Administration and Support: 2021-2022: $1,119,600, 2022-2023: $83,373,900, 2023-2024: $84,567,900; appropriate to Aviation: 2021-2022: $108,100, 2022-2023: $34,947,000, 2023-2024: $31,502,600; appropriate to Debt Service: 2022-2023: $134,925,100, 2023-2024: $136,700,700; appropriate to Highways: 2021-2022: $220,806,300, 2022-2023: $2,468,155,300, 2023-2024: $2,287,084,700; appropriate to Public Transportation: 2021-2022: $117,000, 2022-2023: $46,986,500, 2023-2024: $42,970,600; appropriate to Revenue Sharing: 2021-2022: $214,500, 2022-2023: $422,570,900, 2023-2024: $414,668,100; appropriate to Vehicle Regulation: 2021-2022: $683,200, 2022-2023: $66,976,600, 2023-2024: $68,987,900; not included in the appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows: 2021-2022: $3,000,000, 2022-2023: $43,643,000, 2023-2024: $16,850,000; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, Transportation Cabinet Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 214)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB241/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb241.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1548784,"bill_number":"HJR23","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish policies and reports related to children in out-of-home care during the COVID-19 pandemic.","description":"Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish policies and reports related to children in out-of-home care during the COVID-19 pandemic.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-07","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-07","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR23/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr23.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1548802,"bill_number":"HB244","title":"AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Judicial Branch of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, boards, commissions, subdivisions, and other state-supported activities.","description":"The Judicial Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to Court of Justice: 2021-2022: $11,765,500, 2022-2023: $436,597,100, $440,802,800, 2023-2024: $449,669,900; appropriate to Judicial Retirement System: 2021-2022: $18,800, 2022-2023: $5,711,800, 2023-2024: $6,037,300; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 162)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB244/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb244.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1548818,"bill_number":"HB240","title":"AN ACT relating to remote access to pharmacy databases.","description":"Amend KRS 315.020 to establish that provisions related to remote access of a pharmacy's electronic database does not apply to pharmacies located in a hospital licensed under KRS Chapter 216B.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-31","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 72)","last_action_date":"2022-03-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB240/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb240.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1548836,"bill_number":"HB238","title":"AN ACT relating to the assessment of property for ad valorem taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 132.450 to prohibit a property valuation administrator from using the asking price of a property actively listed for sale in the determination of the fair cash value of property unless other evidence demonstrates that the asking price is the price the property would bring at a fair voluntary sale.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-07","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-07","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB238/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb238.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1548932,"bill_number":"HB5","title":"AN ACT relating to fiscal matters providing funding for disaster recovery and relief, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate moneys to the West Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (SAFE) fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 39A to create the West Kentucky SAFE fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 2)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB5/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb5.html","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1548933,"bill_number":"SB66","title":"AN ACT relating to coroners.","description":"Amend KRS 64.185 and 72.415 to require coroners and deputy coroners to attend eight hours of training concerning the grieving process and procedures for providing death notifications; create a new section of KRS Chapter 72 establishing procedures that coroners must follow in providing death notifications; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 138)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB66/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb66.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1548934,"bill_number":"SB5","title":"AN ACT relating to fiscal matters providing funding for disaster recovery and relief, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate moneys to the West Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (SAFE) fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 39A to create the West Kentucky SAFE fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-08","last_action":"replaced by identical House Bill 5","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB5/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb5.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1548935,"bill_number":"HB254","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of rare earth elements.","description":"Amend KRS 132.010 , relating to property taxation, to define \"rare earth element\"; amend KRS 132.820 and KRS 143A.010, relating to taxation of natural resources, to include rare earth elements; amend KRS 134.546 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-08","last_action":"returned to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB254/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb254.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1548936,"bill_number":"HB250","title":"AN ACT relating to Kentucky State University, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Require the Council on Postsecondary Education to create and oversee a management improvement plan for Kentucky State University; identify plan requirements; require CPE and KSU to make various reports on the plan to LRC; appropriate $23 million to KSU in fiscal year 2021-2022; require CPE to make recommendations for repayment; require CPE to provide annual reports on the status of the KSU loan; create the KSU loan repayment trust fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 183)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB250/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb250.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1548937,"bill_number":"HR26","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Kentucky's farmers for helping provide citizens with the most nutritious and affordable food in the world, and recognizing February 20 to 26, 2022, as Food Check-Out Week in Kentucky.","description":"Honor Kentucky farmers and recognize February 20 to 26, 2022, as Food Check-Out Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR26/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr26.html","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1548938,"bill_number":"HJR28","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department for Medicaid Services to request guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for Medicaid coverage on prescription digital therapeutics in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to request guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for Medicaid coverage of prescription digital therapeutics; require the Department for Medicaid Services to submit a summary report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services, the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee, the Legislative Research Commission, and the Kentucky Congressional delegation by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 47)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR28/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr28.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1548939,"bill_number":"SB67","title":"AN ACT relating to the Uniform Commercial Code.","description":"Establish a new Article 12 of KRS Chapter 355, titled \"Controllable Electronic Records\"; establish definitions, scope, purchaser rights, debtor discharge obligations, control requirements, and jurisdictional rules relating to controllable electronic records; amend KRS 355.3-104, 355.3-105, and 355.3-604 to modify requirements relating to instruments; amend KRS 355.1-201 and 355.9-102 to make various definitional revisions and conforming amendments; amend KRS 355.4-406 to modify bank statement of account requirements; amend KRS 355.4A-103, 355.4A-201, 355.4A-202, 355.4A-203, 355.4A-207, 355.4A-208, 355.4A-210, and 355.4A-211 to modify definitions, security procedure requirements, payment order requirements, and documentation requirements relating to funds transfers; amend KRS 355.5-102 to establish a definition for \"signed\"; repeal and reenact KRS 355.7-106 and 355.9-105, and create new sections of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355, to establish control requirements for an electronic copy of a document of title, a record evidencing chattel paper, intangible money, controllable accounts, and controllable payment intangibles; amend KRS 355.9-301 to establish jurisdictional rules for tangible records evidencing chattel paper; create a new section of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355 to establish perfection and priority jurisdictional rules for controllable electronic records; amend KRS 355.9-203, 355.9-207, 355.9-208, 355.9-308, 355.9-310, 355.9-312, 355.9-316, 355.9-317, 355.9-330, 355.9-332, 355.9-406, 355.9-605, and 355.9-628, and create new sections of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355, to govern security interests in controllable electronic records, intangible money, and chattel paper; amend KRS 355.1-204, 355.2A-103, 355.8-103, 355.9-313, 355.9-314, 355.9-331, 355.9-338, 355.9-601, 367.976, and 369.116 to conform; make technical corrections throughout.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB67/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb67.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1548940,"bill_number":"HB246","title":"AN ACT relating to public administrators.","description":"Amend KRS 395.380 to modernize language; amend KRS 395.390 to remove the sheriff from being the de facto administrator upon the death of a decedent with no personal representative in a county with no public administrator and guardian; amend KRS 395.400 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-31","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB246/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb246.html","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1548941,"bill_number":"HB249","title":"AN ACT relating to building facilities and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.650 to provide an exception to the definition of \"practice of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contracting\"; amend KRS 198B.674 to add an exemption for persons cleaning duct work, not engaged in installation or repair.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 108)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB249/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb249.html","sponsor":"Jonathan Dixon"},
{"bill_id":1548942,"bill_number":"HB253","title":"AN ACT relating to children's health.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit the provision of or referral for gender transition procedures to any child under the age of 18 years; define a violation as unprofessional conduct and acting recklessly for purposes of tort claims; permit an action on a violation to be taken by the parent or guardian of the child before the child attains the age of 18 years and by the child within 30 years of the child attaining the age of 18 years, with exceptions under which the time may be longer; require conditions for actions and damages; prohibit public funds to be used for the provision of or referral for gender transition procedures to a child under the age of 18 years; prohibit health care services provided under state, local, or county government to include gender transition procedures to a child under the age of 18 years; prohibit tax exemption for gender transition procedures; permit the Attorney General to bring action to enforce provisions; permit members of the General Assembly to intervene as a matter of right if these provisions are challenged; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to prohibit Medicaid coverage of gender transition procedures for a child under the age of 18 years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 304.17A to prohibit health benefit plan coverage for gender transition procedures for a child under the age of 18 years and any requirement for coverage of gender transition procedures; amend KRS 141.019 and 141.039 to prohibit tax exemption for gender transition procedures; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-08","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB253/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb253.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1548943,"bill_number":"HJR25","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Chief Rob Orkies and Battalion Chief Garry Key Memorial Highway in Bullitt County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Chief Rob Orkies and Battalion Chief Garry Key Memorial Highway in Bullitt County.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-08","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR25/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr25.html","sponsor":"Thomas Huff"},
{"bill_id":1548944,"bill_number":"HR27","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring each month of the year a celebration of significant historical documents.","description":"Designate each month of the year for a celebration of significant historical documents.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR27/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr27.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1548945,"bill_number":"HB247","title":"AN ACT relating to athletics.","description":"Amend KRS 156.070 to designate the NAIA and NJCAA as organizations the Kentucky Board of Education must consider in establishing athletic programs, require the Board of Education or agency designated by the Board of Education to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to designate all athletic teams, activities, and sports based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in athletic teams, activities, and sports designated as girls'; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create a cause of action against a school that violates these provisions; require that the action be brought within two years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require a postsecondary education institution to designate all intercollegiate and intramural athletic teams, activities, sports, and events that are sponsored or authorized by the institution based on biological sex of students eligible to participate; require that a postsecondary education institution prohibit male students from participating in athletic teams, activities, and sports designated as women's; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a cause of action against a postsecondary institution that violates these provisions; require that the action be brought within two years; provide short title of Save Women’s Sports Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-08","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB247/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb247.html","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1548946,"bill_number":"SB64","title":"AN ACT relating to peer counseling for public safety employees.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to provide definitions, authorize any public agency to establish a peer support counseling program, and provide for confidentiality of communications within a peer support counseling program.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 17)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB64/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb64.html","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1548947,"bill_number":"SR36","title":"A RESOLUTION expressing the condemnation of any unjust practices and violations of human rights against the people of Cuba, and their families, domestic and abroad.","description":"Express the condemnation of any unjust practices and violations of human rights against the people of Cuba, and their families, domestic and abroad.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR36/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr36.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1548948,"bill_number":"HB245","title":"AN ACT relating to the collection of delinquent tax bills.","description":"Amend KRS 134.504 to require the allowance of a mass foreclosure procedure in the terms of a contract between the Department of Revenue and a county attorney; amend the fees a county attorney may receive in the process of litigation for the collection of a certificate of delinquency; create new sections of KRS Chapter 68 to establish a mass foreclosure process for counties to use in the collection of delinquent tax bills.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-03-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB245/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb245.html","sponsor":"Mary Imes"},
{"bill_id":1548949,"bill_number":"SR35","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of John Fitzpatrick King, Sr.","description":"Memorialize John Fitzpatrick King, Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR35/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr35.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1548950,"bill_number":"HB251","title":"AN ACT relating to fees for dietitians and nutritionists.","description":"Amend KRS 310.050 to require the Board of Licensure and Certification for Dietitians and Nutritionists to set its fees through administrative regulations.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-01","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 79)","last_action_date":"2022-04-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB251/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb251.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1548951,"bill_number":"HJR29","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION extending emergency executive actions related to severe weather and declaring an emergency.","description":"Extend certain executive orders, including emergency executive orders and administrative regulations, relating to the December 10, 2021, and December 31, 2021, storms and declare that the extended orders expire on April 15, 2022; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 3)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR29/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr29.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1548952,"bill_number":"HB255","title":"AN ACT relating to the employer student loan repayment tax credit.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 establishing the employer student loan repayment tax credit, equal to fifty percent of the amount paid by an employer on an eligible student loan of a qualified employee; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-08","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-08","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB255/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb255.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1548953,"bill_number":"HB252","title":"AN ACT relating to the age requirement for serving alcoholic beverages.","description":"Amend KRS 244.090 to lower the minimum server age of employees to 18 and to exclude persons under the age of 20 from bartending.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 38)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB252/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb252.html","sponsor":"Killian Timoney"},
{"bill_id":1548954,"bill_number":"HB248","title":"AN ACT relating to the expenditure of appropriated funds and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to prohibit the expenditure of any appropriation in support of a challenge to the constitutionality of any legislative act or resolution of the General Assembly, except in the case of the Attorney General; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 195)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB248/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb248.html","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1549678,"bill_number":"SJR38","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Public Bank Task Force.","description":"Direct the creation of the Public Bank Task Force to study the establishment of one or more public banks in Kentucky; outline task force duties and members; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2022 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022; require the executive branch to assist the task force.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR38/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr38.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1549687,"bill_number":"HB262","title":"AN ACT relating to sex crimes.","description":"Amend KRS 530.020 to specify the family relationships covered in the statute; to specify that a person who does not consent to incest is a victim; make changes to the enhancement requirements.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-31","last_action":"posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB262/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb262.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1549695,"bill_number":"HB260","title":"AN ACT relating to property assessments.","description":"Amend KRS 132.191 to expand the requirements for using the income approach and sales comparison approach in the valuation of property; establish additional requirements for the appraisal of real property; amend KRS 133.120 to change the qualifications of taxpayer representatives who receive compensation for appealing property assessments.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB260/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb260.html","sponsor":"Randy Bridges"},
{"bill_id":1549703,"bill_number":"HR32","title":"A RESOLUTION commemorating the 40th anniversary of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.","description":"Commemorate the 40th anniversary of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR32/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr32.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1549711,"bill_number":"SB71","title":"AN ACT relating to wine corkage.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to authorize wine corkage in conjunction with a meal by a limited restaurant or NQ2 retail drink licensee; establish conditions to remove a bottle of opened wine from the premises; amend KRS 242.260 to exempt corkage from dry and moist territory violations; amend KRS 243.020, 243.034, and 243.084 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB71/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb71.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1549721,"bill_number":"HB264","title":"AN ACT relating to hearing officers.","description":"Amend KRS 311.591 to require the executive director of the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to request a hearing officer for administrative hearings relating to discipline of physicians or doctors of osteopathic medicine; require the hearing officer to be randomly selected by the Attorney General or his or her designee from a pool of qualified hearing officers; require the hearing officer to have at least five years of experience in the practice of law; require the hearing officer to be familiar with the law relating to licensure, qualifications, and credentials of physicians or doctors of osteopathic medicine and other qualifications as determined by the board; allow the Attorney General or his or her designee to contract with private attorneys if there are no qualified hearing officers in the pool who meet the qualifications; require the hearing officer to issue recommendations to the board; require the board to consider hearing officer recommendations and issue a final order relating to the discipline of a physician or doctor of osteopathic medicine; eliminate all references to the hearing panel; prohibit a hearing officer from revoking any licenses or placing any licensees on probation; amend KRS 161.790 to ensure that hearing officers in teacher tribunals are randomly selected; amend KRS 311.550, 311.565, 311.572 and 311.594 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"returned to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB264/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb264.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1549729,"bill_number":"HB6","title":"AN ACT relating to the valuation of motor vehicles for property tax purposes and declaring an emergency.","description":"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.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 13)","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB6/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb6.html","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1549739,"bill_number":"HB263","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal abuse.","description":"Amend KRS 508.100 to increase penalties if the victim is under 12 years of age.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 31)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB263/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb263.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1549747,"bill_number":"HB266","title":"AN ACT relating to recontribution of a refund in the retirement systems.","description":"Amend KRS 61.552 to provide that recontributions of a refund to the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System, made on or before January 1, 2023, shall be used to determine a member's participation date in the systems; make retroactive back to January 1, 2014, and provide that recontributions of a refund made on or after January 1, 2014, and prior to the effective date of this Act, shall be used to determine a member's participation date in the system unless the member instructs the systems by January 1, 2023, to not use the service to determine their participation date in the systems; RETROACTIVE.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB266/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb266.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1549757,"bill_number":"SB70","title":"AN ACT relating to assessment of motor vehicles for property tax purposes and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 132.485 to establish requirements for assessing motor vehicles for property tax purposes when the standard manual valuation exceeds five percent of the immediately preceding year's standard manual valuation; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB70/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb70.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1549765,"bill_number":"SB74","title":"AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.","description":"Amend KRS 610.030 to require a court referral for truancy cases when there is no improvement within 30 days; require a court-designated worker to make a finding if diversion is failed due to lack of parental cooperation; allow a court to refer cases back to the court-designated worker and order parental cooperation; amend KRS 610.265 to require children charged with serious felony offenses to be detained pending a detention hearing; amend KRS 610.340 to provide that confidentiality does not apply to cases in which a child has admitted to or been adjudicated for a violent felony offense; amend KRS 635.060 to require a juvenile's probationary period to remain open until any violations are resolved, if a violation is pending at the time of completion.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB74/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb74.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1549775,"bill_number":"SR37","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of William Robert Garmer.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William Robert Garmer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR37/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr37.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1549785,"bill_number":"SB69","title":"AN ACT relating to merchant electric generating facilities and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 278.212 to prohibit an electrical interconnection with a merchant electric generating facility that either operates at an aggregate capacity in excess of 10 megawatts or occupies in aggregate 10 acres or more of land until the plans for the electrical interconnection have been filed with the Public Service Commission; amend KRS 278.216 to prohibit a utility from beginning construction on an electric generating facility that either operates at an aggregate capacity in excess of 10 megawatts or occupies in aggregate 10 acres or more of land without first obtaining a site compatibility certificate from the Public Service Commission; amend KRS 278.700 to change the definition of \"merchant electric generating facility\" to include facilities that occupy in aggregate 10 acres or more of land; change the definition of \"commence to construct\" so that site clearing and excavation work satisfy the commence to construct requirements; amend KRS 278.704 to establish setback requirements for solar merchant electric generating facilities of 50 feet from the property boundary of any nonparticipating adjoining property and 100 feet from a residence on any other property than the one on which the facility is to be located unless waived in writing; provide exceptions; require that before exercising an option to acquire any interest in real estate in a county that a merchant electric generating entity notify the heads of local government entities of jurisdiction; allow the local officials or the commission to request a public hearing on the proposed merchant electric generating project; require ongoing notification of changes to the project from the merchant electric generating entities to local officials; remove outdated language; amend KRS 278.706 to conform; amend KRS 278.708 to require the site assessment report submitted by a person proposing to construct a merchant electric generating facility to include a decommissioning plan to explain in detail how the facility and its components will be removed at the end of their useful lives; require the decommissioning plan to be reviewed as needed, but at least once every 5 years; establish minimum requirements for the decommissioning plan; amend KRS 278.710 to require the application for the construction certificate of a merchant utility generating facility to be denied until the applicant can provide documentation of compliance with all local planning and zoning requirements that existed on the date that the application was filed; include whether the proposed decommissioning plan is in the public interest as a criterion for application approval; authorize the merchant utility siting board to require the decommissioning plan to be amended to ensure that it is in the public interest; provide that the construction certificate holder and any of its successors in interest shall be required to comply on an ongoing basis with all conditions of its application approval, subject to enforcement in Franklin Circuit Court; require that prior to the commencement of construction, the holder of a construction certificate for a merchant electric generating facility shall furnish bond or other similar security to assure the decommissioning of the facility at the end of its useful life; establish the procedure for setting the bond amount; provide for review of the bond amount as needed but at least once every 5 years; provide which entities will be named as beneficiaries of the bond depending on the circumstances; require that the bond be forfeited unless the person responsible for completing the decommissioning plan begins work on the plan within 12 months of the date that the facility ceases to produce electricity for sale and completes the work within 18 months of that date; require that any forfeited bond amounts only be used to decommission facilities on the properties for which the bond was posted; require prior authorization for any transfer of control of a merchant electric generating facility; define \"control\" and the circumstances under which control will be considered to be transferred and the conditions for approval; require a decision to be made on the approval of the transfer of control within 90 days of the application, except that an additional 60 days may be taken for good cause shown; require that notice of an application for approval of transfer of control of a merchant electric generating facility be given to local government officials for where the facility is located; provide that the requirements of the Act shall apply to all new and current applicants for construction certificates for merchant electric generating facilities whose applications have not been approved prior to the effective date of the Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"floor amendment (4) filed to Committee Substitute","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB69/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb69.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1549796,"bill_number":"HB261","title":"AN ACT relating to assessment of motor vehicles for property tax purposes and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 132.485 to establish requirements for assessing personal motor vehicles for property tax purposes for the January 1, 2022, and January 1, 2023, assessment dates; allow refunds; require posting of refund information on Web sites; establish requirements for assessing motor vehicles for property tax purposes when the standard manual valuation exceeds six percent of the immediately preceding year's standard manual valuation for assessment dates beginning on or after January 1, 2024; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB261/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb261.html","sponsor":"Steve Sheldon"},
{"bill_id":1549807,"bill_number":"HB257","title":"AN ACT relating to interscholastic extracurricular activities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize participation in a public school interscholastic extracurricular activity by an at-home private school student; establish criteria for participation; require a parent, guardian, or teacher of an at-home private school student participating in a public school interscholastic activity to verify the student's academic progress; declare a public school student who does not make academic progress at a public school and withdraws and enters an at-home private school program ineligible for participation in an interscholastic activity for the remainder of the school year; direct statute be cited as the Play Fair Kentucky Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB257/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb257.html","sponsor":"Ryan Dotson"},
{"bill_id":1549815,"bill_number":"HR31","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing May 2022 as National Beef Month in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize May 2022 as National Beef Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR31/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr31.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1549822,"bill_number":"HB259","title":"AN ACT relating to employees of the Kentucky State Police and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 16.052 to increase state trooper salaries.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 181)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB259/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb259.html","sponsor":"Scott Lewis"},
{"bill_id":1549831,"bill_number":"HB265","title":"AN ACT relating to mental illness.","description":"Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB265/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb265.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1549841,"bill_number":"SB72","title":"AN ACT relating to state symbols.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate domestic cats and dogs that reside in or have been adopted from Kentucky animal shelters or rescue organizations as the official pets of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB72/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb72.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1549850,"bill_number":"HB256","title":"AN ACT relating to the unauthorized practice of law.","description":"Amend KRS 524.130 to increase the class of the crime of the unauthorized practice of law from a Class B misdemeanor for the first offense to a Class A misdemeanor, and establish each subsequent offense as a Class D felony.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 179)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB256/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb256.html","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1549859,"bill_number":"SB68","title":"AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefit claim verification and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to require the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet to contract with an independent entity to monitor all Public Employee Health Insurance Program pharmacy benefit claims; establish eligibility requirements for an entity seeking to contract with the cabinet to monitor pharmacy benefit claims; establish requirements for analyzing and monitoring claims; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; require the Department for Medicaid Services to contract with an independent entity to monitor all Medicaid pharmacy benefit claims; establish eligibility requirements for an entity seeking to contract with the department to monitor pharmacy benefit claims; establish requirements for analyzing and monitoring claims; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute , floor amendment (3-title) filed to bill","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB68/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb68.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1549868,"bill_number":"HB267","title":"AN ACT relating to the Community Operations Board for the Center for the Arts at Eastern Kentucky University and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Reauthorize and reconstitute the Community Operations Board for the Center for the Arts at Eastern Kentucky University with the currently appointed members; appropriate $200,000 in each fiscal year to provide funds to the Community Operations Board for personnel and programmatic operations of the Center for the Arts; establish conditions for the governance of the Center for the Arts; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"returned to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB267/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb267.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1549877,"bill_number":"SB75","title":"AN ACT relating to assessment of motor vehicles for property tax purposes and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 132.485 to establish requirements for assessing personal motor vehicles for property tax purposes for the January 1, 2022, and January 1, 2023, assessment dates; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB75/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb75.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1549887,"bill_number":"HB268","title":"AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.","description":"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 to conform; add the short title Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB268/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb268.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1549896,"bill_number":"HB258","title":"AN ACT relating to operating a motor vehicle.","description":"Amend KRS 189.292 to define the terms \"stand-alone electronic device,\" \"operating a motor vehicle,\" and \"use\"; prohibit the use of a personal communication device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle; exempt school bus operators who are instead subject to KRS 281A.205; set forth exceptions; amend KRS 189.294 to provide that persons under 18 years shall not use a personal communication device or stand-alone electronic device in any manner; amend KRS 189.990 to set forth penalties for the violation of KRS 189.292 and 189.294; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281A to apply these provisions to commercial motor vehicle drivers; amend KRS 189.2327 to conform; create a short title, Phone-Down Kentucky Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB258/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb258.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1549906,"bill_number":"HR30","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing October 2022 as National Pork Month in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize October 2022 as National Pork Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR30/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr30.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1549913,"bill_number":"SB73","title":"AN ACT relating to hemp.","description":"Amend KRS 260.850, KRS 260.858, and KRS 260.8635 to change the delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration threshold of hemp to one percent.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-10","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB73/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb73.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1551017,"bill_number":"HB270","title":"AN ACT relating to prevention-oriented child abuse awareness instruction.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require school councils or principals to adopt child abuse awareness and prevention instruction that is taught by a trained, certified teacher; establish short title of \"Erin's Law.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"recommitted to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB270/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb270.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1551034,"bill_number":"SB81","title":"AN ACT relating to jails.","description":"Amend KRS 431.215 to provide that the state pays a fee to counties for lodging prisoners judged guilty of death or confinement to the penitentiary beginning on the date the prisoner is delivered to the penitentiary; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to require payment to the county of that fee and, if applicable, the fees set forth in KRS 532.100(7) for each day a prisoner is charged with a felony and lodged in the county with payment, ceasing the day the prisoner is acquitted of the felony charges, or has judgement rendered otherwise involving no felony.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB81/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb81.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1551050,"bill_number":"HB272","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of currency and bullion.","description":"Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt currency and bullion from sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB272/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb272.html","sponsor":"Norma Kirk-McCormick"},
{"bill_id":1551068,"bill_number":"SB83","title":"AN ACT relating to athletics.","description":"Amend KRS 156.070 to require the Board of Education or agency designated by the Board of Education to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to designate all athletic teams, activities, and sports based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in athletic teams, activities, and sports designated as \"girls\"; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create a cause of action against a school that violates these provisions; require that an action be brought within two years; provide that the Act may be cited as the Save Women’s Sports Act.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 198)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB83/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb83.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1551085,"bill_number":"SB76","title":"AN ACT relating to reapportionment and declaring an emergency.","description":"Require fiscal courts and county school districts to initiate, complete, and publish reapportionment plans on or before January 20, 2022; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB76/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb76.html","sponsor":"Johnnie Turner"},
{"bill_id":1551104,"bill_number":"SR40","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate to honor the life of Edwin Clark Thomas.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory of Edwin Clark Thomas.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR40/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr40.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1551121,"bill_number":"SB79","title":"AN ACT relating to dyslexia.","description":"Amend KRS 158.307 to require rather than allow local boards of education to develop policy on dyslexia; require rather than allow the policy to include listed items; change the study project period from three to six years and allow up to six districts to participate instead of three; amend KRS 164.304 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia by the 2023-2024 school year, rather than the instruction being contingent on funding availability.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB79/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb79.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1551138,"bill_number":"SB80","title":"AN ACT relating to genetic testing in death investigations.","description":"Amend KRS 72.405 to define \"genetic tests\" and expand the definition of \"post-mortem examination\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 72 to require genetic tests be performed when a postmortem examination of a deceased person is required; prohibit disclosure of information or genetic test results without written consent of deceased's spouse, next of kin, or authorized person.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"floor amendment (2) filed","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB80/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb80.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1551156,"bill_number":"SB6","title":"AN ACT relating to athletics and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide protections for student athletes seeking compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements or seeking an athlete agent; provide similar protections for institutions; establish prohibitions, conditions, and limitations on athletes earning compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements; prohibit name, image, and likeness compensation as an inducement; prohibit institutions, associations, or affiliated organizations from providing compensation for name, image, and likeness of a student athlete and other similar activities; establish a process for institutions to review name, image, and likeness agreements of student athletes; authorize institutions to establish reasonable restrictions on name, image, and likeness activities of student athletes; provide protections for institutions and their employees in actions taken in the course of administering intercollegiate athletics; require institutions to provide financial literacy and life skills education to student athletes; authorize institutions to provide ongoing support to student athletes and information on name, image, and likeness to the general public; establish that name, image, and likeness agreement documents and related information in possession of public postsecondary institutions are protected student records; limit applicability; limit duration of name, image, and likeness and agency contract agreements for minors and student athletes; amend KRS 164.6903 to conform; amend KRS 156.070 to forbid KHSAA member schools from authorizing student athlete use of school logo and similar property in the athlete's name, image, and likeness activities; authorize Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate regulations to enforce rules on name, image, and likeness; authorize agreements made pursuant to Executive Order 2021-418 for one year and nullify the executive order; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-09","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 12)","last_action_date":"2022-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB6/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb6.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1551173,"bill_number":"SB82","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protection.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to define \"candidate,\" \"deplatform,\" \"social media platform,\" and \"user\" and limit the power of social media platforms to remove candidates during elections; create fine for wrongful deplatforming; create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; require that social media platforms share their requirements for deplatforming and provide an opt-out option for shadow banning and algorithm use; require antitrust measures to be taken if shadow banning practices are not in line with requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 providing limitations on any entity on the antitrust violator vendor list, providing how entities are placed on the antitrust violator vendor list, and providing how hearings and enforcement are to be executed for entities and affiliated parties; amend KRS 367.150 to place maintenance and duties relating to antitrust violator vendor list under the Department of Law.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB82/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb82.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1551190,"bill_number":"SB78","title":"AN ACT relating to statues and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Require the Department for Facilities and Support Services within the Finance and Administration Cabinet to place a statue of United States Navy diver and Kentucky native Carl Brashear in the Capitol Rotunda; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB78/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb78.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1551206,"bill_number":"SB77","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 118.015 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 118 to require certain candidates for office to be elected by ranked-choice voting and establish the process relating thereto; amend KRS 117.125 to require voting machines be equipped to allow for ranked-choice voting; amend KRS 117.187 to require the county board of elections to provide ranked-choice voting training to election officers; amend KRS 118.425 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB77/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb77.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1551224,"bill_number":"SB85","title":"AN ACT relating to the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to define \"animal shelter,\" \"breeder,\" \"broker,\" and \"retail pet shop\"; prohibit retail pet shops from selling dogs, cats, and rabbits; allow retail pet shops to collaborate with animal shelters to showcase dogs, cats, or rabbits; require retail pet shops to maintain records documenting the source of each dog, cat, or rabbit it sells for at least one year; prohibit the sale or transfer of ownership of a dog, cat, or rabbit in a publicly accessible space; amend KRS 258.990 to include a penalty for retail pet shop operators who violate this Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB85/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb85.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1551240,"bill_number":"SB84","title":"AN ACT relating to children's health.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit the provision of or referral for gender transition procedures to any child under the age of 18 years; define a violation as unprofessional conduct and acting recklessly for purposes of tort claims; permit an action on a violation to be taken by the parent or guardian of the child before the child attains the age of 18 years and by the child within 30 years of the child attaining the age of 18 years, with exceptions under which the time may be longer; require conditions for actions and damages; prohibit public funds to be used for the provision of or referral for gender transition procedures to a child under the age of 18 years; prohibit health care services provided under state, local, or county government to include gender transition procedures to a child under the age of 18 years; prohibit tax exemption for gender transition procedures; permit the Attorney General to bring action to enforce provisions; permit members of the General Assembly to intervene as a matter of right if these provisions are challenged; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to prohibit Medicaid coverage of gender transition procedures for a child under the age of 18 years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 304.17A to prohibit health benefit plan coverage for gender transition procedures for a child under the age of 18 years and any requirement for coverage of gender transition procedures; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB84/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb84.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1551257,"bill_number":"HB269","title":"AN ACT relating to mental illness.","description":"Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 109)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB269/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb269.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1551273,"bill_number":"HB271","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of Agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 247.220 to allow a designee to represent the Commissioner of Agriculture on the Fair Council; replace the Kentucky Colt Racing Association with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission on the Fair Council; allow a designee to represent the Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment on the Fair Council; add an additional representative to the Fair Council experienced in showing livestock or animal agriculture; amend KRS 247.800 to remove the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet from the agritourism program; amend KRS 247.802 to revise the required duties of the agritourism program; amend KRS 247.804 to remove 11 seats from the Agritourism Advisory Council; amend KRS 247.806 to conform; amend KRS 247.808 to state that members of the Agritourism Advisory Council shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and that seven members shall constitute a quorum; amend KRS 247.810 to remove references to the Secretary of the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet; amend KRS 257.230 to require the state veterinarian to enforce administrative regulations of the board pertaining to livestock, poultry, and fish.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 215)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB271/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb271.html","sponsor":"Josh Calloway"},
{"bill_id":1551290,"bill_number":"HCR33","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing January 16 of each year as National Religious Freedom Day.","description":"Recognize January 16 of each year as National Religious Freedom Day.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-11","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-11","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR33/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr33.html","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1551307,"bill_number":"SR39","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and memory of Christopher Jack Pace.","description":"Adjourn in memory of Judge/Executive Christopher Pace of Clark County.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR39/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr39.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1554286,"bill_number":"HB273","title":"AN ACT relating to amusement rides and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 247.232 to define \"department\"; amend KRS 247.233 to replace the Commissioner of Agriculture with the Department of Agriculture as the entity responsible for monitoring amusement ride regulations and inspections; amend KRS 247.234 to require an owner of an amusement ride or attraction business to register the business with the department; require an amusement ride or attraction to be permitted; require registrants to furnish proof of insurance of not less than $1,000,000; require registrants to provide proof of financial responsibility in the sum of $1,000,000; require an inspection of each amusement ride or attraction; amend KRS 247.236 to authorize the department to promulgate administrative regulations; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-01","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 80)","last_action_date":"2022-04-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB273/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb273.html","sponsor":"Daniel Fister"},
{"bill_id":1554291,"bill_number":"SR41","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of John Barry Coleman as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of John Barry Coleman as administrative law judge at the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-12","last_action":"adopted 33-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR41/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr41.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1554294,"bill_number":"SB87","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid reimbursements for dental services.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to adopt a minimum fee schedule for covered dental services and require that managed care organizations reimburse eligible dental service providers in an amount at least equal to the fee-for-service rate for the same covered service; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to request federal authorization for a waiver if necessary.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-12","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB87/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb87.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1554298,"bill_number":"SR42","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Karen Anne Wenzel.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Karen Anne Wenzel.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR42/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr42.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1554302,"bill_number":"HR35","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing June 2022 as National Dairy Month.","description":"Recognize June 2022 as National Dairy Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR35/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr35.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1554305,"bill_number":"HR36","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing March 19, 2022, as National Poultry Day in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize March 19, 2022, as National Poultry Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR36/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr36.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1554310,"bill_number":"HB277","title":"AN ACT relating to teachers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish a student loan forgiveness program for teachers obtaining certification through an expedited certification process with a residency component; authorize the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the program; create the Option 9 scholarship fund; amend KRS 161.048 to create an Option 9 expedited alternative certification pathway through the use of a residency program; establish requirements for residency program; establish eligibility for district participation; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 161)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB277/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb277.html","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1554312,"bill_number":"HR34","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.","description":"Honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-12","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR34/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr34.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1554313,"bill_number":"SR44","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Dianna Brown Golphin.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dianna Brown Golphin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR44/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr44.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1554318,"bill_number":"HB274","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation improvement districts.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 184 to establish transportation improvement districts (TIDs) organized by county governments; define terms; allow TIDs to be established by a city with a population of greater than 20,000, a single county, or up to three contiguous counties; establish board makeup and membership requirements for each type of TID; set forth TID duties and powers; set forth public meeting requirements for potential projects; require approval of the establishing body of a TID before any project can be started; allow TIDs to receive revenue from increment bonds as part of a local development area under KRS 65.7041 to 65.7083; set forth powers and procedures for TIDs to issue bonds for projects; allow the Transportation Cabinet to assist a TID in a demonstration project; amend KRS 65.7045 to include TIDs under the definition of \"agency\" for the purposes of establishing a local development area; amend KRS 416.670 to exempt property acquired for a TID project from the provisions of that statute.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 180)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB274/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb274.html","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1554322,"bill_number":"SB88","title":"AN ACT relating to sessions of the General Assembly.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to establish parameters for the General Assembly when called into session by Joint Proclamation; amend KRS 6.190 and 6.211 to adjust the compensation of members of the General Assembly during a veto recess period; EFFECTIVE only upon ratification of a proposed constitutional amendment.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-01-28","last_action":"to Rules (S)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB88/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb88.html","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1554324,"bill_number":"HB280","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 121.180 to allow a candidate, whose district number is altered pursuant to an enacted plan of redistricting or reapportionment the ability to use funds contained in his or her campaign account for an election to the subsequent district where the candidate is then properly filed; make amendments retroactive to November 3, 2021; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-12","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB280/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb280.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1554328,"bill_number":"SR43","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Dr. Jerald F. Combs.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Jerald F. Combs.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR43/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr43.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1554333,"bill_number":"SB86","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"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.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-12","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-18","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB86/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb86.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1554335,"bill_number":"HB275","title":"AN ACT relating to CPA licensure.","description":"Amend KRS 325.240 to allow the accountancy board to support scholarship programs at Kentucky colleges and universities; immunize former and current members of the board, its agents, and employees from suit for any discretionary good faith acts; amend KRS 325.280 to establish educational requirements for reciprocal licensure; direct international reciprocal licensure applicants to pass the uniform qualifying examination prepared by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 43)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB275/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb275.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1554338,"bill_number":"HB276","title":"AN ACT relating to athletic competitions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to require any professional sports team that enters into a contract with a public agency to play the national anthem before any sporting event at the team's home venue; define \"professional sports team,\" \"public agency,\" and \"sporting event\"; require a provision in the contract that places the professional sports team in default if the team fails to play the national anthem before the sporting event; permit the Attorney General to intervene and enforce any penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require all public postsecondary institutions to play the national anthem before any intercollegiate athletic event hosted or sponsored by the institution; define \"athletic event\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require all public schools to play the national anthem before any school sponsored interscholastic athletic event beginning in the 2022-2023 school year; define \"athletic event\".","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-12","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB276/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb276.html","sponsor":"Steve Sheldon"},
{"bill_id":1554343,"bill_number":"HB278","title":"AN ACT relating to the delivery of education and declaring an emergency.","description":"Specify that school districts that implemented a test-to-stay program for students and staff under 2021 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky Acts ch. 4, sec. 4, can require no more than five consecutive calendar days of testing; provide that if the fifth day occurs on a nonschool or nonwork day, the student or staff member shall test upon his or her return to school or work; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-12","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-12","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB278/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb278.html","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1554346,"bill_number":"HB279","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 186.032 to define \"communication disorder\"; establish that information may be included in the Kentucky vehicle registration system database indicating that the operator of the vehicle may have a communication disorder; require county clerks to post notice of the database; require the Transportation Cabinet to put information about the database on its website; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 99)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB279/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb279.html","sponsor":"Mary Imes"},
{"bill_id":1559114,"bill_number":"HB300","title":"AN ACT relating to contraceptive coverage.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; set forth requirements for health benefit plans relating to contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 164.2871 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 446.350 to provide that nothing in the new section on contraceptive coverage shall be construed to violate section; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB300/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb300.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1559116,"bill_number":"HB284","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"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.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 18)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB284/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb284.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1559120,"bill_number":"HB289","title":"AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Judicial Branch of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, boards, commissions, subdivisions, and other state-supported activities.","description":"The Judicial Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to Court of Justice: 2021-2022: $11,765,500, 2022-2023: $489,784,300, 2023-2024: $495,509,400; appropriate to Judicial Retirement System: 2021-2022: $18,800, 2022-2023: $5,699,300, 2023-2024: $6,027,300; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB289/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb289.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1559123,"bill_number":"HB283","title":"AN ACT relating to student teacher background checks.","description":"Amend KRS 160.380 to permit a school district to accept a background check completed by an accredited teacher education institution for a student teacher.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 160)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB283/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb283.html","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1559126,"bill_number":"HB305","title":"AN ACT relating to educational opportunity accounts.","description":"Amend KRS 141.502 to update definition of \"eligible student\" to increase the limit of not more than 250% of the amount of household income necessary to establish eligibility for reduced-price meals; amend KRS 141.504 to allow funds in an education opportunity account to also be used for tuition or fees to attend a prekindergarten to grade twelve nonpublic school and remove the requirements for individuals to be residents of counties of 90,000 or more to utilize the funds for nonpublic schools; amend KRS 141.510 to require a copy of the account granting organization's determination letter granting them 501(c)(3) status to be submitted with their application; amend KRS 141.512 to allow an AGO, in the first year, to allocate less than 90 percent of the total annual contributions to EOAs; amend KRS 141.522 to delete the sunset provision from the tax credit for contributions made to AGOs; increase credit cap from $25,000,000 to $100,000,000 with certain stipulations.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-01-31","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB305/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb305.html","sponsor":"Josh Calloway"},
{"bill_id":1559129,"bill_number":"HB303","title":"AN ACT relating to attorney's fees and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 5.005 to prohibit the awarding of attorney's fees in an action challenging the constitutionality of any legislative district; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB303/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb303.html","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1559131,"bill_number":"SB15","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer data privacy.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to establish consumer rights relating to personal data, including the rights to confirm whether data is being processed, to delete personal data provided by the consumer, to obtain a copy of the consumer's personal data that was previously provided, and to opt out of targeted advertising and the sale of data; create definitions for terms; require that persons controlling data establish an appeal process by which a consumer may appeal the controller's refusal to take action with respect to a request to exercise a right set forth in this Act; set forth the types of data and the persons or entities to which the provisions of the Act apply and do not apply; set forth requirements for persons or entities that control and process consumer data; require persons who control data to conduct data protection impact assessments; establish that the Attorney General has exclusive authority to enforce, with the exception of a private right of action by which consumers can seek injunctive relief for specific violations; create a consumer privacy fund in the state treasury to be administered by the State Treasurer; amend KRS 367.240 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-18","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB15/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb15.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1559135,"bill_number":"SB50","title":"AN ACT relating to educational opportunity account.","description":"Amend KRS 141.502 to update definition of \"eligible student\" to increase the limit of not more than 200% of the amount of household income necessary to establish eligibility for reduced-price meals; amend KRS 141.504 to allow funds in an education opportunity account to also be used for tuition or fees to attend a prekindergarten to grade twelve nonpublic school and remove the requirements for individuals to be residents of counties of 90,000 or more to utilize the funds for nonpublic schools; amend KRS 141.510 to require a copy of the account granting organization's determination letter granting them 501(c)(3) status to be submitted with their application; amend KRS 141.512 to allow an AGO, in the first year, to allocate less than 90 percent of the total annual contributions to EOAs; amend KRS 141.522 to delete the sunset provision from the tax credit for contributions made to AGOs; increase credit cap from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 with certain stipulations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-18","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB50/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb50.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1559138,"bill_number":"SB92","title":"AN ACT relating to superintendent screening committees.","description":"Amend KRS 160.352 to provide that a parent member on a screening committee shall not be employed by the school district; require greater minority representation on a screening committee in a school district with a minority student population of 50 percent or greater.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-18","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB92/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb92.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1559141,"bill_number":"HB295","title":"AN ACT relating to recycling and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of Subchapter 43 of KRS Chapter 224 to create a beverage container refundable deposit fee program; define terms; require beverage containers sold or offered for sale in the Commonwealth to have minimum refundable values of 10 cents; require that distributors only sell beverage containers in the Commonwealth that bear the minimum refundable value; require distributors to collect the minimum refundable value from the retailer at the time of sale; require retailers to include the minimum refundable value for a beverage container at the time of sale; exclude the minimum refundable value from local occupational and gross receipts tax; require retailers to provide or contract to provide redemption centers to collect beverage containers and redeem minimum refundable values; require that at least quarterly, distributors refund retailers or redemption operators for the amount of each minimum refundable deposit refunded and pay an additional 2-cent handling fee per beverage container; prohibit redemption centers from paying minimum refundable values for empty beverage containers that have already been redeemed, have been imported from another state, or do not bear the minimum refundable value; allow redemption centers to refuse to accept and pay minimum refundable deposits for containers that do not bear the minimum refundable deposit value or that have already been redeemed; allow redemption centers to refuse to accept and pay minimum refundable deposits for containers that are broken, dirty, or contain other substances; allow on-site redemption centers to refuse to accept more than 144 beverage containers per person per 24-hour period; allow off-site redemption centers to refuse to accept more than 288 beverage containers per person per 24-hour period; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations that set forth the operating and reporting requirements for redemption centers; every February 1, require distributors to pay unrefunded deposit amounts from the previous year to the Energy and Environment Cabinet for deposit in the Kentucky pride fund; allow redemption centers and distributors to retain any scrap value they receive for beverage containers they collect; amend KRS 67.750 and 139.470 to conform; amend KRS 224.43-505 to provide that the Kentucky pride fund receive excess unrefunded deposit amounts; provide that the unrefunded deposit amounts be used first for the implementation and administrative costs of Sections 1 to 4 of the Act, with excess amounts to be used by the Kentucky pride fund; direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to submit a study of the feasibility of implementing a minimum recycled content requirement for certain single-use plastic products to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment on or before November 1, 2022; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB295/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb295.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1559144,"bill_number":"SR45","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Chuck Morgan.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Chuck Morgan.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR45/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr45.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1559148,"bill_number":"HB298","title":"AN ACT relating to early childhood education.","description":"Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts to provide full-day preschool; require that all four-year-olds residing in the school district and qualified three-year-olds be eligible; amend KRS 158.060 to remove half-day allowance for kindergarten; amend KRS 157.320 to remove \"kindergarten full-time equivalent\" definition; amend KRS 157.360 and 158.030 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB298/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb298.html","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1559150,"bill_number":"HB285","title":"AN ACT relating to appropriations and revenue measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.","description":"The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2021-2022: $125,187,900, 2022-2023: $2,727,314,100, 2023-2024: $2,018,630,000; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $291,800, 2022-2023: $377,258,800, 2023-2024: $32,308,300; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2021-2022: $134,400, 2022-2023: $6,791,287,300, 2023-2024: $6,938,460,600; appropriate to the Education and Labor Cabinet: 2021-2022: $5,749,500, 2022-2023: $861,376,300, 2023-2024: $818,991,800; appropriate to the Energy and Environment Cabinet: 2021-2022: $730,800, 2022-2023: $383,950,000, 2023-2024: $415,900,200; appropriate to the Finance and Administration Cabinet: 2021-2022: $140,082,300, 2022-2023: $971,590,800, 2023-2024: $970,255,600; appropriate to the Health and Family Services Cabinet: 2021-2022: $744,786,900, 2022-2023: $19,274,164,200, 2023-2024: $19,298,686,100; appropriate to the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet: 2021-2022: $12,964,300, 2022-2023: $1,469,293,300, 2023-2024: $1,464,740,800; appropriate to the Personnel Cabinet: 2021-2022: $75,000, 2022-2023: $64,491,800, 2023-2024: $64,591,400; appropriate to Postsecondary Education: 2021-2022: $57,440,900, 2022-2023: $12,002,229,200, 2023-2024: $16,285,701,700; appropriate to the Public Protection Cabinet: 2021-2022: $242,200, 2022-2023: $613,390,000, 2023-2024: $135,338,300; appropriate to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,274,400, 2022-2023: $315,119,300, 2023-2024: $306,239,000; not included in the appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows: 2021-2022: $12,675,000, 2022-2023: $11,545,834,400, 2023-2024: $249,809,500; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB285/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb285.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1559154,"bill_number":"SB91","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle dealers.","description":"Amend KRS 190.030 to allow vehicle dealers to deliver vehicles purchased via the Internet to customers; authorize the Motor Vehicle Commission to establish licenses and fees for the license activities.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 53)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB91/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb91.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1559158,"bill_number":"HB292","title":"AN ACT relating to gun safety for children.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to make it a crime to unlawfully store a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class A misdemeanor; establish the short title of Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB292/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb292.html","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1559160,"bill_number":"HB299","title":"AN ACT relating to reproductive health services.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; prohibit cost sharing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to offer family planning services to certain low-income individuals; require the cabinet to report annually; amend KRS 164.2871 to require state postsecondary self-insured employer group plans to comply with the new section on long-acting reversible contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with new section on long-acting reversible contraception coverage; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the new section on long-acting reversible contraception coverage; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on long-acting reversible contraception coverage; amend KRS 446.350 to provide that nothing in the new section on long-acting reversible contraceptive coverage shall be construed to violate section; require insurers of health benefit plans to submit information relating to contraceptive coverage to the insurance commissioner; require the commissioner to report information relating to contraceptive coverage to the Legislative Research Commission; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB299/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb299.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1559163,"bill_number":"HB304","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 132.020 to reduce the motor vehicle property tax rate to two cents for each $100 of assessed value; amend KRS 134.805 to increase the county clerk's commission to 100% of the state taxes collected on motor vehicles; apply to vehicles assessed on or after January 1, 2022; RETROACTIVE.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB304/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb304.html","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1559167,"bill_number":"HR38","title":"A RESOLUTION commemorating and honoring the life and accomplishments of Eula Hall.","description":"Commemorate and honor the life of Eula Hall; recommend that consideration be given to erecting a statue of her in the Capitol rotunda.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR38/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr38.html","sponsor":"Ashley Tackett Laferty"},
{"bill_id":1559169,"bill_number":"HB293","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal histories of job applicants.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; title the Act \"Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act.\"","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB293/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb293.html","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1559173,"bill_number":"HB296","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency medical services and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to establish the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study the provision of emergency medical services and medical transportation; repeal, reenact, and amend sections of KRS Chapter 311A relating to the Board of Emergency Medical Services as new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to abolish the Board of Emergency Medical Services and transfer responsibilities to the Office of the Inspector General in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish a maximum response time of 60 minutes for a ground ambulance provider; require the office to revise the current classification system for ambulance providers by administrative regulation; repeal and reenact KRS 311A. 027, 311A.150, and 311A.195 as new sections of KRS Chapter 216B with no amendments; make conforming amendments in various statutes; require existing administrative regulations promulgated by the board to remain in effect until the office amends or repeals after review; conclude all affairs of the Board of Emergency Medicine and transfer all responsibilities to the office; repeal KRS 311A.015, 311A.040, 311A.055, 311A.070, and 311A.075; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB296/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb296.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1559177,"bill_number":"SB89","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky River Authority.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 151 to establish definitions for KRS 151.700 to 151.730, regarding the Kentucky River Authority; amend KRS 151.710 to clarify membership requirements for directors of the Kentucky River Authority.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB89/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb89.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1559179,"bill_number":"HB286","title":"AN ACT relating to appropriations providing financing and conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Transportation Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"The Transportation Cabinet Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Administration and Support: 2021-2022: $102,500, 2022-2023: $152,295,700, 2023-2024: $113,802,100; appropriate to Aviation: 2021-2022: $8,700, 2022-2023: $56,980,200, 2023-2024: $47,434,200; appropriate to Debt Service: 2022-2023: $134,952,100, 2023-2024: $136,855,100; appropriate to Highways: 2021-2022: $238,912,000, 2022-2023: $2,655,783,000, 2023-2024: $2,358,874,300; appropriate to Public Transportation: 2021-2022: $7,100, 2022-2023: $97,260,300, 2023-2024: $95,212,300; appropriate to Revenue Sharing: 2022-2023: $372,580,800, 2023-2024: $364,617,700; appropriate to Vehicle Regulation: 2021-2022: $58,500, 2022-2023: $66,853,200, 2023-2024: $68,051,500; not included in the appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows: 2021-2022: $3,000,000, 2022-2023: $20,129,000, 2023-2024: $7,890,000; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, Funds Transfer; detail Part IV, Transportation Cabinet Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB286/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb286.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1559183,"bill_number":"HB291","title":"AN ACT relating to the transactions between the Legislative Research Commission and the executive branch.","description":"Amend and repeal various sections of KRS to modify requirements for various state agencies to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2022-04-19","last_action":"Vetoed","last_action_date":"2022-04-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB291/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb291.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1559186,"bill_number":"HB290","title":"AN ACT relating to student discipline at public postsecondary education institutions.","description":"Amend KRS 164.370 to define terms; require a governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to adopt a code for student conduct, establish minimum procedural requirements for a nonacademic violation when the violation is punishable by a suspension, expulsion, or termination of student housing, including a presumption of innocence, written notice, maintenance of an administrative file, the right to be present and participate meaningfully, the right to fair and impartial treatment, and the ability to bring a support person; establish enhanced minimum procedural requirements for a nonacademic violation when the violation is punishable by a suspension of 3 days or more, expulsion, or termination of student housing, including the right to be represented by counsel, to present relevant hearing evidence, and to cross-examine hearing testimony; provide a respondent that is suspended for 3 days or more, expelled, or has their campus housing terminated the right to appeal the results of a disciplinary hearing; provide that a participant has the right to appeal a Title IX allegation that does not result in a finding of a violation; provide a respondent or designated complainant shall have the right to appeal a final order of the governing board in Circuit Court; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to impede or delay law enforcement, impair an institution's ability to take reasonable interim measures in a student discipline matter, impair an institution's ability to effectuate a valid judicial order, impair an institution's ability to terminate a student's residence in campus housing for any other reason than a student disciplinary matter, or limit any addition rights afforded under Federal law; create a new section of KRS 164 to require a public postsecondary education institution to publish a report on student discipline every three years; establish the required contents of the report; permit a postsecondary education institution to apply to the Attorney General for an exemption when the institution maintains that required data cannot be adequately deidentified to conform to Federal Law; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Campus Due Process Protection Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 159)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB290/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb290.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1559188,"bill_number":"HB281","title":"AN ACT relating to fiscal matters providing funding for disaster recovery and relief, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate moneys to the West Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (SAFE) fund for certain mental health services and supports; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB281/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb281.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1559192,"bill_number":"HB288","title":"AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, and support of the Legislative Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Appropriate from the General Fund $2,221,900 for fiscal year 2021-2022, $82,043,900 for fiscal year 2022-2023, and $84,639,800 for fiscal year 2023-2024; appropriate from Restricted Funds $75,000 for fiscal year 2022-2023 and $175,000 for fiscal year 2023-2024; detail Part II, General Provisions; detail Part III, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB288/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb288.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1559196,"bill_number":"HB302","title":"AN ACT relating to school personnel.","description":"Amend KRS 161.155 to make sick leave affidavits for school employees at the superintendent's discretion instead of mandatory; amend KRS 160.380 to permit a school district to accept a background check completed by an accredited teacher education institution within the last 6 months for a student teacher.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB302/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb302.html","sponsor":"Steve Sheldon"},
{"bill_id":1559198,"bill_number":"HB282","title":"AN ACT relating to health care services agencies.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define and establish registration of health care services agencies; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations for registration; require health care services agencies to retain documentation of direct care staff credentials and establish other requirements; require quarterly reports to the cabinet; amend KRS 367.374 to add direct care staff services to emergency price gouging limitations; and amend KRS 45A.690, 216.785, 216.787, 216.789, 216.793, and 216B.020 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 110)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB282/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb282.html","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1559201,"bill_number":"HB294","title":"AN ACT relating to broadband service.","description":"Amend KRS 154.15-010 to add definitions for \"broadband service,\" \"eligible entity,\" \"unserved area,\" and \"wholesale network access\"; amend KRS 154.15-020 to require the Kentucky Communications Network Authority to offer eligible entities wholesale network access to the excess capacity on KentuckyWired only in unserved areas.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB294/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb294.html","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1559204,"bill_number":"HB297","title":"AN ACT relating to the retirement and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 16.582 to clarify that standards for \"total and permanent disability\" relate to hazardous disability only and make technical changes; amend KRS 61.505 to expand the administrative actions that the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) may take on behalf of the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) and the County Employees Retirement System (CERS), authorize the KPPA to employ no more than 8 unclassified employees to the Office of Investments whose positions are exempt from the personnel system's classified service and related salary limitations, and make technical changes; amend KRS 61.510 to define \"instructional staff\" for state colleges and universities and define \"objective medical evidence\" to exclude the testimonial evidence of a person applying for disability benefits; amend KRS 61.520 to reference definition of \"instructional staff\"; amend KRS 61.565 to add an effective date of July 1, 2022, for shifting to the executive branch the employer's share of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System nonhazardous plan's unfunded liability for contract employees at mental health facilities; amend KRS 61.590, 61.610, 61.615, and 61.665 to allow KPPA the option to send notices and other forms to members on disability retirement using electronic mail or other electronic means; amend KRS 61.610 to allow KPPA to hire or contract for the services of more than one disability fraud investigator; amend KRS 61.615 to allow members in hybrid cash balance plan who are discontinued from disability to apply for reinstatement; amend KRS 61.635 to make technical change; amend KRS 61.637 to specify the circumstances under which an elected official who is reelected but takes office after retirement is deemed as having a prearranged agreement that would void his or her retirement; amend KRS 61.645 to exempt invalid addresses from ballot distribution for trustee elections, specify single certified public accountant to audit KRS and CERS financial reports, and make technical changes; amend KRS 61.661 to make technical changes; amend KRS 61.665 to permit the KPPA to contract for the services of medical examiners, eliminate the requirement that a person applying for disability retirement produce evidence of a request for reasonable accommodation, delete language permitting KRS to order a disabled employee to enroll in vocational rehabilitation, and conform to legislative changes made in 2021; amend KRS 61.702 and 78.5536 to require KRS and CERS to provide health insurance coverage through the Kentucky Employees Health Plan (KEHP) to reemployed retirees over the age of 65 who are Medicare-eligible but impacted by the federal Medicare Secondary Payer Act; amend KRS 61.703 to make technical change; amend KRS 78.510 to define \"objective medical evidence\" to exclude the testimonial evidence of a person applying for disability benefits and make the definitions of \"act in line of duty\" and \"dependent child\" conform with other provisions as the result of legislative changes made in 2021; amend KRS 78.5524 to clarify that standards for \"total and permanent disability\" relate to hazardous disability only and to conform to other provisions as the result of legislative changes made in 2021; amend KRS 78.5526 and 78.5530 to conform with other provisions as the result of legislative changes made in 2021; amend KRS 78.5540 to specify the circumstances under which an elected official who is reelected but takes office after retirement is deemed as having a prearranged agreement that would void his or her retirement; and amend KRS 78.782 to exempt invalid addresses from ballot distribution for trustee elections, specify single certified public accountant to audit KRS and CERS financial reports, and make technical changes; and make technical changes and conforming amendments as a result of legislative changes made in 2021.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 216)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB297/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb297.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1559207,"bill_number":"HJR37","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to road projects.","description":"Provide that the General Assembly shall adopt the last four years of the six year road plan as a joint resolution.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR37/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr37.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1559211,"bill_number":"HB301","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to require all costs and expenses related to election administration be paid for with public funds; prohibit a state governmental body employee from accepting anything of value to assist with election administration unless entered into as a lawful contract; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to require all costs and expenses related to election administration be paid for with public funds; prohibit a local governmental body employee from accepting anything of value to assist with election administration unless entered into as a lawful contract; require a local governmental body employee to disclose, in writing and within five days, to the Governor and the General Assembly any communication related to election laws and election administration from a federal executive branch agency; create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to require any governmental body employee to disclose, in writing and within five days, to the Governor and the General Assembly any communication related to election laws and election administration from a federal executive branch agency; amend KRS 116.045 to prohibit a county clerk or local governmental body employee from accepting any private monetary funds to assist with voter registration activities unless accepted as part of a valid contract; amend KRS 117.015 to prohibit the State Board of Elections from accepting any private monetary funds for election administration unless accepted as part of a valid contract; amend KRS 117.995 to prescribed criminal penalties for local and state governmental employees who fail to properly disclose communication from a federal executive branch agency and employees who accept a private contribution or anything of value to assist with election administration unless part of a valid contract; amend KRS 48.630 to prohibit unbudgeted federal appropriations for expenditures related to election administration; and provide that the act may be cited as the \"Stop Outside Influence Over Elections Act of 2022.\"","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 23)","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB301/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb301.html","sponsor":"Patrick Flannery"},
{"bill_id":1561661,"bill_number":"HB308","title":"AN ACT relating to the establishment of a grant program to promote investments in Kentucky businesses, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 136 to establish the Kentucky Rural Jobs Act of 2022, allowing the Department of Revenue to begin accepting applications from entities seeking approval as a growth fund and allowing no more than $15 million dollars of insurance premiums tax credit to be awarded; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting of the tax credit to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; provide that Sections 1 to 10 of this Act may be cited as the Kentucky Rural Jobs Act of 2022.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB308/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb308.html","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1561688,"bill_number":"SR47","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring David Haydon upon his retirement.","description":"Honor David Haydon upon his retirement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR47/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr47.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1561716,"bill_number":"SR49","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in loving memory and honor of Lawrence E. \"Larry\" Forgy, Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lawrence E. \"Larry\" Forgy Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-18","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR49/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr49.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1561747,"bill_number":"SR48","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing All Masons Day on February 16, 2022.","description":"Recognize All Masons Day on February 16, 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR48/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr48.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1561777,"bill_number":"HCR40","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging Kentucky's Congressional delegation to include Kentucky's Veterans Affairs Medical Centers into the Center for Compassionate Innovation, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program enabling the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment for veterans with a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder.","description":"Urge Kentucky's Congressional delegation to include Kentucky's Veterans Affairs Medical Centers into the Center for Compassionate Innovation, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program enabling the use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment for veterans with a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 60)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR40/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr40.html","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1561807,"bill_number":"HB316","title":"AN ACT relating to cancer awareness.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate May 17 of each year as \"Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Day\" and require the Governor to proclaim the same to raise awareness and encourage research into effective treatments and cures.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 101)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB316/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb316.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1561836,"bill_number":"HB315","title":"AN ACT relating to broadband deployment, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate Federal Funds from the State Fiscal Recovery Fund of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 in the amount of $300,000,000 in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the Broadband Deployment Fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 202)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB315/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb315.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1561864,"bill_number":"HB312","title":"AN ACT relating to campaign finance.","description":"Amend KRS 121.175 to define \"caregiving services\" and include those services as an allowable campaign expenditure.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-18","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-18","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB312/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb312.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1561894,"bill_number":"HB311","title":"AN ACT relating to felony mediation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 455 to promote felony mediation as a way to resolve felony criminal cases.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB311/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb311.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1561923,"bill_number":"HR39","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing the last day of February, the day connecting Black and Women's History Months, as a day to honor Black women.","description":"Recognize the last day of February, the day connecting Black and Women's History Months, as a day to honor Black women.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR39/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr39.html","sponsor":"Pamela Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1561949,"bill_number":"HB309","title":"AN ACT relating to peer-to-peer car sharing.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 365 to establish definitions relating to peer-to-peer car sharing; establish insurance, disclosure, recordkeeping, verification, and equipment liability requirements for peer-to-peer car sharing programs; establish requirements for shared vehicle owners that receive an actual notice of safety recall on a shared vehicle; establish an exemption for peer-to-peer car sharing programs and shared vehicle owners from vicarious liability; create a new section of Subtitle 39 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish certain rights of insurers relating to accidents involving shared vehicles; establish certain requirements for insurers that issue policies covering shared vehicles; create a new section of Subtitle 14 of KRS Chapter 304 to provide peer-to-peer car sharing programs with an insurable interest in shared vehicles during the car sharing period; amend KRS 138.462 and 186.630 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-18","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB309/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb309.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1561978,"bill_number":"HJR41","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department of Revenue and the University of Kentucky's Department of Forestry and Natural Resources to recommend equitable property tax assessment procedures for well-managed forests.","description":"Direct the Department of Revenue and the University of Kentucky's Department of Forestry and Natural Resources to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 1, 2022, detailing their recommendations for equitable property tax assessment procedures for well-managed forests.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 186)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR41/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr41.html","sponsor":"Adam Bowling"},
{"bill_id":1562008,"bill_number":"SB93","title":"AN ACT relating to employers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to require employers that mandate employee immunization to allow exceptions based on religious belief or conscientious objection to immunizations; provide sample form for employee affirmation; amend KRS 344.040 to make it an unlawful practice for employers to require immunizations as a condition of employment from employees who hold sincere religious beliefs against or conscientiously object to immunization.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-18","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB93/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb93.html","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1562038,"bill_number":"HB310","title":"AN ACT relating to home incarceration.","description":"Amend KRS 532.245 to allow defendants in the home incarceration program who did not participate in a global positioning monitoring system to receive credit for time served while on pretrial release.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 132)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB310/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb310.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1562065,"bill_number":"HB306","title":"AN ACT relating to pest and weed control.","description":"Amend KRS 217B.110 to authorize the Department of Agriculture to establish dates for pesticide licensing and registration renewals; amend KRS 249.420 and 249.430 to remove references to a Johnson grass eradication program; amend KRS 249.990 to conform; repeal KRS 249.180; 249.183; 249.187; 249.190; 249.195; and 249.991.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 131)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB306/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb306.html","sponsor":"Michael Pollock"},
{"bill_id":1562091,"bill_number":"SR46","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in loving memory of Bob Whittinghill.","description":"Adjourn in memory of Bob Whittinghill.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR46/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr46.html","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1562119,"bill_number":"HB313","title":"AN ACT relating to bail.","description":"Amend KRS 431.510 to make operating a charitable bail organization unlawful; define terms.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB313/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb313.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1562149,"bill_number":"HB287","title":"AN ACT relating to road projects and declaring an emergency.","description":"Set out the 2022-2024 Biennial Highway Construction Plan; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-18","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-18","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB287/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb287.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1562178,"bill_number":"SR50","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the Saint Xavier High School Tigers Football Team, 2021 KHSAA Class 6A State Champions.","description":"Honor the St. Xavier High School Tigers, 2021 KHSAA Class 6A Football State Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR50/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr50.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1562208,"bill_number":"HB307","title":"AN ACT relating to liability and workers' compensation self-insurance group investments.","description":"Amend KRS 304.48-090 and 304.50-055 to define \"nationally recognized statistical rating organization\" and establish permissible investments for liability self-insurance groups and workers' compensation self-insurance groups.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 62)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB307/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb307.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1562237,"bill_number":"SB100","title":"AN ACT relating to essential caregivers and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to establish the right to designate an essential caregiver to visit a resident in-person at long-term care facilities, assisted-living communities, and state mental hospitals; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish conditions for essential caregiver visitation; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 10)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB100/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb100.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1562268,"bill_number":"HB314","title":"AN ACT relating to consolidated local governments.","description":"Amend KRS 67C.103 to remove outdated language regarding apportionment of legislative council seats, designate that the oversight committee to approve settlements or consent decrees, and to interview former officials or employees; amend KRS 67C.105 to limit mayor to two consecutive terms, post January 1, 2023; amend KRS 67C.111 to allow for the formation of new cities within a consolidated local government, prohibit formation in certain areas, establish criteria for approval of the new cities, allow annexation of territory by cities within the consolidated local government; amend KRS 67C.115 to define powers of the county attorney in a consolidated local government; amend KRS 67C.139 giving the legislative council 60 days to approve mayoral appointments; amend KRS 67C.143 to allow a member preferring a charge to participate in the discipline of legislative council members; amend KRS 67C.147 to require annual report concerning the urban services district expenditures; amend KRS 67C.301 to define \"chief's designee\"; amend KRS 67C.321 to allow chief of police designee to undertake certain portions of an investigation concerning allegations against a peace officer; amend KRS 67C.323 to conform; amend KRS 67C.325 to allow the chief's designee to receive information.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 201)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB314/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb314.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1563671,"bill_number":"HB322","title":"AN ACT relating to a tax credit for Kentucky Education Savings Plan Trust account contributions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable tax credit against the tax imposed under KRS 141.020 for qualifying contributions made to a Kentucky Education Savings Plan trust account in accordance with the guidelines in 26 U.S.C. sec. 529, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022 but prior to January 1, 2026; amend KRS 131.190 to establish reporting requirements; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the tax credit.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-19","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-19","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB322/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb322.html","sponsor":"Matt Lockett"},
{"bill_id":1563705,"bill_number":"HB325","title":"AN ACT relating to technology transparency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to define \"social media Web site,\" \" algorithm,\" and \"shadowban\"; prohibit social media Web sites from censoring religious or political speech, using algorithms to shadowban user's content, or frequently changing terms of use; require that social media Web sites provide notice to suspended users; clarify unprotected First Amendment speech that social media Web sites can censor; create a right of action; specify damages available to harmed social media users.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-19","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-19","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB325/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb325.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1563742,"bill_number":"SR52","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Alexander \"Alex\" Spencer.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Alexander \"Alex\" Spencer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR52/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr52.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1563780,"bill_number":"HB318","title":"AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.","description":"Amend KRS 610.030 to require a court referral for truancy cases when there is no improvement within 30 days; require a court-designated worker to make a finding if diversion is failed due to lack of parental cooperation; allow a court to refer cases back to the court-designated worker and order parental cooperation; amend KRS 610.265 to require children charged with serious felony offenses to be detained pending a detention hearing; amend KRS 610.340 to provide that confidentiality does not apply to cases in which a child has admitted to or been adjudicated for a violent felony offense; amend KRS 635.060 to require a juvenile's probationary period to remain open until any violations are resolved, if a violation is pending at the time of completion.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-15","last_action":"floor amendments (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) filed","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB318/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb318.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1563816,"bill_number":"HB323","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Effective for the 2022 primary and for no other election, extend the filing deadline for all candidates to May 31, 2022; extend the date of the primary to the first Tuesday in August; permit the Secretary of State or the county clerk, as appropriate, to determine when the drawing for ballot positions and certifications will be held; permit the Secretary of State or the county clerk, as appropriate, to establish any other necessary elections deadlines for the 2022 primary; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB323/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb323.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1563853,"bill_number":"HR43","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring October 9, 2022, to be PANDAS and PANS Awareness Day.","description":"Declare October 9, 2022, to be PANDAS and PANS Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR43/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr43.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1563890,"bill_number":"HB319","title":"AN ACT relating to interpersonal violence.","description":"Amend KRS 403.720 to include violence against an animal when used as coercive conduct in the definition of \"domestic violence and abuse\"; amend KRS 403.740 to allow a judge to award possession of a shared domestic animal to the petitioner; amend KRS 456.010 to include violence against an animal when used as coercive conduct in the definition of \"dating violence and abuse\"; amend KRS 456.060 to allow a judge to award possession of a shared domestic animal to the petitioner.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 158)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB319/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb319.html","sponsor":"Ryan Dotson"},
{"bill_id":1563926,"bill_number":"SB95","title":"AN ACT relating to postpartum depression care.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make information on postpartum depression and a postpartum assessment tool available on its Web site; require birthing centers and hospitals to provide postpartum information to women, fathers, and family members; require health care providers providing postnatal care to women and pediatric providers to invite women to complete a postpartum assessment tool.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"to Health & Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB95/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb95.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1563961,"bill_number":"SR51","title":"A RESOLUTION of the Senate recognizing the accomplishments and contributions of Jane Wheatley.","description":"Recognize the accomplishments and contributions of Jane Wheatley.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR51/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr51.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1563999,"bill_number":"HB320","title":"AN ACT relating to relating to motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 434.415 to define the terms \"airbag,\" \"counterfeit supplemental restraint system component,\" \"nonfunctional airbag,\" and \"supplemental restraint system\"; prohibit the use of counterfeit airbags or components; set forth penalities for the use of counterfeit airbags or components; set forth exceptions.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB320/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb320.html","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1564036,"bill_number":"HB326","title":"AN ACT relating to the Honor and Remember flag.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the Honor and Remember flag as the state's emblem of the service and sacrifice of the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces who have given their lives in the line of duty; specify locations, dates, and circumstances under which the flag may be displayed.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB326/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb326.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1564071,"bill_number":"HB324","title":"AN ACT relating to abortions performed upon a minor and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 311.732, relating to performance of an abortion upon a minor, to require the informed written consent of a parent or legal guardian to include a copy of that parent's or legal guardian's government-issued identification and parent's or legal guardian's documentation; require government-issued identification for the minor; require notification to other parent with joint or physical custody with exceptions; require the physician to keep a copy of the informed written consent for at least seven years; require the physician to execute an affidavit; require additional criteria and standards for when a court determines whether to allow a minor to self-consent to an abortion; require the court hearing to remain confidential and be held in a private, informal setting within the courthouse; require, in the case of a medical emergency, for the physician to notify the parent or legal guardian within 24 hours of the abortion; require report to the cabinet; amend KRS 311.595 to allow the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to suspend or revoke the license of any physician for violations; amend KRS 311.990 to establish criminal penalties for violations; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-19","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-19","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB324/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb324.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1564109,"bill_number":"HJR42","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION granting the family of the last remaining World War II veteran in Kentucky, upon his or her passing, the option of the veteran to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda and receive a funeral with full military honors.","description":"Grant the family of the last remaining World War II veteran in Kentucky, upon his or her passing, the option of the veteran to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda and receive a funeral with full military honors.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR42/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr42.html","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1564146,"bill_number":"HB321","title":"AN ACT relating to documentation for property which has a Kentucky certificate of title.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.100 and 186A.105 to extend the term of temporary tags for motor vehicles from 30 to 60 days.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 113)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB321/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb321.html","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1564180,"bill_number":"SB94","title":"AN ACT relating to the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program.","description":"Amend KRS 164.787 to add eligibility for the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program to students with intellectual disabilities enrolled in comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 42)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB94/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb94.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1564215,"bill_number":"HB317","title":"AN ACT relating to the payment of insurance premiums and cost sharing on behalf of an insured.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-255 to require health benefit plans to accept, and count toward the insured's contributions, premium and cost-sharing payments made on behalf of an insured from organizations that meet specified requirements; provide that Act applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after effective date of Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 49)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB317/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb317.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1564252,"bill_number":"SB96","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council.","description":"Amend KRS 15.315 to include the chief of police of the Bowling Green Police Department on the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council; amend KRS 15.320 to change quorum requirements for council.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-10","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 15)","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB96/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb96.html","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1566737,"bill_number":"SR55","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Dorcas Figg.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dorcas Figg.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR55/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr55.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1566757,"bill_number":"SB101","title":"AN ACT relating to first responders.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 518 to create the misdemeanor of unauthorized capture of photographic or videographic images by a first responder.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB101/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb101.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1566777,"bill_number":"HB331","title":"AN ACT relating to veteran cemeteries.","description":"Amend KRS 40.315 to remove the residency requirement for interment in veteran cemeteries.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-08","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB331/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb331.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1566798,"bill_number":"HB336","title":"AN ACT relating to physician assistants.","description":"Amend KRS 311.844, relating to physicians assistants, to revise continuing education requirements and to clarify that proof of completed course work in an individual's graduate program can qualify for pediatric head trauma requirements for licensure renewal; amend KRS 311.854 to increase the number of physician assistants a physician may supervise and enter into contracts with, and amend the application requirements to be a supervising physician.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB336/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb336.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1566818,"bill_number":"HB337","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative committees and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 13A.330, relating to administrative regulation deficiency findings, to grant an administrative body 10 days to appeal a legislative committee's deficiency finding to the Attorney General; allow the Attorney General 20 days after receipt of the appeal to uphold or overrule the deficiency finding; withdraw or nullify a regulation automatically if the appeal is not filed or the deficiency finding is upheld; authorize the Governor to act on the regulation if the deficiency finding is overruled; prohibit an administrative body from promulgating an identical or substantially similar regulation for at least one year after a deficiency finding was upheld; repeal and reenact KRS 45A.705, relating to government contract review; amend KRS 13A.190, 13A.315, 13A.335, 13A.336, and 15.020 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB337/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb337.html","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1566838,"bill_number":"SR59","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Debbie Allen.","description":"Honor Debbie Allen.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR59/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr59.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1566858,"bill_number":"SR56","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 8, 2022, as Career and Technical Education Student Leadership Day and February 2022 as Career and Technical Education Month in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize February 2022 as Career and Technical Education Month and February 8, 2022, as Career and Technical Education Leadership Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR56/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr56.html","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1566879,"bill_number":"SR58","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing January 20, 2022, as Kentucky Land Title Day.","description":"Recognize January 20, 2022, as Kentucky Land Title Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR58/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr58.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1566899,"bill_number":"HR46","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Debbie Allen.","description":"Honor Debbie Allen.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR46/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr46.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1566919,"bill_number":"HB327","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal history record checks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to allow the Department for Community Based Services to request a criminal justice agency to perform a federal name-based criminal history record check of each adult residing in a home in which a child is placed during an emergency placement; allow the Department for Kentucky State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to charge a reasonable fee for processing a fingerprint-based criminal history record check.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"to Health & Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB327/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb327.html","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1566940,"bill_number":"HB333","title":"AN ACT relating to the community investment tax credit.","description":"For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027, create a new section in KRS Chapter 141 to establish the community investment credit for financial institutions making loans to a community development financial institution; establish the annual credit cap at $20 million; require the Department of Revenue to report tax credit data to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Legislative Research Commission to receive confidential data about the new tax credit from the Department of Revenue.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB333/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb333.html","sponsor":"William Lawrence"},
{"bill_id":1566961,"bill_number":"HR45","title":"A RESOLUTION urging parties involved in the search warrant process to support the adoption of the consensus recommendations of the Search Warrant Task Force established by Attorney General Daniel Cameron.","description":"Encourage all parties involved in the search warrant process to implement the recommendations of the Attorney General's Search Warrant Task Force.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR45/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr45.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1566981,"bill_number":"HB329","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal offenses committed during a declared emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 511.020, 511.030, and 511.040 to provide an enhanced penalty if the offense occurred during a declared emergency and within the area covered by the emergency declaration; amend KRS 514.030 to provide that the theft of property valued at $300 or more during a declared emergency and within the area covered by the emergency declaration is a Class D felony; amend KRS 514.110 to provide that receiving stolen property valued at $300 or more during a declared emergency and within the area covered by the emergency declaration is a Class D felony; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to require a 12-hour hold for any person charged with certain offenses; provide exceptions.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB329/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb329.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1567001,"bill_number":"SR53","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Greg Smith.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Greg Smith.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR53/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr53.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1567021,"bill_number":"SR61","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Mary Remmers Miller.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Remmers Miller.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR61/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr61.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1567042,"bill_number":"HB332","title":"AN ACT relating to financial transparency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to procure an annual financial audit of all funds and accounts under its jurisdiction; require audits to be conducted in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards; allow the Administrative Office of the Courts to enter into a contract to perform an audit only after the Auditor of Public Accounts has declined to perform the audit; if the Auditor of Public Accounts performs the audit, charge the Administrative Office of the Courts for expenses incurred; if the Administrative Office of the Courts contracts to perform an audit, require a copy of the audit report and management letter to be forwarded to the Auditor of Public Accounts and the Legislative Research Commission; grant the Auditor of Public Accounts the right to review work papers and documents developed by the entity contracted to perform the audit; allow the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a special audit or examination of the Administrative Office of the Courts, with expenses to be borne by the Administrative Office of the Courts.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB332/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb332.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1567075,"bill_number":"HB338","title":"AN ACT relating to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals.","description":"Create a new section of Subchapter 10 of KRS Chapter 224 to define \"PFAS chemicals\"; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet on or before January 1, 2023, to promulgate administrative regulations establishing maximum PFAS chemical limits and monitoring requirements for drinking water provided by public and semi-public water systems and maximum PFAS chemical limits and monitoring requirements for discharges into the waters of the Commonwealth; require that maximum PFAS chemical limits be designed to protect public health and be updated; provide that nothing in the section interferes with the Energy and Environment Cabinet's responsibilities under the federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Safe Drinking Water Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB338/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb338.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1567099,"bill_number":"SB99","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Homeschool Scholar Program and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Homeschool Scholar Program; direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program; establish eligibility requirements; create the Kentucky Homeschool Scholar trust fund; appropriate $500,000 in fiscal year 2022-2023 and in fiscal year 2023-2024 for the program; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB99/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb99.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1567119,"bill_number":"SR54","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Gary Steven \"Butch\" McCoy.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gary Steven \"Butch\" McCoy.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR54/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr54.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1567140,"bill_number":"SR62","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Dr. H. Keith Spears upon his November 2021 induction as Campbellsville University's 11th President.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Campbellsville University President Dr. H. Keith Spears.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR62/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr62.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1567160,"bill_number":"SR57","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing the inaugural Bluegrass World of Wheels Custom Car Show in Louisville, Kentucky.","description":"Recognize the inaugural Bluegrass World of Wheels Custom Car Show.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR57/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr57.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1567180,"bill_number":"SB97","title":"AN ACT relating to child fatalities and near fatalities.","description":"Amend KRS 620.040 to require law enforcement to request a blood, breath, or urine test from a caregiver suspected of being under the influence at the time of a child fatality or near fatality, and to request a search warrant for the test if consent is not given by the caregiver; amend KRS 620.055 to change the number of members on the external child fatality and near fatality review panel from 15 to 17, to include the President of the Kentucky Coroners Association and a medication-assisted treatment provider selected by the Attorney General; require membership of the co-chairs of the Child Welfare Oversight and Advisory Committee instead of the chairs of the House and Senate Health and Welfare Committees; require the panel's annual report to be due February 1 of each year instead of December 1 of each year; create a process for the panel to suggest recommendations to state agencies and for the state agencies to respond and implement the recommendations; establish that all proceedings, opinions, and records of the panel are privileged and not subject to subpoena.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 139)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB97/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb97.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1567200,"bill_number":"SCR60","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Congress of the United States to protect consumers and their financial institutions from harmful and intrusive Internal Revenue Service bank account reporting requirements.","description":"Urge the United States Congress, and the Kentucky delegation to Congress, to reject proposals that would impose burdensome and intrusive IRS bank account reporting requirements on financial institutions.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR60/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr60.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1567221,"bill_number":"HB335","title":"AN ACT relating to appointments to boards, commissions, and councils.","description":"Amend KRS 15.315 related to appointments to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council; amend KRS 222.480 related to appointments to the Advisory Council for Recovery Ready Communities.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 204)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB335/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb335.html","sponsor":"Adam Bowling"},
{"bill_id":1567241,"bill_number":"HB328","title":"AN ACT relating to electronic prescription records.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A requiring the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide a copy of a patient's electronic prescription record upon request of the patient, the patient's legal guardian, or the patient's parent or legal guardian if the patient is a minor; require the cabinet to make corrections to a patient's electronic prescription record; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement a process for requesting records; require the cabinet to respond to a request within at least 30 days of a completed request; permit the cabinet to charge a reasonable fee for a request of a copy of a record but not for making a record correction.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-20","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB328/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb328.html","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1567261,"bill_number":"SB98","title":"AN ACT relating to the control of vehicular traffic.","description":"Amend KRS 56.580 to prohibit closing portions of Capital Avenue in Frankfort; provide exceptions for emergency personnel.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB98/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb98.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1567281,"bill_number":"HB334","title":"AN ACT relating to ethics.","description":"Amend KRS 6.080 to increase the fine against a disobedient witness or an attempt to corrupt a legislator from $1,000 to $15,000, and allow the Attorney General to bring an enforcement action in either Franklin County or the county in which the accused person resides; amend KRS 11A.060 to reorganize the Executive Branch Ethics Commission, terminating the current membership and increasing the number of members from five to seven, two of which would be appointed by the Governor with the Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Commissioner of Agriculture, Secretary of State, and Attorney General appointing one member each; amend KRS 11A.080 to require the Executive Branch Ethics Commission to make findings for complaints regarding whether they are grounded in fact, warranted by law, and filed in good faith.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 203)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB334/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb334.html","sponsor":"Shane Baker"},
{"bill_id":1567302,"bill_number":"HB339","title":"AN ACT relating to fiscal matters providing funding for inpatient psychiatric services and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Appropriate moneys to the Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities budget unit, within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, to provide inpatient psychiatric services within Hospital District IV; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB339/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb339.html","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1567322,"bill_number":"SR63","title":"A RESOLUTION commemorating and honoring the life and accomplishments of Ann Epperson Carty.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Ann Epperson Carty.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR63/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr63.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1567342,"bill_number":"SB8","title":"AN ACT relating to child welfare and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 15.900 to create the definition of \"abused or neglected child\" and \"community resource organization\"; change the definitions of \"state board\" and \"prevention program\"; amend KRS 15.905 to reference the new definition of \"state board\"; amend KRS 15.910 to establish new membership of the State Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board; amend KRS 15.920 to require the state board to meet at least quarterly each year and make conforming changes to align with the new established definitions; amend KRS 15.925, 15.935, 15.940, 15.942, and 15.948 to make conforming changes to align with new established definitions; amend KRS 194A.010, relating to the implementation of child welfare programs by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 199.011 to update the definition of \"fictive kin\"; amend KRS 199.505, relating to a five-business-day notification requirement if someone is registered on the putative father registry; amend KRS 199.540 to remove a condition when an adoption can be annulled; amend KRS 199.570 to reference digital files related to an adoption case; amend KRS 200.575 related to when family preservation services are provided; create a new section KRS Chapter 205, relating to Medicaid reimbursement for certain services at children's advocacy centers; amend KRS 600.020 to change the definition of \"abused or neglected child\" and \"fictive kin\"; amend KRS 620.055 to require the annual report of the external child fatality and near fatality review panel to be delivered to State Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board and the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; amend KRS 620.140, relating to an eligible youth's ability to commit and re-commit themselves to the custody of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 620.363 to add new rights for foster children; require the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations related to the Kentucky Employees Charitable Campaign; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-01","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 75)","last_action_date":"2022-04-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB8/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb8.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1567362,"bill_number":"HB330","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 119.205 to prohibit payment to any person by a candidate or committee, or any person acting on behalf of a candidate or committee, for the purpose of transporting a voter to the polls; Class B misdemeanor; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-20","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB330/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb330.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1567382,"bill_number":"HR44","title":"A RESOLUTION commending Taiwan for its relations with the United States and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Commend Taiwan for its relations with the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR44/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr44.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1567940,"bill_number":"SB102","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health providers in schools.","description":"Amend KRS 158.4416 to require local superintendents to report information on school-based mental health services providers in the district to the Kentucky Department of Education; require the department to compile and maintain the information and report annually to the Interim Joint Committee on Education.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 234)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB102/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb102.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1568004,"bill_number":"HB340","title":"AN ACT relating to medical and cosmetological services and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 317A.010 to define \"medical spa\" and \"medical esthetic service\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 317A to require the ownership of a medical spa to be by a physician licensed by the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, a nurse licensed by the Kentucky Board of Nursing, or an esthetician or cosmetologist licensed by the Kentucky Board of Cosmetology; require a licensed physician or physician assistant, nurse, esthetician, or cosmetologist to be physically present on site when medical esthetic services are being offered; authorize a licensed physician, physician assistant, nurse, esthetician, or cosmetology to perform medical esthetic services within a medical spa; require a medical spa to be incorporated as a business entity with the Secretary of State; require licensure to operate a medical spa; require medical spas to post the information of any licensed professional that performs medical esthetic services in a place that is accessible to customers and on the Web site of a medical spa; amend KRS 317A.020 authorize the Board of Cosmetology to issue an emergency order against any facility it licenses; authorize the board to investigate alleged violations and to schedule and conduct administrative hearings; amend KRS 317A.050 to establish the conditions upon which the board can issue a license to operate a medical spa; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-10","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB340/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb340.html","sponsor":"Jonathan Dixon"},
{"bill_id":1568072,"bill_number":"SB104","title":"AN ACT relating to the Employment First Council.","description":"Create new sections in KRS Chapter 151B to establish the Employment First Council; amend KRS 12.020 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 28)","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB104/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb104.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1568140,"bill_number":"SB103","title":"AN ACT relating to racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapters 6 and 15A to make legislative findings and require racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements for certain legislation and administrative regulations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-21","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB103/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb103.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1568207,"bill_number":"HB341","title":"AN ACT relating to utility rates.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to define \"utility\"; allow any utility that has received an order from the Public Service Commission making a general adjustment of the utility's base rate in the previous five years to file an application to adjust its base rate using a streamlined regulatory procedure; require the utility to file notice of its intent to file for a streamlined base rate adjustment between 30 to 60 days before filing its application; require the utility to file its application using a test period as defined in KRS 278.192; establish notice requirements for the filing of the application; require requests for intervention to be filed no later than 15 days after a utility files an application to use the streamlined regulatory procedure; establish intervenor requirements for requests for information and comments; allow applicant utilities to file responses to each intervenor's comments; establish public meeting requirements for taking public comments on a utility's application; require evidentiary hearings only if requested by the utility; require the Public Service Commission to review a utility's application to use the streamlined regulatory process within 120 days of its receipt and to order the utility to make the adjustments to its tariff rates to earn the authorized return on equity established in its most recent general rate case and to recover its historical cost of capital; allow any party to seek rehearing or review of the Public Service Commission's order; allow for net increases or decreases in certain listed items that were previously approved in the utility's last general rate adjustment to be adjusted to calculate a utility's revenue requirement; prohibit certain listed items from being adjusted in a streamlined rate proceeding; prohibit requesting a certificate of public convenience and necessity in a streamlined rate proceeding; allow a utility to terminate an approved streamlined rate proceeding by filing a general rate case; specify that the Public Service Commission's jurisdiction with regard to complaints or initiating proceedings on the reasonableness of a utility's rates is not limited; establish the purposes for which the Public Service Commission is required to allow recovery by a separate rate rider mechanism of capital, operational and maintenance costs, taxes, and a reasonable return for investment; prohibit a utility from seeking recovery under the section for anything that is recovered in their existing base rates; prohibit any recovery under the section unless the Public Service Commission deems the costs to be fair, just, and reasonable; repeal KRS 278.509.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB341/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb341.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1570177,"bill_number":"SB105","title":"AN ACT relating to newborn and infant screenings.","description":"Amend KRS 214.155 to include cytomegalovirus (CMV) testing as part of the newborn screening program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to require the Department for Public Health in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide public educational resources related to CMV; provide that the Act may be cited as the Bella Dawn Streeval Law.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-07","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 85)","last_action_date":"2022-04-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB105/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb105.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1570188,"bill_number":"SR65","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of former U.S. Congressman Larry Jones Hopkins.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of U.S. Congressman Larry Jones Hopkins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR65/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr65.html","sponsor":"Donald Douglas"},
{"bill_id":1570198,"bill_number":"SB106","title":"AN ACT relating to the administrative dissolution of cities.","description":"Create a new Section of KRS Chapter 81 to provide an administrative dissolution process for cities and require Department of Local Governement to implement.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 25)","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB106/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb106.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1570210,"bill_number":"HB349","title":"AN ACT relating to regional service areas for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability.","description":"Amend KRS 210.370 to establish regional services areas for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability; amend KRS 210.380 to prohibit a community board for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability from providing services outside of its regional service area; and amend KRS 210.410 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"reassigned to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB349/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb349.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1570221,"bill_number":"SB107","title":"AN ACT relating to dog friendly food service establishments.","description":"Create new sections of KRS217.280 to 217.390 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations creating an exception to the United States Food Code to permit dogs in food service establishments; establish requirements for a \"dog friendly\" designationit; apply definitions in KRS 217.015 to KRS 217.280 to 217.390.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-26","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB107/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb107.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1570232,"bill_number":"HB342","title":"AN ACT relating to utility rates.","description":"Amend KRS 278.030 to include rate affordability when determining fair, just, and reasonable utility rates; allow the Public Service Commission to review the affordability of a utility's rate if the utility has not requested a rate adjustment within the last five years; allow the commission to order a rate increase to prevent significant increases in a single period; require affordable, fair, just, and reasonable rates to balance the interests of the utility, its investors, and the ratepayer.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB342/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb342.html","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1570244,"bill_number":"HB344","title":"AN ACT relating to hunting and fishing licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 150.175 to change the name of the junior statewide hunting license to the youth statewide hunting license; remove the requirement that a person under 16 have the permission of his or her parent, guardian, or custodian to obtain a youth statewide hunting license; change the name of the junior game permit to the youth game permit; change the names of combination licenses to sportsmans' hunting and fishing licenses; remove the requirement that the holder of a disabled sportsman's license carry proof of disability while performing an act authorized by the license; add a youth sportsman's license; amend KRS 150.195 to remove the requirement that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources name each non-exempt county clerk as an agent for the sale of licenses or permits; make the requirement that the department sell its own licenses or permits permissive; add governmental entities and businesses to the list of entities that may be named agents for the sale of licenses and permits; require the department to determine by administrative regulation which licenses, permits, or other items are issued by the department and its agents; prohibit any person from knowingly making a false entry on a license or permit; make conforming changes; amend KRS 150.990 to conform.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2022-04-25","last_action":"Vetoed","last_action_date":"2022-04-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB344/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb344.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1570256,"bill_number":"HB343","title":"AN ACT relating to exemptions from prior authorization requirements.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to KRS 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements relating to prior authorization exemptions; establish requirements for rescinding prior authorization exemptions; set forth requirements relating to external reviews of prior authorization exemption determinations and denials; prohibit the retrospective denial, reduction in payment, and review of health care services for which a health care provider has a prior authorization exemption and establish exceptions; provide that nothing shall be construed to authorize a health care provider to act outside the provider's scope of practice or require an insurer or private review agent to pay for a health care service performed in violation of law; amend KRS 304.17A-600 to conform; amend KRS 304.17A-605 to establish applicability of provisions relating to prior authorization exemptions to certain insurers and private review agents; amend KRS 304.17A-621 to conform; amend KRS 304.17A-627 to prohibit conflicts of interest with independent review entities and reviewers of prior authorization exemption determinations and denials; require independent review entities and reviewers of prior authorization exemption determinations and denials to submit an annual report to the Department of Insurance; amend KRS 304.17A-633 to require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to report on external reviews of prior authorization exemptions determinations and denials; amend KRS 205.536 to require the Department for Medicaid Services, or managed care organizations contracted to provide Medicaid benefits, to comply with the sections on prior authorization exemptions; apply the provisions to contracts delivered, entered, renewed, extended, or amended on or after the effective date of the Act; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"to Health & Family Services (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Health and Family Services","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB343/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb343.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1570267,"bill_number":"SR68","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of James Thomas Matney.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James Thomas Matney.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR68/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr68.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1570279,"bill_number":"HB352","title":"AN ACT relating to licensing protection for health care providers and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit action against the license of a physician or physician assistant for a recommendation of medical treatment for COVID-19 including a prescription for a drug not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19; create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to prohibit action against the license of an advanced practice registered nurse for a recommendation of medical treatment for COVID-19, including a prescription for a drug not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19; create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to prohibit a pharmacist blocking or attempting to block a patient's access to a drug prescribed by a physician, physician assistant, or APRN on the basis that the United States Food and Drug Administration has not approved the drug as a treatment for COVID-19; prohibit action against the license of a pharmacist for dispensing a prescribed drug for the treatment of COVID-19 that has not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB352/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb352.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1570290,"bill_number":"HB350","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance regulatory requirements.","description":"Amend KRS 304.2-205 and KRS 304.3-240 to require electronic filings; amend KRS 304.2-230 to add analysts to insurance examination provisions; amend KRS 304.5-140 to provide additional authority for the insurance commissioner relating to the assuming insurer list; amend KRS 304.6-134 to remove requirement that a domestic company report total adjusted capital of at least 450% of authorized control level risk-based capital in order to qualify for an exemption from NAIC valuation manual standards; amend KRS 304.17A-300 to terminate the issuance of certificates of filing for provider-sponsored integrated health delivery networks; amend KRS 304.37-010 to modify definition of \"commissioner\" and add definition for \"NAIC\"; amend KRS 304.37-020 to add definitions; require certain insurance holding company systems to file an annual group capital calculation with a lead state insurance commissioner; require certain insurance holding company systems scoped into the NAIC Liquidity Stress Test Framework to file liquidity stress test results with a lead state insurance commissioner; amend KRS 304.37-050 to modify confidentiality provisions relating to documents, materials, or other information in the possession of the insurance commissioner; add confidentiality provisions for group capital calculations and liquidity stress test results; make technical amendments throughout.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 133)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB350/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb350.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1570304,"bill_number":"SB110","title":"AN ACT relating to heir property and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to define heir property and create a mechanism for partition or sale among cotenants by the court; create requirements for notice and determination of value through agreement or appraisal; create protocol for buyouts, partition alternatives, partition in kind, sale by open market, sealed bids, or auction; create the heir property research fund; amend KRS 324B.050 to authorize the Kentucky Real Estate Authority to promulgate administrative regulations to issue grants from the fund; amend KRS 64.012 to increase the recording and indexing fee collected by county clerks by $1 and to direct those extra funds to the heir property research fund; amend KRS 381.135 and 389A.030 to conform; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB110/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb110.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1570315,"bill_number":"SR64","title":"A RESOLUTION commending Taiwan for its relations with the United States and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Commend Taiwan for its relations with the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR64/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr64.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1570326,"bill_number":"HB347","title":"AN ACT designating the second Wednesday in February as Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the second Wednesday in February as \"Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB347/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb347.html","sponsor":"Matthew Koch"},
{"bill_id":1570338,"bill_number":"SJR66","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Deputy Frank Dulin Memorial Bridge in Spencer County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Deputy Frank Dulin Memorial Bridge in Spencer County.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-26","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR66/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr66.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1570349,"bill_number":"HCR47","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION commending Madison County Schools for using the farm-to-school concept for school meals and encouraging other school districts to do so.","description":"Encourage school districts to buy foods locally for school meals.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 27)","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR47/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr47.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1570361,"bill_number":"HB346","title":"AN ACT relating to privacy.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 15 to provide protections for private property from in-person or drone access by law enforcement.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-01-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB346/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb346.html","sponsor":"Shane Baker"},
{"bill_id":1570373,"bill_number":"HB345","title":"AN ACT relating to military leave.","description":"Amend KRS 61.394 to allow specified military members who are state employees leave of absence up to six months without penalty if they are physically disabled as a result of performing active or inactive duty training or entitled to incapacitation pay.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 44)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB345/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb345.html","sponsor":"Matthew Koch"},
{"bill_id":1570384,"bill_number":"SR100","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the 100th anniversary of the Kiwanis Club of Hopkinsville.","description":"Honor the Kiwanis Club of Hopkinsville upon its 100th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR100/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr100.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1570395,"bill_number":"HB351","title":"AN ACT relating to local government records.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; allow local governments to submit to the state or the Legislative Research Commission an affidavit in lieu of a record that has been lost, damaged, or destroyed that was required to be submitted; establish requirements for the affidavit, and allow a government entity to require the production of the information contained in the record if necessary for governmental operations.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 111)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB351/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb351.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1570407,"bill_number":"SB108","title":"AN ACT relating to assisted reproduction.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to create the crime of fraudulent assisted reproduction; define terms; establish penalty; amend KRS 311.597 to add fraudulent assisted reproduction to the list of violations that may cause a doctor to lose his or her medical license.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-26","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB108/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb108.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1570418,"bill_number":"HB348","title":"AN ACT relating to a cost-of-living increase to the retirement benefits for Kentucky State Police troopers, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate $12 million in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to be applied to the State Police Retirement Fund to prefund in fiscal year 2022-2023 and effective July 1, 2022, a 1.5 percent increase in the monthly retirement allowances paid from the State Police Retirement System to each recipient; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB348/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb348.html","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1570430,"bill_number":"SR67","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of William \"Bill\" Amey Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William \"Bill\" Amey Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR67/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr67.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1570440,"bill_number":"SB109","title":"AN ACT relating to sexual offenses.","description":"Amend KRS 510.010 to include alcohol in the definition of \"physically helpless\"; amend KRS 510.060 to create an additional element of rape in the third degree; amend KRS 510.090 to create an additional element of sodomy in the third degree.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-24","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-26","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB109/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb109.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1571930,"bill_number":"HB367","title":"AN ACT relating to contracts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define \"covenant not to compete\" and \"low-wage employee\"; provide that an employer shall not require a low-wage employee to enter into a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages that can be recovered, and limitations to bring claim; provide that the provisions must be posted by the employer; indicate that an employer shall not retaliate against and employee for bringing a civil action; application of provisions; amend KRS 336.990 to provide civil penalties.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB367/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb367.html","sponsor":"Pamela Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1571940,"bill_number":"HB361","title":"AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs.","description":"Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continue until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding on all water systems it supplies.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB361/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb361.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1571951,"bill_number":"HB368","title":"AN ACT relating to employment.","description":"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.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB368/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb368.html","sponsor":"Pamela Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1571961,"bill_number":"HB353","title":"AN ACT relating to the assessment of motor vehicles for property tax purposes and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 132.485 to exempt for the January 1, 2022, January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2024, assessment dates, the portion of property taxes computed on any increase in a motor vehicle's valuation from January 1, 2021; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB353/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb353.html","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1571974,"bill_number":"SB113","title":"AN ACT relating to beauty services.","description":"Amend KRS 317A.010 to change the definition from \"blow dry services\" to \"shampoo and style services\" and define \"limited stylist\"; amend KRS 317A.050 to provide for an instructor training eligibility certificate and to reduce the number of hours of instruction required for a shampoo and style license from 450 to 300; revise the terminology to conform; specify requirements for a temporary event services permit and remove residency requirement; amend KRS 317A.090 to remove restriction on when instructional hours may be given; amend KRS 317A.155 to allow stylists to operate outside of an establishment licensed by the board under certain conditions; require permission of the person or legal representative of the person receiving services.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 235)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB113/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb113.html","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1571986,"bill_number":"HB355","title":"AN ACT relating to professional development.","description":"Amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education create a professional development training schedule for certified personnel; require each local district to implement the schedule; require an additional day be added to the school calendar if required training cannot be completed in a single calendar day; require the General Assembly to appropriate funds for an additional calendar day if determined to be necessary.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB355/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb355.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1571994,"bill_number":"SR70","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing the week of January 23 to 29, 2022, as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Week.","description":"Recognize the week of January 23 to 29, 2022, as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR70/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr70.html","sponsor":"Karen Berg"},
{"bill_id":1572008,"bill_number":"HB354","title":"AN ACT relating to prescriptive authority and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 314.042 to require that advanced practice registered nurses exempted from a CAPA-NS include certified nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwifes, and certified registered nurse anesthetists; allow the CAPA-CS to include limitations on drugs and amounts and requirements for the APRN to communicate with the physician before prescribing; establish conditions for an APRN to prescribe controlled substances without a CAPA-CS after four years of controlled substance prescribing authority under a CAPA-CS; require an APRN to confirm with the nursing board that the APRN's license is in good standing before prescribing without a CAPA-CS; set procedures for the nursing board's license review, including promulgation of administrative regulations; exempt an equivalently qualified out-of-state APRN from the CAPA-CS requirement to prescribe under licensure by endorsement; prohibit an APRN from prescribing controlled substances without a CAPA-CS until the board has completed its review and notified the APRN in writing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to create the Controlled Substance Prescribing Boards Advisory Council within the Office of the Inspector General; establish membership of the board; require meetings to discuss matters relating to the prescribing on controlled substances; require annual report.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB354/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb354.html","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1572017,"bill_number":"HB365","title":"AN ACT relating to statewide mobile food units.","description":"Amend KRS 217.015, 217.125, 217.126, and 217.128 to establish standards for statewide mobile food units; create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to establish operational, inspection, and regulation standards for statewide mobile food units; amend KRS 217.136, 217.137, 304.17A-741, 315.010, and 411.600 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB365/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb365.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1572029,"bill_number":"SB114","title":"AN ACT relating to the disposition of catalytic converters and other items containing metal.","description":"Amend KRS 433.890 to require purchasers of catalytic converters to keep a record that contains proof of ownership; amend KRS 433.892 to establish that the failure to maintain a register of metal and objects containing metals is a Class B misdemeanor; amend KRS 433.894 to establish that unlawful acts relating to the purchase or disposition of metals is a Class B misdemeanor.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 119)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB114/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb114.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1572041,"bill_number":"HR48","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the 60th anniversary of the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital.","description":"Honor Albert B. Chandler Hospital and recognize April 24, 2022, as UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital Appreciation Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR48/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr48.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1572051,"bill_number":"SJR72","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver for individuals with severe mental illness and declaring an emergency.","description":"Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver targeting individuals with severe mental illness to provide for supported housing, including respite care, and supported employment; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 59)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR72/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr72.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1572061,"bill_number":"SB112","title":"AN ACT relating to interlocal agreements.","description":"Amend KRS 65.242 to conform to KRS 65.290 by specifying that interlocal agreements amended solely to add or remove parties to the agreement are not required to be submitted to the Secretary of State in order to become effective.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-01","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 76)","last_action_date":"2022-04-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB112/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb112.html","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1572073,"bill_number":"HB370","title":"AN ACT relating to health care trade practices.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; permit third-party access to provider network contracts if certain conditions are met; prohibit a dental carrier from canceling or otherwise ending a contractual relationship with a provider that opts out of third-party access; require a dental carrier to accept a qualified provider regardless of whether the provider opts out of third-party access; provide that a provider shall not be bound by third-party access granted in violation of the relevant provisions; establish exceptions to the third-party access provisions; allow a dental benefit plan to deny a claim for procedures included in a prior authorization when certain conditions are met; establish requirements for payments from the dental benefit plan to the dentist; require an insurer of a dental benefit plan to honor an assignment of benefits and make payments directly to the dentist or professional dental service corporation when certain conditions are met; permit a dentist or professional dental service corporation with a valid assignment of benefits to bill the insurer and notify the insurer of the assignment; require the dentist or professional dental service organization to provide the assignment of benefits to the insurer upon request; allow an assignment of benefits to be revoked when certain conditions are met; require the insurer of a dental benefit plan to send a revocation to the dentist or professional dental service corporation; establish the effective date of a revocation; require a dentist or professional dental service corporation to reimburse an insured under certain circumstances; prohibit provisions relating to third-party access, prior authorization, and assignment of benefits from being waived by contract; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require an insurer and its health insurance plans to comply with the provisions relating to third-party access, prior authorization, and assignment of benefits; amend KRS 304.17C-085 to define terms; prohibit a provider from charging more than the provider's rate for noncovered services under a limited health service benefit plan; prohibit the amount of a contractual discount for covered services from resulting in a fee less than the limited health service benefit plan would pay but for certain contractual limitations; require reimbursement by a limited health service benefit plan to be reasonable and prohibit nominal reimbursement in order to claim services are covered; amend KRS 304.17A-611 to require retrospective denials of dental services to comply with the new section on prior authorization; amend KRS 222.422 to conform; permit the commissioner of insurance to promulgate regulations.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 48)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB370/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb370.html","sponsor":"Derek Lewis"},
{"bill_id":1572084,"bill_number":"HB362","title":"AN ACT relating to substance abuse intervention and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 222.433 to establish that health care professionals performing examinations may be subject to subpoena for purposes of cross-examination; establish that an order of treatment shall be issued upon a finding of proof beyond a reasonable doubt; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 81)","last_action_date":"2022-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB362/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb362.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1572097,"bill_number":"HB363","title":"AN ACT relating to the apportionment of money in the CMRS fund.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7621 to define \"core services\" and \"next generation core services\"; amend KRS 65.7631 to reallocate a portion of the monthly revenues deposited into the CMRS fund for the purpose of next generation 911 initiatives, services, and applications when certain thresholds are met during a fiscal year; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 102)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB363/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb363.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1572108,"bill_number":"HB364","title":"AN ACT relating to the rural hospital loan fund and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 154.20-190 to include in the rural hospital revolving loan fund administered by the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority a former hospital that is located in a Kentucky county with a population of less than 50,000, was closed within 36 months prior to submission of the loan application, and has a certificate of need to open or reopen a new hospital or health facility; establish that up to 50% of the loan amount shall be forgiven with a maximum amount of $20,000 for each job retained or each new, full-time job created that meets wage requirements set forth by the authority; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 134)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB364/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb364.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1572118,"bill_number":"SB111","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7047 to make permissive the use of an independent consultant or financial advisor in tax increment financing for local governments; establish criteria for the report of any consultant or advisor employed to analyze the project and development area data; provide for payment of consultant or advisor, if employed.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 36)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB111/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb111.html","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1572127,"bill_number":"HB360","title":"AN ACT relating to the National Guard.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 38 to restrict the use of the Kentucky National Guard outside of state active duty unless Congress officially declares war or has taken official action pursuant to the United States Constitution and has satisfied any outstanding balance to the Kentucky National Guard; establishment a short title of Defend the Guard Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB360/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb360.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1572139,"bill_number":"HB358","title":"AN ACT relating to opioid overdose reversal agents.","description":"Amend KRS 217.015 to define \"opioid overdose reversal agent\"; amend KRS 15.291, 217.177, and 217.186 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB358/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb358.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1572151,"bill_number":"HB359","title":"AN ACT relating to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to establish the rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities; cite as the Frank Huffman Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB359/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb359.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1572160,"bill_number":"SR71","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Chuck Morgan.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Chuck Morgan.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR71/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr71.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1572173,"bill_number":"HB369","title":"AN ACT relating to family care leave.","description":"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 preventing an employee to take family care leave; to entitle employee to family care leave for the birth of a child or to take care of a family member and establish parameters.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-01-28","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-01-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB369/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb369.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1572181,"bill_number":"SCR73","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION encouraging an atmosphere of civility and respect on the part of all participants engaged in carrying out the critical functions of Kentucky's system of elementary and secondary education.","description":"Encourage civility at local school board meetings.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR73/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr73.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1572193,"bill_number":"HB366","title":"AN ACT relating to misclassification of employees.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to provide a remedy for employees misclassified as independent contractors; amend KRS 337.010 to include definitions for \"independent contractor\" and \"misclassified\"; repeal KRS 336.137.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB366/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb366.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1572206,"bill_number":"SR69","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Steve Alley upon his January 1, 2022, retirement.","description":"Recognize the retirement of Steve Alley.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR69/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr69.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1572216,"bill_number":"HB356","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders.","description":"Amend KRS 342.0011 to clarify definition of \"injury\" to include psychological injuries for certain employees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to set out when the psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when no physical injury exists.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB356/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb356.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1572227,"bill_number":"HB357","title":"AN ACT relating to wages.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on the effective date of the Act, $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2023, $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2024, $11 per hour on July 1, 2025, $12.05 per hour on July 1, 2026, $13.10 per hour on July 1, 2027, $13.95 per hour on July 1, 2028, and $15 per hour on July 1, 2029; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $2.13 per hour on the effective date of the Act, $3.05 per hour on July 1, 2023, $3.95 per hour on July 1, 2024, and $4.90 per hour on July 1, 2025; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB357/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb357.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1573632,"bill_number":"HB375","title":"AN ACT relating to school fiscal impact statements.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to establish a school fiscal impact statement to evaluate the potential costs that would be incurred by school districts and other parts of the common school system by passing certain legislation; establish the requirements and components of the statement; authorize the director of the Legislative Research Commission to implement policies and procedures necessary to produce the statements; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-26","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB375/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb375.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1573648,"bill_number":"SB117","title":"AN ACT relating to adult-size changing tables.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B.010 to 198B.290 to define terms and to require the Department of Housing, Building and Construction to promulgate administrative regulations to require certain public buildings, structures, and facilities constructed on or after January 1, 2024, or renovated on or after January 1, 2026, for renovations having an estimated cost of $10,000 or more, to contain and provide access to at least one (1) powered, height-adjustable, adult-size changing table.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-28","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB117/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb117.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1573664,"bill_number":"SB118","title":"AN ACT relating to permits.","description":"Amend KRS 224.16-050 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to update and study the state assumption of the Section 404 permitting program; authorize the Governor to seek assumption; if the United States Environmental Protection Agency grants the delegation to the state, ensure the permitting process reduces duplication, streamlines the process for coal companies, and ensures permits are issued in a fair and equitable manner; require the cabinet to implement an online portal for the processing of permits issued, including the Section 404, Section 402 and Section 401 certification; require the portal to provide a flow chart of each permit process with timelines; require the portal to show when an application is complete and the expectation on when a final decision is made; restrict access to the information in the application from open records or public access; reduce the application fee for a permit that has been mishandled or delayed by the cabinet.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB118/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb118.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1573682,"bill_number":"SB116","title":"AN ACT relating to a drug-free workplace.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to provide definitions and to require public employers to have an appeals process for an employee who violates a drug-free policy using legal industrial products; amend KRS 18A.043 to require an appeals process for those public employers who require drug testing; amend KRS 304.13-167 to require that appeals process be complied with by public employers and suggested for private employers; established short title.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-28","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB116/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb116.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1573699,"bill_number":"HB371","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.510 to define the term \"salvage vehicle\"; amend KRS 186A.520 setting forth the requirements for a salvage title; amend KRS 186A.190 to conform; amend KRS 186A.530 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB371/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb371.html","sponsor":"Thomas Huff"},
{"bill_id":1573718,"bill_number":"HB377","title":"AN ACT relating to county clerks and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to define \"recorded instrument\" and \"portal\"; establish deadlines for county clerks to maintain portals for the electronic filing and searching of recorded instruments; amend KRS 64.012 to provide that the $10 storage fee collected by a county clerk shall be held by the county fiscal court or legislative body of a consolidated local government or urban-county government or the exclusive purpose of providing funding for the permanent storage of recorded instruments; amend KRS 142.010 to provide that 90 percent of the funds held for the local records grant program shall be set aside and distributed as grants for county clerks; create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to allow a county clerk in a county containing a population of less than 70,000 to receive an advancement to defray necessary official expenses; appropriate $25,000,000 from the General Fund to the Department for Local Government for the purpose of providing grants to county clerks to establish and maintain portals for the electronic filing and searching of recorded instruments; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB377/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb377.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1573735,"bill_number":"SB115","title":"AN ACT relating to oversight of the police for a consolidated local government and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67C permitting a consolidated local government to establish a citizen review board independent of the police department, and an investigatory office led by an appointee of the mayor for review of police department policies, procedures, and operations; require an ordinance that establishes a governmental body to include powers, duties, internal protocols, reporting requirements, and a body's authority to adopt bylaws, policies, and procedures; provide investigatory office leader the power to administer oaths and request subpoenas issued by the Circuit Court to compel testimony or production of documents with enforcement by petition to Circuit Court; subject board and investigatory office review or discussion of potential or ongoing investigations in closed session subject to KRS 61.815(1), make confidential and privileged information and records, proceedings, opinions, and deliberations, provided to or generated by board or investigatory office with open record requests to be made to appropriate agency and certain exemption from open records requirements; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB115/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb115.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1573754,"bill_number":"SJR75","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating a bridge in Perry County in honor and memory of World War II veterans and brothers Arthur and Bill Caudill.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge in Perry County in honor and memory of WWII veterans and brothers Arthur and Bill Caudill.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR75/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr75.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1573771,"bill_number":"HB372","title":"AN ACT relating to fire department reporting.","description":"Amend KRS 95A.055 to amend definitions; establish that only fire districts, as defined, provide administrative and budgetary and fiscal information; and establish that both fire districts and nonprofit fire departments are subjected to yearly financial review, rather than a review every 4 years.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 157)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB372/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb372.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1573792,"bill_number":"SR74","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing January 27, 2022, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.","description":"Recognize January 27, 2022, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR74/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr74.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1573808,"bill_number":"SB120","title":"AN ACT relating to police departments for local school districts.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to allow local boards of education to establish a police department for local school districts; provide the general police powers each officer shall have in performing their duties; provide the qualifications each officer shall have at the time of their employment; provide for the appointment or promotion to the ranks and grades of the department; amend KRS 158.441 to include an officer appointed under this Act to the term \"school resource officer.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"recommitted to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB120/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb120.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1573826,"bill_number":"SB119","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 177.074 to establish the procedures for the honorary naming of state highways and bridges and for the installation of temporary signage honoring an individual, group of individuals, or a team.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 218)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB119/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb119.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1573844,"bill_number":"SR76","title":"A RESOLUTION expressing sympathy to the citizens of the Commonwealth affected by the historic December 2021 tornado outbreak and honoring the many acts of kindness provided to the impacted communities and school districts by school personnel.","description":"Recognize the assistance provided by school personnel to western Kentucky tornado victims.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR76/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr76.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1573861,"bill_number":"HR49","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing January 27, 2022, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.","description":"Recognize January 27, 2022, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR49/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr49.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1573879,"bill_number":"HB374","title":"AN ACT relating to newborn and infant screenings.","description":"Amend KRS 214.155 to include cytomegalovirus (CMV) testing as part of the newborn screening program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to require the Department for Public Health in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide public educational resources related to CMV; provide that the Act may be cited as the Bella Dawn Streeval Law.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-26","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB374/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb374.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1573897,"bill_number":"HB376","title":"AN ACT relating to committee meetings of the General Assembly.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to require a public comment period of at least 15 minutes or until comments end, whichever occurs first, for all committee meetings of the General Assembly.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-26","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB376/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb376.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1573914,"bill_number":"HB373","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; establish a 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline; create a 9-8-8 board and establish membership; create a crisis restricted fund; create new sections of KRS Chapter 147 to define terms; establish a 9-8-8 service charge; describe the responsibilities of the Department of Revenue in effecting the 9-8-8 service charge; describe the responsibilities of retailers in effecting the 9-8-8 service charge; amend KRS 65.7627, 139.105, and 139.470 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-26","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB373/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb373.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1575359,"bill_number":"HB379","title":"AN ACT relating to data centers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to provide a sales and use tax exemption for data centers; establish reporting requirements for the exemption; define terms; amend KRS 131.190 to conform; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB379/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb379.html","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1575372,"bill_number":"SR77","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Michael Abell.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Michael Abell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR77/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr77.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1575386,"bill_number":"HR52","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the Kentucky Congressional delegation to support the Green New Deal.","description":"Describe the benefits of the Green New Deal and urge the Kentucky Congressional delegation to support the Green New Deal.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR52/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr52.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1575401,"bill_number":"SR79","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Dr. Jonathan W. Rich.","description":"Honor Dr. Jonathan W. Rich.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR79/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr79.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1575417,"bill_number":"HB382","title":"AN ACT relating to wages for employment.","description":"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 provide previous salary, except to allow a request for information voluntarily provided in response to an offer of employment; allow previous salary to be considered when required by law, when discovered while looking at other nonsalary information, and for public employee positions; require notice to be posted for employees; amend KRS 337.990 to assess a civil penalty for a violation.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB382/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb382.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1575432,"bill_number":"SB126","title":"AN ACT relating to the establishment of emergency insulin programs and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; establish the Urgent-Need Insulin Program and the Continuing Access to Insulin Program; establish eligibility guidelines; establish the application process; establish the process by which insulin is dispensed to eligible individuals; establish the responsibilities of insulin manufacturers; establish the responsibilities of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for administering the program; require manufacturers to annually report certain information to the cabinet; require the cabinet to report certain information to the General Assembly upon request; establish penalties; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-31","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB126/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb126.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1575447,"bill_number":"SB123","title":"AN ACT relating to the dignified treatment of fetal remains.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.830 to require a hospital or abortion provider to inform the parents about their right to determine the final disposition of the fetal remains after a spontaneous miscarriage or abortion; make parents electing a disposition method other than the customary method for that facility responsible for the costs of disposition; require the abortion provider or hospital to provide for final disposition of the fetal remains if the parents decline or do not make a determination, require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate a form through administrative regulation to document specified information for each spontaneous miscarriage or abortion; amend KRS 367.97501 to add fetal remains to the definition of \"human remains,\" and exclude from the definition of \"pathological waste.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB123/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb123.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1575463,"bill_number":"HB380","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance trade practices.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to permit insurers and insurance producers to offer gifts, conduct sweepstakes or drawings, and offer products or services for free or less than market value if certain conditions are met; amend KRS 304.12-110, 304.12-100, 304.15-712, and 304.17A-098 to conform; establish purpose of Act; title Section 1 of this Act the Kentucky Rebate Reform Model Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 64)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB380/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb380.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1575478,"bill_number":"SB121","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture exemption license numbers, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 139.481 to require a person who has an agriculture exemption license number to provide it to the seller or retailer at the time of purchase; amend KRS 139.260 and 139.270 to allow a retailer to accept an agriculture exemption license number or a Streamline Sales and Use Tax Agreement Certificate of Exemption that include an agriculture exemption number instead of a certificate of exemption at the time of a sale; amend KRS 139.735 and 139.990 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 58)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB121/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb121.html","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1575492,"bill_number":"HB386","title":"AN ACT relating to exempting motor vehicles from property taxation and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt motor vehicles from state property tax and exempt a portion of the 2022 property taxes that are greater than the taxes calculated based on the motor vehicle's 2021 standard value and property tax rates; amend KRS 134.805, 186.020, 186A.035, and 235.066 to conform; apply to motor vehicles on or after January 1, 2022; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB386/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb386.html","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1575509,"bill_number":"HB388","title":"AN ACT relating to government contract review and declaring an emergency.","description":"Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 45A.705, relating to government contract review, to prohibit the expenditure of any appropriation in support of a challenge to the constitutionality of the statute, except in the case of the Attorney General; establish venue; provide severability clause; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 205)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB388/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb388.html","sponsor":"Matthew Koch"},
{"bill_id":1575525,"bill_number":"SB122","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.001 to remove from the definition of \"proof of identification\" a student or employee identification document used to confirm a voter's identity; and amend KRS 117.228 to remove a credit or debit card as a secondary form of identification to confirm a voter's identity.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB122/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb122.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1575539,"bill_number":"HB389","title":"AN ACT relating to substitute teacher certification.","description":"Amend KRS 161.100 to create three substitute teaching certificates based on the education completed; require that the three-year substitute teaching certificate not be valid for full-time employment as a substitute or replacement of the teacher of record for more than 20 school days; remove existing language; repeal KRS 161.102.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB389/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb389.html","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1575553,"bill_number":"HR51","title":"A RESOLUTION proclaiming February 9, 2022, as \"Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day.\"","description":"Proclaim February 9, 2022, as Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR51/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr51.html","sponsor":"Matthew Koch"},
{"bill_id":1575569,"bill_number":"HB378","title":"AN ACT relating to public charter schools.","description":"Amend KRS 156.095, 158.038 and 158.4416 to remove references to public charter schools; repeal KRS 160.1590, 160.1591, 160.1592, 160.1593, 160.1594, 160.1595, 160.1596, 160.1597, 160.1598, 160.1599, and 161.141.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB378/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb378.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1575585,"bill_number":"SR78","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of William \"Billy\" Dennis Whitlock.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William \"Billy\" Dennis Whitlock.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR78/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr78.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1575600,"bill_number":"HR50","title":"A RESOLUTION amending the Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.","description":"Amend the Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR50/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr50.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1575616,"bill_number":"HB390","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.10-010 to add the Commissioner of Agriculture as a voting member to the Kentucky Economic Development Partnership and change the quorum from seven to eight members; amend KRS 154.20-010 to require one member of the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority to have experience in agriculture.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 206)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB390/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb390.html","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1575629,"bill_number":"HB384","title":"AN ACT relating to the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 161.155, 161.220, 161.540, 161.550, 161.600, 161.620, 161.655, 161.400, 161.420, 161.470, 161.507, 161.520, 161.548, 161.549, 161.605, 161.612, 161.630, and 161.661 and repeal KRS 161.633, 161.634, 161.635, and 161.636 to repeal and remove provisions of HB 258 enacted during the 2021 Regular Session that created adjusted benefits for individuals who become members of the Teachers' Retirement System on or after January 1, 2022; provide that these members shall be eligible for the benefits applicable to members who entered the system immediately prior to January 1, 2022; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB384/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb384.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1575644,"bill_number":"HB383","title":"AN ACT relating to public schools.","description":"Amend KRS 162.060 to remove the requirement that school building plans and specifications be approved by the chief state school officer; amend KRS 160.290 and 162.065 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB383/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb383.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1575661,"bill_number":"HB387","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Amend KRS 139.516 to define \"computing system node\" and exempt it from sales and use tax; apply to transactions occurring on or after July 1, 2021; RETROACTIVE.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB387/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb387.html","sponsor":"Chris Freeland"},
{"bill_id":1575677,"bill_number":"HB385","title":"AN ACT relating to restaurant revitalization grants.","description":"Amend KRS 141.019 and 141.039, relating to calculation of adjusted gross income and gross income, respectively, to allow the same tax treatment as permitted under Pub. L. No. 117-2, sec. 9673, as it relates to restaurant revitalization grants.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB385/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb385.html","sponsor":"Patrick Flannery"},
{"bill_id":1575693,"bill_number":"HB381","title":"AN ACT relating to hospital after-care for veterans.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 216B.230 to 216B.239 to require hospitals, prior to discharge of a veteran with a serious physical injury or trauma, to notify the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to ensure the veteran is provided services, resources, or other qualifying entitlements for their recovery; amend KRS 40.317 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs, upon notification from the hospital or veteran, to make contact with the veteran within one business day to ensure assistance is provided; establish a short title of Keeney's Rights Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-27","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-27","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB381/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb381.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1575707,"bill_number":"SB124","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 281A.160 and 186.635 to allow a person whose valid Kentucky commercial driver's license or operator's license has been expired for less than five years to renew the license without having to take knowledge and skills tests; set requirements for application for renewal; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 153)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB124/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb124.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1576092,"bill_number":"HB392","title":"AN ACT relating to merchant electric generating facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 278.702 to provide that the terms of service for the ad hoc members of the Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Transmission Siting end when the merchant electric generating facility for which they were appointed has been constructed and has begun generating electricity for sale; amend KRS 278.704 to include decommissioning requirements within the requirements over which local planning and zoning requirements shall have primacy; remove outdated language; amend KRS 278.706 to require that a decommissioning plan be included in an application for construction of a merchant electric generating facility; establish minimum requirements for a decommissioning plan; require as part of a decommission plan that a bond or similar security be secured to assure that the decommissioning plan is accomplished; establish requirements for how the bond is set and how the beneficiaries of the bond are to be determined; require that certain components of the decommissioning plan be incorporated into the construction certificate applicant's leases with landowners; amend KRS 278.710 to include whether the decommissioning plan complies with the requirements of the Act in the criteria for approval of a construction certificate for a merchant electric generating facility; require a person that has received a construction certificate for a merchant electric generating facility file with the board the copy of the bond or similar security no later than the date that construction commences for the facility; require that an updated copy of the bond or similar security be refiled at least once every five years thereafter; require notice to be filed with the board when the construction of the merchant electric generating facility is complete and has begun producing electricity for sale; require that notice be given of any transaction involving the sale or transfer of ownership of the facility to the board and local officials within five days of finalizing the transaction; require a person who has acquired a merchant electric generating facility to file with the board written consent to assume the obligations in the decommissioning plan for the facility and to adopt or replace the required decommissioning bond; amend KRS 278.718 to provide that an ordinance, permit, or license issued by a local government shall have primacy over the requirements of KRS 278.700 and Sections 2, 3, and 4 of this Act.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"to Rules (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB392/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb392.html","sponsor":"Joshua Branscum"},
{"bill_id":1576126,"bill_number":"HB391","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to establish and abolish various divisions in the Department of Parks; repeal KRS 148.241 and 148.242, relating to the Falls of the Ohio Interstate Park, and KRS 148.250, relating to the Thoroughbred State Park; amend KRS 11.400 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 135)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB391/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb391.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1576160,"bill_number":"SB127","title":"AN ACT relating to procurement.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.490, relating to the Model Procurement Code, to include new defined terms; amend 45A.494 to exclude businesses that are controlled by an entity outside Kentucky from qualifying as a resident bidder, establish new preferences for bidders who are resident bidders and who use employees located in Kentucky to fulfill the contract, and establish an exception to these preferences if they contradict federal policy.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-28","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-01-31","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB127/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb127.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1576196,"bill_number":"HB395","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to conduct all procurements necessary for its performance pursuant to KRS Chapter 45A or pursuant to administrative regulations it promulgates; exempt procurements it makes for personal service contracts from the requirements of KRS 45A.695(2)(b); provide that the department's procurement procedures or administrative regulations be designed with the best interests of the Commonwealth, the department, and the public in mind; allow the department to conduct its own bidding and procurements or to utilize the services of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, or both; allow the commissioner of the department, in lieu of the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, to declare an emergency for purchasing purposes; amend KRS 150.021 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; remove language making the powers conferred to the department by KRS Chapters 150 and 235 subject to KRS Chapters 42, 45, 45A, 56, and 64; require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to transfer to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources all records, files, and documents associated with functions that the cabinet no longer performs for the department; exempt the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources from reorganization under KRS Chapter 12; amend KRS 150.022 to change references from wildlife districts to commission districts; make commission members' terms end on December 31 of the fourth calendar year following their appointments and until their successors are duly appointed and confirmed by the Senate; require that a member serve no more than two full terms, excluding any partial terms that a member may serve; require that a candidate to be a commission member have held hunting and fishing licenses for the previous five consecutive years; require that an appointment to the commission to replace a member whose term has expired be made no later than January 20 of the year following the year in which the term expired; require that the Governor and the Commissioner of Agriculture make alternating appointments to the commission based on the commission district, except the Governor shall always make the appointments for the first commission district; make conforming changes; amend KRS 150.061 to make the commissioner the appointing authority for the department for the purposes of KRS Chapter 18A and to conform; amend KRS 235.030 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; amend KRS 150.0241, 235.010, and 235.130 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-03-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB395/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb395.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1576231,"bill_number":"HB398","title":"AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships.","description":"Amend KRS 164.7879 to allow a student who attends an out-of-state high school or Department of Defense school due to a parent's military transfer to earn a KEES award if the student earned a base amount in a previous year at a Kentucky high school.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-28","last_action":"returned to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB398/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb398.html","sponsor":"Chris Freeland"},
{"bill_id":1576265,"bill_number":"HB396","title":"AN ACT relating to public safety.","description":"Amend KRS 500.080 to define \"riot\"; amend KRS 508.010, relating to assault in the first degree, to create a mandatory fine of $15,000 when the offense is committed during the course of a riot; amend KRS 508.025, relating to assault in the third degree, to create a mandatory fine of $5,000 and a minimum sentence of 30 days' incarceration, which is not subject to any form of early release; amend KRS 508.030 to provide that knowingly shining or aiming a laser towards the head of another person results in a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 511.060, 511.070, and 511.080 to make criminal trespass enhance one classification level when done to harass a person who is a law enforcement officer, active duty member of the military, judge, or elected or appointed government official; create a new section of KRS Chapter 512 to require the court to order full restitution in any conviction under KRS 512.020, 512.030, or 512.040; amend KRS 512.020 to create a mandatory fine of $5,000 when a person is convicted of criminal mischief in the first degree during the course of a riot; create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to require the court to order full restitution in any conviction under KRS 525.020, 525.030, or 525.040; amend KRS 525.020, relating to riot in the first degree, to create a minimum sentence of 45 days' incarceration, which is not subject to any form of early release; amend KRS 525.030, relating to riot in the second degree, to create a minimum sentence of 30 days' incarceration, which is not subject to any form of early release; amend KRS 525.140 to make obstructing a highway a Class D felony when the obstruction blocks an emergency vehicle, emergency responder, or emergency exit; amend KRS 525.150 to make disrupting meetings and processions a Class A misdemeanor in all cases; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to require 12-hour hold for any person charged with certain offenses and allow exceptions; amend KRS 431.073 to exclude various Class D felonies from being expungeable; amend KRS 533.254 to require the court to order restitution in cases where a person is put on probation or given pretrial diversion; amend KRS 411.100 to require gross negligence for a cause of action for property damaged by riotous or tumultuous assemblage of people that a local government could have prevented; repeal KRS 525.145, relating to disrupting meetings and processions in the first degree; amend various sections to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB396/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb396.html","sponsor":"Steve Sheldon"},
{"bill_id":1576301,"bill_number":"HB394","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky State Police.","description":"Amend KRS 15A.020 to provide that the Department of Kentucky State Police shall be an independent agency within the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; create new sections of KRS Chapter 16 to establish the Kentucky State Police Commission and the membership; provide that the Kentucky State Police Commission shall promulgate administrative regulations to create a competitive examination for applicants for employment and establish a list of eligible candidates for employment; provide that the Kentucky State Police Commission shall have the sole authority to appoint a commissioner of the Department of Kentucky State Police; amend KRS 16.050 to require that the biennial salary survey be provided to the Kentucky State Police Commission and to conform; provide for staggering of initial appointments to the commission.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB394/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb394.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1576339,"bill_number":"HB393","title":"AN ACT relating to the State Fair Board and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 247.090 to authorize the Governor to appoint members of the State Fair Board; amend KRS 247.100 to establish corporate powers of the State Fair Board; amend KRS 247.110 to set procedures of the board; amend KRS 247.130 to establish hiring and management procedures for the board; amend KRS 247.145 to authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations for operation, maintenance, or use of property; amend KRS 247.160 to limit control of property to the state fairgrounds and exhibition center; amend KRS 247.165 to exempt the state fairgrounds and exhibition center from license taxes; repeal KRS 247.147, which establishes board procurement procedures; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB393/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb393.html","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1576373,"bill_number":"SB150","title":"AN ACT relating to fiscal matters, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate Restricted Fund moneys from the West Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies fund to the Department of Military Affairs budget unit; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-15","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 222)","last_action_date":"2022-04-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB150/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb150.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1576408,"bill_number":"HB397","title":"AN ACT relating to disaster days for schools impacted by the western Kentucky tornadoes and declaring an emergency.","description":"Waive up to 15 student attendance days for days school districts were closed due to the western Kentucky tornado disaster; consider days waived under this Act as completed employment contract days for school personnel; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-31","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 65)","last_action_date":"2022-03-31","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB397/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb397.html","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1577691,"bill_number":"HB406","title":"AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to direct state agencies to promulgate administrative regulations within the applicable 90 day deadline; compel agency appearance before the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee for failure to meet the deadline; allow the subcommittee to grant the agency one extension lasting 30 days; amend KRS 7.110 to allow the Legislative Research Commission to seek a contempt ruling from the Franklin Circuit Court against a noncompliant agency representative; amend KRS 13A.030 and 13A.290 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-31","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-31","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB406/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb406.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1577722,"bill_number":"HB402","title":"AN ACT relating to assisted reproduction.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to create the crime of fraudulent assisted reproduction; define terms; authorize a civil action; establish penalty; amend KRS 311.597 to add fraudulent assisted reproduction to the list of violations that may cause a doctor to lose or be restricted in the use of his or her medical license.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 156)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB402/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb402.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1577752,"bill_number":"HB400","title":"AN ACT relating to employment discrimination based on smoking.","description":"Amend KRS 344.040 to remove protections against employment discrimination based on an individual's status as a smoker or nonsmoker.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-31","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-31","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB400/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb400.html","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1577781,"bill_number":"HB405","title":"AN ACT relating to the recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to create the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact; declare the intent and purpose of the compact; define terms; establish conditions under which an individual can practice in a remote state; require member states to expedite the processing of applications for licensure from veterans, active military service members, and members of the National Guard and Reserves separating from an active duty tour, as well as their spouses; authorize a home state to impose adverse action against an individual's license issued by the home state; authorize a member state's EMS authority to issue subpoenas for hearings and investigations as well as cease and desist orders to restrict, suspend, or revoke an individual's privilege to practice in the state; establish the Interstate Commission for EMS Personnel Practice; provide immunity from suit and liability for members, officers, executive director, employees and representatives of the commission who act in accordance with the provisions of the compact; require the commission to develop and maintain a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, disciplinary action, and significant investigatory information on all licensed individuals participating in the compact; authorize the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of state government to enforce the provisions of the compact; establish rulemaking procedures; authorize the commission to attempt to resolve disputes related to the compact that arise among member states and between member and non-member states; require provisions of the compact to become effective on the date the compact is enacted into law in the tenth compact state; establish withdrawal guidelines for a member state that wishes to withdraw from the compact; provide for severability for any provision in the compact that is contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-01-31","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB405/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb405.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1577813,"bill_number":"HCR54","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Lottery Trust Fund Task Force.","description":"Create the Lottery Trust Fund Task Force to study the various uses of the task fund, evaluate the performance of the various scholarship and grant programs funded by the fund, and develop and submit recommended changes to better align the uses of the fund to future needs; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit any findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-31","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-31","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR54/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr54.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1577845,"bill_number":"HB401","title":"AN ACT relating to welding safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects requiring structural steel welding such as certification of welders and certified inspectors; provide definitions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB401/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb401.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1577878,"bill_number":"HR53","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Darryl Owens.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Darryl Owens.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR53/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr53.html","sponsor":"Pamela Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1577911,"bill_number":"HB403","title":"AN ACT relating to animals and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 258.500 to define \"person\" as a person with a disability who has an ongoing therapeutic relationship with a health care provider; stipulate who can be a health care provider under the definition; exclude from therapeutic relationship a fee-based transaction for disability documentation absent a face-to-face consultation with a health care provider; establish requirements for an assistance dog to be granted public accommodation; affirm certain rights and privileges of public establishments as nondiscriminatory and allow additional rights for those providing accommodation in situations of tenancy; amend KRS 258.335 to make unlawful the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodation; amend KRS 258.991 to set penalty for interference with use of an assistance dog at $500 and delete jail time; make the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodations unlawful and provide for a fine of up to $1,000; require that all fines collected be paid into the animal control and care fund with 50 percent allocated to spay and neuter clinics and 50 percent allocated to county animal shelter block grants; amend KRS 525.010 to clarify the definition of \"assistance dog\"; amend KRS 258.119 to allocate 50 percent of fines collected to spay and neuter clinics and 50 percent to county animal shelter block grants; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-01-31","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-01-31","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB403/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb403.html","sponsor":"Matt Lockett"},
{"bill_id":1577939,"bill_number":"SR81","title":"A RESOLUTION commending Kentucky REALTORS® on the 100th anniversary of its founding.","description":"Recognize Kentucky REALTORS® on the 100th anniversary of its founding.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR81/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr81.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1577970,"bill_number":"HB404","title":"AN ACT relating to seizure first aid.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to require the Department of Workplace Standards to promulgate administrative regulations and procedures to disseminate information to employers, employees, and the general public about rendering seizure first aid.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB404/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb404.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1578001,"bill_number":"HB399","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Amend KRS 42.455 to delete requirements for a public hearing and notifications concerning public hearings by a local government receiving economic development funds; require local governments to provide for public input into the expenditure of public funds for economic development; amend KRS 91A.040 to change audit deadlines from February to March and reporting deadlines from March to April; increase exemption for city audit from $75,000 to $150,000; require that if a city claims the exemption for 4 years, an attestation of engagement must be prepared by either a CPA or the Auditor of Public Accounts; amend KRS 174.100 to delete requirement for a public hearing and substituting a requirement for a public meeting on the expenditure of road funds; establish criteria for such a public meeting.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 103)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB399/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb399.html","sponsor":"Joshua Branscum"},
{"bill_id":1578031,"bill_number":"SJR80","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION establishing that the Commonwealth of Kentucky will recognize a positive COVID-19 antibody test as equivalent to having been vaccinated against COVID-19 and declaring an emergency.","description":"Require the Commonwealth of Kentucky and any of its agencies or entities to recognize individuals whose serology test results show measurable neutralizing antibodies to COVID-19, quantified above the 20th percentile of the population of immunized individuals, as equivalent to being fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR80/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr80.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1579061,"bill_number":"HJR56","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Private Clarence \"Joe\" Aubrey Memorial Bridge in Spencer County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Private Clarence \"Joe\" Aubrey Memorial Bridge in Spencer County.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR56/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr56.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1579070,"bill_number":"HB425","title":"AN ACT relating to minimum wage for essential workers and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010 to define \"essential employee\"; amend KRS 337.275 to set a minimum wage for essential employees; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB425/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb425.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1579080,"bill_number":"HCR55","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Infant Mortality Task Force.","description":"Establish the Infant Mortality Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2022 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR55/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr55.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1579087,"bill_number":"HB411","title":"AN ACT relating to college student criminal history inquiries.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit a public or private postsecondary institution from inquiring about a student's criminal history on the institution's admissions application.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB411/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb411.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1579096,"bill_number":"HB408","title":"AN ACT relating to student journalist freedom.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to state legislative findings; establish definitions; provide additional free speech protections for student journalists; place limitations on additional protections; provide protection for student media advisors; require each district to adopt a written policy for time, place, and manner restrictions, and for an appeals procedure; provide that student speech not be considered school speech; provide that a student journalist or student media advisor may seek injunctive relief; establish the short title of \"New Voices Act.\"","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB408/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb408.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1579108,"bill_number":"HB418","title":"AN ACT relating to the Perinatal Advisory Committee.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 211.672 to 211.678 to establish an advisory committee to review Kentucky’s system of perinatal care and make recommendations for the improvement of perinatal outcomes within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish duties, membership, and reporting requirements of the committee.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB418/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb418.html","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1579116,"bill_number":"HB415","title":"AN ACT relating to state contracts.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.110 require a bidder to state whether the bidder has received two or more civil penalties under KRS Chapters 337, 338, 339, or 341 prior to a determination of responsibility of the bidder.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB415/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb415.html","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":1579125,"bill_number":"HB432","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation of breast pumps and related supplies.","description":"Amend KRS 139.472 to define and exempt from sales and use tax breast pumps, breast pump storage and collection supplies, and breast pump kits from August 1, 2022, to July 31, 2026, and require the Department of Revenue to report the exemption each August 1; amend KRS 131.190 to authorize the department to report the exemption to the Legislative Research Commission; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB432/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb432.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1579132,"bill_number":"HB431","title":"AN ACT relating to special enrollment periods for pregnancy.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers offering health benefit plans to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for the coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special enrollment rights; amend KRS 304.17A-220 to conform; amend 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 requirement; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB431/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb431.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1579141,"bill_number":"HB433","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 210.370 to 210.485 to create the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program; establish duties and responsibilities; amend KRS 210.400 to establish that the community board for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability shall implement, staff, and operate the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB433/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb433.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1579150,"bill_number":"HB412","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders; amend KRS 164.2871 to require a self-insured employer group health plan provided by a state postsecondary education institution to its employees to comply with the new section on postpartum mood disorder coverage; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the new section on postpartum mood disorder coverage; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the new section on postpartum mood disorder coverage; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on postpartum mood disorder coverage; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB412/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb412.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1579159,"bill_number":"HB430","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicare supplement insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.14-520 to prohibit an insurer from denying, or conditioning the effectiveness of, a Medicare supplement policy, or discriminating in price, based on the age, gender, health status, claims experience, receipt of health care, or medical condition of an applicant or a person covered under the policy; prohibit the policy from containing a waiting period or pre-existing condition limitation or exclusion; require applications to be accepted, and policies issued, at all times throughout the year; provide that the Act applies to Medicare supplement policies issued, or renewed in this state on or after the effective date of the Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"recommitted to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB430/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb430.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1579169,"bill_number":"SR86","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the University of Kentucky Wildcats football team on their fourth consecutive bowl game victory.","description":"Honor the University of Kentucky football team upon the occasion of their fourth consecutive bowl game victory.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR86/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr86.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1579177,"bill_number":"HB414","title":"AN ACT relating to public safety personnel.","description":"Amend KRS 90.330 to remove the requirement that a candidate for employment shall not have passed his or her 46th birthday; amend KRS 95.010 to amend the definition of \"member\" as used in KRS 95.440 to 95.629; amend KRS 95.022 to provide that the number of police officers a city may hire is based on the total number of officers employed by the city in the immediately preceding year; amend KRS 95.450 to provide that any person may file a complaint and a mayor, city manager, or legislative body may prefer charges; to provide that a hearing shall occur within 10 days after charges were filed; to provide that an accused member shall be served with a copy of the charges at least 5 days before a hearing; to provide that an accused member may waive service and demand a hearing within 10 days after charges were filed; amend KRS 95.460 to provide that review by a Circuit Court shall be based solely on the record created before the legislative body and any new evidence regarding arbitrariness of the legislative body; amend KRS 95.495 to provide an exception to the work day limitations for police departments; amend KRS 95.762 to remove the age requirements for a candidate for employment as a police officer; amend KRS 95.765 to provide that any person may file a complaint and a mayor, city manager, or legislative body may prefer charges; to provide that a hearing shall occur within 10 days after charges were filed; to provide that an accused member shall be served with a copy of the charges at least 5 days before a hearing; to provide that an accused member may waive service and demand a hearing within 10 days after charges were filed; amend KRS 337.285 to provide an exception to the work day limitations for police departments with officers who are represented by collective bargaining units.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-11","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 191)","last_action_date":"2022-04-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB414/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb414.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1579185,"bill_number":"SR83","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Ernest \"Ernie\" Edison West.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ernest \"Ernie\" Edison West.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR83/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr83.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1579194,"bill_number":"HB407","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 116.025 to require that a voter be a resident of the state and precinct on or before the day of a primary or an election for voter registration purposes; amend KRS 116.045 to allow a person who is not a registered voter prior to the time that the registration books are closed, and who possesses all other qualifications for voter registration, to register at the person's precinct of residence on the day of a primary or an election if the person confirms his or her identity, completes the registration form and a required oath; amend KRS 116.0452 to specify that timely receipt for precinct voter registration is on the day of a primary or an election; require the county clerk to provide the State Board of Elections with a report of the number of voters registering to vote at the precincts on the day of a primary or an election; amend KRS 116.0455 to provide that each application for a motor vehicle driver's license shall be a simultaneous application for voter registration unless declined by the applicant; amend KRS 116.048 to provide that each application filed through a designated voter registration agency shall be a simultaneous application for voter registration unless declined by the applicant; amend KRS 117.085 to provide convenience of the voter as a basis for absentee voting and to permit any qualified voter the ability to vote in-person absentee during normal business hours on at least any of the 12 working days and 2 Saturdays before an election; amend KRS 117.087 to extend the ending voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; amend KRS 117.225 to require that if the person is not listed on the precinct roster, that the person, subject to applicable requirements, be given the opportunity to register and to vote at the precinct on the day of an election; amend KRS 117.365 to extend ending voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; require that applications for voter registration completed at the precinct be presented to the grand jury and retained by the county clerk; amend KRS 118.035 to extend voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB407/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb407.html","sponsor":"Buddy Wheatley"},
{"bill_id":1579203,"bill_number":"HB410","title":"AN ACT relating to education mandates.","description":"Amend KRS 156.095 to provide that the Kentucky Department of Education shall not impose any professional development or training requirements that are not expressly required by state or federal law; reallocate the KBE's authority over professional development coordinators to local boards; delete the requirement that the professional development coordinator participate in KDE's annual training; provide that KDE shall only assist school districts with the development of long-term school and district improvement plans upon the request of the school district or school council; provide that schools may use up to 4 days of the school calendar for professional development; delete the state mandate for professional development trainings on suicide prevention, active shooter, and child abuse neglect and prevention; amend KRS 158.070 to delete the requirement that 4 full days to the school calendar be designated for professional development; delete the requirement for professional development trainings on seizure disorders; amend KRS 158.649 to remove the requirement that a school improvement plan include professional development; amend KRS 158.148 to remove required training on the code of acceptable behavior and discipline; amend KRS 158.6453 to provide that the statewide trainings provided to teachers and administrators shall be voluntary; amend KRS 161.044 to remove the state mandate for instructional teacher's aide training; amend KRS 160.445 to remove the state mandate for interscholastic coach training and testing; amend KRS 161.185 to remove the state mandate for nonfaculty coach training and testing; amend KRS 156.101 to remove the state mandate for instructional leader training and testing; amend KRS 158.818 to remove the state mandate for CTE teacher training on embedding core content; amend KRS 156.557 to remove the state mandate for teacher evaluator training and testing; amend KRS 160.350 to remove the state mandate for superintendent training; amend KRS 160.345 to remove the state mandate for school council member training; amend KRS 160.180 to remove the state mandate for school board member training; amend KRS 150.060 to establish a minimum time requirement for teacher's noninstructional time; provide that a teacher shall be paid an hourly rate for any instruction provided during the teacher's noninstructional time.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB410/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb410.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1579212,"bill_number":"HB420","title":"AN ACT relating to freestanding birthing centers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define \"freestanding birthing center\"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers and compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) Standards for Birth Centers; require freestanding birthing centers in medically underserved areas to meet the standard of need for a certificate of need; require centers in non-medically underserved areas to demonstrate financial viability; and limit liability of center.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB420/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb420.html","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1579223,"bill_number":"SB128","title":"AN ACT designating the state dog breed.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the Treeing Walker Coonhound as the official state dog of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB128/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb128.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1579229,"bill_number":"HB413","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health coverage in connection with pregnancy.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require certain health benefit plans to provide coverage for counseling interventions for pregnant and postpartum persons at increased risk of perinatal depression, including persons who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth; amend KRS 164.2871 to require self-insured employer plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with the coverage requirement for counseling interventions; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid benefits to comply with the coverage requirement for counseling interventions; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the coverage requirement for counseling interventions; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with the coverage requirement for counseling interventions; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB413/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb413.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1579238,"bill_number":"HB422","title":"AN ACT relating to information technology.","description":"Amend KRS 154.15-010 to create a definition for \"paid prioritization\"; create a new section of Subchapter 15 of KRS Chapter 154 to require that KentuckyWired contracts between the Kentucky Communications Network Authority and public or private Internet service providers contain certain provisions to ensure open and fair access to the network by customers.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB422/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb422.html","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1579247,"bill_number":"SR87","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of David Cole Brown.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of David Cole Brown.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR87/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr87.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1579256,"bill_number":"SR84","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Dr. Wally Olson Montgomery.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Wally Olson Montgomery","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR84/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr84.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1579264,"bill_number":"HB417","title":"AN ACT relating to public procurement.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 45A to set forth findings of the General Assembly and establish a policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to promote the Kentucky and United States economies by requiring a preference for iron, steel, aluminum, and manufactured goods produced in Kentucky and the United States; define \"manufactured in Kentucky,\" \"manufactured in the United States,\" and \"United States\"; require preference for iron, steel, aluminum, and manufactured goods made in Kentucky in construction and maintenance contracts and subcontracts; provide for a waiver of the Kentucky preference requirement; require preference for iron, steel, aluminum, and manufactured goods made in the United States if the Kentucky waiver is granted; provide for a waiver of the United States preference requirement; establish a short title of \"Kentucky Buy American Act\"; amend KRS 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.080, and 424.260 to require compliance.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB417/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb417.html","sponsor":"Charles Miller"},
{"bill_id":1579272,"bill_number":"HB428","title":"AN ACT relating to local firearms control and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 65.870 to remove state preemption of local firearms regulations and allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 237.115 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB428/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb428.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1579282,"bill_number":"HB424","title":"AN ACT relating to the authority of local governments to establish ordinances concerning minimum wages and paid leave.","description":"Amend KRS 65.016 to grant local governments the authority to adopt and enforce ordinances that require employers in their jurisdiction to provide paid leave to employees and set a higher minimum wage than state and federal rates.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB424/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb424.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1579291,"bill_number":"SR85","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 2, 2022, as Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Day in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Recognize February 2, 2022, as Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR85/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr85.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1579301,"bill_number":"HB429","title":"AN ACT relating to notice of forcible entry or detainer.","description":"Amend KRS 383.210 and 383.215, relating to forcible entry and detainer, to allow a local government to set an alternative time period from the date of the service of the warrant and the date of the hearing to more than the minimum of three days; require the local government to notify the sheriff, the court of jurisdiction, and the administrative office of the courts of that action.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB429/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb429.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1579309,"bill_number":"HB427","title":"AN ACT relating to employment provisions for employees on parental leave.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide 12 weeks of paid parental leave for an employee who has been employed for at least one year; allow an employee to waive the paid parental leave; provide for the promulgation of administrative regulations.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB427/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb427.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1579319,"bill_number":"HB409","title":"AN ACT relating to veteran employment opportunity, making an appropriation therefore, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to create the Veteran Accelerated Licensing for Occupational Recruitment Program within the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, define the duties and requirements of the program, require the program to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection, and permit the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to create a VALOR fund for the Veteran Accelerated Licensing for the Occupational Recruitment program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB409/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb409.html","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1579328,"bill_number":"HB419","title":"AN ACT relating to home and community-based services waiver providers.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010, 342.650, and 341.055 to remove the current exemption or exclusion of certain home or community-based services waiver providers from the definition of \"employee\" for payment-of-wage statutes, from coverage in regards to workers 'compensation, and from the definition of \"covered employment\" for unemployment compensation purposes under KRS 341250(3) or (4) respectively.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB419/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb419.html","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":1579335,"bill_number":"HR57","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing May 16, 2022, as Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation Awareness Day.","description":"Recognize May 16, 2022, as Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR57/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr57.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1579347,"bill_number":"HB421","title":"AN ACT relating to mining licenses and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 351 to require any owner, operator, lessee, or licensee of a coal mine holding a license under KRS 337.200 that has been doing business in the Commonwealth for fewer than 5 consecutive years to submit a certification from the commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards that the licensee is compliant with or exempt from these performance bonding requirements of KRS 337.200; amend KRS 351.175 to require any coal mine licensee applicant to submit a certification from the commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards that the applicant is compliant with or exempt from the performance bonding requirement of KRS 337.200; require the department to revoke any license if the department receives notification that the licensee is neither compliant nor exempt from the performance bonding requirements of KRS 337.200; amend KRS 337.200 to require the commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards to notify the Department for Natural Resources of any employer engaged in the severance, preparation, or transportation of minerals that is not compliant with the performance bonding requirements; amend KRS 337.994 to require that all penalties collected for violations of KRS 337.200 be paid to employees injured by the employer's failure to post the performance bond; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB421/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb421.html","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1579356,"bill_number":"HB426","title":"AN ACT relating to employment discrimination.","description":"Amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, 344.080, 344.100, and 344.110 to add protections against discrimination based on weight.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB426/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb426.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1579364,"bill_number":"SR82","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jack Baker.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jack Baker.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR82/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr82.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1579375,"bill_number":"SR88","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of former University of Kentucky basketball coach Joe B. Hall.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of former University of Kentucky Basketball coach Joe B. Hall.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR88/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr88.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1579383,"bill_number":"HB423","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to make definitions and require a 4-year period for all new tax expenditures enacted after the effective date of this Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to require the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue to evaluate tax expenditures and make recommendations to the General Assembly during each odd-numbered year; amend KRS 154.12-2035 to include additional tax incentives within the current reports required by the Cabinet for Economic Development; amend KRS 131.030 to require reporting by the Department of Revenue to the Cabinet for Economic Development; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the data to be reported by the Department of Revenue; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to require reporting by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission; create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to establish a refund process for the new and expanded industry exemption; amend KRS 139.480 to allow the refund process for the new and expanded industry exemption; amend KRS 141.434 to require reporting on the New Markets Development Program tax credit by the Department of Revenue to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 139.470 and 139.481 to conform; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB423/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb423.html","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1579389,"bill_number":"HB416","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for the care of children.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-258 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for certain formulas; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for breastfeeding support and equipment; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the coverage requirements for formulas and breastfeeding support and equipment; amend KRS 205.560 to conform; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB416/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb416.html","sponsor":"Pamela Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1580480,"bill_number":"SB133","title":"AN ACT relating to the state geographic information clearinghouse.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to reorganize the Office of Data Analytics within the Office of the Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and remove the Office of Health Data and Analytics; amend KRS 194A.030 to establish the Office of Data Analytics within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; remove the Office of Health Data and Analytics; establish that the oversight of the operations of the Kentucky Health Information Exchange will be in the Office of Inspector General within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 194A.099 to establish that the Department for Medicaid Services shall administer the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; amend KRS 194A.101 to reorganize the Office of Data Analytics within the Office of the Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 194A.103 to reorganize the Division of Kentucky Health Information Exchange in the Office of Inspector General within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and remove the Division of Health Information from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 194A.105 to reorganize the Division of Telehealth Services within the Office of Inspector General in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 211.334 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 229)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB133/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb133.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1580501,"bill_number":"SB129","title":"AN ACT relating to student discipline at public postsecondary education institutions.","description":"Amend KRS 164.370 to define terms; require a governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to adopt a code for student conduct; establish minimum procedural requirements for a nonacademic violation when the violation is punishable by a suspension, expulsion, or termination of student housing, including a presumption of innocence, written notice, maintenance of an administrative file, the right to be present and participate meaningfully, the right to fair and impartial treatment, and the ability to bring a support person; establish enhanced minimum procedural requirements for a nonacademic violation when the violation is punishable by a suspension of three days or more, expulsion, or termination of student housing, including the right to be represented by counsel, to present relevant hearing evidence, and to cross-examine hearing testimony; provide a respondent who is suspended for three days or more, expelled, or has his or her campus housing terminated the right to appeal the results of a disciplinary hearing; provide that a participant has the right to appeal a Title IX allegation that does not result in a finding of a violation; provide that a respondent or designated complainant shall have the right to appeal a final order of the governing board in Circuit Court; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to impede or delay law enforcement, impair an institution's ability to take reasonable interim measures in a student discipline matter, impair an institution's ability to effectuate a valid judicial order, impair an institution's ability to terminate a student's residence in campus housing for any other reason than a student disciplinary matter, or limit any addition rights afforded under federal law; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require a public postsecondary education institution to publish a report on student discipline every three years; establish the required contents of the report; permit a postsecondary education institution to apply to the Attorney General for an exemption when the institution maintains that required data cannot be adequately deidentified to conform to federal law; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Campus Due Process Protection Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB129/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb129.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1580520,"bill_number":"SR90","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of James Gregory Allen as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.","description":"Confirm the appointment of James Gregory Allen as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR90/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr90.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1580541,"bill_number":"SR94","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Samuel J. Bach as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Samuel J. Bach as an adminstrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring December 31, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"adopted 33-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR94/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr94.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1580562,"bill_number":"HR58","title":"A RESOLUTION designating May 1-7, 2022, as Postpartum Depression Awareness Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Designate May 1-7, 2022, as Postpartum Depression Awareness Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR58/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr58.html","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1580582,"bill_number":"HB434","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for certified professional midwifery services.","description":"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 midwifery services that are provided by a licensed certified professional midwife; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB434/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb434.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1580605,"bill_number":"HB444","title":"AN ACT relating to parental rights.","description":"Amend KRS 625.090 to delete grounds for involuntarily termination of parental rights related to neonatal abstinence syndrome at the time birth unless the mother is in substance abuse treatment.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB444/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb444.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1580625,"bill_number":"HB4","title":"AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 341.005 to define \"enhanced federal benefits\" and \"state average unemployment rate\"; amend KRS 341.100 to define \"suitable work\" under certain circumstances; amend KRS 341.270 and KRS 341.272 to reduce the minimum period of time for an employer to qualify for a lower contribution rate to four quarters; amend KRS 341.350 to require that eligible recipients engage in five work search activities per week during each week that he or she claims eligibility for benefits; amend KRS 341.380 to change the maximum benefit payable to a worker within a benefit year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 providing for a variable duration of unemployment insurance benefits, ranging from 12 weeks to 24 weeks, based upon the state average unemployment rate at the time of each individual's application for benefits except in certain situations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to allow an employer to notify the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet about each worker who has declined suitable work or has failed to attend a first interview; amend KRS 341.370 to change the conditions under which a worker must be disqualified from receiving benefits during unemployment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to allow the General Assembly to end the Commonwealth's participation in any enhanced benefits program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the General Assembly's approval, which it may withdraw at any time, to participate in any enhanced federal benefits program; amend KRS 341.096 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 341 to allow employers to submit a plan for a shared work program to the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet for approval; make employees eligible for shared work benefits if they are employed as members of an affected group, under an approved plan, are able to work, and their normal weekly hours are reduced at least ten percent but not more than forty percent; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 explaining that the weekly shared work benefit amount shall be the product of the regular weekly unemployment compensation amount calculated in KRS 341.380 multiplied by the percentage of reduction of at least ten percent in the individual's usual weekly hours of work, and although an individual may be eligible for shared work benefits or regular benefits as appropriate, no individual shall be eligible for combined benefits in any benefit year in an amount greater than his or her maximum benefit as calculated under KRS Chapter 341.380 and no individual shall receive shared work benefits for more than 26 weeks; amend KRS 341.530, 341.080, 341.127, and 341.710 to conform; declare the provisions of this Act severable; allow the Act to be cited as the Unemployment Insurance Sustainability Act of 2022.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-03-22","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 21)","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB4/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb4.html","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1580647,"bill_number":"HB443","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for parental and guardian depression screenings.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow parental depression screenings to be claimed as a service for the child as part of the early and periodic, diagnostic and Treatment benefit; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky Children's Insurance Program to cover parental depression screenings; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health plan to cover parental depression screenings as part of a well-child or well-baby visit; amend KRS 164.2871 to require self-insured employer group health plans offered by a state postsecondary education institution to cover parental depression screenings; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to cover parental depression screenings; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to request federal authorization for a waiver if necessary; certain sections EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB443/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb443.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1580666,"bill_number":"SB132","title":"AN ACT relating to guardianship proceedings.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS 387.500 to 387.770 to change the term \"ward\" to \"protected person\"; allow the respondent the right to retain private counsel; set out the respondent's right to an attorney who does not act as a guardian ad litem; increase maximum allowable hourly rate for court-appointed attorneys; create new sections of KRS 387.500 to 387.770 to allow the court to address the needs of marital parties after the appointment of a guardian or conservator; allow the court to appoint a guardian ad litem for the respondent in certain circumstances.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB132/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb132.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1580689,"bill_number":"SB130","title":"AN ACT relating to the health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Direct the use of a total of $81,000,000 of American Rescue Plan Act State Fiscal Recovery funds in fiscal year 2022-2023 to address the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting essential need for retaining and recruiting nurses, nurse's aides, respiratory therapists, emergency medical personnel, and other critical medical staff in acute care hospitals and nursing homes; require distribution of funds of a minimum of $3,000 per licensed hospital bed and a minimum of $1,500 per licensed nursing home bed; require acute care hospitals and nursing homes to report expenditures to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require the cabinet to report to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB130/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb130.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1580713,"bill_number":"HB435","title":"AN ACT relating to school breakfasts.","description":"Amend KRS 158.070 to permit the administrator of a school that participates in the Federal School Breakfast Program to authorize up to 15 minutes of the student attendance day to provide the opportunity for children to eat breakfast during instructional time.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"returned to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB435/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb435.html","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1580733,"bill_number":"HB449","title":"AN ACT relating to resources for local development.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define \"county\"; grant any city or county the right to levy a restaurant tax not to exceed three percent of retail sales; require the revenue to be distributed between the tourist convention commission and taxing jurisdiction; specify uses; exempt restaurants subject to the restaurant tax from certain occupational license fees; mandate first-time tax rate levies and rate changes take effect at the beginning of a calendar month; amend 91A.400 to sunset the levy of a restaurant tax under this section; require distribution of at least 25 percent of revenues generated to the tourist and convention commission; specify uses; exempt restaurants subject to the tax from certain local occupational license fees; amend KRS 67.938, 91A.390, 91.200, 92.281, and 92.300 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB449/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb449.html","sponsor":"Tom Smith"},
{"bill_id":1580755,"bill_number":"HB450","title":"AN ACT relating to peace officer training.","description":"Amend KRS 15.334 to require law enforcement training on the link between animal abuse and certain offenses against people.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB450/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb450.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1580775,"bill_number":"HB442","title":"AN ACT relating to newborn safety devices.","description":"Amend KRS 405.075 to add Class I, Class II, Class III, and Class IV ground ambulance providers to the approved list of entities allowed to install and operate a newborn safety device.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 45)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB442/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb442.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1580796,"bill_number":"SB136","title":"AN ACT relating to the tuition credit.","description":"Amend KRS 141.069 to include educational institutions that participate in the Academic Common Market in accordance with the Regional Compact of Southern States for Regional Educational Services, as established in KRS 164.530 and add reporting requirements; amend KRS 131.190 allowing the Department of Revenue to report on this credit.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"reassigned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB136/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb136.html","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1580818,"bill_number":"SB134","title":"AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to establish cost-sharing requirements for prescription drugs; require rebates to be passed through; establish confidentiality requirements for the rebate information; create a new section of KRS 365.880 to 365.900 to provide that the actual amount of rebates received is a trade secret; provide that compliance with the prescription drugs cost-sharing and rebate requirements shall not be in violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate requirements for prescription drugs to limited health service benefit plans and limited health service contracts; create a new section of Subtitle 38A of KRS Chapter 304 and amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require limited health service organizations, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with the cost-sharing and rebate requirements for prescription drugs; apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB134/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb134.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1580840,"bill_number":"HB448","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky quarter horse, paint horse, Appaloosa, and Arabian development fund and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 230.445, relating to the Kentucky quarter horse, paint horse, Appaloosa, and Arabian development fund, to allow the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to promulgate administrative regulations that retroactively disperse moneys from the fund; limit the retroactive dispersal to only years when no live racing related to the fund has occurred.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB448/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb448.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1580862,"bill_number":"HR59","title":"A RESOLUTION commending Kentucky REALTORS® on the 100th anniversary of its founding.","description":"Recognize Kentucky REALTORS® on the 100th anniversary of its founding.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR59/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr59.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1580885,"bill_number":"HB445","title":"AN ACT relating to limited liability entity tax.","description":"Amend KRS 141.0401 to align Kentucky's definition of \"cost of goods sold\" with the Internal Revenue Code and any guidelines issued by the Internal Revenue Service related to cost of goods sold.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB445/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb445.html","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1580908,"bill_number":"HB451","title":"AN ACT relating to motor fuel standards.","description":"Amend KRS 363.900 to change the definitions of \"ASTM International,\" \"diesel,\" and \"retail facility\"; define \"gasoline-oxygenate blend\"; amend KRS 363.902 to specify inspection and testing programs for motor fuels intended for sale from a retail facility; amend KRS 363.904 to specify vapor pressure limits for gasoline-oxygenate blends; permit the department to designate tests or specifications when no ASTM International standards exist; require all shipments of motor fuel to meet standards and specifications required in administrative regulations; amend KRS 363.906 to require a license to operate a retail motor fuel facility; increase the license fee to $75 per retail facility; set the annual license expiration on January 31 of the following calender year; amend KRS 363.9055 to conform; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 112)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB451/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb451.html","sponsor":"Daniel Fister"},
{"bill_id":1580929,"bill_number":"SB137","title":"AN ACT relating to youth mental health protection and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 define sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts, mental health professional, and public funds; to prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a person under 18 years of age or a person who is 18 years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020 or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health to develop, produce, and disseminate educational materials regarding sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts; permit the cabinet to contract for the educational materials; add the short title \"Youth Mental Health Protection Act\"; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB137/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb137.html","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":1580952,"bill_number":"HB447","title":"AN ACT relating to property taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 132.020 and 132.200 to exclude aircraft not used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation or hire from tangible property tax state and local rates; create a new section of KRS 132 to exempt aircraft not used in the business of transporting persons or property for compensation or hire; apply to property assessed on or after January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB447/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb447.html","sponsor":"Jonathan Dixon"},
{"bill_id":1580973,"bill_number":"SB131","title":"AN ACT relating to sheltered employment.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010 to redefine \"employee\" to include workers in sheltered workshops whose employment begins on or after January 1, 2026; amend KRS 337.295 to require new administrative regulations concerning sheltered workshops and sheltered workshop employment; amend KRS 205.5605 to exclude referrals to sheltered employment from the definition of \"covered services and supports\" as of January 1, 2026.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB131/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb131.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1580994,"bill_number":"SR93","title":"A RESOLUTION decrying recent attacks on historically Black colleges and universities, and supporting Kentucky State University and other historically Black colleges and universities against hatred, intolerance, and violence.","description":"Condemn bomb threats against Kentucky State University and other historically Black colleges and universities; express solidarity with Kentucky State University, its students, faculty, and staff.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR93/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr93.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1581015,"bill_number":"HB441","title":"AN ACT relating to prevailing wage.","description":"Create a new section in KRS Chapter 337 to define \"city,\" \"prevailing wage,\" \"prevailing wage rate,\" and \"public works project\"; permit a city to enact prevailing wage ordinances; repeal KRS 65.016.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB441/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb441.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1581037,"bill_number":"HB446","title":"AN ACT relating to a cost-of-living increase to the retirement benefits for retired state employees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate $162 million and $12 million in fiscal year 2022-2023 to fund a one-time one and one-half percent cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2022, for Kentucky Employees Retirement System nonhazardous and hazardous duty retirees/beneficiaries, respectively; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB446/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb446.html","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1581057,"bill_number":"HR60","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring March 2022 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month.","description":"Declare March 2022 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR60/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr60.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1581080,"bill_number":"HB438","title":"AN ACT relating to the levy of occupational license fees.","description":"Amend KRS 68.197 to remove the population requirement and the one percent occupational license fee rate limitation; allow the crediting of city and county occupational license fees by agreement only; amend KRS 67.793 to conform; repeal KRS 68.199.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB438/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb438.html","sponsor":"Tom Smith"},
{"bill_id":1581102,"bill_number":"SB135","title":"AN ACT relating to county clerks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to define \"recorded instrument\" and \"portal\"; establish deadlines for county clerks to maintain portals for the electronic filing and searching of recorded instruments; amend KRS 64.012 to provide that the $10 storage fee collected by a county clerk shall be held by the county fiscal court or legislative body of a consolidated local government or urban-county government or the exclusive purpose of providing funding for the permanent storage of recorded instruments; amend KRS 142.010 to provide that 90 percent of the funds held for the local records grant program shall be set aside and distributed as grants for county clerks; create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to allow a county clerk in a county containing a population of less than 70,000 to receive an advancement to defray necessary official expenses; appropriate $25,000,000 from the General Fund to the Department for Local Government for the purpose of providing grants to county clerks to establish and maintain portals for the electronic filing and searching of recorded instruments; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 26)","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB135/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb135.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1581123,"bill_number":"HB437","title":"AN ACT relating to utility easements.","description":"Amend KRS 278.230 to require the commission to require utilities, except electric cooperatives and municipal utilities, under its jurisdiction to maintain an up-to-date database of utility easements and rights of way for its customers; direct that the commission shall determine how the information is to be maintained and requested; direct that records shall be updated every five years.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB437/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb437.html","sponsor":"Tom Smith"},
{"bill_id":1581146,"bill_number":"SJR91","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating Olive Hill, Kentucky, the official hometown of Thomas \"Tom T.\" Hall.","description":"Make Olive Hill, Kentucky the official hometown of Tom T. Hall.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-04","last_action":"to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"Tourism & Outdoor Recreation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR91/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr91.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1581167,"bill_number":"SR89","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Amanda M. Perkins as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Amanda M. Perkins as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR89/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr89.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1581190,"bill_number":"SR92","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the celebration of Black History Month and recognizing that Black history is American history.","description":"Honor the celebration of Black History Month and recognize that Black history is American history.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR92/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr92.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1581210,"bill_number":"HR61","title":"A RESOLUTION decrying recent attacks on historically Black colleges and universities, and supporting Kentucky State University and other historically Black colleges and universities against hatred, intolerance, and violence.","description":"Condemn bomb threats against Kentucky State University and other historically Black colleges and universities; express solidarity with Kentucky State University, its students, faculty, and staff.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR61/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr61.html","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1581232,"bill_number":"HB439","title":"AN ACT relating to training for deputy jailers.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 441 to require deputy jailers to have basic training and continuing education; create the Kentucky Jail Training Council and set membership; establish provisions for the conduct of business for the council; set reimbursement for members of the council; administratively attach the council to the Department of Criminal Justice Training; require the council to report annually to the Legislative Research Commission; require the council to establish a universal core curriculum and approve training subjects for basic training and continuing education; allow for the submission of accreditation of courses; provide that the Act may be cited as Dylan's Law.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"returned to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB439/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb439.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1581253,"bill_number":"HB440","title":"AN ACT relating to public construction projects.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define \"city,\" \"project labor agreement,\" and \"public construction project\"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; repeal KRS 65.016, which prohibits local governments from requiring an employer to pay a certain wage or fringe benefit other than as determined by the employer.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-02","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-02","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB440/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb440.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1581274,"bill_number":"HB436","title":"AN ACT relating to auctioneer licensure.","description":"Amend KRS 330.070 to change the renewal period from annual to biennial; amend KRS 330.110 establish the conditions upon which the board can issue an emergency suspension of a license; amend KRS 330.120 to authorize the board to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, documents, or other evidence pursuant to investigations; amend KRS 330.210 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 24)","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB436/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb436.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1581867,"bill_number":"SR97","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Travis Dean Hurley.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in loving honor and memory of Travis Dean Hurley.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR97/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr97.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1581899,"bill_number":"SB140","title":"AN ACT relating to step therapy protocols.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-163 to define terms; establish requirements for clinical review criteria and clinical practice guidelines used to establish step therapy protocols; require certain notices and disclosures relating to step therapy protocols; establish requirements for exception requests, internal appeals, and external reviews of step therapy protocols; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to promulgate administrative regulations; require insurers, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, or private review agents to submit an annual report relating to step therapy exception requests; amend KRS 304.17A-168, 304.17A-535, 304.17A-600, 304.17A-607, 304.17A-617, and 304.17A-623 to conform; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the step therapy protocol requirements; apply to health plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after the effective date of Sections 1 to 12 of the Act; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek a federal waiver of authorization if necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 19)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB140/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb140.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1581936,"bill_number":"HJR62","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Sheriff Sam Catron Memorial Bridge in Pulaski County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Sheriff Sam Catron Memorial Bridge in Pulaski County.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR62/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr62.html","sponsor":"Shane Baker"},
{"bill_id":1581974,"bill_number":"SB142","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky.","description":"Propose an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the General Assembly the power to limit noneconomic damages for injuries resulting in death or for injuries to persons or property, and the power to provide statutes of limitation; provide for submission to the voters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB142/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb142.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1582010,"bill_number":"SB138","title":"AN ACT relating to student instruction.","description":"Amend KRS 158.183 to require a public school shall provide instruction that is consistent with designated concepts related to race, sex, and religion; provide that nothing in the bill shall be construed to restrict impartial historical instruction; amend KRS 158.195 to require designated core American documents to be embedded across middle and high school curricula; require the Kentucky Board of Education to incorporate the designated core American documents and speech into the grade-level appropriate social studies academic standards by July 1, 2023; provide that this revision of the social studies academic standards shall not delay or otherwise impact the existing schedule for reviewing and amending academic standards as set forth in KRS 158.6453(2); amend KRS 161.164 to prohibit an employee of a local school district or public charter school from being compelled to discuss current events or controversial topics; provide that an employee that chooses to discuss current events or controversial topics shall explore such topics from diverse and contending perspectives without giving deference to a specific perspective; provide that a public school employee cannot require a student to participate in designated political or policy advocacy; provide that a public school employee shall not be required to engage in training, orientation, or therapy that presents any form of race or sex stereotyping or blame on the basis of race or sex; provide that the Act be cited as Teaching American Principles Act.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"floor amendments (4), (5) and (6-title) filed","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB138/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb138.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1582045,"bill_number":"SB141","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to gaming.","description":"Propose to amend Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to define, permit, oversee, and regulate all forms of otherwise permissible gaming; provide for the oversight and control of gaming by an administrative body funded by license fees and taxes levied on gaming; require 100% of gaming proceeds, in excess of the amount used to pay for an oversight administrative body of gaming, to go to early childhood education and childcare programs; provide ballot language for submission to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB141/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb141.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1582084,"bill_number":"SB144","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of over-the-counter drugs.","description":"Amend KRS 139.472 to exempt over-the-counter drugs from sales and use tax. EFFECTIVE August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB144/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb144.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1582121,"bill_number":"HB454","title":"AN ACT relating to peace officer certification.","description":"Amend KRS 15.382 to prohibit anyone who has been convicted of various misdemeanor offenses and inchoate offenses under KRS Chapter 510 from being certified as a peace officer; amend KRS 15.386 to prohibit peace officers who have been convicted of various misdemeanor offenses and inchoate offenses under KRS Chapter 510 from returning to active certification from inactive status; amend KRS 15.391 to provide that a peace officer's certification shall be revoked if he or she pleads guilty to, is convicted of, or enters an Alford plea to various misdemeanor offenses and inchoate offenses under KRS Chapter 510.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB454/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb454.html","sponsor":"Jennifer Henson Decker"},
{"bill_id":1582162,"bill_number":"HB456","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to remove the Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation from the Department of Agriculture; amend KRS 12.023 to attach the Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 18A.115 to remove the exemption for employees of the Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation from classified service; amend KRS 246.030 to remove the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy from the Department of Agriculture's organizational structure; amend KRS 247.944 to attach the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to the Office of the Governor; authorize the Governor to appoint the members of the board of directors; allow staff services for the board to be provided by the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 248.707 to designate the Governor to serve as chairperson of the Agricultural Development Board; authorize the Governor to appoint members of the Agricultural Development Board; attach the Agricultural Development Board to the Office of the Governor, allow staff services for the board to be provided by the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 248.709 to remove reporting requirement for the executive director; transfer affairs associated with the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to the Office of the Governor; direct board members of the Agricultural Development Board and Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to serve terms as set forth; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB456/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb456.html","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1582198,"bill_number":"SR96","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing the accomplishments of Dr. Joseph Hopkins.","description":"Recognize the accomplishments of Dr. Joseph Hopkins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR96/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr96.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1582235,"bill_number":"HR63","title":"A RESOLUTION supporting the State of Israel and opposing the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement which seeks to harm the State of Israel.","description":"Express support for the State of Israel and opposition to the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement which seeks to harm the State of Israel.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to House Floor","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":"Floor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR63/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr63.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1582272,"bill_number":"SB143","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define \"antique firearm\"; require law enforcement agencies to enter reports into the National Crime Information Center; exempt antique firearms; create civil penalty for failure to make required report; authorize county attorneys to bring civil action for violations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB143/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb143.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1582310,"bill_number":"SR95","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of W. Greg Harvey as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of W. Greg Harvey as administrative law judge at the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR95/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr95.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1582349,"bill_number":"HB452","title":"AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions.","description":"Amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from raising tuition for a postsecondary education institution more than 5% a year for resident students and 7% a year for nonresident students; provide a 4-year tuition freeze for an enrolled resident students; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase to tuition or fees to be approved before March 1 of the proceeding school year; amend KRS 164.131 to add 2 additional full-time student members to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, including 1 graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; amend KRS 164.821 to add a second faculty member to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees; add 2 additional full-time student members to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees, including 1 graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; amend KRS 164.321 to add a second faculty member to the boards of regents of comprehensive universities; add 2 additional full-time student members to the boards of regents, including 1 full-time graduate student; remove language regarding initial appointments; provide that the bill may be cited as the Kentucky Student Tuition Protection and Accountability Act, provide that the; EFFECTIVE.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB452/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb452.html","sponsor":"William Lawrence"},
{"bill_id":1582384,"bill_number":"HB453","title":"AN ACT relating to open meetings.","description":"Amend KRS 61.810, relating to exceptions for open meetings for any public agency, to include within the exceptions any state or local law, in addition to laws under KRS Chapter 45A or 56, where a group is established to select a successful bidder for an award of a local contract;amend KRS 61.826, relating to video teleconferencing, to require any public agency to provide specific information regarding where any member of the media or public may view the meeting electronically; require the identification of a primary physical location of the video teleconference where all members of the public agency who are participating may be seen and heard, if the public agency provides a physical location for the meeting, or where two or more members of the public agency are attending a video teleconference meeting from the same physical location; require all public agency members who participate in a video teleconference to remain on camera all the time business is being discussed; amend KRS 83A.150, relating to cities operating under a city manager form of government, to allow the city board to meet in closed session no more than two times a year to conduct a performance evaluation of the city manager; stipulate that the board must follow KRS 61.815, and that the records of the meeting are subject to the Open Records Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 37)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB453/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb453.html","sponsor":"Jonathan Dixon"},
{"bill_id":1582423,"bill_number":"SB139","title":"AN ACT relating to corporal punishment in schools.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define \"corporal punishment\"; prohibit a person employed by a school district from using corporal punishment; amend KRS 158.444 to remove corporal punishment as a form of discipline in a school; amend KRS 503.110 to remove the exception that permitted the use of physical force by a teacher against a minor.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB139/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb139.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1582457,"bill_number":"HB455","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to recovery for injuries.","description":"Propose an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the General Assembly the power to limit noneconomic damages for injuries resulting in death or for injuries to persons or property, and the power to provide statutes of limitation; provide for submission to the voters.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-03","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-03","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB455/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb455.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1584115,"bill_number":"HB457","title":"AN ACT relating to pharmacy or pharmacist services.","description":"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.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB457/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb457.html","sponsor":"Steve Sheldon"},
{"bill_id":1584138,"bill_number":"SB147","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.","description":"Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to include in the homestead exemption for owners who are 65 years of age or older any increase in ad valorem taxes that are assessed after the latter of the year the owner turned 65, the year the owner purchased the property, or the date the amendment was ratified by the voters; add the continued biennial inflation indexing of the homestead exemption amount; make nonsubstantive technical corrections; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB147/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb147.html","sponsor":"Mike Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1584166,"bill_number":"SR103","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Helen Evans.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Helen Hester Horacher Evans.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR103/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr103.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1584189,"bill_number":"HR66","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing April 26, 2022, as National Frederick Law Olmsted Day in Kentucky to celebrate and honor his impact and contributions in landscape architecture and conservation.","description":"Recognize April 26, 2022, as National Frederick Law Olmsted Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR66/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr66.html","sponsor":"Norma Kirk-McCormick"},
{"bill_id":1584221,"bill_number":"SR98","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing Kentucky's native daughter, United States Navy Commander Billie J. Farrell, for her extensive service and congratulating her on becoming the 77th Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Constitution.","description":"Recognize Kentucky's native daughter, United States Navy Commander Billie J. Farrell, for her extensive service and congratulate her on becoming the 77th Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Constitution.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR98/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr98.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1584251,"bill_number":"SB146","title":"AN ACT relating to the State Fair Board and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 247.090 to authorize the Governor to appoint members of the State Fair Board; amend KRS 247.100 to establish corporate powers of the State Fair Board; amend KRS 247.110 to set procedures of the board; amend KRS 247.130 to establish hiring and management procedures for the board; amend KRS 247.145 to authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations for operation, maintenance, or use of property; amend KRS 247.160 to limit control of property to the state fairgrounds and exhibition center; amend KRS 247.165 to exempt the state fairgrounds and exhibition center from license taxes; repeal KRS 247.147, which establishes board procurement procedures; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB146/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb146.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1584279,"bill_number":"HB460","title":"AN ACT relating to emergencies and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 39A.090 to extend the maximum effective dates of executive orders issued by the Governor to 270 days unless an extension is approved by the General Assembly; remove the General Assembly's power to terminate a declaration of emergency; rescind the Commonwealth's waiver of immunity for cases brought as a result of declarations of emergency; amend KRS 39A.100 to expand the Governor's ability to exercise emergency executive powers to promote and secure the safety and protection of the civilian population; remove the Governor's obligation to report to the General Assembly during an extended declaration of emergency; amend KRS 39A.180 to automatically suspend statutes and administrative regulations that conflict with an emergency order or emergency administrative regulation; amend KRS 214.020 to remove the 30-day limitation on administrative regulations that restrict the in-person meeting of schools, businesses, places of worship, or local governments.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB460/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb460.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1584308,"bill_number":"SR101","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 8, 2022, as Children's Oral Health Awareness Day.","description":"Recognize February 8, 2022, as Children's Oral Health Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR101/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr101.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1584345,"bill_number":"HJR64","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating a portion of United States Highway 60 in Shelby County in honor and memory of Whitney M. Young, Jr.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of United States Highway 60 in Shelby County in honor and memory of Whitney M. Young, Jr.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR64/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr64.html","sponsor":"Jennifer Henson Decker"},
{"bill_id":1584375,"bill_number":"HB459","title":"AN ACT relating to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend 2021 Kentucky Acts Chapter 171, Section 3, to appropriate Federal Funds from the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 in the amount of $127,000,000 and Federal Funds from the State Fiscal Recovery Fund of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 in the amount of $123,000,000 in fiscal year 2021-2022 to the broadband deployment fund; repeal 2021 Kentucky Acts Chapter 194, Section 17; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB459/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb459.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1584404,"bill_number":"SR102","title":"A RESOLUTION in loving honor and memory of Clarence Henry \"Soc\" Clay.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Clarence Henry \"Soc\" Clay.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR102/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr102.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1584430,"bill_number":"HR65","title":"A RESOLUTION designating Kentucky Common as the official state beer of Kentucky.","description":"Designate Kentucky Common as the official state beer of Kentucky.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR65/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr65.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1584459,"bill_number":"HB461","title":"AN ACT relating to school resource officers and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 158.4414 to require local school boards to ensure at least one school resource officer works full-time on-site at each school in the district by July 1, 2025; require the state school security marshal to determine placement of school resource officers on a per school basis in the district through June 30, 2025, using the incidents listed in KRS 158.444 if funds and personnel are not available; allow school resource officers to carry a taser or a firearm; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB461/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb461.html","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1584482,"bill_number":"HB458","title":"AN ACT relating to the Juvenile Justice Oversight Council and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 15A.063 to extend the term of the Juvenile Justice Oversight Council to July 1, 2030; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 136)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB458/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb458.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1584510,"bill_number":"SB145","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote.","description":"Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow persons convicted of certain felonies the right to vote upon completion of their sentence; ballot language included; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB145/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb145.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1584535,"bill_number":"HB462","title":"AN ACT relating to charitable gaming.","description":"Amend KRS 238.550 to exempt designated licensed charitable organizations from the two-day deposit requirement and allow weekly deposits instead; require the eligible organization's charitable gaming to be ongoing and only involve charity game tickets; limit the deposit exemption to organizations whose average weekly deposits of gross receipts and adjusted gross receipts are less than $2,500.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-07","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-07","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB462/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb462.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1584558,"bill_number":"SJR99","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Governor to direct the Kentucky Department of Revenue to deviate from the standard valuation used in assessing motor vehicles for property tax purposes and declaring an emergency.","description":"Exempt a portion of property taxes assessed on motor vehicles from taxation; direct the Governor to direct the Department of Revenue to deviate from the standard value; require the Department of Revenue to grant refunds for overpayments; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"returned to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR99/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr99.html","sponsor":"Donald Douglas"},
{"bill_id":1585630,"bill_number":"SB148","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled environment agriculture facilities and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.010 to define \"controlled environment agriculture facility; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB148/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb148.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1585633,"bill_number":"SR107","title":"A RESOLUTION proclaiming February 9, 2022, as \"Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day.\"","description":"Proclaim February 9, 2022, as Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR107/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr107.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1585637,"bill_number":"HR68","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 8, 2022, as Children's Oral Health Awareness Day.","description":"Recognize February 8, 2022, as Children's Oral Health Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR68/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr68.html","sponsor":"Derek Lewis"},
{"bill_id":1585643,"bill_number":"SB151","title":"AN ACT relating to school breakfasts.","description":"Amend KRS 158.070 to permit the administrator of a school that participates in the Federal School Breakfast Program to authorize up to 15 minutes of the student attendance day to provide the opportunity for children to eat breakfast during instructional time.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 41)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB151/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb151.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1585647,"bill_number":"HR69","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the Federal Aviation Administration to update its administrative regulations pertaining to agricultural unmanned aircraft systems.","description":"Urge the Federal Aviation Administration to update its administrative regulations pertaining to agricultural unmanned aircraft systems.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR69/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr69.html","sponsor":"Jonathan Dixon"},
{"bill_id":1585654,"bill_number":"HJR67","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Henry Porch Memorial Bridge in Whitley County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Henry Porch Memorial Bridge in Whitley County.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR67/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr67.html","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1585657,"bill_number":"HB466","title":"AN ACT relating to the regulation of air ambulance services.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 5 of KRS Chapter 304 to provide that certain air ambulance providers or other entities are engaged in the business of insurance; require certain air ambulance services or other entities to obtain and maintain a certificate of authority or license from the commissioner; provide that air ambulance memberships shall be considered a limited health service benefit plan subject to the applicable provisions of the chapter; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to require entities selling air ambulance memberships to make disclosures; create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to require entities that operate air ambulance membership programs to implement a patient advocacy program; prohibit enforcement in a manner that conflicts with federal law; amend KRS 304.1-120, 304.17C-010, and 304.38A-010 to conform; establish a time frame for implementation of patient advocacy program provisions; include purpose provisions; EFFECTIVE April 15, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB466/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb466.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1585661,"bill_number":"SB152","title":"AN ACT relating to solid waste management.","description":"Amend KRS 109.0417 to exempt a local government that initially issues a solid waste management franchise in an area that the local government had exclusively provided services to from the requirements of the section.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-01","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 77)","last_action_date":"2022-04-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB152/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb152.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1585665,"bill_number":"SB149","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 77 and 240 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to limiting the Governor's ability to grant pardons and commute sentences.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 77 and 240 of the Constitution of Kentucky by prohibiting the Governor's ability to grant pardons or commute sentences beginning 30 days prior to a gubernatorial election and ending at that gubernatorial inauguration; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB149/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb149.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1585670,"bill_number":"SB153","title":"AN ACT relating to childhood sexual assault or abuse.","description":"Amend KRS 413.249 to remove the statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse; to provide that every civil action arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse be accompanied by a motion to seal the record.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB153/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb153.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1585679,"bill_number":"SR104","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the 60th anniversary of the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital.","description":"Honor Albert B. Chandler Hospital and recognize April 24, 2022, as UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital Appreciation Day.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"to Senate Floor","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Floor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR104/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr104.html","sponsor":"Donald Douglas"},
{"bill_id":1585683,"bill_number":"SR108","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of John \"Rusty\" Rednour.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of John \"Rusty\" Rednour.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR108/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr108.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1585687,"bill_number":"HB467","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky opportunity fund and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164A to establish within the State Treasury a fund to be used to make contributions to Kentucky opportunity accounts; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to share information with the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend KRS 141.019 to exclude earnings from Kentucky opportunity accounts from adjusted gross income; amend KRS 205.200 to provide that ownership or activity of a Kentucky opportunity account shall not be used when conducting means-based testing for eligibility for public assistance programs.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB467/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb467.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1585692,"bill_number":"HB468","title":"AN ACT relating to paid parental leave.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to provide an employee of the Commonwealth of Kentucky a paid leave of absence of 12 weeks for the birth or adoption of a child; establish requirements; amend KRS 18A.025 and 18A.110 to conform.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB468/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb468.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1585698,"bill_number":"SB154","title":"AN ACT relating to planning and zoning violations.","description":"Amend KRS 100.991 to increase the penalties for violations of specified sections or actions in KRS Chapter 100, and violations of any regulations adopted pursuant to those specified sections or actions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB154/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb154.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1585702,"bill_number":"SR105","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 9, 2022, as County Day in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize February 9, 2022, as County Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR105/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr105.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1585707,"bill_number":"HB465","title":"AN ACT relating to special military unit license plates.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to establish a special military unit license plate for certain units; establish eligibility and necessary documentation; amend KRS 186.162 to set forth fees for a special military unit license plate; amend KRS 186.166 to require the Transportation Cabinet to perpetually produce the special military unit license plate.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 105)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB465/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb465.html","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1585712,"bill_number":"HR71","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing Kentucky's native daughter, United States Navy Commander Billie J. Farrell, for her extensive service and congratulating her on becoming the 77th Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Constitution.","description":"Recognize Kentucky's native daughter, United States Navy Commander Billie J. Farrell, for her extensive service and congratulate her on becoming the 77th Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Constitution.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR71/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr71.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1585717,"bill_number":"SR106","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of James B. \"Jim\" Martin.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James B. \"Jim\" Martin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR106/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr106.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1585720,"bill_number":"HB464","title":"AN ACT relating to childhood sexual assault or abuse.","description":"Amend KRS 413.249 to remove the statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse; to provide that every civil action arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse be accompanied by a motion to seal the record.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB464/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb464.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1585724,"bill_number":"HB463","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of pension income, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 141.019 to increase the pension income exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110; apply retroactively for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018; require the Department of Revenue to automatically issue refunds; APPROPRIATION; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-08","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-08","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB463/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb463.html","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1585728,"bill_number":"HR70","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 9, 2022, as County Day in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize February 9, 2022, as County Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR70/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr70.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1586766,"bill_number":"HR72","title":"A RESOLUTION proclaiming April 12, 2022, to be Education and Sharing Day, Kentucky.","description":"A RESOLUTION proclaiming April 12, 2022, to be Education and Sharing Day, Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR72/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr72.html","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1586784,"bill_number":"HB469","title":"AN ACT relating to the Child Care Assistance Program.","description":"Amend KRS 199.894 to define \"Child Care and Development Fund\" and \"Child Care Assistance Program\"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to establish eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB469/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb469.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1586801,"bill_number":"HB471","title":"AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the environment.","description":"Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky establishing a right of the people to have a healthy environment, including a right to clean air, pure water, and ecologically healthy habitats; declare the Commonwealth's natural resources, among them its air, water, flora, fauna, climate, and public lands, are the common property of all people, including generations yet to come; establish that as trustee of the environment and its natural resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all people; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB471/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb471.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1586820,"bill_number":"HB472","title":"AN ACT relating to preschool education.","description":"Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts provide a full-day preschool program for at-risk three and four year olds; define at-risk; require that preschool for three-year-old children continue to be funded through a grant process and preschool programs for four-year-old children be funded under KRS 157.310 to 157.440; require preschool programs to operate on the school district calendar; require transportation be provided; amend KRS 158.031 to include preschool programs for four-year-old children in the primary school program; amend KRS 157.320 to remove the definition of \"kindergarten full-time equivalent in pupil average daily attendance\"; amend KRS 157.360 to remove a reference to the kindergarten full-time equivalent; amend KRS 158.030 to include a preschool program for four-year-old children in the definition of \"common school\"; remove language allowing kindergarten to operate for less than six hours on a school day.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB472/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb472.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1586838,"bill_number":"SB155","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to remove the Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation from the Department of Agriculture; amend KRS 12.023 to attach the Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 18A.115 to remove the exemption for employees of the Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation from classified service; amend KRS 246.030 to remove the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy from the Department of Agriculture's organizational structure; amend KRS 247.944 to attach the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to the Office of the Governor; authorize the Governor to appoint the members of the board of directors; allow staff services for the board to be provided by the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 248.707 to designate the Governor to serve as chairperson of the Agricultural Development Board; authorize the Governor to appoint members of the Agricultural Development Board; attach the Agricultural Development Board to the Office of the Governor, allow staff services for the board to be provided by the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 248.709 to remove reporting requirement for the executive director; transfer affairs associated with the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Development Board and the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to the Office of the Governor; direct board members of the Agricultural Development Board and Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation to serve terms as set forth; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB155/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb155.html","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1586856,"bill_number":"SR109","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Stephanie Letitia Kinney as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Stephanie Letitia Kinney as administrative law judge at the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"adopted 31-0","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR109/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr109.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1586874,"bill_number":"HB473","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship.","description":"Amend the definition of \"KEES Award\" in KRS 164.7874 to include a dual credit course award amount; amend KRS 164.7879 to provide a dual credit course award amount to high school students who graduate from a nonpublic secondary school not certified by the Kentucky Board of Education.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB473/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb473.html","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1586894,"bill_number":"SB156","title":"AN ACT relating to gun safety for children.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to make it a crime to unlawfully store a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; short title of Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB156/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb156.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1586914,"bill_number":"HB470","title":"AN ACT relating to ensuring the reliability and resiliency of the electric grid.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms; require the Public Service Commission to develop rules and procedures to ensure that the Commonwealth's electric grid is reliable and resilient; establish standards; require intermittent power to provide firming power up to its average output level during periods of peak net load; provide that the minimum reserve margin shall be a primary consideration when retiring or adding electric generation; require the Public Service Commission to coordinate with regional transmission organizations to develop consistent policies.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-09","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-09","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB470/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb470.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1586931,"bill_number":"HB3","title":"AN ACT relating to public health and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 311.732, relating to performance of an abortion upon a minor, to require the informed written consent of a parent or legal guardian to include a copy of that parent's or legal guardian's government-issued identification and parent's or legal guardian's documentation; require government-issued identification for the minor; require notification to other parent with joint or physical custody with exceptions; require the physician to keep a copy of the informed written consent for at least 7 years; require the physician to execute an affidavit; require additional criteria and standards for when a court determines whether to allow a minor to self-consent to an abortion; require the court hearing to remain confidential and be held in a private, informal setting within the courthouse; require, in the case of a medical emergency, for the physician to notify the parent or legal guardian within 24 hours of the abortion; require report to the cabinet; amend KRS 311.595 to allow the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to suspend or revoke the license of any physician for violations; amend KRS 311.990 to establish criminal penalties for violations; establish penalties for a person who violates Section 5 to 11 of this Act; amend KRS 213.101 to expand the statistical reporting system for abortions; require the Vital Statistics Branch report to include verification of compliance with the certification requirement of KRS 311.727; add required reporting items; require the Inspector General, Cabinet for Health and Family Services, to audit reporting; prohibit the audit from including personally identifying information of any pregnant woman upon whom an abortion was performed or attempted; specify that any personally identifying information viewed or recorded by the Inspector General in conducting the audit is not subject to the Open Records Act; require an annual report to be submitted including findings from the audit and abortion facility inspections to the General Assembly and the Attorney General; require an annual in-person report to be presented to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; create new sections of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define terms; prohibit abortion-inducing drugs from being provided outside of required procedures or by courier, delivery, or mail service; establish requirements for qualified physician providing abortion-inducing drugs; require informed consent by patient for being provided abortion-inducing drugs; list requirements for informed consent form; require each abortion-inducing drug provided to be reported to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services on a report form; list requirements for report form; require report to the cabinet of treatment for adverse event or complication related to a drug-induced abortion; list requirements for report; prohibit provisions from being construed as creating or recognizing a right to abortion, making lawful an abortion that is otherwise unlawful, or overriding any existing laws; prohibit the provision of abortion-inducing drugs in any school facility or on state grounds; provide additional remedies to comply with Sections 5 to 11 of this Act; create new sections of KRS Chapter 213 to require the cabinet to publish information about the potential ability to reverse the effects of abortion-inducing drugs; require the cabinet to create and distribute the consent forms and reporting forms for abortion-inducing drugs; require the cabinet to keep reported data confidential; require the cabinet to communicate reporting requirements to required reporters; create new sections of KRS Chapter 315 to require the Board of Pharmacy to create a certification program for the distribution of abortion-inducing drugs; require physicians, manufacturers, and distributors to be certified; establish requirements for certification; require the board to enforce certification requirements; require the board to develop a complaint portal for violations and review complaints; amend KRS 213.081 to include fetal remains and to prohibit simultaneous cremations of fetal remains; amend KRS 213.096 to include abortions on the combination birth-death certificate; create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define \"fetal remains,\" require within 24 hours before a surgical or chemical abortion the health care facility or abortion clinic to inform the parents both orally and in writing of their rights to determine the final disposition of the fetal remains; if a chemically induced abortion, inform the mother she may expect to expel a fetus after leaving the facility and she may return the remains to the facility for final disposition; require the parents to inform the facility of their choice for the disposition of the fetal remains; amend KRS 367.97501 to exclude fetal remains from the definition of “pathological waste”; amend KRS 311.715 to provide that public agency funds shall not be paid to any entity, organization, or individual that performs, induces, refers for, or counsels in favor of abortions; establish exceptions; create new sections of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to require reporting to the cabinet information about complications, medical treatment, or death related to an abortion; permit the General Assembly to appoint members who sponsored or cosponsored this Act to intervene in any case to which the constitutionality is challenged; require provisions of this Act to be severable; amend KRS 311.774 to reporting requirements for adverse events or complications; amend KRS 311.783 to add reporting requirement; amend KRS 315.990 to add penalty for violation of pharmacy certification program; establish short title; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 210)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB3/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb3.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1587847,"bill_number":"SB160","title":"AN ACT relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 241.010 to redefine \"consumer\" and define \"private selection event\" and \"private selection package\"; amend KRS 243.027 to authorize a manufacturer to ship samples to persons or entities engaged in private selection events; indicate that the shipped sample quantity limits apply to each separate recipient; amend KRS 243.0305 to allow a distiller to conduct private selection events and sell private selection packages at retail; amend KRS 243.884 to exempt most private selection package sales from the wholesale tax; amend KRS 244.240 to exclude a distiller selling private selection packages from the interlocking interests prohibition; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-04","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB160/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb160.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1587857,"bill_number":"HB483","title":"AN ACT relating to the natural resources severance and processing tax.","description":"Amend KRS 143A.010 to redefine \"processing\" to include the act of loading or unloading limestone that has not otherwise been severed or treated in the Commonwealth; amend KRS 143A.035 to allow a credit for substantially identical severance or processing taxes paid to another state or political subdivision thereof; provide that a taxpayer may not claim a total amount of credit that exceeds the taxpayer's tax liability; allow the Department of Revenue to report tax credit information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 131.190 to authorize the release of information from the Department of Revenue; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB483/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb483.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1587870,"bill_number":"SB157","title":"AN ACT relating to solid waste.","description":"Amend KRS 224.40-310 to list all the types of facilities under the definition of \"waste disposal facility\"; prohibit issuance of a permit to construct or expand a waste disposal facility that will result in substantial additional capacity absent submission of notice of intent to be licensed to the fiscal court of the county in which the facility is or will be located; prescribe time frame.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB157/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb157.html","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1587879,"bill_number":"SB159","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 116.025 to require that a voter be a resident of the state and precinct on or before the day of a primary or an election for voter registration purposes; amend KRS 116.045 to allow a person who is not a registered voter prior to the time that the registration books are closed, and who possesses all other qualifications for voter registration, to register at the person's precinct of residence on the day of a primary or an election if the person confirms his or her identity and completes the registration form and a required oath; amend KRS 116.0452 to specify that timely receipt for precinct voter registration is on the day of a primary or an election; require the county clerk to provide the State Board of Elections with a report of the number of voters registering to vote at the precincts on the day of a primary or an election; amend KRS 116.0455 to provide that each application for a motor vehicle driver's license shall be a simultaneous application for voter registration unless declined by the applicant; amend KRS 116.048 to provide that each application filed through a designated voter registration agency shall be a simultaneous application for voter registration unless declined by the applicant; amend KRS 117.085 to provide convenience of the voter as a basis for absentee voting and to permit any qualified voter the ability to vote in-person absentee during normal business hours on at least any of the 12 working days and 2 Saturdays before an election; amend KRS 117.087 to extend the ending voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; amend KRS 117.225 to require that if the person is not listed on the precinct roster, that the person, subject to applicable requirements, be given the opportunity to register and to vote at the precinct on the day of an election; amend KRS 117.365 to extend ending voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.; require that applications for voter registration completed at the precinct be presented to the grand jury and retained by the county clerk; amend KRS 118.035 to extend voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB159/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb159.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1587892,"bill_number":"HB478","title":"AN ACT relating to public utilities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to create winter and summer temperature standards for disconnection of service by retail electric and gas utilities; require resumption of disconnection only after a 72-hour period from the temperature standard; establish a certificate of need for persons who are at risk if utility service is disconnected that can be provided by a physician, physician assistant, community-based service organization, or faith-based service organization; prohibit disconnection of service on holidays and weekends and before 8 am and after 5 pm on weekdays; allow for reconnection of service for partial payment with a payment plan; require waiver of termination fees, reconnection fees, and late fees for customers having obtained a certificate of need; require utility to make reasonable effort towards reestablishing service for a customer terminated after having obtained a certificate of need but no more than 24 hours after repayment is commenced; require separate, written notice 14 days prior to a disconnection to residential household; require that notice be distinguishable from the regular billing notices; establish font size and typeset for notice and other material to be printed on the notice; require a hardship reconnection order for persons at risk who have had service terminated by the utility after meeting specific repayment requirements; require the commission to issue an order setting forth any applicable rules and procedures.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB478/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb478.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1587903,"bill_number":"SB162","title":"AN ACT relating to heart attack response and treatment.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health to establish and implement a plan for achieving continuous quality improvement in the quality of care provided under a statewide system for heart attack response and treatment; require the department to designate licensed hospitals as Comprehensive Cardiac Centers, Primary Heart Attack Centers, or Acute Heart Attack Ready hospitals; amend KRS 311A.180 to expand the protocols of emergency medical services providers to include trauma, cardiac arrest, and heart attack.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB162/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb162.html","sponsor":"Donald Douglas"},
{"bill_id":1587912,"bill_number":"HB481","title":"AN ACT relating to construction bids.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.494 to include a bidding preference of five percent for bidders who certify that 25 percent of their workforce have completed or are in the process of completing a registered apprenticeship and to include a bidding preference of five percent for bidders who certify that 70 percent of their workforce resides either in Kentucky or within 50 miles of the work site; amend KRS 176.082 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to offer online courses to fulfill the technical education requirements of registered apprenticeship programs.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB481/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb481.html","sponsor":"Patrick Flannery"},
{"bill_id":1587926,"bill_number":"SB161","title":"AN ACT relating to manufactured homes.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.297, relating to affidavits of conversion to real estate for manufactured homes, to set forth an alternative process by which an applicant may show proof of lien satisfaction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB161/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb161.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1587937,"bill_number":"SB125","title":"AN ACT relating to the costs incurred by animal care organizations.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; require peace officers and animal control officers to serve notice of seizure of an animal subjected to cruelty; create procedure for seizing agencies to petition a court to order payment of animal care costs by owner; establish penalties; prohibit the destruction of seized animals, except for humane reasons determined by veterinarian; amend KRS 258.215 to require owners be responsible for cost of care of an impounded animal.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-08","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB125/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb125.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1587947,"bill_number":"HB480","title":"AN ACT relating to library district boards.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 173 relating to public library districts to require the terms of library board members to expire as of January 1, 2023; establish requirements for new members; amend KRS 173.480, relating to public library districts' initial board appointments, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint the first members of the newly created library board; amend KRS 173.490, relating to public library districts, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint members or fill vacancies of the library board; amend KRS 173.520 to provide libraries the authority to lease and build to lease buildings for use by educational institutions; require unanimous vote of the board and fiscal court approval for leasing or constructing buildings for use by educational institutions and expenditures of capital projects over $500,000; define appropriate buildings for use by educational institutions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 173 relating to library districts formed by petition to require the terms of library board members to expire as of January 1, 2023, and establish requirements for new members; amend KRS 173.725, relating to petition-created library districts' initial board appointments, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint the first members of the newly created library board; amend KRS 173.730, relating to library districts created by petition, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint members or fill vacancies of the library board; amend KRS 173.745 to provide libraries the authority to lease buildings for use by educational institutions; require unanimous vote of the board and fiscal court approval for leasing buildings for use by educational institutions and expenditures of capital projects over $500,000; define appropriate buildings for use by educational institutions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB480/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb480.html","sponsor":"Patrick Flannery"},
{"bill_id":1587962,"bill_number":"HB477","title":"AN ACT relating to solid waste.","description":"Amend KRS 224.40-310 to list all the types of facilities under the definition of \"waste disposal facility\"; prohibit issuance of a permit to construct or expand a waste disposal facility that will result in substantial additional capacity absent submission of notice of intent to be licensed to the fiscal court of the county in which the facility is or will be located; prescribe time frame.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB477/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb477.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1587973,"bill_number":"HB479","title":"AN ACT relating to the Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 15.420 to delete reference to the payment made from the fish and game fund under definition of \"police officer\" for fish and wildlife conservation officers and make funding source the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund; amend KRS 15.460 to delete reference to the use of the fish and game fund for payment of training stipend under the supplemental funding from the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund; amend KRS 150.150 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB479/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb479.html","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1587983,"bill_number":"HB482","title":"AN ACT relating to area development districts, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 147A.100 to require the Department for Local Government to allocate funds to the area development districts by a specific formula and allow a reduction in the allocation upon unanimous written direction of all area development districts; appropriate $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 and $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2024 from the general fund to the Department for Local Government to allocate to area development districts; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 121)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB482/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb482.html","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1587999,"bill_number":"SR110","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Kentucky State University.","description":"Honor and recognize Kentucky State University on Green and Gold Day at the Capitol.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR110/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr110.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1588009,"bill_number":"HR74","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the General Assembly to oppose the adoption of a \"Red Flag\" law, or any legislation intended to infringe upon a law-abiding citizen's right to keep and bear arms as afforded by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.","description":"Urge the General Assembly to oppose the adoption of a \"Red Flag\" law or other legislation infringing upon the right to keep and bear arms.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR74/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr74.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1588021,"bill_number":"SB158","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to establish the Office of Fleet Management in the Finance and Administration Cabinet; establish the Division of Maintenance and the Division of Operations and Administration within the Office of Fleet Management; amend KRS 42.0145 to include the Office of Fleet Management within the Office of the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet; amend KRS 42.0171 to abolish the Division of Fleet Management within the Office of Administrative Services; amend KRS 12.020 and 45A.625 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 51)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB158/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb158.html","sponsor":"Mike Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1588035,"bill_number":"HR73","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring March 2022 as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and recognizing March 4, 2022, as Dress in Blue Day.","description":"Honor the Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening and Prevention Program, recognize March 2022 as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and recognize March 4, 2022, as Dress in Blue Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR73/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr73.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1588044,"bill_number":"HB474","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance data security.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions; require licensees to conduct risk assessments; require licensees to develop an information security program, including an incident response plan; require licensees to investigate cybersecurity events and potential cybersecurity events; establish recordkeeping requirements relating to cybersecurity events; establish reporting requirements relating to cybersecurity events; require licensees to comply with KRS 365.732; provide exceptions for certain provisions; authorize the commissioner to examine and investigate licensees for potential violations and take action necessary to enforce relevant provisions; establish how and under what circumstances documents, materials, or other information may be used or disclosed; prohibit the commissioner or other persons acting on under the authority of the commissioner from testifying in a private civil action concerning confidential documents, materials, or other information; provide that a licensee may be penalized for violations in accordance with KRS 304.99-020; authorize the commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations pursuant to KRS 304.2-110; provide for severability; establish a timeframe for implementation of certain provisions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 149)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB474/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb474.html","sponsor":"Michael Pollock"},
{"bill_id":1588055,"bill_number":"HB484","title":"AN ACT relating to radon testing and mitigation and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 199.894 to adjust statutory range; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.8996 to require licensed child-care centers to be tested for radon at least once every five years as part of their initial licensure and license renewal; encourage that specific radon measurement devices be used when licensed child-care centers are tested for radon; require the most current report to be posted in a public place within the child-care center; amend KRS 211.9105 to establish new duties for the Radon Program Advisory Committee related to financial assistance for child-care centers and schools for radon testing and mitigation; amend KRS 211.9113 to require an insurance policy for a radon laboratory; amend KRS 211.9125 to establish when an administrative hearing is conducted related to radon testing and mitigation providers; amend KRS 211.9131 to specify licensure requirements for a radon laboratory; amend KRS 211.9133 to include grants and state and federal moneys as a part of the radon mitigation and control fund; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB484/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb484.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1588627,"bill_number":"SR113","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Eugene Shelton Young.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Eugene Shelton Young.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR113/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr113.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1588642,"bill_number":"HB487","title":"AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to direct that no school shall offer any classroom instruction, discussion, or instructional materials that promote bigotry, revisionist history, or critical social justice; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to prohibit academic instruction on the historical existence of bigotry or revisionist views of history or to regulate the conduct or speech of students; provide that a teacher who chooses to discuss a current topic shall strive to explore the topic from diverse and contending perspectives; prohibit schools from awarding credit for designated political activities; prohibit schools from accepting private funds for curriculum development or choice of curricula or trainings; set forth the administrative procedures for specific violations; create a cause of action for students and parents that have exhausted the administrative remedies; waive civil immunity; provide for rewarding of costs and fees when a plaintiff is successful; establish a fine between $5,000 and $10,000 for frivolous lawsuits and permit the school district to recover costs and fees; provide that the Attorney General may bring an action to enforce this Act; require specific written notice of administrative and legal rights to students and parents; amend KRS 160.345 to require superintendents to determine curricula, textbooks, instructional materials, and student support services; require the determination of the superintendent to be consistent with this Act; require curriculum adopted to be accessible to parents and guardians of students through the Kentucky Department of Education's student information system; amend KRS 7.410 to require the Office of Education Accountability to conduct an annual digital survey of transparency and compliance and report designated findings to the specified legislative and executive entities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to designate mandatory historical topics; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to provide that the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) shall discontinue approval of any teacher preparation program that promotes bigotry or revisionist history; require EPSB to promulgate administrative regulations defining procedures to report teacher preparation programs that violate the new requirements; establish minimum requirements for the procedures; require EPSB to regularly audit programs and investigate all credible reports of violations; waive civil immunity for claims against EPSB for failing to discontinue a program in accordance with the law or a college or university that violates the new requirements; provide that the Act shall be severable; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-11","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-11","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB487/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb487.html","sponsor":"Matt Lockett"},
{"bill_id":1588657,"bill_number":"HB476","title":"AN ACT relating to local taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 67.083 to allow a fiscal court of any county to levy all taxes not in conflict with the Constitution, provided that the fee or tax is allowed by the statutes of this state; amend KRS 92.281 to allow cities of all classes to levy all taxes not in conflict with the Constitution, provided that the fee or tax is allowed by the statutes of this state; amend KRS 610.350 to allow certain local government bodies to levy taxes within constitutional limitations, provided that the tax is allowed by the statutes of this state; amend KRS 83.520 to allow the legislative body of a city of the first class to levy all taxes, provided that the taxes are allowed by the statutes of this state; amend KRS 65.760 to allow local governments to levy certain taxes, provided that the taxes are allowed by the statutes of this state; create a new section of KRS Chapter 92 to prohibit municipal corporations that are authorized to levy and collect taxes or fees from levying the tax or fee unless the tax or fee is allowed by the statutes of this state; EFFECTIVE only upon the ratification by voters of an amendment to Section 181 of the Kentucky Constitution.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB476/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb476.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1588675,"bill_number":"HB486","title":"AN ACT relating to poultry.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to allow certain USDA-exempted poultry processors to sell to end consumers on a farm, at a farmers market, or at a roadside stand.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-11","last_action":"returned to Agriculture (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB486/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb486.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1588692,"bill_number":"HB488","title":"AN ACT relating to orders of protection.","description":"Amend KRS 403.763 and 456.180 to enhance a second or subsequent violation of an order of protection to a Class D felony.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB488/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb488.html","sponsor":"Samara Heavrin"},
{"bill_id":1588708,"bill_number":"SR111","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of R. Roland Case as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of R. Roland Case as administrative law judge for the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-11","last_action":"adopted 31-0","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR111/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr111.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1588723,"bill_number":"HB475","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 181 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the General Assembly's authority over local revenue options.","description":"Propose to amend Section 181 of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit the General Assembly to authorize a county, city, town, or municipal corporation to assess and collect local taxes and fees that are not otherwise in conflict with the Constitution; provide ballot question with proposed amendment; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB475/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb475.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1588739,"bill_number":"HB485","title":"AN ACT relating to vegetation maintenance.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to establish definitions; require electric utilities regulated by the Public Service Commission to have a vegetation management plan approved by the commission; require vegetation maintenance to be performed in conformance with ANSI standards endorsed by the International Society of Arboriculture; make exception for standards under declared emergency or in situation of cleanup from storm damage; require different notice requirements to the public and property owners; impose penalty for failure of a utility to comply with vegetation maintenance plan requirements; require public hearings; establish homeowner rights with respect to vegetation maintenance; require the utility develop a brochure for homeowner rights and have the information available on its Web site; allow for civil action for unauthorized tree pruning or removal; allow for damages for unauthorized tree removal or pruning; require written consent to remove more than 25 percent of tree canopy; allow for a temporary cessation of work if property owner objects to vegetation maintenance; and prescribe time frames for notice and response.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-11","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB485/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb485.html","sponsor":"Killian Timoney"},
{"bill_id":1588757,"bill_number":"SR112","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring March 2022 as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and recognizing March 4, 2022, as Dress in Blue Day.","description":"Honor the Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening and Prevention Program, recognize March 2022 as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and recognize March 4, 2022, as Dress in Blue Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR112/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr112.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1588774,"bill_number":"SB164","title":"AN ACT relating to the Imagination Library of Kentucky Program and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Imagination Library of Kentucky Program; direct the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development to administer the program; require the program to contribute matching funds, if available, required of local programs participating in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library; establish duties of the state program; establish the Imagination Library of Kentucky Program trust fund; provide the fund shall be administered by the Council on Postsecondary Education; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 95)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB164/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb164.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1588793,"bill_number":"HB489","title":"AN ACT relating to nonrecourse consumer legal funding.","description":"Establish Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 286 and create sections thereof to define terms; prohibit engaging in the business of nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions without a license; establish licensing requirements; provide that nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions are not loans and exempt from statute relating to interest; establish requirements for nonrecourse consumer legal funding transaction contracts; prohibit certain actions by nonrecourse consumer legal funding companies; provide for attorney communications and responsibilities; establish penalties; provide that the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding shall not restrict the powers or duties of the Attorney General; amend KRS 286.4-410, 360.010, and 372.060 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-11","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB489/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb489.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1588809,"bill_number":"SB163","title":"AN ACT relating to student financial aid.","description":"Amend KRS 164.740 to delete the definition of \"penal institution\"; amend KRS 164.7874 to delete the requirement that an eligible high school student and eligible postsecondary student not be a convicted felon for KEES eligibility purposes; repeal KRS 164.767 relating to restrictions on financial aid to incarcerated persons.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2022-04-25","last_action":"Vetoed","last_action_date":"2022-04-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB163/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb163.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1590237,"bill_number":"SR130","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Michael W. Alvey as a member of the Workers' Compensation Board in the Department of Workers' Claims.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Michael W. Alvey as a member of the Workers' Compensation Board in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring January 4, 2026.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 31-0","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR130/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr130.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1590238,"bill_number":"HB491","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative ethics.","description":"Amend KRS 6.611 to include \"consulting firm\" within the definition of \"business\"; include clients of a consulting firm to be included within the meaning of the phrase \"business associate\"; and amend KRS 6.787 to include the name of a client paying more than $1,000 annually to a consulting firm owned by a legislator or spouse of a legislator, or that employs a legislator or spouse of a legislator, in a statement of financial disclosure; exclude a legislator or spouse of a legislator who is an attorney from this requirement.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB491/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb491.html","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1590240,"bill_number":"SB169","title":"AN ACT relating to agritourism.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 247.800 to 247.810 to guarantee the right to engage in animal-related agritourism activities; define\"agritourism activities.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB169/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb169.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1590242,"bill_number":"SR126","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of H. David Wallace to the State Fair Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of H. David Wallace to the State Fair Board for a term expiring May 10, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR126/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr126.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1590244,"bill_number":"SR124","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Mark Edward Lynn to the Kentucky State Fair Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Mark Edward Lynn to the Kentucky State Fair Board for a term expiring on March 30, 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR124/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr124.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1590246,"bill_number":"SB165","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer loan companies.","description":"Amend KRS 286.4-530 and 286.4-533 to modify the permitted loan charges for consumer loan companies; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB165/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb165.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1590248,"bill_number":"HR76","title":"A RESOLUTION commending the Kentucky Magistrates and Commissioners Association on the 70th anniversary of its founding.","description":"Commend the Kentucky Magistrates and Commissioners Association on the 70th anniversary of its founding.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR76/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr76.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1590251,"bill_number":"SR129","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 15, 2022, as Kentucky Nurses Day in the Commonwealth.","description":"Proclaim February 15, 2022, as Kentucky Nurses Day and adjourn the Senate in honor of Kentucky Nurses.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR129/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr129.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1590253,"bill_number":"SR118","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Kenneth H. Burdine to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Kenneth H. Burdine to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring June 26, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR118/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr118.html","sponsor":"Donald Douglas"},
{"bill_id":1590255,"bill_number":"HB500","title":"AN ACT relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 241.010 to define \"barrel-aged and batched cocktails,\" \"private selection event,\" and \"private selection package\" and to redefine \"consumer\" and \"vintage distilled spirit\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to establish a \"limited nonquota package license\" that allows designated alcoholic beverage drink licensees to sell vintage distilled spirits and private selection packages; amend KRS 243.027 to authorize a manufacturer to ship samples to persons or entities engaged in private selection events; indicate that the shipped sample quantity limits apply to each separate recipient; amend KRS 243.029 to require a direct shipper licensee to include all applicable taxes in the selling price for alcoholic beverages; include sales tax as a separate item on the customer's invoice; amend KRS 243.030 to set a $300 annual fee for a limited nonquota package license and for an off-premises retail sales outlet license; amend KRS 243.0305 to allow a distiller to conduct private selection events and sell private selection packages at retail; set package and sample limits for sales at fairs, festivals, and other similar types of events; permit distillers to purchase jointly branded souvenir packages from microbreweries; restrict a distiller to only one off-premises retail site for each of its licensed premises; amend KRS 243.110 to make a limited nonquota package license compatible with listed drink licenses; amend KRS 243.232 to authorize a limited nonquota package license holder to sell vintage distilled spirits; amend KRS 243.240 to exclude private selection package sales from the normal quota retail package license restrictions; amend KRS 243.260 to issue a special temporary license for farmers markets; amend KRS 243.884 to exempt most private selection package sales from the wholesale tax; amend KRS 244.240 to exclude a distiller selling private selection packages or supplying barrels for barred-aged and batched cocktails from the interlocking interests prohibition; amend KRS 244.260 to permit a retailer to keep distilled spirits or wine in a container for preparing barred-aged and batched cocktails; align distilled spirit container limits with the largest applicable federal standard of fill size; amend KRS 243.034 and 243.0341 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 39)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB500/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb500.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1590257,"bill_number":"SR128","title":"A RESOLUTION affirming the Senate's and the Commonwealth of Kentucky's support of Israel, our greatest friend and ally in the Middle East, and expressing our solidarity with Israel's right to defend itself against terrorist attacks.","description":"Affirm the Senate's and the Commonwealth of Kentucky's support of Israel, our greatest friend and ally in the Middle East, and express our solidarity with Israel's right to defend itself against terrorist attacks.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR128/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr128.html","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1590260,"bill_number":"SR125","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Michael Edward Poynter to the State Fair Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Michael Edward Poynter to the State Fair Board for a term expiring May 10, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR125/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr125.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1590268,"bill_number":"HB492","title":"AN ACT relating to utility pole replacement for broadband network deployment, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 224A to establish the Rural Infrastructure Improvement Program; define terms; establish the rural infrastructure improvement fund; provide that money deposited to the credit of the fund shall only be used by the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to provide reimbursements to qualified applicants for eligible utility pole replacement costs necessary for the deployment of broadband infrastructure; set maximum reimbursement amounts; require the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to receive, review, and approve applications for eligible pole replacement reimbursement; require the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to promulgate administrative regulations necessary for the administration of the program; require that no later than 60 days of receiving moneys into the rural infrastructure improvement fund, the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority must publish the application form for requesting reimbursement from the fund; provide for eligibility requirements and terms and conditions of receiving reimbursement from the fund; require the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to maintain statistics on its Web site relating to applications received, amounts reimbursed, and money remaining in the fund; require the Auditor of Public Accounts to audit the fund no later than one year after it receives moneys; no later than one year after the exhaustion of the money in the fund, require the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to file a report with the Legislative Research Commission identifying and examining the deployment of broadband infrastructure facilitated by the eligible pole reimbursements awarded; appropriate $56 million to the fund from the State Fiscal Recovery Fund of the American Rescue Plan Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB492/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb492.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1590273,"bill_number":"SR114","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of John Fritz Giesecke to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of John Fritz Giesecke to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR114/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr114.html","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1590280,"bill_number":"SR119","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Dan Flanagan to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Dan Flanagan to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring June 26, 2023.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR119/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr119.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1590284,"bill_number":"SR115","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Brenda Fish Paul to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Brenda Fish Paul to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR115/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr115.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1590288,"bill_number":"SR123","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Andrew Marshall Coyle to the State Fair Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Andrew Marshall Coyle to the State Fair Board for a term expiring May 10, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR123/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr123.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1590296,"bill_number":"SB168","title":"AN ACT relating to broadband services.","description":"Amend KRS 278.5464 to provide certain restrictions on a provider who challenges the service within a broadband area by another provider, but does not document full coverage of the unserved or underserved area within one year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB168/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb168.html","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1590303,"bill_number":"SR116","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Michael O. Peterson to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Michael O. Peterson to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR116/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr116.html","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1590309,"bill_number":"SR120","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Larry Brown Jaggers to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Larry Brown Jaggers to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring June 26, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR120/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr120.html","sponsor":"Mike Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1590311,"bill_number":"SB170","title":"AN ACT relating to cannabis.","description":"Amend KRS 260.852 and 260.858 to prohibit production of intoxicating hemp-derived products; amend KRS 260.850 and 218A.010 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-10","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB170/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb170.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1590317,"bill_number":"HB495","title":"AN ACT relating to freedom from discrimination.","description":"Create a new range in KRS Chapter 446 to define terms; establish protections from governmental discrimination against any person or organization for sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions regarding the sex of individuals who may enter into marriage; establish administrative and civil remedies for violations.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB495/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb495.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1590322,"bill_number":"SB167","title":"AN ACT relating to library district boards.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 173 relating to public library districts to require the terms of library board members to expire as of January 1, 2023; establish requirements for new members; amend KRS 173.480, relating to public library districts' initial board appointments, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint the first members of the newly created library board; amend KRS 173.490, relating to public library districts, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint members or fill vacancies of the library board; amend KRS 173.520 to provide libraries the authority to lease and build to lease buildings for use by educational institutions; require unanimous vote of the board and fiscal court approval for leasing or constructing buildings for use by educational institutions and expenditures of capital projects over $500,000; define appropriate buildings for use by educational institutions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 173 relating to library districts formed by petition to require the terms of library board members to expire as of January 1, 2023, and establish requirements for new members; amend KRS 173.725, relating to petition-created library districts' initial board appointments, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint the first members of the newly created library board; amend KRS 173.730, relating to library districts created by petition, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint members or fill vacancies of the library board; amend KRS 173.745 to provide libraries the authority to lease buildings for use by educational institutions; require unanimous vote of the board and fiscal court approval for leasing buildings for use by educational institutions and expenditures of capital projects over $500,000; define appropriate buildings for use by educational institutions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 221)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB167/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb167.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1590328,"bill_number":"SR122","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Linda L. Rumpke to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Linda L. Rumpke to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring June 26, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR122/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr122.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1590337,"bill_number":"SR117","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Suzanne Cecil White to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Suzanne Cecil White to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR117/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr117.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1590342,"bill_number":"SB10","title":"AN ACT relating to nursing and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to define \"good standing\"; amend KRS 314.041 and 314.051 to establish rules for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses from another state who want to practice in Kentucky; exempt nurses licensed in a nursing compact member state; issue a license by endorsement to international applicants who graduated nursing school and meet the requirements of the NCLEX examination or the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools International, Inc.; amend KRS 314.101 to allow nurses in good standing in another state to practice in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.111 to prohibit the Board of Nursing from restricting nursing school or nursing program student enrollment if the school or program has at least an 80 percent average pass rate for the NCLEX; describe nursing education levels needed to teach at various types of nursing programs; amend KRS 314.121 to limit nursing board members to three consecutive terms; make board appointments subject to confirmation by the Senate; require board appointments to include two members from each of the six congressional districts; limit board membership to include no more than six nurse educators; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-07","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 84)","last_action_date":"2022-04-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB10/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb10.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1590347,"bill_number":"HR77","title":"A RESOLUTION urging Congress to take appropriate steps in mitigating cyberattacks and ransomware demands.","description":"Urging Congress to take appropriate steps in mitigating cyberattacks and ransomware attacks.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR77/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr77.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1590351,"bill_number":"HB493","title":"AN ACT relating to veterinarian licensing and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Reorganize KRS Chapter 321, relating to veterinary licensing; create new sections of KRS Chapter 321 to set up rules for telehealth, records retention, and veterinary facilities; list license renewal procedures for veterinary technicians, animal euthanasia specialists, and veterinary facilities; require fingerprint-supported criminal records checks for licensing; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 321 to establish rules for occupations and facilities under the chapter, including licensing, license renewal, licensee discipline, authorized activities, and veterinarian-client-patient relationships; describe the legislative intent for KRS Chapter 321; require a veterinarian to attain a doctorate in veterinary medicine; authorize veterinary practice through special permits and mobile facilities; establish board membership, board procedures, and authority of the veterinary wellness committee; permit the board to expend funds from its revolving fund for designated purposes; repeal and reenact KRS 321.181, 321.190, and 321.235 to define and redefine terms, set practice conditions and exemptions, and establish board duties, privileges, and personal immunity from suit; amend KRS 321.990 to raise fines from a range of $10 to $500 to a range of $100 to $1,000; amend KRS 321.188 to conform; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB493/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb493.html","sponsor":"Matthew Koch"},
{"bill_id":1590356,"bill_number":"HR75","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the federal government to address the issue of technology transparency.","description":"Urge the federal government to address the issue of technology transparency by mandating online platforms to provide guidelines of how the program works and prohibited content.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR75/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr75.html","sponsor":"Melinda Prunty"},
{"bill_id":1590360,"bill_number":"SB171","title":"AN ACT relating to civil rights.","description":"Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for \"sexual orientation\" and \"gender identity\"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition on discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.100, 344.110, and 18A.095 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 344.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments; exempt the provisions of the Act from KRS 6.945(1); cite as the Kentucky Competes Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB171/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb171.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1590366,"bill_number":"HB490","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 434.415 to define the terms \"airbag,\" \"counterfeit supplemental restraint system component,\" \"nonfunctional airbag,\" and \"supplemental restraint system\"; prohibit the use of counterfeit airbags or components; set forth penalities for the use of counterfeit airbags or components; set forth exception.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 237)","last_action_date":"2022-04-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB490/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb490.html","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1590371,"bill_number":"HB496","title":"AN ACT relating to Thoroughbred registration.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to prohibit a Thoroughbred registrar from restricting the number of mares bred to a stallion or refusing to register a foal based on the number of mares bred to the foal's stallion; direct the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to select and use a Thoroughbred registrar; require the registrar to submit to Kentucky jurisdiction and comply with KRS Chapter 230; instruct the racing commission to promulgate administrative regulations relating to Thoroughbred registrars; amend KRS 230.210 to remove the example of a Thoroughbred registrar; amend KRS 230.400 to allow the Kentucky Thoroughbred development fund registrar to stamp a Thoroughbred's certificate with the registrar's seal.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB496/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb496.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1590375,"bill_number":"SR121","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Frank A. Penn to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Frank A. Penn to the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring June 26, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR121/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr121.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1590383,"bill_number":"SB166","title":"AN ACT relating to the regulation of tobacco products and vapor products.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 438.305 to 438.340 to permit a city, county, urban-county government, charter county government, consolidated local government, or unified local government to impose restrictions or requirements on the use, display, sale, or distribution of tobacco products or vapor products that are stricter than those imposed under state law; repeal KRS 438.300 which establishes the legislative intent for KRS 438.305 to 438.340.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB166/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb166.html","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1590387,"bill_number":"HB494","title":"AN ACT relating to student education loan servicing.","description":"Establish Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 286 and create sections thereof to make findings; define terms; establish licensing requirements for certain student education loan servicers; establish records requirements for student education loan servicers; require annual and other reports by student education loan servicers; require student education loan servicers to pay an annual assessment fee; prohibit student education loan servicers from engaging in abusive acts and practices and prohibit other conduct; require student education loan servicers to comply with federal and state law; permit the commissioner to conduct examinations and investigations of student education loan servicers; establish requirements for conditioning, denying, suspending, or revoking the license of a student education loan servicers; establish regulatory provisions relating to emergency orders, administrative complaints, and appeals; establish penalties; amend KRS 452.005 to conform; state that provisions of the Act shall be severable; provide that Act may be cited as the Student Education Loan Servicing, Licensing, and Protection Act of 2022.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-07","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 88)","last_action_date":"2022-04-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB494/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb494.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1590392,"bill_number":"HB497","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 118.015 to define \"election officer\"; amend KRS 117.001 and 119.005 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-14","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-14","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB497/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb497.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1590398,"bill_number":"SR127","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor of 2021-2022 Kentucky Optometric Association President Dr. TeShawna Barker Sutton.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Kentucky Optometric Association President Dr. TeShawna Barker Sutton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR127/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr127.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1591164,"bill_number":"SB172","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency response plans for animals.","description":"Amend KRS 39A.050 to require the Kentucky Emergency Operations Plan to establish and include an emergency response plan to coordinate with local government agencies, animal shelters, animal control officers, and other entities to develop a plan for household pets and assistance animals that would include notification requirements for lost household pets and assistance animals, protocols for returning pets and assistance animals, and minimization of euthanasia of owned household pets and assistance animals.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB172/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb172.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1591187,"bill_number":"HR79","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 15, 2022, as Kentucky Nurses Day in the Commonwealth.","description":"Proclaim February 15, 2022, as Kentucky Nurses Day and adjourn the House of Representatives in honor of Kentucky Nurses.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR79/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr79.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1591209,"bill_number":"SR131","title":"A RESOLUTION in honor and loving memory of Dolores Jean Pile Triplett.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dolores Jean Pile Triplett.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR131/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr131.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1591232,"bill_number":"HR80","title":"A RESOLUTION proclaiming February 15 as School Resource Officer Appreciation Day.","description":"Proclaim February 15 as School Resource Officer Appreciation Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR80/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr80.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1591255,"bill_number":"SB173","title":"AN ACT relating to medical order for scope of treatment.","description":"Amend KRS 311.6225 to require an electronically-fillable version of the MOST form to be accessed online; allow for an electronic signature; require a Spanish translation of the MOST form; allow the MOST form to be printed on any color of paper.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 117)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB173/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb173.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1591277,"bill_number":"HR78","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 15, 2022, as Angelman Syndrome Awareness Day.","description":"Recognize February 15, 2022, as Angelman Syndrome Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR78/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr78.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1591301,"bill_number":"HB502","title":"AN ACT relating to genetic information.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to regulate the collection, use, and disclosure of genetic data; create a civil cause of action for violations of the prohibitions, to be brought by the Attorney General; state that the Act shall be known as the Genetic Information Privacy Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 169)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB502/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb502.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1591325,"bill_number":"HB501","title":"AN ACT relating to child support.","description":"Amend KRS 403.212 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a child support obligation worksheet; define \"obligor\"; make changes to child support obligations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to define terms; create a parenting time credit; amend KRS 620.090 to require the court to make specific findings if there are reasonable grounds to believe a child is dependent, neglected, or abused upon completion of a temporary removal hearing; amend various statutes to conform; EFFECTIVE, IN PART, January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 122)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB501/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb501.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1591349,"bill_number":"HB499","title":"AN ACT relating to employee child-care assistance and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to create the Employee Child-Care Assistance Partnership program; define terms; obligate the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to administer the program; establish reporting requirements; establish a fund for the program; authorize the cabinet to administer the fund; direct the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to effectuate the program; establish program requirements for employers and employees; establish requirements for both permissive and mandatory termination of the program contract; permit the Cabinet for Economic Development to condition program requirements on participation in this program; amend KRS 199.990 to include a penalty; cite as the Employee Child-Care Assistance Partnership; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 184)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB499/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb499.html","sponsor":"Samara Heavrin"},
{"bill_id":1591373,"bill_number":"SB174","title":"AN ACT relating to slow-moving vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 189.940 to allow the driver of a public safety vehicle which also meets the definition of a slow-moving vehicle to operate at a speed that may impede or block the normal flow of traffic; amend KRS 189.390 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 35)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB174/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb174.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1591396,"bill_number":"HB498","title":"AN ACT relating to the issuance of a personalized license plate.","description":"Amend KRS 186.174 to establish the application procedures and fees for a personalized license plate; establish when a personalized plate shall not be issued.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 155)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB498/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb498.html","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1592172,"bill_number":"SB177","title":"AN ACT relating to real property taxes levied by fire districts.","description":"Amend KRS 75.015 and 75.040 to allow property owners to opt out of the portion of a fire district's tax rate that is above ten cents when the city or county provides an emergency ambulance service; require the fire district to advertise a property owner's option to opt out of the tax rate; direct the property owner to contact the county clerk to opt out of the tax rate; allow fire districts to charge a fee to property owners who opt out of the tax and use the fire district's emergency ambulance service; require the county clerk to provide fire districts a list of property owners that opt out of the tax rate; require the county clerk to maintain boundary records.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-18","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB177/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb177.html","sponsor":"Mike Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1592180,"bill_number":"HB508","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 139 to reduce the sales and use tax to 5% for one year.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB508/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb508.html","sponsor":"Angie Hatton"},
{"bill_id":1592187,"bill_number":"HB511","title":"AN ACT relating to state symbols.","description":"Amend KRS 2.091 to name and designate coal as the official rock of Kentucky; amend KRS 2.094 to name and designate Kentucky agate as the official mineral of Kentucky.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB511/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb511.html","sponsor":"Alan Gentry"},
{"bill_id":1592194,"bill_number":"SB178","title":"AN ACT relating to health and welfare and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 309.0834 to require the Kentucky Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors to promulgate administrative regulations to exempt applicants for certification as clinical supervisors from meeting certain requirements for a limited amount of time if the applicants were licensed and approved on March 24, 2021; permits applicants granted certification to supervise immediately; requires applicants after the limited time period to meet all requirements for certification; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 223)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB178/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb178.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1592202,"bill_number":"SB180","title":"AN ACT relating to guidelines and standards for labor and workforce development and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 151B to establish the Education and Labor Cabinet and move all divisions and offices of the existing Education and Workforce Development Cabinet and the Labor Cabinet to the Education and Labor Cabinet; establish the duties, responsibilities, powers, and authority of the secretary of the Education and Labor Cabinet; provide that the Education and Labor Cabinet shall exercise all administrative functions of the state concerning employer-employee relationships, including the safety of workers and workers' compensation; require a national and state background check for prospective and current employees of the Education and Labor Cabinet with access to or use of federal tax information; amend various Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform with the creation of the Education and Labor Cabinet; repeal KRS 151B.020, 151B.022, 151B.225, 151B.280, 336.015, 336.020, 336.030, 336.040, 336.050, 336.060, and 336.125.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 236)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB180/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb180.html","sponsor":"Mike Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1592209,"bill_number":"HB510","title":"AN ACT relating to electricians.","description":"Amend KRS 227A.100 to exempt an electrician from making up continuing education credits that were missed when the continuing education requirement was suspended; limit the eligible suspension period to run from March 1, 2020, to March 31, 2022; make amendments RETROACTIVE to March 31, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB510/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb510.html","sponsor":"Alan Gentry"},
{"bill_id":1592219,"bill_number":"HCR81","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Debt Affordability Task Force.","description":"Create the Debt Affordability Task Force to study Kentucky’s non-pension debt obligations; report recommendations and findings by December 1.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR81/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr81.html","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1592228,"bill_number":"HB509","title":"AN ACT relating to prevailing wage.","description":"Establish new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to create a prevailing wage law for all public works projects; amend KRS 12.020, 99.480, 227.487, 336.015, 337.010, and 337.990 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB509/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb509.html","sponsor":"Alan Gentry"},
{"bill_id":1592238,"bill_number":"SR132","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of DeRyan Caldwell.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of DeRyan Caldwell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR132/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr132.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1592245,"bill_number":"HB516","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.060 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB516/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb516.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1592255,"bill_number":"HB507","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 16 to direct the Kentucky State Police to establish the Kentucky Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms List to prohibit the possession, sale, or transfer of firearms to individuals who voluntarily request to be added the list; prescribe procedures for application for entry and removal from the list; establish penalties; amend KRS 237.110 to exclude persons on the list from eligibility for license to carry a concealed weapon.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB507/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb507.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1592260,"bill_number":"HB515","title":"AN ACT relating to annexation.","description":"Amend KRS 81A.410 to prohibit city annexation of school property without the approval of the governing body of the public school system.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB515/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb515.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1592273,"bill_number":"HB518","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 61.101 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB518/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb518.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1592280,"bill_number":"HB504","title":"AN ACT relating to special purpose governmental entities.","description":"Amend KRS 65A.110 to provide for a refund mechanism when tax rate or fee rates are set in contravention of the provisions of the statute; amend various sections of the KRS to ensure that the provisions of KRS 65A.110 are included within the cited statutory ranges, except for the specific exceptions cited in KRS 65A.110, and to remove certain dates that have passed.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB504/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb504.html","sponsor":"Matt Lockett"},
{"bill_id":1592289,"bill_number":"HB513","title":"AN ACT relating to stream and wetland mitigation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 150 to establish definitions; authorize the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to make acquisitions for compensatory mitigation projects; clarify who holds interests in the property for acquisition types, including alternative delivery procurement; allow for the acquisition price of interests to be greater than appraised value when using comparable sales comparison or market approach appraisal methods; allow for a limited use of condemnation of mineral estates when there is a severance of the surface and subsurface; allow the department to procure construction contracting for compensatory mitigation projects using alternative delivery including design-build, design-bid-build, and full delivery compensatory mitigation and exempt the department from requirements of KRS Chapters 45 and 45A; allow for procurement of mitigation credits from an existing mitigation bank with restrictions; establish the requirements for full delivery compensatory mitigation including contract, procurement requirements, method of remittance on work, protests and appeals; establish the departments powers and prerogatives with implementing the in-lieu fee program for compensatory mitigation projects; require all vendors and any foreign entities to be in good standing and in compliance with unemployment and workers compensation requirements; set penalty for violations; amend KRS 45.750 to add compensatory mitigation credit purchases to the definition of \"capital construction item\" and include credit purchases and use of full delivery mitigation to the definition of \"capital project\"; and add definitions; exempt real estate purchased for compensatory mitigation projects or purchase of compensatory mitigation credits from the provisions of KRS 45.760 to 45.810; amend KRS 45.777 to exempt sale or transfer of title or interests in real property from requirements to deposit receipts into the general fund; amend KRS 45.760 to add expenditure of funds for compensatory mitigation to the automatic authorization when project is not listed in branch budget bill and transfer to the allotment account and exceed the 15 percent limitation; require the notation of the payout for the allotment to be transmitted to the Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee; and exempt projects or equipment purchases from the limitations before being authorized; amend KRS 45A.030 to include compensatory mitigation projects and credits to the definitional exception of chief purchasing officer, construction, procurement and add additional definitions; amend KRS 45A.045 to exempt the Department of Fish and Wildlife from the requirement to have Finance and Administration Cabinet make all acquisitions and be the chief purchasing officer for the department; amend KRS 45A.050 to vest the Department of Fish and Wildlife with the rights, powers, and duties and authority for procurement; amend KRS 45A.425 to authorize the Department of Fish and Wildlife to dispose of surplus property and declare a completed compensatory mitigation property as surplus property; amend KRS 150.024 to clarify the right of eminent domain is limited and restricted when the acquisition is made for a compensatory mitigation project; and amend KRS 150.255 to clarify that compensatory mitigation projects must be approved by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the department and adding purchase of compensatory mitigation credits to the use of funds; express when remittance may be made on a contract even if it is outside of the procurement methodology; clarify that the department coordinates all aspects of a compensatory mitigation project and when the project vests under a full delivery compensatory mitigation project; amend KRS 382.850 to allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources or a mitigation bank to acquire conservation easements and protect the land where there is a severance of a mineral estate and surface and establish a penalty if the surface is disturbed by subsequent exercise of mining activity; establish procedure for enforcement; and add definitions; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-09","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB513/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb513.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1592295,"bill_number":"HB514","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish pilot program for harm reduction centers.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB514/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb514.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1592306,"bill_number":"HB503","title":"AN ACT relating to the Commonwealth Education Continuum.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Commonwealth Education Continuum; specify the membership of the continuum; establish the terms of members; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to act as the administrative body for the continuum; establish reporting requirements to the Interim Joint Committee on Education.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB503/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb503.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1592314,"bill_number":"HB506","title":"AN ACT relating to the recognition and registration of professional employer organizations.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to declare that professional employer organizations provide a valuable service to commerce and should be properly recognized and regulated; define \"client,\" \"co-employer,\" \"co-employment relationship,\" \"covered employee,\" \"insurer,\" \"person,\" \"professional employer agreement,\" \"professional employer organization,\" \"professional employer organization group,\" \"professional employer services,\" \"registrant,\" and \"temporary help service\"; indicate that covered employees shall be deemed employees of the client for purposes of determining tax credits or economic incentives; require a person providing professional employer services to be registered and to set forth the registration requirements; require professional employer organizations to pay a registration fee; require a professional employer organization to either maintain positive working capital or provide a bond, letter of credit, or security; set forth the rights and responsibilities of parties to a co-employment agreement; set forth the health insurance obligations of professional employer organizations; set forth the workers' compensation requirements of professional employer organizations and the client; set forth the unemployment insurance obligations of the professional employer organization and the client; prohibit a person from knowingly providing professional employer services without becoming registered and set forth actions that may be taken by the Department of Workers' Claims against any person in violation; amend the definition of \"premiums received\" in KRS 342.0011 to include co-employment relationships with a professional employer organization; amend KRS 342.990 to delete references to KRS 342.615; repeal KRS 342.615; state that the provisions of this Act are severable.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 50)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB506/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb506.html","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1592322,"bill_number":"HB505","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency medical services.","description":"Amend sections of KRS Chapter 311A to update definitions; create the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services as an independent agency of state government; change membership of the board; delete the licensure of ambulances and ambulance services from the board duties; update language and delete certificate of need language; correct references to training institutions; make conforming changes; create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to license and regulate ambulances and ambulance services; require duties of the cabinet; require ambulance providers holding a license to operate a 911 ambulance service to continue in the same service or response areas under the same license and require all other ambulance services to be licensed by the cabinet beginning December 31, 2022; repeal, reenact and amend sections of KRS Chapter 311A as sections of KRS Chapter 216B to reflect change in licensing of ambulance providers and data collection to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 216B.020 and 216B.095 to remove ambulance services from the certificate of need requirement; amend KRS 42.738 to add member to the Kentucky Wireless Interoperability Executive Committee; amend KRS 65.7623 to add member of the cabinet to the Kentucky 911 Services Board; amend various other sections to conform; create new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require the transfer of all board employees, funds, and equipment of the board from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; make provisions for employee retirement transfer; amend KRS 61.510 to conform; amend KRS 205.590 to establish a new technical advisory committee on emergency medical services consisting of members representing the air medical industry, the Kentucky Board of Emergency Services, the emergency medical services billing industry, and ground ambulance providers; amend KRS 205.590 to create a Technical Advisory Committee on Emergency Medical Services in the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance; repeal KRS 211.9523 and 311A.080; add noncodified sections to set board appointments and term limits; retain administrative regulations in effect related to ambulance providers; require the cabinet to review administrative regulations related to ambulance providers.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-03-07","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB505/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb505.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1592330,"bill_number":"SB179","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal offenses committed during a declared emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 500.080 to define \"natural or man-made disaster\"; amend KRS 508.025, 511.020, 511.030, 511.040, 511.060, 511.070, 511.080, 512.020, 512.030, 512.040, 514.110 and 515.020 to provide an enhanced penalty if the offense occurred during a declared emergency arising from a natural or man-made disaster and within the area covered by the emergency declaration; amend KRS 514.030 to provide that any classification of theft by unlawful taking or disposition shall be charged one level higher if the offense occurred during a declared emergency arising from a natural or man-made disaster and within the area covered by the emergency declaration; amend KRS 514.040 to provide that any classification of theft by deception shall be charged one level higher if the offense occurred during a declared emergency arising from a natural or man-made disaster and within the area covered by the emergency declaration; amend various statutes to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 151)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB179/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb179.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1592336,"bill_number":"SB176","title":"AN ACT relating to use of facial recognition technology.","description":"Retain original provisions, except create a working group on facial technology; set membership, require the working group to adopt a model facial recognition technology policy by January 1, 2024, to govern use of facial recognition technology: set forth standards and components of the policy; require law enforcement agencies that use the technology to have a use policy in place.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 147)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB176/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb176.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1592345,"bill_number":"HB517","title":"AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 159.035 to require that beginning with the 2021-2022 school year a student shall be considered present at school while participating in any of the page programs of the General Assembly; allow one day as an excused absence for attendance at the State Fair; amend KRS 158.070 and 158.649 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 168)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB517/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb517.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1592353,"bill_number":"HB519","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.035 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB519/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb519.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1592361,"bill_number":"SB181","title":"AN ACT relating to medical negligence claims reporting.","description":"Creates a new section of KRS 304.40-250 to 304.40-320 to require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to annually report information regarding the claims experience of medical malpractice insurers to the General Assembly; permit the commissioner to promulgate regulations to require medical malpractice insurers to report information necessary to comply with the reporting requirement.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-16","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-18","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB181/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb181.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1592368,"bill_number":"HB512","title":"AN ACT relating to heart attack response and treatment.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health to establish and implement a plan for achieving continuous quality improvement in the quality of care provided under a statewide system for heart attack response and treatment; require the department to designate licensed hospitals as Comprehensive Cardiac Centers, Primary Heart Attack Centers, or Acute Heart Attack Ready hospitals; amend KRS 311A.180 to expand the protocols of emergency medical services providers to include trauma, cardiac arrest, and heart attack.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 115)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB512/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb512.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1593402,"bill_number":"HB524","title":"AN ACT relating to publication procedures for local entities.","description":"Amend KRS 424.145 by changing the definition of local government to remove the population restriction on counties, and governmental entites within counties, permitted to utilize alternative Internet publication.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB524/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb524.html","sponsor":"Ryan Dotson"},
{"bill_id":1593406,"bill_number":"HJR82","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to road projects.","description":"Provide that the General Assembly shall adopt the last four years of the six year road plan as a joint resolution.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-11","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 194)","last_action_date":"2022-04-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR82/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr82.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1593407,"bill_number":"HB242","title":"AN ACT relating to road projects and declaring an emergency.","description":"Set out the 2022-2024 Biennial Highway Construction Plan; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-11","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 193)","last_action_date":"2022-04-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB242/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb242.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1593412,"bill_number":"SB185","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.040 to require that an individual's registration must be revoked two times within a 12 month period before the revocations constitute a violation of KRS 304.39-080 and the individual is referred to the County Attorney for prosecution; set forth when a person without proof of insurance may instead present an affidavit to the county clerk; require license plate seizure be handled in accordance with KRS 186.181; provide reinstatement fee; amend KRS 186.180 to delete the fee when the vehicle's registration is revoked under KRS 186.290 and remove out dated language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB185/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb185.html","sponsor":"Johnnie Turner"},
{"bill_id":1593416,"bill_number":"SB184","title":"AN ACT relating to coroners.","description":"Amend KRS 72.450 to allow a coroner who is in possession of an unclaimed body to elect to cremate certain unclaimed bodies, in lieu of burial, and either offer the cremains to specified individuals, or inter the cremains provided no inquest has been held or is intended to be held and there is no reason to believe the body will be needed as evidence in any criminal matter or cremation is or may be inconsistent with the decedent's personal wishes or cultural or religious beliefs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB184/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb184.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1593420,"bill_number":"HB526","title":"AN ACT relating to land surveyor licensure.","description":"Amend KRS 322.045 to allow a person to qualify for licensure as a land surveyor if he or she has graduated from a two-year board-approved program and has obtained a minimum of six years of progressive experience in land surveying, with four of those years under the direct supervision of a practicing land surveyor; allow graduates of two-year board-approved programs to be eligible to take the Fundamentals of Land Surveying Examination after two years of progressive experience in land surveying and the Principles and Practice of Land Surveying Examination after six years of progressive experience in land surveying; eliminate the board's responsibility to promulgate administrative regulations that establish requirements for consideration of experience gained before entering the graduate programs approved by the board.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB526/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb526.html","sponsor":"Matthew Koch"},
{"bill_id":1593422,"bill_number":"HB533","title":"AN ACT relating to mental illness.","description":"Amend KRS 202A.014 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB533/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb533.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1593426,"bill_number":"HB522","title":"AN ACT relating to school building projects.","description":"Amend KRS 162.070 to increase the minimum amount for advertising and bidding school building projects from $7,500 to $30,000.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB522/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb522.html","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1593429,"bill_number":"HB535","title":"AN ACT relating to reproductive health care.","description":"Amend KRS 205.592 to expand Medicaid eligibility to include pregnant women of any immigration status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define new terms; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a family planning program to provide family planning services and family planning-related services to Medicaid-eligible individuals, including individuals who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid except for their immigration status; require the Department for Medicaid Services to promulgate administrative regulations and collaborate with multiple divisions, agencies, and other parties to facilitate participation the family planning program; require a waiver to be requested if it is determined a waiver is needed.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB535/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb535.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1593433,"bill_number":"HB534","title":"AN ACT relating to patient-directed care at the end of life.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill patient's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; require conditions for making request; permit patient to rescind request at any time; permit an attending physician to provide medication; establish requirements for attending physician to inform patients and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified patients; require report by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish provisions for contracts, insurance policies, and beneficiaries; prohibit applicability of provisions to ending a patient's life by lethal injection, mercy killing, or active euthanasia; direct that a health care provider is not required to provide medication to a qualified patient; permit health care providers to prohibit persons or entities from participating in a qualified patient's request during or on the premises of employment; prohibit reporting a health care provider to a licensing board for participating in a qualified patient's request; state that actions under this Act do not authorize lethal injection, mercy killing or active euthanasia; state that actions under this Act do not constitute suicide or homicide; create a form for a qualified patient to make a request; create a form for an interpreter for a qualified patient making a request; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish provisions for insurance policies and beneficiaries of qualified patients; amend KRS 507.020 and KRS 507.030 to create an affirmative defense to a charge of murder and manslaughter in the first degree; establish short title of the Kentucky Death with Dignity Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB534/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb534.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1593436,"bill_number":"HB532","title":"AN ACT relating to child welfare.","description":"Amend KRS 199.572 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB532/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb532.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1593441,"bill_number":"HB528","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 533.050 to require the court to consider all sanctions, including graduated sanctions adopted by the Department of Corrections for violations of the conditions of community supervision, before revoking a sentence of probation or conditional discharge; amend KRS 439.553 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB528/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb528.html","sponsor":"Killian Timoney"},
{"bill_id":1593443,"bill_number":"HB536","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 242.1292, relating to alcoholic beverage limited sale precincts in cities with a population of 20,000 or more, to maintain existing licenses and their accompanying city regulatory license fees; amend KRS 243.033 to allow caterers to transport, sell, serve, and deliver alcoholic beverages in moist precincts if at least 10% of the catering gross receipts are for food purchases; supersede any conflicting catering or precinct statutes; authorize a caterer to cater alcoholic beverages at an event it hosted or co-hosted; amend KRS 83A.022, 242.1238, and 243.0341 to conform; repeal KRS 242.1294, 242.1296, and 242.1298.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 104)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB536/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb536.html","sponsor":"Scott Sharp"},
{"bill_id":1593446,"bill_number":"HB537","title":"AN ACT relating to collective bargaining for public employees.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336, relating to collective bargaining for public employees; amend KRS 336.010 to define \"public employees\"; amend KRS 336.130 to allow employees of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to collectively bargain.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB537/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb537.html","sponsor":"Buddy Wheatley"},
{"bill_id":1593453,"bill_number":"HB530","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid services.","description":"Amend KRS 205.203 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB530/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb530.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1593455,"bill_number":"HB520","title":"AN ACT relating to trial commissioners.","description":"Amend KRS 24A.100 to increase the compensation of trial commissioners to no more than $10,500 per year.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB520/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb520.html","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1593457,"bill_number":"HB521","title":"AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the daily oversight of cannabis operations and to provide administrative support for the board; establish various one-year business licenses under the chapter; grant administrative hearings under KRS Chapter 13B to appeal a license denial or revocation; forbid an employer from discriminating against applicants or employees who use cannabis outside of working hours as long as the use does not affect job performance; prohibit a person under 21 from purchasing, possessing, consuming, or using cannabis; establish a revolving account called the \"cannabis fund\" to collect cannabis licensing fees, fines, excise taxes, and any other funds; form the Social Impact Council as a public agency authorized to distribute moneys from the cannabis fund; set council membership, procedures, powers, and duties; create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose an excise tax set by the Cannabis Control Board on the first sale or transfer of harvested cannabis; establish excise tax reporting, collection, and liability; amend KRS 139.472 to exempt medical cannabis and accessories from sales and use taxes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize local governments to levy up to a 5% license fee on the gross receipts of a retailer or microbusiness; allow overlapping local governments to agree to levy a combined license fee, with set fee amounts absent an agreement; amend KRS 2.015 to require a person to be 21 or older to purchase cannabis and its products and accessories; create new sections of KRS 218A and amend KRS 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to exempt licensed cannabis activities from criminal marijuana offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a person to petition the court to expunge the person's misdemeanor marijuana offenses; amend KRS 431.079 to exclude the expungement petition from the certification of eligibility requirement; amend KRS 131.1815 to notify the Cannabis Control Board if a cannabis licensee is a delinquent taxpayer; amend KRS 600.020 to include cannabis offenses in the list of juvenile status offenses; amend KRS 12.020 to add the governmental entities created in KRS Chapter 245 to the list of executive branch government bodies; set initial terms for members of the Cannabis Control Board and Social Impact Council; apply the excise tax beginning on July 1, 2023, and allow cannabis sales beginning on July 1, 2024; Section 31 of Act RETROACTIVE; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB521/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb521.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1593461,"bill_number":"SB183","title":"AN ACT relating to tax rebates for certain state-owned facilities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139, to define terms for the section; allow certain state agencies to receive a sales tax rebate of up to 100% of sales tax generated by the sales of tangible personal property at a public facility.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB183/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb183.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1593464,"bill_number":"SB182","title":"AN ACT relating to expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 431.073, 431.078, and 431.079 to allow court to waive expungement fees on a finding of indigence.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB182/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb182.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1593468,"bill_number":"HCR83","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force.","description":"Create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force to study and make recommendations related to the legalization, taxation, and use of cannabis in the Commonwealth; set task force membership; require the task force to meet at least once every two months during the 2022 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR83/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr83.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1593471,"bill_number":"HB527","title":"AN ACT relating to educators.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish a student loan forgiveness program for teachers and administrators employed at a public school district within a federally designated promise zone; authorize the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the program; create the promise zone educator scholarship fund.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB527/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb527.html","sponsor":"Killian Timoney"},
{"bill_id":1593475,"bill_number":"HB523","title":"AN ACT relating to the priority of purchase money deeds of trusts and mortgages.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to establish priority for purchase money deeds of trust and mortgages over a prior judgment lien against the purchaser; amend KRS 382.270 and 382.280 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 167)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB523/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb523.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1593477,"bill_number":"HR84","title":"A RESOLUTION condemning anti-Semitism in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Condemn anti-Semitism in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR84/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr84.html","sponsor":"Daniel Fister"},
{"bill_id":1593480,"bill_number":"HB529","title":"AN ACT relating to the disclosure of laboratory test results and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 333 to prohibit information blocking of medical laboratory reports or tests except for results that may show a finding of malignancy or could reveal genetic markers, which are prohibited from disclosure for 72 hours; amend KRS 333.150 to require medical laboratory compliance with the 21st Century Cures Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 93)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB529/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb529.html","sponsor":"Killian Timoney"},
{"bill_id":1593484,"bill_number":"SB186","title":"AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the daily oversight of cannabis operations and to provide administrative support for the board; establish various one-year business licenses under the chapter; grant administrative hearings under KRS Chapter 13B to appeal a license denial or revocation; forbid an employer from discriminating against applicants or employees who use cannabis outside of working hours as long as the use does not affect job performance; prohibit a person under 21 from purchasing, possessing, consuming, or using cannabis; establish a revolving account called the \"cannabis fund\" to collect cannabis licensing fees, fines, excise taxes, and any other funds; form the Social Impact Council as a public agency authorized to distribute moneys from the cannabis fund; set council membership, procedures, powers, and duties; create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose an excise tax set by the Cannabis Control Board on the first sale or transfer of harvested cannabis; establish excise tax reporting, collection, and liability; amend KRS 139.472 to exempt medical cannabis and accessories from sales and use taxes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize local governments to levy up to a 5% license fee on the gross receipts of a retailer or microbusiness; allow overlapping local governments to agree to levy a combined license fee, with set fee amounts absent an agreement; amend KRS 2.015 to require a person to be 21 or older to purchase cannabis and its products and accessories; create new sections of KRS 218A and amend KRS 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to exempt licensed cannabis activities from criminal marijuana offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a person to petition the court to expunge the person's misdemeanor marijuana offenses; amend KRS 431.079 to exclude the expungement petition from the certification of eligibility requirement; amend KRS 131.1815 to notify the Cannabis Control Board if a cannabis licensee is a delinquent taxpayer; amend KRS 600.020 to include cannabis offenses in the list of juvenile status offenses; amend KRS 12.020 to add the governmental entities created in KRS Chapter 245 to the list of executive branch government bodies; set initial terms for members of the Cannabis Control Board and Social Impact Council; apply the excise tax beginning on July 1, 2023, and allow cannabis sales beginning on July 1, 2024; Section 31 of Act RETROACTIVE; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB186/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb186.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1593488,"bill_number":"HB538","title":"AN ACT relating to commercial driver's license testing.","description":"Amend KRS 281A.160 to allow an applicant who has a nonresident operator's license and a commercial driver's instruction permit to take the CDL skills test within the Commonwealth; establish a nonresident testing fee of $150.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB538/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb538.html","sponsor":"Chris Freeland"},
{"bill_id":1593490,"bill_number":"HB525","title":"AN ACT relating to community health workers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid reimbursement for certain services provided by certified community health workers; create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to establish community health worker certification; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to reimburse certain services provided by certified community health workers.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-07","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 86)","last_action_date":"2022-04-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB525/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb525.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1593494,"bill_number":"HB531","title":"AN ACT relating to health and family services.","description":"Amend KRS 211.160 to make language gender-neutral.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB531/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb531.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1593496,"bill_number":"SCR133","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force.","description":"Create the L.E.T.T.'s Grow Task Force to study and make recommendations related to the legalization, taxation, and use of cannabis in the Commonwealth; set task force membership; require the task force to meet at least once every two months during the 2022 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-17","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR133/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr133.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1594179,"bill_number":"SJR150","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION terminating the declaration of emergency regarding the SARS-CoV-2 virus and declaring an emergency.","description":"Terminate the declaration of emergency regarding the SARS-COV-2 virus in 2020 Executive Order 2020-215 and all subsequent actions directives based upon the declaration of emergency in 2020 Executive Order 2020-215; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-03-22","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 22)","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR150/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr150.html","sponsor":"Donald Douglas"},
{"bill_id":1594190,"bill_number":"SR135","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Marianne Butler to the Public Service Commission.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Marianne Butler to the Public Service Commission for a term expiring July 1, 2025.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"defeated 9-26","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR135/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr135.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1594201,"bill_number":"SR134","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Amy Cubbage to the Public Service Commission.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Amy Cubbage as Vice-Chair of the Public Service Commission for a term expiring July 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR134/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr134.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1594210,"bill_number":"SB192","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 61.623 to make a technical change.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB192/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb192.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1594221,"bill_number":"SB190","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Amend KRS 67.170 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB190/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb190.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1594234,"bill_number":"HB539","title":"AN ACT relating to judgment liens.","description":"Amend KRS 426.720 to require judgment lien notices to contain the date of final judgment; establish expiration dates for judgment liens; provide that a judgment lien expiration may be postponed under certain circumstances.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-18","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB539/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb539.html","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":1594244,"bill_number":"SR136","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the 60th anniversary of the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital.","description":"Honor Albert B. Chandler Hospital and recognize April 24, 2022, as UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital Appreciation Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR136/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr136.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1594255,"bill_number":"SB193","title":"AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices by state agencies.","description":"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.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB193/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb193.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1594266,"bill_number":"SB194","title":"AN ACT relating to individual income tax, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 48.060 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB194/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb194.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1594277,"bill_number":"HB540","title":"AN ACT relating to health care.","description":"Amend KRS 311.586 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-18","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB540/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb540.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1594290,"bill_number":"SR137","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Sara Blevins Curry.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sara Blevins Curry.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR137/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr137.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1594300,"bill_number":"SR138","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Brian Erick Mackey to the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Brian Erick Mackey to the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term expiring August 13, 2025.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"defeated 10-21-1","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR138/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr138.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1594310,"bill_number":"SB191","title":"AN ACT relating to residential communities.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to define terms related to planned communities; require planned communities to file a declaration in the office of the county clerk or clerks where the planned community is located; provide for homeowners' associations duties and responsibilities; provide for owners' and prospective purchasers' or their agents' right to examine and copy certain records of the homeowners' association; provide for annual assessments of each lot to be equal unless established otherwise in the declaration or the governing documents of the homeowners' association; provide guidelines for revitalization of defunct declarations and homeowners' associations; establish guidelines for civil liabilities of planned communities and homeowners' association; provide for damages to be paid to homeowners' associations when any portion of a common area is taken or damaged under the power of eminent domain; provide that a homeowners' association shall not prohibit the outdoor display of political yard signs from 30 days before any primary, regular election, or special election until seven days after that election.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB191/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb191.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1594321,"bill_number":"SB187","title":"AN ACT relating to exceptional children and youth.","description":"Amend KRS 158.100 to require high school service be provided to exceptional children and youth through the end of the school year during which they reach the age of 21; amend KRS 157.200, KRS 159.150, and KRS 159.990 to conform; provide a second supplemental school year to an exceptional child or youth who participates in a supplemental school year and reaches the age of 21 during the 2021-2022 school year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB187/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb187.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1594329,"bill_number":"SB189","title":"AN ACT relating to fire protection.","description":"Amend KRS 95A.520 and 95A.540 to apply existing provisions of law to departments that merge prior to the effective date of the Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to allow departments merging after the effective date of the Act to retain all qualified shares of aid that each merging department would have received prior to merger.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 57)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB189/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb189.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1594338,"bill_number":"SB188","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.035 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-18","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB188/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb188.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1595691,"bill_number":"HB546","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB546/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb546.html","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1595693,"bill_number":"HB549","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 110 and 111 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to judicial review.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 110 and 111 of the Constitution of Kentucky to require the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court to render a decision within ninety days from the day of the final hearing for a case over which the court exercises judicial review; ballot language included; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB549/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb549.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1595698,"bill_number":"SB197","title":"AN ACT relating to an individual income tax credit for stillbirths.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable, nontransferable individual income tax credit related to stillbirths for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, but before January 1, 2026; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB197/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb197.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1595702,"bill_number":"SB208","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB208/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb208.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1595707,"bill_number":"SR139","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Senator Tom Buford.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Senator Tom Buford.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR139/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr139.html","sponsor":"Donald Douglas"},
{"bill_id":1595712,"bill_number":"SR140","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Coach Bill Cronin upon the occasion of his retirement as head football coach for Georgetown College.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor of Bill Cronin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR140/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr140.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1595717,"bill_number":"HB548","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 116.046 to require the State Board of Education to include how to cast a ballot within their annual public education program to high school juniors and seniors.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB548/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb548.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1595721,"bill_number":"SB205","title":"AN ACT relating to state dealings with companies that engage in energy company boycotts.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to declare findings regarding the financial harms of boycotting energy companies for dealing in fossil-fuel based energy; define terms; require the State Treasurer to publish, maintain, and update a list of financial companies engaged in energy company boycotts and to file the list with the Legislative Research Commission and the Attorney General; require state governmental entities to notify the Treasurer of the listed financial companies in which the state governmental entity owns direct or indirect holdings; require state governmental entities to inform and warn listed financial companies that they may become subject to divestment by the state governmental agency unless they clarify their actions or cease their energy company boycott; require state governmental entities to divest from the listed financial company if it does not cease its energy company boycott in the timeframes established by the section; provide for delays in the divestment schedule if it will result in a loss of value or a benchmark deviation; require for delays in divestment to be reported to the Treasurer, the Legislative Research Commission, and the Attorney General; provide that a state governmental entity shall not be required to divest from any holdings in actively or passively managed investment funds or private equity funds; provide for exceptions from divestment requirements; require that beginning on December 1, 2023, and each December 1 thereafter, each state governmental agency shall file a report with the Treasurer, the Attorney General, and the Legislative Research Commission identifying the divestments it made and the investments prohibited under the Act; allow the Attorney General or the Treasurer to enforce Sections 1 to 4 and 5 of the Act; prohibit a governmental entity from entering into a contract for goods or services with a company that engages in energy company boycotts; provide exceptions; amend KRS 286.2-015 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 120)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB205/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb205.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1595726,"bill_number":"HB542","title":"AN ACT relating to highway work zones and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define \"automated speed enforcement,\" \"owner,\" \"program,\" and \"recorded images\"; direct the Transportation Cabinet to establish a pilot program for automated speed enforcement in highway work zones and issue a civil citation to an operator of a motor vehicle traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit; establish procedures for citation issuance; direct the Transportation Cabinet to install signage and to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the program; establish civil fines for violations issued under the program; specify that all fines and penalties assessed be deposited into the automated speed enforcement fund; require the Transportation Cabinet to annually report to the Legislative Research Commission the status of the program; establish the automated speed enforcement fund; specify that moneys collected be used to defray the costs of administering the program; specify that any moneys collected in excess of program costs be deposited into the highway work zone safety fund and used for the purposes of that fund; provide that provisions; repeal sections effective July 1, 2026: provide the Act may be cited as the Jared Lee Helton Act of 2022; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB542/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb542.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1595730,"bill_number":"HB552","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Mountain Regional Recreation Authority.","description":"Amend KRS 148.0222 to require the Kentucky Mountain Regional Recreational Authority to comply with the audit requirements of KRS Chapter 65A.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 123)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB552/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb552.html","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1595734,"bill_number":"HR85","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing March 4, 2022, as PFAS Chemical Awareness Day in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize March 4, 2022, as PFAS Chemical Awareness Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR85/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr85.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1595741,"bill_number":"HB544","title":"AN ACT relating to jail fees.","description":"Amend KRS 441.265 to require a conviction for the court to order a prisoner to reimburse a county for unpaid jail fees; require a conviction for a jailer to be able to bill and attempt to collect unpaid jail fees from a prisoner; and require any fees that were automatically deducted from a prisoner's account to be reimbursed if the prisoner's case does not result in a conviction.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB544/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb544.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1595746,"bill_number":"HB550","title":"AN ACT relating to employment.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010 to remove exemptions in definition of employee for agricultural workers and domestic service workers; amend KRS 342.630 to indicate that agricultural employers are subject to KRS Chapter 342; amend KRS 342.650 to remove exemptions for domestic service employees and agricultural employees from coverage under KRS Chapter 342; amend other statutes to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB550/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb550.html","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1595750,"bill_number":"SB201","title":"AN ACT relating to health services.","description":"Amend KRS 216.350 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB201/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb201.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1595754,"bill_number":"SB195","title":"AN ACT relating to appropriations.","description":"Amend KRS 45.242 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB195/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb195.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1595758,"bill_number":"HB541","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for lactation support services and breastfeeding equipment.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations to provide coverage for lactation counseling, lactation consultation, and breastfeeding equipment; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to request federal authorization for a waiver if necessary.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB541/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb541.html","sponsor":"Attica Scott"},
{"bill_id":1595763,"bill_number":"SB198","title":"AN ACT relating to vehicle recyclers.","description":"Amend KRS 177.905, to change the definition of \"road\" to include only those highways which are a part of the national highway system; amend KRS 177.912 to require any auto recycler to comply with all local ordinances, rules, and regulations, regardless if the auto recycler is required to be permitted under KRS 177.910; specify that for any auto recycler required to be permitted under KRS 177.910, the commissioner of highways may exempt the auto recycler from the permit process, if the local government certifies the auto recycler's compliance as a conforming use in an industrially zoned area under the applicable zoning ordinances and regulations; allow recyclers permitted by the department on the effective date of the Act, but no longer subject to department oversight to continue operation on the same site for which they were permitted; keep screening, site, and use restrictions imposed by the department in place unless removed by a planning and zoning body, city, or county; give responsibility for enforcement at the local level to county attorneys.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB198/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb198.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1595769,"bill_number":"HB556","title":"AN ACT relating to the voluntary environmental remediation tax credit.","description":"Amend KRS 141.418 to expand the voluntary environmental remediation tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, but before January 1, 2026, and to allow a refundable credit for these taxable years; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the refundable credit; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB556/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb556.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1595772,"bill_number":"HB551","title":"AN ACT relating to park rangers.","description":"Amend KRS 148.056 to allows state park rangers to have all of the powers of peace officers in all parts of the state.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB551/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb551.html","sponsor":"Chris Fugate"},
{"bill_id":1595776,"bill_number":"HJR87","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to a study of the Kentucky Penal Code and related offenses.","description":"Create a subcommittee of the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary to study revisions to the penal code; require report by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR87/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr87.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1595780,"bill_number":"HB554","title":"AN ACT relating to short-time compensation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to establish the Kentucky Short-time Compensation Program; require the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to develop the requirements of the program and promulgate administrative regulations; establish rules for employers participating in the program; require an employer to submit a work plan, including a proposed schedule of employees' reduced work hours; set requirements relating to health benefits, retirement, and weekly pay.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB554/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb554.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1595783,"bill_number":"SB204","title":"AN ACT relating to international research.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to permit public postsecondary institutions to agree to choice of law and choice of venue clauses in international research agreements.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB204/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb204.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1595788,"bill_number":"HB545","title":"AN ACT relating to aviation.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 183 to establish the aviation development fund and appropriate moneys in the fund for the purpose of expanding educational opportunities in the field of aviation and aeronautics and promote aviation programs in the Commonwealth; direct the Department of Aviation to establish an aviation development grant program and specify expenditure levels in the aviation development fund for different purposes; set forth criteria for judging grant proposals, an application, and award schedule; create reporting requirements to the Interim Joint Committees on Appropriations and Revenue and Transportation on grant applications and awards; establish the Aviation Development Grant Review Committee to evaluate grant proposals and award grants, set forth membership, qualifications, and administrative procedures of the five member board; provide for staggered terms of initial citizen appointments to the committee; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"returned to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB545/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb545.html","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1595795,"bill_number":"HB547","title":"AN ACT relating to narcotic treatment programs.","description":"Amend KRS 222.231 to allow licensed narcotic treatment programs to choose which medication treatments they offer patients; require the promulgation of administrative regulations.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB547/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb547.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1595799,"bill_number":"SB206","title":"AN ACT relating to peace officer contracts.","description":"Amend KRS 70.090 to extend contract subject to reimbursement to 4 years, make the same extension for peace officers employed by state law enforcement agencies, and remove prorating of reimbursement for state law enforcement agencies; amend KRS 16.050 to conform; add noncodified language to maintain current contract provisions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB206/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb206.html","sponsor":"Johnnie Turner"},
{"bill_id":1595804,"bill_number":"SB202","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid services.","description":"Amend KRS 205.203 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB202/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb202.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1595807,"bill_number":"HB555","title":"AN ACT relating to the decontamination tax credit.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms for the section and establish the decontamination tax credit; make credit available for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, but before January 1, 2032; declare credit to be refundable and to be applied against taxes imposed by KRS 141.020 or 141.040 and 141.0401; make credit equal to the amount of expenditures made by the taxpayer for the remediation of the contaminated property but not to exceed $30,000,000; allow 25% of the credit to be taken in one taxable year and to be taken for a period of no more than 4 taxable years; create a new section of Subchapter 1 of KRS Chapter 224 to provide establishment of the application and approval process through the Energy and Environment Cabinet; permit applications to be submitted on or after January 1, 2022; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide for ordering of the refundable tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on this tax credit pursuant to the reporting requirements in Section 1 of this Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB555/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb555.html","sponsor":"Chris Freeland"},
{"bill_id":1595811,"bill_number":"SB203","title":"AN ACT relating to health care.","description":"Amend KRS 311.586 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"recommitted to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB203/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb203.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1595815,"bill_number":"SB196","title":"AN ACT relating to home and community-based services.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010, 341.055, and 342.650 to remove provisions relating to home providers and community-based service providers and makes the KRS conform with the requirements of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA).","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB196/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb196.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1595819,"bill_number":"HB557","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB557/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb557.html","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1595824,"bill_number":"HB553","title":"AN ACT relating to theft of services.","description":"Amend KRS 514.060 to include the conduct of a person holding the property of another under a rental agreement longer than the period agreed upon and depriving the owner of its use for future rentals.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB553/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb553.html","sponsor":"Matt Lockett"},
{"bill_id":1595827,"bill_number":"HB543","title":"AN ACT relating to the property tax monthly installment payment program.","description":"Create a new section in KRS Chapter 134 to establish an installment payment program; define terms; provide installment payment calculation guidelines; require specific property tax information be sent to the taxpayer through notifications or made accessible through an electronic system; allow an administrative fee up to three percent; disallow two percent discount for early payment of taxes; prohibit collection of penalties and interest on installment payments; require the Department of Revenue to promulgate administrative regulations; establish penalties for noncompliance; amend KRS 133.220 to require the sheriff or collector to include specific tax payment information on tax notices; amend KRS 134.015 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB543/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb543.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1595832,"bill_number":"SB207","title":"AN ACT relating to workforce development.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to establish the Kentucky Education and Workforce Collaborative to implement the policies developed by the Kentucky Workforce Innovation Board; establish membership and articulate responsibilities of the collaborative; authorize service coordination and combination service programs; articulate responsibilities of local workforce development boards; establish performance milestones and deadlines for attainment; require annual reporting beginning July 1, 2025.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 220)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB207/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb207.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1595835,"bill_number":"SB199","title":"AN ACT relating to vital records.","description":"Amend KRS 186.010 to define \"Electronic Verification of Vital Events system\"; amend KRS 186.412 to require the Transportation Cabinet to electronically verify birth certificates which are presented as part of an operator's license application; create a new section of KRS Chapter 213 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a digital archive of all certificates dated on or after January 1, 1947, in possession of the state registrar.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-22","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB199/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb199.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1595838,"bill_number":"HR86","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring the Kentucky Food Truck Championship, held at the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Mount Vernon, Kentucky, as the state food truck championship.","description":"Declare the Kentucky Food Truck Championship at the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum as the state food truck championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR86/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr86.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1596517,"bill_number":"SR145","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the Kentucky Trucking Association on its 60th anniversary.","description":"Honor the Kentucky Trucking Association on its 60th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR145/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr145.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1596522,"bill_number":"HCR88","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Congress of the United States to enact legislation granting statehood to the people of Washington, D.C.","description":"Declare support for the admission of Washington, D.C., as a state and urge the Congress of the United States to enact legislation authorizing statehood.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR88/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr88.html","sponsor":"Pamela Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1596529,"bill_number":"SB213","title":"AN ACT relating to wagering and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections to define “adjusted gross revenue,” “beginner,” “cabinet, “confidential information,” “entry fee,” “fantasy contest,” “fantasy contest operator,\" “fantasy contest participant,\" “highly experienced player,” “immediate family,” “location percentage,” “net poker revenue,” “online poker,” “person,” “principal stockholder,” “rake,” “registered fantasy contest operator,” “script,” “secretary,” and “wager”; establish requirements for registration as a fantasy contest operator; require the Public Protection Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for the operation of fantasy contests; establish the wagering administration fund and direct the uses of that fund; establish the Kentucky problem gambling assistance account and direct the uses of that account; require an annual audit of fantasy contest registrants; establish requirements for fantasy contest procedures; require any person offering online poker in the Commonwealth to have a license from the cabinet and require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations prescribing requirements for licensure including geolocation software, age verification, and security and accounting standards; establish an online poker account in the State Treasury; amend KRS 230.210 to define \"professional sports venue\" and \"sports wagering\"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to require the racing commission to institute a system of sports wagering at tracks and other specified locations; limit the types of events upon which wagers may be placed; amend KRS 230.215 to declare the intent to allow citizens to enjoy sports wagering and allow the racing commission to promulgate administrative regulations prescribing conditions under which sports wagering is to be conducted; amend KRS 230.225, 230.240, and 230.260 to include sports wagering; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish sports wagering licensure requirements; amend KRS 230.320 to conform; amend KRS 230.361 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 230.3615 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define “adjusted gross income” and impose a tax on sports wagering; amend KRS 230.362, 230.363, 230.364, 230.365, 230.366, 230.369, 230.371, 230.372, 230.373, 230.374, and 230.750 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to prohibit participants from wagering on events in which they participate and to prohibit tampering with the outcome of a sporting event; amend KRS 230.990 to provide penalties for participants who wager on sporting events or tamper with the outcome of a sporting event; amend KRS 243.500 to exempt sports wagering and online poker; amend KRS 525.090 to exempt sports wagering; amend KRS 528.010 to exempt fantasy contests, sports wagering, and online poker and the devices used in the conduct of those forms of wagering; amend KRS 528.020, 528.070, and 528.080 to exempt fantasy contests, sports wagering, and online poker; create a noncodified section to assert that the provisions of the Act are severable.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB213/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb213.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1596534,"bill_number":"HB566","title":"AN ACT relating to the transportation of persons.","description":"Amend KRS 281.605 to exempt motor vehicles used in the transportation of persons 18 years of age or older from the provisions of KRS Chapter 281 relating to the regulation of motor carriers, if the motor vehicle is owned or being used on behalf of a nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 225)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB566/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb566.html","sponsor":"Daniel Fister"},
{"bill_id":1596541,"bill_number":"HB559","title":"AN ACT relating to governmental entities.","description":"Amend KRS 154A.030 to create gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB559/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb559.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1596546,"bill_number":"HB564","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS Chapters 116, 117, 118, and 119 relating to no-excuse in-person absentee voting, establishing excused in-person absentee voting, prohibiting the early disclosure of unofficial ballot count totals, requiring a tamper resistant seal to be placed on voting equipment, recording the public counter on voting machines before and after the days of in-person absentee voting, changing the time from which the State Board of Elections is required to furnish the county clerk with the appropriate voter registration list prior to an election from five to six days, permitting a disabled voter and military and overseas voters the ability to use the same electronic transmission system for requesting mail-in absentee ballots, removing the requirement that a voter return a mail-in absentee ballot seven days prior to an election, central ballot counting board requirements, ballot box requirements, location designation for the counting and reviewing of mail-in absentee ballots, prohibitions relating to voting equipment and systems from being connected to the internet, requirements relating to securing and locking voting equipment and voting systems, submission of precinct-by-precinct summary reports, requirements relating to the in-person absentee ballot signature roster, requiring a secure online connection for the transmittal of unofficial election results, requirements relating to external devices used to upload election results, requirements related to election officers duties of election administration, requiring the State Board of Elections to promulgate administrative regulations, changing the filing deadline for unexpired terms of partisan races, and creating a Class D Felony for any person who directly connects or attempts to directly connect a voting machine, voting equipment, or voting system to a public network, including the Internet; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-07","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 87)","last_action_date":"2022-04-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB564/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb564.html","sponsor":"Joshua Branscum"},
{"bill_id":1596550,"bill_number":"SR144","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the United States Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to reconsider the recent federal requirements for the certification of commercial driver's license holders.","description":"Urge the United States Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to reconsider the recent federal requirements for the certification of commercial driver's license holders.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR144/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr144.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1596556,"bill_number":"SR147","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the Lexington Center Corporation to not remove cash as a payment option.","description":"Urge the Lexington Center Corporation to not remove cash as a payment option for parking and concessions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR147/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr147.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1596563,"bill_number":"SR141","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing and supporting the goals and ideals of National Forensic Science Week in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize September 18 to 24, 2022, as Forensic Science Week in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR141/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr141.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1596568,"bill_number":"HR92","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring the week of February 21 to 27, 2022, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize February 21 to 27, 2022, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR92/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr92.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1596578,"bill_number":"HB570","title":"AN ACT relating to the exercise of ethics and diversity within the medical profession.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to define terms; prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant providers the right not to participate in or pay for services that violate their conscience; exempt providers from liability for exercising these rights; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations of these provisions.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB570/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb570.html","sponsor":"Josh Calloway"},
{"bill_id":1596581,"bill_number":"HB561","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation.","description":"Amend KRS 164A.040, 164A.050, and 164A.060 to update references to insured student loans.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB561/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb561.html","sponsor":"Timmy Truett"},
{"bill_id":1596588,"bill_number":"SB211","title":"AN ACT relating to pornography.","description":"Amend KRS 531.070 to remove the educational justification from the exemption of criminal prosecution for pornography.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB211/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb211.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1596595,"bill_number":"HB571","title":"AN ACT relating to juveniles.","description":"Amend KRS 605.035 to allow the family accountability, intervention, and response team to refer children age 12 and younger for assessment and services, and to report progress back to the team or advise the court-designated worker to refer the case to the county attorney, who may choose to take no action; amend KRS 610.030 to require a court-designated worker to refer children 12 years of age and younger to the family accountability, intervention, and response team.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB571/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb571.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1596600,"bill_number":"HB567","title":"AN ACT relating to military-connected educational benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 164.507 to remove degree-seeking requirement for nonremarried spouse and children of a deceased veteran when utilizing educational benefits and require students to use federal grant funds toward tuition prior to the use of the waiver; amend KRS 164.515 to expand educational benefit to include service members with a disability rating of 70% or higher and remove degree-seeking requirement and require students to use federal grant funds toward tuition prior to the use of the waiver.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB567/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb567.html","sponsor":"Pamela Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1596607,"bill_number":"SB212","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 164A.300 to 164A.380 as new sections of KRS Chapter 41 and amend to provide that the Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust is to be administered by the Department of the Treasury; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"recommitted to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB212/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb212.html","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1596611,"bill_number":"SB209","title":"AN ACT relating to public employee benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 16.198 to require the Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations to establish vacation and sick leave and holiday pay for Trooper R and commercial vehicle enforcement R Class employees.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 152)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB209/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb209.html","sponsor":"Mike Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1596618,"bill_number":"HB560","title":"AN ACT relating to aviation.","description":"Amend KRS 183.8621 to require the Transportation Cabinet to appoint a cabinet employee to be administrator of the Airport Zoning Commission; clarify the role and supervision of the administrator; amend KRS 174.020 to place the Airport Zoning Commission under the Department of Aviation; amend KRS 183.140 to eliminate references to a pilot project for commuter air service; amend KRS 183.475 to conform; repeal KRS 183.032, 183.050, 183.070, 183.203, 183.207, 183.210, 183.213, and 183.490.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB560/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb560.html","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1596624,"bill_number":"SB210","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protections.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; prohibit the manufacture and sale of certain kratom extracts and kratom products; prohibit the sale of kratom extracts and kratom products to any individuals under 21 years of age; establish penalties.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB210/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb210.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1596634,"bill_number":"HB562","title":"AN ACT relating to first responders.","description":"Amend KRS 15.518 to define \"critical incident,\" allow a peace officer to take 48 hours leave after being involved in a critical incident, allow leave to be paid or unpaid, declare this section does not supersede any existing policies that grant greater benefits; amend KRS 95A.292 to define \"critical incident,\" allow a firefighter to take 48 hours leave after being involved in a critical incident, allow leave to be paid or unpaid, declare this section does not supersede any existing policies that grant greater benefits; amend KRS 337.100 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 94)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB562/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb562.html","sponsor":"Ashley Tackett Laferty"},
{"bill_id":1596639,"bill_number":"SB90","title":"AN ACT relating to legal proceedings and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 533 to establish a behavioral health conditional dismissal pilot program beginning October 1, 2022, and continuing for four years to provide eligible individuals an alternative to receive treatment for a behavioral health disorder instead of incarceration, resulting in dismissal of the criminal charges upon successful completion of the program; identify the counties participating in the pilot program; define terms; establish program procedures, reporting requirements, and program requirements including access to medical treatment, counseling, education, and vocational counseling and training; create a council with designated membership to assist with the implementation of the pilot program; provide that the council shall end September 30, 2027; amend KRS 197.020 to provide for telehealth services in county jails; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 230)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB90/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb90.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1596646,"bill_number":"SR146","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Mary Catherine Bunning on her 90th birthday.","description":"Honor Mary Catherine Bunning on her 90th birthday.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR146/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr146.html","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1596651,"bill_number":"HB565","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal justice training and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 15A.070 to require the Department of Criminal Justice Training to promulgate an administrative regulation to provide that 10 percent of basic training for police officers be given virtually; provide that 30 percent of annual in-service training for police officers be given virtually; exclude subject areas that require demonstration of physical skill from virtual training courses; provide that virtual annual in-service courses be made available throughout the entire calendar year.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 91)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB565/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb565.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1596658,"bill_number":"HR90","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the Kentucky Trucking Association on its 60th anniversary.","description":"Honor the Kentucky Trucking Association on its 60th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR90/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr90.html","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1596663,"bill_number":"HB574","title":"AN ACT relating to real estate brokerage.","description":"Amend KRS 324.010 to redefine \"real estate brokerage\" to include advertising for sale an equitable interest in a contract for the purchase of real property between a property owner and a prospective buyer; amend KRS 324.020 to limit this type of advertising to licensed real estate brokers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"returned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB574/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb574.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1596671,"bill_number":"SJR143","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Davis Brothers Memorial Bridge in Martin County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a bridge on Kentucky Route 3 in Martin County in honor and memory of WWII veterans and brothers, Homer, Herman,Ted and Curtis Davis.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR143/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr143.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1596678,"bill_number":"HR91","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing February 28, 2022, as CARE Day in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Recognize February 28, 2022, as CARE Day in Kentucky.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR91/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr91.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1596681,"bill_number":"HB572","title":"AN ACT relating to Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources conservation officers and declaring an emergency.","description":"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.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB572/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb572.html","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1596691,"bill_number":"HB558","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 246.040 to make gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB558/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb558.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1596696,"bill_number":"HJR93","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION renaming the Franklin County Courthouse, the \"John Marshall Harlan Courthouse.\"","description":"Direct the Administrative Office of the Courts or appropriate authority to rename the Franklin County Courthouse as the John Marshall Harlan Courthouse.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR93/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr93.html","sponsor":"Daniel Elliott"},
{"bill_id":1596704,"bill_number":"HB563","title":"AN ACT relating to public-private partnerships for capital projects with an aggregate value of $25,000,000 or more.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.077, relating to public-private partnerships for capital projects with an aggregate walue of $25 million or more, to adjust the date to July 1, 2024 for authorization by the General Assembly.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB563/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb563.html","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1596710,"bill_number":"SCR142","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Early Childhood Education Task Force.","description":"Create the Early Childhood Education Task Force to conduct a comprehensive review of the early childhood caregiving and educational structures and operations in the Commonwealth; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2022 interim; and require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR142/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr142.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1596714,"bill_number":"HB573","title":"AN ACT relating to healthcare workers and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Healthcare Worker Loan Relief Program for qualifying healthcare workers; establish the guidelines for operating the program; create the healthcare worker loan relief fund; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 226)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB573/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb573.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1596720,"bill_number":"HB568","title":"AN ACT relating to electric vehicles and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; establish an excise tax on electric vehicle power dealers for power distributed to electric vehicles; set initial base of three cents per kilowatt hour; subject tax to annual adjustment; require annual notification to electric vehicle power dealers of the adjusted rate of the excise tax on electric vehicle power for each upcoming fiscal year and annual notification to county clerks of the adjusted rate of highway user fees for electric and hybrid vehicles; provide a mechanism for annual adjustment of the excise tax based on changes in the National Highway Construction Cost Index 2.0; allow the taxes to increase no more than ten percent or decrease no more than two percent from one year to the next, subject to the statutory minimums; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to establish base electric and hybrid vehicle road usage fees for electric and hybrid vehicles; require collection of the fees at the time of initial registration and upon renewal; require the fees to be adjusted in the same manner as for electric vehicle power excise taxes; require the fee be transferred to the road fund; amend KRS 186.010 to define \"electric vehicle\" and \"hybrid vehicle\"; amend KRS 186.050 to require payment of the highway user fees for electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles at the time of registration or renewal; provide that the Act may be cited as the EV Vehicle Road Usage Tax Act; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB568/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb568.html","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1596728,"bill_number":"HB569","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protections.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; prohibit the manufacture and sale of certain kratom extracts and kratom products; prohibit the sale of kratom extracts and kratom products to any individuals under 21 years of age; establish penalties; provide for the supremacy of any future federal regulations on kratom.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB569/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb569.html","sponsor":"Josh Calloway"},
{"bill_id":1596731,"bill_number":"SB214","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 248.353 to make gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB214/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb214.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1596738,"bill_number":"HJR89","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating a highway in Knott County in honor and memory of World War II veteran Lester Banks.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Lester Banks Memorial Highway in Knott County and erect appropriate signage.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR89/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr89.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1597314,"bill_number":"SB215","title":"AN ACT relating to reading diagnostic and intervention grants and declaring and emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.792 to include the employment of reading interventionists as a purpose of the reading diagnostic and intervention fund; prevent the state board of education from limiting grant recipients from expending grant funds for authorized purposes; direct that grant applications currently under consideration shall be subject to this Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB215/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb215.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1597315,"bill_number":"SB218","title":"AN ACT relating to stream and wetland mitigation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 150 to establish definitions; authorize the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to make acquisitions for compensatory mitigation projects; clarify who holds interests in the property for acquisition types, including alternative delivery procurement; allow for the acquisition price of interests to be greater by no more than five percent of the appraised value when using comparable sales comparison or market approach appraisal methods; allow the department to procure construction contracting for compensatory mitigation projects using alternative delivery including design-build, design-bid-build, and full delivery compensatory mitigation and exempt the department from requirements of KRS Chapters 45 and 45A; allow for procurement of mitigation credits from an existing mitigation bank with restrictions; establish the requirements for full delivery compensatory mitigation including contract, procurement requirements, method of remittance on work, protests and appeals; establish the department's powers and prerogatives with implementing the in-lieu fee program for compensatory mitigation projects; require all vendors and any foreign entities to be in good standing and in compliance with unemployment and workers' compensation requirements; set penalty for violations; amend KRS 45.750 to add compensatory mitigation credit purchases to the definition of \"capital construction item\" and include credit purchases and use of full delivery mitigation in the definition of \"capital project\"; add definitions; exempt real estate purchased for compensatory mitigation projects or purchase of compensatory mitigation credits from the provisions of KRS 45.760 to 45.810; amend KRS 45.777 to exempt sale or transfer of title or interests in real property from requirements to deposit receipts into the general fund; amend KRS 45.760 to add expenditure of funds for compensatory mitigation to the automatic authorization when project is not listed in branch budget bill; allow such funds tranferred to the allotment account to exceed the 15 percent limitation; require the notation of the payout for the allotment to be transmitted to the Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee; and exempt projects or equipment purchases from the limitations before being authorized; amend KRS 45A.030 to include compensatory mitigation projects and credits to the definitional exception of chief purchasing officer; add additional definitions; amend KRS 45A.045 to exempt the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources from the requirement to have the Finance and Administration Cabinet make all acquisitions and be the chief purchasing officer for the department and dispose of surplus property; amend KRS 45A.050 to vest the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources with the rights, powers, and duties and authority for procurement; amend KRS 150.255 to clarify that compensatory mitigation projects must be approved by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the department and add purchase of compensatory mitigation credits to the use of funds; express when remittance may be made on a contract even if it is outside of the procurement methodology; clarify that the department coordinates all aspects of a compensatory mitigation project and when the project vests under a full delivery compensatory mitigation project; amend KRS 382.850 to allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources or a mitigation bank to acquire conservation easements and protect the land where there is a severance of a mineral estate and surface and establish a penalty if the surface is disturbed by subsequent exercise of mining activity; establish procedure for enforcement; and add definitions; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB218/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb218.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1597317,"bill_number":"HB583","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 118.651 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB583/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb583.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1597318,"bill_number":"HR95","title":"A RESOLUTION condemning Russia's unprovoked military aggression and invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine.","description":"Condemning Russia's unprovoked military aggression and invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR95/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr95.html","sponsor":"DJ Johnson"},
{"bill_id":1597319,"bill_number":"SB217","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to conduct all procurements necessary for its performance pursuant to KRS Chapter 45A; provide that upon approval of the commission, the commissioner shall be deemed the chief purchasing officer for the purposes of conducting procurements for the department; make all department personal service contracts, tax incentive agreements, and memoranda of agreement subject to review by the Government Contract Review Committee; require the department, upon approval of the commission, to conduct its own bidding and procurement; amend KRS 150.021 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; remove language making the powers conferred to the department by KRS Chapters 150 and 235 subject to KRS Chapters 42, 45, 45A, 56, and 64; require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to transfer to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources copies of all records, files, and documents associated with functions that the cabinet no longer performs for the department; exempt the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources from reorganization under KRS Chapter 12; amend KRS 150.022 to change references from wildlife districts to commission districts; make commission members' terms end on December 31 of the fourth calendar year following their appointments and until their successors are duly appointed and confirmed by the Senate; require that a member serve no more than two full terms, excluding any partial terms that a member may serve; require that a candidate to be a commission member have held hunting and fishing licenses for the previous five consecutive years; require that an appointment to the commission to replace a member whose term has expired be made no later than January 20 of the year following the year in which the term expired; amend KRS 150.061 to make the commissioner the appointing authority for the department for the purposes of KRS Chapter 18A and to conform; amend KRS 235.030 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; amend KRS 45A.030, 150.0241, 235.010, and 235.130 to conform.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 197)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB217/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb217.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1597320,"bill_number":"HB581","title":"AN ACT relating to electrical installations.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 322 and of KRS Chapter 198B to require the use of a licensed electrical engineer to exceed the maximum voltage of 1000 volts for yard and pier distribution systems.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB581/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb581.html","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1597321,"bill_number":"HB589","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative ethics.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to make it ethical misconduct for a legislator, legislative agent, or the director of the Legislative Research Commission to engage in discrimination or sexual harassment; define \"discrimination\" and \"sexual harassment\"; declare that if a provision of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 is designated a misdemeanor or felony, an alleged violation of the provision may be adjudicated by the Legislative Ethics Commission as ethical misconduct; amend KRS 6.686 to require an allegation of harassment or sexual harassment by an employee of the legislative branch of state government to be communicated by the executive director of the commission to the chief human resources officer of the Legislative Research Commission no later than one business day of receipt of the allegation; require any allegations or complaints refered to or received by the Legislative Research Commission be confidential; require any proceedings conducted and any documents created by the Legislative Ethics Commission or the Legislative Research Commission related to discrimination, sexual harassment, or other complaints or allegations related to ethical misconduct or a legislator, legislative agent, or director of the Legislative Research Commission be confidential; amend KRS 6.716 to specify the required training qualifies for general continuing legal education credit.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB589/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb589.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1597323,"bill_number":"HB587","title":"AN ACT relating to the Commission on Human Rights.","description":"Amend KRS 344.360 to include source of income as a prohibited form of discrimination; define \"source of income\"; amend KRS 344.200 to extend from 30 to 60 days the period for the Human Rights Commission to determine after a complaint has been filed whether a respondent has engaged in an unlawful practice; amend KRS 344.240 to extend from 180 days to one year the period for the Human Rights Commission to hold a hearing or issue a final order on a complaint, unless it is a complaint about a discriminatory housing practice; amend KRS 344.600 to extend from 5 to 10 days the period of time to serve an aggrieved person notice of a filing and advising of the time limits and choices of forum involved; extend from 10 to 20 days the period a respondent has to file an answer to a complaint after receiving notice from the Human Rights Commission.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB587/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb587.html","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":1597324,"bill_number":"HB591","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of recreational vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 138.450 define \"recreational vehicles\" and add recreational vehicles to the definition of \"motor vehicle\"; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB591/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb591.html","sponsor":"Scott Sharp"},
{"bill_id":1597325,"bill_number":"HB580","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB580/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb580.html","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1597326,"bill_number":"SB216","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 15.243 to expand the Attorney General's independent inquiry of potential election irregularities from not fewer than 5% of Kentucky counties to not fewer than 12 counties; amend KRS 117.228 to remove credit or debit card as a voter's secondary form of proof of identification; amend KRS 117.125 to require all voting systems to be approved in accordance with prescribed requirements by January 1, 2024, and prohibit a voting systems' capability of connecting to any network, including the Internet, or with any device external to the voting system; amend KRS 117.135 to prescribe requirements relating to the county clerk's duties of securing and protecting voting equipment; and amend KRS 117.295 to expand the time in which voting equipment is to remain locked against voting after the election and require the voting equipment and ballot boxes to be under video surveillance.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 219)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB216/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb216.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1597327,"bill_number":"HB578","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB578/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb578.html","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1597328,"bill_number":"HB577","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB577/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb577.html","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1597330,"bill_number":"SB219","title":"AN ACT relating to streets and roads.","description":"Amend KRS 189.2226 to define \"home\" as a site for which there is a building permit for construction for trucks hauling building materials; amend KRS 189.230 to allow a fiscal court to regulate or prohibit the operation of motor trucks or semitrailer trucks on state or county roads; amend KRS 189.280 to permit cities to provide maximum weight, height, width, and length limits for motor trucks, semi-trucks and trailers on city-owned and maintained streets and roads.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB219/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb219.html","sponsor":"Mike Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1597331,"bill_number":"HB575","title":"AN ACT relating to health and family services.","description":"Amend KRS 199.510 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB575/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb575.html","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1597332,"bill_number":"HB584","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for medical services.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health insurance coverage for fertility preservation services and medical services related to testicular or other urological cancers; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to require limited health service benefit plans and limited health service organizations to comply with coverage requirements for medical services related to testicular or other urological cancers; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB584/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb584.html","sponsor":"Patrick Flannery"},
{"bill_id":1597333,"bill_number":"HB579","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB579/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb579.html","sponsor":"Steve Riley"},
{"bill_id":1597334,"bill_number":"SB222","title":"AN ACT relating to essential personal caregivers and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend 2022 RS SB 100/EN, Section 1, 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 1, to define \"health facilities\"; add lay caregivers to description of essential care givers; include communicable disease outbreaks and resident disease status to when an essential personal care visitor is permitted; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB222/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb222.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1597335,"bill_number":"HB592","title":"AN ACT relating to collective bargaining for public employees.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336, relating to collective bargaining for public employees; define \"bargain collectively\" and \"public employees\"; provide the secretary of the Kentucky Labor Cabinet the authority to designate a labor organization to represent the majority of public employees in Kentucky for the purposes of collective bargaining; require the Governor or designated representative to represent the Commonwealth in collective bargaining with the designated labor organization.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB592/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb592.html","sponsor":"Buddy Wheatley"},
{"bill_id":1597336,"bill_number":"HB590","title":"AN ACT relating to jails.","description":"Amend KRS 441.265 to require a prisoner in a county jail to begin paying fees from the prisoner's booking date; require a jail to reimburse and waive fees if a prisoner is not convicted of any charges; require the Department of Corrections to annually adjust the maximum room and board fee of $50 per day based on changes in the Consumer Price Index; set procedure by which automatic deductions from a prisoner's canteen account may be made by the jail.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 188)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB590/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb590.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1597338,"bill_number":"SR148","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Donate Life Kentucky for their life-saving work in the promotion and funding of organ and tissue donation.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Donate Life Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR148/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr148.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1597339,"bill_number":"HB588","title":"AN ACT relating to county audits.","description":"Amend KRS 43.070 to permit counties, county clerks, and county sheriffs to have a certified public accountant conduct an annual audit; provide if a county, county clerk, or county sheriff elects to have the Auditor of Public Accounts conduct the audit, the audit must be completed by August 1 following the calendar year that is the focus of the audit, and by February 1 of the following fiscal year that is the focus of the audit; amend KRS 64.810 to permit a fiscal court, county clerk, or county sheriff to employ a certified public accountant to conduct an audit in lieu of the Auditor of Public Accounts unless the entity or official has not been audited within the preceeding three years of the year to be audited, recevied an adverse, disclaimed, or qualified opinion in the audit of the year immediately preceding the year to be audited for reasons other than based upon an accounting basis prescribed or permitted by the Department for Local Government or the laws of this Commonwealth, or the audit of the year immediately preceding the year to be audited was not timely completed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB588/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb588.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1597340,"bill_number":"HB586","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer data privacy.","description":"Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to establish consumer rights relating to personal data, including the rights to confirm whether data is being processed, to delete personal data provided by the consumer, to obtain a copy of the consumer's personal data that was previously provided, and to opt out of targeted advertising and the sale of data; define terms; set forth the types of data and the persons or entities to which the statutory provisions and do not apply; set forth requirements for persons or entities that control and process consumer data; establish that the Attorney General has exclusive authority to enforce the consumer data privacy rights; create a consumer privacy fund in the State Treasury to be administered by the Office of the Attorney General; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB586/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb586.html","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1597341,"bill_number":"SB220","title":"AN ACT relating to county jails.","description":"Amend KRS 441.265 to add that the requirement for a prisoner to reimburse the county for jail fees is to start from the prisoner's booking date; require a county jail to clear a prisoner of any outstanding expenses and to reimburse any expenses already paid if the prisoner's case does not result in a conviction; allow the Department of Corrections to annually adjust the maximum per diem for room and board based on the Consumer Price Index; allow jails to automatically deduct 100% of an initial deposit and 50% of subsequent deposits in a prisoner's account for owed jail fees.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB220/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb220.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1597342,"bill_number":"HR96","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the celebration of Black History Month and recognizing the accomplishments and contributions of Lawrence Smith.","description":"Honor the celebration of Black History Month and recognize the accomplishments and contributions of Lawrence Smith.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR96/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr96.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1597343,"bill_number":"SB223","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to restoration of rights.","description":"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.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB223/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb223.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1597345,"bill_number":"HB576","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 248.353 to make gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB576/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb576.html","sponsor":"Richard Heath"},
{"bill_id":1597346,"bill_number":"HB585","title":"AN ACT relating to civil rights.","description":"Amend 344.450 to allow parties to recover punitive damages.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB585/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb585.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1597347,"bill_number":"HB582","title":"AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and establish a medicinal cannabis program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to establish an excise tax on certain transfers of medicinal cannabis; amend KRS 342.815 to establish that the Employer’s Mutual Insurance Authority shall not be required to provide coverage to an employer if doing so would subject the authority to a violation of state or federal law; amend KRS 139.470 to exempt the sale of medical cannabis from the state sales tax; amend KRS 138.870 to exempt medicinal cannabis from the excise tax on controlled substances; amend KRS 216B.402 to require hospital emergency departments to report cases of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome to the Department for Public Health; amend KRS 218A.010, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to conform; amend KRS 12.020 to reestablish the Department for Alcoholic Beverage Control as the Department for Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; amend KRS 12.252, 15.300, 15.380, 15.398, 15.420, 15A.340, 61.592, 62.160, 131.1815, 211.285, 241.010, 241.015, 241.030, 243.025, 243.0307, 243.038, 243.090, 243.360, 438.310, 438.311, 438.313, 438.315, 438.317, 438.320, 438.325, 438.330, 438.337, and 438.340 to conform; some sections EFFECTIVE July 1, 2023; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-24","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB582/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb582.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1597348,"bill_number":"HCR94","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States federal government to take steps to ensure international intercollegiate athletes may take advantage of state name, image, and likeness laws.","description":"Urge the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the United States Congress to take steps to ensure international student athletes may take advantage of state name, image, and likeness laws.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-07","last_action":"to Senate Floor","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":"Floor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR94/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr94.html","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1597349,"bill_number":"SB221","title":"AN ACT relating to off-highway vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 186.010 to define \"off-highway vehicle\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to allow the operation of off-highway vehicles on certain roadways in the Commonwealth; outline OHV requirements and operation guidelines for OHV permit holders; allow the Transportation Cabinet or a local government to prohibit the operation of OHVs on any roadway under its jurisdiction; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 189.515 and KRS 186A.070 to conform; amend KRS 189.990 to establish a penalty for operating an OHV outside of the set guidelines; repeal KRS 189.281, which created a local government pilot program for off-highway vehicles; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-24","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB221/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb221.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1597526,"bill_number":"SR151","title":"A RESOLUTION condemning Russia's unprovoked military aggression and invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine.","description":"Condemning Russia's unprovoked military aggression and invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR151/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr151.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1597539,"bill_number":"HB599","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 67.060 to require the office of county commissioners to have partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 83A.040 to require the office of mayor and legislative body members to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 83A.045 to require all city offices to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 83A.100 to require the city ward to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 160.180 to allow for the use of a transcript from an accredited college to satisfy the requisite for school board candidacy eligibility; amend KRS 160.200 to require the offices of boards of education to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 160.210 to require school board candidates to have emblems of political party affiliation presented on the ballot; amend KRS 262.210 to require the offices of soil and water conservation officers to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend various sections to conform; and repeal KRS 83A.047, 83A.050, 83A.170, 83A.175, 160.250, and 160.260.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB599/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb599.html","sponsor":"Thomas Huff"},
{"bill_id":1597553,"bill_number":"HR97","title":"A RESOLUTION commending the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation.","description":"Commend the Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation for its work to preserve Kentucky history, foster education, and contribute to tourism and economic growth in Kentucky and the United States.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR97/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr97.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1597565,"bill_number":"HB596","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.10-020 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB596/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb596.html","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1597580,"bill_number":"HB595","title":"AN ACT relating to jurors.","description":"Amend KRS 29A.100 to excuse persons 75 years of age or older from jury service upon request.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB595/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb595.html","sponsor":"Thomas Huff"},
{"bill_id":1597593,"bill_number":"HB8","title":"AN ACT relating to revenue measures and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 141.020 to reduce the individual income tax rate to 4% for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, and provide a further rate reduction in future years if certain thresholds of total general fund receipts are exceeded, provide that the tax rate shall not exceed a reduction of more than one percentage point in a calendar year, and eliminate the tax credit for a fiduciary and an estate; amend KRS 139.010 to define terms; amend KRS 139.200 to impose sales tax on certain services; amend KRS 139.482 to remove the exemption of sales and use tax on charges for admission to historical sites; amend KRS 139.310 to impose the use tax on certain services; amend KRS 139.340 to conform; amend KRS 139.470 to only allow an exemption of residential utilities for the resident's place of domicile, lower the de minimis threshold to $3,000 for the selling of certain services; amend KRS 281.010 to define terms; amend KRS 281.630 to require a peer-to-peer car sharing certificate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to impose an excise on the privilege of providing a motor vehicle for sharing or for rent within the Commonwealth; amend KRS 138.462 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to exclude the gross receipts from the additional taxable services imposed if derived from a contract executed on or before the date of introduction; create a new section of KRS Chapter 91A to define terms; amend various section of KRS Chapter 91A to conform; amend KRS 155.440 to define terms; amend KRS 153.450 to conform; amend KRS 142.400 to define terms; amend KRS 65.060 to conform; amend KRS 45A.077 to extend the time that a public-private partnership may be established without approval by the General Assembly; amend KRS 131.130 to prohibit the Department of Revenue from collecting any consumer debt owed for health care goods and services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to impose a tax on electric vehicle power distributed in this state by an electric vehicle power dealer; amend KRS 186.050 to require the county clerk to collect the battery reclamation and mitigation fees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to impose the battery reclamation and mitigation fees on an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle; provide various revenue measures for the operation of certain state agencies, the exemption of state and local tax on water withdrawal fees, and the deposit of certain taxes; provide if any provision is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect the other provisions.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 212)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB8/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb8.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1597608,"bill_number":"SR152","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Scott M. Miller as a member of the Workers' Compensation Board in the Department of Workers' Claims.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Scott M. Miller as a member of the Workers' Compensation Board in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring January 4, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"adopted 33-0","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR152/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr152.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1597623,"bill_number":"HB602","title":"AN ACT relating to towed vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.190 to allow for the disposal of involuntarily towed vehicles by a towing and storage company.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB602/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb602.html","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1597637,"bill_number":"HB594","title":"AN ACT relating to administrative regulations and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 337.050 to provide gender neutral language.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 207)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB594/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb594.html","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1597650,"bill_number":"HB604","title":"AN ACT relating to governmental agencies, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research at the University of Kentucky; define the role, mission, and responsibilities of the center; establish the university's duties related to the center; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2022-04-26","last_action":"line items vetoed (Acts Ch. 239)","last_action_date":"2022-04-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB604/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb604.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1597668,"bill_number":"HB598","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.","description":"Amend KRS 342.610 to exclude certain levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the blood from the presumption that an injury was caused by the introduction of certain substances into the employee's body.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB598/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb598.html","sponsor":"Alan Gentry"},
{"bill_id":1597679,"bill_number":"HB600","title":"AN ACT relating to the Reclamation Guaranty Fund Commission.","description":"Amend KRS 350.506 to clarify that members of the commission representing the coal mining industry are coal mine permittees; allow for smaller operators to be selected to represent different sized operators if a larger operator cannot be found; and delete obsolete language regarding initial appointments and meetings.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 166)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB600/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb600.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1597693,"bill_number":"HB603","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative ethics.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to make it ethical misconduct for a legislator or legislative agent to engage in discrimination or sexual harassment; define \"discrimination\" and \"sexual harassment.\"","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB603/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb603.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1597707,"bill_number":"SB224","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement funds of urban-county governments and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 67A.360 to define \"surviving spouse\" for purposes of surviving spouse benefits under the urban-county government police and fire pension fund; modify the name of the fund to be gender neutral; make a conforming amendment; amend KRS 67A.345, 67A.370, and 67A.655 to conform due to changing the name of the urban-county government police and fire pension fund; amend KRS 67A.430 to provide that salary shall be credited to an urban-county government police and fire pension fund member's account for periods when the member's salary is reduced due to receipt of worker's compensation provided the member makes the appropriate employee contributions on the salary that would have been paid; require the urban-county government to make employer contributions on the salary credited if the member elects to make contributions; amend KRS 67A.460 to prohibit a retired urban-county government police and fire pension fund who has retired on disability to revert back to a service retirement; amend KRS 67A.480 to require certification of occupational disability by licensed physicians hired by the urban-county government police and fire pension in situations where the member is applying for occupational disability benefits; amend KRS 67A.320 to authorize the mayor with consent of the legislative body to appoint members to the closed city employees' pension plan for elected positions on the board if no members of the closed plan are available or willing to serve on the fund; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 140)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB224/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb224.html","sponsor":"Donald Douglas"},
{"bill_id":1597722,"bill_number":"SR149","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring the Kentucky Food Truck Championship, held at the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Mount Vernon, Kentucky, as the state food truck championship.","description":"Declare the Kentucky Food Truck Championship at the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum as the state food truck championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR149/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr149.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1597735,"bill_number":"HB597","title":"AN ACT relating to water resources.","description":"Amend KRS 151.100 to define terms; amend KRS 151.110 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 151.112 to allow the Energy and Environment Cabinet to request technical assistance from any agency or organization to carry out its duties; make technical corrections; amend KRS 151.116 to direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to consult with the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority in developing administrative regulations; amend KRS 151.120 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 151.125 to direct the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet to adopt minimum standards for floodplain management; replace instances of “certificate of inspection” with “inspection report”; amend KRS 151.220 to permit the Energy and Environment Cabinet to accept and use cooperate agreements; amend KRS 151.250 to prohibit buildings, barriers, or obstructions in floodplains or floodways without approval and a permit from the Energy and Environment Cabinet; allow the Energy and Environment Cabinet to require approval prior to construction related to agricultural operations that impact the base flood of a stream; make technical corrections; amend KRS 151.260 to direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to notify construction permit applicants within 20 working days for a floodplain permit and 45 working days for a dam permit; allow the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet to establish administrative regulations requiring some dam owners to develop and maintain emergency action plans; amend KRS 151.293 to replace instances of “certificate of inspection” with “inspection report”; replace the “United States Weather Service” with the “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration”; make technical corrections; amend KRS 151.310 to prohibit encroachment on the reservoir area of any dam in Kentucky; amend KRS 151.600 to direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to administer National Flood Insurance Program related activities; make technical corrections; repeal KRS 151.230.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-10","last_action":"passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB597/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb597.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1597747,"bill_number":"HB605","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to conduct all procurements necessary for its performance pursuant to KRS Chapter 45A or pursuant to administrative regulations it promulgates; provide that the department's procurement procedures or administrative regulations be designed with the best interests of the Commonwealth, the department, and the public in mind; allow the department to conduct its own bidding and procurements or to utilize the services of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, or both; allow the commissioner of the department, in lieu of the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, to declare an emergency for purchasing purposes; amend KRS 150.021 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; remove language making the powers conferred to the department by KRS Chapters 150 and 235 subject to KRS Chapters 42, 45, 45A, 56, and 64; require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to transfer to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources all records, files, and documents associated with functions that the cabinet no longer performs for the department; exempt the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources from reorganization under KRS Chapter 12; amend KRS 150.022 to change references from wildlife districts to commission districts; make commission members' terms end on December 31 of the fourth calendar year following their appointments and until their successors are duly appointed and confirmed by the Senate; require that a member serve no more than two full terms, excluding any partial terms that a member may serve; provide that a member, including a member appointed prior to the effective date of the Act, shall not take office or act in an official capacity until confirmed by the Senate; provide that a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor violation of game and fish laws of Kentucky, another state, or the United States shall not be eligible to serve on the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission; require that a candidate to be a commission member have held hunting and fishing licenses for the previous five consecutive years; require that an appointment to the commission to replace a member whose term has expired be made no later than January 20 of the year following the year in which the term expired; require that member candidate lists for the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission be submitted no later than January 1 of the year following the year in which the term for the commissioner to be replaced has expired; amend KRS 150.061 to make the commissioner the appointing authority for the department for the purposes of KRS Chapter 18A and to conform; amend KRS 235.030 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; amend KRS 150.0241, 235.010, and 235.130 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB605/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb605.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1597758,"bill_number":"HB601","title":"AN ACT relating to teachers.","description":"Amend KRS 158.060 to require teachers be compensated for noninstructional planning time within their school day during which they are required to supervise or instruct students.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB601/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb601.html","sponsor":"Killian Timoney"},
{"bill_id":1597772,"bill_number":"HB593","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.10-040 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-25","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-25","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB593/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb593.html","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1598807,"bill_number":"SB242","title":"AN ACT relating to chief executive officers of colleges within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.","description":"Amend KRS 164.350 to require the board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to develop an evaluation process to be used by the local board of directors to evaluate a college chief executive officer; amend KRS 164.600 to require the local board of directors of a community or technical college to select and evaluate the college chief executive officer.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB242/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb242.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1598810,"bill_number":"SR154","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Kenwood Elementary School on being named a 2021 National ESEA Distinguished School.","description":"Honor Kenwood Elementary School on being named a 2021 National ESEA Distinguished School.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR154/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr154.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1598813,"bill_number":"HB607","title":"AN ACT relating to pari-mutuel wagering and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 138.510 to change the tax rate beginning August 1, 2022 on all tracks conducting pari-mutuel wagering, tracks conducting telephone account wagering, tracks participating as receiving tracks in intertrack wagering, and all tracks participating as receiving tracks displaying simulcasts and conducting interstate wagering thereon to 1.5 percent of all money wagered and to specify deductions from the revenue generated; amend KRS 138.513 to impose a tax beginning August 1, 2022 on all advance deposit account wagering licensees of 1.5 percent of all amounts wagered through the licensee by Kentucky residents; amend KRS 139.200 to exempt admission at tracks licensed under KRS Chapter 230 from the admission tax; amend KRS 137.190, 138.224, 138.226, 138.270, 138.344, 138.655, 138.675, 138.990, and 230.240 to conform; amend KRS 230.260 to require the racing commission to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a self-exclusion list and exempt the list from open records requirements, require historical horse racing machines to clearly display wagering information and clearly designate a method by which a player can make a choice in their wager; amend KRS 230.360 to conform; amend KRS 230.3615 to require breaks to be calculated to the penny; amend 230.378 and 230.380 to conform; amend KRS 230.400 to remove restrictions on races that may receive purse supplements; amend KRS 230.550 to include equine industry programs at the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky, and the Bluegrass Community and Technical College in the fund; amend KRS 230.750 to require breaks to be calculated to the penny; amend KRS 230.770 to remove restriction on the standardbred development fund limiting it to races that admit only Kentucky-bred horses; amend KRS 230.781 and 230.783 to conform; repeal KRS 138.480, 138.490, and 230.555.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 124)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB607/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb607.html","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1598815,"bill_number":"HB633","title":"AN ACT relating to first responders.","description":"Create a new Section of KRS Chapter 61 to define \"first responder\" and set guidelines for benefits.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB633/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb633.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1598817,"bill_number":"HB692","title":"AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.","description":"Amend KRS 635.010 to make language gender-neutral.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB692/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb692.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1598821,"bill_number":"HB663","title":"AN ACT relating to financial disclosures of postsecondary education institutions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the president and chair of the governing board of each postsecondary education institution licensed or overseen by the Council on Postsecondary Education to jointly execute a signed, sworn financial disclosure statement by July 1 of each year; designate recipients of the statement; and authorize CPE to investigate if an institution fails to provide a statement to designated recipients.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 170)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB663/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb663.html","sponsor":"Bobby McCool"},
{"bill_id":1598823,"bill_number":"HB689","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms.","description":"Amend KRS 527.010 to define \"courthouse\"; amend KRS 527.020 to allow licensed attorneys in good standing with the Kentucky Bar Association to carry concealed deadly weapons into a courthouse; require attorneys who intend to carry a concealed deadly weapon into a courthouse to file a notice of intent with the sheriff; require the sheriff to maintain a list of attorneys who file an intent to carry a concealed deadly weapon into a courthouse, and require those attorneys to show their concealed carry license to the bailiff upon entry.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB689/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb689.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1598826,"bill_number":"HB693","title":"AN ACT relating to driver licensing and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 165A.310 to define \"entry level driver training\" and \"entry-level driver training provider\"; exempt entry-level driver training providers from the definition of CDL driver training school; amend KRS 165A.460 to exempt entry-level driver training providers who are certified by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and comply with applicable federal regulations from the provision of Chapter 165A; EMERGENCY","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-15","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB693/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb693.html","sponsor":"Chris Freeland"},
{"bill_id":1598830,"bill_number":"HB639","title":"AN ACT relating to school population changes, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Require growth in enrollment to be included in the 2022-23 school year SEEK calculation utilizing end of year membership numbers, require a loss adjustment to assist districts with greater than 3% loss in student enrollment, establish how those calculations are to be made; appropriate to the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky fund $12,500,000 for the 2022-2023 fiscal year and $22,400,000 for the 2023-2024 fiscal year; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB639/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb639.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1598832,"bill_number":"HB660","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to make the three tier system for alcoholic beverage sales optional; allow manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors to hold retail package licenses; authorize manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers to sell to consumers, customers, and other licensees and to hold a direct shipper license; require all licensees selling outside the three tier system to pay all applicable excise and wholesale taxes; amend KRS 241.010 to redefine \"wholesaler\"; amend KRS 211.285, 243.027, 243.0305, 243.034, 243.039, 243.055, 243.082, 243.084, 243.086, 243.088, 243.110, 243.120, 243.130, 243.150, 243.154, 243.157, 243.170, 243.180, 243.240, 243.250, 243.280, 243.730, 243.850, 243.884, 244.167, 244.240, 244.260, 244.590, and 244.602 to conform; repeal KRS 244.570.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB660/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb660.html","sponsor":"Thomas Huff"},
{"bill_id":1598835,"bill_number":"HB649","title":"AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 341.415 to allow the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to waive unemployment insurance overpayment debts if recovery would be against good conscience and the overpayment was due to agency error or not due to fraud by the recipient; amend KRS 341.450 to conform to the appeal timeline in KRS 341.440; make technical changes.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB649/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb649.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1598839,"bill_number":"HB673","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.5-150 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB673/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb673.html","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1598841,"bill_number":"HB609","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky problem gambling assistance fund, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections in that chapter to establish the Kentucky problem gambling assistance fund as a revolving account; describe the authorized purposes for the use of fund moneys; establish the Kentucky Problem Gambling Assistance Board to administer, organize, invest, and distribute money from the fund; allow $150,000 from the fund for annual administrative expenses of the board; set board membership, procedures, powers, and duties; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish criteria for expenditures from the fund; direct the board to invest moneys from the fund in a manner to maintain it in perpetuity; appropriate $225,000,000 from the general fund in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the Kentucky problem gambling assistance fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB609/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb609.html","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1598844,"bill_number":"HB644","title":"AN ACT relating to creation of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to establish the Office of Gun Violence Prevention; set duties; require annual reporting; appropriate funds; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB644/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb644.html","sponsor":"Keturah Herron"},
{"bill_id":1598848,"bill_number":"SCR155","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to amend the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 to authorize the study of medical cannabis.","description":"Urge the United States. Congress to remove cannabis as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR155/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr155.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1598850,"bill_number":"HB690","title":"AN ACT relating to attorneys.","description":"Amend KRS 27A.100 to establish membership by appointment, election, or office to the Judicial Council, and establish election by the membership of a chair, vice-chair, and secretary with terms of office.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2022-04-11","last_action":"veto sustained","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB690/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb690.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1598853,"bill_number":"HB687","title":"AN ACT relating to authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state which have been duly audited and approved according to law and have not been paid because of the lapsing or insufficiency of former appropriations against which the claims were chargeable or the lack of an appropriate procurement document in place, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate funds for the payment of claims against the Commonwealth; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 106)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB687/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb687.html","sponsor":"Bobby McCool"},
{"bill_id":1598856,"bill_number":"HB655","title":"AN ACT relating to revenue.","description":"Amend KRS 131.194 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB655/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb655.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1598858,"bill_number":"HB659","title":"AN ACT relating to revenue measures.","description":"Amend KRS 171.397 to increase the maximum credit a taxpayer may claim to $120,000 for owner-occupied residential property and $10 million with regard to all other property and to allow the tax credit to be transferred to financial institutions that are now taxed under the income tax statutes, instead of the bank franchise tax.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 238)","last_action_date":"2022-04-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB659/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb659.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1598862,"bill_number":"HB243","title":"AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, and support of the Legislative Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Appropriate from the General Fund $2,221,900 for fiscal year 2021-2022, $85,040,600 for fiscal year 2022-2023, and $88,016,800 for fiscal year 2023-2024; appropriate from Restricted Funds $75,000 for fiscal year 2022-2023 and $175,000 for fiscal year 2023-2024; detail Part II, General Provisions; detail Part III, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 200)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB243/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb243.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1598865,"bill_number":"HB619","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Amend KRS 67.410 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB619/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb619.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1598867,"bill_number":"HB674","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of distilled spirits.","description":"Amend KRS 132.140 to make a technical correction to the Department of Revenue's name.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB674/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb674.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1598871,"bill_number":"HB694","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishment.","description":"Amend KRS 508.080 to include gender-neutral language","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB694/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb694.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1598874,"bill_number":"HB646","title":"AN ACT relating to a college and career readiness pilot program and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a two-year pilot program to allow a student to retake the college admissions exam or a series of career readiness assessments in the fall of grade 12; require the Kentucky Department of Education to pay for the cost of the assessments; require the Kentucky Department of Education to report on the program by November 1, 2024; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB646/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb646.html","sponsor":"Bobby McCool"},
{"bill_id":1598876,"bill_number":"HB625","title":"AN ACT relating to the Tobacco Settlement Agreement Fund.","description":"Amend KRS 248.654 to require that moneys deposited in the Tobacco Settlement Agreement Fund total at least $100,000,000 each fiscal year.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB625/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb625.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1598881,"bill_number":"HB665","title":"AN ACT relating to tuition.","description":"Amend KRS 164.2842 to require that permanently and totally disabled law enforcement officers, firefighters, and volunteer firefighters injured in active service or in training and any person participating in a state-administered retirement system who was disabled as a result of a duty-related injury shall not be required to pay tuition upon admission to a state-supported university for up to thirty-six months.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB665/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb665.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1598884,"bill_number":"HB670","title":"AN ACT relating to the state geographic information clearinghouse.","description":"Amend KRS 42.726 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB670/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb670.html","sponsor":"Randy Bridges"},
{"bill_id":1598887,"bill_number":"HB654","title":"AN ACT relating to branch budget bills.","description":"Amend KRS 48.720, relating to branch budget bills, to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB654/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb654.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1598891,"bill_number":"HB651","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid waiver programs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to ensure that home and community-based waiver programs provide certain services, including attendant care or non-skilled in-home care services across all waiver programs, skilled nursing visits for adult day health care and home health care providers, participant-directed services, and RN specialized respite; require the cabinet consolidate all home and community-based waiver application processes under the Department for Medicaid Services, including the Michelle P. waiver provider application process; require the cabinet to apply for and implement a Medicaid state plan benefit to establish health homes to coordinate care for people with Medicaid who have chronic conditions; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this section.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB651/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb651.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1598893,"bill_number":"HB618","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.001 to include a definition of \"e-poll book\" and exclude it from the definition of \"voting machine\" and \"voting systems\"; amend KRS 117.025 to allow the State Board of Elections to choose to provide master lists of registered voters in electronic format to county clerks for in use in e-poll books during an election; and amend KRS 117.379 to permit the State Board of Elections to examine any voter registration system maintained by the county clerk, including e-poll books, to establish the security of the system and its components, with a report to be provided to the county board of elections.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 172)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB618/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb618.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1598897,"bill_number":"HJR102","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Adron and Virgil Justice Memorial Highway in Floyd County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a Floyd County highway in honor and memory of WWII Veterans Adron and Virgil Justice; place appropriate signage.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR102/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr102.html","sponsor":"Ashley Tackett Laferty"},
{"bill_id":1598899,"bill_number":"HB645","title":"AN ACT relating to mobile crisis services, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define new terms; establish the mobile crisis services fund within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish requirements Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) must adhere to in order to apply for a loan; require the cabinet to determine the terms and conditions of each loan, review and adjudicate applications, monitor performance of each CMHC, and report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; require that the fund created be a trust and agency account, require moneys in the fund to be administered by the cabinet; provide that moneys remaining in the fund will accrue to the fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-15","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB645/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb645.html","sponsor":"Danny Bentley"},
{"bill_id":1598902,"bill_number":"HB626","title":"AN ACT relating to biometric identification.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to define \"biometric identifier\"; prohibit the capture of biometric identifiers for a commercial purpose without first informing and obtaining consent from the individual whose biometric identifier is at issue; conditionally prohibit a person from disclosing biometric identifiers; require a person to institute reasonable storage and destruction requirements of biometric identifiers; exempt voiceprint data retained by a financial institution and auto manufacturers' crash avoidance technology; and create a civil penalty enforced by the Attorney General or appropriate Commonwealth's attorney.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB626/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb626.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1598906,"bill_number":"HB616","title":"AN ACT relating to the emergency administration of medication in schools.","description":"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.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB616/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb616.html","sponsor":"Derek Lewis"},
{"bill_id":1598908,"bill_number":"SB234","title":"AN ACT relating to public protection.","description":"Amend KRS 75.160 to make the language gender-neutral.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB234/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb234.html","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1598911,"bill_number":"HB666","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Amend KRS 67.120 to make technical correction.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB666/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb666.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1598914,"bill_number":"HB642","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 61.623 to make a technical change.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB642/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb642.html","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1598916,"bill_number":"HB664","title":"AN ACT relating to employee right of action and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section in KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; create a cause of action brought by an employee against a private or public employer if an employee suffers an adverse reaction to a vaccination received pursuant to an employer vaccination policy; require damages; waive sovereign immunity; cite as the Citizen Health Mandate Protection Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB664/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb664.html","sponsor":"Mark Hart"},
{"bill_id":1598919,"bill_number":"HB667","title":"AN ACT relating to the public advocate.","description":"Amend KRS 31.020 to require the appointment of the public advocate by the Public Advocacy Commission, instead of the Governor; amend KRS 31.015 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB667/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb667.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1598923,"bill_number":"SB243","title":"AN ACT relating to essential caregivers and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend Section 1 of 2022 RS SB 100/EN, 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 1, to include communicable disease outbreaks and resident disease status to when an essential personal care visitor is permitted; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB243/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb243.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1598924,"bill_number":"SB241","title":"AN ACT relating to hunter education.","description":"Amend KRS 150.170 to exempt current and former members of the Armed Forces and certified peace officers from the live-fire component of the hunter education course.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 142)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB241/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb241.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1598927,"bill_number":"HR98","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the tremendous service and achievement of Representative Reginald Meeks upon his retirement from this august body.","description":"Honoring the tremendous service and achievement of Representative Reginald Meeks upon his retirement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR98/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr98.html","sponsor":"Keturah Herron"},
{"bill_id":1598933,"bill_number":"HB623","title":"AN ACT relating to teachers.","description":"Amend KRS 158.060 to require teachers be compensated for noninstructional planning time within their school day during which they are required to supervise or instruct students; amend KRS 164.787 to expand the program eligibility of the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program to include a program that leads to a bachelor's degree in education in a critical shortage area.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB623/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb623.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1598935,"bill_number":"HB610","title":"AN ACT relating to entertainment activities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections relating to fantasy contests and online poker; define terms; establish requirements for fantasy contest procedures and for registration as a fantasy contest operator; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for the operation of fantasy contests; establish the wagering administration fund and direct the uses of that fund; require an annual audit of fantasy contest registrants; require any person offering online poker in the Commonwealth to have a license from the cabinet and require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations prescribing requirements for licensure; establish KRS Chapter 239A and create new sections to establish the Kentucky problem gambling assistance fund as a revolving account; describe the authorized purposes for the use of fund moneys; establish the Kentucky Problem Gambling Assistance Board to administer, organize, invest, and distribute money from the fund; set board regulatory powers, membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to invest moneys from the fund in a manner to maintain it in perpetuity; create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to require the racing commission to institute a system of sports wagering at tracks; limit the types of events upon which wagers may be placed; establish sports wagering licensure requirements; prohibit participants from wagering on events in which they participate and from tampering with the outcome of a sporting event; amend KRS 230.210 to define \"sports wagering\"; amend KRS 230.215 to declare the intent to allow citizens to enjoy sports wagering and allow the racing commission to promulgate administrative regulations prescribing conditions under which sports wagering is to be conducted; amend KRS 230.225 and 230.240 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 230.260 to allow gambling addicts to self-report so they may be banned from gaming facilities; amend KRS 230.3615 and 230.750 to require breaks to be calculated to the penny; amend KRS 230.400 to expand the types of eligible claiming races; amend KRS 230.550 to include equine industry programs at the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky, and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System in the equine industry fund; amend KRS 230.770 to remove the limit on the standardbred development fund that authorized only Kentucky-bred horses; amend KRS 230.990 to penalize participants who wager on sporting events or tamper with the outcome of a sporting event; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define “adjusted gross income” and impose a tax on sports wagering; amend KRS 138.510 to change the tax rate beginning August 1, 2022, on all tracks conducting pari-mutuel wagering, tracks conducting telephone account wagering, tracks participating as receiving tracks in intertrack wagering, and all tracks participating as receiving tracks displaying simulcasts and conducting interstate wagering thereon to 1.5 percent of all money wagered; designate deductions from the revenue generated; amend KRS 138.513 to impose a tax beginning August 1, 2022, on all advance deposit account wagering licensees of 1.5 percent of all amounts wagered through the licensee by Kentucky residents; amend KRS 243.500 to exempt sports wagering and online poker; amend KRS 525.090 to exempt sports wagering; create a new section of KRS Chapter 528 to require the Kentucky State Police to establish a task force to remove illegal gambling devices; direct the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to govern the task force; amend KRS 528.010 to exempt devices authorized under KRS Chapters 154A, 230, 238, and 239 from gambling prohibitions; amend KRS 528.020, 528.070, and 528.080 to exempt fantasy contests, sports wagering, and online poker; amend KRS 137.190, 138.224, 138.226, 138.270, 138.344, 138.655, 138.675, 138.990, 139.200, 230.320, 230.360, 230.361, 230.362, 230.363, 230.364, 230.365, 230.366, 230.369, 230.371, 230.372, 230.373, 230.374, 230.378, 230.380, 230.781, and 230.783 to conform; appropriate $225,000,000 from the general fund in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the Kentucky problem gambling assistance fund; repeal KRS 138.480, 138.490, and 230.555; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB610/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb610.html","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1598938,"bill_number":"HB614","title":"AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.","description":"Amend KRS 341.115 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB614/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb614.html","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1598942,"bill_number":"SB246","title":"AN ACT relating to drugs and medicines and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that an independent institution or postsecondary educational institution that requires a student to receive an immunization for disease must allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violations of the requirement; amend KRS 209.52 to allow vaccine requirement exemptions at long-term care facilities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to provide that a health facility that requires an employee to receive an immunization for disease must allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violations of the requirement; create a new section or KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to establish that an individual in the Commonwealth cannot be required to receive an unapproved drug that has been approved for emergency use by the secretary of the United States Food and Drug Administration; require specified information be given to an individual if he or she does choose to take the drug; create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to provide that an employer that requires an employee to receive an immunization for disease must allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to any violations of the requirement; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB246/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb246.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1598944,"bill_number":"HB650","title":"AN ACT relating to wage transparency.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010 to define terms including \"job posting\" and \"wage range\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require all employers to include the wages or wage range for the advertised position in any job posting; amend KRS 95A.250 and 337.020 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB650/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb650.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1598947,"bill_number":"HB620","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Amend KRS 67.160 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB620/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb620.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1598951,"bill_number":"HB675","title":"AN ACT relating to guardians and conservators.","description":"Amend KRS 387.740 to provide that any person may file a petition for an emergency appointment as a limied guardian or conservator; establish the rights of the petitioner relating to a hearing; provide that the Act may be cited as the Jeff Tyler Act.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB675/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb675.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1598953,"bill_number":"HB606","title":"AN ACT relating to wagering and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 239A and create new sections to define “adjusted gross revenue,” “beginner,” “cabinet, “confidential information,” “entry fee,” “fantasy contest,” “fantasy contest operator,\" “fantasy contest participant,\" “highly experienced player,” “immediate family,” “location percentage,” “net poker revenue,” “online poker,” “person,” “principal stockholder,” “rake,” “registered fantasy contest operator,” “script,” “secretary,” and “wager”; establish requirements for registration as a fantasy contest operator; require the Public Protection Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for the operation of fantasy contests; establish the wagering administration fund and direct the uses of that fund; require an annual audit of fantasy contest registrants; establish requirements for fantasy contest procedures; require any person offering online poker in the Commonwealth to have a license from the cabinet and require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations prescribing requirements for licensure including geolocation software, age verification, and security and accounting standards; amend KRS 230.210 to define \"sports wagering\"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to require the racing commission to institute a system of sports wagering at tracks; limit the types of events upon which wagers may be placed; amend KRS 230.215 to declare the intent to allow citizens to enjoy sports wagering and allow the racing commission to promulgate administrative regulations prescribing conditions under which sports wagering is to be conducted; amend KRS 230.225, 230.240, and 230.260 to include sports wagering; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish sports wagering licensure requirements; amend KRS 230.320 to conform; amend KRS 230.361 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 230.3615 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define “adjusted gross income” and impose a tax on sports wagering; amend KRS 230.362, 230.363, 230.364, 230.365, 230.366, 230.369, 230.371, 230.372, 230.373, 230.374, and 230.750 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to prohibit participants from wagering on events in which they participate and to prohibit tampering with the outcome of a sporting event; amend KRS 230.990 to provide penalties for participants who wager on sporting events or tamper with the outcome of a sporting event; amend KRS 243.500 to exempt sports wagering and online poker; amend KRS 525.090 to exempt sports wagering; amend KRS 528.010 to exempt fantasy contests, sports wagering, and online poker and the devices used in the conduct of those forms of wagering; amend KRS 528.020, 528.070, and 528.080 to exempt fantasy contests, sports wagering, and online poker; create a noncodified section to assert that the provisions of the Act are severable; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"floor amendments (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9) (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) and (17) filed","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB606/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb606.html","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1598956,"bill_number":"HB677","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB677/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb677.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1598961,"bill_number":"HB613","title":"AN ACT relating to birth certificates.","description":"Amend KRS 199.570 to allow both the names of adopted parents and biological parents to appear on a new birth certificate issued upon adoption if one or both biological parents are deceased, and it is requested by the court, adopted parents, or adopted child; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to create a birth certificate form that complies with this section through the promulgation of administrative regulations.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB613/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb613.html","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":1598964,"bill_number":"SB249","title":"AN ACT relating to incentive programs and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 154.20-258 to allow a tax credit of up to 40 percent if the contribution is made to an investment fund approved by the authority prior to January 1, 2023, and 25 percent if the contribution is made to an investment fund approved by the authority on or after January 1, 2023; amend KRS 65.7047 to add that if the city or county pledges occupational license taxes or fees as part of the local tax revenue to support local development areas, it may contract for the services of a qualified independent outside consultant or financial adviser, making this optional and setting forth requirements; amend KRS 65.7049 to add that if the city or county intends to apply for the Signature Projects Program under KRS 154.30-050 or the mixed-use redevelopment program under KRS 154.30-060, the city or county shall engage the services of a qualified independent outside consultant or financial adviser, specifying the reporting requirements of the financial adviser; amend KRS 65.7053 to include that an ordinance establishing the development area must also include the estimated fiscal impact arrived at by the financial adviser under their reporting requirements addressed in KRS 65.7049; amend KRS 154.20-410 to end the Kentucky alternative fuel and renewable energy fund and deeming any balances be transferred to the Kentucky enterprise fund established in KRS 164.6019; amend KRS 164.6019 to conform with this transfer; repeal KRS 154.20-405; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 146)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB249/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb249.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1598967,"bill_number":"SB248","title":"AN ACT relating to abuse or neglect of a child.","description":"Amend KRS 600.020 to add exclusions to the definition of \"abused or neglected child\".","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB248/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb248.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1598970,"bill_number":"SB245","title":"AN ACT relating to protective orders.","description":"Amend KRS 403.735, 403.740, 456.050, and 456.060 to require that emergency protective orders and interpersonal protective orders restrain both parties from certain conduct; amend KRS 403.730 and 456.404 to require certain information to be included in ex parte emergency protective orders and interpersonal protective orders.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 143)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB245/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb245.html","sponsor":"Johnnie Turner"},
{"bill_id":1598973,"bill_number":"HB684","title":"AN ACT relating to budget requirements.","description":"Amend KRS 48.020 to remove the requirement that the branch budget recommendation be certified together with the budget statements; amend KRS 48.040 and 48.050 to require the certain budget documents to be submitted on or before October 15 of each odd-numbered year; amend KRS 48.110 to require each branch budget recommendation and all supporting documentation to be submitted in a form and format cooperatively developed by each respective branch of government and the General Assembly and approved by the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 48.120 to require the Office of State Budget Director to submit official revenue estimates made by the consensus forecasting group by December 20 of each odd-numbered year; amend KRS 48.170 to allow each standing committee of each house or the Legislative Research Commission to request additional information and require the information be submitted within 14 days of the request; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 48 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-15","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB684/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb684.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1598977,"bill_number":"SB240","title":"AN ACT relating to the judiciary.","description":"Amend KRS 610.040 to make language gender neutral.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB240/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb240.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1598980,"bill_number":"HB612","title":"AN ACT relating to licensed occupations.","description":"Amend KRS 317.420 and 317A.155 to authorize barbering, cosmetologist, esthetician, and nail technician licensees to operate outside of a licensed establishment to provide services for persons with physical mobility limitations as attested by a physician in writing, for persons residing in a long-term care nursing home or in an assisted-living facility, and for persons unable to drive.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB612/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb612.html","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":1598983,"bill_number":"HB636","title":"AN ACT relating to military affairs.","description":"Amend KRS 36.230 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 171)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB636/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb636.html","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1598986,"bill_number":"HB641","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.26-050 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB641/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb641.html","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1598989,"bill_number":"HB653","title":"AN ACT relating to licensing.","description":"Amend KRS 322.020 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB653/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb653.html","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1598991,"bill_number":"HB615","title":"AN ACT relating to solitary confinement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to prohibit the use of solitary confinement, with limited exceptions; and require reporting of data on its use.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB615/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb615.html","sponsor":"Samara Heavrin"},
{"bill_id":1598994,"bill_number":"SB244","title":"AN ACT relating to registered sex offender information.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 194A.700 to 194A.729 to require assisted-living communities to ensure information is provided to clients on accessing registered sex offender information; amend KRS 216.520 to require long-term care facilities to ensure information is provided to clients on accessing registered sex offender information; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB244/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb244.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1598997,"bill_number":"HB681","title":"AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.","description":"Amend KRS 635.020 to make language gender-neutral.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB681/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb681.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599000,"bill_number":"SB230","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of Revenue.","description":"Make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB230/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb230.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599003,"bill_number":"HB685","title":"AN ACT relating to revenue.","description":"Amend KRS 131.170 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB685/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb685.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1599006,"bill_number":"HB630","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB630/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb630.html","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1599010,"bill_number":"SB247","title":"AN ACT relating to constitutional officers.","description":"Amend KRS 11.400 to prescribe additional duties to the office of Lieutenant Governor; create a new section of KRS Chapter 118 to establish a procedure to form a slate of candidates for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor; amend KRS 118.125 to include an oath for a slate of candidates; amend KRS 118.226 to establish a procedure to follow if a vacancy occurs in a slate of candidates before a primary; amend KRS 121.015 to redefine “slate of candidates;” amend KRS 117.275, 118.025, 120.055, and 120.095 to conform; repeal KRS 118.126.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB247/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb247.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1599012,"bill_number":"SB225","title":"AN ACT relating to renewable energy.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to express the intent of the General Assembly with respect to rooftop solar power and the significance of renewable energy; define \"renewable energy,\" \"renewable energy portfolio,\" \"renewable energy requirement,\" \"retail electric supplier,\" and \"solar energy target\"; require retail electric suppliers to comply with a tiered renewable portfolio requirement beginning in fiscal year 2023-2024; require retail electric suppliers to submit integrated resource plans to the Public Service Commission for approval that demonstrate how each supplier will meet their renewable requirements; allow the requirement to be met by generation and by purchase power; authorize the commission to grant a waiver or extension to retail electric suppliers who can show that the requirement cannot be met; authorize the commission to suspend the requirement and to set various reserve requirements to maintain reliability of the grid; allow for cost recovery through rates for compliance, including stranded costs and unrealized revenues; require the commission to develop requirements for tariffs for interconnection between the retail electric supplier and a wholesale supplier of renewable energy; require each utility to file a report with the commission beginning in January 2025; authorize the commission to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to implement the renewable portfolio requirements; require the commission to report to the Legislative Research Commission on the feasibility and opportunity for retail electric suppliers to lease space on commercial and industrial buildings to locate solar panels to comply with the renewable portfolio requirement; require report to be submitted by November 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB225/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb225.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1599015,"bill_number":"SB238","title":"AN ACT relating to cosmetology exams.","description":"Amend KRS 317A.120 to require the board to make examinations available in multiple languages for applicants seeking licensure.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB238/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb238.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1599020,"bill_number":"HB688","title":"AN ACT relating to persistent felony offenders.","description":"Amend KRS 532.080 to make technical corrections and insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB688/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb688.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599022,"bill_number":"SB227","title":"AN ACT relating to real property tax rolls.","description":"Make technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB227/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb227.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599025,"bill_number":"SB229","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of Revenue.","description":"Make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB229/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb229.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599029,"bill_number":"HB680","title":"AN ACT relating to creating a virtual computer science career academy.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish a virtual computer science career academy; direct WeLeadCS to implement the program; establish program requirements.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 227)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB680/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb680.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599031,"bill_number":"HB617","title":"AN ACT relating to the State Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education.","description":"Amend KRS 158.648 to add a voting member appointed by the Kentucky Association for Gifted Education and allow the member to serve unlimited three year terms; permit gubernatorial appointments to serve six terms; require the council to meet at least four times annually.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB617/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb617.html","sponsor":"Timmy Truett"},
{"bill_id":1599034,"bill_number":"HB671","title":"AN ACT relating to the disposition of catalytic converters and other items containing metal.","description":"Amend KRS 433.890 to set forth proof of ownership requirements for the purchase of catalytic converters; amend KRS 433.892 to establish that the failure to maintain a register of metal and objects containing metals is a Class B misdemeanor; amend KRS 433.894 to establish that unlawful acts relating to the purchase or disposition of metals is a Class B misdemeanor.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"returned to Natural Resources & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Natural Resources & Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB671/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb671.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1599039,"bill_number":"HB669","title":"AN ACT relating to oil and gas, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 353.562 to make grammatical and technical corrections.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 173)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB669/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb669.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1599042,"bill_number":"HR104","title":"A RESOLUTION condemning the use of tax dollars to fund safe smoking kits and encouraging the United States Congress to prohibit the expenditure of tax dollars on safe smoking kits.","description":"Condemn the spending of tax dollars on safe smoking kits and encourage the United States Congress to prohibit the spending of tax dollars on these kits.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR104/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr104.html","sponsor":"Norma Kirk-McCormick"},
{"bill_id":1599044,"bill_number":"HB621","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 61.035 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB621/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb621.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1599047,"bill_number":"HB647","title":"AN ACT relating to coal-derived carbon and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 152 to define \"CAER\"; require CAER to establish a research, development, and demonstration program for carbon engineering solutions to enable new uses for coal-derived carbon; require CAER submit annual report to the Legislative Research Commission on the progress and results of the program; define eligible company; require CAER to act jointly with an eligible company to study the feasibility of the commercialization of coal fly ash and coal-derived carbon products; to file a report with the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022, detailing the results of the study; require that on or before January 1, 2023, CAER shall partner with an eligible company to commence a two-year pilot program for the purpose of accelerating the commercial deployment of coal ash; appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2022-2023 to accomplish the pilot program; appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2022-2023 to establish the program created in Section 1 of the Act and to carry out the study on the feasibility of commercialization of coal fly ash and coal-derived carbon products; establish the short title as the \"Coal Fly Ash Act of 2022\"; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB647/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb647.html","sponsor":"Bobby McCool"},
{"bill_id":1599050,"bill_number":"HB652","title":"AN ACT relating to licensing.","description":"Amend KRS 318.030 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB652/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb652.html","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1599052,"bill_number":"SB239","title":"AN ACT relating to the judiciary.","description":"Amend KRS 610.350 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB239/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb239.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599055,"bill_number":"HB622","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB622/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb622.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1599058,"bill_number":"HJR105","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating a Livingston County bridge in honor and memory of Jim R. Smith.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Jim R. Smith Memorial Bridge in Livingston County and erect appropriate signage.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR105/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr105.html","sponsor":"Randy Bridges"},
{"bill_id":1599060,"bill_number":"HB682","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 520.090 to include gender-neutral language","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB682/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb682.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599066,"bill_number":"SB231","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of Revenue.","description":"Make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB231/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb231.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599069,"bill_number":"HB624","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.28-050 to make a technical change.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB624/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb624.html","sponsor":"Phillip Pratt"},
{"bill_id":1599071,"bill_number":"HB691","title":"AN ACT relating to wrongful conviction compensation and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; create a new section of KRS Chapter 23A to establish a new 10 dollar fee to be assessed in Circuit Court criminal cases; create a new section of KRS Chapter 24A to establish a new 10 dollar fee to be assessed in District Court criminal cases; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund; amend KRS 141.019 to exclude funds received from the wrongful conviction compensation fund from adjusted gross income.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB691/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb691.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1599074,"bill_number":"HB635","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans.","description":"Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB635/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb635.html","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1599077,"bill_number":"HB637","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB637/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb637.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1599080,"bill_number":"HB608","title":"AN ACT relating to the regulation of game machines.","description":"Amend KRS 528.010 to exclude contests or gaming authorized under KRS Chapters 154A, 230, and 238 from the definition of \"gambling\"; exclude devices authorized in KRS Chapters 154A, 230, and 238 from the definition of \"gambling device\"; authorize the Kentucky State Police to establish a task force dedicated to removing gambling devices not authorized by law and direct Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to promulgate regulations regarding the task force.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"to Rules (H)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB608/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb608.html","sponsor":"Killian Timoney"},
{"bill_id":1599081,"bill_number":"SB233","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 196.026 and 196.070 to reorganize the Department of Corrections; amend KRS 197.010 to define \"institution\"; amend KRS 196.701, 196.702, and 439.653 to conform; repeal KRS 197.011.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 141)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB233/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb233.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1599084,"bill_number":"HJR107","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Spc. David W. Taylor Memorial Highway in Henderson County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to desingate a highway in Henderson County in honor and memory of Spc. David W. Taylor; erect appropriate signage.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR107/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr107.html","sponsor":"Jonathan Dixon"},
{"bill_id":1599087,"bill_number":"SR153","title":"A RESOLUTION affirming support for Ukrainian sovereignty, the people of Ukraine, and their right to self-determination.","description":"Affirm support for Ukrainian sovereignty, the people of Ukraine, and their right to self-determination.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR153/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr153.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599090,"bill_number":"HJR103","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Jimmy Lee Memorial Highway in Johnson County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Jimmy Lee Memorial Highway in Johnson County.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR103/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr103.html","sponsor":"Bobby McCool"},
{"bill_id":1599093,"bill_number":"HB661","title":"AN ACT relating to the office of county judge/executive.","description":"Amend KRS 63.210 to change the procedure for filling a vacancy in the office of county judge/executive, requiring the Governor to choose an appointee from a list of three names submitted by the county executive committee of the same political party as the county judge/executive who held the vacant seat; amend KRS 67.705 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB661/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb661.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1599096,"bill_number":"HJR100","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Wallace and Betty Jo Conley Memorial Bridge in Johnson County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Wallace and Betty Jo Conley Memorial Bridge in Johnson County.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR100/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr100.html","sponsor":"Bobby McCool"},
{"bill_id":1599099,"bill_number":"HB679","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 158.070 to allow school districts to remain open if an individual school within the district is used as a polling location for an election; permit a school district to include additional days within their nontraditional instruction plan for each school district that closes to allow schools in the district to be used as a polling place for an election.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB679/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb679.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599102,"bill_number":"HJR106","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the John Bauerle Memorial Highway in Boone County.","description":"Designate the John Bauerle Memorial Highway in Boone County and erect appropriate signage.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR106/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr106.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599106,"bill_number":"HB678","title":"AN ACT relating to public schools and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 635.050 to make language gender neutral.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 185)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB678/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb678.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599109,"bill_number":"HB658","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote.","description":"Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow persons convicted of certain felonies the right to vote; ballot language included; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB658/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb658.html","sponsor":"George Brown"},
{"bill_id":1599112,"bill_number":"HJR99","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION recognizing April 29, 2022, as Kasey Keeney Day and April as Veterans' Health Awareness Month.","description":"Recognize April 29, 2022, as Kasey Keeney Day and April as Veterans' Health Awareness Month.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-03-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR99/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr99.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1599117,"bill_number":"HCR101","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION relating to the awarding of American Rescue Plan premium pay.","description":"Honor frontline and essential support workers and call upon the General Assembly and the Governor to award American Rescue Plan Act premium pay by budget allocation using U.S. Department of the Treasury guidelines with no state tax deductions being made therefrom; and accept the Governor's invitation to participate in a premium pay working group.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR101/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr101.html","sponsor":"Buddy Wheatley"},
{"bill_id":1599119,"bill_number":"HB627","title":"AN ACT relating to a tax credit for stillage management.","description":"Create new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish a stillage management tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027; establish the Stillage Management Board consisting of 13 voting and two nonvoting members; provide that the board is responsible for approval of the applications from stillage managers and reporting this to the Department of Revenue for processing of the return and tax credit; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the stillage management tax credit and reporting requirements for the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.4242 to sunset the ethanol tax credit; provide that the last taxable year for the credit is prior to January 1, 2023; amend KRS 141.4244 to sunset the cellulosic tax credit; provide that the last taxable year for the credit is prior to January 1, 2023; amend KRS 141.389 to allow a refundable portion of the distilled spirits tax credit for distillers installing system to transform stillage material into a value-added product for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB627/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb627.html","sponsor":"Michael Pollock"},
{"bill_id":1599121,"bill_number":"HB611","title":"AN ACT relating to posthumous name changes.","description":"Amend KRS 401.010 to allow a family member of a deceased person to posthumously change the deceased person's name if the name is the result of marriage to a person arrested for or charged with committing an offense intentionally, knowingly, or wantonly, which resulted in the death of the deceased; provide that the order of priority of family members is the same as in KRS 367.93117.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB611/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb611.html","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":1599125,"bill_number":"HB628","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Amend KRS 67.160 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-15","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB628/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb628.html","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1599127,"bill_number":"HB676","title":"AN ACT relating to workforce development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.1-740 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB676/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb676.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1599131,"bill_number":"HB638","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 61.675 to make technical changes.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB638/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb638.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1599134,"bill_number":"HB643","title":"AN ACT relating to the regulation of the mortgage loan industry.","description":"Amend KRS 286.8-010 to define terms; amend KRS 286.8-032 to require licensing fees and an annual assessment; amend KRS 286.8-036 to define terms; permit employees of a licensee to engage in the mortgage lending process from an alternate location if certain conditions are met; amend KRS 286.8-295 to define \"employee\"; require supervision and control of employees acting as mortgage loan originators; establish requirements for licensees that allow employees to engage in the mortgage lending process from alternate work locations; amend KRS 286.8-160 to prohibit records from being maintained at an alternate work location; amend KRS 286.8-170 to permit mortgage loan companies and mortgage loan brokers to utilize third-party secure storage facilities if certain conditions are met; amend KRS 286.8-100, 286.8-140, 286.8-150, 286.8-220, 286.8-255, 286.8-285, and 355.9-408 to update references to conform; make technical amendments throughout.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 125)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB643/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb643.html","sponsor":"Shawn McPherson"},
{"bill_id":1599136,"bill_number":"HB668","title":"AN ACT relating to Kentucky Employees Retirement System employers and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 61.526 to make technical change.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-11","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 192)","last_action_date":"2022-04-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB668/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb668.html","sponsor":"Jim Duplessis"},
{"bill_id":1599140,"bill_number":"HB640","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.24-060 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB640/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb640.html","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1599143,"bill_number":"SB228","title":"AN ACT relating to payment of tax.","description":"Make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB228/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb228.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599145,"bill_number":"HB686","title":"AN ACT relating to revenue.","description":"Amend KRS 131.575 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB686/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb686.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1599150,"bill_number":"HB648","title":"AN ACT relating to a tax deduction for volunteer fire fighters.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to define \"active volunteer firefighter\" and \"qualified fire department\"; amend KRS 141.019 to allow an exclusion from income of up to $5,000 for active volunteer firefighters; amend KRS 141.0215 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB648/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb648.html","sponsor":"Bobby McCool"},
{"bill_id":1599152,"bill_number":"HB656","title":"AN ACT relating to branch budget recommendations.","description":"Amend KRS 48.165, relating to branch budget recommendations, to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB656/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb656.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1599154,"bill_number":"SB232","title":"AN ACT relating to an online tangible personal property tax filing system, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate $3,250,000 in fiscal years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 to the Department of Revenue for the development of an online tangible personal property tax filing system; require expenditures to conform to KRS 45.750 to 45.818 and applicable provisions of the State/Executive Branch Budget; establish requirements for the system; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-18","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB232/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb232.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1599158,"bill_number":"HB662","title":"AN ACT relating to school personnel.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require a school district or public charter school to adopt a written policy on information that the district provides about former school personnel when responding to a request for information from a potential employer that is a school or school district; establish the minimum contents of the policy; provide that allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor or a student shall not be deemed to be known or supported by probable cause if certain conditions set forth in federal law are met; create civil immunity for good-faith reports of information to potential employers that comply with the school or school district; waive civil immunity and create liability for a school district or public charter school that fails to disclose the sexual misconduct of a former employee when certain conditions are met; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to impair or eliminate mandatory reporting under KRS 620.030; amend KRS 160.380 to require a superintendent to terminate an employee convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor; require schools to request information on a potential employee from a previous employer that is a Kentucky public school; require a school employee to disclose any conviction of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB662/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb662.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1599161,"bill_number":"SB226","title":"AN ACT relating to general principles of justification.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 503 to incorporate the \"no duty to retreat\" provisions elsewhere in the chapter; amend KRS 503.050, 503.055, 503.070, and 503.080 to require a reasonable belief that defensive force is necessary before it is justified; change the term \"great bodily harm\" to \"serious physical injury\" as used throughout the Penal Code; amend KRS 503.060 to require an initial aggressor to retreat before the use of force can be justified; repeal KRS 503.120.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB226/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb226.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1599163,"bill_number":"SB237","title":"AN ACT relating to the age requirement for selling or serving alcoholic beverages.","description":"Amend KRS 244.090 to lower the minimum age of employees who sell or serve alcoholic beverages to 18 years, provided that the employee is supervised by someone aged 21 years or older.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB237/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb237.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1599167,"bill_number":"SB235","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans.","description":"Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB235/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb235.html","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1599170,"bill_number":"HB672","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans.","description":"Amend KRS 158.105 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB672/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb672.html","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1599172,"bill_number":"HB629","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB629/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb629.html","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1599176,"bill_number":"HB657","title":"AN ACT relating to branch budget bills.","description":"Amend KRS 48.160, relating to branch budget bills, to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB657/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb657.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1599179,"bill_number":"HB631","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB631/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb631.html","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
{"bill_id":1599181,"bill_number":"SB236","title":"AN ACT relating to military affairs.","description":"Amend KRS 36.230 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB236/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb236.html","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":1599185,"bill_number":"HB634","title":"AN ACT relating to public protection.","description":"Amend KRS 75.160 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB634/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb634.html","sponsor":"Walker Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1599188,"bill_number":"HB683","title":"AN ACT relating to virtual court proceedings.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapters 23A and 24A to establish remote or virtual attendance by a defendant who is in jail or other detention facility; specify proceedings when remote or virtual attendance is permitted; establish parameters to ensure protection of rights; provide permissive authority to attend civil hearing remotely or virtually.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB683/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb683.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599190,"bill_number":"HB632","title":"AN ACT relating to long-term care facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 216.510 to establish the definition of \"restraint\"; create a new section of KRS 216.510 to KRS 216.530 to allow a resident of a long-term care facility to request the use of bed rails; amend KRS 304.14-560 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-02-28","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-02-28","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB632/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb632.html","sponsor":"Billy Wesley"},
{"bill_id":1599742,"bill_number":"HB772","title":"AN ACT relating to easements acquired by prescription.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 381 to prohibit identified persons and entities that have the right to exercise the power of eminent domain from acquiring any easement by prescription.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB772/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb772.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599743,"bill_number":"SB267","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.","description":"Propose an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky increasing the homestead exemption up to an assessed valuation of $100,000 for owners with a permanent and total 100 percent service-connected disability rating by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; make the exemption transferrable upon death to the surviving spouse; provide for the continued biennial inflation indexing of the homestead exemption; make various typographical changes of a nonsubstantive nature; state ballot question; submit to voters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB267/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb267.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1599744,"bill_number":"SB262","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.040 to require that an individual's registration must be revoked two times within a 12 month period before the revocations constitute a violation of KRS 304.39-080 and the individual is referred to the County Attorney for prosecution; set forth when a person without proof of insurance may instead present an affidavit to the county clerk; provide reinstatement fee; amend KRS 186.180 to delete the fee when the vehicle's registration is revoked under KRS 186.290 and remove outdated language; amend KRS 304.39-080 to establish exceptions for the requirement to maintain continuous motor vehicle insurance; amend KRS 304.99-060 to modify penalties and create expungement rights for motor vehicle owners and operators that fail to have minimum motor vehicle insurance; amend KRS 431.078 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB262/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb262.html","sponsor":"Johnnie Turner"},
{"bill_id":1599745,"bill_number":"HB739","title":"AN ACT relating to allowing biological parents and foster parents the right to seek enforcement in Circuit Court for the cabinet's violations of certain rules, provisions, regulations, or statutory requirements.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 which allows biological parents and foster parent, with whom the child has been placed for no less than six months, to file an enforcement action against the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB739/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb739.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1599747,"bill_number":"HB715","title":"AN ACT relating to the limited liability entity tax.","description":"Amend KRS 141.0401 to prevent entities doing business in Kentucky with gross receipts of less than $100,000 from paying the limited liability entity tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB715/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb715.html","sponsor":"Patrick Flannery"},
{"bill_id":1599748,"bill_number":"HB706","title":"AN ACT relating to public employee trainings and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to prohibit trainings that promote bigotry, critical social justice, or revisionist history; provide that a public employer shall not discipline a public employee for refusing to participate in a training that violates the prohibition; require public employers to review trainings to ensure compliance; provide that willful or repeated violations shall be considered a violation of the employee code of conduct that justifies disciplinary sanction, create a cause of action for a violations; require a qualified plaintiff to exhaust the administrative remedies set forth in KRS Chapter 344 prior to bringing the action; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to limit academic freedom of postsecondary faculty members or restrict the conduct or speech of students; amend KRS 344.010 to include public employee training that violates these provisions under the definition of \" discrimination\"; amend KRS 344.040 to provide that a pubic employer's actions to promote bigotry, critical social justice, or revisionist history shall create a presumption that the employer has knowingly created or contributed to a hostile work or learning environment; provide that the Act shall be severable; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB706/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb706.html","sponsor":"Jennifer Henson Decker"},
{"bill_id":1599750,"bill_number":"HB734","title":"AN ACT relating to civil rights.","description":"Amend KRS 344.450 to expand scope of permissible suits against state and local governments and limit defenses.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB734/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb734.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1599751,"bill_number":"HB716","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky trail towns and rail trails.","description":"Require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to consult with state agencies and transmit a report relating to a comprehensive statewide trail program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB716/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb716.html","sponsor":"Patrick Flannery"},
{"bill_id":1599753,"bill_number":"HB755","title":"AN ACT establishing the Ratepayer Protection Task Force.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to require the Public Service Commission to open an administrative case to initiate an investigation to reduce the volatility of fuel adjustment clause charges on electric utility bills within 90 days of the effective date of the Act; require the Public Service Commission to promulgate administrative regulations to implement any changes it has prescribed to reduce the volatility of fuel adjustment clause charges on electric utility bills within 60 days of issuing an order in the administrative case.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB755/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb755.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1599754,"bill_number":"HB726","title":"AN ACT relating to the designation of the official syrup of Kentucky.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to name and designate sweet sorghum syrup as the official syrup of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Agriculture (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB726/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb726.html","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1599756,"bill_number":"HR111","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing April 1, 2022, as Shelter Animal Day and April 2022 as Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month.","description":"Recognize April 1, 2022, as Shelter Animal Day and April 2022 as Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR111/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr111.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1599757,"bill_number":"HB718","title":"AN ACT relating to a tax credit for primary care preceptors.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable, nontransferable primary care preceptor tax credit that is available for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027; provide that the credit is based on the Kentucky-licensed medical practitioner providing supervision and the amount of core clinical rotations completed per year; require that rotations be completed in a primary care health professional shortage area designated by the United States Health Resources and Services Administration; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide ordering of the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the tax credit.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB718/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb718.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1599758,"bill_number":"HB724","title":"AN ACT relating to regulatory innovations.","description":"Establish subtitle 53 of KRS chapter 304 to establish definitions, purpose, and interpretation of Insurance and Related Innovation Sandbox Law; establish director of innovation within the Department of Insurance; establish duties of the director of innovation; establish procedures, parameters, and application process for obtaining a waiver or no-action letter with respect to specified requirements imposed by statute or regulation for insurance-related innovations; establish procedures and parameters for obtaining an innovative insurer license; establish procedures and parameters for reviewing and accepting or rejecting applications, the testing phase of an innovation, and the issuance of extended no-action letters; provide for the confidentiality of certain documents, materials, or other information created, produced, obtained, or disclosed in relation to the subtitle; establish the Kentucky Innovation Council; require the commissioner of insurance and other applicable agencies to adopt uniform procedures, by administrative regulation or cooperation agreement, for the administration of the subtitle; require the commissioner of insurance and other applicable agencies to enter into any interstate innovation compact or memorandum of understanding and cooperation agreement necessary to carry out the purposes of the subtitle; establish procedures and parameters for any interstate innovation compact or memorandum of understanding and cooperation agreement; authorize information sharing with the insurance supervisory official of any state, province, or country; require the commissioner of insurance and any applicable agency to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Banking and Insurance; amend KRS 304.10-030 and 304.10-040 to permit surplus lines insurance to be procured from a domestic surplus lines insurer; amend KRS 304.2-120 to permit licensees to make electronic notices; require notices and orders of the commissioner of insurance be served electronically; amend KRS 304.1-120 and 304.11-030 to conform; amend KRS 91A.080 to exempt sandbox participants and innovative insurers from local government premium tax; amend KRS 154.32-010 to add or modify definitions related to insurance innovators; amend KRS 154.32-020 to allow an insurance innovator to qualify for an economic development project and to include within the allowable incentives the insurance premiums taxes paid to the Commonwealth; make conforming changes and require reporting to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 154.32-070 to conform; create new sections of KRS Chapter 136 to allow the insurance innovator tax credit and to order the various tax credits allowable; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting on the tax credit data; repeal KRS 304.3-700 to 304.3-735, relating to insurance regulatory sandbox laws; provide that Sections 1 to 15 of Act may be cited as the Insurance and Related Innovation Sandbox Law.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB724/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb724.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1599759,"bill_number":"SB266","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 247.130, relating to the State Fair Board president, to make gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB266/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb266.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1599761,"bill_number":"HB713","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for prosthetics and orthotics.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for prosthetic and orthotic devices; amend KRS 304.17A-515 and 304.17A-254 to require health benefit plans to provide access to health care providers that practice in the area of prosthetics and orthotics and professionals that provide prosthetic and orthotic devices and services; amend KRS 18A.225 to require prosthetic and orthotic device coverage for the state employee health plan; amend KRS 205.560 to include prosthetic and orthotic device coverage in the scope of care for the Kentucky Medical Assistance Program; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB713/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb713.html","sponsor":"Alan Gentry"},
{"bill_id":1599764,"bill_number":"HB767","title":"AN ACT relating to the state lottery.","description":"Amend KRS 154A.990 to remove language making it a Class C felony to falsely make, alter, forge, utter, pass, or counterfeit a state lottery ticket.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB767/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb767.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599766,"bill_number":"HB722","title":"AN ACT relating to banking.","description":"Amend KRS 286.3-380 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB722/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb722.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1599767,"bill_number":"SB263","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB263/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb263.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1599770,"bill_number":"HB700","title":"AN ACT relating to arbitration agreements.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 417 and amend KRS 417.050 to establish when sexual harassment arbitration agreements are unenforceable.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB700/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb700.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1599771,"bill_number":"HJR114","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Captain Dale Fortner Memorial Highway in Grant County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Captain Dale Fortner Memorial Highway in Grant County; erect appropriate signage.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR114/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr114.html","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":1599773,"bill_number":"HB771","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishment.","description":"Amend KRS 514.140 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB771/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb771.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599774,"bill_number":"HB752","title":"AN ACT relating to alcohol taxes.","description":"Amend KRS 243.720 to increase the distilled spirits threshold to 14 percent or less of alcohol by volume to be taxed at a rate of 25 cents per gallon.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB752/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb752.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1599778,"bill_number":"HB764","title":"AN ACT relating to causes of action.","description":"Amend KRS 411.170 to add gender-neutral language and make grammatical changes.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB764/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb764.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1599779,"bill_number":"SB274","title":"AN ACT relating to state employee health insurance.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 225 to permit, rather than mandate, the procurement of specific provider types for employee health insurance, delete reference to the Kentucky Kare standard, delete language relating to the Advisory Committee of State Health Insurance Subscribers, specify that no provision of Chapter 304 shall apply to the public employee health insurance program except as specified, and delete references to regional contracts for state employee health insurance, permit the Personnel Cabinet to submit its annual report of the financial stability of the health insurance plan to either the Governor, General Assembly, or Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, permit the Personnel Cabinet to make available the quarterly report of the status of the health insurance trust fund to either the Governor, Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue, or Kentucky Group Health Insurance Board, upon request; amend KRS 18A.2254 to add health savings accounts as a waiver funding option, delete prohibition against using trust fund receipts earned in prior plan years in subsequent plan years, establish a solvency reserve for the trust fund, and delete reference to the Advisory Committee of State Health Insurance Subscribers; amend KRS 18A.226 to delete reference to the Advisory Committee of State Health Insurance Subscribers, add an employee of the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority, an employee of the Teachers' Retirement System, and a representative of any quasi-governmental group with 20 or more employees to the Group Health Insurance Board, and allow the Group Health Insurance Board to provide reports and information upon request; repeal KRS18A.2255 relating to the Advisory Committee of State Health Insurance Subscribers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB274/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb274.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1599780,"bill_number":"SB269","title":"AN ACT relating to autopsies.","description":"Amend KRS 72.460 to allow the family of a decedent to request an autopsy to be paid at the family's expense; define \"family.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB269/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb269.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1599781,"bill_number":"SR156","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2022 as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month.","description":"Recognize March 2022 as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR156/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr156.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1599783,"bill_number":"HB770","title":"AN ACT relating to domestic relations.","description":"Amends KRS 403.300 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB770/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb770.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599784,"bill_number":"HB743","title":"AN ACT relating to licensing.","description":"Amend KRS 315.171 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB743/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb743.html","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1599786,"bill_number":"SB276","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for sickle cell disease.","description":"Create a new Section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to conduct an annual review of all medications, services, and forms of treatment for enrollees with a diagnosis of sickle cell disease that are eligible for coverage under the state's medical assistance program; provide that the Act may be cited as Terrence's Law.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 96)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB276/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb276.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1599788,"bill_number":"HB707","title":"AN ACT relating to peer-to-peer car sharing.","description":"Amend KRS 281.010 to define \"peer-to peer car sharing,\" \"peer-to-peer car sharing company,\" \"peer-to-peer car sharing certificate,\" \"peer-to-peer car sharing program,\" \"shared vehicle,\" \"shared vehicle driver,\" and \"shared vehicle owner\"; amend KRS 281.630 to require peer-to-peer car sharing companies to obtain a certificate from the Department of Transportation; create a new section of KRS 138 to require companies holding a peer-to-peer car sharing certificate to charge a six percent (6%) excise tax on the gross receipts of the rental, which may be passed on to the rental; and amend KRS 138.990 to make a conforming change.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB707/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb707.html","sponsor":"Tom Smith"},
{"bill_id":1599791,"bill_number":"SB278","title":"AN ACT relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to state how to interpret the Act; define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue crisis aversion and rights retention orders when a respondent poses a present danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, termination, or renewal of the petition and orders; provide court processes and evidentiary standards; allow entry of the orders into law enforcement systems; prescribe issuance and service procedures for resulting protection orders; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, transfer, and return of firearms; establish penalties; allow for recognition and enforcement of foreign orders; amend KRS 431.015 to allow warrantless arrest for violations of the orders; amend KRS 31.110 and 431.076 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB278/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb278.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1599793,"bill_number":"SB270","title":"AN ACT relating to Kentucky Employees Retirement System employers.","description":"Amend KRS 61.565 to provide that the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) shall provide Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) employers with any demographic, financial, or actuarial data requested by the employer, including member-specific data for current and former employees of the employer, that was used to assign liabilities to and contributions payable by the employer; establish an appeals process beginning August 1, 2022, with a final determination by December 31, 2022, regarding the assignment of liabilities to each Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) employer for any appeals not previously submitted during the 2021 appeals process or for any appeals submitted during the 2021 appeals process in which additional information is available; amend KRS 61.5991 to provide that contracts currently exempted from the reporting requirements established by HB 8 during the 2021 Regular Session for quasi-governmental KERS employers shall remain exempted for any renewals of those contracts for the same services; amend KRS 61.661 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB270/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb270.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1599794,"bill_number":"HB9","title":"AN ACT relating to educational opportunities and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 160.1590 to include definitions for \"district of location\", \"private postsecondary institution\", \"proportionate per pupil basis\", \"proportionate per pupil transported basis\"; change the definition of \"authorizer\" to include public and private postsecondary institution, the Kentucky Public Charter School Commission, the Kentucky Board of Education, and certain nonprofit entities; remove definitions for \"achievement academy\", \"regional achievement academy\", \"regional achievement zone\", and \"start-up public charter school; amend KRS 160.1591 to allow nonresident enrollment, allow enrollment lottery to consider siblings, and remove regional achievement zones; amend KRS 160.1592 to require public charter schools to record student enrollment and attendance data in a manner necessary to participate in the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) fund; amend KRS 160.1593 to require public charter school applications to outline resident and nonresident enrollment policies, explain how the school’s proposed education program will serve students with individualized education programs or provide career readiness education opportunities, and require a memorandum of understanding with the district of location if the district has a total student enrollment of 5,000 or less; amend KRS 160.1594 to require any authorizer to establish an annual timeline for the application process, allow authorizers to give preference to applications that provide career readiness education opportunities, change the application process to allow for seeking an extension for curing deficiencies identified by the authorizer, and make changes to the review process; amend KRS 160.1595 to allow appeals to the Kentucky Public Charter School Commission in addition to the Kentucky Board of Education, require either to provide technical assistance to a charter applicant upon request, and modify appellate procedures; amend KRS 160.1596 to establish public charter schools as schools within an authorizing district for state and local funding purposes, establish public charter schools as local education agencies for federal funding purposes, establish terms for students enrolled in a public charter school to be included in the average daily attendance and transportation calculations of the district of location, establish a calculation to identify the amount of funding for a district of location to transfer to public charter schools, require public charter schools to provide services if funding received is tied to providing a service, establish how funding a collaborative's public charter school shall be determined, establish how data will be developed to provide funding during the public charter school's first year of operation, provide a transfer mechanism with authorizer fees and penalty provisions, determine how the Kentucky Board of Education shall develop a schedule for the transfer of funds, make public charter schools eligible for federal and state grants, require the commissioner of education to apply for all federal funding that supports charter school initiatives, determine the distribution of public charter school assets upon closure, and authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate regulations for the calculation and distribution of funds to public charter schools; amend KRS 160.1597 to permit a charter contract to range from 5 to 7 years; amend KRS 160.1598 and 160.1599 to conform; amend KRS 161.141 to require a public charter school participate in the state-sponsored health insurance program, require any on behalf payment made by the state for local public employees or school district employees also be made for public charter school employees, require public charter schools to make employer contributions to retirement systems in the same manner as school districts, limit the accrual to sick leave credit for public charter school employees to the same limits as the authorizing district, and require employees of education service providers to have the same certifications and background checks as public charter school employees; create a new section of KRS 160.1590 to 160.1599 to establish the Kentucky Public Charter School Commission and its composition, authority, and operations; amend KRS 18.225, 161.220, and 78.510 to conform; provide that any provision of this Act is severable; establish the General Assembly’s intent that if KRS 141.500 to 141.901 is held unconstitutional due to the provisions of KRS 141.504, then the remedy should be to make those provisions applicable to all counties; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 213)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB9/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb9.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1599795,"bill_number":"HB717","title":"AN ACT relating to trichloroethylene.","description":"Create a new section of subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 224 to define terms; require that beginning June 1, 2023, owners or operators of facilities permitted as air contaminant sources shall not use trichloroethylene (TCE) subject to exceptions and time extensions for small businesses; allow the permitting agency to require additional information and impose additional restrictions based on impacts from nearby sources or background concentrations; require that any replacement chemical for TCE be less toxic to human health, as approved by the secretary for the Energy and Environment Cabinet; allow for mandatory and permissive exceptions to the TCE prohibitions based on certain criteria; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet promulgate administrative regulations on or before January 1, 2023 to carry out the requirements of the section, including establishing health risk limits for TCE concentrations in the air and drinking water; create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to require that after January 1, 2023, employers at workplaces where employees may be exposed to TCE post warnings about the dangers of TCE exposure.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB717/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb717.html","sponsor":"Ryan Dotson"},
{"bill_id":1599799,"bill_number":"HB747","title":"AN ACT relating to a tax credit for security modifications.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable tax credit for security modifications made to the exterior of a residential home or commercial property; establish that the credit shall be equal to the installed costs not to exceed $5,000 per taxable year, with an aggregate total of $10 million per taxable year of all credits allocated as $5 million as credits against the tax imposed under KRS 141.020 and $5 million as credits against the tax imposed under KRS 141.040 and 141.0401; provide that the income limitation for individuals and joint filers shall be $150,000 in adjusted gross income; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.091 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB747/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb747.html","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1599800,"bill_number":"HB711","title":"AN ACT relating to a tax credit for volunteer firefighters.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission to evaluate the impact of the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow confidential tax return information to be shared with the Legislative Research Commission.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB711/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb711.html","sponsor":"Ashley Tackett Laferty"},
{"bill_id":1599802,"bill_number":"HB727","title":"AN ACT relating to adoption records.","description":"Amend KRS 199.572 to create processes and procedures for access to finalized adoption records before and after July 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB727/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb727.html","sponsor":"Cherlynn Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1599803,"bill_number":"HB777","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency medical services.","description":"Amend KRS 311A.015 to create the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services as an independent agency of state government; change membership of the board; amend KRS 311A.020 to change complaint investigations of ambulance services; delete language relating to transfer of the board to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; amend KRS 311A.025 to permit hospitals exempt from certificate of need to provide transport services; amend KRS 311A.030 require distinguishing between emergency-only transportation and scheduled ambulance transportation; amend KRS 311.035 to require the board to carry out functions; amend KRS 311A.055 to make technical corrections and add complaint action language; amend KRS 311A.190 to require the board to publish a report; add compliance with HIPAA; require the board to give the Cabinet for Health and Family Services access to all data; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require the Cabinet for Health and Family services to investigate and hold hearings on ambulance complaints; amend KRS 216B.020 to add conditions for ambulance services to be exempt from certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.095 to conform; amend KRS 189.910 to add vehicles operated by organ procurement organizations to the definition of emergency vehicles; amend KRS 189.940 to add vehicles operated by organ procurement organizations; amend KRS 324B.030 to add the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to the Department of Professional Licensing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to require the transfer of all board employees, funds, and equipment of the board from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; make provisions for employee retirement transfer; amend KRS 61.510 to conform; amend KRS 205.590 to establish a new technical advisory committee on emergency medical services; establish membership; add noncodified sections to set board appointments and term limits; set effective date of transfer of the board of September 1, 2022; require the board to establish a special committee to study the board’s problems and make recommendations by December 1, 2022; permit the board and the cabinet to promulgate emergency regulations to implement changes; create a legislative task force to study the provision of emergency medical services in Kentucky; require findings and recommendations by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 126)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB777/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb777.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1599804,"bill_number":"HB729","title":"AN ACT relating to testing for lead content prior to a home sale or rental and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 382 to require a seller of residential property conduct and pay for a tests to determine lead content as a condition of sale; create a new section of KRS 211 to establish a lead mitigation and control fund; create a new section of KRS 383 to require a landlord to conduct lead testing and inform tenants of results; amend KRS 324.360 to add additional disclosures to the seller's disclosure of conditions form.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB729/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb729.html","sponsor":"Josie Raymond"},
{"bill_id":1599805,"bill_number":"HB773","title":"AN ACT relating to the Prosecutors Advisory Council.","description":"Amend KRS 15.705 to expand the membership of the Prosecutors Advisory Council from 9 members to 13 members; amend the requirements for selection to the council for Commonwealth's attorneys; allow the membership of the Commonwealth's Attorneys Association to elect their members; amend the requirements for selection to the council for county attorneys; allow the membership of the County Attorneys Association to elect their members; allow the Attorney General to appoint the nonattorney citizen members from a list of 3 names submitted by the Commonwealth's Attorney Association and the County Attorneys Association; provide members shall serve for two year terms;provide that Commonwealth's attorneys and county attorneys shall not serve more than 1 consecutive term.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 209)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB773/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb773.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599807,"bill_number":"SB255","title":"AN ACT relating to public health.","description":"Amend KRS 212.190 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB255/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb255.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1599808,"bill_number":"HB708","title":"AN ACT relating to the public assistance benefits cliff.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a basic health program and to develop a benefits cliff calculator; direct the cabinet to establish and operate a Community Jobs Initiative pilot program; require the cabinet to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 174)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB708/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb708.html","sponsor":"Jonathan Dixon"},
{"bill_id":1599809,"bill_number":"HB698","title":"AN ACT relating to small business.","description":"Amend KRS 338.031 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB698/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb698.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1599810,"bill_number":"HB730","title":"AN ACT relating to medical transports and admissions.","description":"Amend KRS 202A.011 to include definitions for \"emergency medical services\" and \"medical clearance\"; amend KRS 202A.028, 202A.041, 202A.051, 202A.0813, and 202A.101 to designate who may transport respondents under this chapter and the responsibility for the costs associated with transport; amend KRS 202A.041 to decrease the period a person may be held pending certification from 18 hours to 12 hours; amend KRS 202A.051 and 202A.0831 to establish that a sheriff or certified peace officer shall not be required to stay at a facility accepting a patient under this chapter unless the person is charged with a criminal offense; amend KRS 202A.202 to establish protocols for the transfer of a patient between facilities within the same network; amend KRS 210.300 regarding factors to consider in designating hospital districts.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 175)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB730/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb730.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1599813,"bill_number":"HB703","title":"AN ACT relating to school funding.","description":"Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 157.320, 157.069, 157.200, 157.350, 157.360, 157.370, 157.390, 157.420, 157.621, 157.660, 158.030, 158.070, 159.035, 159.075, 159.090, 160.107, 160.345, 160.486, 160.593, 160.6152, 160.644. and 164.380 to transition the school funding model from using average daily attendance to average daily membership; make conforming changes; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB703/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb703.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1599819,"bill_number":"SB253","title":"AN ACT relating to child mental health.","description":"Amend KRS 645.110 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB253/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb253.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1599820,"bill_number":"HB697","title":"AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to medical rights.","description":"Propose to create a new section of the Kentucky Constitution to guarantee that the right of an individual to refuse any medical procedure, treatment, injection, device, or prophylactic may not be questioned or interfered with; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB697/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb697.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1599822,"bill_number":"HB725","title":"AN ACT relating to deoxyribonucleic acid evidence.","description":"Amend KRS 15.440 and 17.175 to mirror federal law and include a requirement that DNA profiles from samples voluntarily provided for elimination purposes not be included in any DNA index or database.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-03-09","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB725/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb725.html","sponsor":"Rachel Roberts"},
{"bill_id":1599823,"bill_number":"HB709","title":"AN ACT relating to animals.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; establish crimes of animal abuse in the first degree and animal abuse in the second degree; authorize law enforcement and animal control officers to seize and hold animals who are victims of cruelty or abuse; allow a seizing agency to seek forfeiture and reimbursement for reasonable costs of caring for seized animals from the owner of the animal in the criminal case; provide that the costs of caring for a seized animal shall apply to any offspring born to that animal while in custody; grant civil immunity to a person who enters a car containing a dog or cat believed in good faith to be in danger of death, subject to certain parameters; amend KRS 525.125 and KRS 525.130 to provide for the seizure of animals from a person charged with cruelty to animals in the first degree and from a person charged with cruelty to animals in the second degree with additional available penalties; amend KRS 525.137 to allow seizure of an animal that has been the object of sexual crimes against an animal.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB709/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb709.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1599826,"bill_number":"HB702","title":"AN ACT relating to the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development.","description":"Amend KRS 164.0207 to require the establishment of annual goals and performance objectives for the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development; direct the Kentucky Department of Education and Council on Postsecondary Education to make annual recommendations for the center; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to develop a process by January 1, 2023, for approving a location for the center for five-year periods.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB702/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb702.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1599828,"bill_number":"HB710","title":"AN ACT relating to lifetime orders of protection.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 456 to include lifetime orders of protection availiable to victims of sex crimes, criminal homicide, assault, and kidnapping; establish procedures for these orders; amend KRS 456.010, 456.020, 456.080, 456.090, 456.100, 456.110, 456.130, 456.140, 456.150, and 456.180 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB710/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb710.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1599830,"bill_number":"HB766","title":"AN ACT relating to a consumer's right to repair.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to require original equipment manufacturers to provide all materials needed to diagnose, maintain, and repair consumer goods to consumers and independent repair providers; amend KRS 367.990 to include a civil penalty for violation.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB766/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb766.html","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":1599831,"bill_number":"HB745","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Create Subchapter 21 of KRS Chapter 154 to require the Cabinet for Economic Development to partner with the Kentucky Association for Economic Development to implement the Kentucky Product Development Initiative; define terms; require the cabinet to administer the program; authorize the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; create fund; establish requirements for grant applications; establish the duties of the Kentucky Association for Economic Development in the implementation of the program; establish project evaluation and scoring requirements; cite as the Kentucky Product Development Initiative Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 176)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB745/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb745.html","sponsor":"Adam Bowling"},
{"bill_id":1599833,"bill_number":"HB761","title":"AN ACT relating to retail food establishment wine and distilled spirits licenses.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to authorize a retail food establishment wine and distilled spirits license; limit the license to the owner or lessee of a retail food store or combination retail food store and food service establishment; amend KRS 243.030, 243.060, and 243.070 to set a $500 annual state and local fee for a retail food establishment wine and distilled spirits license; amend KRS 243.0307 to allow a retail food establishment wine and distilled spirits license holder to also hold a sampling license.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB761/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb761.html","sponsor":"Chad McCoy"},
{"bill_id":1599834,"bill_number":"HB754","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 16 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to bail.","description":"Propose to amend Section 16 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow holding a person after arrest without bail when a judge finds, following a hearing, that the person may flee or poses an imminent danger to self or to others; provide ballot question with proposed amendment; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB754/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb754.html","sponsor":"Jason Nemes"},
{"bill_id":1599836,"bill_number":"SB273","title":"AN ACT relating to employment protections.","description":"Amend KRS 337.420 to make an employer with one employee to be subject to the wage discrimination requirements; amend KRS 337.423 to require no wage discrimination for what has been paid to current or past employees and prohibit an employer from discriminating against an employee for discussing wages.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB273/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb273.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1599837,"bill_number":"SB272","title":"AN ACT relating to sound that is recorded or performed live.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; obligate a Web site or online service or owner and operator who disseminates a commercial recording or audiovisual work of a third party to disclose his or her personal information on that Web site or online service; create a civil cause of action; create civil penalties; create new sections of KRS Chapter 365 to prohibit a person from using a false, deceptive, or misleading affiliation when advertising or conducting a live musical performance in the Commonwealth; permit the Attorney General or county attorney to bring a civil cause of action and assess a civil penalty; create a private cause of action; cite as the Kentucky True Origin of Digital Goods and Truth in Musical Advertising Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 52)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB272/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb272.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1599840,"bill_number":"HB782","title":"AN ACT relating to county attorneys.","description":"Amend KRS 66.480 to include county attorneys in county officials who may invest and reinvest money subject to their control.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 178)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB782/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb782.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599841,"bill_number":"HB753","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans.","description":"Amend KRS 158.105 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB753/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb753.html","sponsor":"Ashley Tackett Laferty"},
{"bill_id":1599843,"bill_number":"HB7","title":"AN ACT relating to welfare and family services.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to establish that the terms \"cash assistance\" and \"public assistance\" do not include foster care, kinship care, fictive kin care, or relative placement payments; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to conduct annual analysis of expenditures related to the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program; provide for the allocation of unobligated TANF funds; establish restrictions on the use of cash assistance benefits; require the cabinet to utilize a single electronic benefit transfer card for each recipient of cash assistance benefits; direct the cabinet to establish a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) transitional benefit alternative; direct the cabinet to request SNAP waivers to establish an Elderly Simplified Application Project and a Standard Medical Deduction and waive certain time limit exceptions; direct the cabinet to implement certified change reporting requirements for SNAP benefits; establish conditions under which the cabinet shall implement community engagement requirements for individuals in the expanded Medicaid population; establish a work group to develop a framework for the creations of a Basic Health Program as permitted under the Affordable Care Act; prescribe actions to be taken by the Department for Medicaid Services in the event that the department is subject to federal temporary maintenance of effort restrictions that limit the department's ability to disenroll individuals from the state's medical assistance program; prohibit the cabinet and the Department for Medicaid Services from being designated as a qualified health entity for the purpose of making presumptive eligibility determinations for the state's medical assistance program; establish hospitals' responsibilities related to presumptive eligibility determinations for the state's medical assistance program; require the state's medical assistance program to provide coverage for substance use disorder treatment for incarcerated individuals; to permit a custodial parent who has been disqualified from receiving cash assistance benefits to designate a protective payee to receive benefits on behalf of a dependent minor child; require the cabinet to report to the Public Assistance Oversight and Advisory Committee on implementation of certain sections of this Act; establish the Attorney General's jurisdiction to enforce KRS Chapter 205; amend KRS 6.940 to reestablish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee as the Public Assistance Oversight and Advisory Committee; amend KRS 205.178 require enrollment and benefit tracking agencies associated with SNAP to receive and review information from the Administrative Office of the Courts and the Department of Revenue; require the cabinet to assign SNAP recipients to employment and training programs; require the cabinet to obtain authorization from the General Assembly before seeking certain SNAP waivers; amend KRS 205.200 to prohibit the use of categorical eligibility and self-attestation; require the cabinet to use only the most recent available income data when determining eligibility for public assistance; permit the cabinet to disqualify an individual from receiving public assistance benefits if that individual traffics electronic benefit transfer cards; amend KRS 205.231 to permit individuals who are disqualified from receiving public assistance benefits to appeal that determination; amend KRS 205.525 to require reporting to the Public Assistance Oversight and Advisory Committee; amend KRS 205.725 to require the cabinet to upon receipt of an application for public assistance to take action to assure that the responsible parent or parents provides support to a child; amend KRS 441.045 to require that a county jailer notify the cabinet when a county prisoner is incarcerated and when they are released; require the cabinet to provide information on the child care assistance program to the Public Assistance Oversight and Advisory Committee; require the cabinet to seek approval of a waiver to eliminate mandatory hospital presumptive eligibility and restrict presumptive eligibility to children and pregnant women; direct the cabinet to seek federal approval of any state plan amendment or waiver deemed necessary to implement any provision of this Act; direct the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to establish job posting Web site for private businesses; direct the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee to conduct an in-depth analysis of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program; create the Basic Health Program Task Force to study and make recommendations on the development of a basic health program; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least 4 times during the 2022 interim; require the task force to submit recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022; and provide for severability.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 211)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB7/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb7.html","sponsor":"David Meade"},
{"bill_id":1599845,"bill_number":"SCR157","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Task Force on Election Security.","description":"Create the Task Force on Election Security to examine the security of Kentucky elections, examine current election security processes in place and actions by other states, and investigate the use of statewide risk limiting audits; outline the membership; require the task force to meet at least 4 times during the 2022 interim; require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR157/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr157.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1599847,"bill_number":"HCR108","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION calling on the Tigray People's Liberation Front, Oromo Liberation Front, and other belligerents to cease all hostilities, protect human rights, allow unfettered access for humanitarian relief, and cooperate with independent investigations of credible atrocity allegations pertaining to the conflicts in the Tigray, Amhara, Afar, Oromia and Benishangul-Gumuz regions of Ethiopia.","description":"Call for the immediate cessation of hostilities in the Tigray and adjoining regions of Ethiopia, protection of human rights, and unfettered access for humanitarian relief.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR108/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr108.html","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1599848,"bill_number":"HCR112","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION relating to the establishment of a task force to complete a study to identify strategies for maintaining an adequate supply of healthcare workers in the Commonwealth.","description":"Create a task force to examine the healthcare worker shortage and study methods for increasing and retaining the healthcare workforce; require task force to create a report on its findings; require membership to be set by LRC, with four members from each chamber, of which three will be from the majority party and one from the minority party; require co-chairs to be appointed by LRC, one from each chamber.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR112/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr112.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Moser"},
{"bill_id":1599849,"bill_number":"HB738","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid ordering, referring, and prescribing providers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; establish that the Department for Medicaid Services and any Medicaid managed care organization shall not prohibit a Medicaid beneficiary from entering into a direct primary care membership agreement or penalize a Medicaid beneficiary for receiving primary care services under a direct primary care membership agreement; establish that the department and any Medicaid managed care organization shall require a primary care provider who enters into a direct primary care membership agreement with a Medicaid beneficiary to enroll in the state Medicaid program as an ordering, referring, and prescribing provider for screening purposes only; permit the department to promulgate administrative regulations.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB738/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb738.html","sponsor":"Chris Freeland"},
{"bill_id":1599851,"bill_number":"HB769","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 505.010 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB769/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb769.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599853,"bill_number":"HB744","title":"AN ACT relating to wage assessments for remote workers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow wage assessment incentives of 4 percent to go to an eligible company for the recruitment and retainment of remote workers; provide that the eligible company must make an investment of $10 million dollars in up-front investment; apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 131.190 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB744/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb744.html","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":1599854,"bill_number":"HB749","title":"AN ACT relating to occupational health and safety.","description":"Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued; require the secretary for the Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2022 by the percentage increase, if any, in the United State Average Consumer Price Index for all Urban Customers (CPI-U); direct the secretary to begin a three year phase-in for penalty adjustments beginning August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB749/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb749.html","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1599858,"bill_number":"HB746","title":"AN ACT relating to health insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to remove erroneous citation.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB746/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb746.html","sponsor":"Adam Bowling"},
{"bill_id":1599859,"bill_number":"SB254","title":"AN ACT relating to boards of health.","description":"Amend KRS 212.635 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB254/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb254.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1599861,"bill_number":"HB763","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.12-205 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB763/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb763.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1599862,"bill_number":"HB757","title":"AN ACT relating to the care of a minor.","description":"Amend KRS 199.572 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB757/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb757.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1599865,"bill_number":"HB741","title":"AN ACT relating to licensing.","description":"Amend KRS 312.152 to modernize language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB741/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb741.html","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1599866,"bill_number":"SB277","title":"AN ACT relating to providing free feminine hygiene products for elementary and secondary students.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each public school that includes any of grades four through 12 to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free feminine hygiene products; define feminine hygiene products.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB277/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb277.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1599868,"bill_number":"HB736","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 161.030 to specify authority of Education Professional Standards Board over educators hired by public schools only; amend KRS 199.894 to define \"learning pods\" and exclude from the defintion of \"child-care center\" and \"family child-care home\"; amend KRS 194A.381 to exclude learning pods from certain hiring requirements.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB736/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb736.html","sponsor":"Felicia Rabourn"},
{"bill_id":1599869,"bill_number":"HB704","title":"AN ACT relating to student loan forgiveness for teachers and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 164.780 to 164.7891 to establish the Teacher Recruitment Student Loan Forgiveness Program; direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program; define program eligibility requirements and forgiveness amounts; create the Teacher Recruitment Student Loan Forgiveness Program fund; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB704/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb704.html","sponsor":"Scott Lewis"},
{"bill_id":1599872,"bill_number":"SB268","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 246.070, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture, to make gender-neutral language references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB268/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb268.html","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":1599873,"bill_number":"HR115","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2, 2022, as Read Across America Day.","description":"Recognize March 2, 2022, as Read Across America Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR115/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr115.html","sponsor":"Kimberly Banta"},
{"bill_id":1599875,"bill_number":"SB279","title":"AN ACT relating to tornado relief.","description":"Amend KRS 61.395 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB279/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb279.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1599877,"bill_number":"SB264","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB264/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb264.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1599879,"bill_number":"HB701","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB701/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb701.html","sponsor":"James Tipton"},
{"bill_id":1599880,"bill_number":"HB712","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance prelicensing education and examinations.","description":"Amend KRS 304.9-170 to exempt applicants with an associate's, bachelors, or master's degree with a concentration in insurance from an institution approved by the commissioner from the prelicensing education and examination requirements; make technical changes.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB712/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb712.html","sponsor":"Joshua Branscum"},
{"bill_id":1599882,"bill_number":"HB779","title":"AN ACT relating to credit.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to define terms, prohibit the use of social credit scores; prohibit the violation of an individual's constitutional rights based on predictive behavior analysis; prohibit the use of social credit scores in lending and investing; allow the use of financial credit scores.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB779/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb779.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1599883,"bill_number":"HB695","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protections in health insurance.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to limit premium rates for health benefit plans issued to an individual or small group; require that health benefit plan coverage continue to be available for adult children until age 26; require insurers to provide benefits for, and not impose cost-sharing requirements on, preventive services; amend KRS 304.17A-200 to prohibit eligibility rules and premium disparities in the individual market based on health status; make conforming amendments to KRS 304.17-030, 304.17-310, and 304.17A-0952; repeal KRS 304.17A-256, relating to options for dependent coverage under group health benefit plans.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB695/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb695.html","sponsor":"Patti Minter"},
{"bill_id":1599885,"bill_number":"HB774","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms.","description":"Amend KRS 237.040 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB774/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb774.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599886,"bill_number":"HB765","title":"AN ACT relating to notices for collecting delinquent tax bills.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.035 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB765/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb765.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1599890,"bill_number":"HB732","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 61.375 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB732/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb732.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1599891,"bill_number":"SJR158","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Kentucky Department of Education to create a task force to examine the equity and inclusivity of racial and demographic representation in education curriculum.","description":"Direct the Kentucky Department of Education to create a task force to examine the equity and inclusivity of racial and demographic representation in education curricula.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR158/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr158.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1599893,"bill_number":"SB265","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky State University board of regents and declaring an emergency.","description":"Direct the Governor to replace the Kentucky State University board of regents by April 1, 2022; direct the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee to submit 16 nominations to the Governor by March 26, 2022; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 30)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB265/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb265.html","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1599894,"bill_number":"HB756","title":"AN ACT relating to offenses against persons.","description":"Amend KRS 529.160 to remove the 60 day waiting period for filing a motion for expungement by a victim of human trafficking.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB756/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb756.html","sponsor":"Nancy Tate"},
{"bill_id":1599898,"bill_number":"HB699","title":"AN ACT relating to the property tax quarterly installment payment program.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 134 to establish a quarterly installment payment program for real property taxes; provide quarterly installment calculation guidelines; require specific property tax information be sent to the taxpayer through notifications or made accessible through an online system; allow administrative fee up to 3 percent; disallow 2 percent discount for early payment of taxes; prohibit collection of penalties and interest; require Department of Revenue to promulgate administrative regulations; establish penalties for noncompliance; require independent school districts and cities who uses a real property tax collector other than the sheriff to establish a quarterly installment payment program; amend KRS 134.015 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB699/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb699.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1599902,"bill_number":"HB759","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to define terms; criminalize the use of tracking devices on motor vehicles without the consent of the owner or lessee; establish penalty; provide exceptions.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB759/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb759.html","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":1599904,"bill_number":"HB733","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 56.020 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB733/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb733.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1599906,"bill_number":"HB737","title":"AN ACT relating to urban youth agriculture education.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office beginning August 1, 2022, and others by August 1, 2023; set each program term to 1 year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB737/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb737.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1599907,"bill_number":"HB714","title":"AN ACT relating to wagering and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to impose a 9.5 percent tax on the adjusted gross revenue of wagers to impose a 9.5 percent tax on the adjusted gross revenue on wagers placed at a licensed track; impose an additional 0.5 percent tax on the adjusted gross revenue and wagers placed at licensed tracks; authorize the department to collect taxes and enforce the penalties imposed in this section; create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to define terms related to fantasy contests; create the wagering administration fund; establish the Kentucky problem gambling assistance account; allow for sports wagering on a licensed track or other venues where historical horse racing is permitted, a professional sports venue, online, or through a mobile app after the issuance of a wagering license by the commission; permit wagering on professional sporting events sanctioned by nationally recognized organizations; permit sports wagering on college sporting events sanctioned by the NCAA, NAIA, or other body recognized by the commission; permit wagering on international events at the discretion of the commission; establish requirements for a sports wagering license; prohibit someone from placing a sports wager on an event where he or she is a participant; designate the crime of tampering with the outcome of a sporting event to be a Class C felony; require an operator of fantasy contests to be registered with the commission; establish an application process to operate a fantasy contest; establish the process for the commission to review and act upon an application for registration as a fantasy contest operator; authorize the commission to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirements necessary to operate fantasy contests; require a registered fantasy contest operator to have an annual audit of records; establish requirements for the operation of a fantasy contests; require a person offering online poker in the Commonwealth to be issued a license by the commission; authorize the commission to promulgate administrative regulation prescribing the requirements for vendors offering online poker gaming; establish the online poker account within the state treasury for the deposit of licensing and gaming fees; and create a severability clause; amend KRS 137.190 and 230.360 to remove the reference of an admission tax; amend KRS 138.510 to impose an excise tax of 1.5 percent of all money wagered on live races; impose a 0.75 percent tax of all money wagered on live races and historical races at the track for Thoroughbred racing to be deposited into the Thoroughbred development fund; designate where to allocate 0.75 percent of all money wagered on historical horse races at the track for harness racing; require deposits to the equine industry programs at the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky, and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System once the Equine Industry Program reaches $850,000; amend KRS 138.990 to remove the reference of a Class misdemeanor for people who violate KRS 138.480 to 138.490; amend KRS 139.200 to exempt the sale of admissions to enter the grounds of any race track licensed under KRS Chapter 230 where live racing or historical horse racing is being conducted from a 6 percent tax of the gross receipts; KRS 230.3615 to require breaks to be calculated to the nickel; amend KRS 230.363, 230.364, 230.365, 230.366, 230.369, 230.371, 230.372, and 230.373 to establish the procedures for persons with unclaimed sports wagering tickets; amend KRS 230.378 and 230.380 to remove the reference of an admissions tax; amend KRS 230.400 to authorize the commission to provide supplemental purses for claiming races that are contested at race meetings; amend KRS 230.550 to create a revolving fund for equine industry programs at the University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky, and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; create a new section of KRS Chapter 147A to establish the local government assistance fund; amend KRS 230.210, 230.215, 230.225, 230.240, 230.260, 230.320, 230.361, 230.374, 230.378, 230.380, 230.781, 230.783, 243.500, 525.090, 528.010, 528.020, 528.070, and 528.080 to conform; repeal KRS 138.480, 138.490, and 230.555.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB714/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb714.html","sponsor":"Alan Gentry"},
{"bill_id":1599909,"bill_number":"SB251","title":"AN ACT relating to hospital districts.","description":"Amend KRS 216.350 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB251/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb251.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1599910,"bill_number":"HB723","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.5-150 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB723/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb723.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1599912,"bill_number":"HB751","title":"AN ACT relating to the creation of the Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create the Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center to provide healthcare educational pathways to address the healthcare worker shortage; direct the center to be operated through a partnership of public and private organizations; direct the General Assembly to provide start-up funds to be administered through the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; direct KCTCS to provide reports to LRC; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-15","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB751/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb751.html","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1599913,"bill_number":"HB762","title":"AN ACT relating to paycheck protection.","description":"Amend KRS 164.365 to make technical changes.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB762/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb762.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1599916,"bill_number":"HB740","title":"AN ACT relating to campaign finance and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 121.015 to define \"form\"; amend KRS 121.160 to remove the requirement of a candidate or slate of candidates designating a treasurer at the office with which they file for candidacy, and instead require the office for which the candidate files to forward a copy to the Registry of Election Finance; amend KRS 121.180 to require a candidate exempt from filing a campaign finance report to file a 30 day post-election report of receipts and disbursements; require a candidate who is exempt from filing for the primary who advances to the regular election to refile for the filing exemption; require any candidate who is no longer eligible for the exemption to immediately file for a revocation of the exemption; and permit candidates, slate of candidates, and candidate-authorized campaign committee to file annual campaign finance reports with requirements prescribed; remove references to paper filing; and make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 208)","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB740/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb740.html","sponsor":"Matthew Koch"},
{"bill_id":1599917,"bill_number":"SR159","title":"A RESOLUTION urging Kentucky's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control license holders to suspend the sale of Russian-produced vodka.","description":"Urge Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control licensees to suspend sales of Russian-produced vodka.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR159/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr159.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599921,"bill_number":"SB280","title":"AN ACT relating to disaster relief.","description":"Amend KRS 38.030 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB280/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb280.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1599922,"bill_number":"HB758","title":"AN ACT relating to financial assistance and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 224A to making findings and declarations of the General Assembly regarding the need for funding for public funding for drinking water and wastewater systems; establish a water management assistance fund which is administered by the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to provide assistance for both capital and non-capital expenses of governmental entities that provide public drinking water and wastewater services to the public; describe the various non-capital expenses that the fund can provide funding for; amend KRS 91A.040 to make permissive the requirement for the Finance and Administration Cabinet to place a hold on the funds to cities for nonperformance of required financial audits and statements; amend KRS 224A.011 to include private water associations under the definition of \"governmental agency\"; amend 224A.035 to authorize the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to make non-capital expenditure from funds that it governs; and amend KRS 224A.040 to allow expenditure for non-capital expenditures that improve the technical, managerial, or operational capacity of public drinking water and wastewater systems and allow for the purchase of obligations if the purchase does not cause interest on current or future state agency obligations to be included in gross federal income for federal tax purposes.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 177)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB758/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb758.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1599924,"bill_number":"HB778","title":"AN ACT relating to public utilities.","description":"Amend KRS 278.220 to allow an electric utility to amortize a regulatory asset without approval from the commission to defer recovery of expenses for coal, natural gas, or replacement power if the deferral lowers customer bills; require the amortization of the expense to be no more than 12 months from the date the regulatory asset is established; require the electric utility to inform the commission when a regulatory asset is established and provide the reason for its creation and accounting for the asset; allow overages or under-recovery to be placed on customer bills through refund or additional charge at the time of the electric utility's next rate case or 2-year review of the fuel adjustment clause.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB778/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb778.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1599925,"bill_number":"SB257","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB257/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb257.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599928,"bill_number":"HB742","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.","description":"Amend KRS 243.480 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB742/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb742.html","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":1599929,"bill_number":"SB258","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB258/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb258.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599932,"bill_number":"HB728","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.066 to include an additional requirement for a county board of elections' petition for consolidating precincts before the State Board of Elections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB728/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb728.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1599933,"bill_number":"HB720","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.48-080 to remove reference to executive director and insert commissioner in its place.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB720/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb720.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1599935,"bill_number":"HB760","title":"AN ACT relating to the disposition of catalytic converters and other items containing metal.","description":"Amend KRS 433.890 to set forth proof of ownership requirements for the purchase of catalytic converters; amend KRS 433.892 to establish that the failure to maintain a register of metal and objects containing metals is a Class B misdemeanor; amend KRS 433.894 to establish that unlawful acts relating to the purchase or disposition of metals is a Class B misdemeanor.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB760/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb760.html","sponsor":"Shane Baker"},
{"bill_id":1599936,"bill_number":"HJR110","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Richard and James C. Duncan Memorial Bridge in Metcalfe County.","description":"Designate the Richard and James C. Duncan Memorial Bridge in Metcalfe County.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR110/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr110.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1599938,"bill_number":"HB750","title":"AN ACT relating to nondisclosure agreements.","description":"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; create a new section of KRS Chapter 372 to prohibit nondisclosure clauses related to harassment in settlement agreements in civil and administrative actions with exceptions.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB750/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb750.html","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1599940,"bill_number":"SB260","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 246.040 to make gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB260/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb260.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599942,"bill_number":"HB705","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB705/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb705.html","sponsor":"Scott Lewis"},
{"bill_id":1599943,"bill_number":"HB696","title":"AN ACT relating to a tax credit for renters.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable renter tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027, in the amount of 25 percent of the qualified rent payments made during the taxable year, not to exceed $1,000; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB696/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb696.html","sponsor":"Pamela Stevenson"},
{"bill_id":1599944,"bill_number":"HB781","title":"AN ACT relating to tax return data and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to require tax return data be transmitted to the staff of the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; establish a working group containing employees from the Legislative Reserach Commission, the Commonwealth Office of Technology, and the Department of Revenue to accomplish an efficient and effective delivery of tax return data in a format which is easily accessible, adaptable, and useable by the staff of the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; require monthly meetings of the employee working group; allow budget unit reductions of up to 50 percent for failure to comply; amend various other sections of the KRS to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB781/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb781.html","sponsor":"Jason Petrie"},
{"bill_id":1599945,"bill_number":"HB776","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish a program for harm reduction centers; amend possession of controlled substance statutes to reduce penalty; amend KRS 218A.275 to provide for referrals to treatment for persons charged with possession of controlled substances; amend KRS 218A.500 to decriminalize possession of items to test, store, or consume controlled substances; repeal KRS 218A.14151, 218A.1450, 218A.1451, 218A.1452, and 218A.276.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB776/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb776.html","sponsor":"Keturah Herron"},
{"bill_id":1599947,"bill_number":"HB719","title":"AN ACT relating to mechanic's and materialman's liens.","description":"Amend KRS 376.010 to establish a mechanism for protection for owners of leased property from liens arising from work performed through a contract with the lessee when the lessee is prohibited from entering into such an agreement by the lease; require the filing of notice documents with the county clerk to apprise the prospective provider of labor or materials; amend KRS 371.325 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB719/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb719.html","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":1599949,"bill_number":"HB748","title":"AN ACT relating to lighting assessments on state highways.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 174 to require the Transportation Cabinet to conduct highway lighting assessments on state highways located within the boundaries of a consolidated local government which have an average daily traffic count greater than 10,000 vehicles; provide for annual reporting to interim joint committees.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB748/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb748.html","sponsor":"McKenzie Cantrell"},
{"bill_id":1599951,"bill_number":"HB735","title":"AN ACT relating to recording peace officers in public performance of their duties.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 455 to state that photographing or recording peace officers in the public performance of their duties is not unlawful.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB735/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb735.html","sponsor":"Lisa Willner"},
{"bill_id":1599954,"bill_number":"HB731","title":"AN ACT relating to natural resources.","description":"Amend KRS 350.156 to make technical and grammatical corrections.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB731/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb731.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1599956,"bill_number":"HB721","title":"AN ACT relating to financial institutions.","description":"Amend KRS 286.1-440 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB721/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb721.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1599957,"bill_number":"HB768","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms.","description":"Amend KRS 237.115 to reformat text.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB768/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb768.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599958,"bill_number":"HJR109","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Frank Wagner Memorial Highway in Powell County.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a highway in Powell County in honor and memory of Frank Wagner; erect the appropriate signage","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR109/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hjr109.html","sponsor":"David Hale"},
{"bill_id":1599959,"bill_number":"HR113","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the mayor of Louisville and the Metro Council to form a task force that receives input from all stakeholders, including business and community leaders, to provide any recommendations regarding the statutory framework of the consolidated local government form.","description":"Urge the mayor of Louisville and the Metro Council serving in 2023 to form a task force that receives input from all stakeholders, including business and community leaders, to provide any recommendations regarding the statutory framework of the consolidated local government form.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-08","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR113/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr113.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1599961,"bill_number":"SB259","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 247.493 to make gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB259/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb259.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1599962,"bill_number":"SB271","title":"AN ACT relating to domestic violence.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 209A to require the Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center to compile data on domestic violence fatalities and occurrences of dating violence and abuse or domestic violence and abuse; amend KRS 209A.120 to indicate when Kentucky State Police is to report data to the Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center; amend KRS 403.785 and 456.090 to mandate reporting of JC-3 forms; amend KRS 209A.100 to include the reporting of suspected dating violence and abuse or domestic violence and abuse deaths to the Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 224)","last_action_date":"2022-04-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB271/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb271.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1599964,"bill_number":"SB252","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health programs.","description":"Amend KRS 210.450 to add gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB252/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb252.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1599966,"bill_number":"HB780","title":"AN ACT relating to tourism.","description":"Amend KRS 148.056 to include gender-neutral pronouns.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB780/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb780.html","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1599967,"bill_number":"SB275","title":"AN ACT relating to hate crimes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide an enhanced term of imprisonment for any defendant convicted of certain crimes when the defendant intentionally selected the person because of that person's actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; amend KRS 15.334 and 17.1523 to conform; repeal KRS 49.320 and 532.031.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB275/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb275.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1599968,"bill_number":"HB775","title":"AN ACT relating to COVID-19 liability and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms; provide COVID-19 liability protection to public educational institutions when complying with recommended guidelines; establish four-year limitation of action; apply to actions commenced on or after March 6, 2020; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB775/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb775.html","sponsor":"Ed Massey"},
{"bill_id":1599970,"bill_number":"HB783","title":"AN ACT relating to tourism.","description":"Amend KRS 148.026 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-01","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB783/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb783.html","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1599971,"bill_number":"SB261","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.","description":"Amend KRS 342.0011 to include a definition of \"medical director\"; amend KRS 342.035 to a medical director within the Department of Workers' Claims and require the commissioner to promulgate an administrative regulation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB261/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb261.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1599973,"bill_number":"SB256","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB256/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb256.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1600744,"bill_number":"SB306","title":"AN ACT relating to child welfare investigations.","description":"Amend KRS 620.030 to establish requirements for reports of alleged child dependency, abuse, or neglect.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB306/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb306.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1600758,"bill_number":"SB294","title":"AN ACT relating to the civics test required for high school graduation.","description":"Amend KRS 158.141 to require school districts to report civics test data to the Kentucky Department of Education annually; require KDE to publicly post a report on the data.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB294/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb294.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1600772,"bill_number":"SB302","title":"AN ACT relating to tourism.","description":"Amend KRS 148.0211 to include gender-neutral pronouns.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB302/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb302.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1600787,"bill_number":"SB307","title":"AN ACT relating to children.","description":"Amend KRS 199.640 to establish procedures that relate to inspections and findings of deficiency of child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies; amend KRS 199.896 to set a new employment standard for child-care centers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB307/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb307.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1600801,"bill_number":"SJR165","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Jerry S. Ikerd Memorial Highway in Pulaski County.","description":"Designate the Jerry S. Ikerd Memorial Highway in Pulaski County.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR165/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr165.html","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1600814,"bill_number":"SB308","title":"AN ACT relating to small business.","description":"Amend 154.12-330 to make technical corrections and grammatical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB308/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb308.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1600828,"bill_number":"SR161","title":"A RESOLUTION amending the Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Regular Session of the Senate.","description":"Amend Rule 4 of the Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Regular Session of the Senate.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR161/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr161.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1600842,"bill_number":"SB293","title":"AN ACT relating to coverage for hearing aids and related services.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-132 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for hearing aids and related services in accordance with the provisions of the statute and administrative regulations; require the commissioner of insurance to promulgate administrative regulations to set minimum coverage requirements and limits for hearing aids and establish a list of audiologists and specialists in hearing instruments for which health benefit plans shall provide coverage; provide exception for Health Savings Account-qualified High Deductible Health Plans; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the coverage requirements for hearing aids and related services; apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act; EFFECTIVE, January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB293/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb293.html","sponsor":"Karen Berg"},
{"bill_id":1600856,"bill_number":"SR163","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Tony Colyer to the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Tony Colyer to the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals for a term expiring June 29, 2023.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR163/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr163.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1600870,"bill_number":"SB296","title":"AN ACT relating to community parenting alternative sentencing plans.","description":"Amend KRS 533.010 to create a parenting-based alternative sentence; detail requirements for parenting-based alternative sentencing plan.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB296/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb296.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1600883,"bill_number":"SB288","title":"AN ACT relating to workers compensation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to allow the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association to establish a workers' compensation insurance program for qualified horsemen, administer the program as part of its corporate activity, establish criteria for eligible participants, declare surplus funds, contract with other insurers to help implement the program, take other necessary acts for establishment and operation of the program, as well as encouraging it to immediately provide coverage, use revenue to create a reserve fund, and establish conditions for the program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB288/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb288.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1600895,"bill_number":"SB281","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 533.220 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB281/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb281.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1600909,"bill_number":"SB292","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protections in health insurance.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to limit premium rates for health benefit plans issued to an individual or small group; require that health benefit plan coverage continue to be available for adult children until age 26; require insurers to provide benefits for, and not impose cost-sharing requirements on, preventive services; amend KRS 304.17A-200 to prohibit eligibility rules in the individual market based on health status; make conforming amendments to KRS 304.17-030, 304.17-310, and 304.17A-0952; repeal KRS 304.17A-256, relating to options for dependent coverage under group health benefit plans.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB292/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb292.html","sponsor":"Karen Berg"},
{"bill_id":1600923,"bill_number":"SB290","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance notifications.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to permit insureds to designate one or more family members or other trusted individuals to receive certain notices from insurers; require insurers to make certain minimum inquiries related to the designations; establish legal effect of failing to make required notifications; provide immunity to insurers that act in good faith; provide that section shall not be construed to limit or diminish other laws relating to agents or representatives.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB290/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb290.html","sponsor":"Karen Berg"},
{"bill_id":1600938,"bill_number":"SB289","title":"AN ACT relating to actions for forcible entry and detainer.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 383 to provide for expungement of records in actions for forcible entry and detainer due to unpaid rent during the COVID-19 pandemic; amend KRS 383.250 to provide for sealing of records.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB289/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb289.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1600952,"bill_number":"SB287","title":"AN ACT relating to peace officer intervention response training.","description":"Amend KRS 15.334 to add three hours of in-service training every other year for certified officers on the subject of peace officer intervention responses when encountering persons with mental illnesses, autism spectrum disorder, and other neurological and developmental disorders.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB287/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb287.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1600965,"bill_number":"SB282","title":"AN ACT relating to penalties for speeding violations and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 189.010 to define the term \"super speeder\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to assess a fee of $200 to any person convicted as a super speeder; establish a fee of $50 and the suspension of driving privileges for nonpayment of fee imposed, if not paid within 90 days; require that money from fees be deposited into the Kentucky trauma care system fund; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 211.496 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB282/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb282.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1600982,"bill_number":"SB299","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 118.651 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB299/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb299.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1600995,"bill_number":"SB303","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.","description":"Amend KRS 342.610 to eliminate the presumption of intoxication proximately causing the employee's injury and allow an administrative law judge to consider whether an employee's intoxication by illegal, nonprescribed substance or substances or prescribed substance or substances in amounts in excess of prescribed amounts proximately caused the injury when determining an employer's liability for workers' compensation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB303/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb303.html","sponsor":"Johnnie Turner"},
{"bill_id":1601009,"bill_number":"SB300","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.237 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB300/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb300.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1601022,"bill_number":"SR164","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Amy Roe Leenerts to the Crime Victims Compensation Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Amy Roe Leenerts to the Crime Victims Compensation Board for a term expiring July 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR164/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr164.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1601037,"bill_number":"SB285","title":"AN ACT relating to the confidentiality of tax information.","description":"Amend KRS 67.790 to allow counties to divulge tax information to taxing jurisdictions when requested for audit purposes; make technical changes.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"floor amendments (4) and (5-title) filed","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB285/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb285.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1601051,"bill_number":"SB298","title":"AN ACT relating to persons regulated under the Securities Act of Kentucky.","description":"Amend KRS 292.336 to require investment advisers to establish written procedures relating to a business continuity and succession plan; require investment advisers to establish and implement written physical security and cybersecurity policies and procedures; create a new section of KRS Chapter 292 to establish continuing education requirements for investment adviser representatives; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 145)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB298/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb298.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1601064,"bill_number":"SR167","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2, 2022, as Read Across America Day.","description":"Recognize March 2, 2022, as Read Across America Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR167/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr167.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1601078,"bill_number":"SB301","title":"AN ACT relating to biosolids.","description":"Create a new section of Subchapter 50 of KRS Chapter 224 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to promulgate new administrative regulations to regulate biosolids from wastewater treatment at a publicly owned treatment works in conformity with and no more stringent than federal standards under 40 C.F.R. pt. 530.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB301/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb301.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1601092,"bill_number":"SB286","title":"AN ACT relating to payments from insureds.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitles 17A and 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to permit insureds to engage in self-pay negotiations with health care providers; amend KRS 304.17A-254, 304.17A-527, and 304.17C-060 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB286/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb286.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1601105,"bill_number":"SB295","title":"AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.","description":"Amend KRS 527.070 to modify the types of school facilities where weapons are prohibited; state that the prohibition of weapons on school grounds only applies when entrances to the school buildings display a sign indicating that unlawfully possessing a weapon in a school is a felony; remove the requirement that signs be prominently displayed indicating possessing a weapon in a school is prohibited; remove the provision that failure to post the signs indicating weapons are prohibited in schools shall not relieve a person of liability; amend KRS 150.172, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform; repeal KRS 237.115 which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities and state and local governments to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB295/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb295.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1601119,"bill_number":"SR166","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the centennial anniversary of Murray State University.","description":"Recognize the 100th anniversary of Murray State University.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR166/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr166.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1601133,"bill_number":"SR160","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Norma F. Deneen.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Norma F. Deneen.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR160/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr160.html","sponsor":"Stephen Meredith"},
{"bill_id":1601147,"bill_number":"SB291","title":"AN ACT relating to child abuse and neglect recognition training.","description":"Amend KRS 194A.540 to establish child abuse, neglect, and exploitation-related recognition training for certain licensed health care or mental health professionals.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB291/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb291.html","sponsor":"Karen Berg"},
{"bill_id":1601162,"bill_number":"SB283","title":"AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.","description":"Amend KRS 630.030 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB283/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb283.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1601176,"bill_number":"SB304","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.","description":"Amend KRS 342.730 to change the factor for AMA impairment of 0 to 5 percent from .65 to 1.00 and the factor for AMA impairment of 6 percent to 10 percent from .85 to 1.00.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB304/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb304.html","sponsor":"Johnnie Turner"},
{"bill_id":1601190,"bill_number":"SR162","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Elizabeth Campbell Moir.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Elizabeth Campbell Moir.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR162/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr162.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1601203,"bill_number":"SB305","title":"AN ACT relating to marijuana.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.1421, 218A.1422, and 218A.1423 to remove penalties for possession, cultivation, or trafficking of up to eight ounces, or five plants, of marijuana; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow expungement of certain convictions relating to cannabis; amend KRS 218A.276 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB305/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb305.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1601218,"bill_number":"SB297","title":"AN ACT relating to dependency, neglect, and abuse reporting.","description":"Amend KRS 620.030 to remove the requirement that a supervisor also make a report to the proper authorities regarding a report made to them of suspected abuse; require an oral report of child abuse and notification of a supervisor; add the requirement that a supervisor cooperate with the investigation of a report; amend KRS 620.040, relating to notification of suspected abuse reports.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB297/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb297.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1601232,"bill_number":"SB284","title":"AN ACT relating to financing of school building projects.","description":"Amend KRS 160.160 to require a board of education in the process of acquiring, constructing, or renovating buildings, improvements, appurtenances, or furnishing and equipment to estimate the cost of the project based on the estimates provided by architects or engineers; require estimated financing and debt service costs for financial commitments to be issued for the project; require bonds, leases, participations, or other financial arrangements to be sold in accordance with the advertising requirements under KRS Chapter 424; amend KRS 162.160 to require the advertisement of bids and allow the contract for construction to begin once the plans and specifications are approved by the board of education and chief state school officer; amend KRS 162.170 to allow bonds to be issued if the plans and specifications have been prepared, filed, and submitted to the appropriate officials as required by KRS 162.160(1) and if authorized by an ordinance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-02","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-03","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB284/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb284.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1602229,"bill_number":"SB329","title":"AN ACT relating to public utilities.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms; require the Public Service Commission to examine the use of the fuel adjustment clause by electric and natural gas utilities and report to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1 each year beginning on December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB329/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb329.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1602230,"bill_number":"SB368","title":"AN ACT relating to rights and obligations of landlords and tenants to a residential lease.","description":"Repeal and reenact various sections of KRS Chapter 383 to update the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; create new sections of KRS Chapter 383 to conform; amend KRS 383.715 to conform; repeal KRS 383.300, 303.302, 383.500, 383.505, 383.515, 383.525, 383.540, 383.580, 383.620, and 383.665.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB368/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb368.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602231,"bill_number":"SB360","title":"AN ACT relating to employment protections.","description":"Amend KRS 337.420 to make an employer only have to have one employee to be subject to the wage discrimination requirements; amend KRS 337.423 to require no wage discrimination for what has been paid to current or past employees and prohibit an employer from discriminating against an employee for discussing wages.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB360/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb360.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602232,"bill_number":"SB330","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.50-323 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB330/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb330.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1602233,"bill_number":"SB371","title":"AN ACT relating to residential treatment facilities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 100.982 to 100.984 prohibiting the operation of residential criminal halfway houses or drug rehabilitation facilities in a residential area.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB371/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb371.html","sponsor":"Rick Girdler"},
{"bill_id":1602234,"bill_number":"SB345","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Education and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 156.029 to change the public high school non-voting member to a voting member of the Kentucky Board of Education; add an at-large member to the board; require at least two of the members to have a child enrolled in public school; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB345/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb345.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1602235,"bill_number":"SB322","title":"AN ACT relating to public protection.","description":"Amend KRS 242.250 to make techincal corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB322/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb322.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1602236,"bill_number":"SB340","title":"AN ACT relating to the commercial mining of cryptocurrency.","description":"Amend KRS 154.27-010 to define \"colocation facility\" and \"computing system node\"; amend KRS 154.27-020 to provide sales tax incentives on purchase of computing system nodes; amend KRS 154.27-030 to prevent delays in processing application; allow the authority to issue preliminary and final approval at the same meeting; amend KRS 154.27-070 to allow certain incentives for colocation facilities as of the date of application once final approval is received; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB340/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb340.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1602237,"bill_number":"SB354","title":"AN ACT relating to violations of privacy.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 411 to create a cause of action for introduction of an identification device; create new section of KRS Chapter 454 to restrict use of facial recognition technology and biometric identifiers; create new section of KRS Chapter 411 to create a cause of action for use of facial recognition technology or biometric identifiers; create new sections of KRS Chapters 6, 13B, 23A, 24A, and 29A to prohibit use of facial recognition technology as evidence; propose a new rule of evidence to make evidence gained from use of facial regnition inadmissible.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB354/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb354.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1602238,"bill_number":"SB318","title":"AN ACT relating to Juneteenth.","description":"Amend KRS 2.147 to make June 19, also known as \"Juneteenth National Freedom Day,\" a day of commemoration; create a new section of KRS 18A to allow a state employee the ability to be granted no less than four hours leave to commemorate Juneteenth National Freedom Day at his or her option, with requirements prescribed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB318/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb318.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1602239,"bill_number":"SB250","title":"AN ACT relating to warrants.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 that establishes requirements for peace officers in the service and return of out-of-county warrants; require a court where a warrant is served to address bail; establish a time limit for a person to be transported to the county that issued a warrant; shift the burden for incarceration costs to the county jail where the warrant was issued if a person is not transported within the required time limit; amend KRS 15.440 to require eligible law enforcement agencies to establish a written policies and procedures manual relating to the service and return of warrants; amend KRS 15.512 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB250/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb250.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1602240,"bill_number":"SB327","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Model Procurement Code.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.030 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB327/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb327.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1602241,"bill_number":"SB339","title":"AN ACT relating to overlay districts.","description":"Amend KRS 82.660 to prevent an overlay district established by a local government from prohibiting a property owner's ability to paint structures with traditional colors that exist on other structures within the same overlay district.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"to Rules (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB339/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb339.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1602242,"bill_number":"SB341","title":"AN ACT relating to forestry.","description":"Amend KRS 149.010 to permit grant-funded employment opportunities within the Division of Forestry.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 144)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB341/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb341.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1602243,"bill_number":"SB313","title":"AN ACT relating to bail.","description":"Amend KRS 431.510 to define \"bail bondsman\" and \"charitable bail organization\"; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail or bond for any offense that is not a misdemeanor; limit any bail posted to no more than $2,000; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail or bond for any offense of domestic violence.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB313/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb313.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1602244,"bill_number":"SB381","title":"AN ACT relating to workplace standards.","description":"Create a new section in KRS Chapter 338 to require employers to have a written inclement weather plan for their employees; amend KRS 338.991 to assess a civil penalty of up to $10,000 each violation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB381/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb381.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602245,"bill_number":"SB331","title":"AN ACT relating to pretrial release.","description":"Amend KRS 431.066 to define \"enhanced scrutiny offense,\" \"money bail,\" \"standard conditions,\" \"violent or sexual offense\"; provide that no verified and eligible defendant shall be detained on money bail; provide circumstances when a defendant may be released on his or her own recognizance; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish when a detention hearing shall be held; provide for factors to be considered when making a pretrial release determination; amend KRS 6.949, 24.110, 27A.360, 27A.370, 27A.400, 31.120, 41.300, 186.260, 186.560, 187.400, 222.203, 222.204, 281.765, 281A.010, 413.120, 419.020, 421.500, 431.064, 431.510, 431.520, 431.525, 431.550, 438.286, 440.020, 440.030, 440.290, 440.300, 440.310, 440.320, 440.360, 440.370, 440.380, 452.260, 520.010, 520.070, 520.080, 532.115, 610.190, and 640.020 to conform; repeal KRS 30A.060, 136.410, 218A.135, 431.021, 431.523, 431.530, 431.5305, 431.531, 431.532, 431.535, 431.540, and 431.545.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB331/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb331.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1602247,"bill_number":"SB343","title":"AN ACT relating to financial assistance and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 224A to make findings and declarations of the General Assembly regarding the need for funding for public funding for drinking water and wastewater systems; establish a water management assistance fund which is administered by the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to provide assistance for both capital and non-capital expenses of governmental entities that provide public drinking water and wastewater services to the public; describe the various non-capital expenses that the fund can provide funding for; amend KRS 91A.040 to make permissive the requirement for the Finance and Administration Cabinet to place a hold on the funds to cities for nonperformance of required financial audits and statements; amend KRS 224A.011 to include private water associations under the definition of \"governmental agency\"; amend 224A.035 to authorize the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority to make non-capital expenditure from funds that it governs; and amend KRS 224A.040 to allow expenditure for non-capital expenditures that improve the technical, managerial, or operational capacity of public drinking water and wastewater systems and allow for the purchase of obligations if the purchase does not cause interest on current or future state agency obligations to be included in gross federal income for federal tax purposes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"recommitted to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB343/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb343.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1602248,"bill_number":"SB316","title":"AN ACT relating to tax incentives for motion pictures and entertainment productions.","description":"Amend KRS 154.61-020 to include technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB316/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb316.html","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1602249,"bill_number":"SB382","title":"AN ACT relating to prevailing wage.","description":"Establish new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to create a prevailing wage law for all public works projects; amend KRS 12.020, 99.480, 227.487, 336.015, 337.010, and 337.990 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB382/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb382.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602250,"bill_number":"SB338","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.085 to provide convenience of the voter as a basis for absentee voting and to permit any qualified voter the ability to vote in-person absentee during normal business hours on at least any of the twelve working days and two Saturdays before an election; amend KRS 117.066 to require that each county board of elections petition for and use a vote center on election day.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB338/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb338.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1602251,"bill_number":"SB346","title":"AN ACT relating to school nurses and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each elementary and secondary school to have a school nurse if funds and qualified personnel are available; appropriate $3 million to SEEK in 2022-2023 and 2023-2024; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB346/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb346.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1602253,"bill_number":"SB319","title":"AN ACT relating to minority business and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Appropriate $2,000,000 in federal funds in FY 2022-2023 to the black and minority contractor assistance fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to establish the black and minority contractor assistance fund; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB319/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb319.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1602254,"bill_number":"SB350","title":"AN ACT relating to executive branch governance.","description":"Amend KRS 11.160 to restrict nominees to appointed positions that require Senate confirmation from assuming the duties of the position until they are confirmed by the Senate; allow the Governor or other appointing authority to fill a vacancy to achieve a quorum necessary to conduct business to serve with all power until the next regular or special session; allow a person appointed by the Governor or other appointing authority to serve until his or her appointment expires or a successor is appointed and confirmed by the Senate; and remove all references to confirmation of a gubernatorial appointment by the House of Representatives; amend various statutes to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB350/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb350.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1602255,"bill_number":"SB314","title":"AN ACT relating to oil and gas.","description":"Amend KRS 353.020 to make the oil and gas lease avoidance language gender-neutral.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB314/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb314.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1602256,"bill_number":"SB352","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to define terms; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to establish the domestic violence registry; limit the registry to domestic violence offenders who are convicted under KRS Chapter 507, 508, 509, or 525.070, when the victim is a family member or member of an unmarried couple as defined in KRS 403.720; require the cabinet to promulgate regulations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB352/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb352.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1602257,"bill_number":"SB358","title":"AN ACT relating to employer practices.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 344 to define terms, prohibit an employer from conditioning employment or access to business premises on an employee or individual obtaining a vaccination passport or providing protected health information; prohibit employer discrimination on the basis of a health condition or in application of workplace policies.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB358/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb358.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1602258,"bill_number":"SB4","title":"AN ACT relating to government actions and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11 to require executive orders to be identified by year and subject areas and to be filed with the Secretary of State; require the Secretary of State to forward executive orders to the director of the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) on the date filed; create a process for legislative committees to review and object to executive orders; require the LRC to draft a bill each regular session to declare executive orders which have been objected to void; require the Governor to annually compile a list of all effective executive orders and deliver that list to the LRC; require executive orders to expire 90 days after the expiration of a Governor's final term of office; create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to require administrative bodies to expire 90 days after the end of the final term of the official who created them; amend KRS 11.160 to reduce the time the Governor or other appointing authority has to deliver letters of appointment to the LRC from seven calendar days to two working days; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"floor amendments (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7-title) filed","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB4/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb4.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1602259,"bill_number":"SB310","title":"AN ACT relating to licensing.","description":"Amend KRS 329.030 to create gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB310/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb310.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1602260,"bill_number":"SCR174","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Kentucky Service Caucus within the Kentucky General Assembly.","description":"Establish the Kentucky Service Caucus within the Kentucky General Assembly.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR174/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr174.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602261,"bill_number":"SB364","title":"AN ACT relating to landlords and tenants.","description":"Amend KRS 383.660 to allow a landlord to terminate a rental agreement if tenant fails to pay rent within 14 days after receiving both written notice by the landlord of nonpayment and the landlord's intention to terminate.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB364/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb364.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602262,"bill_number":"SB363","title":"AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices against a person.","description":"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\".","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB363/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb363.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1602263,"bill_number":"SB348","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 61.623 to make a technical change.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB348/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb348.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1602264,"bill_number":"SB380","title":"AN ACT relating to persistent felony offenders.","description":"Amend KRS 532.080 to provide that a jury may impose an enhanced punishment for persistent felony offenders; remove persistent felony offender in the second degree; amend KRS 439.3405 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB380/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb380.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1602266,"bill_number":"SB312","title":"AN ACT relating to natural resources.","description":"Amend KRS 151.210 make grammatical and technical corrections to improve readability, comprehension, and remove arcane language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB312/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb312.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1602267,"bill_number":"SB379","title":"AN ACT relating to persistent felony offenders.","description":"Amend KRS 532.080 to define \"violent act against a person\"; provide that a jury may fix an enhanced term of imprisonment when they find a defendant to be a persistent felony offender; remove the condition that an offender completed service of the sentence they were imposed within five years prior to the date of the felony that he or she now stands convicted; allow a person who is found to be a persistent felony offender in the first degree who is presently convicted of a Class A, B, or C felony to be eligible for parole if the offense was not violent or a sex crime; prohibit the conviction of possession of a controlled substance in the first degree as a prior felony; amend KRS 439.3405 to conform; RETROACTIVE.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB379/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb379.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1602268,"bill_number":"SB7","title":"AN ACT relating to the administration of payroll systems.","description":"Amend KRS 336.180 to define \"political activities,\" \"candidate,\" \"committee,\" \"contributing organization,\" \"contribution,\" \"election,\" \"electioneering communications,\" \"fundraiser,\" \"independent expenditure,\" \"labor organization,\" \"public employee,\" \"slate of candidates,\" and \"testimonial affair\"; amend KRS 336.134 to prohibit any deduction from the wages of any public employee for any dues, fees, or charges associated with a labor organization or for political activities without a written authorization from the public employee; create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit employers from collecting financial information from public employees for the purpose of providing the financial information to a labor organization without written authorization from the public employee; amend KRS 336.135, 65.158, 161.158, and 164.365 to ensure that the notice required for the withholding of public employee earnings for payments associated with a labor organization shall comply; amend KRS 336.990 to create a penalty.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"returned to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-10","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB7/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb7.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1602269,"bill_number":"SB375","title":"AN ACT relating to the tax liability deferral related to child care costs.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 141 that allows for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022 but before January 1, 2026 any resident subject to taxation under KRS 141.020 that incurs child care costs for employment related expenses for dependents under age five, to elect to defer up to $2,000 of tax liability for each taxable year not exceeding total child care costs for the taxable year; amend KRS 131.175 to prevent interest and penalty from accruing on child care advance deferrals and repayments; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting to the Legislative Research Commission.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB375/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb375.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1602270,"bill_number":"SB373","title":"AN ACT relating to carrying concealed weapons.","description":"Repeals KRS 237.109 to require a permit to carry concealed deadly weapons; amend KRS 527.020 and 237.115 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB373/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb373.html","sponsor":"Karen Berg"},
{"bill_id":1602271,"bill_number":"SB361","title":"AN ACT relating to postpartum Medicaid coverage.","description":"Amend KRS 205.592 to extend Medicaid eligibility for certain new mothers for up to 12 months postpartum; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek a federal waiver or other approval if they determine that such waiver or approval is necessary.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB361/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb361.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602272,"bill_number":"SB378","title":"AN ACT relating to the Crime Victims Compensation Board.","description":"Amend KRS 49.010 and 49.020 to require trauma-informed training for staff and members of the Crime Victims Compensation Board.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 98)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB378/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb378.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1602273,"bill_number":"SB365","title":"AN ACT relating to serving alcoholic beverages.","description":"Amend KRS 244.090 to allow an individual 18 years of age or older who has a high school diploma or an equivalent degree to be employed by specified alcoholic beverage licensees.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB365/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb365.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602274,"bill_number":"SB362","title":"AN ACT relating to employment.","description":"Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to limit the application of the definition of \"labor organization\" and delete definitions of \"employer\" and \"employee\"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require as a condition of employment membership therein; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require as a condition of employment membership therein; amend KRS 70.262, 78.470 and 78.480 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 345.050 to allow public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require as a condition of employment membership therein; repeal KRS 65.016, 336.132, and 336.134.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB362/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb362.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602276,"bill_number":"SB355","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting, which shall be composed of state university faculty appointed by presidents of Kentucky's state universities; require the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting to develop redistricting plans for state legislative and United States congressional districts; require the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting to submit the redistricting plans to the Legislative Research Commission, which shall refer the plans to the Interim Joint Committee on State Government; allow the General Assembly to enact or reject the redistricting plans, but not to alter or amend them; provide that if the General Assembly does not enact the plans, the plans shall be returned to the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting, which may incorporate changes requested by the General Assembly, but shall not be required to incorporate changes; require the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting to submit to the General Assembly new redistricting plans, which the General Assembly shall enact but not alter or amend; change the filing deadline for the primary for the year following the committee's submission of redistricting legislation to seven calendar days following enactment of the redistricting legislation by the General Assembly or the statutory deadline, whichever is later.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB355/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb355.html","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":1602277,"bill_number":"SB323","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation of sustainable aviation fuel, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"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, 2023, but before January 1, 2027; compute credit based on $1.00 per gallon of qualified mixture consumed by taxpayers or $1.50 per gallon of sustainable aviation fuel consumed by taxpayers; amend KRS 141.0205 for the ordering of the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue on the credit; amend KRS 154.27-010 and 154.27-020 to allow incentives for sustainable aviation fuel facilities with a minimum investment of $3 million; create an appropriation of $10 million for economic development projects for the production of sustainable aviation fuel with a minimum investment of $100,000,000; EMERGENCY; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB323/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb323.html","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1602278,"bill_number":"SJR170","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Kentucky Public Service Commission to examine fuel price volatility on utility ratepayers.","description":"Require the Public Service Commission to open an administrative case to examine fuel price volatility and fuel procurement practices; require the Public Service Commission to report to the Kentucky General Assembly no later than December 15, 2022.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR170/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr170.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1602279,"bill_number":"SB332","title":"AN ACT relating to state property and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to establish the Kentucky State Capitol Campus Commission; assign duties, establish members, and provide for terms and vacancies; amend KRS 16.065 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide for planning and implementation of security protocols for the State Capitol campus; amend KRS 16.080 to allow the Commissioner of the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations that outline the security protocols for the State Capitol campus; amend KRS 56.463 to allow the Finance and Administration Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the use of the State Capitol campus; amend KRS 12.020 to conform; create the Kentucky State Capitol Campus Commission fund; provide the fund be administered by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB332/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb332.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1602280,"bill_number":"SB370","title":"AN ACT relating to electric vehicle infrastructure tax credits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the electric vehicle infrastructure tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the new tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB370/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb370.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1602281,"bill_number":"SB367","title":"AN ACT relating to minimum security requirements at retail establishments licensed to sell alcohol for on-premises consumption.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 244 to define terms; establish pre-employment requirements for bouncers; create bouncer training standards; establish agency oversight; prevent confusion as to whether a law enforcement officer is on or off duty; amend KRS 244.120 to prohibit consumption of alcohol by a bouncer during work hours; amend KRS 243.500 to allow revocation or suspension of a license for failure to comply with bouncer restrictions; cite this Act as Christopher's Law; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB367/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb367.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602282,"bill_number":"SB309","title":"AN ACT relating to public protection.","description":"Amend KRS 75.040 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB309/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb309.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1602283,"bill_number":"SB324","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.26-050 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB324/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb324.html","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1602284,"bill_number":"SB347","title":"AN ACT relating to electric vehicle infrastructure development and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 174 to require the Transportation Cabinet to develop an electric vehicle infrastructure development plan to describe how the state will administer the National Electric Vehicle infrastructure Formula Program funds; identify required elements of the plan; require presentation of the plan to the Interim Joint Committee on Transportation; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB347/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb347.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1602285,"bill_number":"SB374","title":"AN ACT relating to healthcare charges.","description":"Amend KRS 216B.250 to require health facilities to provide an itemized statement of healthcare charges within a specified timeframe; establish standards for itemized statements of healthcare charges; require health facilities to post notice of the requirement to provide an itemized statement; require health facilities to establish policies and procedures for responding to questions concerning itemized statements; and require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB374/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb374.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1602286,"bill_number":"SB353","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky River Authority.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 151 to establish definitions for KRS 151.700 to 151.730, regarding the Kentucky River Authority; amend KRS 151.710 to clarify membership requirements for directors of the Kentucky River Authority.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB353/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb353.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1602287,"bill_number":"SB372","title":"AN ACT relating to the forensic processing of firearms.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require law enforcement agencies to transmit information to national law enforcement databases about firearms collected during criminal investigations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB372/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb372.html","sponsor":"Karen Berg"},
{"bill_id":1602288,"bill_number":"SB325","title":"AN ACT relating to a tax credit for stillage management.","description":"Create new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish a stillage management tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027; establish the Stillage Management Board consisting of 13 voting and two nonvoting members; provide that the board is responsible for approval of the applications from stillage managers and reporting this to the Department of Revenue for processing of the return and tax credit; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the stillage management tax credit and reporting requirements for the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting by the Department of Revenue; Amend KRS 141.4242 to sunset the ethanol tax credit; provide that the last taxable year for the credit is prior to January 1, 2023; amend KRS 141.4244 to sunset the cellulosic tax credit; provide that the last taxable year for the credit is prior to January 1, 2023; amend KRS 141.389 to allow a refundable portion of the distilled spirits tax credit for distillers installing system to transform stillage material into a value-added product for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-03-09","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB325/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb325.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1602289,"bill_number":"SB336","title":"AN ACT relating to information on emergency use drugs and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to require that any individual who administers an unapproved drug that has been approved for emergency use by the secretary of the United States Food and Drug provides information; prohibits any person from being require to have an unapproved drug administered; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB336/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb336.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1602290,"bill_number":"SB357","title":"AN ACT relating to rent control in development areas.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 65.500 to 65.506 permitting the governing body of a consolidated local government to enact rent control ordinances on private property in a development area.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB357/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb357.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1602291,"bill_number":"SR173","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Louisville Metro Police Officer Zachary Cottongim.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of LMPD Officer Zachary Cottongim.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR173/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr173.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1602292,"bill_number":"SB320","title":"AN ACT relating to schools.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 158 to prohibit censorship of history curriculum; permit a school or school district to offer equity, diversity, and inclusion curricula, programing, initiatives, and instruction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB320/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb320.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1602293,"bill_number":"SB315","title":"AN ACT relating to oil and gas, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 353.575 to make gender-neutral the requirement that an oil or gas drilling applicant confer with a permittee under KRS Chapter 350 where a permitted surface coal mine area may be disturbed.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 118)","last_action_date":"2022-04-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB315/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb315.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1602294,"bill_number":"SB200","title":"AN ACT relating to students enrolled at Kentucky State University and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide a tuition waiver at Kentucky public institutions for transfer students who were enrolled at Kentucky State University during the 2021-2022 academic year; define eligibility requirements; require the cost of the waivers to be paid for from the general fund surplus account or the budget reserve trust fund; sunset provisions on June 30, 2028; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB200/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb200.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1602295,"bill_number":"SJR172","title":"A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Officer Zachary Cottongim Memorial Highway in Jefferson County.","description":"Designate the Officer Zachary Cottongim Memorial Highway in Jefferson County.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR172/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sjr172.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1602296,"bill_number":"SB356","title":"AN ACT relating to executive branch ethics.","description":"Amend KRS 11A.010 to include members of Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission in jurisdiction of Executive Branch Ethics Commission; amend KRS 11A.040 to exclude members of Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission from certain conflict of interest rules; amend KRS 150.022 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB356/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb356.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1602298,"bill_number":"SB333","title":"AN ACT relating to persistent felony offenders.","description":"Amend KRS 532.080 so that persistent felony offender sentences may only apply to offenders who a felony within the same KRS chapter as the one previously committed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB333/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb333.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1602299,"bill_number":"SB337","title":"AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices by state agencies.","description":"Create new sections 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; cite as the Digital Identification Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB337/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb337.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1602300,"bill_number":"SB335","title":"AN ACT relating to the National Guard.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 38 to restrict the use of the Kentucky National Guard outside of state active duty unless Congress officially declares war or has taken official action pursuant to the United States Constitution and has satisfied any outstanding balance to the Kentucky National Guard; establishment a short title of Defend the Guard Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB335/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb335.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1602301,"bill_number":"SB321","title":"AN ACT relating to abortion.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 311.781 to 311.786 to include declarations of the General Assembly; amend KRS 311.781 to define \"gestational age\" and \"probable gestational age\" and redefine \"pain-capable unborn child\" to change the age from 20 weeks or more 15 weeks or more; create a new section of KRS 311.781 to 311.786 to authorize the Attorney General and the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure on its own behalf to file an action to enforce or for violation of KRS 311.781 to 311.786; amend KRS 311.782 to prohibit abortion when the probable gestational age is 15 week or more, with specified exceptions; amend KRS 311.783 and 311.787 to conform; establish severability and that nothing in this Act creates or recognizes a right to abortion.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB321/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb321.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1602303,"bill_number":"SB317","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation for motion pictures and entertainment productions.","description":"Amend KRS 139.538 to include technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB317/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb317.html","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1602304,"bill_number":"SB376","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans.","description":"Amend KRS 154.12-330 to give preference to veterans in the issuance of small business loans; create new section of KRS Chapter 151B to require monthly veteran workforce reports; create new sections of Subchapter 2 of KRS Chapter 154 to require annual job training reports by the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 154 to require a report on occupational licenses by the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to review licensing practices for nurses and physicians assistants for military reciprocity through promulgation of administrative regulations; create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to grant college credit to certain veterans; provide additional flexibility in college scheduling and registration to veterans; amend KRS 40.317 to expand the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs' assistance to veterans in navigating healthcare; create new sections of KRS Chapter 40 to direct the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to increase access to healthcare for veterans; ensure veterans have access to mental health care; direct the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to end veteran homelessness.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB376/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb376.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1602305,"bill_number":"SB351","title":"AN ACT relating to school masking policies and declaring an emergency.","description":"Require a school district's COVID-19 masking policy to allow parents to opt out for any reason; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB351/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb351.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1602306,"bill_number":"SCR171","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION requesting the Legislative Research Commission to examine funding sources and research institutions capable of conducting a feasibility study of advanced nuclear energy technology for electric power generation in the Commonwealth.","description":"Request the Legislative Research Commission to examine funding sources and identify groups to conduct a feasibility study of advanced nuclear power in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-22","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR171/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr171.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1602307,"bill_number":"SB366","title":"AN ACT relating to evictions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to provide tenants in eviction proceedings with Court-appointed Counsel; amend KRS 454.030 to require the Kentucky Housing Corporation to develop an informational pamphlet for tenants.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB366/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb366.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602308,"bill_number":"SB326","title":"AN ACT relating to securitization of public utilities.","description":"Amend KRS 278.300 to make technical and grammatical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB326/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb326.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1602309,"bill_number":"SR169","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jordan Wesley Morgan.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jordan Wesley Morgan.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR169/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr169.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1602310,"bill_number":"SB359","title":"AN ACT relating to protective orders involving minors.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 456, to require appointment of a guardian ad litem for any unrepresented minor who is a party to the action or on behalf of whom a petition for an interpersonal protective order has been filed; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to require appointment of a guardian ad litem for any unrepresented minor who is a party to the action or on behalf of whom a petition for an emergency protective order or domestic violence order has been filed; establish protocols for proceeding against minor respondents who violate an order of protection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB359/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb359.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1602311,"bill_number":"SB377","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 116.013 to define terms; amend 116.045 to require the State Board of Elections to create and make available multilingual voter registration forms, which are to be posted on the board's Web site and provided to the county clerk, require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to create, furnish, and process multilingual voter registration forms; amend KRS 117.001 to define terms; amend KRS 117.025 to require the State Board of Elections to establish a multilingual ballot hotline to be used for elections with requirements prescribed; amend KRS 117.030 to require the State Board of elections to give notice of the availability of the multilingual ballot hotline and other multilingual voter materials; amend KRS 117.085 to include availability of a multilingual mail-in absentee ballot; amend KRS 117.125 to require voting machines and voting systems have the ability to accept multilingual ballots; amend KRS 117.145 to require the readiness of multilingual ballots and absentee ballots for an election; amend KRS 117.175 to require multilingual voter instruction cards for use during an election with requirements prescribed; amend KRS 117.187 to require the county board of elections to provide special training to election officials regarding multilingual ballots and information relating to the multilingual ballot hotline; amend KRS 117.195 to require the availability of multilingual ballots; amend KRS 117.245 to require translation assistance with a voter's oath; amend 117.383 to require the State Board of Elections to promulgate administrative regulations to create and administer the multilingual ballot hotline; amend KRS 118.015, 118A.010, 119.005, and 120.005, to define terms; amend KRS 117.255, 117.235, 117.228 to conform; and provide that the act may be cited as the Ballot Access for All Citizens Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB377/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb377.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1602312,"bill_number":"SB342","title":"AN ACT relating to recontribution of a refund in the retirement systems.","description":"Amend KRS 61.552 to provide that recontributions of a refund to the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System, made on or before January 1, 2023, shall be used to determine a member's participation date in the systems; make retroactive back to January 1, 2014, and provide that recontributions of a refund made on or after January 1, 2014 and prior to the effective date of this Act, shall be used to determine a member's participation date in the system unless the member instructs the systems by January 1, 2023, to not use the service to determine their participation date in the systems; RETROACTIVE.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB342/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb342.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1602313,"bill_number":"SB328","title":"AN ACT relating to oil and gas.","description":"Amend KRS 353.562 to make grammatical and technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB328/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb328.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1602314,"bill_number":"SB311","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB311/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb311.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1602315,"bill_number":"SCR168","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing a study to examine and evaluate the existing public funding and efficacy of workforce education and development programs in the Commonwealth.","description":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to hire a consultant or in the alternative have the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee study the existing public funding and efficacy of workforce education and development programs in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"reported favorably as a consent bill","last_action_date":"2022-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR168/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr168.html","sponsor":"Wil Schroder"},
{"bill_id":1602316,"bill_number":"SB344","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.10-020 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB344/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb344.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1602317,"bill_number":"SB349","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.40-030 to include gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB349/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb349.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1602318,"bill_number":"SB369","title":"AN ACT relating to pretrial release.","description":"Amend KRS 431.066 to define \"enhanced scrutiny offense,\" \"money bail,\" \"standard conditions,\" and \"violent or sexual offense\"; provide that no verified and eligible defendant shall be detained on money bail; provide circumstances when a defendant may be released on his or her own recognizance; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish when a detention hearing shall be held; provide for factors to be considered when making a pretrial release determination; amend KRS 6.949, 24A.110, 27A.360, 27A.370, 27A.400, 31.120, 41.300, 186.260, 186.560, 187.400, 222.203, 222.204, 281.765, 281A.010, 413.120, 419.020, 421.500, 431.064, 431.510, 431.520, 431.525, 431.550, 438.286, 440.020, 440.030, 440.290, 440.300, 440.310, 440.320, 440.360, 440.370, 440.380, 452.260, 520.010, 520.070, 520.080, 532.115, 610.190, and 640.020 to conform; repeal KRS 30A.060, 136.410, 218A.135, 431.021, 431.523, 431.530, 431.5305, 431.531, 431.532, 431.535, 431.540, and 431.545.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB369/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb369.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1602319,"bill_number":"SB334","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote.","description":"Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow voting rights to persons convicted of certain felonies; replace the language that prohibits idiots and insane persons from voting with contemporary language that instead prohibits persons from voting who are determined to be mentally incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction and such determination has not been set aside; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-03","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB334/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb334.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1604117,"bill_number":"HR116","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Donate Life Kentucky for their life-saving work in the promotion and funding of organ and tissue donation.","description":"Recognize Donate Life Kentucky.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-07","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-07","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR116/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr116.html","sponsor":"Ken Upchurch"},
{"bill_id":1604554,"bill_number":"HR117","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing and commemorating the celebration of Saint Patrick's Day.","description":"Recognize and commemorate the celebration of Saint Patrick's Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR117/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr117.html","sponsor":"Killian Timoney"},
{"bill_id":1604608,"bill_number":"SR175","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the Murray High School Tiger Band.","description":"Honor the Murray High School Tiger Band.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-09","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR175/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr175.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1604656,"bill_number":"SR176","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring April 2022 as Autism Acceptance Month.","description":"Recognize April 2022 as Autism Acceptance Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR176/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr176.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1605215,"bill_number":"SR178","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the Union County High School Braves Wrestling Team, 2022 Kentucky High School Athletic Association State Wrestling Champions.","description":"Honor the Union County High School Braves Wrestling team, 2022 KHSAA State Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR178/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr178.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1605260,"bill_number":"SR177","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Floyd Jack Ison.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Floyd Jack Ison.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR177/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr177.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1605303,"bill_number":"SR179","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the University of Kentucky Women's Basketball Team, 2022 Southeastern Conference Tournament Champions.","description":"Honor the University of Kentucky Women's Basketball Team, 2022 Southeastern Conference Tournament Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR179/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr179.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1605889,"bill_number":"HR118","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing April as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month in Kentucky and honoring Kentucky's 13 regional rape crisis centers and individuals who have been sexually assaulted and abused.","description":"Recognize April as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month and honor Kentucky's 13 regional rape crisis centers and individuals who have been sexually assaulted and abused.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR118/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr118.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1606344,"bill_number":"HR119","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the Union County High School Braves Wrestling Team, 2022 Kentucky High School Athletic Association State Wrestling Champions.","description":"Honor the Union County High School Braves Wrestling team, 2022 KHSAA State Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR119/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr119.html","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1606391,"bill_number":"SR180","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Kathee A. Lemker.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Kathee A. Lemker.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR180/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr180.html","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1606437,"bill_number":"SR181","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Kentucky Humanities for 50 years of service to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Kentucky Humanities, honoring","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR181/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr181.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1607541,"bill_number":"SR189","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Robin Mark Floyd to the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Robin Mark Floyd to the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term expiring August 13, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"adopted 34-0","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR189/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr189.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1607542,"bill_number":"SR185","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Carl Matthew Cummins.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Carl Matthew Cummins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR185/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr185.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1607543,"bill_number":"SR190","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Robert Graham Fitch to the Murray State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Robert Graham Fitch to the Murray State University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2026.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR190/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr190.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1607544,"bill_number":"SCR184","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION encouraging the Kentucky Labor Cabinet's Department of Workers' Claims and the Public Protection Cabinet's Department of Insurance to collaborate with the Legislative Research Commission in the development of a structural solution that will improve the solvency and administration of the Kentucky group self-insurance fund.","description":"Urge the Department of Workers' Claims and the Department of Insurance to collaborate in the development of a structural solution that will improve the solvency and administration of the Kentucky group self-insurance fund.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-15","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR184/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr184.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1607545,"bill_number":"HCR120","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Kentucky History Caucus within the Kentucky General Assembly.","description":"Establish the Kentucky History Caucus within the Kentucky General Assembly.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR120/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr120.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1607546,"bill_number":"HCR124","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the President of the United States to issue an executive order to remove the federally mandated reformulated gasoline requirements for all affected areas nationwide, including Jefferson County and parts of Bullitt and Oldham Counties, for the remainder of 2022.","description":"Urge the President of the United States to issue an executive order to remove the federally mandated reformulated gasoline requirements for all affected areas nationwide, including Jefferson County and parts of Bullitt and Oldham Counties, for the remainder of 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 82-7","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR124/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr124.html","sponsor":"Jerry Miller"},
{"bill_id":1607547,"bill_number":"HR121","title":"A RESOLUTION urging Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb to pursue a federal funding avenue to remove tolls from the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project.","description":"Urge Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb to pursue a federal funding avenue to remove tolls from the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR121/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr121.html","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":1607548,"bill_number":"SR183","title":"A RESOLUTION proclaiming April 12, 2022, to be Education and Sharing Day, Kentucky.","description":"Proclaim April 12, 2022, to be Education and Sharing Day, Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR183/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr183.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1607551,"bill_number":"HR123","title":"A RESOLUTION commemorating the one year anniversary of the March 16, 2021, mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, and acknowledging the need to address gun violence in our communities.","description":"Commemorate the first anniversary of the March 16, 2021, mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, and acknowledge the need to address gun violence.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR123/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr123.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1607552,"bill_number":"HR125","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the Kentucky Historical Society.","description":"Honor the Kentucky Historical Society.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR125/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr125.html","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":1607553,"bill_number":"SR186","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Isaac Dixon, Kentucky's \"Mr. Football\" for the 2021 season.","description":"Honor Isaac Dixon, Kentucky's Mr. Football for 2021.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR186/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr186.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1607554,"bill_number":"SR188","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Landon Lavelle Trent Hayes.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Landon Lavelle Trent Hayes.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR188/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr188.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1607555,"bill_number":"SR182","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Kara Williams to the Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Kara Williams to the Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR182/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr182.html","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":1607556,"bill_number":"HCR122","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the state-administered retirement systems to evaluate their portfolios for investments in Russian-based companies, to report those findings on the system's website, and to divest from Russian-based investments in a manner consistent with their fiduciary duty.","description":"Urge Kentucky's state-administered retirement systems to evaluate their portfolios for investments in Russian based companies, to report those findings on the system's website, and to divest from those holdings in a manner consistent with their fiduciary duty.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-14","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR122/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr122.html","sponsor":"Deanna Frazier Gordon"},
{"bill_id":1607557,"bill_number":"SR187","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of R. Thomas Waldrop Jr. to the Murray State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of R. Thomas Waldrop Jr. to the Murray State University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-14","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR187/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr187.html","sponsor":"Danny Carroll"},
{"bill_id":1607863,"bill_number":"HCR126","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the mayor of the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government and the Metro Council to form a task force that receives input from all stakeholders, including business and community leaders, to provide any recommendations regarding the statutory framework of the consolidated local government form.","description":"Urge the mayor of Louisville and the Metro Council serving in 2023 to form a task force that receives input from all stakeholders, including business and community leaders, and state Senators and Representatives serving within Jefferson County, to provide any recommendations regarding the statutory framework of the consolidated local government form.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR126/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr126.html","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":1608346,"bill_number":"SR207","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Michael R. Eaves to the Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Michael R. Eaves to the Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 34-2","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR207/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr207.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1608347,"bill_number":"SR201","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing Leadership Hopkinsville-Christian County for its contributions to its community.","description":"Recognize Leadership Hopkinsville-Christian County for the contributions the organization has made to its community.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR201/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr201.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1608348,"bill_number":"SR192","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Joshua Daniel Hicks to the Personnel Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Joshua Daniel Hicks to the Personnel Board for a term expiring January 1, 2024.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR192/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr192.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608349,"bill_number":"SR197","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Jerry Ferrell to the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Jerry Ferrell to the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term expiring August 13, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 34-0","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR197/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr197.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608350,"bill_number":"SR191","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Timothy Wooster to the Education Professional Standards Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Timothy Wooster to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR191/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr191.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608351,"bill_number":"SR195","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Jerry Edwin Abramson to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Jerry Edwin Abramson to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees for a term expiring January 13, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 21-15","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR195/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr195.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608352,"bill_number":"SR213","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Senator Paul Hornback upon his retirement from the Senate.","description":"Honor Senator Paul Hornback upon his retirement from the Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR213/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr213.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1608353,"bill_number":"SR193","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of John J. Stovall to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of John J. Stovall to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR193/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr193.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608354,"bill_number":"SR204","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Eric Eugene Howard to the Morehead State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Eric Eugene Howard to the Morehead State University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR204/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr204.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1608355,"bill_number":"SR203","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Wayne Madison Martin to the Morehead State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Wayne Madison Martin to the Morehead State University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR203/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr203.html","sponsor":"Steve West"},
{"bill_id":1608356,"bill_number":"SR196","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Joseph \"Chad\" Mills to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Joseph \"Chad\" Mills to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR196/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr196.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608357,"bill_number":"SR218","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to explore the formation of an interstate compact with Indiana and Illinois to seek restoration of passenger rail service between Louisville and Chicago.","description":"Urge the Transportation Cabinet to work with Illinois and Indiana to restore passenger rail service between Louisville and Chicago, with the possibility of expansion to Nashville.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR218/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr218.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1608358,"bill_number":"SR209","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Doris C. Thomas to the Western Kentucky University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Doris C. Thomas to the Western Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR209/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr209.html","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1608359,"bill_number":"SR215","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Senator Matt Castlen upon his retirement from the Senate.","description":"Honor Senator Matt Castlen upon his retirement from the Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR215/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr215.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1608360,"bill_number":"SR211","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Senator Alice Forgy Kerr upon her retirement from the Senate.","description":"Commend Senator Alice Forgy Kerr upon her retirement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR211/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr211.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1608361,"bill_number":"SR208","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Dr. Phillip W. Bale to the Western Kentucky University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Dr. Phillip W. Bale to the Western Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR208/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr208.html","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1608362,"bill_number":"SR198","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Pamela F. Thompson to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Pamela F. Thompson to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring June 17, 2023.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR198/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr198.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608363,"bill_number":"SR202","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Reverend James Darrell Biram.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Reverend James Darrell Biram.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR202/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr202.html","sponsor":"Robert Mills"},
{"bill_id":1608364,"bill_number":"SR194","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Jessica A. Burke to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Jessica A. Burke to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance for a term of four years.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR194/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr194.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608365,"bill_number":"SR210","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring April 2022 as Oral Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky.","description":"Recognize April 2022 as Oral Cancer Awareness Month in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR210/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr210.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608366,"bill_number":"SR200","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Ralph Joe Palmer II to the Board of Directors of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Ralph Joe Palmer II to the Board of Directors of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2025.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR200/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr200.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608367,"bill_number":"SR217","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the cross-country and track teams at Liberty Elementary School.","description":"Honor the Liberty Elementary cross-country and track teams.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR217/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr217.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1608368,"bill_number":"HR128","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing April 2, 2022, as World Autism Awareness Day and April 2022 as National Autism Acceptance Month.","description":"Recognize April 2, 2022, as World Autism Awareness Day and April 2022 as Autism Acceptance Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR128/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr128.html","sponsor":"Tina Bojanowski"},
{"bill_id":1608369,"bill_number":"SR216","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Senator Dennis Parrett upon his retirement from the Senate.","description":"Commendation for Senator Dennis Parrett upon his retirement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR216/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr216.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1608370,"bill_number":"SR206","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Ashley W. Ward to the Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Ashley W. Ward to the Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR206/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr206.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1608371,"bill_number":"SR214","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the extraordinary service of Senator C.B. Embry, Jr. to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.","description":"Honor the extraordinary service of Senator C.B. Embry, Jr. to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.","status_desc":"Failed","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR214/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr214.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1608372,"bill_number":"HR127","title":"A RESOLUTION commemorating the one-year anniversary of the March 16, 2021, mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, and remembering the victims.","description":"Commemorate the first anniversary of the March 16, 2021, mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, and honor the victims.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR127/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr127.html","sponsor":"Nima Kulkarni"},
{"bill_id":1608373,"bill_number":"SR199","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Martha Glenn H. Ridley to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Martha Glenn H. Ridley to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee for a term expiring April 14, 2026.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-16","last_action":"adopted 34-2","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR199/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr199.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608374,"bill_number":"SR205","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Dana Smith Vaughn.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dana Smith Vaughn.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-18","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR205/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr205.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1608375,"bill_number":"SR212","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Senator Wil Schroder upon the occasion of his retirement from the General Assembly.","description":"Honor Senator Wil Schroder upon the occasion of his retirement from the General Assembly.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR212/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr212.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1608899,"bill_number":"SR222","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Mark H. Kleiner to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Mark H. Kleiner to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR222/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr222.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608900,"bill_number":"SR225","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of John Bissell Roberts to the Crime Victims Compensation Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of John Bissell Roberts to the Crime Victims Compensation Board for a term expiring July 1, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR225/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr225.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608901,"bill_number":"SR232","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Merideth Murphy Pittman to the Education Professional Standards Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Merideth Murphy Pittman to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR232/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr232.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608902,"bill_number":"SR239","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Lafe Smith Hinkle II.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lafe Smith Hinkle II.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR239/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr239.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1608903,"bill_number":"SR234","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Cleo Battle to the Kentucky State Fair Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Cleo Battle to the Kentucky State Fair Board for a term expiring May 10, 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 34-0","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR234/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr234.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608904,"bill_number":"HR129","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Kentucky Humanities for 50 years of service to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Honor Kentucky Humanities for 50 years of service to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-17","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR129/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr129.html","sponsor":"Kelly Flood"},
{"bill_id":1608905,"bill_number":"SR221","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Thomas Morgan Ward Jr. to the Personnel Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Thomas Morgan Ward Jr. to the Personnel Board for a term expiring January 1, 2026.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR221/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr221.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608907,"bill_number":"SR228","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Ben D. Allison Jr. to the Board of Trustees of the Judicial Form Retirement System.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Ben D. Allison Jr. to the Board of Trustees of the Judicial Form Retirement System for a term ending June 30, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR228/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr228.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608908,"bill_number":"SR235","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of William \"Billy\" Rex Bradford.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of William \"Billy\" Rex Bradford.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR235/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr235.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1608909,"bill_number":"SR224","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of James Lee Stevens to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of James Lee Stevens to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System Board of Regents for a term expiring July 21, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR224/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr224.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608910,"bill_number":"SR220","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Aaron Joseph Willis to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Aaron Joseph Willis to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee for a term expiring April 14, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR220/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr220.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608911,"bill_number":"SR223","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Russell F. Cox to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Russell F. Cox to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System Board of Regents for a term expiring July 21, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 34-2","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR223/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr223.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608913,"bill_number":"SR219","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Stephen Allen Trimble to the Kentucky Board of Education.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Stephen Allen Trimble to the Kentucky Board of Education for a term expiring April 14, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR219/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr219.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608914,"bill_number":"SR231","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Marilyn Mason to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Marilyn Mason to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR231/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr231.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608915,"bill_number":"SR226","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Lanola Parsons to the Crime Victims Compensation Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Lanola Parsons to the Crime Victims Compensation Board for a term expiring July 1, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR226/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr226.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608917,"bill_number":"SR230","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Laurence Neal Benz to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Laurence Neal Benz to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees for a term expiring January 13, 2028.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR230/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr230.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608918,"bill_number":"SR237","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Elizabeth Lee Thompson to the Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Elizabeth Lee Thompson to the Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR237/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr237.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608919,"bill_number":"SR233","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Joseph J. Koester to the Board of Directors of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Joseph J. Koester to the Board of Directors of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR233/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr233.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608920,"bill_number":"SR238","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the Sacred Heart Academy Valkyries Girls' Basketball Team, 2022 Kentucky High School Athletic Association State Basketball Champions.","description":"Honor the Sacred Heart Academy Valkyries, 2022 Girls' Basketball State Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR238/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr238.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608921,"bill_number":"SR227","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Diana Frazier Berry to the Education Professional Standards Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Diana Frazier Berry to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2023.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR227/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr227.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1608922,"bill_number":"SR236","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Cathy Barwell.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Cathy Barwell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR236/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr236.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1608923,"bill_number":"SR229","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of John J. Stovall to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors.","description":"Confirm the appointment of John J. Stovall to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2021.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-17","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR229/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr229.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609092,"bill_number":"SR249","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Claude Allen Berry III to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Claude Allen Berry III aaa to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees for a term expiring June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR249/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr249.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609096,"bill_number":"SR250","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Dr. Edward Britt Brockman to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Dr. Edward Britt Brockman to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees for a term expiring June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR250/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr250.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609101,"bill_number":"SR243","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Leigh Amber Snell to the Education Professional Standards Board.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Leigh Amber Snell to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR243/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr243.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609106,"bill_number":"SR259","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Sherry Wilson Powers to the Education Professional Standards Board.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Sherry Wilson Powers to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR259/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr259.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609110,"bill_number":"SR260","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Carmen Yvonne Souder to the Education Professional Standards Board.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Carmen Yvonne Souder to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR260/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr260.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609114,"bill_number":"SR245","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of John Valentine Boardman III to the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of John Valentine Boardman III to the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System for a term ending March 10, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR245/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr245.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609119,"bill_number":"SR248","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of C. Frank Shoop to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of C. Frank Shoop to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees for a term expiring June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR248/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr248.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609125,"bill_number":"SR264","title":"A RESOLUTION expressing sympathy to the citizens of the Commonwealth affected by the historic December 2021 tornado outbreak and honoring the many acts of courage and kindness provided to the impacted communities by citizens of the Commonwealth.","description":"Recognize the assistance provided by citizens of the Commonwealth to western Kentucky tornado victims.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR264/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr264.html","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":1609130,"bill_number":"SR246","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Daniel Wade Stanfield to the Education Professional Standards Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Daniel Wade Stanfield to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2023.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR246/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr246.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609134,"bill_number":"SR265","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Mike Parsley.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mike Parsley.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR265/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr265.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1609139,"bill_number":"SR263","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Frederick A. Higdon as a member and the chairperson of the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Frederick A. Higdon as a member and the chairperson of the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR263/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr263.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609143,"bill_number":"SR241","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Madison Crawford Silvert to the Council on Postsecondary Education.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Madison Crawford Silvert to the Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR241/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr241.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609150,"bill_number":"SR262","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Mary Melinda Karns to the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Mary Melinda Karns to the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals for a term expiring June 29, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR262/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr262.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609158,"bill_number":"SR258","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Joe F. Childers to the Board of Claims.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Joe F. Childers to the Board of Claims for a term expiring June 29, 2025.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR258/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr258.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609164,"bill_number":"SR251","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Sherri Lynn Lathan to the Kentucky Parole Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Sherri Lynn Lathan to the Parole Board for a term expiring June 18, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR251/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr251.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609169,"bill_number":"SR255","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Michael E. Plummer to the Board of Claims.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Michael E. Plummer to the Board of Claims for a term expiring June 29, 2023.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR255/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr255.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609174,"bill_number":"SR261","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of E. Lynn Hampton to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems.","description":"Confirm the appointment of E. Lynn Hampton to the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for a term expiring June 17, 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR261/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr261.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609178,"bill_number":"SR244","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Elaine Nogay Walker to the Council on Postsecondary Education.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Elaine Nogay Walker to the Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2026.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 34-2","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR244/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr244.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609183,"bill_number":"SR253","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of James Dale Sights to the Board of Claims.","description":"Confirm the appointment of James Dale Sights to the Board of Claims for a term expiring June 29, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR253/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr253.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609188,"bill_number":"SR254","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Farrell Bruce Williams to the Board of Directors of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Farrell Bruce Williams to the Board of Directors of the Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR254/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr254.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609193,"bill_number":"SR247","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Sarah Weedman to the Education Professional Standards Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Sarah Weedman to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2023.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR247/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr247.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609199,"bill_number":"SR252","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Karyn Hoover to the Council on Postsecondary Education.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Karyn Hoover to the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2026.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR252/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr252.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609203,"bill_number":"SR256","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Yvette L. Gentry to the Kentucky Personnel Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Yvette L. Gentry to the Kentucky Personnel Board for a term expiring January 1, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR256/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr256.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609208,"bill_number":"SR240","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Sherrill Brakmeier Zimmerman to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Sherrill Brakmeier Zimmerman to the University of Louisville Board of Trustees for a term expiring January 13, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 34-2","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR240/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr240.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609213,"bill_number":"SR242","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Martin I. Milkman to the Board of Trustees of the County Employees Retirement System.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Martin I. Milkman to the Board of Trustees of the County Employees Retirement System for a term ending July 1, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR242/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr242.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609219,"bill_number":"SR257","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Michael A. James to the Parole Board.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Michael A. James to the Parole Board for a term expiring June 17, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-18","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR257/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr257.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1609223,"bill_number":"SR266","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Patricia Lou Wright McPeek.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Patricia McPeek.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR266/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr266.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1609611,"bill_number":"SR267","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Anna Jean Gregory Mobley.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Anna Jean Gregory Mobley.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR267/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr267.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1609612,"bill_number":"HR131","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the 100th anniversary of the Associated General Contractors of Kentucky.","description":"Honor the Associated General Contractors of Kentucky upon its 100th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR131/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr131.html","sponsor":"Joshua Branscum"},
{"bill_id":1609614,"bill_number":"SR274","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Michael Bolden.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Michael Bolden.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR274/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr274.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1609615,"bill_number":"HCR132","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing a task force to identify strategies for retaining, recruiting, and building respect for certified public school educators in the Commonwealth.","description":"Establish the Educator Retention and Recruitment Task Force of the Legislative Research Commission; set forth the duties and membership of the task force; require the task force to meet at least 3 rimes during the 2022 Interim and submit findings or recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR132/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr132.html","sponsor":"Scott Lewis"},
{"bill_id":1609617,"bill_number":"SR269","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing the Bluegrass Community Bankers Association.","description":"Recognize the Bluegrass Community Bankers Association.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR269/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr269.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1609619,"bill_number":"SR270","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Michael \"Mike\" Ray Rhodus and Kimberly \"Kim\" Hiles Rhodus.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Michael \"Mike\" Ray Rhodus and Kimberly \"Kim\" Hiles Rhodus.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR270/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr270.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1609620,"bill_number":"SR268","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the extraordinary service of Senator C.B. Embry Jr. to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.","description":"Honor the extraordinary service of Senator C.B. Embry Jr. to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR268/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr268.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1609623,"bill_number":"SR271","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Corporal Jacob M. Moore.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Corporal Jacob M. Moore.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR271/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr271.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1609625,"bill_number":"HR130","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing March 21, 2022, as Down Syndrome Awareness Day.","description":"Recognize March 21, 2022, as Down Syndrome Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR130/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr130.html","sponsor":"Scott Sharp"},
{"bill_id":1609626,"bill_number":"HR133","title":"A RESOLUTION calling on the Tigray People's Liberation Front, Oromo Liberation Front, and other belligerents to cease all hostilities, protect human rights, allow unfettered access for humanitarian relief, and cooperate with independent investigations of credible atrocity allegations pertaining to the conflicts in the Tigray, Amhara, Afar, Oromia and Benishangul-Gumuz regions of Ethiopia.","description":"Urge the President and the Congress of the United States to call for the immediate cessation of hostilities in the Tigray and adjoining regions of Ethiopia, protection of human rights, and unfettered access for humanitarian relief.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR133/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr133.html","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":1609628,"bill_number":"SCR272","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Executive Branch Efficiency Task Force to study the effectiveness of current executive branch cabinet working procedures for administering services to citizens of the Commonwealth.","description":"Establish the Executive Branch Efficiency Task Force; set membership and areas of study; require report of findings by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR272/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr272.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1609630,"bill_number":"SR273","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Marvin Combs.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Marvin Combs.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR273/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr273.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1609974,"bill_number":"SR277","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Senator Joe Bowen.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Senator Joe Bowen.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR277/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr277.html","sponsor":"Matt Castlen"},
{"bill_id":1609976,"bill_number":"SR276","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Joseph Richard \"Dickie\" Nally, Jr.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Joseph Richard \"Dickie\" Nally, Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR276/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr276.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1609977,"bill_number":"HR134","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing the Bluegrass Community Bankers Association.","description":"Recognize the Bluegrass Community Bankers Association.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR134/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr134.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1609978,"bill_number":"SR275","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Amiya Jenkins upon her selection as Kentucky's Miss Basketball for 2022.","description":"Honor Amiya Jenkins, Kentucky's Miss Basketball for 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR275/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr275.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1610380,"bill_number":"SR282","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Laura Schulte Babbage to the Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Laura Schulte Babbage to the Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR282/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr282.html","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":1610381,"bill_number":"SR279","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing the historical significance of Colonel Frank Lane Wolford.","description":"Recognize the historical significance of Colonel Frank Lane Wolford.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR279/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr279.html","sponsor":"George Wise"},
{"bill_id":1610382,"bill_number":"HR136","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the University of Kentucky Wildcats football team on their fourth consecutive bowl game victory.","description":"Honor the University of Kentucky football team upon the occasion of their fourth consecutive bowl game victory.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR136/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr136.html","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":1610383,"bill_number":"HCR138","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to examine and evaluate the feasibility of implementing an alternative rate mechanism (ARM) for public utilities regulated by the Public Service Commission.","description":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to conduct a study to examine the potential implementation of an alternative rate mechanism for setting utility rates for public utilities regulated by the Public Service Commission; require the final report of the study to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission no later than November 1, 2022; allow the Legislative Research Commission to alternatively assign the study issues to an interim joint committee or subcommittee thereof and to designate a study completion date.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2022-04-08","last_action":"veto sustained","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR138/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr138.html","sponsor":"Suzanne Miles"},
{"bill_id":1610384,"bill_number":"SR278","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the George Rogers Clark High School Cardinals, 2022 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Boys' Basketball Champions.","description":"Congratulate the George Rogers Clark Cardinals, 2022 Boys' Sweet Sixteen Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR278/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr278.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1610387,"bill_number":"SR280","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of James \"Jimmy\" Robert Wickham III.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of James \"Jimmy\" Robert Wickham III.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR280/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr280.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1610388,"bill_number":"HR137","title":"A RESOLUTION affirming the role of coal mining and petroleum refining in Kentucky's economic development and prosperity during the past two centuries.","description":"Urge the Public Service Commission to support policies that maintain the reliability and resiliency of the electric grid, meet the electric power needs of all the electric utility customers, establish a reserve margin that is predicated on fossil fuel to balance the intermittent electric suppliers, and consider notice needs when decommissioning electric plants or placing the plants into a long-term idling status.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-23","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-23","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR137/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr137.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1610389,"bill_number":"HR135","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the recipients of the AT&T John \"Bam\" Carney Scholarship.","description":"Honor the recipients of the AT&T John \"Bam\" Carney Scholarship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR135/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr135.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1610390,"bill_number":"SR281","title":"A RESOLUTION congratulating the membership of Alton Christian Church on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the church's founding.","description":"Congratulate the membership of Alton Christian Church on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the church's founding.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR281/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr281.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1610858,"bill_number":"HR141","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the United States House of Representatives to pass, and for President Joe Biden to sign, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021.","description":"Urge the United States House of Representatives and President of the United States to permanently adopt daylight saving time by passing the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR141/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr141.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1610881,"bill_number":"SR283","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Kentucky's 2022 Mock Trial State Champion, Montgomery County High School.","description":"Honor the 2022 Kentucky High School Mock Trial State Champion, Montgomery County High School Mock Trial Red Team.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR283/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr283.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1610901,"bill_number":"HR140","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the House of Representatives in honor of Kentucky Educational Television.","description":"Adjourning the House of Representatives in honor of Kentucky Educational Television.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"to House Floor","last_action_date":"2022-03-24","committee":"Floor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR140/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr140.html","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":1610921,"bill_number":"HR139","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the United States House of Representatives to pass, and for President Joe Biden to sign, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021.","description":"Urge the United States House of Representatives and President of the United States to permanently adopt daylight saving time by passing the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-24","last_action":"to House Floor","last_action_date":"2022-03-25","committee":"Floor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR139/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr139.html","sponsor":"Brandon Reed"},
{"bill_id":1611243,"bill_number":"SR285","title":"A RESOLUTION welcoming Kenny Payne back to the Commonwealth upon his selection as Head Men's Basketball Coach at the University of Louisville.","description":"Honor Kenny Payne upon his selection as Men's Basketball Coach at the University of Louisville.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR285/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr285.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1611249,"bill_number":"SR286","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing April as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month in Kentucky and honoring Kentucky's 13 regional rape crisis centers and those who have been sexually assaulted and abused.","description":"Recognize April as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month in Kentucky and honor Kentucky's 13 regional rape crisis centers and those who have been sexually assaulted and abused.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR286/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr286.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1611257,"bill_number":"SR284","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jill Brock.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jill Mary Brock.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR284/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr284.html","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":1612301,"bill_number":"SR291","title":"A RESOLUTION commending the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, its staff, and partners for the success of its elk restoration program.","description":"Commend the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, its staff, and partners on the success of its elk restoration program.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR291/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr291.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1612305,"bill_number":"SR287","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Robby Blair.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robby Blair.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR287/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr287.html","sponsor":"Brandon Storm"},
{"bill_id":1612309,"bill_number":"SR289","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Scott Hofstra.","description":"Adjourn in honor and memory of Scott Hofstra.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR289/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr289.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1612314,"bill_number":"HCR144","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION adjourning the General Assembly until April 13, 2022.","description":"Adjourn the General Assembly until April 13, 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR144/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr144.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1612319,"bill_number":"HR143","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending Binet School and Dr. Trisha Hernandez Gallagher.","description":"Recognize and commend Binet School and Dr. Trisha Hernandez Gallagher.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR143/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr143.html","sponsor":"Ken Fleming"},
{"bill_id":1612322,"bill_number":"HR142","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the Biden Administration to remove the barriers it has imposed on the energy industry by opening onshore and offshore federal oil and gas lease sales, supporting critical energy infrastructure projects, and reducing the federal regulatory burden on energy producers.","description":"Urge the Biden Administration to remove the barriers it has imposed on the energy industry by opening onshore and offshore federal oil and gas lease sales, supporting critical energy infrastructure projects, and reducing the federal regulatory burden on energy producers.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-03-29","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR142/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr142.html","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":1612327,"bill_number":"SR295","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the University of Louisville Women's Basketball Team upon reaching the 2022 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Final Four.","description":"Honor the University of Louisville Women's Basketball Team upon making the Final Four of the 2022 NCAA Basketball Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR295/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr295.html","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":1612333,"bill_number":"SCR292","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION adjourning the General Assembly until April 13, 2022.","description":"Adjourn the General Assembly until April 13, 2022.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"to Senate Floor","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":"Floor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR292/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr292.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1612337,"bill_number":"SR290","title":"A RESOLUTION commending the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources for the removal of Asian carp.","description":"Commend the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources for its efforts to rid Kentucky's lakes and rivers of invasive carp.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR290/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr290.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1612341,"bill_number":"SR288","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Katherine \"Katie\" Rosalie Howard.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Katherine \"Katie\" Rosalie Howard.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-03-30","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR288/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr288.html","sponsor":"Adrienne Southworth"},
{"bill_id":1612345,"bill_number":"SR294","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Tom FitzGerald for his years of service to the Kentucky Resources Council.","description":"Honor Tom FitzGerald for his years of service to the Kentucky Resources Council.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR294/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr294.html","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":1612350,"bill_number":"SCR293","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION to establish the Kentucky Natural Disaster and Tornado Relief and Response Task Force.","description":"Create the Kentucky Natural Disaster and Tornado Relief and Response Task Force to study the Commonwealth's and the federal government's emergency preparedness, response, and restoration efforts, and to make recommendations to increase emergency preparedness, response, and enhance restoration efforts; outline the membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2022 interim; require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-29","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR293/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr293.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1612738,"bill_number":"SCR296","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing oversight for a Thoroughbred registration system consistent with the policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Establish legislative oversight for a Thoroughbred registration system consistent with Kentucky policy.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-03-30","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR296/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr296.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1612739,"bill_number":"SR299","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jerry Bell.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jerry Bell.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR299/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr299.html","sponsor":"David Yates"},
{"bill_id":1612740,"bill_number":"SR297","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Representative Joni Jenkins for her dedicated service to the Kentucky House of Representatives.","description":"Honor Representative Joni Jenkins for her dedicated service to the Kentucky House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR297/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr297.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1612741,"bill_number":"HCR145","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing oversight for a Thoroughbred registration system consistent with the policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Establish legislative oversight for a Thoroughbred registration system consistent with Kentucky policy.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR145/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr145.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1612742,"bill_number":"SR298","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Representative Mary Lou Marzian for her commitment and service to the General Assembly upon her retirement.","description":"Honor Representative Mary Lou Marzian for her commitment and service to the General Assembly upon her retirement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR298/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr298.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1615392,"bill_number":"SR316","title":"A RESOLUTION urging the Kentucky Public Service Commission to examine strategies to address utility costs to ratepayers.","description":"Urge the Kentucky Public Service Commission to examine strategies to address utility costs to ratepayers.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR316/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr316.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1615393,"bill_number":"SR318","title":"A RESOLUTION endorsing the federal grant application of the Paducah & Louisville Railway to rehabilitate the Rockport Bridge and encouraging the United States Department of Transportation to give favorable consideration to the application.","description":"Endorse the grant application of the Paducah & Louisville Railway to rehabilitate the Rockport Bridge and encourage the federal Department of Transportation to give favorable consideration to the application.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR318/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr318.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1615394,"bill_number":"SR314","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Lieutenant Presley Neville O'Bannon and his legacy as preserved by the O'Bannon House Preservation Foundation.","description":"Honor Lieutenant Presley Neville O'Bannon and his legacy as preserved by the O'Bannon House.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR314/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr314.html","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":1615395,"bill_number":"SR302","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Ernie Fletcher to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Ernie Fletcher to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2023.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR302/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr302.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1615396,"bill_number":"SCR309","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION adjourning the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly sine die.","description":"Adjourn the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly sine die.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (S)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Committee on Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR309/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/scr309.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1615397,"bill_number":"SR310","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Calvin \"Todd\" Denham.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Calvin \"Todd\" Denham.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR310/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr310.html","sponsor":"Ralph Alvarado"},
{"bill_id":1615398,"bill_number":"HCR148","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing a working group to examine Kentucky's existing legislative framework for public charter schools and submit recommended changes to improve the implementation of public charter schools in the Commonwealth.","description":"Create the Public Charter School Legislative Working Group to study Kentucky's existing legislative framework for public charter schools and submit recommended changes to improve the implementation of public charter schools in the Commonwealth; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit any findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR148/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr148.html","sponsor":"Matt Lockett"},
{"bill_id":1615399,"bill_number":"HR150","title":"A RESOLUTION supporting the civil liberties of the people of Canada and condemning their government's attempts to silence dissent through asset seizure.","description":"Support the civil liberties of the people of Canada and condemn their government's attempts to silence descent through asset seizure.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (H)","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":"Committee On Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR150/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr150.html","sponsor":"Savannah Maddox"},
{"bill_id":1615400,"bill_number":"HCR146","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION adjourning the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly sine die.","description":"Adjourn the 2022 Regular Session of the General Assembly sine die.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR146/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hcr146.html","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":1615401,"bill_number":"HR152","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the Summer Shade community on its 150th anniversary.","description":"Honor the Summer Shade community on its 150th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR152/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr152.html","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":1615402,"bill_number":"SR315","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring utility linemen.","description":"Honor Kentucky utility linemen and adjourn the Senate in their honor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR315/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr315.html","sponsor":"Phillip Wheeler"},
{"bill_id":1615403,"bill_number":"SR311","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catharine.","description":"Honor the 200-year anniversary of the founding of the Dominicans of St. Catharine.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR311/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr311.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1615404,"bill_number":"SR301","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Edward Bryan Hatchett to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Edward Bryan Hatchett to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2025.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR301/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr301.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1615405,"bill_number":"SR313","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Steve Kring upon his retirement from the Legislative Research Commission.","description":"Honor Steve Kring upon his retirement from the Legislative Research Commission.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR313/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr313.html","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":1615406,"bill_number":"SR303","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Robert Ramsey Sr. to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Robert Ramsey Sr. to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR303/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr303.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1615407,"bill_number":"HR151","title":"A RESOLUTION affirming support for the people of Ukraine and commending their strength and perseverance in the face of Russian aggression.","description":"Support and affirm the people of Ukraine and commend their strength and perseverance in the face of Russian aggression.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR151/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr151.html","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":1615408,"bill_number":"SR308","title":"A RESOLUTION congratulating Reverend Dr. Joshua A. Harris, Sr. as the newly installed Pastor of the First Gethsemane Baptist Church.","description":"Congratulating Reverend Dr. Joshua A. Harris, Sr. as the newly installed Pastor of the First Gethsemane Baptist Church.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR308/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr308.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1615409,"bill_number":"SR306","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Charles Moyer to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Charles Moyer to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted 34-2","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR306/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr306.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1615410,"bill_number":"SR305","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Michael Anthony Adams Jr. to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Michael Anthony Adams Jr. to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2024.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR305/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr305.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1615411,"bill_number":"SR320","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Representative Kelly Flood upon her retirement from the Kentucky House of Representatives.","description":"Honor Representative Kelly Flood upon her retirement from the Kentucky House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR320/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr320.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1615412,"bill_number":"SR317","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing June 26 to July 2, 2022, as Kentucky DeafBlind Awareness Week.","description":"Recognize June 26 to July 2, 2022, as Kentucky DeafBlind Awareness Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR317/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr317.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1615413,"bill_number":"SR312","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Saundra Jean Adams.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Saundra Jean Adams.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR312/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr312.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1615414,"bill_number":"SR307","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Gerald W. Patton to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Gerald W. Patton to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR307/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr307.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1615415,"bill_number":"HR147","title":"A RESOLUTION declaring the week of May 1 to 7, 2022, to be Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week.","description":"Declaring the week of May 1 to 7, 2022, to be Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR147/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr147.html","sponsor":"Josh Bray"},
{"bill_id":1615416,"bill_number":"HR149","title":"A RESOLUTION endorsing the federal grant application of the Paducah & Louisville Railway to rehabilitate the Rockport Bridge and encouraging the United States Department of Transportation to give favorable consideration to the application.","description":"Endorse the grant application of the Paducah & Louisville Railway to rehabilitate the Rockport Bridge and encourage the federal Department of Transportation to give favorable consideration to the application.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR149/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hr149.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1615417,"bill_number":"SR300","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Jason Moseley to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Jason Moseley to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2026.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR300/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr300.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1615418,"bill_number":"SR319","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Representative Susan Westrom for her dedicated service to the Kentucky House of Representatives.","description":"Honor Representative Susan Westrom for her dedicated service to the Kentucky House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR319/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr319.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1615419,"bill_number":"SR304","title":"A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Tammi Dukes to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Tammi Dukes to the Kentucky State University Board of Regents for a term ending June 30, 2027.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-13","last_action":"adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR304/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr304.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1615420,"bill_number":"SR321","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing the former Cayce High School of Fulton County.","description":"Recognize Cayce High School in Fulton County for its years of providing education to the students of Cayce, Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR321/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr321.html","sponsor":"Jason Howell"},
{"bill_id":1615548,"bill_number":"SR323","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Stephen Francis Thompson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Stephen Francis Thompson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR323/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr323.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1615568,"bill_number":"SR322","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Victor, Bryson, and Christian Yarbrough and Brough Brothers Distillery.","description":"Honor Victor, Bryson, and Christian Yarbrough and Brough Brothers Distillery.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-04-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-04-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR322/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sr322.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1628262,"bill_number":"SR3","title":"A RESOLUTION extending an invitation to pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2022 Extraordinary Session with prayer.","description":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2022 Extraordinary Session with prayer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR3/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr3.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1628263,"bill_number":"HR2","title":"A RESOLUTION adopting the Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Extraordinary Session of the House of Representatives.","description":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Extraordinary Session of the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR2/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/hr2.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1628264,"bill_number":"HB1","title":"AN ACT relating to disaster relief, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39A to establish the East Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (EKSAFE) fund; amend KRS 39A.305 to provide that moneys in the West Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (WKSAFE) fund shall carry forward until June 30, 2026; provide that financial assistance to cities, counties, and school districts for realized revenue losses shall be limited to 100% of the lost revenue in fiscal year 2022-2023, 66% of the lost revenue in fiscal year 2023-2024, and 33% of the lost revenue in fiscal year 2024-2025; provide that moneys reimbursed to the Commonwealth after June 30, 2026, shall be deposited into the Budget Reserve Trust Fund; allow the waiver of up to 15 student attendance days for days missed by school districts through January 20, 2023, that are located in the Presidential Declaration of a Major Disaster and impacted by the July 2022 storms and flooding in the eastern Kentucky region; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2022-08-26","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Ch.1)","last_action_date":"2022-08-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB1/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/hb1.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1628265,"bill_number":"SCR4","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION adjourning the 2022 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly sine die.","description":"Adjourn the 2022 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly sine die.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2022-08-24","last_action":"to Committee on Committees (S)","last_action_date":"2022-08-24","committee":"Committee on Committees","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR4/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/scr4.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1628266,"bill_number":"SR5","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Phyllis Shircliff Mattingly.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Phyllis Shircliff Mattingly.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR5/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr5.html","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":1628267,"bill_number":"HR1","title":"A RESOLUTION establishing the 2022 membership of the Kentucky State House of Representatives.","description":"Establish the membership of the 2022 Kentucky House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR1/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/hr1.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":1628268,"bill_number":"SR2","title":"A RESOLUTION adopting the Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Extraordinary Session of the Senate.","description":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2022 Extraordinary Session of the Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR2/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr2.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1628269,"bill_number":"SR1","title":"A RESOLUTION establishing the 2022 membership of the Kentucky State Senate.","description":"Establish the 2022 membership of the Kentucky State Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR1/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr1.html","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":1628270,"bill_number":"SB1","title":"AN ACT relating to disaster relief, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39A to establish the East Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (EKSAFE) fund; amend KRS 39A.305 to provide that moneys in the West Kentucky State Aid Funding for Emergencies (WKSAFE) fund shall carry forward until June 30, 2026; provide that financial assistance to cities, counties, and school districts for realized revenue losses shall be limited to 100% of the lost revenue in fiscal year 2022-2023, 66% of the lost revenue in fiscal year 2023-2024, and 33% of the lost revenue in fiscal year 2024-2025; provide that moneys reimbursed to the Commonwealth after June 30, 2026, shall be deposited into the Budget Reserve Trust Fund; allow the waiver of up to 15 student attendance days for days missed by school districts through January 20, 2023, that are located in the Presidential Declaration of a Major Disaster and impacted by the July 2022 storms and flooding in the eastern Kentucky region; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Substituted","status_date":"2022-08-24","last_action":"idenitcal House bill substituted for this bill","last_action_date":"2022-08-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB1/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sb1.html","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":1628271,"bill_number":"SR6","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Aaron \"Mick\" Crawford.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Aaron \"Mick\" Crawford.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR6/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr6.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1628292,"bill_number":"SR11","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring the members of the Kentucky National Guard, the Tennessee National Guard, and the West Virginia National Guard for their service to the citizens of eastern Kentucky during the flooding events during the summer of 2022.","description":"Honor the members of the Kentucky National Guard, the Tennessee National Guard, and the West Virginia National Guard for their service to the citizens of eastern Kentucky during the flooding events during the summer of 2022.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR11/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr11.html","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":1628293,"bill_number":"HR4","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of the individuals whose lives were tragically lost in the recent flooding that ravaged Eastern Kentucky.","description":"Adjourn the Senate and honor and loving memory of the 39 victims of the flooding in Eastern Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR4/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/hr4.html","sponsor":"John Blanton"},
{"bill_id":1628294,"bill_number":"SR12","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and memory of Ronald E. \"Ron\" Crimm.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ronald E. \"Ron\" Crimm.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR12/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr12.html","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":1628295,"bill_number":"SR10","title":"A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of the individuals whose lives were tragically lost in the recent flooding that ravaged Eastern Kentucky.","description":"Adjourn the Senate and honor and loving memory of the 39 victims of the flooding in Eastern Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR10/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr10.html","sponsor":"Johnnie Turner"},
{"bill_id":1628296,"bill_number":"SR9","title":"A RESOLUTION encouraging the United States Postal Service to honor Muhammad Ali with a stamp of his likeness.","description":"Encourage the United States Postal Service to honor Muhammad Ali with a stamp of his likeness.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR9/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr9.html","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":1628297,"bill_number":"SR8","title":"A RESOLUTION recognizing Rhyne Howard for her accomplishment of being named 2022 WNBA Rookie of the Year.","description":"Recognize Rhyne Howard for her accomplishments and award of WNBA Rookie of the Year.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR8/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr8.html","sponsor":"Reginald Thomas"},
{"bill_id":1628298,"bill_number":"SR7","title":"A RESOLUTION honoring Morehead State University upon its one hundredth year as a public institution of higher education.","description":"Honor Morehead State University upon the 100th year as a public institution of higher education.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2022-08-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2022-08-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR7/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/sr7.html","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":1628299,"bill_number":"HCR3","title":"A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION adjourning the 2022 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly sine die.","description":"Adjourn the 2022 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly sine die.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2022-08-26","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2022-08-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR3/2022","state_link":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22SS/hcr3.html","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"}
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