Advisory Boards, Commissions, And Committees
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to boards of the Kentucky General Assembly and declaring an emergency. [HB-9]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to define terms; establish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board of the Kentucky General Assembly to review, analyze, study, evaluate, provide legislative oversight, and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding any aspect of the Kentucky Medicaid program; establish board membership, authority, and duties; amend KRS 7A.010, 7A.140, 7A.150, and 7A.180 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Rules (h) on 03/13/2025
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AN ACT relating to advisory oversight of the Medicaid program. [HB-789]
Amend KRS 205.540 to comply with 42 C.F.R. sec. 431.12; change the name of the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance to the Medicaid Advisory Committee; revise membership of the committee; amend KRS 205.552 to conform; amend KRS 205.590 to establish the length of terms for members of the Medicaid technical advisory committees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the Beneficiary Advisory Council; establish council membership; establish that the council shall be exempt from KRS 61.800 to 61.884 in accordance with 42 C.F.R. 431.12.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to agriculture. [SB-238]
Amend KRS 247.4477 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jason Howell
To Agriculture (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to election districts and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-628]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to establish the Advisory Redistricting Commission, which shall be composed of members appointed by the General Assembly and members of the public at large; define terms; establish commissioner pay, conditions, powers, and duties; provide that commissioners' terms correlate with obligations of each census cycle; establish the conditions, powers, and duties of the commission; require the commission to draft redistricting plans for legislative and congressional districts, with parameters prescribed; establish standards
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Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Donworth
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services. [HB-553]
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; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Doula Advisory Council, council membership, and council duties; 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 and comply with KRS 205.525.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to membership of the Geographic Information Advisory Council. [HB-550]
Amend KRS 42.740 to reduce the number of candidates submitted by the Kentucky League of Cities and Kentucky Association of Counties for consideration of the Governor to be appointed to the Geographic Information Advisory Council from six persons to three persons.
Sponsored by: Rep. Randall Bridges
To State Government (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-179]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to be administered by the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; establish the nuclear energy development grant administration subcommittee and provide for its duties; limit individual grant awards from the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to $2,000,000 per grant; amend KRS 164.2802 to require the director of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to publicize and encourage application to the Nuclear Energy Development Grant
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Delivered To Governor on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Legislative Research Commission and declaring an emergency. [SB-176]
Amend KRS 6.905, 7.200, 7A.110, 7A.185, 7A.220, 13A.020, 15A.063, 45.790, 45A.705, 158.647, and 248.723 to require statutory committee membership appointments be made in January of each odd-numbered year; require vacancies to be filled within 30 days; and require the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House to appoint co-chairs; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027.
Sponsored by: Sen. Matt Nunn
Signed By Governor on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation and declaring an emergency. [HB-566]
Amend various sections of KRS Chapters 230 and 238, relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation, to define "Kentucky quarter horse purse fund," "proof of wagers," "unclaimed pari-mutuel winning ticket," and "unredeemed pari-mutuel voucher"; confirm the corporation's jurisdiction over racing and gaming entities; require an annual audit of the corporation by a qualified auditing entity and reduce audits by the Auditor of Public Accounts to once every four years; grant the corporation flexibility in promulgating administrative regulations;
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Osborne
Delivered To Governor on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state employee health insurance. [SB-155]
Amend KRS 18A.225 to exclude from the definition of "employee" any employer pursuant to KRS 61.522 that ceases participation in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System by June 30, 2021, once they cease participation in the state employee health insurance plan they may not participate in the future; require minimal participation duration for all benefits administered by the Personnel Cabinet pursuant to KRS 18A.225 to 18A.2287; require health insurance coverage for state employees to provide minimum value that pays over 60 percent of the total cost
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Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Nemes
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animal care. [SB-124]
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 owner to pay cost of care for a seized animal; establish penalties; amend KRS 258.215 to require owners to be responsible for cost of care of an impounded animal; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 258.117 to reduce the number of board appointees from each nominating organization from two to one; add one member to be
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to real estate license reciprocity. [SB-127]
Amend KRS 324.115 to adjust the license reciprocity agreement requirements; amend KRS 324.141 to establish education requirements for reciprocal license applicants.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency medical services. [HB-406]
Amend KRS 311A.155 to add training and education to uses of grant funds; change grant fund amounts that may be awarded; delete discretion for a county to hold unspent funds for two years; require all grants to be used during the fiscal year for authorized purposes; amend KRS 311A.055 to delete transfer of complaints regarding ambulance services to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; repeal KRS 216B.106 relating to ambulance service investigations and hearings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance. [HB-390]
Amend KRS 186A.040 to define terms; require the Department of Vehicle Regulation to establish an accessible online insurance verification system; establish requirements and timelines for making the system accessible and promulgating administrative regulations; establish requirements and guidelines for the department and the system; establish requirements for insurers to cooperate with the department and to submit insurance information relating to personal motor vehicles; provide option for insurers to submit insurance status information for commercial
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 39) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to physician assistants. [SB-88]
Amend KRS 311.840 to define terms; amend KRS 311.842, 311.848, 311.850 311.862, 202A.011, 202C.010, 216B.175, and 600.020 to change references to "supervising physician" to "collaborating physician" to conform; amend KRS 311.858 to list the services a physician assistant may provide, and require a physician assistant to consult and collaborate with or refer a patient to an appropriate licensed physician as indicated by the patient's condition and the standard of care; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to establish requirements for a collaboration
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animal control officers. [HB-194]
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child; provide that the Act may be cited as Kyan's Law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. [HB-102]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to establish a PFAS Working Group, create new sections of Subchapter 10 of KRS Chapter 224 to define terms; establish a reporting requirement for manufacturers that intentionally include PFAS in products manufactured for sale or distribution in the Commonwealth; establish a reporting requirement for PFAS release in the Commonwealth by manufacturers that intentionally include PFAS in manufactured products; amend KRS 224.99-030 to establish penalty for noncompliance with reporting requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian
To Natural Resources & Energy (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to veterans. [SB-32]
Amend KRS 154.12-330 to give preference to veterans in the issuance of small business loans; create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to require monthly veteran workforce reports; create new sections of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require annual job training reports by the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs; 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
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [SB-27]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Parkinson's Disease Research Registry within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; direct the secretary of the cabinet to establish the Kentucky Parkinson's Disease Research Registry Advisory Committee and make appointments; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to designate Parkinson's disease and the identified Parkinsonisms as diseases that are required to be reported to the cabinet, establish a system of collection and dissemination of
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Taken From Rules on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-382]
Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use 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 oversight of cannabis operations
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 03/01/2024