AN ACT relating to the torture of a dog or cat. [HB-258]
Amends KRS 525.135 to define “serious physical injury or infirmity” and to redefine “torture,” to provide that torture of a dog or cat is a Class D felony in every instance and that each act may constitute a separate offense, and to provide what does not constitute torture of a dog or cat.
HB-258: AN ACT relating to the torture of a dog or cat.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 81) on 04/04/2024
AN ACT relating to immunity from criminal liability for health care providers. [HB-159]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define “health care provider” and “health services,” and to establish that health care providers providing health services are immune from criminal liability for harm arising from a health services-related act or omission other than gross negligence or wanton, willful, malicious, or intentional misconduct.
HB-159: AN ACT relating to immunity from criminal liability for health care providers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.12) on 03/26/2024
AN ACT relating to home solicitation sales. [HB-470]
Amends KRS 367.450 to exempt sales of certain service contracts, and goods or services related to insurance or a service contract, if the seller is licensed by, registered with, or otherwise regulated by the Department of Insurance or an affiliate of a person who is licensed by, registered with, or otherwise regulated by the Department of Insurance, and to make technical corrections.
HB-470: AN ACT relating to home solicitation sales.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 47) on 04/04/2024
AN ACT relating to addiction treatment. [HB-534]
Amends KRS 205.536 to prohibit the Department for Medicaid Services or a Medicaid managed care organization from requiring or using certain utilization reviews for prescription drugs that contains an opioid antagonist; and amends KRS 304.17A-611 to prohibit insurers from requiring or using certain utilization reviews for prescriptions that contain an opioid antagonist, and to provide that the prohibition applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed after January 1, 2025.
HB-534: AN ACT relating to addiction treatment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Duvall
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 155) on 04/09/2024
AN ACT relating to civic education. [HB-535]
Amends KRS 158.141 to require, beginning with the high school freshman class of 2025-2026, either a one-half credit course in civic literacy for graduation, including early graduation, or a score of 70 percent on a 100-question civics test, with local school districts selecting which option to use, to require that school districts submit annual civics testing data to the Kentucky Department of Education and to require that the department report cumulative data to the Legislative Research Commission, to provide a list of required topics to be taught
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HB-535: AN ACT relating to civic education.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 122) on 04/09/2024
AN ACT relating to one-time payments to school district employees and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-694]
Direct local school districts to provide a one-time payment of $2,000 to certified employees, excluding superintendents, in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium, and a one-time payment of $1,000 to classified employees in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium; appropriate $153 million from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium to the Department of Education to provide the payments; APPROPRIATION.
HB-694: AN ACT relating to one-time payments to school district employees and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/23/2024
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting system. [HB-764]
Amend KRS 205.529 to remove reference to a Schedule III controlled substance containing hydrocodone in the program for synchronization of medications; amend KRS 218A.010 to add optometrist and physician assistant to the definition of "practitioner"; amend KRS 218A.172 to remove reference to a Schedule III controlled substance containing hydrocodone in the medications regulated; amend KRS 218A.182 to add charitable health care providers to the exemption from the requirement for an electronic prescription for a controlled substance; amend KRS 218A.202
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HB-764: AN ACT relating to the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting system.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Duvall
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
HJR-105: A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study community-based supportive service options for individuals with a history of aggressive behavior or aggressive sexual behavior.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Duvall
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
You have voted HJR-105: A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study community-based supportive service options for individuals with a history of aggressive behavior or aggressive sexual behavior..