AN ACT relating to providing free feminine hygiene products for elementary and secondary students. [HB-74]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "feminine hygiene product"; 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.
HB-74: AN ACT relating to providing free feminine hygiene products for elementary and secondary students.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/04/2025
AN ACT relating to undesignated glucagon. [HB-75]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies.
HB-75: AN ACT relating to undesignated glucagon.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Health Services (h) on 02/04/2025
AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for state and county employees in hazardous positions. [HB-76]
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, 2026, 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
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HB-76: AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for state and county employees in hazardous positions.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To State Government (h) on 02/04/2025
AN ACT relating to menstrual discharge collection devices and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-231]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each public school that includes any of grades six through 12 to provide free menstrual discharge collection devices to students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free menstrual discharge collection devices; define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.010 to define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of menstrual discharge collection devices; APPROPRIATION;
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HB-231: AN ACT relating to menstrual discharge collection devices and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/07/2025
AN ACT relating to publication. [HB-368]
Amend KRS 424.145 to remove the population restriction and make the alternative publication procedure available to all local governments as defined; stipulate that the local government must submit the advertisement to the newspaper in a timely manner for publication within the prescribed limits; make technical corrections.
HB-368: AN ACT relating to publication.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Received In Senate on 02/27/2025
AN ACT relating to public notices. [HB-386]
Amend KRS 424.260 to make a technical correction and to increase the expenditure threshold for the advertising requirement from $40,000 to $60,000; exempt vehicles and installed vehicle equipment from the bidding requirement; allow an alternative publication procedure for the advertisement; amend KRS 424.145 to remove the population restriction and allow any city, special district, school district, or special purpose governmental entity to use the alternative publication procedures.
HB-386: AN ACT relating to public notices.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker
To Local Government (h) on 02/12/2025
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders. [HB-420]
Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers' compensation, to expand the definition of "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when not a direct result of a physical injury.
HB-420: AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/14/2025
AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy. [HB-419]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion during a declared emergency; amend KRS 156.496 to allow a school district to operate a family resource center that provides abortion counseling; amend KRS 205.010 to permit financial aid for an abortion; amend KRS 205.510 to include abortions or induced miscarriages as medical care; amend KRS 205.560
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HB-419: AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2025