Rep. Chris Fugate
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to compliance with state and federal law. [HB-51]
Amend KRS 65.133 to require local law enforcement agencies and Kentucky State Police to enforce immigration 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Posted In Committee on 01/15/2020
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AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-239]
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;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 01/14/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teachers and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-20]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish a student loan forgiveness program for STEM teachers 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 STEM teacher promise zone scholarship fund; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/12/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to voluntary non-opioid directives. [HB-11]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and to establish a voluntary non-opioid directive form to inform practitioners that an opioid drug shall not be prescribed, ordered, or administered to a patient who has filed the form with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218A.172 to require a practitioner to determine if a patient has filed a voluntary non-opioid directive and to provide the patient with a copy of the form prior to prescribing an opioid drug; amend KRS 218A.202 to establish that the electronic monitoring
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Bowling Green Veterans Center, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-24]
Appropriate to the Department of Veterans' Affairs $2,500,000 from the General Fund in fiscal year 2019-2020 for design and preconstruction costs for the Bowling Green Veterans Center; stipulate that appropriations in this Act shall be paid from the General Fund Surplus Account or the Budget Reserve Trust Fund Account; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 7) on 03/10/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property taxes for veteran service organizations. [HB-36]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 132 to exempt veteran service organizations from ad valorem taxation if over fifty percent of the organization's annual net income is expended on behalf of veterans and other charitable causes; amend KRS 132.010 to define veteran service organization; apply to property assessed on or after January 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Posted In Committee on 03/11/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prescription insulin. [HB-12]
Amend KRS 304-17A.148 to cap the cost sharing requirements for prescription insulin at $100 per 30 day supply; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Recommitted To Banking & Insurance (s) on 04/15/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Kentucky relating to abortion. [HB-67]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to state that Kentucky's Constitution does not secure or protect a right to abortion or funding of abortion.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to ground ambulance service providers and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-8]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; establish the Medicaid ground ambulance service provider assessment; require ground ambulance service providers to pay a Medicaid ambulance service provider assessment quarterly; authorize the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to implement the Medicaid ground ambulance service provider assessment; create the ambulance service assessment revenue fund; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 110) on 04/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tuition benefits and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-14]
Amend KRS 164.2841, relating to college tuition benefits for spouses and children of specified emergency response personnel and public employees who have died in the course of their duties to specify that the beneficiary is eligible for up to a maximum of 128 credit hours of undergraduate instruction; amend KRS 164.2842, relating to college tuition benefits for spouses and children of specified emergency response personnel and public employees who have been totally and permanently disabled in the course of their duties to specify that the beneficiary
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Recommitted To Education (s) on 04/15/2020