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.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2021-2022: $925,391,000, 2022-2023: $2,349,809,300, 2023-2024: $1,863,025,000; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $631,100, 2022-2023: $132,311,100, 2023-2024: $33,841,800; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2021-2022: $4,038,300, 2022-2023: $6,313,758,800, 2023-2024: $6,379,490,800; appropriate to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,302,200, 2022-2023: $229,303,000, 2023-2024: $231,102,800; 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: $836,882,400, 2022-2023: $19,089,934,000, 2023-2024: $19,380,503,800; appropriate to the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet: 2021-2022: $29,301,600, 2022-2023: $1,404,762,600, 2023-2024: $1,426,649,300; appropriate to the Labor Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,206,200, 2022-2023: $878,497,600, 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: $11,067,225,800, 2023-2024: $13,538,315,700; 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: $12,777,860,000, 2023-2024: $1,685,034,000; 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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2021-2022: $239,977,500, 2022-2023: $2,445,494,600, 2023-2024: $2,274,819,000; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $631,100, 2022-2023: $93,681,600, 2023-2024: $33,890,100; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2021-2022: $878,000, 2022-2023: $43,360,800, 2023-2024: $43,583,100; appropriate to the Education and Labor Cabinet: 2021-2022: $8,508,400, 2022-2023: $825,152,400, 2023-2024: $778,864,600; appropriate to the Energy and Environment Cabinet: 2021-2022: $7,288,800, 2022-2023: $393,499,400, 2023-2024: $420,896,200; appropriate to the Finance and Administration Cabinet: 2021-2022: $147,931,200, 2022-2023: $986,801,300, 2023-2024: $1,007,003,200; appropriate to the Health and Family Services Cabinet: 2021-2022: $763,745,400, 2022-2023: $19,087,141,300, 2023-2024: $19,324,720,000; appropriate to the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet: 2021-2022: $31,801,600, 2022-2023: $1,458,856,800, 2023-2024: $1,474,716,100; appropriate to the Personnel Cabinet: 2021-2022: $857,800, 2022-2023: $150,240,400, 2023-2024: $145,906,200; appropriate to Postsecondary Education: 2021-2022: $1,067,800, 2022-2023: $11,079,364,100, 2023-2024: $13,585,333,500; appropriate to the Public Protection Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,857,700, 2022-2023: $317,164,500, 2023-2024: $141,803,700; appropriate to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet: 2021-2022: $125,708,200, 2022-2023: $320,285,800, 2023-2024: $576,918,000; appropriate to the Budget Reserve Trust Fund: 2022-2023: $250,000,000; not included in the appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows: 2021-2022: $16,739,000, 2022-2023: $12,262,048,000, 2023-2024: $2,752,444,000; 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.

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4/13/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 199)

AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retains original provisions; add language to Section 5 to clarify that the cabinet is to submit a report regarding the work search requirements to the Governor and the Interim Joint Committee on Economic Development and Workforce Investment; remove reference to the most recent employer in Section 7(2); remove reference to Kentucky Career Center in Section 9 in favor of original statutory reference to employment office; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to allow the cabinet to combine any reports required by KRS 341.127 and KRS 341.350 and submit them as one to the Governor and the Interim Joint Committee on Economic Development and Workforce Investment; add a new section of noncodified language to provide that the provisions of this Act shall not be construed to limit access for eligible claimants to Disaster Unemployment Assistance benefits authorized under the Stafford Act; make technical changes. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; add language to Section 5 to clarify that claimants who are enrolled in an approved job training or certification program or have return or recall to work prospects within 16 weeks of filing a claim are exempt from work search requirements; add special effective date; technical changes.

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3/22/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 21)

AN ACT relating to welfare and family services.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions, except delete provisions related to broad-based categorical eligibility; direct identified unobligated Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to be allocated to a job placement assistance program instead of to prevention services for families at risk of entering the child welfare system; exempt certain programs from the requirement to utilize a single electronic benefit transfer card; delete language permitting the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to delay implementation of a Medicaid community engagement program; delete language requiring the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a waiver to limit Medicaid presumptive eligibility; delete language establishing standards for hospital determinations of presumptive eligibility and penalties for violations of those standards; establish the duties of qualified hospitals in making presumptive eligibility determinations; exempt certain applications from the prohibition on Medicaid self-attestation; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services obtain information from the Victim Information and Notification Everyday Network; direct the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to establish a job placement assistance program; delete section relating to county jails and requiring a jailer to provide notice to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services when a county prisoner is incarcerated or released; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to reapply for certain waivers, waiver amendments, and state plan amendments on an annual basis if the application is initially denied by the federal government; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training program activities available online; direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a Benefits Cliff Task Force. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions except delete provisions related to the analysis of unobligated Temporary Assistance for Needy Family and Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program funds; delete provisions establishing restrictions on the use of cash assistance benefits; delete provisions requiring the use of a single benefit card for each public assistance beneficiary; delete provisions related to the allocation of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance – Education funds; delete provisions requiring the use of certified change reporting requirements for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance beneficiaries; delete provisions related to coordination between the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Victim Information and Notification Everyday network; delete provisions to reestablish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee as the Public Assistance Oversight and Advisory Committee; delete the requirement that benefit enrollment and tracking agencies obtain and review information from the Administrative Office of the Courts and the Departme

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4/14/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 211)

AN ACT relating to revenue measures and declaring an emergency.

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. House Committee Amendment (1) Retain original provisions, except modify the thresholds for a further rate reduction for income tax purposes and make various technical corrections; amend KRS 131.400 to require the Department of Revenue and the Finance and Administration Cabinet to procure services for a tax amnesty program or to conduct the tax amnesty program; amend KRS 131.410, 131.420, 131.425, 131.435, 131.440, and 131.445 to conform; amend KRS 68.200 to make conforming changes related to the license fee imposed by certain local jurisdictions related to peer-to-peer car sharing; amend KRS 143.022 to extend the refund process for coal subject to tax, but exported outside of North America; amend KRS 141.010 to update the Internal Revenue Code reference date to December 31, 2021, with certain exceptions; amend KRS 139.730 to require coordinators of festivals or similar events to provide the Department of Revenue a list of vendors selling at the event; create a new section of KRS Chapter 136 to reinstate the requirement for declaration of estimated taxes related to insurance premiums tax; effective January 1, 2023; EMERGENCY. Senate Committee Substitute (1)

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4/14/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 212)

AN ACT relating to educational opportunities and making an appropriation therefor.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original language, except remove postsecondary education institutions, Kentucky Public Charter School Commission, the Kentucky Board of Education, and qualifying nonprofit organizations as authorizers; define "urban academy"; establish food program requirements at public charter schools; delete the Kentucky Public Charter School Commission; exempt urban academies from the memorandum of understanding requirement if all independent school districts in a county enroll greater than 7,500; provide that districts are not obligated to provide transportation to public charter school students if the school does not provide services; delete changes to charter contract terms; establish the Kentucky Public Charter School Pilot Project; identify pilot project authorizers; require at least one charter authorization; require pilot authorizers to submit reports; require the Office of Education Accountability to review the performance of pilot public charter schools; remove language concerning education opportunity accounts; remove emergency clause.

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4/14/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 213)

AN ACT relating to health education.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to public education and declaring an emergency.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to prohibited instruction and declaring an emergency.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to SARS-CoV-2 documentation.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to athletics.

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."

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3/29/2022 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)

AN ACT relating to immunization disclosure.

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". House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions, except define "immunization status" to specify vaccination against COVID-19; clarify the definition of "public entity" to include consolidated local government and unified local government; remove all provisions relating to a private employer in Sections 1, 3, and 4; create a new provision in KRS Chapter 214 to allow a public entity to share an individual's immunization status with his or her consent; clarify that Section 2 applies exclusively to public schools in the postsecondary education system; and amend KRS 214.036 to allow the objection to immunization against COVID-19 on the basis of conscientiously held beliefs. House Floor Amendment (1) Redefine "public entity" to exclude nonprofit corporations.

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3/28/2022 - Bill fails in committee with 4 yea votes

AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices against a person.

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".

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3/14/2022 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules

AN ACT relating to student mental health.

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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions, except provide that a local school board may include mental health absences in its student attendance policy instead of requiring it.

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4/20/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 228)

AN ACT relating to COVID-19 precautions in educational settings and declaring an emergency.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain all original provisions except limit application to the COVID-19 pandemic; provide that a school may impose a mask mandate but permit parents to opt out. House Floor Amendment (11) Retain all original provisions except delete the right of a parent to refuse facial coverings for children enrolled in a childcare facility; require that individuals be permitted to opt-out of any public school requirement for medical devices and medical procedures and treatments; provide that an individual shall not be required to submit any documentation or certification to opt-out; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to contradict KRS 158.035; provide that postsecondary education institutions may not require individuals to use medical devices and submit to medical procedures and treatments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on property not used for the delivery of medical services; provide that a postsecondary education institution may implement a requirement for facial coverings that is not responsive to the COVID-19 pandemic; EMERGENCY.

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3/10/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health & Welfare (S)

AN ACT relating to immunizations.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to school security.

Amend KRS 158.4414 to require the assignment of school resource officers to schools by August 1, 2022. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; require local school boards to ensure at least one school resource officer works full-time on-site at each school campus; provide that if sufficient funds and personnel are not available, school districts shall fulfill the requirement on a per campus basis as approved by the state school security marshal; affirm that local government agencies are not required to fund school resource officer positions. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; 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 if permitted by local board of education policy; 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 within the term "school resource officer"; allow the board of education to regulate the traffic and parking on property owned, used, or occupied by the local school district; prohibit a person from impersonating a police officer hired by the board of education.

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4/8/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 189)

AN ACT relating to full-day kindergarten.

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.

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3/24/2022 - House Appropriations & Revenue (H), (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)

AN ACT relating to curriculum.

Amend KRS 156.160 to require public middle and high school curriculum to include instruction on the history of racism.

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3/25/2022 - (S) Passed Over and retained in the Orders of the Day

AN ACT relating to elections.

Amend KRS 117.087 and 118.035 to extend the ending voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to retirement.

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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 61.552 to provide that restrictions on the use of purchased service towards retirement eligibility and benefit determination that became effective August 1, 2004, shall not apply to those members who were bound by an educational contract as conditional employees of the state of Kentucky prior to December 31, 2003; amend KRS 61.510 to amend "membership date" to specify that members who were bound by an educational contract as conditional employees of the state of Kentucky prior to December 31, 2003, shall have a membership date based upon the earliest date in the contract.

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4/8/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 165)

AN ACT relating to school food programs.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to dual credit scholarships.

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.

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2/7/2022 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)

AN ACT relating to historical instruction.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to reading diagnostic and intervention grants and declaring and emergency.

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.

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2/15/2022 - (H) WITHDRAWN

AN ACT relating to the emergency administration of medication in schools.

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.

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3/14/2022 - (H) Returned to Committee House Health & Family Services (H)

AN ACT relating to bus operation safety.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to employment.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT related to a tax credit for educator expense.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to corporal punishment in schools.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to preschool education programs.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to local school board meetings.

Amend KRS 160.270 to require a public comment period at local board of education meetings. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; provide the comment period may be passed over if there are no participants. Senate Floor Amendment (2) Provide that any board rules and policies regarding conduct during board meetings shall apply during the public comment period. Senate Floor Amendment (3) Delete exception language to the 15-minute comment period.

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4/8/2022 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE; (Acts Ch. 92)

AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to high school graduation requirements.

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.

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3/10/2022 - Returned to Rules

AN ACT relating to student assessment and declaring an emergency.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to dyslexia.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to the delivery of education and declaring an emergency.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to the delivery of education and declaring an emergency.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to the establishment of the Kentucky Early Entry Initiative pilot program and declaring an emergency.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for postpartum behavioral healthcare.

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.

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1/4/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to alternative education.

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. House Floor Amendment (1) Retain original provisions; provide that a local board of education determines the method for evaluating whether a student is on track to graduate; provide that a student who has attained a High School Equivalency Diploma in accordance with the Act is exempt from compulsory attendance; require a local school board to adopt a policy to define when a student is not on track to graduate, provide that the KBE cannot impose restrictions or requirements on the content of the local policy. House Floor Amendment (2) Retain all original provisions; amend KRS 158.135 to provide that the Department of Juvenile Justice shall contract with a public university or a nonprofit education entity to provide educational services through the Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children.

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4/1/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 78)

AN ACT relating to consumer protection through regulation of pharmacy-related trade practices.

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.

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2/7/2022 - (H) WITHDRAWN

AN ACT relating to education.

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.

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1/5/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to salary increments for state employees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

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.

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1/5/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to occupational therapists.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; give the Kentucky Board of Licensure for Occupational Therapy 60 days to review a rule adopted by the interstate commission for the purpose of filing the rule as an emergency administrative regulation; prohibit use of the general fund to finance the interstate commission; add occupational therapy assistants to those who may be licensed by the state board for a compact privilege.

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4/8/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 164)

AN ACT relating to intimidation of a sports official.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 518 to create the crime of intimidation of a sports official as a Class A misdemeanor.

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2/18/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)

AN ACT relating to school bus safety.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain all original provisions; amend KRS 64.090 to provide that a sheriff may retain $25 of a collected civil penalty for a stop arm camera violation enforced by the sheriff's office. House Floor Amendment (1) Retain all original provisions; provide that the legislative body shall not enter into an interlocal agreement for enforcing stop arm cameras for 30 days from the date the terms of the agreement are made public; provide that the interlocal agreement shall establish clear requirements for record keeping, retention, and deletion so as to adequately secure the data; provide that a school bus equipped with a camera monitoring system shall display a public warning; provide deadlines for when recorded images must be destroyed; provide that a recorded image shall be sufficient evidence of a stop arm camera violation; provide that a recorded image shall not be admissible in any other civil or criminal proceeding; provide that it shall be a defense to a stop arm camera violation that the violation was necessary to allow for passage of an emergency vehicle, necessary to avoid injuring another person or property, while participating in a funeral procession, or necessary to comply with any other general statute or regulation.

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4/13/2022 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Transportation (S)

AN ACT relating to early literacy education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

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. t House Committee Substitute (1) Retain all original provisions; amend KRS 158.305 to provide that a superintendent shall select at least one universal screener and one reading diagnostic assessment for the district; provide that a superintendent may elect to adopt a common comprehensive reading program; 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 Section 5 this Act; EMERGENCY.

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3/3/2022 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship program.

Amend KRS 164.7874 to add proprietary schools to KEES eligible institutions; define "proprietary school."

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2/9/2022 - floor amendment (3) filed

AN ACT relating to Kentucky State University, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

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.

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4/8/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 183)

AN ACT relating to interscholastic extracurricular activities.

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.

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1/10/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to property assessments.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 132.191 to remove the provisions requiring the valuation under the income approach to specifically include the terms of the lease and rental income; define "vacant property"; remove the provision that the appraisal of real property reflect the reasonable, probable, and most profitable use of the property that is legally permissible, physically possible, and financially feasible; remove the provision that the appraisal of real property take into consideration any value that is added to a property from a lease that encumbers; 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; require the property valuation administrator to use the purchase price of real property in an arm's length real estate transaction; amend KRS 133.120 to remove the requirement that taxpayer representatives who receive compensation for appealing property assessments possess knowledge of valuing property specific to the geographical area of the property in dispute. House Floor Amendment (1) Remove the term "appraisal" and require that the valuation of real property meet the minimum applicable assessment standards of the International Association of Assessing Officers or Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.

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3/22/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Transportation (S)

AN ACT relating to hearing officers.

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.

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3/14/2022 - (H) Returned to Committee House Committee on Committees (H)

AN ACT relating to prevention-oriented child abuse awareness instruction.

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." House Floor Amendment (2) Retain all original provisions except provide that the superintendent shall adopt the required curriculum, permit the required instruction to be integrated into relevant existing required curricula; allow the instruction to be provided by a school counselor, school safety specialist, or other individual with special knowledge or expertise on the topic; remove the requirement for teacher professional development; require that the curriculum be approved by the Department of Education; require a description of the curriculum to be posted at least two weeks prior to instruction; require the Department of Education to develop and maintain a list of approved curricula, provide technical assistance to school districts and review curriculum proposed for approval by a district. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Delete original provisions, except short title; amend KRS 158.4416 to require a trauma-informed team to incorporate age-appropriate and evidence-based child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention into the training, guidance, and assistance provided by the team; require the trauma-informed toolkit to include recommendations regarding child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention; require a school's trauma-informed plan to include strategies for child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention; require the Kentucky Department of Education to send annual notification of where the standards for child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention can be found within the academic standards for health.

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3/29/2022 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to teachers.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Delete section regarding loan forgiveness and retain provisions on an expedited alternate teaching certification pathway. House Floor Amendment (1) Add a section authorizing any person receiving emergency teaching certification during the 2021-22 school year be eligible to renew that certification during the 2022-23 school year. House Floor Amendment (2) Make all school districts eligible to participate in expedited alternate certification option.

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4/8/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 161)

AN ACT relating to student teacher background checks.

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.

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4/8/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 160)

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.

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.

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1/13/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to retirement and declaring an emergency.

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 for reemployed retirees over the age of 65 who are not Medicare-eligible due to the federal Medicare Secondary Payer Act and who are employed by either a participating agency that offers the Kentucky Employees Health Plan (KEHP) or a participating agency that is statutorily prevented from offering the KEHP; 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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions, and amend KRS 61.505 to require the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) to conduct an annual performance evaluation of the executive director, pre-approve future unclassified positions, and approve an annual personnel report before submission to the Public Pension Oversight Board; authorize the KPPA to appoint no more than six unclassified employees of the Office of Investments whose positions shall be exempt from the personnel system's classified service and related salary limitations, but subject to a written salary and classification plan fixing a range of compensation and written terms of employment adopted by the KPPA; and require the KPPA to approve the biennial budget unit request before submission by the Authority; amend KRS 61.510, 61.520, 61.702, and 78.510 to make technical changes; EMERGENCY. House Floor Amendment (3) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 61.505 to provide that payment of the initial setup costs and annual costs attributable to establishing a separate CERS board and the KPPA shall sunset on June 30, 2024, and beginning on and after July 1, 2024, any annual administrative and investment costs shall be allocated to each retirement system as determined by the KPPA without attribution to the establishment of a separate CERS board and the KPPA. House Floor Amendment (4) Amend KRS 61.510 and 78.510 to refine the definition of "objective medical evidence" to exclude the testimonial statements of the person applying for disability retirement; amend KRS 61.510 to make technical correction; amend KRS 61.702 and 78.5536 to permit the Personnel Cabinet to rate those retirees over 65 impacted by the Medicare Secondary Payer Act who are added to the Kentucky Employees Health Plan (KEHP) separately from other employees and retirees in the KEHP for the purpose of determining medical insurance premiums; and amend KRS 18A.225 to make conforming changes. House Floor Amendment (5) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 61.510 and 78.510 to amend the definition of a "regular full-time position" to add that exempted emergency positions shall also include a position utilized by the employer during a federal or state emergency declared by the President or Governor to address needs during and as a result of the emergency; make amended definition RETROACTIVE to March 1, 2020 and provide that individuals employed by health departments in emergency positions due to the COVID-19 pandemic shall be exempt through December 31, 2022; RETROACTIVE. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 61.505 to require the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) to report by November 15, 2022, and by November 15 of each fiscal year, the annual administrative and investment expenses of the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) and County Employees Retirement System (CERS) as prorated between the systems, including the process used to divide the costs, the amount assigned to each system itemized by category, and any efforts by the systems or the Authority to reduce administrative costs and staffing needs; amend KRS 61.515 and 78.520 to direct that pension trust fund assets attributable to hazardous/nonhazardous members are not expended to pay the benefits of members of the other position type/plan (hazardous/nonhazardous); amend KRS 61.701 to direct that health insurance trust fund assets attributable to members of one system (KERS, CERS, or SPRS) or position type/plan (hazardous/nonhazardous) are not expended to pay the benefits of members of another system or position type; amend KRS 61.702 and 78.5536 to make technical and conforming changes relating to prior legislation. Senate Floor Amendment (1) Retain original provisions; except remove new language in KRS 61.510 and 78.510 changing the definition of "objective medical evidence." Senate Floor Amendment (2). Senate Floor Amendment (4)

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4/14/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 216)

AN ACT relating to early childhood education.

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.

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1/13/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to school personnel.

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.

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1/13/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to educational opportunity accounts.

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.

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1/31/2022 - floor amendment (1) filed

AN ACT relating to a tax credit for Kentucky Education Savings Plan Trust account contributions.

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.

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1/19/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to military leave.

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.

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3/29/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 44)

AN ACT designating the second Wednesday in February as Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the second Wednesday in February as "Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day."

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2/22/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to professional development.

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.

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1/25/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to wages.

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.

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1/25/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to employment.

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.

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1/25/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to family care leave.

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.

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1/28/2022 - (H) WITHDRAWN

AN ACT relating to school fiscal impact statements.

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.

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1/26/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to public charter schools.

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.

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1/27/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to public schools.

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.

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3/16/2022 - House Education (H), (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)

AN ACT relating to the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency.

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.

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1/27/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to substitute teacher certification.

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.

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1/27/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to disaster days for schools impacted by the western Kentucky tornadoes and declaring an emergency.

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.

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3/31/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 65)

AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships.

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.

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3/14/2022 - (H) Returned to Committee House Education (H)

AN ACT relating to elections.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to student journalist freedom.

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."

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to veteran employment opportunity, making an appropriation therefore, and declaring an emergency.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education mandates.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to mental health coverage in connection with pregnancy.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to coverage for the care of children.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to taxation.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to the authority of local governments to establish ordinances concerning minimum wages and paid leave.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to minimum wage for essential workers and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 337.010 to define "essential employee"; amend KRS 337.275 to set a minimum wage for essential employees; EMERGENCY.

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2/22/2022 - floor amendment (1) filed

AN ACT relating to employment discrimination.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to employment provisions for employees on parental leave.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to Medicare supplement insurance.

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.

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2/25/2022 - (H) recommitted to committee House Banking & Insurance (H)

AN ACT relating to special enrollment periods for pregnancy.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Child Mental Health Services Access Program.

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.

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2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to school breakfasts.

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.

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3/14/2022 - (H) Returned to Committee House Education (H)

AN ACT relating to coverage for parental and guardian depression screenings.

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.

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2/2/2022 - Introduced

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.

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.

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2/2/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions.

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.

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2/3/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to open meetings.

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. House Floor Amendment (1) Amend Section 2 to require notice pursuant to KRS 61.823 and subsection (2)(b) to (d) if a regular meeting is changed to a video conference on the same date and time as originally scheduled, without declaring it a special meeting.

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3/25/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 37)

AN ACT relating to peace officer certification.

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.

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2/3/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to school resource officers and making an appropriation therefor.

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.

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2/7/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to paid parental leave.

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.

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2/9/2022 - floor amendment (1) filed

AN ACT relating to the Child Care Assistance Program.

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.

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2/9/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to preschool education.

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.

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2/9/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to library district boards.

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.

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2/10/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

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.

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2/11/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to student education loan servicing.

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. House Floor Amendment (2) Provide that persons servicing federal loans in this state are deemed by operation of law to be licensed and require compliance with provisions of the subtitle; deletes language relating to admitting certain documents prepared by department employees as evidence; provides that the commissioner may condition, deny, suspend, or revoke a license for a material violation of the subtitle, administrative regulation, or order; establishes a willful standard for certain prohibited conduct; limits civil penalties to violations that are repetitive or a pattern or practice of the licensee; limits civil penalties for violations applicable to borrowers with a disability, military borrowers, older borrowers, and borrowers working in public service to violations that result in financial harm; makes technical corrections. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions except exempt wholly owned subsidiaries of certain banks, trust companies, and industrial loan companies from the new subtitle on student education loan servicing.

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4/7/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 88)

AN ACT relating to freedom from discrimination.

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.

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2/14/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to employee child-care assistance, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original proisions; make technical changes so that the title of the program reads "Employee Child Care Assistance Program"; clarify the state match requirements in Section 5; remove the appropriation; EMERGENCY. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions, except create a two-week grace period after a party decides to terminate a contract under Section 7; permit the Cabinet for Economic Development to coordinate with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to incorporate this program into agreements with employers seeking economic development incentives; EMERGENCY.

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4/8/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 184)

AN ACT relating to the Commonwealth Education Continuum.

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.

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2/16/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.

Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 139 to reduce the sales and use tax to 5% for one year.

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2/16/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to annexation.

Amend KRS 81A.410 to prohibit city annexation of school property without the approval of the governing body of the public school system.

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2/16/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; add short title; add emergency clause. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; remove language requiring a student to be considered present; require that a student's perfect attendance record shall not be negatively affected for participating in the General Assembly's page program; EMERGENCY.

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4/8/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 168)

AN ACT relating to school building projects.

Amend KRS 162.070 to increase the minimum amount for advertising and bidding school building projects from $7,500 to $30,000. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; require reporting for contracts under $30,000; require a board of education policy on small purchase procedures that includes at least three quotes for projects greater than $7,500 and less than $30,000.

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3/22/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to publication procedures for local entities.

Amend KRS 424.145 by changing the definition of local government to remove the population restriction on counties, and governmental entities within counties, permitted to utilize alternative Internet publication.

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2/17/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to educators.

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.

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2/17/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to collective bargaining for public employees.

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.

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2/24/2022 - (H) WITHDRAWN

AN ACT relating to commercial driver's license testing.

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.

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2/17/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to elections.

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.

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2/22/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to short-time compensation.

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.

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2/22/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation.

Amend KRS 164A.040, 164A.050, and 164A.060 to update references to insured student loans.

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2/23/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain the provisions of the bill, except the following: within Section 3, change the days of no-excuse, in-person absentee voting from 7 business days prior to an election to 6 business days prior to an election; permit an election officer the ability to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot; change the number of county election officials who maintain receipt of voting equipment keys from 3 to 2; amend KRS 117.085 to require a person who has received a mail-in absentee ballot, but who knows he or she will be in the county on the day of an election or during the days of no-excuse, in-person absentee voting to return his or her mail-in absentee ballot and vote in person; technical corrections to conform; amend KRS 117.086 to ensure party parity for the keys to ballot drop-boxes, receptacles, and transport containers; add and amend KRS 117.001, 118.015, and 119.005 to include the definition of "election officer." Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 117.383 to include requirements related to an election audit, including a risk-limiting audit, and a risk-limiting audit program.

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4/7/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 87)

AN ACT relating to military-connected educational benefits.

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.

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2/23/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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2/24/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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2/24/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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2/24/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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2/24/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to civil rights.

Amend 344.450 to allow parties to recover punitive damages.

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2/24/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to the Commission on Human Rights.

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.

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2/24/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to collective bargaining for public employees.

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.

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2/24/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to elections.

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.

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2/25/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to teachers.

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.

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2/25/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to wagering and making an appropriation therefor.

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. House Floor Amendment (1) Make the tax rate imposed on online sports wagering apply to the adjusted gross revenue on all online sports wagers.

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4/13/2022 - floor amendments (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9) (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) and (17) filed

AN ACT relating to the emergency administration of medication in schools.

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.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to the State Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education.

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.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to teachers.

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.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to school population changes, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

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.

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3/16/2022 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)

AN ACT relating to a college and career readiness pilot program and making an appropriation therefor.

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.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.

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.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote.

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.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to school personnel.

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.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to employee right of action and declaring an emergency.

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.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to elections.

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.

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2/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to creating a virtual computer science career academy.

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.

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4/20/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 227)

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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3/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development.

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.

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3/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to school funding.

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.

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3/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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3/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to public employee trainings and declaring an emergency.

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.

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3/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education.

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.

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3/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to paycheck protection.

Amend KRS 164.365 to make technical changes.

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3/1/2022 - Introduced

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.

Encourage school districts to buy foods locally for school meals. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; recognize Madison County schools for using the farm-to-school concept.

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3/24/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 27)

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Debt Affordability Task Force.

Create the Debt Affordability Task Force to study Kentucky’s non-pension debt obligations; report recommendations and findings by December 1.

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2/16/2022 - Introduced

A RESOLUTION recognizing the last day of February, the day connecting Black and Women's History Months, as a day to honor Black women.

Recognize the last day of February, the day connecting Black and Women's History Months, as a day to honor Black women.

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2/28/2022 - adopted by voice vote

A RESOLUTION proclaiming February 9, 2022, as "Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day."

Proclaim February 9, 2022, as Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day.

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2/9/2022 - adopted by voice vote

A RESOLUTION recognizing February 8, 2022, as Children's Oral Health Awareness Day.

Recognize February 8, 2022, as Children's Oral Health Awareness Day.

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2/8/2022 - adopted by voice vote

AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 158.6453 to require academic standards be consistent with Section 4 of the Act; amend KRS 160.370 to designate the authority and duties of a local board of education and a superintendent in a county school district in a county with a consolidated local government adopted under KRS Chapter 67C; provide that any duties not expressly vested with the local board of education are vested with the superintendent in a county school district in a county with a consolidated local government adopted under KRS Chapter 67C; provide that the local board of education of a county with a consolidated local government adopted under KRS Chapter 67C shall delegate the authority to manage the day-to-day operations of the district to the superintendent; increase the contracting authority of a superintendent of a county school district in a county with a consolidated local government adopted under KRS Chapter 67C that adopts the provisions of the Kentucky Model Procurement Code from $20,000 to $250,000; authorize the superintendent of a county school district in a county with a consolidated local government adopted under KRS Chapter 67C to make line-item budget transfers of up to $250,000 without board approval; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require a public school to provide instruction that is consistent with designated concepts related to race, sex, and religion; provide that nothing in the section shall be construed to restrict historical instruction; require designated core American documents be incorporated in middle and high school 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 provide that classroom instruction on current, controversial topics shall be age-appropriate, relevant, objective, and nondiscriminatory; provide that a public school employee cannot require or incentivize 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 coerces the employee to engage in stereotyping; credit up to 15 days of sick leave to school employees who used sick leave during 2021-2022 due to a COVID-19 infection; provide up to 5 days of paid leave from March 1 through June 30, 2022, to school employees who have a COVID-19 infection; make sick leave provisions RETROACTIVE to March 1, 2022; provide that Sections 4 and 5 of the Act be cited as the Teaching American Principles Act; EMERGENCY. House Floor Amendment (6) Retain original provisions; require the superintendent to consult with the local board regarding curriculum; provide for SBDM elections to encompass multiple days; provide for the use of electronic voting. House Floor Amendment (7) Reinsert language providing for principal selection in a school district in a county with a consolidated local government adopted under KRS Chapter 67C; provide for the superintendent to select the principal; change the maximum frequency of local board of education meetings in a county school district with a consolidated local government adopted under KRS Chapter 67C for once every 8 weeks to once every 4 weeks; and provide that the local board of education in a county school district with a consolidated local government adopted under KRS Chapter 67C may withhold approval of rule, regulation, bylaw, or statement for policy submitted by the superintendent by a 2/3 vote instead of requiring an unanimous vote.

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4/13/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 196)

AN ACT relating to government actions and declaring an emergency.

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. Senate Floor Amendment (1) Amend Section 1 to require transmission to LRC of only executive orders relating to reorganizations, states of emergency, and operations or official policy of the government of Kentucky; extend timelines for Secretary of State and director of LRC to transmit executive orders to five working days; create a new subsection limiting Governor's ability to duplicate executive orders which have been found deficient; reduce Governor's reporting requirements to LRC; delete subsection (2) of KRS 11.160; amend KRS 247.090, 247.944, and 248.707 to conform.

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4/14/2022 - floor amendments (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7-title) filed

AN ACT relating to the administration of payroll systems.

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.

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3/10/2022 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)

AN ACT relating to early literacy education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain all original provisions; amend KRS 158.305 to provide that a superintendent shall select at least one universal screener and one reading diagnostic assessment for the district; provide that a superintendent may elect to adopt a common comprehensive reading program; 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 Section 5 this Act; EMERGENCY.

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3/29/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 40)

AN ACT relating to wages.

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.

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1/4/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations & Revenue (S)

AN ACT relating to school bus lighting.

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.

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1/4/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Transportation (S)

AN ACT relating to actions in response to the SARS-COV-2 virus and declaring an emergency

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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; make Section 1 retroactive to January 1, 2022. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; expire or extend certain executive orders, including emergency executive orders, administrative orders, administrative regulations, or other administrative actions, relating to the SARS-COV-2 virus; EMERGENCY.

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1/14/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 4)

AN ACT relating to interscholastic extracurricular activities.

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.

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1/8/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to the rights of parents.

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." Senate Floor Amendment (2) Create an exception related to KRS Chapter 508 and KRS 600.020 child dependency, abuse, or neglect investigations.

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3/24/2022 - received in House

AN ACT relating to educational opportunity account.

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.

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1/18/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations & Revenue (S)

AN ACT relating to the statewide education accountability system.

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.

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4/8/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 137)

AN ACT relating to preschool education.

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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Delete all original provisions; amend KRS 157.3175 to create an alternative procedure for certification of Head Start full utilization when an agreement cannot be reached between the superintendent and Head Start director. Senate Floor Amendment (1) Retain all original provisions, clarify that the certification and negotiation is conducted by the local head start director.

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4/11/2022 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE; (Acts Ch. 190)

AN ACT relating to early high school graduation.

Amend KRS 158.142 to delete end-of-course examination and ACT benchmark requirements from the early high school graduation program.

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3/30/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 54)

AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefit claim verification and declaring an emergency.

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.

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3/29/2022 - floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute , floor amendment (3-title) filed to bill

AN ACT relating to dyslexia.

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.

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1/13/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to athletics.

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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Delete all original provisions; amend KRS 156.070 to provide that an athletic activity or sport designated as "girls" shall not be open to members of the male sex, provide that the sex of a student for the purpose of determining athletic eligibility shall be determined by the student's certified birth certificate as originally issued at the time of birth or adoption; Save Women’s Sports Act. Senate Floor Amendment (2) Restrict applicability to grades 6 through 12. House Committee Substitute (1) Delete all original provisions; amend KRS 156.070 to require KHSAA to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools to designate all interscholastic athletics for students in grades 6 through 12 based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students in grades 6 through 12 from participating in girls' athletics; establish how to designate biological sex; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; 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; title the Act "Fairness in Womens' Sports Act."

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4/13/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 198)

AN ACT relating to superintendent screening committees.

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.

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1/18/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to employers.

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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions except remove KRS 344.040; create a new section of KRS Chapter 446 to require written notice of vaccination exemptions for sincerely held religious belief or medical contraindication; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption; require notice of federal mandates and exemptions; establish civil cause of action for violations.

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3/25/2022 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Judiciary (S)

AN ACT relating to the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; delete limitation on receiving the scholarship for four academic terms.

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3/29/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 42)

AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Homeschool Scholar Program and making an appropriation therefor.

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.

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1/24/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to education.

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. House Floor Amendment (1) 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. House Floor Amendment (3) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 159.030 to allow a qualified mental health professional to provide evidence that a child's diagnosis prevents the child's attendance at school; require evidence be provided by a qualified mental health professional if the condition is mental health related.

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4/20/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 234)

AN ACT relating to a drug-free workplace.

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.

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1/28/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing & Occupations (S)

AN ACT relating to police departments for local school districts.

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."

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3/23/2022 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to elections.

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.

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2/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Banking & Insurance (S)

AN ACT relating to transportation and declaring an emergency.

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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; stipulate that persons seeking to renew an expired CDL shall complete all necessary self-certifications required under KRS 281A.140, and if the CDL carried a hazardous materials endorsement that the applicant wishes to maintain, the examination requirements under KRS 281A.180(2). House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; 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, from the provisions of KRS Chapter 165A, entry-level driver training providers who are certified by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; 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 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; amend KRS 189.221 to conform; clarify that only Sections 1 to 4 of the Act are subject to the EMERGENCY clause. House Floor Amendment (1) Retain original provisions, except delete Section 6 relating to the regulation of trucks on county roads in its entirety and in lieu of Section 8 in its entirety. House Floor Amendment (2) Language from HB309.

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4/8/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 153)

AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.

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.

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2/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Banking & Insurance (S)

AN ACT relating to student instruction.

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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Delete all original provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require a public school to 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 historical instruction; require designated core American documents be incorporated in middle and high school 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 provide that classroom instruction on current, controversial topics shall be age-appropriate, relevant, objective, and nondiscriminatory; provide that a public school employee cannot require or incentivize 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 coerces the employee to engage in stereotyping; amend KRS 158.6453 to provide that academic standards shall be consistent with Section 1 of the Act; provide that the Act be cited as the "Teaching American Principles Act."

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4/14/2022 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/ HFA 1, HFA 2,t, HFA 3p, HFA 4, HFA 5, and HFA 6t

AN ACT relating to corporal punishment in schools.

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.

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2/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to gaming.

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.

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2/14/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

AN ACT relating to school breakfasts.

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. Senate Floor Amendment (2) Retain all original provisions, except provide that the superintendent of the school district can grant permission for school breakfasts during instructional time instead of the school council; remove the requirement that the breakfast be in a classroom.

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3/29/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 41)

AN ACT relating to elections.

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.

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2/14/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

AN ACT relating to student financial aid.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 164.767 to provide that a person convicted of certain felonies shall not be eligible for financial aid programs until 5 years after sentence completion; delete restriction that incarcerated individuals receive financial aid funds after all other eligible individuals; amend KRS 164.740 to delete definition of "penal institution." House Floor Amendment (2) Provide that a person convicted of certain felonies shall not be eligible for financial aid programs while incarcerated instead of five years after sentence completion.

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4/25/2022 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR

AN ACT relating to library district boards.

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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; eliminate the requirement for library members to have a postsecondary credential that is at least the level of an associate degree, certificate, or diploma. Senate Floor Amendment (1) Remove requirement that existing library board members' terms expire as of December 31, 2022; allow the library board members to finish serving their terms; require vacancies to be filled. Senate Floor Amendment (2) Lower the requirement of an unanimous vote of the board to a majority vote of the board when voting on leasing or constructing appropriate buildings for use by educational institutions or approving expenditures for capital projects over $500,000; increase the total capital project expenditure amount that requires a vote of the board and approval of the fiscal court from $500,000 to $1,000,000; make technical corrections. Senate Floor Amendment (3) Remove the requirement that the terms of the existing board members expire; remove the requirement that new persons be appointed to the board as of January 1, 2023; remove the age, residency, and geographical requirements of board members; allow the county judge/executive to use an alternative appointment process for appointing members to a library board when the fiscal court adopts an alternative appointment process through the passage of a resolution. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions, except amend the process when appointing board members or filling vacancies throughout the bill to require the county judge/executive to request the Department for Libraries and Archives to submit two additional recommendations for each board position that remains unfilled from the first set of recommendations prior to allowing the judge/executive to appoint members of his or her choosing; exempt public library construction fund awards that were made before the effective date of this Act from the requirement that projects costing $1,000,000 or more must receive a majority vote of the board and approval of the fiscal court.

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4/14/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 221)

AN ACT relating to civil rights.

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.

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2/15/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)

AN ACT relating to guidelines and standards for labor and workforce development and declaring an emergency.

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. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; EMERGENCY. House Floor Amendment (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 337.065 to allow an employer to mandate a tip pool for its employees; EMERGENCY.

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4/20/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 236)

AN ACT relating to exceptional children and youth.

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.

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2/22/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices by state agencies.

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.

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2/22/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)

AN ACT relating to pornography.

Amend KRS 531.070 to remove the educational justification from the exemption of criminal prosecution for pornography.

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2/25/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)

AN ACT relating to reading diagnostic and intervention grants and declaring and emergency.

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.

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2/28/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.

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. Senate Committee Substitute (1) Retain the provisions of the bill; except amend KRS 121.180 to permit a candidate and a candidate-authorized campaign committee to file annual campaign finance reports, with requirements prescribed, unless the candidate is seeking statewide office or a candidate authorized campaign committee for state-wide office; make technical corrections; amend KRS 117.015 to include the Secretary of State as chair of the State Board of Elections; remove the executive director of the State Board of Elections ability to cast a vote. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain the provisions of the bill, except; amend KRS 121.180 to remove the requirement that a candidate or slate of candidates file campaign finance reports with the office with which they file for candidacy and instead require the candidate or slate of candidates to file with the registry; amend KRS 121.160 to remove the requirement that a candidate or slate of candidates designate 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; add and amend KRS 118.205 to require the county clerk of each county and the Secretary of State to display, on the clerk's Web site and the Secretary's Web site, information related to candidates in a primary; add and amend KRS 118.327 to require the county clerk of each county and the Secretary of State to display, on the clerk's Web site and the Secretary's Web site, information related to candidates to be chosen by convention; add and amend KRS 118A.140 to require the Secretary of State to display on the Secretary of State's Web site information related to judicial candidates in a primary; create a new section of KRS Chapter 118 to require the county clerk of each county and the Secretary of State to display, on the clerk's Web site and the Secretary of State's Web site, information related to candidates who are on the ballot for a regular election; add and amend KRS 121.175 to allow a member of the General Assembly to contribute up to $5,000 in his or her campaign account to a political party or caucus campaign committee; make amendments to KRS 121.180 RETROACTIVE to January 1, 2021; EMERGENCY. House Floor Amendment (1) Reinstate provision that allows voters to use a credit or debit card as means of proof of identification. House Floor Amendment (2) Amend KRS 117.295 to require a video surveillance system that monitors voting equipment and ballot boxes to have the capacity to include enough storage capacity to hold sixty consecutive days of continuous recording data.

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4/14/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 219)

AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to restoration of rights.

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.

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2/28/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

AN ACT relating to drugs and medicines and declaring an emergency.

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.

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3/1/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health & Welfare (S)

AN ACT relating to abuse or neglect of a child.

Amend KRS 600.020 to add exclusions to the definition of "abused or neglected child".

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3/1/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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3/2/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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3/2/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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3/2/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

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3/2/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to state employee health insurance.

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.

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3/2/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

AN ACT relating to providing free feminine hygiene products for elementary and secondary students.

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.

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3/2/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to financing of school building projects.

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.

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3/3/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to coverage for hearing aids and related services.

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.

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3/3/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health & Welfare (S)

AN ACT relating to the civics test required for high school graduation.

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.

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3/3/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.

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.

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3/3/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)

AN ACT relating to dependency, neglect, and abuse reporting.

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.

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3/3/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health & Welfare (S)

AN ACT relating to child welfare investigations.

Amend KRS 620.030 to establish requirements for reports of alleged child dependency, abuse, or neglect.

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3/3/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health & Welfare (S)

AN ACT relating to Juneteenth.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

AN ACT relating to schools.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices by state agencies.

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.

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3/11/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)

AN ACT relating to elections.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

AN ACT relating to recontribution of a refund in the retirement systems.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Education and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 156.029 to change the pubic 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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to school nurses and making an appropriation therefor.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations & Revenue (S)

AN ACT relating to retirement.

Amend KRS 61.623 to make a technical change.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

AN ACT relating to executive branch governance.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

AN ACT relating to school masking policies and declaring an emergency.

Require a school district's COVID-19 masking policy to allow parents to opt out for any reason; EMERGENCY.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to employer practices.

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.

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3/11/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)

AN ACT relating to employment protections.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)

AN ACT relating to postpartum Medicaid coverage.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health & Welfare (S)

AN ACT relating to employment.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)

AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices against a person.

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".

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

AN ACT relating to elections.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

AN ACT relating to prevailing wage.

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.

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3/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)

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.

Encourage civility at local school board meetings.

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3/10/2022 - received in House

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Early Childhood Education Task Force.

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.

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3/14/2022 - received in House

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.

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.

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3/8/2022 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules, as consent

A JOINT RESOLUTION terminating the declaration of emergency regarding the SARS-COV-2 virus and declaring an emergency.

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.

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3/22/2022 - Delivered To Secretary Of State (Acts Ch. 22)

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.

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.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/2/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

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.

Recognize February 2022 as Career and Technical Education Month and February 8, 2022, as Career and Technical Education Leadership Day in Kentucky.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/8/2022 - adopted by voice vote

A RESOLUTION honoring the celebration of Black History Month and recognizing that Black history is American history.

Honor the celebration of Black History Month and recognize that Black history is American history.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/30/2022 - adopted by voice vote

A RESOLUTION recognizing February 8, 2022, as Children's Oral Health Awareness Day.

Recognize February 8, 2022, as Children's Oral Health Awareness Day.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/8/2022 - adopted by voice vote

A RESOLUTION proclaiming February 9, 2022, as "Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day."

Proclaim February 9, 2022, as Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/9/2022 - adopted by voice vote

A RESOLUTION honoring Kenwood Elementary School on being named a 2021 National ESEA Distinguished School.

Honor Kenwood Elementary School on being named a 2021 National ESEA Distinguished School.

  CURRENT STATUS

4/14/2022 - adopted by voice vote