HB 38: AN ACT relating to sex offender registrants. Amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit sex offender registrants from being on the grounds of a publicly owned playground without advance written permission.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 76)
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HB 306: AN ACT relating to an exemption from workers' compensation for religious organizations. Amend KRS 342.650 to include certain ministers and caretakers of a church or religious organization with employees who are exempt from workers' compensation insurance.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 085)
HB 242: AN ACT relating to the Department of Insurance. Amend KRS 12.020, 304.2-020, and 304.2-063 to delete the Property and Casualty Division and the Health and Life Division of the Department of Insurance; establish the Division of Insurance Product Regulation and the Division of Administrative Services; rename the Consumer Protection Division the Division of Consumer Protection; authorize the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to apply for a state innovation waiver under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and implement any state plan proposed under an approved waiver.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 094)
HB 502: AN ACT relating to the administration of justice and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 23A.045 to add the Sixth Judicial Circuit to the circuits which have three circuit judges, allowing for a Family Court judge in that circuit, and amend KRS 23A.040 to conform.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 75)
SB 183: AN ACT relating to reorganization. Confirm Executive Order 2016-832, relating to the reorganization of the Public Service Commission, which is administratively attached to the Energy and Environment Cabinet.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 56)
SB 176: AN ACT relating to military surplus vehicles. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to allow the titling of military surplus vehicles; set provisions for titling; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to the titling of these vehicles; amend KRS 186A.115 to require military surplus vehicles to be inspected prior to titling; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations relating to inspection and modifications; require the Transportation Cabinet to create a new inspection form for military surplus vehicles; make technical corrections; amend KRS 186.010 to define "military surplus vehicle"; specify that a military surplus vehicle is a motor vehicle.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 55)
HB 255: AN ACT relating to wages and hours in nonprofit entities. Amend 337.010(2)(a)10. to clarify the exemption for an organized nonprofit camp, religious, or nonprofit educational conference center that it must not be in operation for more than 210 days instead of 7 months in a calendar year.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 096)
HB 227: AN ACT relating to physical therapists. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 327 to establish a multistate physical therapy licensure compact; set out compact purpose and definitions; allow state participation in the compact if the state meets the compact criteria; require criminal background checks for licensees and applicants; enable a licensee to exercise a compact privilege if the listed requirements are met; make a licensee practicing in another jurisdiction subject to that jurisdiction's regulatory authority; authorize active duty military personnel and their spouses to designate their home state as the state of the home of record, permanent change of station, or current residence; institute rules for enforcing adverse actions against a licensee under the compact; establish the Physical Therapy Compact Commission as a joint public agency; fix commission membership, meetings, and the executive board; set out commission powers and duties, financing, and immunity and indemnification; approve commission rulemaking authority and data system requirements; initiate the commission's oversight, dispute resolution, and enforcement powers; make rules for compact implementation, amendment, and withdrawal; delay the effective date of the compact until the date of its enactment by 10 states; insert a severability clause in the compact; create a new section of KRS Chapter 327 to allow an out-of-state physical therapist to practice in Kentucky under a compact privilege; create a new section of KRS Chapter 327 to establish procedures for criminal background investigations relating to the physical therapy compact; amend KRS 327.020 to conform.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 093)
SB 147: AN ACT relating to advanced practice doctoral programs at comprehensive universities. Amend KRS 164.295 to remove the maximum number of advanced practice doctoral programs that may be offered by the six comprehensive universities; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to review advanced practice doctorates consistent with its review schedule for all other academic programs; prohibit a comprehensive university from offering a terminal degree in veterinary medicine, chiropractic, or optometry or a primary degree in architecture.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 51)
SB 50: AN ACT relating to the school calendar. Amend KRS 158.070 to establish a school district calendar committee and determine its membership; allow inclusion of a variable student instructional year in a school calendar; define a variable student instructional year; establish school calendar adoption procedures; require notice to be given to the media for school board meetings regarding the school calendar; provide that districts adopting a school calendar with the first student attendance day no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 may use a variable student instructional year; make changes throughout to conform.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 68)
HB 368: AN ACT relating to tax credits. Amend KRS 144.132 to allow persons that contract with one or more certificated air carriers for the transportation by air of persons, property, or mail and that purchase and pay for the aviation fuel used for that purpose a sales and use tax credit equal to the amount in excess of $1,000,000 each fiscal year; repeal various statutes.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 71)
HB 271: AN ACT relating to education requirements for cosmetologists. Amend KRS 317A.050 to reduce the hours of education required for an apprentice cosmetologist license from 1,800 to 1,500; amend KRS 317A.090 to require cosmetology schools to provide courses of instruction of at least 1,500 hours instead of 1,800 hours.
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 099)
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