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passed · Kentucky · House Mar 13, 2025

HB 403: AN ACT relating to deputy coroner training.

Amend KRS 72.415 to allow the commissioner of the Department of Criminal Justice Training or his or her designee, to grant an extension to a deputy coroner to complete the required training, specify when the extension begins to toll, specify consequences for failure to complete the training within the time period of the extension; delete existing provisions relating to reinstatement and pay modification of deputy coroners who fail to complete the required training.
Deanna Gordon (R)
passed · Kentucky · House Mar 13, 2025

HB 508: AN ACT relating to the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program.

Amend KRS 199.884 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish new procedures related to the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program.
Topics ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentAmends to establish new procedures for child care assistance program supports workforce participation and family-friendly workplace policies under Labor & Industry subjects.85% confidence
Jennifer Decker (R)
passed · Kentucky · House Mar 13, 2025

HB 340: AN ACT relating to background checks.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to define terms and require criminal justice agencies to provide criminal history records information to requesting agencies when they are conducting a basic suitability or fitness assessment for federal or contractor employees under 5 U.S.C. sec. 9101; authorize the agency to request a fee of $25 for reimbursement of expenses related to the check; amend KRS 610.340, relating to juvenile justice records, to conform.
Tony Hampton (R) Daniel Grossberg (D)
passed · Kentucky · House Mar 12, 2025

HB 236: AN ACT relating to coverage for epinephrine devices.

Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover epinephrine devices for covered persons; limit a covered person's cost-sharing amount to $100 annually; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exempt the epinephrine device coverage requirement from being suspended under state law due to the triggering of federal cost defrayment requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485,164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the epinephrine device coverage requirement; provide that various sections apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Department of Insurance to determine whether the epinephrine devices coverage requirement would be in addition to essential health benefits required under federal law; require the Department of Insurance to obtain federal approval, if necessary; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to obtain federal approval, if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareMandates health plans cover epinephrine devices with $100 annual cost cap, expanding access to critical allergy treatment for covered persons.95% confidence
Joshua Watkins (D) Aaron Thompson (R) Adam Moore (D) Anne Donworth (D) Mitch Whitaker (R)
passed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 12, 2025

SB 111: AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.

Create a new section in KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan and dispute resolution through a review process and the court if the parties cannot agree to a plan; require a 24-hour protocol for health facilities, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the courts to direct care; establish reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care of a child by psychiatric hospitals and pediatric teaching hospitals; establish procedures for discharge and transfer of the child from an inpatient admission under specific circumstances; amend KRS 15A.305 to include a mental health facility operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice as an identified facility for the detention and treatment of children; direct the operation of two female-only facilities with authority to increase as population increases; direct reimbursement rates for local governments lodging juveniles to be set by administrative regulation; amend KRS 600.020 to remove and add defined terms; amend KRS 610.265 to remove beginning date that is past; amend KRS 610.340 to enable release of information and use of records in specific circumstances; authorize the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to construct a high acuity health facility to be completed by February 1, 2026, subject to funding; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide clinical services; direct the Department of Juvenile Justice to continue to implement the plan to return to a regional model of detention; direct the Finance and Administration Cabinet to report to the Legislative Research Commission by July 1, 2025 the status of the transfer of the Jefferson County Youth Detention Center property; amend various sections of KRS to conform.
Topics ✓ Criminal JusticeSupports Criminal JusticeBill establishes treatment plans, dispute resolution, and 24-hour care protocols for juveniles, promoting rehabilitation-focused juvenile justice reform rather than punitive measures.90% confidence
Danny Carroll (R) Brandon Storm (R) Matt Nunn (R) Steve Meredith (R)
passed · Kentucky · House Mar 12, 2025

HB 790: AN ACT relating to solar merchant electric generating facilities.

Amend KRS 278.704 to prohibit the Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Transmission Siting from granting a setback deviation for an application for a solar merchant electric generating facility made after January 1, 2026, that would allow the facility to be located within 350 feet of an adjoining property owner unless consented to in writing and approved by the legislative body of the local government where the adjoining property is located; establish requirements for the application of the minimum setback requirements for solar merchant electric generating facilities; amend KRS 278.710 to require a construction certificate holder for a solar merchant electric generating facility to file a report with the Energy and Environment Cabinet detailing all federal and state incentives utilized by the construction certificate holder relating to the siting, construction, and operation of the facility; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to compile an annual report from the incentive disclosures it receives and to submit the report to the Legislative Research Commission on or before December 1 each year.
Topics ✗ EnergyOpposes EnergyRestricts solar facility siting by requiring property owner consent and local approval, creating barriers to renewable energy development.95% confidence
David Meade (R) Jim Gooch (R)
passed · Kentucky · House Mar 12, 2025

HB 688: AN ACT relating to health care.

Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to permit rather than require the board to issue credentials; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees of vulnerable adult service providers, to permit a state licensing board to query the cabinet for a validated substantiated finding of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation against an individual under that licensing board's jurisdiction; create a new section of KRS 158.830 to 158.838 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies; amend KRS 158.832 to add medical conditions and medications to the definition of "medications"; amend KRS 158.834 to add medical conditions and medications that may be self-administered in schools with parental authorization and a prescription; amend KRS 158.836 to require students to permit bronchodilator rescue inhalers, nebulizers, glucagon, Solu-Cortef, or other prescribed medications in their possession or in the possession of school personnel; encourage schools to stock undesignated glucagon; and require policies and Good Samaritan protection for the good faith administration of glucagon, Solu-Cortef or other prescribed medications for authorized school employees.
Topics ✗ HealthcareOpposes HealthcareChanges from 'require' to 'permit' for nurse licensure may restrict credential issuance, potentially limiting healthcare provider access. Requires physician license compliance but main effect reduces mandatory licensing.75% confidence
Kim Moser (R) Adrielle Camuel (D) Steve Bratcher (R)
passed · Kentucky · House Mar 12, 2025

HB 46: AN ACT relating to the identification of lottery winners.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 154A to allow the winner of a lottery prize with a gross value that exceeds $1,000,000 to elect to have his or her identifying information withheld from public record for one year; amend KRS 154A.040 to conform; amend KRS 61.878 to exempt the identifying information of the winner of a lottery prize with a gross value that exceeds $1,000,000 from the Open Records Act for one year unless confidentiality has been waived.
Kim Banta (R) Beverly Chester-Burton (D)
passed · Kentucky · House Mar 12, 2025

HB 186: AN ACT relating to the donation of food.

Amend KRS 217.127 to define " charitable food donor" as a nonprofit or religious organization that is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or home-based processor, which produces food for distribution to a homeless shelter or to individuals displaced due to a declared natural disaster; exempt a charitable food donor from the licensing requirements of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 and application of State Plumbing Code requirements; amend KRS 217.218 to conform; amend KRS 411.241 to exempt a nonprofit or religious organization that is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or a home-based processor from civil or criminal liability arising from the production or donation of food to a homeless shelter or to individuals displaced due to a declared natural disaster.
T.J. Roberts (R) Kim Banta (R) Scott Sharp (R) Kim Moser (R) Deanna Gordon (R)
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