Rep. Jared Bauman

Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to permit the coverage of triage, treatment, and transport of patients by emergency ambulance services and submit a state Medicaid plan amendment to cover treatment in place without transportation for emergency ambulance services; urge the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for ambulance services as funds become available; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to submit a report on actions taken by August 1, 2023; EMERGENCY.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to define terms; provide protections from in-person access to private open land by law enforcement; require law enforcement to utilize body-worn cameras and audio devices while on private open land; provide exceptions.

Amend KRS 610.030 to require a report to the court of truancy cases when there is no action implemented by the response team within 90 days; require a court-designated worker to make a finding if diversion is failed due to lack of parental cooperation; allow a court to refer cases back to the court-designated worker and order parental cooperation; amend KRS 610.990 to establish penalty; amend KRS 610.265 to require children charged with serious felony offenses to be detained pending a detention hearing and to be evaluated for treatment; amend KRS 610.340 to provide that confidentiality does not apply to cases in which a child has admitted to or been adjudicated for a violent felony offense for five years; direct renovations to the Jefferson County Youth Detention Center; APPROPRIATION.

Direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to adopt revisions to the state air quality implementation plan to remove the reformulated gas requirement for Jefferson County and applicable parts of Oldham and Bullitt Counties; specify required elements of the revisions; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to report status of the revisions to the IJC on Natural Resources and Energy no later than October 31, 2023.

Amend KRS 67C.103 to create the procedures for filling an unexpired term on the consolidated local government council; amend KRS 118.740 to conform.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit a school district from punishing an employee for engaging in private religious expression otherwise protected by the First Amendment absent a showing of engaging in actual coercion; provide specific examples of protected activity; establish limits of applicability.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; obligate the cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop guidelines for health facilities conducting workplace safety assessments and creating a workplace safety plan; require the cabinet to audit health facilities for compliance; require health facilities to create a workplace safety assessment and a workplace safety plan; obligate health facilities to provide trainings on the workplace safety assessment and plan; obligate health facilities to develop internal reporting requirements for incidents of workplace violence; create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit discrimination against a health care worker that reports an incident of workplace violence.

Amend KRS 158.150 to require a local board of education to expel a student for at least 12 months if the student makes threats that pose a danger to other students or staff; require a local board of education to adopt a policy requiring disciplinary actions for a student who assaults other students or staff off campus property; allow a local school board to place a student in an alternative education setting in lieu of expulsion, or at the end of an expulsion; allow a teacher to remove a disruptive student from the classroom; provide that a student who is removed from a classroom three times in 30 days shall be considered chronically disruptive and may be suspended; provide that a principal may permanently remove a disruptive student from a classroom and determine the placement of the student, subject to an appeal process; require a local board of education to conduct an expulsion review process to determine whether a student's expulsion shall continue or end.

Create new sections of KRS 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund to enable the CPE, healthcare programs, and healthcare providers and facilities to match public and private dollars for the purpose of awarding scholarships to eligible students and healthcare incentives to eligible healthcare programs; provide that the moneys in the fund appropriated by the General Assembly shall lapse after the second year in a biennium budget; direct CPE to promulgate regulations to administer the Act; require at least 65% of all net moneys in the fund to be used to fund partnership proposals between healthcare programs and healthcare partners to issue scholarships to students enrolled in the healthcare program; require CPE to establish a process to prioritize certain partnership proposals; require a written partnership contract and establish the minimum contents; require that scholarships be issued directly to students and establish employment requirements for recipients; permit a healthcare partner to contract for additional employment restrictions; provide that individuals on the nurse aide abuse registry are not eligible for scholarships; require that up to 35% of moneys in the fund shall be reserved for healthcare program incentives to award excellence in healthcare programs; establish the criteria for CPE to consider in awarding healthcare program incentives; require that the healthcare program incentives be competitive; restrict the use of healthcare program incentive awards; require CPE to report to specific interim joint committees annually; establish the minimum contents of the report; require public postsecondary educational institution to report to specific committees annually; establish the minimum contents of the report; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the administration of behavioral health community crisis response and transfer the administration from the Department for Military Affairs to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; repeal KRS 36.250, 36.255, 36.260, 36.265, and 36.270, related to the Kentucky Community Crisis Response Board.