| KY | SR224 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of Phillipe W. Rich as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR223 | Intro
25% | Confirm the reappointment of Scott C. Wilhoit as commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR227 | Intro
25% | Confirm the reappointment of Grant Stewart Roark as administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | HB6 | Pass | The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; 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][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 175) |
| KY | HB320 | Pass | Amend KRS 337.385 to establish a statute of limitations of two years for wage and hour violations, and three years in the case of willful violations; amend KRS 413.125 to establish a statute of limitations of two years for a violation of KRS Chapter ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 157) |
| KY | HB596 | Pass | Amend KRS 81A.420 to require a city to provide written notice to a county of annexation; eliminate the election in opposition to annexation but allow a petition to defeat annexation proposal; create a new section of KRS 65.210 to 65.300 to make inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 158) |
| KY | HB456 | Pass | Amend KRS 337.285 to add sheriff's offices and county police forces to the local government agencies eligible for an exception to overtime compensation; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 86) |
| KY | HB401 | Pass | Amend KRS 342.0011 to expand the definition of "physician" to include physicians with a license issued by any state, Commonwealth, district, or territory of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.33) |
| KY | SB140 | Pass | Amend KRS 341.413 to remove the waiver application deadline for unemployment insurance overpayment of thirty days on unemployment insurance claims filed between January 27, 2020, and December 31, 2020; provide that the waiver application deadline sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 70) |
| KY | SB14 | Pass | Amend KRS 317A.030 to add a licensed nail technician and one additional citizen at large member to the board; direct board to collect and retain statistical data on its applicants and licensees; amend KRS 317A.120 to require the board give written te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.25) |
| KY | SB194 | Pass | Create a new section of Subtitle 18 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize insurers to provide electronic communications to persons covered under an employer-sponsored group health insurance policy, plan, or contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.20) |
| KY | HB465 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; permit a public or private entity to contribute funds to a portable benefit plan of a self-employed worker without establishing an employer classification.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To House Rules Committee |
| KY | HB255 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 339.230 to prohibit the Department of Workplace Standards from promulgating regulations on child labor that are more restrictive than those promulgated by the United States Secretary of Labor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB500 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to provide for certain employment activities to be exempt from minimum wage and overtime wage requirements; specify activities and instances that do not require an employer to pay minimum wage or overtime wage; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB295 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HCR79 | Intro
25% | Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Workforce Innovation Task Force to conduct a review of current education and workforce development programs and provide recommendations on how to provide effective workforce development to f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024 |
| KY | HCR104 | Intro
25% | Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Workforce Growth and Solutions Task Force to study challenges related to workforce participation in the Commonwealth; provide recommendations on how to identify solutions to support workforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024 |
| KY | SB142 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth a paid leave of absence of up to four weeks for the birth, surrogacy, or adoption of a child, or up to two weeks for the placement of a child in foster care or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB437 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 338.062 to prohibit the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board or the secretary from enforcing any occupational safety and health administrative regulation that is more stringent than the corresponding federal provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB448 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 45A.110 to require the bidder or offeror to attest to not receiving two or more civil penalties under KRS Chapter 337, 338, 339, or 341 in order to be eligible to receive the written determination of responsibility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House State Government Committee |
| KY | SB346 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 14.250 to require the Secretary of State (SOS) to develop, operate, and maintain the Kentucky One-Stop Business Portal (Portal) to facilitate interaction among businesses and governmental agencies in the Commonwealth; mandate that certain e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB296 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.0011 to define "medical professional"; amend KRS 342.020 to provide that failure to submit a statement for services within 45 days may render the statement for services ineligible and that denial of a claim shall toll the requirements t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB328 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 154.26-050 to include gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | HB698 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to establish the right to repair agricultural equipment; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB797 | Intro
25% | 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 minimum wage of hourly and tipped e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB772 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define "covenant not to compete" and "covered employee"; provide that an employer shall not require a covered employee to enter into a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages that can be rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB792 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 317A.030 to add a licensed nail technician and one additional citizen at large member to the board; direct board to collect and retain statistical data on its applicants and licensees; amend KRS 317A.120 to require the board give written te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB824 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms related to employer requirements for victims of domestic violence; require employers to grant leave from work for employees who seek protection or treatment for themselves or a family member due ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB778 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 371.160 to provide that the requirement that the retained amount held back by an owner for improvement of real estate in any contract in the amount of $500,000 or more be deposited into a separate escrow account shall be mandatory and shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB669 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 341.020 to include gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB168 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services document to employers and require employers to keep copies of a veterans' benefits and services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB568 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to define "educator" and set out when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims for educators when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to clarify definition of "injury" to include ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB558 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 154.26-050 to include gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB576 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.010 to change the definition of "employee" and to add the definition of "worker with a disability"; amend KRS 337.275 to require all employers to pay all employees, including workers with a disability, a minimum wage and increase the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB539 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB540 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to define terms; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB537 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; require all employers to grant an employee at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a child, or death of a depen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB541 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.010 to remove exemptions in definition of employee for agricultural workers and domestic service workers; amend KRS 342.630 to indicate that agricultural employers are subject to KRS Chapter 342; amend KRS 342.650 to remove exemptions f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB523 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 341.350 to change the number of verifiable work search activities from five to two and the number of applications for employment or interviewing for employment from three to one.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB33 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require a crew of at least two persons during the operation of a train; provide exceptions; amend KRS 277.990 to include penalties for crews of less than two persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| KY | SB184 | Intro
25% | 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 "candidate," "committee," "contributing organiz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB185 | Intro
25% | 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, 151B.015, 337.010, and 337.990 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB183 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; require employers who provide services in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation to maintain a written heat illness prevention plan informing employees of policies and proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | HB508 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to establish a prevailing wage law for all public works projects; amend KRS 12.020, 99.480, 227.487, 151B.015, 337.010, and 337.990 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB504 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB507 | Intro
25% | 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 all other definitions; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB176 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; establish a procedure for classifying workers as employees or independent contractors; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.145 to prohibit contractors with mul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB182 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to require employers that mandate employee immunization to allow exceptions based on religious belief or medical contraindication; provide sample form for employee affirmation; establish which health care provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB483 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to provide a remedy for employees misclassified as independent contractors; amend KRS 337.010 to define "independent contractor" and "misclassified"; repeal KRS 336.137.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB141 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable individual income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Join...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
