| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| KY | HB417 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.275 to raise minimum wage for employers to $9.50 an hour on the effective date of this Act and incrementally thereafter to $15.00 an hour on July 1, 2028; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $5.00 an hour on the effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB423 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 199.894 to define "outdoor nature-based child-care center"; amend KRS 194A.381 to exempt outdoor nature-based child-care centers from the requirements for youth camps; amend KRS 199.8941 to allow monetary incentives for outdoor nature-based...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB134 | Intro
25% | 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 prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB391 | Intro
25% | Repeal and reenact KRS 344.010 to define various terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB379 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.610 to remove the presumption that the use of an illegal substance prior to an accident caused the injury; provide that the use of an illegal substance shall be the proximate cause of the injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB363 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.0011 to allow "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB355 | Intro
25% | Repeal KRS 338.062, relating to occupational safety and health standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB362 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.415 to define terms "crime," "immediate family," and "victim"; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with the prosecut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB351 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 342.610 to exclude certain levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the blood from the presumption that an injury was caused by the introduction of certain substances into the employee's body.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB326 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapters 45A, 56, and 65 to require that state and local contracts contain a provision that any iron, steel, aluminum, or manufactured goods used in all state and local projects be manufactured in the United States unless a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB337 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB312 | Intro
25% | Create a new section in KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit an employer from conditioning employment or employment benefits on an employee signing types of nondisclosure agreements related to unlawful acts in the workplace; clarify statutory construction; cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Committee On Committees |
