The 2008 legislative session runs from January 8 to April 15. Use the table below to follow important legislation affecting Kentucky's children and families. (To be continually updated daily throughout the session).
For more information, click the Bill # link at the left (this will take you to the Legislative Research Commission website).
| Bill # |
Summary |
| HCR 16 |
Urge the United States Congress to amend Title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provisions. |
| HB 32 |
Permit a court to provide for wage attachment and automatic electronic transfer of funds for payment of spousal maintenance and to add healthy environment for child as a factor for the consideration of awarding custody of children. |
| HCR 33 |
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a task force composed of seventeen members from the General Assembly, the Office of Charitable Gaming, charitable gaming licensees, and the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, appointed by the Legislative Research Commission, to study the oversight of charitable gaming. |
| HB 51 |
Require public postsecondary institutions to provide new undergraduates with information regarding credit cards and debt management. |
| HB 72 |
Authorize the Office of Financial Institutions to provide free mortgage foreclosure counseling and education to homeowners. |
| HB 111 |
| Provide a process for postsecondary institutions to issue agency bonds upon authorization by the General Assembly. |
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| HB 115 |
Create a sales tax holiday exempting the sale or purchase of clothing with a sales price of less than one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per item, computers and computer supplies with a sales price of less than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per item, and school supplies. |
| HB 120 |
| Delete retroactively the three year time limit on the extension of eligibility for a Kentucky educational excellence scholarship for service in the United States Armed Forces, United States Public Health Service, Peace Corps, or Americorps; permit extensions based on the number of months served on active duty status; establish that the number of months served on active duty status shall be rounded up to the next higher year. |
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| HB 123 |
Prohibit the offer of a gift in exchange for a student credit card application; require public postsecondary education institutions and encourage nonpublic postsecondary institutions to include credit card and debt education sessions as part of new student orientation. |
| HB 126 |
| Provide that effective July 1, 2009, compulsory school attendance shall be between the ages of six and 17. |
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| HB 127 |
Allow a guardian to place a ward's assets in a bank or federally insured credit union. |
| HB 135 |
| Require all pre-service teachers to complete a reading and civics education course as a condition of certification; require out-of-state teachers who have not previously completed a reading and civics education course to complete a reading and civics education professional development program or course. |
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| HB 137 |
Create a compulsive gamblers awareness and treatment fund. |
| HB 151 |
Establish payments to or on behalf of survivors of fallen coal miners; provide for administration of scholarship payments for children of fallen coal miners. |
| HB 157 |
| Require a feasibility study by a third party of any proposed school facility estimated to cost $10,000,000 or more, beginning with the 2009-2010 fiscal year. |
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| HB 158 |
| Require the state board of education or agency designated to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate rules, regulations, or bylaws that prohibit the recruiting of students for athletic purposes, establish student eligibility requirements, and allow a student to be eligible in the school in which he or she first enrolls each school year. |
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| HB 160 |
Establish a nonrefundable educational scholarship tax credit program for corporations, limited liability pass-through entities, estates, trusts, or fiduciaries that contribute to scholarship organizations that provide educational scholarships to eligible students, establish a family education tax credit program for individuals who directly pay for tuition and other educational expenses of eligible students who are dependents of the individual. |
| HB 196 |
Require continued payment of child support while the child is a high school student, regardless of the child's age. |
| HB 230 |
Prohibit a lender from making a high-cost home loan with a prepayment penalty unless the lender offers the borrower a loan without a prepayment penalty. |
| HB 237 |
Prohibit an insurer or agent from declining, refusing to renew, canceling, rating, or setting premiums for a policy of automobile insurance or personal motorcycle liability insurance based, in whole or in part, on the credit history, or lack of credit history, of the insured or applicant. |
| HB 261 |
Require a person who is obligated to pay child support to pay his or her proportional share of the child's reasonable funeral expenses. |
| HB 263 |
Permit a deduction for contributions to the Kentucky Education Savings Plan Trust. |
| HB 272 |
Declare it is unlawful for any lender making a mortgage loan under this section, directly or indirectly, to make, provide, or arrange for a residential mortgage loan that requires a borrower to pay a prepayment penalty for paying all or part of the principal prior to maturity. |
| HB 301 |
Define "asset test," "department," "enrollee," "federal poverty guidelines," "liquid assets," "Medicaid dual eligible," "Medicare Modernization Act," "Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit," "prescription drug plan", "program," and "resident"; create the Kentucky Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program within the Department for Aging and Independent Living. |
| HB 350 |
Set eligibility for a child-care subsidy at less than or equal to 165 percent of the federal poverty level at initial application and less than or equal to 200 percent of the federal poverty level upon redetermination of eligibility; permit a family receiving a child-care subsidy to meet work requirements by combining approved employment and educational activities. |
| HB 488 |
Declare it is unlawful to make, provide, or arrange for a residential mortgage loan that requires a borrower to pay a prepayment penalty for paying all or part of the principal prior to maturity. |
| HB 500 |
Require the Executive Director of the Office of Financial Institutions to develop a database of deferred deposit transactions and to promulgate regulations specifying the information required of licensees.
Reduce the service fee for a transaction charged by a licensee from $15 to $12 for a period of 30 days, rather than 14 days; provide that a licensee shall access the database, required by this Act, to ascertain if a customer has outstanding deferred deposit transactions with other licensees that would result in a debt in excess of $500. |
| HB 601 |
Require termination of workers' compensation income benefits when a worker qualifies for normal Social Security retirement benefits or 4 years, rather than 2 years, following the injury or last exposure, whichever last occurs. |
| HB 764 |
Establish the amount of death gratuity benefits available to the survivors of any police officer, firefighter, or member of the military killed in the line of duty, by linking it to the federal death gratuity amount. |
| SB 41 |
Establish the Kentucky Homeownership Protection Center; specify the purpose of the center is, among other things, to provide a centralized location for information on, and referral to, public services available to assist a homeowner who is in default on his or her loan. |
| SB 128 |
Set eligibility for a child-care subsidy at less than or equal to 165 percent of the federal poverty level at initial application and less than or equal to 200 percent of the federal poverty level upon redetermination of eligibility. |
| SB 131 |
Delete provision prohibiting survivor benefits from the Kentucky Teacher's Retirement System for legally adopted children unless adoption proceedings were initiated at least 1 year prior to the death of the member. |
| SB 186 |
Provide that, with regard to residential mortgage loans in a principal loan amount of under $200,000 and a loss ratio of greater than 80 percent, it shall be unlawful not to verify and document the borrower's income and financial resources and not to verify the borrower's reasonable ability to repay. |
| SB 195 |
Reduce from 90 days to 60 days, the period of time required after maturity of the loan before the pawnbroker may sell a pawned article.
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| SB 197 |
Require that an award for income benefits with a present value of $25,000 or less be paid in a lump sum upon request of the employee and approval of an administrative law judge. |
| SB 229 |
Provide that persons in areas not served by a sanitary system are exempt from storm water rate charges that are charged by that system. |
| SB 231 |
Require a reduction in premium rates for automobile liability and physical damage insurance for insureds 55 years of age and older who successfully complete a self-instructed driver safety course meeting standards set by the Transportation Cabinet.
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| Bill # |
Summary |
| HCR 4 |
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to study the cost of elementary, secondary, and postsecondary textbooks and related instructional materials. |
| HR 5 |
To urge local school boards to consult teachers, school staff, parents, and community members before approving the upcoming school year calendar. |
| HJR 6 |
To include content related to the Holocaust in the state school curriculum. To review Holocaust related curricula in other states and identify where more instruction on this subject can be incorporated into Kentucky's current curriculum. |
| HCR 7 |
To establish a task force in order to identify and create alternative opportunities for disabled students to participate in organized sports programs at the postsecondary level. |
| HB 10 |
| Establish the Kentucky educator award and recognition fund to provide matching funds for schools that have state and national award winning educators who received cash awards or an equivalent benefit; require the Kentucky Department of Education to administer the fund. |
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| HB 11 |
| Provide that tuition at any state postsecondary education institution shall remain at the level of the 2007-2008 academic year through the 2009-2010 academic year; limit any tuition increase beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year by an amount no higher than the most recent percent increase. |
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| HB12 |
| Increase the Kentucky educational excellence scholarship base and supplemental award amounts by 100 percent beginning with the 2008-2009 academic year. |
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| HB 14 |
| Establish the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Covenant Award to provide an eligible student with 100% of the total cost of education at any state public college or university, minus the amount of any federal and state grants or scholarships the student receives. |
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| HB 15 |
Remove writing portfolios from the statewide CATS assessment program for elementary schools. |
| HB 16 |
Require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop and implement a parent education program. |
| HB 17 |
| Specify use of excess support education excellence in Kentucky program funds; provide percentage increase in the base for hold harmless districts to ensure that each district receives at least the same amount of support education excellence in Kentucky funding per pupil as received in the 1991-92 school year plus an increase based on the overall percentage increase in the support education excellence in Kentucky program funds. |
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| HB 22 |
| Make changes to the definitions for the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES) Program. |
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| HB 34 |
Requires rigorous physical activity for preschool to grade 6 students in the 2009-2010 school year and for grades 10 and 11 from 2010-2011. |
| HB 35 |
| Designate the last three weeks of the school year in each school district as the testing window for the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System no later than the 2009-2010 school year. |
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| HB 46 |
| Establish the Kentucky 21st Century Scholars Program and Fund to provide enrolled students with up to 100 percent of the total cost of education at any state public college or university, minus the amount of any federal and state grants or scholarships the student receives if the student agrees to and refrains from illegally using drugs and alcohol during high school and college. |
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| HB 51 |
| Require public postsecondary institutions to provide new undergraduates with information regarding credit cards and debt management and encourage them to conduct informational sessions. |
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| HB 54 |
To mandate that all 10th grade students starting in the 2009-10 academic year receive counseling regarding whether they intend to pursue either academic or career-related tracks both during high school and beyond. Parents will be involved in the process and notified about students' final decisions. Students will be able to change their decision if necessary. Additionally, existing legislation will be ammended to require state assessments not be given prior to the first week of May. |
| HB 61 |
Appropriation to the Department of Education for Jefferson County Public Schools' Georgia Chaffee Teenage Parent Program. |
| HB 67 |
To require a child to be five years of age by August 1 to enter a primary school program. |
| HB 73 |
Prohibit caffeine energy drinks in schools. |
| HB 86 |
Expand the preschool education program all four-year-old children. |
| HB 91 |
Establish the "Golden Rule" Act as the guidelines for public school students' behavior and conduct; require school districts to have policies and procedures to address disruptive behavior including harassment, intimidation and bullying. |
| HB 104 |
| Require staggered terms of appointed members of selected community and technical colleges beginning in June 1, 2008; EMERGENCY. |
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| HB 111 |
Process for postsecondary institutions to issue agency bonds. |
| HB 126 |
Compulsory school attendance for children ages 6 - 17. |
| HB 135 |
Require all preservice teachers to complete a reading and civics education course as a condition of certification. |
| HB 140 |
Establish a Kentucky Center for Youth Development by making an appropriation. Create a contract between the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and a public institution for higher education so the Center can be a clearinghouse for resources, collect and analyze data, and research and evaluate youth development programs. |
| HB 157 |
| Require the state board of education or agency designated to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate rules, regulations, or bylaws that prohibit the recruiting of students for athletic purposes, establish student eligibility requirements, and allow a student to be eligible in the school in which he or she first enrolls each school year. |
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| HB 158 |
To amend existing legislation so that schools may not recruit students for athletic purposes. Students will be eligible to participate in athletics in the school in which they initially enroll. Any transfers to athletic programs at other schools must be approved by an agency to be designated by the Kentucky Board of Education. |
| HB 174 |
| Designate that the start date for administering the state assessments be no earlier than the second Monday of May in each school year. |
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| HB 177 |
| Provide an interim process for approval of certain cash-funded capital projects, subject to approvals by the governing board, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and other restrictions. |
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| HB 180 |
| Allow schools to operate school flasher lights at any time during school hours and school activities. |
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| HB 189 |
| Require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop and implement the Kentucky Financial Literacy Program. |
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| HB 226 |
| Create the Academy of Mathematics and Science at Western Kentucky University; describe purposes and long term goals; require advisory board be established. EMERGENCY. |
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| HB 232 |
| Require the Department of Education to promulgate an administrative regulation requiring local school boards to hold a public hearing to determine if real property is no longer needed, and to use sealed bids or public auction to dispose of surplus real property upon 30 days notice to the public of the time and place of the sale. |
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| HB 244 |
| Set forth the agreement among the states to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployments. |
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| HB 265 |
| Establish the Math and Science Teacher Forgivable Loan Program to increase the number of middle and high school math and science teachers. |
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| HB 269 |
Provide that excess funds in the program for support education excellence in Kentucky be reallocated to school districts on a per pupil basis. |
| HB 270 |
Allow school districts to apply to the commissioner of education to use capital outlay funds to purchase land or to modify an existing school. |
| HB 288 |
Permit a local board of education to grant a leave of absence to a teacher or superintendent for reasons it deems necessary. |
| HB 294 |
Declare new goals for reducing the dropout rate by the year 2010. |
| HB 307 |
Create the Academy of Mathematics and Science at Western Kentucky University; describe purposes and long term goals; require advisory board be established; define role of Western Kentucky University; require academy students to participate in the state accountability testing program and have scores reported to home high schools. |
| HB 336 |
Establish a teacher advancement fund to provide tuition assistance to the public postsecondary education institutions for teachers completing a master's degree or the continuing education option for Rank II. |
| HB 342 |
Require a child to be five years of age by August 1 to enter a primary school program. |
| HB 380 |
Establish a grant program administered by the Early Childhood Development Authority to develop collaborative models of preschool education for unserved children living at 200 percent of the federal poverty level and below; require collaboration among all community providers. |
| HB 383 |
Provide a procedure for relocation of the principal residence of a child, provide for objection to relocation. |
| HB 392 |
Create the Board of Student Body Presidents, an advisory board to the legislative and executive branches on postsecondary education issues and student concerns.
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| HB 397 |
Establish the Students with Special Needs Scholarship Program to permit exceptional students to receive a scholarship to move from his or her resident public school to a participating school. |
| HB 416 |
Establish a student loan forgiveness program for licensed medical practitioners who obtain a doctoral degree after August 30, 2008, from a Kentucky university medical, dental medicine, or osteopathic medical program and practice in a Kentucky community designated as a medically underserved community by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. |
| HB 460 |
Require a moment of silence or reflection not to exceed two minutes at the commencement of each school day.
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| HB 461 |
Specify purpose of family resource and youth services centers, eligibility criteria, and core components required for a family resource center and a youth services center. |
| HB 466 |
Allow retired educators who continued employment under the 100 day provisions during the 2006-2007 fiscal year to be reemployed under the 100 day provisions until the end of fiscal year 2011. |
| HB 470 |
Include reference to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System as one of the retirement systems in which nonelected employees may participate as appropriate. |
| HB 485 |
Prohibit the amount of a teacher scholarship award from exceeding the total cost of education; identify conditions under which teacher scholarship amounts are awarded. |
| HB 523 |
Permit an eligible postsecondary education student to use his or her scholarship award for one year only in an out-of-state institution that charges Kentucky in-state tuition rates. |
| HB 536 |
Permit an eligible postsecondary education student to use his or her scholarship award at any out-of-state institution that is located within fifteen miles of the Kentucky state border. |
| HB 560 |
Require secondary schools to provide information to twelfth grade students on how to register to vote, how to vote in an election using a ballot, and how to vote using an absentee ballot. |
| HB 564 |
Allow students participating in school sponsored regional or state sports competitions held in Kentucky to be counted present at school if the competition occurs on a regularly scheduled school day. |
| HB 578 |
Describe the intent of the General Assembly and the purposes of authorizing public charter schools. |
| HB 587 |
Require a local board of education to schedule graduation ceremonies to occur following the anticipated completion date of the instructional term, but permit graduation to occur before the instructional year ends if it is extended due to disasters or weather-related conditions. |
| HB 595 |
Require the council on postsecondary education to limit resident tuition at the state's public postsecondary education institutions to the 2007-2008 tuition level for 2 years. |
| HB 621 |
Allow students to be counted present at school when participating in school sponsored regional or state sports competitions sanctioned by the Kentucky Board of Education or the agency designated by the board to manage interscholastic athletics if the competition occurs on a regularly scheduled school day. |
| HB 670 |
Require the commissioner of education to present the status of education as reflected in the biennial report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education at least once during the biennium. |
| HB 694 |
Include in the list of schools in which a student can enroll and receive a Kentucky tuition grant an approved out-of-state postsecondary education institution licensed by the Council on Postsecondary Education to operate in Kentucky. |
| HB 720 |
Require the Council of Postsecondary Education to ensure transferability of credits among institutions. |
| HB 721 |
Establish the Autism Scholarship Program to permit autistic children as defined by KRS 157.200(1)(m) to receive a scholarship to move from his or her resident public school to a participating school as a public or nonpublic school that meets certain criteria and accepts the student for enrollment. |
| HB 724 |
Local board of education to include in its discipline code the prohibition of corporal punishment. |
| HB 753 |
Establish procedures for filling personnel vacancies in schools, including the principal; to fill a principal vacancy the superintendent shall meet and discuss the criteria for the position and the search process with the council. |
| SB 12 |
Details specific strategies and regulations to ensure student safety from " harassment, intimidation or bullying" at school. Includes requiring school districts to develop student codes of conduct, specifically defining bullying, and providing opportunities for faculty and staff professional development and student discussion on the subject. |
| SB 17 |
Requires the Kentucky Board of Education to implement a physical activity requirement in schools. |
| SB 32 |
Related to career and technical education. |
| SB 44 |
| Eligible high school students to use a portion of their KEES award to pay for tuition for dual credit courses in which they are enrolled and will count toward a degree or career pathway. |
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| SB 56 |
| Establish the Math and Science Teacher Forgivable Loan Program to increase the number of middle and high school math and science teachers. |
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| SB 60 |
Construction Commission for the purpose of assisting school districts that have urgent and critical construction needs. |
| SB 65 |
Provide a one-time election, beginning in July 1, 2008, for public university personnel who have elected to participate in the optional retirement plan to participate in the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System within their six years and six months of continuous service in any one of the institutions. |
| SB 66 |
Require local school districts, under certain conditions, to provide a salary supplement to teachers of chemistry, physics, or mathematics and to teachers of chemistry, physics, or mathematics employed in schools with a high concentration of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. |
| SB 68 |
Set forth the agreement among the states to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployments. |
| SB 75 |
Define "on-track to graduate;" to require that full-time students who initially enroll in college in the 2009-2010 academic year and thereafter only qualify for renewal of their Kentucky education excellence scholarships beyond the second award period if they have at least a 2.5 grade point average and are on-track to graduate. |
| SB 80 |
Establish the Four and Forward Program to encourage students to complete baccalaureate degrees within four years and freeze tuition for students who agree to graduate within four years. |
| SB 81 |
Establish a statewide high school curriculum content that aligns with the community and technical college curriculum and the four-year postsecondary institutions' freshman and sophomore curriculum. |
| SB 86 |
Specify the personnel procedures to be used in the selection of school personnel; specify that the school superintendent shall appoint the principal after consultation with the school council if the vacancy is in a school that has an index score that places it in the lowest one-third of all schools below the assistance line. |
| SB 88 |
Change the requirement of 100 percent disability to 50 percent or more and provide that the percentage of tuition waiver is equal to the percent of disability. |
| SB 91 |
Recruit and provide incentives to legal residents who have a least 90 credit hours in postsecondary education to encourage them to complete their baccalaureate degree; establish the Project Graduate Program for students who need less than 15 credit hours and for students who need more than 15 credit hours to complete a baccalaureate degree. |
| SB 129 |
Permit a local board of education to adopt a policy for distribution of refurbished surplus technology to low income students. |
| SB 134 |
Prohibit a school district from establishing the first instructional day in a school term before the third Monday in August. |
| SB 163 |
Authorize the military family assistance trust fund to be used for educational expenses for members or veterans of the military who lost a limb while on military duty.
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| SB 166 |
Establish scholarships on behalf of survivors of fallen coal miners. |
| SB 192 |
Delete reference to the interagency task force on family resource and youth services centers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to specify purpose of family resource and youth services centers. |
| SB 207 |
Each local school district's 2007-08 school calendar to include no less than two additional six-hour instructional days in addition to those which were included in the district's 2005-06 or 2006-07 school calendar as approved by the Kentucky Department of Education. |
| SB 246 |
Effective July 1, 2010, to require compulsory school attendance to be the ages of six years and eighteen years rather than six years and sixteen years. |
| Bill # |
Summary |
| HCR 7 |
| Create a legislative task force to study opportunities for students with disabilities to participate in organized sports programs at the postsecondary level; require task force to report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 15, 2008. |
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| HJR 11 |
| Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to include speech therapists, occupational therapists, and special education teachers in the definition of behavioral health professionals for purposes of IMPACT Plus services. |
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| HB 13 |
Establish a Kentucky Family Trust Program to supplement state assistance for health expenses for people with special health needs. |
| HB 34 |
Requires rigorous physical activity for preschool to grade 6 students in the 2009-2010 school year and for grades 10 and 11 from 2010-2011. |
| HB 44 |
| Include information on charges, quality, and outcomes of health care services and require the Health Services Data Advisory Committee to make recommendations on risk adjusting data. |
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| HB 94 |
Require a health benefit plan that provides coverage for an insured's dependent up until 13 years of age. |
| HB 73 |
| Prohibit caffeine-stoked energy drinks in the schools. |
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| HB 102 |
To amend existing legislation to require all health insurance plans provide dependent coverage for an unmarried dependent child up to 26 years of age. |
| HB 107 |
To amend existing legislation so that all schools hosting athletic practice or competition are required to install at least one automated external defibrillator, as well as to permit untrained individuals to utilize equipment if a professional is unavailable during an emergency situation. |
| HB 109 |
Require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or re-licensure. |
| HB 139 |
Allow youth age 16 to donate blood with written consent of parent/guardian. |
| HB 140 |
Establish a Kentucky Center for Youth Development by making an appropriation. Create a contract between the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and a public institution for higher education so the Center can be a clearinghouse for resources, collect and analyze data, and research and evaluate youth development programs. |
| HB 148 |
Adopt consistent health benefit plan of reimbursement to chiropractors. |
| HB 185 |
| Require immunization against pneumococcal disease for all elementary school children; require immunization against meningococcal meningitis disease for all middle school students born after January 1, 1996, and enrolled in the seventh grade. |
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| HB 186 |
| Require a dental health certificate for elementary or secondary school enrollment. |
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| HB 187 |
| Require applicants for certification as a family child-care provider to provide a copy of the results of a tuberculosis risk assessment and the appropriate skin testing or chest x-ray for applicants at risk in accordance with the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
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| HB 188 |
| Require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to submit an application for a Medicaid waiver to develop and implement flexible reimbursement and payment strategies for services and supports for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) within three months of the effective date of this Act. |
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| HB 190 |
| Create a substance abuse screening program for recipients of public assistance. |
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| HB 201 |
| Require the admitting physician and facility administrator to ensure that direct care staff are informed of the need for supervision for a resident of an ICF/MR; specify that an individual with direct care responsibility who fails to supervise a resident according to the resident's care plan shall be subject to dismissal, civil liability, or criminal action. |
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| HB 220 |
| Require science-based content and age appropriate and medically accurate standards for human sexuality education, provide that a parent or guardian may excuse a child from the educational program and permit the parent or guardian to review instructional material upon request, and specify that nothing requires a school district, public school, or family resource and youth services center to offer human sexuality education. |
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| HB 221 |
| Create a substance abuse screening program for adult recipients of public assistance, food stamps, and state medical assistance. |
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| HB 231 |
| Prohibit the sale or use of any lead-bearing substance on items that may used by children; prohibit the sale of items that may be used by children that contain any lead-bearing substance; require labeling of products containing a lead-bearing substance. |
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| HB 290 |
| Require a local board of education to provide information to parents of girls in grades 5 and 6 regarding the human papillomavirus and its vaccine; set forth the information to be provided. |
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| HB 300 |
| Require the provision of data by the Department of Revenue, the Cabinet for Economic Development, and the Commerce Cabinet as requested by the Legislative Research Commission. |
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| HB 321 |
| Clarify procedures and content of administrative regulations, use of surplus funds, and reporting requirements for the Public Employee Health Insurance Program plan. |
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| HB 345 |
| Provide continuous enrollment in KCHIP for twelve months post enrollment and each renewal of eligibility; provide for the electronic submission of KCHIP applications and renewals; and prohibit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from requiring face-to-face interview for KCHIP applications or renewals. |
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| HB 374 |
| Prohibit the sale of energy drinks to children under 18 years of age. |
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| HB 396 |
Require immunization against human papillomavirus for school-age children and require parental statements to withhold consent to be filed with the immunization certificate . |
| HB 416 |
Establish a student loan forgiveness program for licensed medical practitioners who obtain a doctoral degree after August 30, 2008, from a Kentucky university medical, dental medicine, or osteopathic medical program and practice in a Kentucky community designated as a medically underserved community by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. |
| HB 474 |
Prohibit a person from purchasing on behalf of or giving tobacco products and cigarettes to persons under 18 years of age; establish a fine of $500 to $1000 for violations. |
| HB 504 |
Require the cabinet to develop a plan for children to be screened for autism spectrum disorders at 18 months, three years, upon enrollment in school, and in sixth grade. |
| HB 533 |
Create new sections thereof to establish the Insurance Coverage Affordability and Relief to Small Employers (ICARE) Program to make health insurance more affordable for small employer groups of 2 to 50 employees. |
| HB 535 |
Require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide to each Medicaid recipient on a monthly basis a statement of services paid on behalf of the recipient. |
| HB 540 |
Requirement for a confirming medical test for HIV before before the first test results are determined to be positive |
| HB 602 |
Require an agent or employee of a health care facility or service to report noncompliance with professional standards of care that jeopardizes patient care or safety; provide that the report may be provided to the office of the inspector general if response from health care facility or service is untimely or inadequate. |
| HB 632 |
Require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate an administrative regulation to implement a physical activity requirement. |
| HB 640 |
Define health services; amend KRS 156.4977 to permit a supplemental grant program managed by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to fund employment of a physician or nurse in a family resource or youth services center. |
| HB 685 |
Relating to presumption of paternity, to update language regarding evidence in paternity cases. |
| HB 691 |
Establish that proof of a person's intent to commit an unlawful act shall not be required in a civil or administrative proceeding to show that the person acted knowingly in respect to Medicaid fraud. |
| HB 723 |
Prohibit a dentist member or a dental hygienist member to be placed on the Board of Dentistry if they have been disciplined by the board. |
| HB 731 |
Provide that in-service training on the subject of human immunodeficiency virus be conducted at least once every ten years but that a local governing authority may require training more frequently. |
| HB 738 |
Require that by the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year, students entering the first year of the primary program shall be tested for dyslexia and other related disorders according to administrative regulations adopted by the Kentucky Board of Education. |
| HB 740 |
Require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to report annually to the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare concerning the Legend Drug Repository Program. |
| HB 747 |
Permit an outpatient health care center to add up to 60 acute care beds without a certificate of need when the facility is located in a county of at least 60,000 and no acute or critical access hospital operates in the same county. |
| HB 771 |
Exempt veterans from Medicaid estate recovery. |
| SB 17 |
Requires the Kentucky Board of Education to implement a physical activity requirement in schools. |
| SB 26 |
Define and require licensure of professionals who provide therapeutic care to persons with hearing and related communication disorders. |
| SB 28 |
| Create the Fatherhood Information System of Kentucky, a putative father registry, within Cabinet for Health and Family Services. |
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| SB 37 |
Require hospitals and other health care facilities that offer emergency services to report gunshot wounds, powder burns, and bullet wounds, and to report stab wounds if not inflicted by the victim; provide that failure to report is a violation. |
| SB 51 |
| Permit a person age 16 years to donate blood with the written consent of the person's parent or legally-authorized guardian. |
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| SB 118 |
Remove the clause sunsetting the requirement that all public and private primary schools obtain a current immunization certificate for hepatitis B for any child enrolled as a regular attendee in the sixth grade.
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| SB 122 |
Require a dental screening or examination the first year that a three, four, five or six year-old child is enrolled in a public school, public preschool, or Head Start program.
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| SB 126 |
Define the terms "presumptive eligibility period" and "qualified entity" and provide a presumptive eligibility period for children applying for KCHIP. |
| SB 129 |
Clarify Medicaid coverage for therapeutic food, formulas, supplements, and low-protein food products prescribed by a physician for inborn errors of metabolism or genetic conditions. |
| SB 152 |
Defining "prosthetic" and requiring insurance coverage equal to coverage under federal laws for the aged and disabled; allow copayments, deductibles, out-of-pocket limits required for other benefits, allow prior authorization, provide other limitations.
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| SB 237 |
Permit an outpatient health care center to add up to 60 acute care beds without a certificate of need when the facility is located in a county of at least 60,000 and no acute or critical access hospital operates in the same county. |
| SB 249 |
Require the Personnel Cabinet to establish health insurance plans for Medicare-eligible retirees participating in the state-administered retirement systems and to establish minimum benefits. |
| SB 252 |
Implement a refund check-off to make contributions to community mental health centers.
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| Bill # |
Summary |
| HB 32 |
Permit a court to provide for wage attachment and automatic electronic transfer of funds for payment of spousal maintenance and to add healthy environment for child as a factor for the consideration of awarding custody of children. |
| HB 55 |
Require that a child under age 8 years and between 40 and 57 inches in height be secured in a child booster seat. |
| HB 125 |
To prohibit individuals with an instruction (driving) permit or an intermediate drivers license from using a cell phone or other telecommunications device while operating a car or other motor vehicile. Additionally, to require anyone with a instruction permit or intermediate license to display an identifying decal on the vehicle. |
| HB 129 |
In competency hearings for guardianship proceedings, allow a bench trial when there is no objection from interested parties, and the judge finds no cause to require a jury trial. |
| HB 154 |
Removes the penalty against making a false child abuse or neglect report. |
| HB 167 |
To prohibit registered sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of a facility in which 90 percent of activities are targerted toward youth. |
| HB 199 |
| Require that divorce, child custody, child support, and similar records not be released with information identifying the address, Social Security number, telephone number or similar information relating to a party to the proceeding. |
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| HB 210 |
| Require forfeiture of all real and personal property used in or acquired as a result of certain sexual offenses against minors and create forfeiture procedures. |
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| HB 211 |
Prohibits anyone over age 21 to have sexual contact with 16 year olds and under. Toughens laws for having sexual contact with minors. Increases penalties for failure to report sexual abuse and lengthens the statute of limitations in cases of sexual abuse of minors. |
| HB 235 |
| Increase the age from 16 to 18 for statutory rape where a person of special trust or position of authority is involved. |
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| HB 241 |
| Increase the age from 16 to 18 for statutory rape where a person of special trust or position of authority is involved. |
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| HB 253 |
| Permit the commitment of a child to the cabinet up until age 21 years if the child has a mental disability or mental illness which makes him or her unable to voluntarily consent to commitment. |
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| HB 278 |
| Require direct adult supervision of minors under the age of 14 years who are soliciting contributions on highways. |
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| HB 343 |
| Prohibit a registered sex offender from committing specified acts concerning school buses and school bus stops while children are present; make any violation of the prohibitions a Class A misdemeanor. |
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| HB 367 |
| To procure a minor to engage in sexual offenses to add to "minor" "any individual the person has reason to believe is a minor" to the elements of the offense. |
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| HB 391 |
Create the criminal offense of failure to return to custody.
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| HB 442 |
Replace the existing interstate compact relating to the placement of children with the new interstate compact for the placement of children. |
| HB 452 |
All operators of personal watercraft or motor boats born after January 1, 1991, to have a safe boating certificate or have an adult with a safe boating certificate with them; regulate safety of personal watercraft operated on public waterways.
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| HB 456 |
Establish a motor vehicle operators license revocation scheme for minors and adults who violate the state's criminal prohibitions relating to alcohol and the possession or purchase by, or provision to, minors |
| HB 476 |
Prohibit entities from placing into the stream of commerce children's products that do not meet safety standards or if they have been recalled. |
| HB 546 |
Domestic violence protective order may be obtained in the county of temporary or permanent residence or the county where the act occurred. |
| HB 636 |
Establish a procedure to register persons who are incompetent to stand trial on the sex offender registry if the person is found to have committed a registerable sex offense. |
| HB 725 |
Regarding emergency 911 telephone service to permit local government to designate a collection agent other than the landline phone provider for the monthly service charge. |
| HB 728 |
Establish a fee schedule for inspections by the state fire marshal and to create a revolving fund with the fees used for the purposes of carrying out KRS Chapter 227. |
| HB 753 |
Relating to sex offender 1,000-feet residence restrictions, to include publicly leased playgrounds. |
| HB 762 |
Permit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a database supplemental to KASPER for reports of positive urine screening or blood tests for illegal drugs or misused prescription drugs and provide regulatory authority. |
| HB 765 |
Define "clandestine methamphetamine lab," "contaminated property," and "decontamination standards"; permit the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet to establish a tiered response system for methamphetamine-contaminated properties and to promulgate administrative regulations for decontamination standards. |
| HB 774 |
Allow two or more cities to form municipal fire protection districts with optional ambulance service. |
| SB 9 |
| Require social service workers, child protective services workers, peace officers, and others interviewing a child alleged to be abused, needy, neglected, dependent, or delinquent to make a video or audio recording of the interview; specify to whom recordings of interviews are available; limit uses of recordings of interviews; provide for destruction of recordings when no longer needed. |
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| SB 13 |
| Relating to the testimony of a child victim or witness, to include violent offenses; provide that the child witness, while being exempt from attendance at trial, shall be subject to being recalled during the course of the trial to give additional testimony under the same circumstances as with any other recalled witness, provided that the additional testimony is given utilizing the same closed circuit or video tape procedure as for the original testimony. |
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| SB 42 |
| Require that law enforcement officers request to perform blood and urine tests on all drivers involved in any accident that involves a school bus or involves a fatality. |
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| SB 62 |
| Establish a crime victim address protection program for victims of domestic violence and abuse, stalking, and felony sexual offenses which would allow crime victims to use an address provided by the Secretary of State in lieu of the victim's actual physical address for the purpose of receiving mail and to allow crime victims to access government services, including the right to vote, based upon their actual addresses but utilizing the program's address on government records and documents. |
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| SB 70 |
| Prohibit registered sex offenders from residing with 1,000 feet of a youth program center; provide 90 days from the effective date of the Act for registrants to comply. |
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| SB 74 |
| To specify that if a domestic violence petition is filed in a county other than the county of usual residence, then the petition shall also include the name of the county of usual residence and provide that when an emergency protective order is issued other than in the county in which there is a pending domestic relations action. |
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| SB 108 |
| To specify that if a domestic violence petition is filed in a county other than the county of usual residence, then the petition shall also include the name of the county of usual residence and provide that when an emergency protective order is issued other than in the county in which there is a pending domestic relations action. |
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| SB 109 |
| Prohibit registered sex offenders from coming onto the grounds of a high school, middle school, elementary school, preschool, publicly owned playground, or licensed day care facility. |
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| SB 120 |
Require that a child under age 7 years between 40 and 50 inches in height be secured in a child booster seat and require that a courtesy warning be issued for a first violation of the booster seat requirement. |
| SB 143 |
Prohibit entities from placing into the stream of commerce children's products that do not meet safety standards or if they have been recalled. |
| SB 151 |
Prohibit law enforcement officers or a state prosecutors from requiring the victim of a sexual offense to submit to a polygraph examination as a condition precedent to the investigation or prosecution of an alleged sexual offense.
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| SB 180 |
Require forfeiture of all real and personal property used in or acquired as a result of certain sexual offenses against minors and create forfeiture procedures. |
| SB 185 |
Permit court clerks to provide electronic notification of court commitment orders to the Citizen Foster Care Review Board Program.
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| SB 188 |
Permit use of electronic records from court clerks to citizen foster care review boards. |
| SB 191 |
Provide a criminal penalty with a mandatory minimum fine for employees of alcoholic beverage retail licensees who sell alcohol to minors. |
| SB 205 |
Relating to kidnapping, relating to burglary, relating to robbery to increase the penalties designated for those offenses where they are committed in the course of a home invasion. |
| SB 214 |
Relating to using a communications system to procure a minor to engage in sexual offenses, to add to "minor" "any individual the person has reason to believe is a minor" to the elements of the offense. |
| SB 238 |
Prohibit the involuntary implantation of tracking devices in humans. |
