Kentucky Legislative update as of February 18, 2019

Bill Information
HB18
LAW ENFORCEMENT SHOOTING INVESTIGATIONS
(SCOTT A)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A to provide definitions and establish an Officer Shooting Review Board to investigate any shooting of an individual by a law enforcement officer or officers or any deadly incident involving law enforcement; set requirements for board members; provide duties of the board; specify requirements related to investigatory work performed by the Kentucky State Police Critical Incident Response Team on behalf of the board; establish investigatory procedures and protocols; provide requirements for submission of the board’s report to the Commonwealth’s attorney of the jurisdiction in which the shooting or deadly incident took place or to the Attorney General; provide requirements for independent investigation of any shooting of an individual by a law enforcement officer or officers or any deadly incident involving law enforcement.
HB25
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
(THOMAS W)
Amend KRS 525.135 to prohibit pretrial diversion for a person charged with torture of a dog or cat, to make torture of a dog or cat a Class D felony, and to prohibit any form of early release for those who torture a dog or cat as a way to threaten, intimidate, coerce, harass, or terrorize a family member or member of a dating relationship; amend KRS 533.250 to prohibit the pretrial diversion program from being used for someone charged with torture of a dog or cat.

HB33
MINE SAFETY
(HARRIS C)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 351.010 to 351.194 to require that miners wear clothing with at least 100 square inches of reflective material while in an underground mine and clothing with at least 50 square inches of reflective material at a surface mine site; require that coal operators provide the reflective clothing at no cost to the miner; amend KRS 351.990 to impose civil penalties on an operator of not less than $250 nor more than $500 for the first violation and not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 for each subsequent violation.

HB34
ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES
(GOFORTH R)
Amend KRS 186.010 to specify that for registration purposes an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) shall be considered a motor vehicle; amend KRS 186A.070 to allow ATVs operating under this bill to operate on roadways of the Commonwealth; create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to allow a person to operate an all-terrain vehicle on roadways in the Commonwealth; outline requirements for operation; establish a fee of $25 for registration; allow a local government to allow or prohibit ATV operation on roadways in its jurisdiction; provide for nonresident reciprocity; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; allow nonresidents to operate an ATV on roadways of the Commonwealth; outline requirements; establish a fee of $25 for registration; specify that registration is valid for one year; amend KRS 189.515 to specify that the section shall only apply to ATVs that have not been registered for highway operation; amend KRS 189.990 to establish a fine of $20 to $50 for a violation of Section 3 or 4 of this Act.

HB36
CANINE AND FELINE SAFETY
(BRATCHER K)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to provide civil immunity for damaging a vehicle if a person enters the vehicle with the reasonable, good-faith belief that a dog or cat is in immediate danger of death if not removed.

HB40
FIRST RESPONDERS WORKERS COMPENSATION
(JENKINS J)
Amend KRS 342.0011 to clarify definition of “injury” to include psychological injuries for certain employees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to set out when the psychological injuries are valid workers’ compensation claims when no physical injury exists.
HB41
EMPLOYMENT SCHEDULES
(JENKINS J)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to give employees a written good-faith estimate of the employee’s work schedule at the time of hire, maintain a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours, post weekly work schedules at least seven days in advance, and provide certain rest periods for employees, during which the employee is not scheduled; provide that an employee may identify time limitations for scheduling work hours; establish the rate of compensation to be paid if an employer changes the schedule; set forth unlawful practices; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations of Sections 1 to 8 of this Act.

HB47
EARNED PAID SICK LEAVE
(CANTRELL M)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provide that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; set forth allowable uses of earned paid sick time; designate how notice of need to use sick time is provided by employees; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalty for employers that fail to follow paid sick leave requirements.

HB48
MATERNITY LEAVE
(CANTRELL M)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide six weeks of paid maternity leave for an employee who has been employed for at least one year; allow an employee to waive the paid maternity leave.

HB50
GANG VIOLENCE
(SCOTT A)
Amend KRS 506.120 to remove language related to “criminal gang syndicate;” repeal KRS 506.135 relating to definitions, 506.140 relating to criminal gang recruitment, 506.150 relating to criminal gang activity or recruitment, 506.160, relating to minimum service of sentence for defendant acting as a member of a criminal gang KRS 506.170 relating to enhancement of penalty for conviction for criminal gang related felonies, KRS 506.180 relating to cause of action by victim of criminal gang incident, and KRS 506.190 relating to criminal gang-related property subject to forfeiture; amend KRS 532.080 to conform.

HB53
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES
(JENKINS J)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to set forth legislative findings and declarations behind employee misclassification problems; provide definitions; set forth determination of misclassified workers; set forth investigation process and violations; establish court remedies; require notice by an employer; grant commissioner authority to promulgate administrative regulations; require agencies to share the information of a misclassifying employer to other interested state agencies; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.485 to prohibit contractors with multiple violations from contracting with the state for two years; amend KRS 131.190 to require the Department of Revenue to provide copies to three other state agencies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the Office of Employment and Training to provide copies of orders to three other state agencies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to require the commissioner to provide copies to three other state agencies.

HB60
LEGISLATIVE ETHICS
(MOSER K)
Create new sections of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to make it ethical misconduct for a legislator, legislative agent, or director of the Legislative Research Commission to engage in discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment; define “discrimination,” “harassment,” “sexual harassment,” and “workplace complaint”; grant the Legislative Ethics Commission jurisdiction to investigate and proceed upon receipt of a complaint from an employee of the legislative branch regarding discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment allegedly committed by a legislator, legislative agent, or director of the Legislative Research Commission; require that allegations of discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment by one employee of the legislative branch against another employee of the legislative branch be referred to the Legislative Research Commission; require the Legislative Ethics Commission to establish a legislative ethics telephone tip line to allow employees of the legislative branch to report complaints of discrimination, harassment, and sexual harassment; require the Legislative Ethics Commission and the Legislative Research Commission to publicize the existence of the legislative ethics telephone tip line; require the legislative ethics telephone tip line to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the Legislative Ethics Commission providing staff during regular business hours and allowing for recorded messages during nonbusiness hours; require the forwarding of information reported on the legislative ethics telephone tip line to the executive director of the Legislative Ethics Commission or his or her designee on an approved form; provide that within 24 hours of the receipt of a workplace complaint that the Legislative Ethics Commission executive director make an initial determination as to whether a workplace complaint meets the criteria for consideration and notify the complainant of the determination; provide that the alleged violator shall be notified and given the opportunity to file a written response after receiving a written statement detailing allegations; provide that within seven days of receiving a response or expiration of the deadline for receiving a response from the alleged violator the Legislative Ethics Commission chair, vice chair, and executive director shall interview the complainant, the alleged violator, and any other person with information relevant to the complaint; provide that within 14 business days of completion of the interviews, the Legislative Ethics Commission shall give notice of the status of the workplace complaint and a general statement of applicable law to the complainant and alleged violator; provide that within 30 business days of receipt of a workplace complaint the complaint file shall be closed if the Legislative Ethics Commission chair and vice chair agree that the workplace complaint is resolved or agree that there is no credible allegation of discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment; allow the Legislative Ethics Commission chair and vice chair to refer a workplace complaint to another federal or state agency if they determine that the case does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Legislative Ethics Commission; if the Legislative Ethics Commission chair and vice chair do not agree whether a workplace complaint is resolved but agree that there is a credible allegation of discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment, the Legislative Ethics Commission enforcement counsel shall file a complaint; a legislator, legislative agent, or an employee of the legislative branch may file a complaint of discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment at any time under KRS 6.686; set forth confidentiality provisions; provide that complainants shall not be subject to reprisal; require the annual reporting of complaints processed using the legislative ethics telephone tip line; provide that nothing prevents a legislator, legislative agent, or legislative branch employee from pursuing other avenues to report complaints of discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment; permit employees who report complaints to seek assistance from the Kentucky Employee Assistance Program or from private health professionals for matters related to workplace complaints; declare that if a provision of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 is designated a misdemeanor or felony, an alleged violation of the provision may be adjudicated by the Legislative Ethics Commission as ethical misconduct; amend KRS 6.661 to restrict political activity by the Legislative Ethics Commission staff; amend KRS 6.686 to allow dismissal of complaints by teleconference held by the Legislative Ethics Commission; allow complaints to be filed against former legislators, former legislative agents, and for employers of former legislative agents for extended periods if they are related to discrimination, harassment, or sexual harassment; if a complainant publicly discloses or comments on a complaint or preliminary inquiry, the Legislative Ethics Commission may dismiss the complaint without prejudice via teleconference; amend KRS 6.701 to include legislative branch employees in mandatory ethics education already required for legislators; amend KRS 6.716 to require the Legislative Ethics Commission to administer a current issues seminar for legislative branch employees in addition to the existing requirement for legislators; amend KRS 6.787 to include in legislator “statement of financial interests” information regarding out of state travel associated with the performance of legislative duties, including the name of any person or organization who paid for transportation, food, lodging, or travel expenses and the value of the expenses paid.

HB65
SPECIAL GRAND JURIES
(DONOHUE J)
Amend KRS 15.200 to allow the Attorney General to petition the Supreme Court to convene a special grand jury to investigate crimes that cross multiple judicial circuits; amend KRS 15.205 to allow the Attorney General to direct a Commonwealth’s or county attorney to act as a special prosecutor when the Supreme Court approves the Attorney General’s petition for a special grand jury; amend KRS 29A.220 to outline the process and duties of a special grand jury.

HB67
MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE
(SIMS JR. J)
Amend KRS 304,99-060, regarding penalties for operating a motor vehicle with required security, to exempt operators of a motor vehicle who are minors and who do not own the motor vehicle; clarify that owners of a motor vehicle operated without security by a minor shall still be subject to penalties outlined in the section.

HB71
HATE CRIMES
(NEMES J)
Amend KRS 532.031, relating to an offense committed as a result of a hate crime, to include criminal homicide and fetal homicide as well as the attempt to commit or soliciation of those crimes.

HB75
WORKERS COMPENSATION
(HATTON A)
Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be “B” readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be “B” readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.794 to delete the definition of “board-certified pulmonary specialist” and eliminate the requirement that physicians on the list of qualified “B” readers maintained by the commissioner include only those licensed in Kentucky and board-certified pulmonary specialists.

HB83
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
(FLOOD K)
Create new sections of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to make it ethical misconduct for a legislator, legislative agent, or employee of the legislative branch to engage in sexual harassment; define “sexual harassment” and “complaint”; grant the Legislative Ethics Commission jurisdiction to investigate and proceed upon receipt of a complaint from a legislator, legislative agent, or employee of the legislative branch regarding sexual harassment allegedly committed by a legislator, legislative agent, or employee of the legislative branch; require the Legislative Ethics Commission to establish a legislative ethics telephone tip line to allow legislators, legislative agents, or employees of the legislative branch to report complaints of sexual harassment; require the Legislative Ethics Commission, the Legislative Research Commission, and businesses and organizations that employ legislative agents to publicize the existence of the legislative ethics telephone tip line; require the legislative ethics telephone tip line to be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the Legislative Ethics Commission providing staff during regular business hours and allowing for recorded messages during nonbusiness hours; require the forwarding of information reported on the legislative ethics telephone tip line to the executive director of the Legislative Ethics Commission or his or her designee on an approved form; require that within 24 hours of the receipt of a complaint the Legislative Ethics Commission executive director make an initial determination as to whether a complaint meets the criteria for consideration and notify the complainant of the determination; provide that the alleged violator shall be notified and given the opportunity to file a written response after receiving a written statement detailing allegations; provide that within seven days of receiving a response or expiration of the deadline for receiving a response from the alleged violator the Legislative Ethics Commission chair, vice chair, and executive director shall interview the complainant, the alleged violator, and any other person with information relevant to the complaint; provide that within 14 business days of completion of the interviews, the Legislative Ethics Commission shall give notice of the status of the complaint and a general statement of applicable law to the complainant and alleged violator; provide that within 30 business days of receipt of a workplace complaint the complaint file shall be closed if the Legislative Ethics Commission chair and vice chair agree that the complaint is resolved or agree that there is no credible allegation of sexual harassment; allow the Legislative Ethics Commission chair and vice chair to refer a complaint to another federal or state agency if they determine that the case does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Legislative Ethics Commission; if the Legislative Ethics Commission chair and vice chair do not agree whether a complaint is resolved but agree that there is a credible allegation of sexual harassment, require the Legislative Ethics Commission enforcement counsel to file a formal complaint, if the conflict cannot be resolved via conference; allow a legislator, legislative agent, or an employee of the legislative branch to file a formal complaint of sexual harassment at any time under KRS 6.686; set forth confidentiality provisions; provide that complainants shall not be subject to reprisal; provide option for complainant or complainant’s supervisor to request for transfer while an investigation is ongoing; require the annual reporting of complaints processed using the legislative ethics telephone tip line; provide that nothing prevents a legislator, legislative agent, or legislative branch employee from pursuing other avenues to report complaints of sexual harassment; permit employees who report complaints to seek assistance from the Kentucky Employee Assistance Program or from private health professionals for matters related to workplace complaints; declare that if a provision of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 is designated a misdemeanor or felony, an alleged violation of the provision may be adjudicated by the Legislative Ethics Commission as ethical misconduct; create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to prohibit legislators and legislative employees from using public funds to settle sexual harassment claims; amend KRS 6.686 to conform.

HB90
CRIMINAL HISTORIES
(BROWN G)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; title the Act “Ban the Box – The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act.”

HB91
CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY
(BROWN G)
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to restructure the voting restrictions relating to felons and persons with mental disabilities; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.

HB94
PRETRIAL RELEASE
(BLANTON J)
Amend KRS 431.066 to provide that financial bail be solely imposed for ensuring a defendant’s appearance; require a detention hearing for any defendant determined by the court to be a danger to the public if released; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish a detention hearing process; amend KRS 27A.360, 218A.135, 222.204, 431.520, 431.525, 431.530, 431.535, 431.540, 452.260, and 431.510 to conform; repeal KRS 431.021; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2020.

HB98
CRUELTY TO EQUINES
(ONGE D)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to prohibit cruelty to equines including situations involving abuse, neglect, and sexual contact; make cruelty to equines a Class D felony and provide for the termination of ownership; list exceptions; establish a short title of “Klaire’s Law”; specify that the provisions of KRS 6.945(1) do not apply to this Act.

HB101
CHILD ABUSE
(BECHLER L)
Amend KRS 500.050 to remove the five-year statute of limitations for misdemeanor sex offenses against minors and allow prosecution to be commenced at any time; amend KRS 413.249 to remove the ten-year statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse and allow a suit to be commenced at any time; amend KRS 620.030, relating to the requirement to report child abuse, to delete the clergy-penitent exemption and make any person who intentionally fails to report guilty of a Class D felony; amend KRS 620.050, relating to the reporting of child abuse, to delete the clergy-penitent exemption; create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to make the sexual endangerment of a child a Class D felony; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to allow the Attorney General to petition the Supreme Court to convene a special grand jury to investigate childhood sexual assault or abuse that crosses multiple judicial circuits; amend KRS 15.205 to allow the Attorney General to direct a Commonwealth’s or county attorney to act as a special prosecutor when the Supreme Court approves the Attorney General’s petition for a special grand jury; amend KRS 29A.220 to outline the process and duties of a special grand jury; provide for severability; EMERGENCY.

HB102
SEX OFFENSES AGAINST MINORS
(BECHLER L)
Amend KRS 500.050 to remove the five-year statute of limitations for misdemeanor sex offenses against minors and allow prosecution to be commenced at any time; amend KRS 413.249 to remove the ten-year statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse and allow a suit to be commenced at any time; provide for severability; EMERGENCY.

HB104
CHILD SEXUAL ENDANGERMENT
(BECHLER L)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to make the sexual endangerment of a child a Class D felony; EMERGENCY.

HB105
CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ASSAULT
(BECHLER L)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to allow the Attorney General to petition the Supreme Court to convene a special grand jury to investigate childhood sexual assault or abuse that crosses multiple judicial circuits; amend KRS 15.205 to allow the Attorney General to direct a Commonwealth’s or county attorney to act as a special prosecutor when the Supreme Court approves the Attorney General’s petition for a special grand jury; amend KRS 29A.220 to outline the process and duties of a special grand jury; make severable; EMERGENCY.

HB107
DISTRICT COURT
(HOOVER J)
Amend KRS 24A.120 to raise the threshold for civil cases within the jurisdiction of District Court from $5,000 to $10,000.

HB108
RECORDING OF WILLS
(FISCHER J)
Amend KRS 394.300, relating to the recording of wills, to clarify that circuit clerks must copy and certify every will or authenticated copy admitted to the court for recording; require circuit clerks to send certified copies of wills, authenticated copies, and court orders admitting wills to probate to the county clerk for recording; clarify that the original will or authenticated copy shall remain with the circuit clerk for two years; repeal KRS 394.110.

HB109
VIOLENT OFFENDERS
(FISCHER J)
Amend KRS 439.3401, relating to parole eligibility for violent offenders, to classify any person convicted of the following offenses as a “violent offender”: criminal attempt to commit murder, criminal attempt to commit fetal homicide, criminal attempt to commit arson, burglary in the first degree, kidnapping, and arson in the second degree.

HB115
DEATH PENALTY
(MCCOY C)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a capital offense; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, and 532.100 to conform; repeal various statutes relating to imposition of the death penalty.

HB123
CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY; Amendment
(DOSSETT M)
Propose to amend Section 117 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the election of judges on a partisan rather than a nonpartisan basis; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.

HB126
STATE ADMINISTERED RETIREMENT SYSTEMS
(WILLNER L)
Amend KRS 21.540, 61.650, and 161.430 to require the state-administered retirement systems to follow the state Model Procurement Code when contracting for investment management services; amend KRS 61.645 to grant the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute violations of the ethical and fiduciary duties of trustees and investment managers for the Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 161.250 to grant the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute violations of the ethical and fiduciary duties of trustees and investment managers for the Teachers’ Retirement System; amend KRS 61.990 and 161.990 to provide that a knowing violation of the ethical and fiduciary duties of trustees and investment managers for the Kentucky Retirement Systems and the Teachers’ Retirement System shall be a Class D felony.

HB129
HATE CRIMES
(MEEKS R)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create the offense of a hate crime; amend KRS 439.3401 to include hate crimes; amend KRS 49.320 to conform; repeal KRS 532.031; exempt the provisions of the Act from KRS 6.945(1).

HB130
TERRORISTIC THREATENING
(TIPTON J)
Amend KRS 508.078 to include public gatherings, places of public accommodation, churches, and places of worship as places covered by the offense of terroristic threatening in the second degree; raise the penalty for terroristic threatening in the second degree to a Class C felony when the person engages in conduct to prepare for or carry out the threatened act.

HB132
VIOLENT OFFENDERS
(MEREDITH M)
Amend KRS 439.3401 to provide that any person convicted of manslaughter in the second degree, reckless homicide, or criminal attempt to commit murder of clearly identifiable emergency medical services personnel shall serve at least 85 percent of the sentence before probation or parole.

HB141
COUNTY PROPERTY
(UPCHURCH K)
Amend KRS 67.0802 to clarify that any proceeds from property disposed of by a county that was acquired through forfeiture or purchased using restricted funds under KRS 218A.420(4)(a) shall be transferred to a restricted account under KRS 218A.420.

HB143
ABUSE OF A CORPSE
(ELLIOTT D)
Amend KRS 525.120 to provide that in all cases the penalty for abuse of a corpse is a Class D felony.

HB145
HATE CRIMES
(MEEKS R)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create the offense of a hate crime; amend KRS 532.031, relating to when a judge may determine at sentencing whether an offense was committed as a result of a hate crime, to include the hate crime offense.

HB149
CHILD ABUSE
(BURCH T)
Amend KRS 620.030 to establish that if a person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that a child is dependent, neglected, or abused, causes an oral or written report of the dependency, neglect, or abuse to be made, is employed by a local law enforcement agency, the Department of Kentucky State Police, the cabinet or its designated representative, the Commonwealth’s attorney, or a county attorney, then that person shall make the oral or written report to his or her employer and to one of the other entities authorized to receive the report.

HB151
INSURANCE FRAUD
(FISCHER J)
Amend KRS 304.47-020 to establish a range of criminal penalties resulting from conviction of insurance fraud; amend KRS 304.47-050 to require certain Kentucky health professional boards to report suspected insurance fraud to the Department of Insurance’s Division of Insurance Fraud Investigation and to require the boards to provide information requested by the insurance commissioner; amend KRS 189.635 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to redact vehicle accident reports provided to news-gathering organizations; provide an exception to redaction for up to three reports per day; make technical revisions; create a new section of Subtitle 39 of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit physician self-referrals of health care services for which payment may be made from basic reparations benefits provided under the Motor Vehicle Reparations Act; incorporate exceptions provided in federal law; require refund of amounts collected in violation of section; amend KRS 304.99-060 to establish civil penalties for violation of Section 4 of the Act; amend KRS 311.597 to deem violation of Section 4 or 5 of the Act by a physician “dishonorable, unethical, or unprofessional conduct.”

HB154
GOLF CARTS
(SANTORO S)
Amend KRS 189.286 to remove the requirement for golf carts to meet the federal safety standards for low-speed vehicles; establish new equipment standards for golf carts operating on roadways.

HB155
EXPUNGEMENT
(BROWN G)
Amend KRS 431.073 to make additional offenses eligible for expungement; reduce the filing fee for felony expungement from $500 to $200; amend KRS 431.076 to allow expungement of charges dismissed without prejudice; amend KRS 431.078 to require certain records to be expunged if the law specifies a period for enhancement and that period has expired; amend KRS 431.079 to limit requirement of certification to convictions that have not been pardoned.

HB156
INSURANCE ADJUSTERS
(LEWIS D)
Amend KRS 304.9-080 to exempt certain employees of insurers from the licensure requirement for insurance adjusters; amend KRS 304.9-430 to exempt certain employees of insurers from the licensure requirement for insurance adjusters; amend KRS 304.9-436 to conform.

HB157
SERVICE ANIMAL
(CLARK T)
Amend KRS 525.200 to include assistance animals in the definition of “service animals” that are covered by assault on a service animal in the first degree.

HB158
CHILD WELFARE
(MEADE D)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to require national and state background checks of staff members of child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies in Kentucky as newly required by federal law; amend KRS 199.011 to update the definition of “voluntary and informed consent” as it relates to adoption; amend KRS 199.505 to establish a beginning timeframe related to searches of the Kentucky putative father registry that corresponds to the date on which the statute became effective following its enactment in 2018; create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to establish a foster child bill of rights; amend KRS 620.020 to establish definitions for “position of authority” and “position of special trust”; amend KRS 620.030, relating to reports of abuse or neglect of a child that may or may not involve fictive kin, persons in a position of authority, or persons in a position of special trust; amend KRS 620.040, relating to reports of abuse or neglect of a child that may or may not involve fictive kin, persons in a position of authority, or persons in a position of special trust; amend KRS 620.180 to require case reviews for court approval 60 days after a child has been placed in a qualified residential facility to ensure the Commonwealth is in compliance with federal law.

HB159
CRIMINAL RECORDS
(PETRIE J)
Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 431.076 to order concurrent expungement of the records of persons acquitted of charges or against whom charges were dismissed with prejudice and create procedures.

HB160
FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION
(PETRIE J)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define “foster care or adoption services” and “religious organization”; provide that a religious organization or an individual employed by a religious organization while acting in the scope of that employment shall not be required to provide foster care or adoption services to a person if the action would cause the organization or individual to violate a sincerely held religious belief; restrict civil or criminal action against religious organizations or an individual employed by a religious organization while acting in the scope of that employment for certain actions or any other action to penalize; allow religious organizations or an individual employed by a religious organization while acting in the scope of that employment a defense to any private cause of action for refusal to provide certain services due to a sincerely held religious belief.

HB164
CIVIL RIGHTS
(MARZIAN M)
Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for “sexual orientation” and “gender identity”; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the KRS civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition against discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform.

SEXUAL ASSAULT
(GOFORTH R)
Amend KRS 403.322 to specify that persons found by clear and convincing evidence to have committed an offense in KRS Chapter 510 that produced a child shall not have custody, visitation, or inheritance rights with regard to that child.

HB182
WAGES
(MARZIAN M)
Amend KRS 337.010, relating to the definition of “employees” of retail stores and service industries, to increase the applicable threshold of business that applies to from $95,000 to $500,000; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to not less than $8.80 an hour on August 1, 2019, not less than $10.35 an hour beginning on August 1, 2020, not less than $11.90 an hour beginning on August 1, 2021, not less than $13.45 an hour beginning on August 1, 2022, and not less than $15 per hour beginning on August 1, 2023; amend KRS 337.420 to define “equivalent jobs” as those that are equal under the federal Equal Pay Act, or jobs that are dissimilar but equivalent in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; amend KRS 337.423 to prohibit wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race, or national origin by prohibiting wage differentials for employees who perform equivalent jobs; provide exceptions for wage differentials based on seniority or merit systems, systems that measure wages by quantity or quality of production, and factors other than sex, race, or national origin; amend KRS 337.425 to require the promulgation of administrative regulations to specify criteria for determining jobs that are dominated by employees of a particular sex, race, or national origin, and acceptable methodology for determining equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; require that the administrative regulations be promulgated on or before July 1, 2020; provide the amendments to KRS 337.423 are EFFECTIVE July 1, 2021.

HB184
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT DISCLOSURE
(BURCH T)
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 311, 312, 313, 314, and 320 to require licensed health care professionals to disclose to patients in writing sanctions by a disciplining authority for sexual misconduct.

HB189
PAROLE VIOLATORS
(BLANTON J)
Amend KRS 439.3106 to create a supervision continuation sanction to be applied by the Parole Board at final revocation hearings; provide for the return a sanctioned individual to a jail, prison, halfway house, or inpatient treatment facility without revoking parole for up to nine months; provide for reinstatement of the sanctioned individual to prior parole supervision conditions upon completion of the sanction, or return of the individual to the parole board for revocation if the sanction is not successfully completed.

HB191
PEACE OFFICER CERTIFICATION
(BLANTON J)
Amend KRS 15.391, relating to grounds for the revocation of peace officer certification, to distinguish conditions that require revocation from those that may trigger revocation; provide that hearings shall be conducted in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B; require an agency that has knowledge of a peace officer in its employment who meets any revocation condition to report that condition to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council and provide that Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program funds may be suspended if the agency fails to report; clarify that this section shall not apply to peace officers employed by the Department of Kentucky State Police unless and until the peace office is no longer employed by the department; allow the council to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this section; amend KRS 15.386 and 15.440 to conform.

HB192
JURY SERVICE
(LEE S)
Amend KRS 29A.100 to allow individuals who are caregivers for persons who are sick, aged, disabled, or infirm, as well as children who require the individual’s personal care and attention, to be excused from jury service; allow for verification of the individual’s obligations to be furnished.

HB193
WAGES
(WESTROM S)
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 provide previous salary, except to allow a request for information voluntarily provided in response to an offer of employment; allow previous salary to be considered when required by law, when discovered while looking at other nonsalary information, and for public employee positions; require notice to be posted for employees; amend KRS 337.990 to assess a civil penalty for a violation.

HB201
SERVICE OF PROCESS
(FISCHER J)
Amend KRS 454.210 to allow service of process on nonresidents to be made in any manner authorized by the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure, including certified mail with return receipt requested.

HB204
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
(SHELDON S)
Amend KRS 41.410 to update the requirements to the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000; create a new section of KRS Chapter 41 to require the Department of the Treasury to be responsible for administering and promoting STABLE Kentucky accounts; amend KRS 393A.020 to state that KRS Chapter 393A shall not apply to mineral proceeds; amend KRS 393A.330 to provide that the holder of virtual currency shall liquidate and remit the proceeds to the administrator, and that the owner shall not have recourse against the holder or the administrator to recover any gain in value that occurs after the liquidation of the virtual currency; repeal various sections of KRS Chapter 41 and KRS 42.510 related to the Linked Deposit Investment Program.

HB210
LONG-TERM CARE
(CARNEY J)
Create a new section of KRS 216.510 to 216.595 to require employees in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Office of Inspector General, to sign a Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Statement upon hire and on an annual basis thereafter; amend KRS 216.590 to establish requirements of surveyor and investigator training for long-term care facility investigators.

HB220
INSURANCE COMPANIES
(LEWIS D)
Create a new section of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers to file Corporate Governance Annual Disclosures with the Department of Insurance; specify the form and contents of the disclosures; allow insurers to comply with the section by cross-referencing other existing relevant and applicable documents; specify the level at which information shall be reported; require insurers to maintain documentation and support for information provided in the disclosure; specify the format for disclosures filed after the initial disclosure; classify disclosure-related filings, documents, and information as confidential and privileged; permit certain use and sharing of disclosure-related filings, documents, and information; permit the commissioner to retain third-party consultants and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to assist in review of the disclosures; specify requirements for persons retained by the commissioner; amend KRS 304.37-010 to alphabetize definitions and to add definitions for “groupwide supervisor” and “internationally active insurance group”; create a new section of Subtitle 37 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize the commissioner to act as or acknowledge another regulatory official as a groupwide supervisor for an internationally active insurance group; establish factors to be considered in making a determination of groupwide supervisor; establish criteria for when the commissioner shall acknowledge another regulatory official acting as a groupwide supervisor; authorize the commissioner to collect information; require the commissioner to make certain notifications; establish the commissioner’s authority when acting as a groupwide supervisor; require certain insurers to pay the reasonable expenses of the commissioner’s participation in the administration of the section; amend KRS 304.37-050 to classify information reported or provided to the department under KRS 304.37-030 and Section 3 of the Act as confidential and privileged and make technical corrections; amend KRS 304.3-090, 304.3-400, 304.24-290, and 304.37-130 to conform.

HB225
DECEPTIVE LAWSUIT ADVERTISING
(MOSER K)
Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to regulate advertising for legal services.

HB242
STRANGULATION
(DONOHUE J)
Create a new section of Chapter 508 to establish the crime of strangulation.

HB248
BOATING SAFETY
(FUGATE C)
Amend KRS 235.240 to specify application of enforcement and penalties; amend KRS 235.990 to add the choice of fines or imprisonment for violations of KRS 235.240; amend KRS 431.005 to give a peace officer the ability to arrest an intoxicated operator of a motorboat or vessel without a warrant.

HB254
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
(MADDOX S)
Amend KRS 164.348 to require public postsecondary institutions to adopt policies ensuring the protection of freedom of speech and expression by students and faculty; require policies to be made available to students and faculty; create a cause of action for a violation of any policy required by the Act.

HB257
AMUSEMENT RIDES
(MEREDITH M)
Create a new section of KRS 247.232 to 247.236 to set forth conduct guidelines for patrons of amusement rides and attractions; establish a penalty for trespassing after refusing to leave the premises following a conduct violation; require amusement ride and attraction operators to display the penalties for violations of this section.

HB258
OPERATION OF SCOOTERS
(UPCHURCH K)
Amend KRS 186.010 to define “motor scooter”; specify that motor scooters be considered to be a motorcycle only for registration purposes; specify that electric low-speed scooters are not vehicles; amend KRS 186A.080 to exempt electric low-speed scooters from title and registration requirements; amend KRS 189.010 to define “electric low-speed scooters” and specify that they are not a motor vehicle; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to allow electric low-speed scooters to be operated on a highway, bicycle lane, or bicycle path; outline provisions for operation; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish safe operating standards; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to allow the operation of motor scooters on a highway; outline provisions for operation; amend KRS 189.050 to exempt electric low-speed scooters from lighting requirements; amend KRS 189.340 to outline the procedure for vehicles when overtaking an electric low-speed scooter; prohibit an operator of an electric low-speed scooter from riding more than two abreast; amend KRS 189.635 to specify that for reporting and statistical purposes, a motor scooter be listed in its own distinct category; amend KRS 189.810 to exempt electric low-speed scooters from slow-moving vehicle requirements; amend KRS 304.39-020 to specify that electric low-speed scooters are not motor vehicles.

HB262
SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
(REED B)
Amend KRS 156.502 to include a definition of “medication” and “sunscreen”; require local boards of education to adopt policy allowing students to carry and self-administer sunscreen; provide that the policy may permit school employees to voluntarily assist with application of sunscreen; include voluntarily assisting with the application of sunscreen in liability protection for school employees.

HB264
EXTERNAL DETAINEE FATALITY REVIEW PANEL
(SCOTT A)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 441 to establish the External Detainee Fatality Review Panel to conduct comprehensive reviews of all fatalities of individuals detained in county or regional jails, any facility operated by the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, or an entity under contract with either department.

HB265
MARIJUANA POSSESSION
(BOOKER C)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make the penalty for possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana a prepayable non-criminal fine; amend KRS 218A.010 to define “personal use quantity of marijuana” and “marijuana accessory”; amend KRS 218A.1422 regarding marijuana possession to conform; amend KRS 218A.500 regarding drug paraphernalia to exempt personal use marijuana accessories; amend KRS 218A.1421 on marijuana trafficking to exempt personal use quantities; amend KRS 431.450 to include violations for possession of personal use quantities of marijuana in the uniform citation form; amend KRS 500.080 to exclude the offense of possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana from the definition of “violation”; and amend KRS 138.872 to exclude personal use quantities from marijuana stamp tax.

HB273
FIREFIGHTER PROGRAMS
(MEREDITH M)
Amend KRS 95A.210 and create a new section of KRS 95A.200 to 95A.300 to define and establish the Alan “Chip” Terry Professional Development and Wellness Program and create a fund for the program’s administration; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

HB275
INSURANCE
(ROWLAND B)
mend KRS 304.9-105 to remove a licensing requirement for insurance agents to maintain liability insurance or a cash surety bond; amend KRS 304.9-120 to establish exception to commissioner’s review of determination of designation of Kentucky as an applicant’s home state; amend KRS 304.35-040 to modify the persons that serve on the Reinsurance Association governing committee; amend KRS 417.050 to exempt arbitration agreements entered by industrial insured captive insurers from the provisions of KRS Chapter 417; repeal KRS 304.9-460.

HB285
CONSUMER LOAN COMPANIES
(MEREDITH M)
Amend KRS 286.4-410, relating to consumer loan companies, to define certain terms; amend KRS 286.4-430 to require applicant to submit specific information with an application for licensure; amend KRS 286.4-440 to increase licensing application fee, and fee per location; amend KRS 286.4-450 to establish financial requirements for applicants and licensees; amend the application approval process; establish process for an appeal of an application denial; restrict eligibility for a license for individuals who have had a license previously denied or revoked; amend KRS 286.4-460 to require disclosure of physical address, and any assumed names; require notice to the commissioner of a change in name; amend KRS 286.4-470 to add tax preparation to business that may be conducted in same location as consumer loan business and add 60 day review requirement; amend KRS 286.4-480 to establish the expiration of a license for failure to pay annual fee; repeal and reenact KRS 286.4-490 to define adverse action; establish when the commissioner may take adverse action; establish procedure following the adverse action; allow the commissioner to seek temporary or permanent relief against a person who has violated Subtitle 4 of KRS Chapter 286; amend KRS 286.4-500 to establish requirements and procedures for orders entered by the commissioner; allow the commissioner to file administrative complaints; amend KRS 286.4-533 to replace collection of credit investigation fee with loan processing fee; amend KRS 286.4-580 to make technical changes; amend KRS 286.4-600 to make changes to retention requirements; allow for a licensee to designate a custodian of records; require access to records for the commissioner; amend KRS 286.4-610 to set examination frequency of licensees and to establish examination and investigation powers of the commissioner; create a new section of Subtitle 4 of KRS Chapter 286 to allow for use of the State Regulatory Registry by the department and licensees; create a new section of Subtitle 4 of KRS Chapter 286 to require licensees maintain an agent in Kentucky; create a new section of Subtitle 4 of KRS Chapter 286 to establish requirements for change of control of a licensee; create a new section of Subtitle 4 of KRS Chapter 286 to require compliance with applicable state and federal law; create a new section of Subtitle 4 of KRS Chapter 286 to exempt certain items from required disclosure under the Kentucky Open Records Act; create a new section of Subtitle 4 of KRS Chapter 286 to establish emergency powers of the commissioner under this subtitle; create a new section of Subtitle 4 of KRS Chapter 286 to allow for a hearing for any person aggrieved by a final decision of the commissioner; establish penalties for violations of this subtitle; repeal KRS 286.4-630.

HB289
LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES
(RILEY S)
Amend KRS 216.535 to establish definitions for “management or consulting company” and “passive investor”; create a new section of KRS 216.537 to 216.590 to establish when a cause of action can be taken against the licensee of a long-term care facility, the licensee’s management or consulting company, the licensee’s management, direct or independent contractors, employees, a passive investor, or other individual, partnership, firm, association, or other entities.

HB297
LANDLORD AND TENANT
(PETRIE J)

HB298
MINOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
(PETRIE J)
Amend KRS 531.335 to raise the penalty for possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor under the age of 12 years to a Class C felony; amend KRS 531.340 to raise the penalty for the distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance of a minor under the age of 12 years to a Class C felony for the first offense and a Class B for each subsequent offense.

HB299
SENTENCING CREDITS
(PETRIE J)
Amend KRS 197.010 and 197.045 to allow sentencing credits for life skills programs and promising practices.

HB300
CIVIL RIGHTS
(CANTRELL M)
Amend KRS 344.030 to change the definition of “employer” to include a person who has at least one employee in the state.

HB301
EMPLOYMENT
(CANTRELL M)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to 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.

HB308
MIDWIVES
(GRAVISS J)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 314 to define “APRN-designated certified nurse midwife,” “certified professional midwifery services,” “council,” “licensed certified professional midwife; “create the Licensed Certified Professional Midwives Advisory Council under the Board of Nursing and establish its membership; provide that a licensed certified professional midwife has same authority and responsibility as other licensed health care providers regarding public health laws and require each to keep appropriate medical records; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations relating to licensed certified professional midwives, including a requirement for informed consent, fees for permits, statewide requirements for transfer of care, medical tests, and a formulary of medications; permit the board to require a criminal background investigation of an applicant for a license as a licensed certified professional midwife by means of a fingerprint check; require the council to delineate findings on restrictions to providing certified professional midwifery services; provide immunity from liability in civil action for health care providers who have acted in consultation with a licensed certified professional midwife; establish a work group to develop statewide transfer guidelines; amend KRS 164.298, 211.180, 311.271, and 311.550 to conform; require data to be collected about the place of delivery and planned place of delivery; prohibit performing abortions; provide an education requirement to meet United States educational accreditation standards; provide that any medications used by a licensed certified professional midwife are for the safe conduct of pregnancy, labor and birth, and immediate care of a newborn.

HB312
CHILDREN EDUCATION STABILITY
(RILEY S)
Amend KRS 620.060 regarding emergency custody orders in dependency, neglect, and abuse cases to require a specific statement in the orders to change the educational enrollment of a protected child; amend KRS 403.730 to require a specific finding on the record before an emergency domestic violence protective order can order a child to change educational enrollment; amend KRS 403.270 regarding child custody generally to emphasize educational stability as a primary factor.

HB317
REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE
(WEBBER R)
Amend KRS 341.380 to reduce the percentage used to set weekly benefit rate, to increase trigger amounts for the trust fund balance as related to the weekly benefits amount; to reduce the number of times to pay weekly benefits from 26 to 20; to tier down payments beginning at 125% of the weekly benefit rate for 5 weeks to 100% for the following 5 weeks then to 75 % for the third 5 weeks and 50% of the weekly benefits for the remainder of the award, except for employees classified as recall employees who receive 100% of the weekly benefit; provide that certain classified employees cannot change classification during benefit year; and if extended benefits have are federal funded, that the secretary may extend the number of times to pay to 26.

HB318
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
(SCOTT A)
Amend KRS 344.150 to forbid appointment of a proposed new member to the Commission on Human Rights unless that appointment creates or maintains the closest possible equivalent percentage between the political party affiliation of commission members and statewide voter registration; limit the political parties under consideration to the two parties whose candidates polled the largest number of votes in the state at the last general election; determine statewide voter registration percentages from the most recent monthly report of the State Board of Elections; amend KRS 344.160 to conform.

HB321
PRIVATE MOTOR VEHICLE RENTALS
(UPCHURCH K)
Amend KRS 281.010 to define the terms “private motor vehicle” or “PMV,” “vehicle rental transaction,” “private vehicle rental” or “PVR,” “private vehicle rental program” or “PVRP,” “private vehicle rental program provider” or “program provider,” “private vehicle rental owner” or “PVR owner,” “private vehicle renter” or “renter,” “program rental period” or “rental period,” and “group policy”; include a private vehicle rental program provider under the definition of a U-Drive-It; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to outline standards for a private vehicle rental program; create new sections of Subtitle 20 of KRS Chapter 304 to set forth insurance requirements for program providers for private motor vehicles during the rental period; create a new section of Subtitle 39 of KRS Chapter 304 to clarify the group policy issued to program providers will meet the minimum insurance requirements for a motor vehicle; amend KRS 281.630 to require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations on the operation of U-Drive-Its, including private vehicle rental program providers; amend KRS 281.655 to clarify that the group policy issued to program providers satisfies the minimum insurance requirements under KRS Chapter 281; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to allow electronic notifications; amend KRS 68.200 to subject private vehicle rental program providers to any motor vehicle rental license fee charged by a county, urban-county, or consolidated local government; amend KRS 138.463 to require private vehicle rental program providers to collect usage tax on each vehicle rental transaction; repeal KRS 186.630; APPROPRIATION.

HB334
OFF HIGHWAY VEHICLES
(REED B)
Amend KRS 186.010 to define “off-highway vehicles” or “OHV”; consider an OHV to be a motor vehicle for registration purposes; amend KRS 186.050 to establish a $25 annual registration fee for OHVs and a $30 fee for nonresident OHV registration; allow the clerk to retain $5 for OHV registration; create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to allow for the operation of OHVs on a public roadway that is not a fully controlled access highway; establish requirements; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; establish exemptions; allow for the operation of nonresident OHV on county roadways for up to 30 days; establish requirements; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 189.517 to comply; amend KRS 189.990 to establish that operating an OHV in violation of Sections 3 and 4 of this Act shall be a Class B misdemeanor.

HB340
911 EMERGENCY SERVICES
(MEREDITH M)
Amend KRS 65.750 to add “next generation 911” to the definition of “911 emergency service”; amend KRS 65.7637 so that CMRS providers, Voice over Internet Protocol providers, service suppliers, and related parties are only liable in cases of wanton or willful misconduct for damages for death or injury to a person in connection with the provision of access to 911 emergency service.

HB350
WORKERS COMPENSATION
(GENTRY A)
Amend KRS 342.020 to require an employer to pay for medical benefits at the time of injury and thereafter during disability instead of 780 weeks; amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be “B” readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be “B” readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.794 to delete the definition of “board-certified pulmonary specialist” and eliminate the requirement that physicians on the list of qualified “B” readers maintained by the commissioner include only those licensed in Kentucky and board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.610 to indicate that liability for compensation shall not apply if the injury or death was proximately caused by voluntary intoxication or a willful intent to injure himself or herself; amend KRS 342.990 to conform.

HB352
PETROLEUM PRODUCT TRANSPORTATION
(UPCHURCH K)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 177 to define “extended weight unrefined petroleum products haul road system” as those state-maintained highways over which 50,000 tons or more of unrefined petroleum products are transported in the year 2022, and update annually thereafter; require the secretary of the Transportation Cabinet to designate the roads in the system on an annual basis; allow motor vehicles, using approved axle configurations, to transport unrefined petroleum products on the system at a maximum weight of 120,000 pounds, with a gross weight tolerance of five percent; set the fee for an annual decal at $1,250; require that dimensions of the vehicle operating under a decal conform to federal law; specify that the decal fee is in addition to all other fees and taxes required to register and operate the vehicle; direct revenues for decal fees under this section be credited to the road fund, and appropriate those revenues for the uses of the fund; specify that nothing in the Act shall be administered in a manner that would jeopardize federal highway funding, that the system shall exclude operation on an interstate highway, and that the cabinet may alter this system for safety purposes, including reduced bridge weight limits; allow local governments to express to the secretary concerns over road section being included in the system and require the secretary to consider those objections; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the section, including design standards for approved axle configurations; require the cabinet to publish a directory of the extended weight unrefined petroleum products haul road system; set forth reporting requirements for transporters of petroleum products; mandate that reporting requirements begin January 1, 2022; repeal Sections 1 and 2 of the Act June 30, 2029.

THIRD DEGREE ASSAULT
(WHEATLEY B)
Amend KRS 508.025 to add firefighters to the subsection criminalizing intentionally causing person to come into contact with bodily fluids.

HB355
EMPLOYEE MISCLASSIFICATION
(CANTRELL M)
Create a new section of KRS 337 to provide remedy for employees misclassified as independent contractors; amend KRS 337.010 to include definitions for “independent contractor” and “misclassify”.

HB362
ASBESTOS TRUST CLAIMS
(FISCHER J)
Create an new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define “asbestos action,” “asbestos trust,” “trust claims materials,” and “trust governance documents”; require plaintiffs in an asbestos action to provide certain information and documents not less than 180 days before the initial date set for trial; establish that plaintiffs have a continuing duty to supplement the information and documents; establish requirements for an order requiring a plaintiff to file additional asbestos trust claims; establish that defendants may seek discovery from an asbestos trust; establish requirements for an asbestos action; require a court to impose sanctions if a plaintiff fails to comply with the section; provide that Act may be cited to as the Kentucky Asbestos Trust Claims Transparency Act; EMERGENCY.

HB369
MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE
(GENTRY A)
Create a new section of Subtitle 20 of KRS Chapter 304 to require property and casualty insurance policies that reimburse for repairs made to a motor vehicle to reimburse for the cost of repairs made with original equipment manufacturer (OEM) parts unless use of after-market parts is approved in writing by the vehicle’s owner.

HB371
SCHOOL BUS
(STONE W)
Amend KRS 189.990 to increase the fines for passing a school bus.

HB373
FAIR PAY PRACTICES
(CANTRELL M)
Amend KRS 337.070 to require written notice of wage payment terms upon new employment; require detailed information about deductions from wages; require, upon request, an explanation of wage calculations; amend KRS 337.320 to list information concerning compensation that an employer is required to maintain for employees; amend KRS 337.423 to protect employee’s ability to speak about wages with other employees.

HB376
EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDERS
(RAYMOND J)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to allow persons to petition in District Court for one-year extreme risk protection orders when the petitioner believes a respondent poses a significant danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm or ammunition; establish procedures under which a temporary ex parte protective order could be issued; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, and possible extension of the petition; prescribe issuance and service procedures of a resulting protection order; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, and return of firearms and ammunition; establish penalties.

HB379
HAZING
(KEENE D)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 508 to define “hazing”; establish a Class C felony of hazing in the first degree; establish a Class D felony of hazing in the second degree; establish a Class A misdemeanor of hazing in the third degree.

HB398
DRUG TRAFFICKING
(MADDOX S)
Amend KRS 218A.1412 to make a technical correction to clarify that heroin trafficking is not eligible for a Class D felony.

HB400
STRANGULATION
(JENKINS J)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 508 to create the new crimes of strangulation in the first degree as a Class C felony, and strangulation in the second degree as a Class D felony; amend KRS 403.720 to include strangulation in the definition of “domestic violence and abuse”; amend KRS 456.010 to include strangulation in the definition of “dating violence and abuse”; amend KRS 15.334, 15.440, 15.718, 21A.170, 30A.015, 194A.540, 194A.545, and 194A.550 to mandate training on screening and forensic evidence collection in strangulation cases.

SB1
SCHOOL SAFETY
(WISE M)
Amend KRS 158.441 to include definitions of school safety and school security; amend KRS 158.442 to include development and implementation of a school safety coordinator training program; specify membership on the Center for School Safety board of directors; amend KRS 158.443 to specify the board of directors is to appoint an executive director, establish all positions of the center, approve a school security risk assessment tool, review the organizational structure of the center and make recommendations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish the state school security marshal to be appointed by and report to the Department of Criminal Justice Training; require the marshal to report annually to the Center for School Safety; require development of a school security risk assessment tool; require reporting by school superintendents on completion of the risk assessment annually; require mandatory additional staff training if the risk assessment is not completed; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require school district superintendents to appoint a school safety coordinator; require the school safety coordinator to complete training within six months of appointment; require the coordinator to designate threat assessment teams at each school in the district; require the coordinator to prescribe policies and procedures for an all-hazards approach to school safety; require the coordinator to ensure that all school campuses in their district are toured at least once per school year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to promote the assignment of a school resource officer to each school; require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to promulgate administrative regulations to establish school resource officer training and course curriculum; require superintendents to report annually to the Center for School Safety the number and placement of school resource officers in the district; amend KRS 15.330 to conform; amend KRS 158.162 to require all districts to restrict the access to each school building by July 1, 2022; withhold approval of new building construction or expansion approval without compliance; amend KRS 156.095 to require suicide prevention awareness information be provided to students in person, by live streaming, or via video recording; require suicide training provided to staff to include the recognition of signs and symptoms of mental illness; require staff with job duties requiring direct contact with students to receive a minimum of one hour of training annually on responding to an active shooter; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define mental health professional and trauma-informed approach; direct all schools to adopt a trauma-informed approach to education; require by July 1, 2021, as funds become available, each school district to provide a mental health professional for each one thousand five hundred students; require by January 1, 2020, the Department of Education make available a tool kit to assist school districts in developing a trauma-informed approach; require by July 1, 2020, each local board of education to develop a plan for implementing a trauma-informed approach; amend KRS 70.062 to encourage sheriffs to collaborate with local school districts on policies and procedures for communicating instances of student-involved trauma; amend KRS 95.970 to encourage chiefs of police to collaborate with local school districts on policies and procedures for communicating instances of student-involved trauma; create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to encourage the Department of Kentucky State Police to work with school districts pertaining to school and student safety and emergency response plans and concerns and policies and procedures for communicating instances of student involved trauma; amend KRS 508.078 to include in terroristic threatening in the second degree making false statements by any means for the purpose of causing evacuation, cancellation, or creating fear of bodily harm in schools or among students, parents, or school personnel; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Department of Education make available to each school district an anonymous reporting tool; allow the reporting individual to stay anonymous; require information reported be immediately sent to administration of each school district and law enforcement agencies affected; require the Department of Education develop and provide a comprehensive training and awareness program on the anonymous reporting tool; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require principals to provide each school year written notice to all students, parents, and guardians of the provisions of KRS 508.078 and potential penalties under KRS 532.060 and 534.030; create a new section of Chapter 158 to allow the board of directors of any public school district foundation to accept gifts or donations restricted for school security purposes and use them exclusively for the purpose granted; encourage the organization of foundations to support public school districts for which no foundation exists; Act shall be known as the School Safety and Resiliency Act; direct the Office of Education Accountability to conduct a study on the use of guidance counselors’ time in schools.

SB2
CIVIL ACTIONS
(STIVERS II R)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 26A to allow appointment of a special judge in certain civil actions.

SB7
EMPLOYMENT
(STIVERS II R)
Amend KRS 336.700 to allow arbitration, mediation, or alternative dispute resolution agreements to be required by employers as a condition or precondition to employment; allow a waiver of a claim to be required as a condition or precondition for rehiring of an employee; allow an agreement to reduce the period for limitations as a condition or precondition of employment as long as the agreement does not apply to state or federal law that preempts modifying limitations; allow an employee to be required to agree to a background check as a condition or precondition of employment in conformity with a state of federal law requiring background checks; state that these provisions shall be applied retroactively and prospectively; amend KRS 417.050 to comform; EMERGENCY.

SB11
CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY
(ALVARADO R)
Propose amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the General Assembly the power to limit noneconomic damages for injuries resulting in death or for injuries to persons or property, and to provide a uniform statute of limitations; provide for submission to the voters.

SB12
CANINE AND FELINE SAFETY
(CARROLL D)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to provide civil immunity for damaging a vehicle if a person enters the vehicle with the reasonable, good-faith belief that a dog or cat is in immediate danger of death if not removed.

SB17
MENTAL ILLNESS
(ADAMS J)
Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses.

SB18
PREGNANCY-RELATED DISCRIMINATION
(KERR A)
Amend KRS 344.030 to include within the definition of “reasonable accommodation” accommodations made for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; define “related medical condition”; amend KRS 344.040 to make it unlawful for an employer to fail to accommodate an employee affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition; require employers to provide notice to all employees regarding the right to be free from discrimination for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions.

SB20
JUVENILE JUSTICE
(WESTERFIELD W)
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 15A, 27A, 158, and 194A to require reporting of statistics, including age, race, and gender, to determine whether there is disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice, social welfare, and educational discipline systems; create training requirements; require the development and reporting of plans to ameliorate disproportionate minority contact with juvenile justice and education systems; amend KRS 156.095 to require professional development for education professionals on juvenile justice topics; create a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to allow the Division of Protection and Advocacy to investigate the use of restraint and seclusion in schools and require confidentiality; amend KRS 15.334 to require training on juvenile justice topics; create new sections of KRS Chapter 610 to create a minimum age of criminal responsibility of 12 years of age; establish rules relating to the court’s treatment of developmental immaturity, mental illness, and intellectual disability; amend KRS 503.010 to define “physical restraint”; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to regulate the use of physical restraint by teachers or school personnel; amend KRS 635.020 to limit the youthful offender process to cases involving offenses against persons and to require that a child be 16 years of age; amend KRS 158.135 to further define “state agency children”; amend KRS 15A.220 to require facilities under contract to the Department of Juvenile Justice to report data; amend KRS 635.060 to allow a child who has committed an offense that would be a Class D felony if committed by an adult to be retained on probation for 18 months if the court-ordered substance abuse or mental health program is longer than 12 months and to limit the exclusion of children from the time limits placed on certain dispositions; amend KRS 610.105 to expand a court’s options for diversion of a child’s adjudicated case; amend KRS 600.020 to define “restorative justice practices”; amend KRS 630.070 to limit detention for a child violating a court order to 30 days; amend various sections to conform; amend KRS 610.265 to require hearings every 10 days to continue holding a child in custody; amend KRS 15A.305, 610.030, 610.190, 610.200, 610.220, 635.010, and 630.030 to make technical corrections; repeal KRS 610.012, relating to court jurisdiction over detention of suspected runaways.

SB22
MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT
(ALVARADO R)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to enact and enter into the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for physicians.
SB28
HAZARDOUS WASTE VIOLATIONS
(ALVARADO R)
Create a new section of KRS 224.46-505 to 224.46-590 to require the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet to send a copy of a notice of violation for a hazardous waste site or facility to the county/judge executive of the county or the chief executive officer of the urban-county government within which the site or facility is located; amend KRS 224.10-212 to specify that notices of violation for hazardous waste sites or facilities are not prohibited from disclosure due to confidentiality.

SB31
SIBLING VISITATION
(ALVARADO R)
Amend KRS 620.050 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, in the case of siblings removed from their home who are not jointly placed, to provide for frequent visitation or other ongoing interaction between the siblings.

SB33
REMOVAL OF SMOKER PROTECTIONS
(SCHICKEL J)
Amend KRS 344.040 to remove protections against employment discrimination based on an individual’s status as a smoker or nonsmoker.

SB40
BUILDING CODE VIOLATIONS
(MEREDITH S)
Amend KRS 198B.130 to allow a court award under KRS Chapter 198B or the Uniform Building Code to include attorney’s fees if a certificate of occupancy has not been issued.

SB41
LEGAL CONTRACTS
(MEREDITH S)
Amend KRS 45A.717 to give the secretary of Finance and Administration the decision-making authority to settle matters for which a legal personal service contract has been awarded.

SB45
RACIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS
(NEAL G)
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 6 and 15A to make legislative findings and require racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements for certain legislation and administrative regulations.

SB46
CRIMINAL GANG PROSECUTIONS
(NEAL G)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 506 to require a report for any charge or conviction under KRS 506.120, 506.135, 506.140, 506.150, 506.160, 506.170, 506.180, or 506.190.

SB57
EXPUNGEMENT
(HIGDON J)
Amend KRS 431.073 to allow discretionary expungement of Class D felonies with a ten-year waiting period; amend KRS 431.076 to allow a person against whom charges have been dismissed with or without prejudice to petition for expungement; set time limits for filing petitions; amend KRS 431.079 to require a certificate of eligibility only if a petition or application seeks expungement of a conviction; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to create an expungement fund and specify distribution of money from the fund; APPROPRIATION.

SB58
STRANGULATION
(BUFORD T)
Create a new section of Chapter 508 to establish the crime of strangulation.

SB67
SEX CRIMES
(ADAMS J)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to establish the offense of sexual crimes against an animal; define “animal” and “sexual contact”; list exceptions including, animal husbandry; amend KRS 436.605 to add sexual crimes against an animal to the list of crimes for which an animal control officer may utilize peace officer powers.

SB70
STRANGULATION
(KERR A)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to create the crime of strangulation, provide that strangulation is a Class D felony; amend KRS 403.720 to include the offense of strangulation as one of the offenses considered domestic violence and abuse; amend KRS 456.010 to include the offense of strangulation as one of the offenses considered dating violence and abuse; amend KRS 456.020 to conform.

SB74
RECKLESS HOMICIDE
(TURNER J)
Amend KRS 431.073 to allow convictions for reckless homicide to be vacated and expunged if the offender has first been granted a partial pardon by the Governor.

SB82
MARIJUANA POSSESSION
(HIGDON J)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make the penalty for possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana a prepayable non-criminal fine; amend KRS 218A.010 to define “personal use quantity of marijuana” and “marijuana accessory”; amend KRS 218A.1422 regarding marijuana possession to conform; amend KRS 218A.500 regarding drug paraphernalia to exempt personal use marijuana accessories; amend KRS 218A.1421 on marijuana trafficking to exempt personal use quantities; amend KRS 431.450 to include violations for possession of personal use quantities of marijuana in the uniform citation form; amend KRS 500.080 to exclude the offense of possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana from the definition of “violation”; and amend KRS 138.872 to exclude personal use quantities from marijuana stamp tax.

SB84
MIDWIVES
(BUFORD T)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 314 to define “APRN-designated certified nurse midwife,” “certified professional midwifery services,” “council,” “licensed certified professional midwife; “create the Licensed Certified Professional Midwives Advisory Council under the Board of Nursing and establish its membership; provide that a licensed certified professional midwife has same authority and responsibility as other licensed health care providers regarding public health laws and require each to keep appropriate medical records; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations relating to licensed certified professional midwives, including a requirement for informed consent, fees for permits, statewide requirements for transfer of care, medical tests, and a formulary of medications; permit the board to require a criminal background investigation of an applicant for a license as a licensed certified professional midwife by means of a fingerprint check; require the council to delineate findings on restrictions to providing certified professional midwifery services; provide immunity from liability in civil action for health care providers who have acted in consultation with a licensed certified professional midwife; establish a work group to develop statewide transfer guidelines; amend KRS 164.298, 211.180, 311.271, and 311.550 to conform; require data to be collected about the place of delivery and planned place of delivery; prohibit performing abortions; provide an education requirement to meet United States educational accreditation standards; provide that any medications used by a licensed certified professional midwife are for the safe conduct of pregnancy, labor and birth, and immediate care of a newborn.

SB85
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
(WESTERFIELD W)
Amend KRS 189A.005 to provide a definition for “cabinet” and to clarify the definitions of “ignition interlock device”, “ignition interlock certificate of installation”, “ignition interlock device provider”, and “ignition interlock license”; amend KRS 189A.010 to clarify that laboratory tests for controlled substances are admissible for DUI prosecutions under (1)(c) or (e); amend KRS 189A.040 to provide that alcohol or substance abuse treatment pursuant to this statute shall be authorized as Medicaid-eligible services for defendants who are Medicaid-eligible; amend KRS 189A.045 to clarify that if a defendant enrolls in an education alcohol or substance abuse treatment program before conviction that the education or treatment completed prior to conviction counts towards the education or treatment requirement imposed by KRS 189A.040; amend KRS 189A.050 to raise the DUI service fee from $375 to $425 and appropriate the additional $50 to the Transportation Cabinet for administrative costs associated with ignition interlock; repeal and reenact KRS 189A.070 to provide that the Transportation Cabinet shall suspend the driver’s license of a person convicted of a DUI; specify that any person issued an ignition interlock license may have a shorter suspension period; amend KRS 189A.085 to provide that a person convicted of any DUI shall surrender his or her license plate unless the person or family qualifies for an exemption; amend KRS 189A.090, operating a motor vehicle while driver’s license is suspended for a DUI, to conform and to raise the third or subsequent offense of this statute for a person who was driving impaired to a Class C felony; amend KRS 189A.100 to clarify that the sentencing court can order a videotape or film of a DUI destroyed; amend KRS 189A.200 to provide that the court may require an ignition interlock license as a pretrial condition of release for those charged with violating (1)(a) but shall require an ignition interlock license as a pretrial condition of release for those charged with violating (1)(b) or (c); repeal and reenact KRS 189A.340 to provide the requirements for and restrictions of an ignition interlock license; amend KRS 189A.345 to make penalties for ignition interlock license and device violations; repeal, reenact, amend, and renumber KRS 189A.500 to clarify the Transportation Cabinet’s regulatory authority for ignition interlock; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189A to provide an administrative appeals process for ignition interlock licenses; amend KRS 189A.410 to specify that only those charged with violations of KRS 189A.010(1)(c) or (d) are eligible for hardship licenses; amend KRS 189A.107, 189A.400, 189A.440, and 186.560 to conform; amend KRS 189A.105, 189A.220, 189A.240, and 189A.250 to make technical corrections; repeal 189A.080, 189A.320, 189A.420, 189A.430, and 189A.450; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2020.

SB86
AIR AMBULANCE SERVICES
(MCGARVEY M)
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish requirement for out-of-network coverage of air ambulance claims; require program for payment of out-of-network air ambulance claims; require mediation process for out-of-network claims; deem compliant payments as full and final payments by the covered person; to require the department to report health facilities that do not provide required disclosures; require that the Department of Insurance publish on its Web site participating provider status information of air ambulance providers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to require health care providers to make certain disclosures to a covered person; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to prohibit an air ambulance provider from selling subscription services; amend KRS 216B.990 to establish fines for health facilities failing to provide required disclosures; amend KRS 304.17A-254 to require a compliance clause in participating provider agreements; amend KRS 304.17A-527 to require a compliance clause in participating provider agreements; amend KRS 304.99-020 to establish penalties for certain violations; amend KRS 311A.060 to require the Board of Emergency Medical Services to send notice of certain violations to the commissioner of insurance; amend KRS 367.990 to establish penalties for provider violations; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2020.
2SB91
CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY Amendment
(NEAL G)
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow persons convicted of a felony, other than felonies designated by the General Assembly, the right to vote; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.

SB93
CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY Amendment
(MCGARVEY M)
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to restructure the voting restrictions relating to felons and persons with mental disabilities; submit to the voters with ballot question.

SB97
SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC EVIDENCE
(ANGEL D)
Amend KRS 16.132 to require the Kentucky State Police to create a tracking system for sexual assault forensic evidence kits.

SB102
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT
(WESTERFIELD W)
Amend KRS 531.300 to add definitions for “child sex doll” and “traffic”; create new sections of KRS Chapter 531 to prohibit the possession of a child sex doll, the trafficking of a child sex doll, and the importing of a child sex doll; amend KRS 531.340 to conform.

SB104
FIRE PREVENTION
(MILLS R)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 227.200 to 227.410 to provide that beginning July 15, 2020, class B firefighting foam shall not be used for firefighting training purposes or testing purposes.

SB106
PATIENT DISCUSSIONS
(KERR A)
Amend KRS 218A.172 to add issues that a practitioner is required to discuss with a patient prior to prescribing or dispensing a controlled substance to a patient; require that the same information is discussed prior to a third sequential prescription; require any discussion records to be kept by the practitioner.

SB114
OFFICIAL DOCUMENT
(MCGARVEY M)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 423 to define various terms; limit the applicability of the Act to notarial acts performed on or after January 1, 2020; allow a notarial officer to perform a notarial act in Kentucky; outline requirements for certain notarial acts; require a personal or online appearance before a notarial officer; specify the requirements of identifying an individual before a notarial officer; allow a notarial officer to refuse to perform a notarial act; state who may perform a notarial act in Kentucky; recognize notarial acts performed in other states; recognize notarial acts performed in federally recognized Indian tribes under federal law, and in foreign countries; allow a notary public to perform a notarial act by means of communication technology; require a notarial act to be evidenced by a certificate; provide short-form certificates for use by notarial officers; outline the requirements for an official stamp of a notary public; assign responsibility of the notary public’s stamping device to the notary public; require a notary public to maintain a journal chronicling all notarial acts performed by that notary public; require a notary public to register with the Secretary of State that the notary public will be performing notarial acts with respect to electronic records; outline the necessary requirements to be a notary public; outline grounds for suspending, denying, or revoking a commission as a notary public; require the Secretary of State to maintain an electronic database of notaries public; detail prohibited acts; establish the validity of notarial acts; allow the Secretary of State to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this Act; require all commissions occurring after the effective date of this Act to comply with this Act; state that a portion of this Act may be cited as the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to state that a paper copy of an electronic record shall satisfy a law requiring a tangible document; amend KRS 423.200 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 369.103 to allow electronic signatures on transactions relating to the conveyance of interests in real property and the creation or transfer of negotiable instruments; amend KRS 382.230 to remove reference to KRS 382.140; create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to provide for the order of priority between physical and electronic documents presented to the county clerk; amend KRS 382.200 and 382.280 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 64.012 to update fees of county clerks for recording documents; amend KRS 382.240 to allow a reimbursement to county clerks for prepayment of postage; amend KRS 382.360 to no longer require the county clerk to deliver the original deed of release; create a task force on issues regarding the implementation of this Act; repeal KRS 382.140, 382.190, 423.010, 423.020, 423.030, 423.040, 423.050, 423.060, 423.070, 423.080, and 423.990; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2020; APPROPRIATION.

SB117
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
(SCHRODER W)
Amend KRS 164.348 to require public postsecondary institutions to adopt policies ensuring the protection of freedom of speech and expression by students and faculty; require policies to be made available to students and faculty; create a cause of action for a violation of any policy required by the Act.

SB128
ASSISTED LIVING COMMUNITIES
(CARROLL D)
Create a new section of KRS 194A.700 to 194A.729 to prohibit certification or certification renewal of an assisted-living community if it is owned, managed, or operated by any person convicted of certain crimes or listed on an abuse list; exempt owner of an assisted-living facility certified as of July 1, 2019; amend KRS 194A.700 to amend definitions; amend KRS 194A.707 (Effective July 1, 2019) to make changes to the appeals and renewal processes; amend KRS 194A.717 to prohibit on-site staff person from being shared with another level of care; amend KRS 194A.723 to permit the cabinet to initiate injunctive relief in Circuit Court.

SB130
FINANCIAL SETTLEMENTS
(HIGDON J)
Create a new section of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to require that any financial settlement resulting from actions of members or staff of the General Assembly and implemented with the expenditure of public funds be disclosed by the person or persons who authorized or approved the settlement to the Legislative Ethics Commission, including financial settlements resulting from cases of breach of contract, discrimination, harassment, severance at termination of employment, and sexual harassment; require the Legislative Ethics Commission to post a listing of all such financial settlements on its Web site; failure to report such financial settlements by each person who authorized or approved the settlement is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 for each offense; define certain terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 11A to require that any financial settlement resulting from actions of public servants or employees of the executive branch of state government and implemented with the expenditure of public funds shall be disclosed by each person who authorized or approved the settlement to the Executive Branch Ethics Commission, including financial settlements resulting from cases of breach of contract, discrimination, harassment, severance at termination of employment, and sexual harassment; require the Executive Branch Ethics Commission to post a listing of all such financial settlements on its Web site; failure to report such financial settlements by each person who authorized or approved the settlement shall be punishable by a fine of up to S1,000 for each offense; define certain terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to require that any financial settlement resulting from actions of Supreme Court justices, judges, or other employees of the Kentucky Court of Justice and implemented with the expenditure of public funds shall be disclosed by each person who authorized or approved the settlement to the Clerk of the Kentucky Supreme Court, including financial settlements resulting from cases of breach of contract, discrimination, harassment, severance at termination of employment, and sexual harassment; require the Clerk of the Kentucky Supreme Court to post a listing of all such financial settlements on the Web site of the Kentucky Court of Justice; failure to report such financial settlements by each person who authorized or approved the financial settlement shall be punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 for each offense; define certain terms; create a new section of KRS 164.011 to 164.098 to require that any financial settlement that results from actions of employees of any public institution of higher learning in Kentucky and implemented with the expenditure of public funds shall be disclosed by each person who authorized or approved the settlement to the Council on Postsecondary Education, including cases of breach of contract, discrimination, harassment, severance at termination of employment, and sexual harassment; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to post a listing of all such financial settlements on its Web site; failure to report such financial settlements by each person who authorized or approved the settlements shall be punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 for each offense; define certain terms.

SB131
DNA EVIDENCE
(CARROLL D)
Amend KRS 524.140 to define “biological evidence”; limit the applicability of requirements for retention of evidence; allow retention of representative samples of items containing biological evidence.

SB136
DAMAGE TO RENTAL PROPERTY
(SCHICKEL J)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 512 to specify that a tenant who, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has such right, intentionally or wantonly defaces, destroys, or damages residential rental property is to be charged with violating KRS 512.020, 512.030, or 512.040 as appropriate.

SB137
MOTOR VEHICLE REPARATIONS ACT
(GIRDLER R)
Amend KRS 304.39-020 to make technical changes; to define CMS revenue codes, current procedural terminology, healthcare common procedure acting system, health care provider or provider, and international statistical classification of disease; to change the definition of medical expense; amend KRS 304.39-130 to increase weekly limit for basic reparation benefits payable for certain losses to $400; amend KRS 304.39-210 to establish rate at which medical expenses shall be paid; amend KRS 304.39-241 to make technical correction; amend KRS 304.39-245 to prohibit providers from charging in excess of the amount allowed under the subtitle for medical expenses, to balance bill a person for an excess amount above what is allowed by the subtitle, and to prohibit the reporting of a failure to pay an amount beyond what is allowed by this subtitle; create a new section of Subtitle 39 of KRS Chapter 304 to require the Department of Insurance to report certain information to the General Assembly this section to expire on January 1, 2026; repeal Section 6 of this Act as codified, effective 1/1/2026; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2020.

SB142
EXPUNGEMENT
(SCHICKEL J)
Amend KRS 431.073 to remove the filing fee for applications to expunge offenses which have been the subject of an executive pardon.

SB146
EXPUNGEMENT
(NEAL G)
Amend KRS 431.073 to allow discretionary expungement of Class C and Class D felonies and offenses committed prior to January 1, 1975; reduce filing fee to $200; amend KRS 431.076 to allow a person against whom charges have been dismissed without prejudice to petition for expungement and set time limits for filing petitions; amend KRS 431.078 to conform; amend KRS 431.079 to require a certificate of eligibility only if a petition or application seeks expungement of a conviction.

SB152
RIGHTS OF PARENTS
(WEST S)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 405 to establish specific rights of parents; establish a short title of “Parents Rights Act.”

SB155
ABUSE OF A CORPSE
(GIVENS D)
Amend KRS 525.120 to provide that in all cases abuse of a corpse is a Class D felony; provide that Act shall be known as “Kristen’s Law.”

SB159
CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY
(NEAL G)
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow persons convicted of a felony, other than sex offenses, violent offenses, or crimes against children, the right to vote; delete language in the 1891 Constitution referring to persons as “idiots and insane persons”; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.

SB161
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREAMENT
(ADAMS J)
Amend KRS 15.525, relating to programs created by law enforcement agencies to refer persons for substance use treatment, to delete the requirement that the person seeking assistance be immediately paired with a volunteer mentor; provide that a person is ineligible for the program if he or she places law enforcement in reasonable apprehension of physical injury; clarify that information gathered on program participants is exempt from the Kentucky Open Records Act; provide criminal and civil immunity for those who provide referrals and services pursuant to the program.

SB166
CIVIL RIGHTS; “Fairness”
(MCGARVEY M)
Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” ” local Commission,” and ” real estate-related transaction”; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky’s civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition on discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.100, 344.110, and 18A.095 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 344.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.680, 344.370, and 344.380, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments; exempt the provisions of the Act from KRS 6.945(1).

SB171
REEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE
(MILLS R)
Amend KRS 341.380 to reduce the percentage used to set weekly benefit rate, to increase trigger amounts for the trust fund balance as related to the weekly benefits amount; to reduce the number of times to pay weekly benefits from 26 to 20; to tier down payments beginning at 125% of the weekly benefit rate for 5 weeks to 100% for the following 5 weeks then to 75 % for the third 5 weeks and 50% of the weekly benefits for the remainder of the award, except for employees classified as recall employees who receive 100% of the weekly benefit; provide that certain classified employees cannot change classification during benefit year; and if extended benefits have are federal funded, the the secretary may extend the number of times to pay to 26.

SB181
CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
(MILLS R)
Amend KRS 42.545 to delete the Kentucky Health and Geriatric Authority; amend KRS 42.720, 42.726, 42.728, and 61.8715 to delete reference to the Statewide Strategic Planning Committee for Children in Placement; amend KRS 154.20-020 to delete reference to building a one hundred bed inpatient mental health facility in eastern Kentucky; amend KRS 194A.050, 194A.180, and 194A.190 to delete reference to the Public Health Services Advisory Council; amend KRS 199.894 to change definition of child-care center and family child-care home; amend KRS 199.896 to add exemption from licensure for instructional programs; amend KRS 200.550 to make technical correction; amend KRS 205.178 to change reporting requirement; amend KRS 209.032 to delete boarding homes from definition of vulnerable adult service provider; amend KRS 209.552 to change flu immunization requirements for long-term care facilities; amend KRS 209.554 to change long-term care facility purchase of vaccines; change reporting requirements; amend KRS 211.1752 to delete appeals hearings from the local Health Department Employment Personnel Council duties; amend KRS 211.990 to increase penalties for violations of KRS 211.842 to 211.852 relating to radiation control; amend KRS 216.2920 to change definitions of ambulatory facility and health-care provider; amend KRS 216.2925 to conform; amend KRS 216.2980 to delete the Department for Public health from reporting; amend KRS 216B.990 to delete penalties relating to boarding homes; amend KRS 342.375 to conform; repeal KRS 194.245, 194A.140, 194A.145, 194A.146, 194A.200, 199.8992, 200.662, 205.179, 210.271, 211.215, 216.2960, 216.750, 216.760, 216.770, 216.780, 216.800, 216.803, 216.805, 216.807, 216.810, 216.813, 216.815, 216.817, 216.820, 216.823, 216.825, 216.827, 216.830, 216.833, 216.835, 216.837, 216.840, 216.843, 216.845, 216.847, 216.850, 216.853, 216B.300, 216B.303, 216B.305, 216B.306, 216B.310, 216B.315, 216B.320, and 216B.459.

SB182
CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
(KERR A)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to establish the Kentucky certified long-term care facility civil money penalty fund; amend KRS 205.510 to delete the definition of primary care center; amend KRS 216.515 to cite federal law regarding long-term care facility resident rights; amend KRS 216.525, 216.555, and 216.557 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 216.560 to change the nursing incentive scholarship fund to the Kentucky civil penalty fund; amend KRS 216.567 change hearing officer’s decision process; amend 216B.015 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 216B.020 to clarify which facilities and services are required to obtain a certificate of need and which are subject to licensure; amend KRS 216B.042, 216B.085, and 216B.086 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 216B.105 to clarify cabinet actions when issuing an emergency order to suspend a license; amend KRS 216B.131 to require penalties to be paid into the Kentucky civil penalty fund; amend KRS 216B.450 to delete the term “home-like”; amend KRS 216B.455 and 216B.457 to update licensure requirements for Level I and Level II psychiatric residential treatment facilities; amend KRS 218A.240 to permit the cabinet to notify patients of closures using the electronic system for monitoring Schedules II, III, IV, and V controlled substances; amend KRS 304.17-312 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 314.027 to remove the payment of penalties and fines to the Kentucky nursing incentive scholarship fund; repeal KRS 216B.021, 216B.022, and 216B.182.

SB190
HATE CRIMES
(NEAL G)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create the offense of a hate crime.

SB194
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
(WEST S)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 423 to define various terms; limit the applicability of the Act to notarial acts performed on or after January 1, 2020; allow a notarial officer to perform a notarial act in Kentucky; outline requirements for certain notarial acts; require a personal appearance before a notarial officer; specify the requirements of identifying an individual before a notarial officer; allow a notarial officer to refuse to perform a notarial act; state who may perform a notarial act in Kentucky; recognize notarial acts performed in other states; recognize notarial acts performed in federally recognized Indian tribes under federal law, and in foreign countries; require a notarial act to be evidenced by a certificate; provide short-form certificates for use by notarial officers; outline the requirements for an official stamp of a notary public; assign responsibility of the notary public’s stamping device to the notary public; require a notary public to register with the Secretary of State that the notary public will be performing notarial acts with respect to electronic records; outline the necessary requirements to be a notary public; outline grounds for suspending, denying, or revoking a commission as a notary public; require the Secretary of State to maintain an electronic database of notaries public; detail prohibited acts; establish the validity of notarial acts; allow the Secretary of State to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this Act; require all commissions occurring after the effective date of this Act to comply with this Act; state that a portion of this Act may be cited as the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to state that a paper copy of an electronic record shall satisfy a law requiring a tangible document; amend KRS 423.200 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 369.103 to allow electronic signatures on transactions relating to the conveyance of interests in real property and the creation or transfer of negotiable instruments; amend KRS 382.230 to remove reference to KRS 382.140; create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to provide for the order of priority between physical and electronic documents presented to the county clerk; amend KRS 382.200 and 382.280 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 64.012 to update fees of county clerks for recording documents; amend KRS 382.240 to allow a reimbursement to county clerks for prepayment of postage; amend KRS 382.360 to no longer require the county clerk to deliver the original deed of release; create a task force on issues regarding the implementation of this Act; repeal KRS 382.140, 382.190, 423.010, 423.020, 423.030, 423.040, 423.050, 423.060, 423.070, 423.080, and 423.990; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2020; APPROPRIATION.

SB196
ADOPTION
(CASTLEN M)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide adoption information to biological or legal parents or guardians of a child when the cabinet first commences any action related to the removal of the child from the care of the legal parent or guardian due to an allegation of dependency, neglect, or abuse; allow a licensed child-placing agency, the cabinet, or qualified prospective adoptive parents to intervene in a court case related to an allegation of dependency, neglect, or abuse if a biological or legal parent executes a voluntary and informed consent for adoption; amend KRS 199.011 to establish that a person’s voluntary and informed consent to place a child for adoption is final and irrevocable 72 hours after it is signed; amend KRS 199.480 to establish that a father has 23 days to register on the putative father registry after the birth of a child; amend KRS 199.500 to establish that a person’s voluntary and informed consent to place a child for adoption is final and irrevocable 72 hours after it is signed; amend KRS 625.065 to establish that a father has 23 days to register on the putative father registry after the birth of a child.

SB198
PARENT VISITATION RIGHTS
(WISE M)
Amend KRS 405.021 to state that a grandparent whose child has died or had their parental rights terminated may still seek visitation rights with a grandchild after they have been adopted by another grandparent or a step-parent; amend KRS 199.520 to specify that adoption does not cut off legal relationship with biological family pursuant to Section 1.

SB204
ASBESTOS TRUST CLAIMS
(GIRDLER R)
Create an new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define “asbestos action,” “asbestos trust,” “trust claims materials,” and “trust governance documents”; require plaintiffs in an asbestos action to provide certain information and documents not less than 180 days before the initial date set for trial; establish that plaintiffs have a continuing duty to supplement the information and documents; establish requirements for an order requiring a plaintiff to file additional asbestos trust claims; establish that defendants may seek discovery from an asbestos trust; establish requirements for an asbestos action; require a court to impose sanctions if a plaintiff fails to comply with the section; provide that Act may be cited to as the Kentucky Asbestos Trust Claims Transparency Act; EMERGENCY.

SB205
GUARDIAN AD LITEMS
(MCDANIEL C)
Amend KRS 625.041, relating to the appointment of guardian ad litems, to make a technical correction.

SB206
LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES
(BUFORD T)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure; EFFECTIVE DATE June 30, 2020.

SB207
HATE CRIMES
(MCGARVEY M)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide an enhanced term of imprisonment for any defendant convicted of certain crimes when he or she intentionally selected the person because of that person’s actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; amend KRS 15.334 and 17.1523 to conform; repeal KRS 49.320 and 532.031.

SB210
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
(MCGARVEY M)
Amend KRS 439.3401 to include as violent offenders individuals convicted of promoting human trafficking; specify that individuals convicted of human trafficking or promoting human trafficking shall not be released on probation or parole until 85 percent of the sentence has been served.

SB211
EXPUNGEMENT.
(MCGARVEY M)
Amend KRS 431.073 to allow discretionary expungement of certain Class D or Class C felonies with a waiting period of up to ten years; reduce filing fee to $200; amend KRS 431.076 to allow a person against whom charges have been dismissed without prejudice to petition for expungement; set time limits for filing petitions; amend KRS 431.079 to require a certificate of eligibility only if a petition or application seeks expungement of a conviction; amend KRS 431.078 to conform; APPROPRIATION.

SB215
EXPUNGEMENT.
(MCGARVEY M)
Amend KRS 431.073 to allow the court to set fees of $20 to $500 for expungement of felony convictions; require 10 percent of those fees to be deposited into the account for county clerks; APPROPRIATION.

SB217
JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS
(STIVERS II R)
Amend KRS 13B.150 to require a court to decide all questions of law in the judicial review of final orders rendered by state agencies without deference to the agency’s determination; amend KRS 13B.020 to conform.

SB219
AMUSEMENT PARKS
(HORNBACK P)
Amend KRS 247.232 to change the minimum age of an amusement ride or attraction operator to sixteen years of age; remove the definition of operator assistant; amend KRS 247.233 to change the parameters of an injury that would require the owner of an amusement ride or attraction to notify the Commissioner of Agriculture of any occurrence involving an amusement ride or attraction; amend KRS 247.236 to change the minimum age of an operator to sixteen years of age; remove all references to an operator assistant.

SB223
TRANSPORTATION
(HARRIS E)
Amend KRS 186.020, 186.060, 186A.100, 189.125, 281,735, and 281A.080 to make technical corrections.

SB226
TRANSPORTAION
(HARRIS E)
Amend KRS 186.020, 186.060, 186A.100, 189.125, 281,735, and 281A.080 to make technical corrections.

SB230
OPEN RECORDS
(SCHRODER W)
Amend KRS 61.872 to allow application for inspection of records to be by email and fax.

SB234
LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES
(THOMAS R)
Create a new section of KRS 216.537 to 216.590 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations establishing the training and education requirements for employees of long-term care facilities.

SB238
CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY; Amendment
(MCGARVEY M)
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Kentucky Constitution to allow felons who have completed their sentences to vote, unless they have been convicted of intentional murder, a sexual crime, treason, or bribery in an election.

SB239
CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY; Amendment
(HIGDON J)
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow persons convicted of a felony other than a sex offense, a violent offense, or an offense against a child, the right to vote five years after completion of sentence; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.
SB240

PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
(SCHRODER W)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create a new felony of disseminating personally identifying information on the Internet about a minor.

SB243
TELECOMMUNICATIONS LOCATION DATA
(WESTERFIELD W)
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 prohibiting telecommunications companies from disclosing or transmitting to a third party any location data derived from a cellular phone without the consent of the customer.

SB244
EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDERS
(MCGARVEY M)
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to allow persons to petition in District Court for one-year extreme risk protection orders when the petitioner believes a respondent poses a significant danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm or ammunition; establish procedures under which a temporary ex parte protective order could be issued; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, and possible extension of the petition; prescribe issuance and service procedures of a resulting protection order; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, and return of firearms and ammunition; establish penalties.
SCR5
PARAMEDICINE PILOT PROGRAMS
(ALVARADO R)
Direct a study of community paramedicine pilot programs in Kentucky and emergency medical services reimbursement concerns related to non-transport patients.

SCR106
PARENTAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
(WEST S)
Urge Congress to propose the Parental Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.