AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.

The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2021-2022: $925,391,000, 2022-2023: $2,450,394,100, 2023-2024: $1,945,550,500; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $631,100, 2022-2023: $42,311,100, 2023-2024: $43,841,800; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2021-2022: $4,038,300, 2022-2023: $6,272,487,700, 2023-2024: $6,338,219,700; appropriate to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,302,200, 2022-2023: $226,803,000, 2023-2024: $228,602,800; appropriate to the Energy and Environment Cabinet: 2021-2022: $7,288,800, 2022-2023: $286,829,000, 2023-2024: $293,691,700; appropriate to the Finance and Administration Cabinet: 2021-2022: $144,212,800, 2022-2023: $973,840,400, 2023-2024: $983,730,600; appropriate to the Health and Family Services Cabinet: 2021-2022: $829,642,400, 2022-2023: $19,075,453,600, 2023-2024: $19,366,023,400; appropriate to the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet: 2021-2022: $29,301,600, 2022-2023: $1,404,716,500, 2023-2024: $1,426,598,900; appropriate to the Labor Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,206,200, 2022-2023: $566,497,600, 2023-2024: $546,164,200; appropriate to the Personnel Cabinet: 2021-2022: $857,800, 2022-2023: $160,656,600, 2023-2024: $156,161,800; appropriate to Postsecondary Education: 2021-2022: $1,067,800, 2022-2023: $11,925,169,400, 2023-2024: $16,130,308,100; appropriate to the Public Protection Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,857,700, 2022-2023: $134,773,200, 2023-2024: $136,708,300; appropriate to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet: 2021-2022: $25,708,200, 2022-2023: $306,414,300, 2023-2024: $322,190,100; not included in the appropriation amounts are capital project amounts as follows: 2021-2022: $4,739,000, 2022-2023: $12,585,526,731, 2023-2024: $905,877,600; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION.

  RECENT STATUS

1/24/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations & Revenue (S)

1/21/2022 - received in Senate

1/20/2022 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 85-8 with Committee Substitute

  NEWS STORIES

1/24/2022 - Kentucky environmental group's priorities include solar this legislative session

1/22/2022 - House passes $64B budget, leaving $1.14B unspent; does not include Covington’s life sciences funding

1/21/2022 - Kentucky House passes its version of new 2-year state budget

1/20/2022 - Kentucky House passes budget with $1.14 billion in unspent funds and hint of tax cuts

1/20/2022 - Republicans looking to sprint ahead on budget, tax cuts

1/19/2022 - Lawmakers discuss $9 million plan to hire more school nurses

1/18/2022 - House Republicans and Gov. Beshear each filed a budget plan. How are they different?

1/18/2022 - Ky. lawmakers consider funding school nurses statewide

1/14/2022 - ‘We don’t have to choose.’ Beshear urges lawmakers to think big with next state budget

1/13/2022 - Dueling budgets in Frankfort

1/11/2022 - Beshear criticizes GOP filing of budget bill as 'stunt' to preempt his budget address

1/11/2022 - Beshear shares more budget plans, says he would spend to attract ‘jobs of the future’

1/10/2022 - Beshear proposes ‘record’ $2 billion in investments in pre-K to 12th grade education

1/7/2022 - Kentucky Politics Distilled: Republicans Tackle Redistricting

1/7/2022 - House files their version of Kentucky’s next two-year budget in first week of session

1/7/2022 - Ky. House GOP beats Gov. Beshear to the punch by releasing its state budget plan first

AN ACT relating to radon safety.

Repeal and reenact or repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 211.9101 to 211.9135 as new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to change the name of the Kentucky Radon Program Advisory Committee to the Kentucky Board of Radon Safety; adjust the number of members to the board; establish the responsibilities of the board; attach the board to the Department of Professional Licensing in the Public Protection Cabinet for administrative purposes; change the name of the radon mitigation and control fund to the radon control fund; increase the cap on fines to $1,000 per occurrence.
House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions; authorize the board to issue subpoenas only through its attorney and only under the authority of the board's general counsel.

  RECENT STATUS

1/27/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing & Occupations (S)

1/25/2022 - received in Senate

1/24/2022 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 90-2 with Committee Substitute (1)

AN ACT relating to welding safety.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects requiring structural steel welding such as certification of welders and certified inspectors; provide definitions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.

  RECENT STATUS

1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

12/9/2021 - Pre-Filed

AN ACT relating to economic fiscal matters.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to establish the Tax Expenditure and Economic Development Incentive Review Board and specify the board's membership, authority, powers and duties; establish requirements for board meetings; establish requirements for when the General Assembly enacts new tax expenditures or economic development incentives; require agencies to assign taxpayers a unique number for purposes of reporting tax expenditures and economic development incentives; amend KRS 11.068 to require the annual production of a detailed estimate of the revenue loss resulting from each tax expenditure and economic development incentive from the general fund and road fund; amend KRS 131.020 to require the Department of Revenue to collect, report, and provide data to the Tax Expenditure and Economic Development Incentive Review Board; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to provide confidential data to the Tax Expenditure and Economic Development Incentive Review Board.

  RECENT STATUS

1/4/2022 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)

12/9/2021 - Pre-Filed

AN ACT relating to electrical inspections.

Amend KRS 227.460 to allow the electrical contractor to choose an inspection conducted by a Transportation Cabinet inspector or a local inspector for electrical work on highway projects not related to buildings for human occupancy performed beyond the service disconnect within the public right of way.

  RECENT STATUS

1/27/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing & Occupations (S)

1/25/2022 - received in Senate

1/25/2022 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 93-0

AN ACT relating to leave from employment.

Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with a crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a private right of action for improper discharge, discrimination, retaliation, and failing to maintain confidentiality; define terms; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties in the case of violation by employer.

  RECENT STATUS

1/5/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to sewer charges imposed by sanitation districts.

Amend KRS 220.510 to prohibit a sanitation district from imposing any fee, tax, surcharge, or other charge for the provision of service to a property unless the property is connected to a sanitary sewer owned or maintained by the sanitation district, there is an approved plan to connect the property to a sanitary sewer owned or maintained by the sanitation district within five years, the property discharges storm water to a storm sewer or storm water improvement owned or operated by the sanitation district, the sanitation district's storm sewer controls storm water that flows to the property, or the person responsible for the charge has contracted with the sanitation district to provide the service; amend KRS 220.515 to conform; allow the Act to be cited as the Ensuring Fair Sewer Charges Act.

  RECENT STATUS

1/6/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning services.

Amend KRS 198B.650 to provide an exception to the definition of "practice of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contracting"; amend KRS 198B.674 to add an exemption for persons cleaning duct work, not engaged in installation or repair. House Committee Substitute (1) Retain original provisions, except allow only a licensed and insured contractor to cut, repair, or restore duct work related to a duct cleaning service.

  RECENT STATUS

2/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing & Occupations (S)

2/2/2022 - received in Senate

2/1/2022 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 97-0 with Committee Substitute (1)

AN ACT relating to liability and workers' compensation self-insurance group investments.

Amend KRS 304.48-090 and 304.50-055 to define "nationally recognized statistical rating organization" and establish permissible investments for liability self-insurance groups and workers' compensation self-insurance groups.

  RECENT STATUS

1/25/2022 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)

1/18/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to misclassification of employees.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to provide a remedy for employees misclassified as independent contractors; amend KRS 337.010 to include definitions for "independent contractor" and "misclassified"; repeal KRS 336.137.

  RECENT STATUS

1/25/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to employment discrimination based on smoking.

Amend KRS 344.040 to remove protections against employment discrimination based on an individual's status as a smoker or nonsmoker.

  RECENT STATUS

1/31/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to welding safety.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects requiring structural steel welding such as certification of welders and certified inspectors; provide definitions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.

  RECENT STATUS

2/10/2022 - (H) WITHDRAWN

1/31/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to public procurement.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 45A to set forth findings of the General Assembly and establish a policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to promote the Kentucky and United States economies by requiring a preference for iron, steel, aluminum, and manufactured goods produced in Kentucky and the United States; define "manufactured in Kentucky," "manufactured in the United States," and "United States"; require preference for iron, steel, aluminum, and manufactured goods made in Kentucky in construction and maintenance contracts and subcontracts; provide for a waiver of the Kentucky preference requirement; require preference for iron, steel, aluminum, and manufactured goods made in the United States if the Kentucky waiver is granted; provide for a waiver of the United States preference requirement; establish a short title of "Kentucky Buy American Act"; amend KRS 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.080, and 424.260 to require compliance.

  RECENT STATUS

2/1/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to recovery for injuries.

Propose an 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 the power to provide statutes of limitation; provide for submission to the voters.

  RECENT STATUS

2/3/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

Provide up to 10 days of remote instruction per school for school districts to use at the school, classroom, grade, or group level for the 2021-2022 school year; temporarily revise retirement reemployment provisions until June 30, 2022; EMERGENCY.

  RECENT STATUS

1/14/2022 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 4)

1/13/2022 - delivered to Governor

1/13/2022 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House

  NEWS STORIES

1/20/2022 - Republicans looking to sprint ahead on budget, tax cuts

1/14/2022 - Senate Bill 25 becomes law, providing Kentucky schools with more remote learning days

1/14/2022 - Legislature passes remote learning, COVID-19 emergency order extension

1/13/2022 - Dueling budgets in Frankfort

1/13/2022 - Bill granting Kentucky school districts 10 days of targeted remote learning passes House

1/13/2022 - Senate bill giving Kentucky schools more virtual learning days moves ahead in House

1/11/2022 - Kentucky lawmakers file dozens of education bills each year. Ones to watch in 2022

1/6/2022 - Republicans advance bill shifting hiring, curriculum power away from school councils

1/6/2022 - Bills regulating remote learning, decision-making in Ky. schools get tentative approval

AN ACT relating to deficient administrative regulations and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify proposed amendments to an administrative regulation after those amendments were found deficient during the 2021 legislative interim; EMERGENCY.

  RECENT STATUS

1/26/2022 - received in House

1/25/2022 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 28-7

1/25/2022 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day

AN ACT relating to adult-size changing tables.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B.010 to 198B.290 to define terms and to require the Department of Housing, Building and Construction to promulgate administrative regulations to require certain public buildings, structures, and facilities constructed on or after January 1, 2024, or renovated on or after January 1, 2026, for renovations having an estimated cost of $10,000 or more, to contain and provide access to at least one (1) powered, height-adjustable, adult-size changing table.

  RECENT STATUS

1/28/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing & Occupations (S)

1/26/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to procurement.

Amend KRS 45A.490, relating to the Model Procurement Code, to include new defined terms; amend 45A.494 to exclude businesses that are controlled by an entity outside Kentucky from qualifying as a resident bidder, establish new preferences for bidders who are resident bidders and who use employees located in Kentucky to fulfill the contract, and establish an exception to these preferences if they contradict federal policy.

  RECENT STATUS

2/9/2022 - Senate State & Local Government (S), (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)

1/31/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

1/28/2022 - Introduced

AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky.

Propose an 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 the power to provide statutes of limitation; provide for submission to the voters.

  RECENT STATUS

2/7/2022 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

2/3/2022 - Introduced