Sponsored (introduced) — Historical
Rick Girdler · 248 bills · page 7 of 10
- SR 27 A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of former United States Senator Walter Darlington "Dee" Huddleston. Died
- SR 74 A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Louisville Metro Police Detective Deidre Irene "Dee Dee" Mengedoht. Died
- SR 73 A RESOLUTION honoring Dr. Augusta Julian upon her retirement as President of Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Died
- SB 9 AN ACT relating to abortion and declaring an emergency. Enacted
- SR 251 A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Lynn Taylor Tye to the Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents. Died
- SR 262 A RESOLUTION to thank and honor the Kentucky Association of Professional Educators. Died
- SR 87 A RESOLUTION commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Kentucky Main Street Program. Died
- SR 83 A RESOLUTION recognizing February 19, 2019, as Alzheimer's Awareness and Advocacy Day. Died
- SR 37 A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Sandra Louise Deaton. Died
- SB 60 AN ACT relating to elections. Enacted
- SB 1 AN ACT relating to school safety and declaring an emergency. Enacted
- SB 236 AN ACT relating to surprise billing. Amend KRS 304.17A-500 to define "facility" and "in-network facility"; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-500 to 304.17A-590 to require health benefit plans to cover certain nonemergency health care services provided by a nonparticipating health care provider to a covered person at an in-network facility at the in-network rate; prohibit nonparticipating health care providers from attempting to collect payment from a covered person for covered services; provide reimbursement criteria for covered services provided by a nonparticipating provider at an in-network facility; amend KRS 304.17A-254 and KRS 304.17A-527 to conform and to require insurers to require any provider contracts with in-network health facilities requires the provider to accept the in-network rate as payment in full; to prohibit balance billing the covered person beyond their in-network cost sharing; amend KRS 304.17A-565 to make technical corrections and to provide that the provisions of the insurance code shall not preempt or supersede other rights or remedies available to covered persons under law; amend KRS 304.17A-580 to add provisions of KRS 304.17A-641 and to require nonparticipating health care providers accept the in-network reimbursement rate for emergency services provided at an in-network facility as payment in full; amend KRS 18A.225 and 304.17B-001 to conform; repeal KRS 304.17A-640, 304.17A-641, and 304.17A-649; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019. Died
- SB 53 AN ACT relating to service improvements in the Medicaid program. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of MCO contracts to operate the Medicaid program to 2 and to establish a process for selecting the two winning MCOs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require that services provided in rural counties be reimbursed at least at the median amount paid to an urban health care provider within the nearest metropolitan statistical area; establish a penalty that goes to the underpaid provider. Died
- SB 71 AN ACT relating to health education. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require inclusion of abstinence education in any human sexuality or sexually transmitted diseases curriculum. Enacted
- SB 223 AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Communications Network Authority and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 154.15-020 to allow the Kentucky Communications Network Authority to leverage future revenues through debt or financing; amend KRS 279.590 to allow two years of continuous maintenance on communications lines to ripen into an easement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 279 to grant the right of apportionment to any utility that has been granted an easement that does not expressly deny the right of apportionment; amend KRS 279.310 to add telephone lines and communication lines to definitions; EMERGENCY. Died
- SB 2 AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky. Propose amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the General Assembly the power to limit 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. Died
- SB 10 AN ACT relating to judicial redistricting. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to authorize the Supreme Court to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to perform an analysis to determine the need to rearrange the judicial circuits and districts or reallocate the number of judges relative to population and caseload; require the analysis to be completed within two years of December 31 of the year of the decennial census; require the Supreme Court to submit the analysis to the General Assembly by January 31 of the following year; provide that if the analysis indicates a need for rearrangement of judicial circuits and districts or reallocation of the number of judges due to population or caseload, the Supreme Court may submit certification as required by the Constitution of Kentucky which may include a proposal; amend KRS 23A.020 to realign the boundaries of the judicial circuits; amend KRS 23A.040 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to two judges and two divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.045 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to three judges and three divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.050 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to four judges and four divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.055 to increase the allocation of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit to six judges and six numbered divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 24A.030 to realign the boundaries of the judicial districts; amend KRS 24A.050 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to two District Judges and two numbered divisions of District Court; amend KRS 24A.060 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to three District Judges and three numbered divisions of District Court; include noncodified language regarding dates of implementation, the renumbering of certain circuits, and the impact on the office of Commonwealth's attorney in the affected circuits; EFFECTIVE December 31, 2021. Died
- SB 27 AN ACT relating to retirement benefit participation for members of the General Assembly. Create a new section of KRS 6.145 to 6.237 to allow an individual who becomes a member of the General Assembly on or after the effective date of the Act to make a one-time irrevocable election to not participate in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for his or her service to the General Assembly; allow an individual who has not yet met the requirements for vesting to make a one-time irrevocable election within 60 days of the effective date of this Act to discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for his or her service to the General Assembly and receive a refund of his or her accumulated account balance; provide that the election to not participate or discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System shall apply to all future service of the General Assembly; amend KRS 6.505, 61.510, 61.525, 61.535, and 61.625 to conform. Died
- SB 224 AN ACT relating to insurance. Amend KRS 304.12-230 to replace "person" with "insurer"; prohibit third-party claims against a casualty insurer; amend KRS 304.45-110 to conform; repeal KRS 304.12-220, relating to the definition of "person." Died
- SB 9 AN ACT relating to TVA in-lieu-of-tax payments, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 96.895 to require that a portion of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in-lieu-of-tax revenue deposited in the general fund be distributed to agencies designated by counties that have TVA property located in that county or purchase power from TVA, increasing from 0% currently to 50% or a maximum of $6,000,000; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. Died
- SB 145 AN ACT relating to grandparent visitation rights. Repeal and reenact KRS 405.021 to allow grandparents to seek court-ordered visitation only in certain cases and only if the court then determines visitation would be in the best interest of the child based on listed factors. Died
- SB 225 AN ACT relating to financial transactions. Establish Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 286 and create new sections of that subtitle relating to credit; define terms; require a license to make credit access loans; require locations to be physically located in Kentucky with at least one full-time employee; establish qualifications of an applicant for a license to offer credit access loans; require the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to periodically review a licensee's compliance with licensure qualifications; establish form requirements for an application to offer credit access loans and a $500 filing fee; provide commissioner with discretion to establish a nonrefundable supervision fee in lieu of other fees; require that licensees maintain an agent in Kentucky for service of process and notify the commissioner in writing at least five days prior to any change in the status of an agent; establish the filing fee for a license and establish requirements for additional materials to accompany the application, including a surety bond or irrevocable letter of credit of $25,000 per location not to exceed $200,000 for a single licensee; allow the commissioner to require background checks at the expense of the applicant; require the commissioner to investigate completed applications for compliance and issue licenses if requirements have been satisfied; require licenses to be conspicuously posted; provide for annual expiration and renewals of licenses upon showing of continued compliance; establish due process procedures for the denial of a license; establish license renewal fee of $500; provide commissioner with discretion to establish a biennial license; prohibit transfer or assignment of a license, and set out requirements for a change of a control of a licensee; require five days' notice to the commissioner of a change in principal place of business, location, or name of a licensee; allow for the collection of certain interest, fees, and charges on a credit access loan and limit the term of each loan to not more than twelve months; limit credit access loan plans to an aggregate principal balance of $1,500, and provide for other specific loan plan terms; allow for the collection of fees after a default by a customer and for returned or dishonored checks; establish requirements for disclosures made by licensees to customers; require licensees to provide customers with a periodic billing statement; establish requirements for recordkeeping by a licensee; prohibit unfair or deceptive acts by a licensee; prohibit customers from having more than one outstanding credit access loan plan and require licensees to inquire about the plan prior to the database becoming fully operational; prohibit licensees from using certain devices or agreements and require licensees to comply with certain state and federal laws; prohibit certain provisions in a credit access loan plan; provide that credit access loan plans made with an unlicensed person are void; exempt credit access loans from certain other statutes; grant authority to commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations; grant examination, investigatory, and subpoena powers to the commissioner and remedies for enforcement; require licensees and other persons to pay reasonable examination and investigation costs; allow for written complaints to be submitted to the commissioner and vest exclusive administrative power to investigate complaint with commissioner; allow commissioner to suspend or revoke a license, issue cease and desist orders, order refunds and civil penalties, censure or bar persons from the business of a licensee, and establish due process procedures; allow commissioner authority to enter into consent orders, seek civil penalties and make criminal referrals, and take enforcement action without opportunity for prior hearing in extraordinary circumstances; require licensees to report certain events within 15 days of occurrence; require the filing of an annual report by a licensee and exempt the reports from disclosure or discovery; require the commissioner to prepare an annual report and analysis reflecting the results of operations of licensees; allow the commissioner to license applicants through a multistate licensing system and extend federal and state privileges to information disclosed to the licensing system; establish a database for credit access loan plans and reporting requirements for licensees; establish requirements for operation and use of database and conduct of third-party providers; establish the information a licensee may access in the database and exempt certain reported information from disclosure or discovery; prohibit local government units from regulating or having authority over the business of making credit access loans; make licenses available to certain persons chartered, organized, or licensed pursuant to KRS Chapter 286 as of January 1, 2018; establish the name of this subtitle as the "Kentucky Credit Access Act"; amend KRS 286.1-011 to specify that the Department of Financial Institutions regulates matters under KRS Chapter 286 and 292. Died
- SB 28 AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators. Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective August 1, 2018; prohibit current legislators from participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan on or after August 1, 2018; provide that current and future legislators may only participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for any service to the General Assembly occurring on or after August 1, 2018. Died
- SB 121 AN ACT relating to the motor vehicle reparations act. Amend KRS 304.39-020 to define "health care provider"; amend the definition of "medical expense"; make technical corrections; amend KRS 304.39-130 to increase loss per week dollar cap to $400; amend KRS 304.39-241 to clarify when a reparation obligor must honor a written direction of benefits provided by an insured; amend KRS 304.39-245 to prohibit providers from charging or balance billing for an amount in excess of that which would be allowed under the definition of "medical expense" for services covered under basic reparation benefits; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019. Died
- SR 147 Honor Elmore "the Rejecter" "Big E" Smith. Died