Senate Bill 79

Actions | Amendments
Last Action 02/21/25: to Committee on Committees (H)
Title AN ACT relating to state personnel.
Bill Documents Current
Introduced
Bill Request Number 935
Sponsor C. McDaniel
Summary of Original Version Amend KRS 18A.005 to define "intern employee" and "intern position"; amend KRS 18A.050 to require a member of the Personnel Board to vacate his or her position or have the board terminate his or her position if he or she separates from the classified service; amend KRS 18A.0751 to no longer require the Personnel Board to promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to employee fines or employee reemployment after a layoff; amend KRS 18A.110 to allow the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement scholarship programs, internship programs, education programs, and educational assistance programs for employees; allow the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for the classified service governing layoffs, furloughs, and reduction of hours to include, but not be limited to reemployment of laid-off employees; amend KRS 18A.113 to provide that in the same department or office, county, and job classification, intern, interim and probationary employees shall be terminated before full-time and part-time employees with status are laid off; amend KRS 18A.115 to permit members and employees of boards and commissions exempt from the classified service to employ staff subject to the provisions of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200, 18A.202, and 18A.203; exempt juvenile institution superintendents from the classified service; amend KRS 18A.125 to require all agencies and employees for which the Personnel Cabinet administers payroll to comply with the secretary's payroll administration; prohibit an executive branch agency for which the cabinet administers payroll from authorizing work performance outside of the Commonwealth without approval from the secretary; allow an agency to request the secretary deduct certain items from an employee's final paycheck so long as the deduction is expressly authorized in writing and does not reduce the employee's pay below the federal minimum wage; amend KRS 18A.135 to direct when reemployment rights expire; amend KRS 18A.197 and 18A.203 to permit an employee who has provided proper notice of resignation or retirement to transfer all or part of their remaining sick or annual leave balance even if they have accumulated under 75 hours of sick or annual leave; amend KRS 18A.035, 18A.095, 18A.100, 18A.355, 132.370, and 163.032 to conform and make technical corrections.
Index Headings of Original Version Public Salaries - State agencies and employees, Personnel Cabinet, payroll regulations, compliance
State Agencies - Personnel Cabinet, conforming changes
State Agencies - Personnel Cabinet, scholarship and education opportunities for employees, regulations
State Employees - Annual leave sharing, employees who are retiring or resigning
State Employees - Classified employees, working outside the Commonwealth, pay restrictions
State Employees - Employee salaries, final paycheck, deduction of unreturned items, terms
State Employees - Employee salaries, work outside of the Commonwealth, Personnel Cabinet secretary approval
State Employees - Interim and probationary employees, employee layoffs, termination
State Employees - Intern employee, definition
State Employees - Intern position, definition
State Employees - Juvenile institution superintendents, classified service, exemption
State Employees - Reemployment rights, termination upon occurrence of certain events
State Employees - Scholarship and educational opportunities
State Employees - Sick leave sharing, employees who are retiring or resigning
Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Personnel Board, employee fines and layoffs, eliminate requirement
Boards and Commissions - Personnel Board, administrative regulations, employee fines and layoffs, eliminate requirement
Boards and Commissions - Personnel Board, member vacancies
Boards and Commissions - State personnel, classified employees, hiring
Jump to Proposed Amendments Senate Floor Amendment 1
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Actions

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02/04/25
  • introduced in Senate
  • to Committee on Committees (S)
02/06/25
  • to State & Local Government (S)
02/12/25
  • reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
02/13/25
  • 2nd reading, to Rules
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 14, 2025
02/14/25
  • passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
02/18/25
  • passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
02/19/25
  • passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
  • floor amendment (1) filed
02/20/25
  • 3rd reading, passed 25-10 with Floor Amendment (1)
02/21/25
  • received in House
  • to Committee on Committees (H)

Proposed Amendments

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Amendment Senate Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor L. Tichenor
Summary Retain original provisions, except create a new section in KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit any employee of the executive, judicial, or legislative branches of state government from teleworking unless an emergency is declared; define terms; allow the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet, director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, or director of the Legislative Research Commission, as appropriate, to approve a policy to allow for up to two telework days per month for certain employees; require that any telework day used in a declared emergency be counted toward the monthly telework day allowance; provide exceptions to certain employees; require compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Index Headings Courts - Employees, telework, prohibition
Legislative Research Commission - Employees, telework, prohibition
State Agencies - Executive branch employees, telework, prohibition
State Employees - Executive branch employees, telework, prohibition
State Employees - Legislative branch employees, telework, prohibition
State Employees - Judicial branch employees, telework, prohibition

Last updated: 2/21/2025 4:29 PM (EST)