Kentucky Revised Statutes
Includes enactments through the 2024 Regular Session
Chapter titles, centered headings, section catchlines, and explanatory notes are for informational purposes only and do not constitute any part of the law. For general laws governing construction of statutes, see KRS Chapter 446.
The KRS database was last updated on 11/21/2024
.005 Definitions for chapter.
.010 General purpose of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 -- Total number of employees limited.
.015 Creation of Personnel Cabinet -- Provision for administrative costs.
.020 Records of Personnel Cabinet subject to open records law -- Employee access to personnel files.
.025 Appointment of secretary of Personnel Cabinet -- Responsibilities -- Organization and duties of cabinet.
.030 Duties of secretary.
.032 Applicants to and eligibles for the classified service -- Examination -- Placement on and removal from registers -- Certification for employment.
.035 Delegation of secretary's powers -- Assistance in testing -- Membership on Kentucky Employees Retirement System board.
.037 New system of job classification and compensation.
.040 Compliance with federal standards.
.043 Administrative regulations to implement Federal Drug-Free Workplace Act.
.045 Creation of Personnel Board -- Membership -- Prohibited Acts.
.050 Personnel Board -- Grandfather clause -- Composition -- Terms -- Automatic termination.
.055 Repealed, 1986.
.0551 Personnel Board elections -- Procedures -- Administrative regulations.
.060 Vacancies of elected board members to be filled by board.
.065 Oaths, testimony, and production of records.
.070 Personnel board -- Organization -- Meeting notices required -- Records to be public.
.075 Duties of Personnel Board.
.0751 Personnel Board -- Regulatory authority.
.080 Personnel Board -- Compensation -- Attendance.
.085 Removal of board members by Governor -- Appeal.
.090 Personnel Board to hire full-time staff -- General counsel may be designated assistant attorney general.
.095 Rights of executive branch employees.
.100 Appeal of final order of the Personnel Board.
.105 Compensation, retirement system contributions of employee ordered reinstated without loss of pay.
.110 Personnel secretary -- Regulatory authority -- Resolution of conflicting provisions of law.
.111 Probationary periods for classified service -- Initial and promotional.
.112 Repealed, 2000.
.113 Layoff, furlough, and reduction-in-hours rules -- Notice -- Reemployment -- Administrative regulations.
.1131 Repealed, 2023.
.1132 Repealed, 2023.
.115 Employment exempted from classified service -- Reversion rights of career employees promoted outside classified service -- Transfer of employees to Kentucky Community and Technical College System -- Change of personnel system for employees of Department for Technical Education and Department for Adult Education and Literacy -- Change of personnel system for some employees of Eastern Kentucky University.
.120 Basis for hiring for classified service -- Exception -- Credit for sick leave.
.125 Control through payroll certification.
.130 Reemployment of career employee terminated on or after January 1, 1980.
.135 Reemployment of career employees.
.138 Affirmative action plan for state government.
.140 Prohibition against discrimination and political activities.
.145 Other acts prohibited.
.146 Felony conviction grounds for disciplinary action.
.150 Interview preference for current service members, honorably or generally discharged former service members, and members' spouses, surviving spouses, and dependent parents -- Required interviews.
.155 Rules for unclassified employees.
.160 Use of public buildings, property, and facilities.
.165 Administration of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200.
.170 Certification of division directors who do not make policy.
.175 Evaluation of duties of division directors or heads -- Procedure when duties have become policy making.
.180 Extension of system to other governmental units.
.185 Service as elected official deemed full-time employment for specified purpose.
.190 Holidays for state personnel -- Military spouses to receive paid deployment and return days off.
.194 Living Organ Donor Leave Program.
.195 Compensatory time -- Payment upon leaving state service.
.196 Definitions for KRS 18A.197.
.197 Sick-leave sharing program.
.200 Per diem salaries for state officers or employees serving on boards or commissions prohibited during regular working hours -- Reimbursement of expenses authorized.
.201 Transportation Engineering Assistant I experience requirements.
.202 Work-related incentive programs for state employees.
.203 Annual-leave sharing program.
.204 Waiver of educational requirement in Highway Equipment Operator series for employees hired before July 1, 1999.
.205 Life insurance for public employees and certain retirees -- Definitions.
.210 Payment of premiums.
.215 Provisions authorized.
.220 Authority of secretary.
.225 Health care insurance coverage -- Requirements of prospective carriers -- Analysis of carrier coverage data -- Agency's termination of participation -- Provision of amount of employer contribution -- Lapse of excess flexible spending account funds -- Advisory Committee of State Health Insurance Subscribers -- No abortion coverage -- Appeal of formulary change -- Retiree's participation -- Mail-order drug option coverage -- Nondiscrimination against pharmacy in geographic coverage area -- Hearing aid coverage for minors -- Coverage for diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders -- Amino acid-based elemental formula coverage -- Access to certain services in contiguous counties -- Study of bid variation -- Regional rating bid scenario -- Optometric coverage -- Standards for provider participation. (Effective until January 1, 2025)
.225 Health care insurance coverage -- Requirements of prospective carriers -- Analysis of carrier coverage data -- Agency's termination of participation -- Provision of amount of employer contribution -- Lapse of excess flexible spending account funds -- Advisory Committee of State Health Insurance Subscribers -- No abortion coverage -- Appeal of formulary change -- Retiree's participation -- Mail-order drug option coverage -- Nondiscrimination against pharmacy in geographic coverage area -- Hearing aid coverage for minors -- Coverage for diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders -- Amino acid-based elemental formula coverage -- Access to certain services in contiguous counties -- Study of bid variation -- Regional rating bid scenario -- Optometric coverage -- Standards for provider participation -- Special enrollment period for pregnancy. (Effective January 1, 2025)
.2251 State employee health care plan buy-in. (Expired July 14, 1995)
.2253 Self-insurance for area development district employees.
.2254 Self-insured plan for public employees -- Contract for third-party administrator -- Formulary change -- Health reimbursement account, health flexible spending account, or health savings account -- Public employee health insurance trust fund -- Annual audit -- Quarterly status reports. (Effective until January 1, 2025)
.2254 Self-insured plan for public employees -- Contract for third-party administrator -- Formulary change -- Health reimbursement account, health flexible spending account, or health savings account -- Public employee health insurance trust fund -- Annual audit -- Quarterly status reports. (Effective January 1, 2025)
.2255 Health benefit plans and other information to be submitted to Advisory Committee of State Health Insurers -- Approval or recommendations for changes -- Committee to advise on options, bids, administration, and drug formulary -- Written report or testimony.
.2256 TRICARE supplement insurance for public employees.
.2257 Repealed, 2008.
.2258 Pharmacy and health care benefit claims monitoring -- Contract provisions -- Requirements -- Administrative regulations.
.2259 Mail-order drug option for maintenance drugs.
.226 Group Health Insurance Board -- Members -- Duties.
.227 Flexible benefits plan for employees and retirees.
.2271 Unused funds in flexible spending accounts may be carried forward to next plan year.
.228 "State employee" defined.
.2281 Repealed, 1998.
.2282 Repealed, 1998.
.2283 Repealed, 1998.
.2284 Repealed, 1998.
.2285 Repealed, 1998.
.2286 Continuation coverage for member retired for disability.
.2287 Availability of state health insurance plan coverage for certain former legislators.
.2288 Repealed, 2001.
.229 Repealed, 2001.
.230 Definitions.
.235 System established -- Corporate powers.
.240 Trust fund.
.245 Board of trustees -- Membership, terms, meetings -- Powers -- Executive director -- Annual financial report.
.250 Deferred compensation system -- Automatic enrollment of employees hired after July 1, 2019 -- Automatic enrollment of justices, judges, and members of the General Assembly elected or appointed after July 1, 2021.
.252 Inviolability of employee deferred compensation contributions to trust fund.
.255 Investments -- Limitation of liability.
.260 Regulations of investments.
.262 Conflicts of interest for Kentucky Public Employees Deferred Compensation Authority employees and trustees.
.265 Deferred compensation program to be in addition to retirement or benefit programs -- Coordination of programs.
.270 Local programs.
.275 Custodian of funds.
.350 Definition of employee.
.355 Formula for increasing base salary or wages of state employees -- Percentage of annual increment may be reduced.
.360 Repealed, 1986.
.370 Definitions for KRS 18A.375 to 18A.385 -- Applicability of KRS 64.368 if population decreases below 70,000.
.375 State employee workers' compensation fund.
.380 Administrative regulations.
.385 Actuarial analysis of fund.
.400 Repealed, 2017.
.405 Repealed, 2017.
.410 Repealed, 2017.
.415 Repealed, 2017.
.420 Repealed, 2017.
.425 Repealed, 2017.
.430 Repealed, 2017.
.435 Repealed, 2017.
.440 Repealed, 2017.
.445 Repealed, 2017.
.450 Repealed, 2017.
.990 Penalties.