| Last Action | 03/21/18: to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S) |
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| Title | AN ACT relating to reorganization. |
| Bill Documents |
Current/Final
Introduced |
| Bill Request Number | 822 |
| Sponsor | A. Koenig |
| Summary of Original Version | Establish and create various sections of KRS Chapter 308, relating to Public Protection Cabinet oversight of state occupational boards; define terms; declare policy regarding occupational licensing; list boards that are regulated under KRS Chapter 308; require the Department of Professional Licensing to provide administrative services, technical assistance, personnel staffing, and meeting space to the boards; organize the boards under seven authorities within the department; manage each authority with an executive director; establish a process for the department to review and evaluate each of its boards once every five years; set standards regarding board members, including appointments by the Governor, three year terms, quorum via majority, and voting eligibility; institute board per diem and travel expense rules; direct board officer elections, board member disqualification standards, and semiannual meeting requirements; establish general board powers; require executive director approval before a board may promulgate an administrative regulation; instruct boards to keep a register of licensees and make an annual report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission; fix a set timeline for processing license applications; mandate that any license issued by a board be valid for at least two years; require boards to establish disciplinary review committees to process complaints against licensees; designate the process and limitations for the Governor's appointments to boards based on recommendations from nominating groups; require a licensee to report criminal convictions to the licensee's board; establish continuing education requirements and exemptions; immunize board members, staff, legal counsel, and other persons from civil liability for conduct that is taken in good faith and is within the scope and arising out of the performance of their duties; direct the boards to send licensees a thirty-day notice of expiration both before and after the expiration occurs; prohibit a board from issuing an advisory opinion unless authorized by the board's enabling act; establish the Prescribing Boards Advisory Council within the department, composed of eight ex officio members with expertise in combatting prescription drug abuse; amend KRS 12.020 to add the new authorities and the Office of Inspector General to the cabinet; amend KRS 12.252 to describe the powers and duties of the cabinet's Office of Inspector General; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 198B, 216A, 309, 310, 311, 311B, 312, 313, 314, 314A, 315, 316, 317, 317A, 317B, 319, 319A, 319B, 319C, 320, 322, 322A, 323, 323A, 324, 324A, 325, 326, 327, 329A, 330, 334, 334A, and 335 to conform; amend KRS 325.230 to place the State Board of Accountancy within the Department of Financial Institutions; amend KRS 48.315 to conform; repeal KRS 216A.050, 310.080, 311.540, 311.882, 311B.060, 312.045, 312.055, 312.065, 315.171, 319A.030, 319A.040, 319A.050, 322.260, 322.270, 323.160, 323.180, 323.190, 323.200, 323A.150, 323A.180, 323A.190, 323A.200, 324.2811, 324.284, 324A.025, 324B.010, 324B.020, 324B.030, 324B.040, 324B.050, 324B.060, 334.170, 334A.100, 334A.110, 335.060, and 335.307. |
| Index Headings of Original Version |
Advisory Boards, Commissions, and Committees - Prescribing Boards Advisory Council, creation of Boards and Commissions - Omnibus administrative revision relating to numerous occupational boards Governor - Occupational board members, appointment of Legislative Research Commission - Occupational boards and commissions, annual reports from Licensing - Omnibus administrative revision relating to numerous occupations and professions Occupations and Professions - Omnibus administrative revision relating to numerous occupations and professions Reorganization - Omnibus administrative revision relating to numerous occupations and professions State Agencies - Omnibus administrative revision relating to numerous occupational boards |
| Jump to Proposed Amendments |
House Committee Substitute 1 House Floor Amendment 1 House Floor Amendment 2 House Floor Amendment 3 |
| Votes | Vote History |
| 02/26/18 |
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| 02/28/18 |
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| 03/02/18 |
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| 03/14/18 |
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| 03/15/18 |
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| 03/16/18 |
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| 03/19/18 |
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| 03/20/18 |
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| 03/21/18 |
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| Amendment | House Committee Substitute 1 |
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| Summary | Retain original provisions; grant occupational boards 30 days to approve or deny an application for licensure; adjust related deadlines to conform; allow only a pharmacist to serve as the executive director of the Pharmacy Authority; enable land surveyor licensees to complete continuing education by means other than in-person training; amend KRS 323.170 to make two of the five architect appointments to the architect board from separate lists of at least three nominees submitted by the Kentucky Society of Architects. |
| Index Headings |
Architects - Board of Architects, appointment of board members to Boards and Commissions - Occupational boards, powers and duties of Engineers and Surveyors - Land surveyors, continuing education requirements for Licensing - Occupational boards, powers and duties of Occupations and Professions - Occupational boards, powers and duties of Pharmacists - Pharmacy Authority, qualifications of executive director |
| Amendment | House Floor Amendment 1 |
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| Sponsor | A. Koenig |
| Summary | Require the executive director of the Real Estate Authority to have at least 10 years of experience in one of the professions under that authority's jurisdiction; delete automatic board member disqualification under KRS 63.080(1); remove the land surveyor licensee option to complete continuing education by means other than in-person training; require at least one administrator or staff member of the social work board to have spent a minimum of five years as a board licensee, employee, administrator, or staff member. |
| Index Headings |
Boards and Commissions - Occupational boards, licensing and procedural matters relating to Engineers and Surveyors - Land surveyors, continuing education requirements for Licensing - Occupational boards, licensing and procedural matters relating to Occupations and Professions - Occupational boards, licensing and procedural matters relating to Real Estate - Occupational boards, licensing and procedural matters relating to |
| Amendment | House Floor Amendment 2 |
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| Sponsor | A. Koenig |
| Summary | Enable the medical licensure, nursing, and pharmacy boards to appoint their respective executive directors with the consent of the secretary of the Public Protection Cabinet; permit occupational board members to serve three consecutive terms; allow the real estate commission to charge a criminal record check fee that does not exceed the actual cost of the record check; clarify that accountant board members are appointed for three-year terms. |
| Index Headings |
Accountants - Occupational boards, licensing and procedural matters relating to Boards and Commissions - Occupational boards, licensing and procedural matters relating to Licensing - Occupational boards, licensing and procedural matters relating to Nurses - Occupational boards, appointment of executive director by Occupations and Professions - Occupational boards, licensing and procedural matters relating to Pharmacists - Occupational boards, appointment of executive director by Physicians and Practitioners - Occupational boards, appointment of executive director by |
| Amendment | House Floor Amendment 3 |
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| Sponsor | J. Wayne |
| Summary | Delete requirement that a licensing board automatically issue a license if that board fails to act on a license application within forty-five days. |
| Index Headings |
Boards and Commissions - Occupational boards, license issuance by Licensing - Occupational boards, license issuance by Occupations and Professions - Occupational boards, license issuance by |
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