Kentucky
General Assembly

02/25/22	introduced in House to Committee on Committees (H)
03/09/22	to Health & Family Services (H)
03/10/22	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
03/11/22	2nd reading, to Rules
03/16/22	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 17, 2022
03/17/22	3rd reading, passed 93-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
03/18/22	received in Senate to Committee on Committees (S)
03/21/22	to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
03/25/22	taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S) 1st reading returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
03/29/22	taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S) 2nd reading returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
04/13/22	floor amendment (1-title) and (2) filed
04/14/22	reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, April 14, 2022 3rd reading floor amendments (2) and (1-title) withdrawn passed 29-2 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) received in House to Rules (H) taken from Rules posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1) Committee Amendment (1-title) House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) passed 85-7 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House enrolled, signed by President of the Senate delivered to Governor
04/26/22	line items vetoed (Acts Ch. 239)

Amendment	House Committee Substitute 1
Summary	Retain original provisions; provide that funding for the Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research at the University of Kentucky shall be excluded from the postsecondary education performance model; require the university and the center to apply for federal Drug Enforcement Agency registration as a marijuana grower; direct the center to develop an application for individuals to participate in cannabis related research; APPROPRIATION.
Index Headings	Drugs and Medicines - Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research, establishment Education, Higher - University of Kentucky, Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research, establishment Science and Technology - Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research, establishment Universities and Colleges - University of Kentucky, Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research, establishment Appropriations - Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research Cannabis - Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research, establishment

Amendment	Senate Committee Substitute 1
Summary	Retain original provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to require data to be transmitted to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue or the House and Senate Standing Committees on Appropriations and Revenue; establish a working group containing employees from the Legislative Research Commission, the Commonwealth Office of Technology, and the Department of Revenue to accomplish an efficient and effective delivery of data in a format is easily accessible, adaptable, and usable; require monthly meetings of the employee working group; amend KRS 132.590 to cap the total compensation for the office of the property valuation administrator in an urban-county government at $420,000 per year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define new terms; establish the mobile crisis services fund within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish requirements a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) must adhere to in order to apply for a loan; require the cabinet to determine the terms and conditions of each loan, review, and adjudicate applications, monitor performance of each CMHC, and report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; require that the fund created be a trust and agency account; require moneys in the fund to be administered by the cabinet; provide that moneys remaining in the fund will accrue to the fund; amend KRS 262.330 to include heavy or specialized equipment acquired by the Soil and Water Conservation Commission with the types of equipment that the board of a conservation district may make available or lease to landowners and occupiers within the district; amend KRS 262.610 to allow a conservation district to apply jointly with a person residing in the district to the Soil and Water Conservation Commission to acquire heavy or specialized equipment; prohibit the joint application by conservation districts and persons for the acquisition of infrastructure; include references to leasing fees from lessees in a conservation district when determining an amortization schedule for equipment acquired from the Soil and Water Conservation Commission; amend KRS 262.660 to require the Soil and Water Conservation Commission on or before January 1, 2023, to promulgate administrative regulations that shall at a minimum set forth the form and manner in which a person and a conservation district may jointly request the acquisition of heavy or specialized equipment, the terms of loans for heavy or specialized equipment that the commission makes available to districts for lease to persons within those districts, and the terms of the lease agreements between districts and persons in those districts for use of the heavy or specialized equipment; create the Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center to provide healthcare educational pathways to address the healthcare worker shortage; direct the center to be operated through a partnership of public and private organizations; direct the General Assembly to provide start-up funds to be administered through the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; direct KCTCS to provide reports to LRC; appropriate $1,500,000 in ARPA funds to Learning and Results Services for science curriculums using Plasma Games STEM and Chemistry education tool; appropriate $150,000 in general fund money to the Rough River Business & Tourism Association; appropriate $5,000,000 in ARPA funds to the Kentucky Center for the Arts; appropriate $4,000,000 in fiscal year 2022 - 2023 to the School Facilities Construction Commission for Rockcastle County schools to build a middle school; appropriate $1,000,000 in general fund moneys in fiscal years 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 to the Justice Administration budget unit to support Operation UNITE; appropriate $105,000,000 of General Fund moneys in each fiscal year of the 2022-2024 biennium to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to be applied to the unfunded pension liability of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System Nonhazardous pension fund; amend various provisions of HB1/VO; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Index Headings	Drugs and Medicines - Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research, establishment Education, Finance - School Facilities Construction Commission, offers in assistance, Rockcastle County Education, Higher - Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center, creation Education, Higher - University of Kentucky, Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research, establishment Education, Vocational - Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center, creation Effective Dates, Emergency - Governmental agency operations Environment and Conservation - Heavy or specialized conservation equipment, acquisition by commission, joint application Health and Medical Services - Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center, career pathways Health and Medical Services - Community Mental Health Center, Cabinet for Health and Family Services, mobile crisis services fund Health and Medical Services - Community Mental Health Center, mobile crisis services, establishment Legislative Research Commission - Tax return data working group Mental Disability - Community Mental Health Center, mobile crisis services fund, establishment Mental Health - Community Mental Health Center, mobile crisis services, establishment Nurses - Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center, career pathways Occupations and Professions - Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center, healthcare pathways Property - Heavy or specialized conservation equipment, acquisition by commission, joint application Property Valuation Administrators - Urban-county governments, total compensation limitation Retirement and Pensions - KERS Nonhazardous pension fund, unfunded liability appropriation Science and Technology - Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research, establishment Special Districts - Soil and water conservation districts, acquisition of conservation equipment, joint application State Agencies - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, mobile crisis services fund, establishment State Agencies - Department of Revenue, tax data working group State Agencies - Finance and Administration Cabinet, tax return data State Agencies - Reports mandated, Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue Substance Abuse - Community Mental Health Center, mobile crisis services, fund, establishment Taxation - Tax return data Universities and Colleges - Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center, partnership Universities and Colleges - University of Kentucky, Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research, establishment Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Community Mental Health Center, mobile crisis services Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Soil and Water Conservation Commission, heavy or specialized conservation equipment, acquisition Agriculture - Heavy or specialized conservation equipment, acquisition by commission, joint application Appropriations - Health insurance, employer contributions, employee coverage waived Appropriations - Justice administration budget, Operation UNITE Appropriations - Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research Appropriations - Kentucky Center for the Arts Appropriations - Kentucky public pensions authority, KERS Nonhazardous pension fund, unfunded pension liability Appropriations - Manchester/Clay County Tourism Commission, Elk Hill regional Industrial Authority, Vol. of America Appropriations - Nonprofit organizations, CARES Act recipients Appropriations - Rough River Business & Tourism Association Appropriations - School Facilities Construction Commission, offers in assistance, Rockcastle County Appropriations - State Fair Board Reports Mandated - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, mobile crisis service fund Reports Mandated - Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue Reports Mandated - KCTCS, Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center Reports Mandated - Kentucky Community Technical College System, Legislative Research Commission Advisory Boards, Commissions, and Committees - Soil and Water Conservation Commission, heavy or specialized equipment, joint application Cannabis - Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research, establishment

Amendment	Senate Committee Amendment 1
Summary	Make title amendment.
Index Headings	Title Amendments - HB 604/GA

Amendment	Senate Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor	A. Southworth
Summary	Make title amendment.
Index Headings	Title Amendments - HB 604/GA

Amendment	Senate Floor Amendment 2
Sponsor	A. Southworth
Summary	Retain original provisions and amend KRS 344.045 to prohibit an employer from affecting the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment based on an employee's immunization status without granting exemptions based on religious objections.
Index Headings	Diseases - Immunizations, employment, religious objections, permitted Drugs and Medicines - Immunizations, employment, religious objections, permitted Labor and Industry - Immunizations, employment, religious objections, permitted Occupations and Professions - Immunizations, employment, religious objections, permitted Public Health - Immunizations, employment, religious objections, permitted Religion - Immunizations, employment, religious objections, permitted