AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs.

Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continues until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding on all water systems it supplies.

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2/4/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)

1/7/2025 - Introduced

COMMENTS

Support.

AN ACT relating to privacy protection.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms related to automated license plate readers; establish limitations on use and sale of data captured by automated license plate readers; provide that captured license plate data may be retained longer than 60 days only if it is being used in a criminal or insurance investigation or has become subject to a preservation of evidence notification; provide that any recorded images or data captured by an ALPR may be made available to the National Insurance Crime Bureau or its successor organization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms and establish limitations on the introduction of identification devices on or within the human body; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for an action filed for introduction of an identification device; amend KRS 508.152, relating to the unlawful use of tracking devices, to include the installation of a tracking device on the person or property of another without their consent and exempt parental tracking of minors from the prohibition.

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2/18/2025 - (H) FIRST READING

2/18/2025 - (H) Reported Favorably

2/18/2025 - House Transportation (H), (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)

2/4/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)

1/7/2025 - Introduced

COMMENTS

Support. KMFC specifically supports Section 2 of this bill which prohibits human implanted tracking devices.

AN ACT relating to geoengineering.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 512 to make findings and declarations regarding the dangers of atmospheric polluting activities and the Commonwealth's authority to prohibit geoengineering; define terms; make criminal atmospheric pollution a Class D felony; require that a person found guilty of criminal atmospheric pollution pay a civil penalty of not less than $500,000 in addition to all other penalties authorized by law; provide that each day that a person engages in criminal atmospheric pollution constitutes a separate offense; empower all peace officers of the Commonwealth to enforce the provisions of the section; require the arresting officer to issue a notice to the appropriate federal agency that those activities cannot be lawfully carried out in the Commonwealth.

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2/4/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)

1/7/2025 - Introduced

COMMENTS

Support. KMFC specifically supports the prohibition of geoengineering insomuch as it endangers human health and safety and the environment.

AN ACT relating to sex crimes.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide that any person who has been convicted of, pled guilty to, or entered an Alford plea to a sex crime in which the victim was under the age of 12 shall undergo medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment; provide that treatment shall begin no later than one month before the person is released from custody; provide that treatment shall continue until the person is released from probation, parole, or postincarceration supervision; provide that the person shall be evaluated by a licensed physician prior to treatment to determine if the person is an appropriate candidate for treatment; provide that the Department of Corrections shall administer the treatment; authorize the Department of Corrections to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirements.

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2/4/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)

1/7/2025 - Introduced

COMMENTS

Oppose. While it is laudable to consider various approaches to dealing with the heinous crime of child sexual abuse, KMFC opposes any measure that would implement forced medical treatment/intervention of any kind.

AN ACT relating to governmental accountability and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13B to reinstate a person's credential or benefit if it was lost or denied due to noncompliance with an executive order or administrative regulation relating to pandemic restrictions; amend KRS 13A.190, 13A.310, 13A.315, 13A.330, 13A.335, and 13A.336 to grant the Attorney General authority over some aspects of the administrative regulation process; amend KRS 13B.120 to enable the Attorney General to accept, reject, or modify an agency head's changes that create a more adverse final order; amend KRS 13B.150 to direct a Circuit Court reviewing a final order to determine if the agency committed misconduct by violating appropriation restrictions placed upon the agency by the General Assembly; remove a noncompliant agency head or administrative official from office for willfully violating an appropriation restriction; prohibit a removed official from holding office for 10 years after the finding; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.

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2/4/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)

1/7/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to public health.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to provide that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall not promulgate any administrative regulation that implements or enforces any directives from the World Health Organization; amend KRS 211.990 to establish that any violation shall be a Class D felony.

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2/4/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)

1/7/2025 - Introduced

COMMENTS

Support. While KMFC supports HB84, we feel that it should apply to all government agencies, not just the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

AN ACT relating to blood donations.

Amend KRS 214.456 to require a health facility that facilitates autologous or directed blood donations to comply with a health care provider's order prescribing an autologous or directed blood donation; allow health facilities to provide an autologous or directed blood donation ordered by a health care provider for a medical procedure.

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2/4/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)

1/9/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to human gene therapy products and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to establish legislative intent; define terms; establish that a person in the Commonwealth shall not administer, by any route or modality, any human gene therapy product for any infectious disease indication, regardless of whether the administration is termed an immunization, vaccine, or any other term; exempt human gene therapy products used to treat cancer or genetic disorders; sunset the provisions on July 1, 2035, unless extended by the General Assembly; EMERGENCY.

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2/14/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)

2/12/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to children and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 158.1415 to remove provisions related to parental rights and courses, curriculums, or programs on human sexuality, provide for a process for parents to opt out of their child receiving instruction on the subject of human sexuality; amend KRS 158.191 to remove provisions requiring a school obtain parental consent prior to providing health services or mental health services to students; remove language concerning policies to encourage or facilitate conversations between parents and students; remove language limiting Kentucky Board of Education or Department of Education policies regarding student confidential information and the use of pronouns; require a local school district to use pronouns for students that the student requests; amend KRS 158.189 to remove findings and requirements that a local board of education adopt a policy on privacy and the use of student facilities; require a school to provide an accommodation to a students who asserts to school officials that their gender is different from their biological sex that includes the use of facilities designated for the gender of which the students identify; permit alternate accommodations upon the student's request; repeal KRS 311.372, which prohibits treatments to a minor for purposes of attempting to alter the appearance or perception of the minor's sex; EMERGENCY.

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2/13/2025 - Introduced

COMMENTS

KMFC opposes this bill because it would remove parental consent requirements for health care services and mental health care services.

AN ACT relating to psychotropic drugs.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; require Medicaid-enrolled providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children to provide an FDA Medication Guide to parents or legal guardians; require medical care providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children covered by Medicaid to obtain signed informed consent from a parent of guardian; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop and maintain an adverse drug reaction online reporting system; require the cabinet to compile and submit an annual report of the adverse drug reaction online reporting system to the legislature; require the cabinet to submit an annual report summarizing the implementation efforts and compliance statistics of Medicaid-enrolled providers; establish penalties; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations.

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2/14/2025 - Introduced

COMMENTS

KMFC supports this bill and it's strong emphasis on informed consent.

AN ACT relating to blood donation.

Amend KRS 214.452 to add receipt of a COVID -19 vaccine to the blood donor risk factor statement collected by a blood establishment; amend KRS 214.458 to add donor receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine to the donor identification information affixed to a unit of donated blood; add that except in an emergency, a patient be informed if the donor of the blood to be transfused had received a COVID-19 vaccine.

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2/18/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to providing health services to a person who is not vaccinated.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to prohibit the refusal to provide health services to a person who has not been vaccinated.

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2/18/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to medical products.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to define "medical product"; prohibit any a public or government entity or any agency or division thereof, from requiring an individual to take, receive, or disclose whether a medical product has been taken or received, unless the manufacturer of the product is liable for any death or injury caused by the product.

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2/18/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to immunization policy.

Create a new of section KRS Chapter 164 to allow a student, staff, or faculty member to opt out of a postsecondary school's immunization policy for specified reasons; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a public entity from creating standardized documentation with the purpose of certifying vaccination status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to require written notice of vaccination exemptions for a sincerely held religious belief or medical contraindication; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption; require notice of federal mandates and exemptions; establish civil cause of action for violations; amend KRS 214.015 to prohibit the Department for Public Health from releasing personally identifiable information from immunization reports to another public agency or third party; amend KRS 214.034 to prohibit public and private primary and secondary schools and preschool programs from promulgating a new immunization policy and mandating compliance during a school year that has already commenced; and amend KRS 214.036 to allow objection to immunization on the basis of conscientiously held beliefs.

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2/18/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to liability shield products and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; require a manufacturer of a liability shield product to subject the product to a placebo-controlled study before it is manufactured, marketed, distributed, or administered in Kentucky; establish requirements for the placebo-controlled study; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to monitor and track adverse outcomes of liability shield products; require manufacturers of liability shield products to submit documentation to the cabinet of the placebo-controlled study and results of the study; provide that an individual has right to refuse a liability shield product; permit the Attorney General to bring actions for violations; permit individuals to bring actions for injuries; EMERGENCY.

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2/18/2025 - Introduced

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to explore ways to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement to improve health outcomes of Kentuckians.

State the General Assembly's support for the goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.

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2/18/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to Medicaid home and community-based waiver residential services.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the right of an individual, parent, guardian, or limited guardian to install video recording devices in the private residential room of an individual who is receiving residential services under a federally approved 1915(c) home and community based services waiver program; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations.

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1/9/2025 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Families & Children (S)

1/7/2025 - Introduced

COMMENTS

KMFC supports this bill for it's emphasis on allowing parents, guardians, and family members the ability to monitor their loved one.

AN ACT relating to geoengineering.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 512 to make findings and declarations regarding the dangers of atmospheric polluting activities and the Commonwealth's authority to prohibit geoengineering; define terms; make criminal atmospheric pollution a Class D felony; require that a person found guilty of criminal atmospheric pollution pay a civil penalty of not less than $500,000 in addition to all other penalties authorized by law; provide that each day that a person engages in criminal atmospheric pollution constitutes a separate offense; empower all peace officers of the Commonwealth to enforce the provisions of the section; require the arresting officer to issue a notice to the appropriate federal agency that those activities cannot be lawfully carried out in the Commonwealth.

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1/10/2025 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations & Revenue (S)

1/8/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to vaccines.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, employment, or medical treatment in the Commonwealth; prohibit any COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine to be administered in the Commonwealth to a minor child under the age of 18 years; sunset the provisions that relate to a minor child on July 1, 2035, unless extended by the General Assembly:

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2/14/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs.

Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continues until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding on all water systems it supplies.

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2/14/2025 - Introduced

AN ACT relating to conditions of employment.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to require employers that mandate employee immunization to allow exceptions based on religious belief or medical contraindication; provide sample form for employee affirmation; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption; require notice of exemptions; establish civil cause of action for violations and a claim under workers' compensation; amend KRS 344.040 to make it an unlawful practice for employers to require immunizations as a condition of employment from employees who hold sincere religious beliefs against immunization or for whom immunization would be harmful to his or her health; make technical corrections.

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2/18/2025 - Introduced

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to oppose the United Nations Pact for the Future.

Urge the United States Congress to oppose the United Nations Pact for the Future.

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2/6/2025 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

2/4/2025 - Introduced

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to explore ways to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement to improve health outcomes of Kentuckians.

State the General Assembly's support for the goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.

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2/14/2025 - Introduced

A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to unconstitutional acts that would undermine the rights of Kentucky citizens and the sovereignty of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Reaffirm the sovereignty of Kentucky; affirm the sovereign right of Kentucky to nullify unconstitutional acts of the federal government; direct the Attorney General to challenge all unconstitutional acts of the federal government that usurp or diminish the sovereignty of Kentucky; provide that the General Assembly may enact legislation nullifying unconstitutional acts that undermine Kentucky's sovereignty.

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1/10/2025 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)

1/8/2025 - Introduced

COMMENTS

Support.