HB 164 KY

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Amend KRS 16.601, 61.621, and 78.5534 to increase minimum line of duty death benefits to a non-spouse beneficiary of a Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, or State Police Retirement System member who was working in an approved hazardous duty position or in a position that could be approved as hazardous duty for retirement purposes; specify the minimum payment to the non-spouse beneficiary shall only be payable if there is no surviving spouse beneficiary and shall be a minimum of a lump-sum payment equal to 36 months of the member's monthly rate of pay; provide that the non-spouse beneficiary may elect the minimum lump-sum payment or any other benefits the non-spouse beneficiary is eligible to receive upon the member's death, but not both.

• S. Witten Republican · primary
• D. Osborne Republican · primary
• J. Bauman Republican · primary
• E. Callaway Republican · primary
• D. Lewis Republican · primary
• R. Palumbo · primary
• R. Roarx Democratic · primary
• W. Williams Republican · primary

1. Jan 5, 2024 introduced in House · lower
2. Jan 5, 2024 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
3. Feb 7, 2024 to State Government (H) · lower
4. Feb 15, 2024 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar · lower
5. Feb 16, 2024 2nd reading, to Rules · lower
6. Feb 20, 2024 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 21, 2024 · lower
7. Feb 21, 2024 3rd reading, passed 95-0 · lower
8. Feb 22, 2024 received in Senate · upper
9. Feb 22, 2024 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
10. Feb 26, 2024 to State & Local Government (S) · upper

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Current/Final · PDF
• Introduced · PDF