---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to professional employer organizations."
description: "Amend KRS 336.236 to change the financial statement requirements for a professional employer organization's initial and renewal registration; provide that initial registration shall be valid for one fiscal year for any professional employer organization that completed its initial prior to July 15, 2024; amend KRS 336.238 to include professional employer organization groups; amend KRS 336.240 to include annual renewal registrations in the financial statement requirements; amend KRS 336.248 to require a professional employer organization to submit required wage reports and pay all contributions to the Office of Unemployment Insurance; provide a process for submission of the reports and contributions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2023RS"
identifier: "HB 394"
citation: "Kentucky HB 394 (2023RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Labor and Industry", "Personnel and Employment", "Small Business", "Unemployment Compensation", "Workers' Compensation", "Workforce"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-21T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-24T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e57b5c0f-ef84-4518-9845-198783304e0d"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/hb394.html"
source_hash: "f936780adf298679cb7ee097d0a2f0c662e7022c65911c9d964001957c16f0cd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---

# Kentucky HB 394 (2023RS) — AN ACT relating to professional employer organizations.

Amend KRS 336.236 to change the financial statement requirements for a professional employer organization's initial and renewal registration; provide that initial registration shall be valid for one fiscal year for any professional employer organization that completed its initial prior to July 15, 2024; amend KRS 336.238 to include professional employer organization groups; amend KRS 336.240 to include annual renewal registrations in the financial statement requirements; amend KRS 336.248 to require a professional employer organization to submit required wage reports and pay all contributions to the Office of Unemployment Insurance; provide a process for submission of the reports and contributions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/hb394/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 88** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/23RS/documents/0088.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/hb394/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE HB 394 — **pass** (pass) · lower
- FOR CONSENT — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24T05:00:00+00:00** to Small Business & Information Technology (H) `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 03, 2023
- **2023-03-03T05:00:00+00:00** taken from the Orders of the Day
- **2023-03-03T05:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-03T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 07, 2023
- **2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 98-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2023-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S) `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
- **2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
- **2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
- **2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules as a consent bill `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 16, 2023
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37 -0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2023-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 88) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e57b5c0f-ef84-4518-9845-198783304e0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).