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Bill AN ACT relating to youth employment programs. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 339 to allow a nonprofit organization to create a work program for minors 12 or 13 years of age; require the program to exist to provide minors with life skills and employment skills; require that the primary benefit of the work performed provide vocational and educational value to the minors; prohibit minors from working when school is in session; prohibit minors from working in activities that engage in interstate commerce; allow participation of minors 14 to 17 years of age to participate in work program under current gainful employment standards; require the Department of Workplace Standards to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 339.210 to specify that the participation of minors 12 or 13 years of age in the work program for minors shall be excluded from "gainful employment." us/states/ky Kentucky General Assembly 2024RS SB 128 Kentucky SB 128 (2024RS)
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Administrative Regulations and Proceedings
Children and Minors
Education
Vocational
Wages and Hours
Workforce
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A. Mays Bledsoe
D. Givens
M. Deneen
S. Meredith
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Kentucky SB 128 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to youth employment programs.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 339 to allow a nonprofit organization to create a work program for minors 12 or 13 years of age; require the program to exist to provide minors with life skills and employment skills; require that the primary benefit of the work performed provide vocational and educational value to the minors; prohibit minors from working when school is in session; prohibit minors from working in activities that engage in interstate commerce; allow participation of minors 14 to 17 years of age to participate in work program under current gainful employment standards; require the Department of Workplace Standards to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 339.210 to specify that the participation of minors 12 or 13 years of age in the work program for minors shall be excluded from "gainful employment."

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Acts Chapter 119 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASS SB 128 W/ scs1 sfa1 — pass (pass) · upper
  • Final Passage — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • A. Mays Bledsoe — primary (person)
  • D. Givens — primary (person)
  • M. Deneen — primary (person)
  • S. Meredith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-01-23T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate introduction
  • 2024-01-23T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
  • 2024-01-25T05:00:00+00:00 to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S) referral-committee
  • 2024-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
  • 2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
  • 2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute amendment-introduction
  • 2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 11, 2024
  • 2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 33-2 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (1) passage, reading-3
  • 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
  • 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
  • 2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H) referral-committee
  • 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
  • 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
  • 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 27, 2024
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 92-1 passage, reading-3
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
  • 2024-04-05T04:00:00+00:00 filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
  • 2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 119) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fef903d7-450e-44e6-801c-79c1bccb7649. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).