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Chapter 18A

Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. ch. 18A

State Personnel

Commonwealth of Kentucky

18A.005Definitions for chapter.18A.010General purpose of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 -- Total number of employees limited.18A.015Creation of Personnel Cabinet -- Provision for administrative costs.18A.020Records of Personnel Cabinet subject to open records law -- Employee access to personnel files.18A.025Appointment of secretary of Personnel Cabinet -- Responsibilities -- Organization and duties of cabinet.18A.030Duties of secretary.18A.032Applicants to and eligibles for the classified service -- Examination -- Placement on and removal from registers -- Certification for employment.18A.035Delegation of secretary's powers -- Assistance in testing -- Membership on Kentucky Employees Retirement System board.18A.037New system of job classification and compensation.18A.040Compliance with federal standards.18A.043Administrative regulations to implement Federal Drug-Free Workplace Act.18A.045Creation of Personnel Board -- Membership -- Prohibited Acts.18A.050Personnel Board -- Grandfather clause -- Composition -- Terms -- Automatic termination.18A.0551Personnel Board elections -- Procedures -- Administrative regulations.18A.060Vacancies of elected board members to be filled by board.18A.065Oaths, testimony, and production of records.18A.070Personnel board -- Organization -- Meeting notices required -- Records to be public.18A.075Duties of Personnel Board.18A.0751Personnel Board -- Regulatory authority.18A.080Personnel Board -- Compensation -- Attendance -- Assessment on executive branch agencies.18A.085Removal of board members by Governor -- Appeal.18A.090Personnel Board to hire full-time staff -- General counsel may be designated assistant attorney general.18A.095Rights of executive branch employees.18A.100Appeal of final order of the Personnel Board.18A.105Compensation, retirement system contributions of employee ordered reinstated without loss of pay.18A.110Personnel secretary -- Regulatory authority -- Resolution of conflicting provisions of law.18A.111Probationary periods for classified service -- Initial and promotional. (Effective until July 15, 2026)18A.113Layoff, furlough, and reduction-in-hours rules -- Notice -- Reemployment -- Administrative regulations.18A.115Employment exempted from classified service -- Reversion rights of career employees promoted outside classified service -- Transfer of employees to Kentucky Community and Technical College System -- Change of personnel system for employees of Department for Technical Education and Department for Adult Education and Literacy -- Change of personnel system for some employees of Eastern Kentucky University. (Effective until July 15, 2026)18A.120Basis for hiring for classified service -- Exception -- Credit for sick leave.18A.125Control through payroll certification.18A.130Reemployment of career employee terminated on or after January 1, 1980.18A.135Reemployment of career employees.18A.138Affirmative action plan for state government.18A.140Prohibition against discrimination and political activities.18A.145Other acts prohibited.18A.146Felony conviction grounds for disciplinary action.18A.150Interview preference for current service members, honorably or generally discharged former service members, and members' spouses, surviving spouses, and dependent parents -- Required interviews.18A.155Rules for unclassified employees.18A.160Use of public buildings, property, and facilities.18A.165Administration of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200.18A.170Certification of division directors who do not make policy.18A.175Evaluation of duties of division directors or heads -- Procedure when duties have become policy making.18A.180Extension of system to other governmental units.18A.185Service as elected official deemed full-time employment for specified purpose.18A.190Holidays for state personnel -- Military spouses to receive paid deployment and return days off.18A.194Living Organ Donor Leave Program.18A.195Compensatory time -- Payment upon leaving state service.18A.196Definitions for KRS 18A.197.18A.197Sick-leave sharing program.18A.200Per diem salaries for state officers or employees serving on boards or commissions prohibited during regular working hours -- Reimbursement of expenses authorized.18A.201Transportation Engineering Assistant I experience requirements.18A.202Work-related incentive programs for state employees.18A.203Annual-leave sharing program.18A.204Waiver of educational requirement in Highway Equipment Operator series for employees hired before July 1, 1999.18A.205Life insurance for public employees and certain retirees -- Definitions.18A.210Payment of premiums.18A.215Provisions authorized.18A.220Authority of secretary.18A.225Health care insurance coverage -- Requirements of prospective carriers -- Analysis of carrier coverage data -- Agency's termination of participation -- Provision of amount of employer contribution -- Lapse of excess flexible spending account funds -- Advisory Committee of State Health Insurance Subscribers -- No abortion coverage -- Appeal of formulary change -- Retiree's participation -- Mail-order drug option coverage -- Nondiscrimination against pharmacy in geographic coverage area -- Hearing aid coverage for minors -- Coverage for diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders -- Amino acid-based elemental formula coverage -- Access to certain services in contiguous counties -- Study of bid variation -- Regional rating bid scenario -- Optometric coverage -- Standards for provider participation -- Special enrollment period for pregnancy. (Effective until January 1, 2027)18A.2251State employee health care plan buy-in. (Expired July 14, 1995)18A.2253Self-insurance for area development district employees.18A.2254Self-insured plan for public employees -- Contract for third-party administrator -- Formulary change -- Health reimbursement account, health flexible spending account, or health savings account -- Public employee health insurance trust fund -- Annual audit -- Quarterly status reports.18A.2255Health benefit plans and other information to be submitted to Advisory Committee of State Health Insurers -- Approval or recommendations for changes -- Committee to advise on options, bids, administration, and drug formulary -- Written report or testimony.18A.2256TRICARE supplement insurance for public employees.18A.2258Pharmacy and health care benefit claims monitoring -- Contract provisions -- Requirements -- Administrative regulations.18A.2259Mail-order drug option for maintenance drugs.18A.226Group Health Insurance Board -- Members -- Duties.18A.227Flexible benefits plan for employees and retirees.18A.2271Unused funds in flexible spending accounts may be carried forward to next plan year.18A.228"State employee" defined.18A.2286Continuation coverage for member retired for disability.18A.2287Availability of state health insurance plan coverage for certain former legislators.18A.230Definitions for KRS 18A.230 to 18A.275.18A.235Kentucky Public Employees Deferred Compensation System established -- Corporate powers.18A.240Trust fund.18A.245Board of trustees -- Membership, terms, meetings -- Powers -- Executive director -- Annual financial report.18A.250Deferred compensation system -- Automatic enrollment of employees hired after July 1, 2019 -- Automatic enrollment of justices, judges, and members of the General Assembly elected or appointed after July 1, 2021.18A.252Inviolability of employee deferred compensation contributions to trust fund.18A.255Investments -- Limitation of liability -- Standards of conduct.18A.260Regulations of investments.18A.262Conflicts of interest for Kentucky Public Employees Deferred Compensation Authority employees and trustees.18A.265Deferred compensation program to be in addition to retirement or benefit programs -- Coordination of programs.18A.270Local programs.18A.275Custodian of funds.18A.350Definition of employee.18A.355Formula for increasing base salary or wages of state employees -- Percentage of annual increment may be reduced.18A.370Definitions for KRS 18A.375 to 18A.385 -- Applicability of KRS 64.368 if population decreases below 70,000.18A.375State employee workers' compensation fund.18A.380Administrative regulations.18A.385Actuarial analysis of fund.18A.990Penalties.