2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - CHAPTER 18A STATE PERSONNEL

• .005   Definitions for chapter.
• .010   General purpose of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 -- Total number of employees limited.
• .015   Creation of Personnel Cabinet -- Provision for administrative costs.
• .020   Records of Personnel Cabinet subject to open records law -- Employee access to personnel files.
• .025   Appointment of secretary of personnel -- Responsibilities -- Organization and duties of cabinet.
• .030   Duties of secretary.
• .032   Applicants to and eligibles for the classified service -- Examination -- Placement on and removal from registers -- Certification for employment.
• .035   Delegation of secretary's powers -- Assistance in testing -- Membership on Kentucky Employees Retirement System board.
• .037   New system of job classification and compensation.
• .040   Compliance with federal standards.
• .043   Administrative regulations to implement Federal Drug-Free Workplace Act.
• .045   Creation of Personnel Board -- Membership.
• .050   Personnel Board -- Grandfather clause -- Composition -- Terms -- Automatic termination.
• .055   Repealed, 1986.
• .0551   Personnel Board elections -- Procedures.
• .060   Vacancies of elected board members to be filled by board.
• .065   Oaths, testimony, and production of records.
• .070   Personnel board -- Organization -- Meeting notices required -- Records to be public.
• .075   Duties of Personnel Board.
• .0751   Personnel Board -- Regulatory authority.
• .080   Personnel Board -- Compensation -- Attendance.
• .085   Removal of board members by Governor -- Appeal.
• .090   Personnel Board to hire full-time staff -- General counsel may be designated assistant attorney general.
• .095   Rights of executive department employees.
• .100   Appeal of final order of the Personnel Board.
• .105   Compensation, retirement system contributions of employee ordered reinstated without loss of pay.
• .110   Personnel secretary - Regulatory authority.
• .111   Probationary periods for classified service -- Initial and promotional.
• .112   Repealed, 2000.
• .113   Lay-off rules -- General.
• .1131   Lay-off rules applicable to classified employees only.
• .1132   Lay-off rules applicable to both classified and unclassified employees.
• .115   Employment 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.
• .120   Basis for hiring for classified service -- Exception -- Credit for sick leave.
• .125   Control through payroll certification.
• .130   Reemployment of career employee terminated on or after January 1, 1980.
• .135   Reemployment of career employees.
• .138   Affirmative action plan for state government.
• .140   Prohibition against discrimination and political activities.
• .145   Other acts prohibited.
• .146   Felony conviction grounds for disciplinary action.
• .150   Preference points for honorably discharged members of the Armed Forces, their spouses, surviving spouses, and parents -- Present and former members of Kentucky National Guard.
• .155   Rules for unclassified employees.
• .160   Use of public buildings, property, and facilities.
• .165   Administration of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200.
• .170   Certification of division directors who do not make policy.
• .175   Evaluation of duties of division directors or heads -- Procedure when duties have become policy making.
• .180   Extension of system to other governmental units.
• .185   Service as elected official deemed full-time employment for specified purpose.
• .190   Holidays for state personnel -- Military spouses to receive paid deployment and return days off.
• .195   Compensatory time -- Payment upon leaving state service.
• .196   Definitions for KRS 18A.197.
• .197   Sick-leave sharing program.
• .200   Per diem salaries for state officers or employees serving on boards or commissions prohibited during regular working hours -- Reimbursement of expenses authorized.
• .201   Transportation Engineering Assistant I experience requirements.
• .202   Work-related incentive programs for state employees.
• .203   Annual-leave sharing program.
• .204   Waiver of educational requirement in Highway Equipment Operator series for employees hired before July 1, 1999.

Life Insurance

• .205   Life insurance for state employees -- Definitions.
• .210   Payment of premiums.
• .215   Provision authorized.
• .220   Authority of secretary.

Health Coverage

• .225   Health 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 -- Appeal of formulary change -- Retiree's participation -- Mail order drug option coverage -- Hearing aid coverage for minors -- Access to certain services in contiguous counties -- Study of bid variation -- Regional rating bid scenario -- Optometric coverage -- Nondiscrimination against provider in geographic coverage area -- Standards for provider participation -- Utilization review -- Payment of claims -- Uniform health insurance claim forms -- Emergency medical care -- Administrative regulations.
• .2251   State employee health care plan buy-in.  (Expired July 14, 1995)
• .2253   Self-insurance for area development district employees.
• .2254   Self-insured plan for public employees -- Contract for third-party administrator -- Formulary change -- Health reimbursement account -- Public employee health insurance trust fund -- Annual audit -- Status reports.
• .2255   Health 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.
• .2257   Comprehensive dental and vision insurance and health discount plans for state employees on voluntary payroll deduction basis -- Administrative regulations.
• .2259   Mail-order drug option for maintenance drugs.
• .226   Group Health Insurance Board -- Members -- Duties.
• .227   Flexible benefits plan for employees and retirees.
• .2271   Unused funds in flexible spending accounts may be carried forward to next plan year.
• .228   "State employee" defined.
• .2281   Repealed, 1998.
• .2282   Repealed, 1998.
• .2283   Repealed, 1998.
• .2284   Repealed, 1998.
• .2285   Repealed, 1998.
• .2286   Continuation coverage for member retired for disability.
• .2287   Availability of state health insurance plan coverage for certain former legislators.
• .2288   Repealed, 2001.
• .229   Repealed, 2001.

Public Employees Deferred Compensation Plan

• .230   Definitions.
• .235   System established -- Corporate powers.
• .240   Trust fund.
• .245   Board of trustees -- Membership, terms, meetings -- Powers -- Annual financial report.
• .250   Deferred compensation system.
• .255   Investments.
• .260   Regulations of investments.
• .265   Deferred compensation program to be in addition to retirement or benefit programs -- Coordination of programs.
• .270   Local programs.
• .275   Custodian of funds.
• .350   Definition of employee.

Annual Salary Increments

• .355   Formula for increasing base salary or wages of state employees -- Percentage of annual increment may be reduced.
• .360   Repealed, 1986.

State Employee Workers' Compensation

• .370 Definitions for KRS 18A.375 to 18A.385 -- Applicability of KRS 64.368 if population decreases below 70,000.
• .375   State employee workers' compensation fund.
• .380   Administrative regulations.
• .385   Actuarial analysis of fund.

Pilot Personnel Program

• .400   Purpose of KRS 18A.400 to 18A.450.
• .405   Personnel Steering Committee.
• .410   Duties of Personnel Steering Committee.
• .415   Discontinuance of pilot personnel program.
• .420   Approval of pilot personnel programs.
• .425   Reports from pilot agencies and the committee.
• .430   Employment manual -- Administrative regulations -- Expiration of pilot program.
• .435   Employee request for transfer.
• .440   Bases for organizational units for pilot programs.
• .445   Use of savings attributed to agency's pilot personnel program -- Authority for administrative regulations.
• .450   Development of pilot programs by Department of Workforce Investment or Department of State Police.

Penalties

• .990   Penalties.