HB1 | RIGHT TO WORK (HOOVER, JEFF; DeCesare, Jim; Benvenuti, Robert; Bratcher, Kevin D.; Carney, John Bam; DuPlessis, Jim; Heath, Richard; Herald, Toby; Johnson, Dan; Koenig, Adam; Lee, Stan; Meade, David; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Osborne, David W.; Pratt, Phillip; Rowland, Bart; Santoro, Sal; Shell, Jonathan; Thomas, Walker; Wells, William; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to right to work provisions involving a condition of employment or continuation of employment and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 336.130 to indicate that public employees may not strike; prohibit mandatory membership in or financial support of a labor organization as a condition of employment; define "employee"; require the Labor Cabinet to investigate complaints and prosecute those who violate Section 1 of the Act; amend KRS 336.180 to conform and define "employer" and "public employee"; amend KRS 336.990 to make a violation of the Act a Class A misdemeanor, award damages, and provide injunctive relief; create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to exempt existing contracts or agreements and to prohibit deduction of membership dues to a labor organization without express written consent of the employee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to restrict certain local governments from enforcing an ordinance contrary to the provisions of the Act; amend KRS 67A.6904, 67C.406, 70.262, 78.470, 78.480, and 345.050 to conform; provide for severability of Act's provisions; provide short title of Act; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 1/9/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - delivered to Governor 1/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 1/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 1/7/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 25-12 1/7/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Saturday, January 7, 2017 1/7/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Saturday, January 7, 2017 1/7/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules 1/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 1/6/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 1/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/6/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/5/2017 - floor amendment (6) and (7-title) filed, and floor amendments (3), (4), & (5) filed to Committee Substitute 1/5/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 1/5/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/5/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 1/5/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/5/2017 - received in Senate 1/5/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 58-39 with Committee Substitute 1/4/2017 - floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed 1/4/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 5, 2017 1/4/2017 - (H) SECOND READING to Rules 1/4/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably w/HCS 1 1/4/2017 - House Economic Development & Workforce Investment, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/3/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 1/3/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (H) Posting Waived 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB3 | PREVAILING WAGE (HOOVER, JEFF; Koenig, Adam; Benvenuti, Robert; Bratcher, Kevin D.; Carney, John Bam; DeCesare, Jim; Heath, Richard; Herald, Toby; Johnson, Dan; Lee, Stan; Meade, David; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Osborne, David W.; Pratt, Phillip; Santoro, Sal; Shell, Jonathan; Thomas, Walker; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to prevailing wage and declaring an emergency.
Amend various KRS sections to delete prevailing wage provisions; abolish the Prevailing Wage Review Board; make conforming amendments; create new section of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit local governments from requiring employers to pay prevailing wage to employees; repeal KRS 337.505, 337.510, 337.512, 337.520, 337.522, 337.524, 337.525, 337.530, 337.540, 337.548, and 337.550, relating to prevailing wages in public works; apply this repeal to public works projects for which bids have not yet been awarded as of the effective date of the Act; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 1/9/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - delivered to Governor 1/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 1/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 1/7/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 25-12 1/7/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Saturday, January 7, 2017 1/7/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules 1/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 1/6/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 1/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/5/2017 - floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed 1/5/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 1/5/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/5/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 1/5/2017 - received in Senate 1/5/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 57-40 1/4/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 5, 2017 1/4/2017 - (H) SECOND READING to Rules 1/4/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 1/4/2017 - House Economic Development & Workforce Investment, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/3/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 1/3/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (H) Posting Waived 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB10 | POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION GOVERNANCE (BRATCHER, KEVIN D.; Bentley, Danny; Santoro, Sal) AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education governance and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 164.821 to reduce the number of members on the University of Louisville board of trustees from 17 to ten; identify those members; set qualifications and conditions for membership; set initial terms for members; specify how to determine proportional minority representation on the board; provide procedures for vacancies; amend KRS 164.830 to define a quorum for the transaction of business; prohibit compensation and provide for reimbursement; abolish the prior board and transfer all authority, functions, and responsibilities to the newly constituted board; specify that members appointed to serve pursuant to Executive Orders 2016-391 and 2016-512 shall continue to serve on the board as constituted under this Act; confirm Executive Order 2016-338 dated June 17, 2016; confirm Executive Order 2016-391 dated June 29, 2016; confirm Executive Order 2016-512 dated July 12, 2016; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 1/4/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House State Government 1/3/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (H) Posting Waived 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB15 | VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER TAX CREDIT (NELSON, RICK; Miles, Suzanne; Riley, Steve; Sims Jr., John; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to a tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a $1,000 refundable income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission to evaluate the impact of the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit and to make technical corrections. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 7/15/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB17 | EXPUNGEMENT (NELSON, RICK; AN ACT relating to expungement.
Amend KRS 431.073 to reduce filing fee for felony expungement from $500 to $200. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 7/26/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB18 | AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (WESTROM, SUSAN; AN ACT relating to area development districts.
Amend KRS 147A.070 to require area development districts to use specific hiring practices and compliance with state accountability and transparency standard measures; create a new section of KRS Chapter 147A to give state agencies providing funds to area development districts final authority on the role of the area development districts; require a report to LRC from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and Education and Workforce Development Cabinet on allocations of funds provided to the area development districts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 147A to require the Auditor of Public Accounts to perform a preliminary study of all the area development districts and do further review if necessary; create a new section of KRS Chapter 147A to specify the requirements for audits of area development districts make the section specifying requirements for audits EFFECTIVE July 1, 2018. |
| Current Status: | 2/8/2017 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/5/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB19 | PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (ELLIOTT, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to prescriptive authority for physician assistants.
Amend KRS 311.856 and 311.858 to permit physician assistants to prescribe and dispense controlled substances. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 8/1/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB21 | ZONE TAX INCENTIVES (NELSON, RICK; AN ACT relating to promise zone tax incentives.
Amend KRS 139.570 to allow additional compensation for sellers in the promise zone; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow an income tax credit for qualified employees equal to the individual income tax on wages earned in the promise zone, not to exceed $2,400; allow an income tax credit for qualified employers in an amount equal to $100 for each employee working within the promise zone; require reporting by the Department of Revenue to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the new tax credits; create a noncodified section to set forth the purpose of the Act and describe actions previously taken by the federal government. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 8/5/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB25 | PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSESSMENT REPORTING (MOFFETT, PHIL; Benvenuti, Robert) AN ACT relating to public school assessment reporting.
Amend KRS 158.6453 to require a school or district to prominently display on its Web site home page a report of the aggregate percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards on specified assessments. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/7/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB28 | CONSOLIDATED LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (WAYNE, JIM; AN ACT relating to planning and zoning in consolidated local governments.
Amend KRS 100.137 to clarify the powers of certain cities within a consolidated local government, regarding home rule powers that do not conflict with the comprehensive plan. |
| Current Status: | 2/21/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/6/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB29 | RAILROADS (DONOHUE, JEFFERY; AN ACT relating to railroads.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require two-person crews on trains or light engines used in connection with the movement of freight; establish civil penalties for failure to have a two-person crew. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 8/22/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB30 | PUBLIC PROCUREMENT (DONOHUE, JEFFERY; AN ACT relating to public procurement.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 45A to set forth findings of the General Assembly and establish policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to promote the Kentucky and United States economies by requiring a preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods produced in Kentucky and the United States; define "manufactured in Kentucky," "manufactured in the United States," "Kentucky," and "United States"; require preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in Kentucky in construction and maintenance contracts and subcontracts; provide for a waiver of the Kentucky preference requirement; require preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in the United States if the Kentucky waiver is granted; provide for a waiver of the United States preference requirement; establish a short title of "Kentucky Buy American Act"; amend KRS 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.080, and 424.260 to require compliance with the Kentucky Buy American Act. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 8/22/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB33 | SCHOOL NOTIFICATION (KING, KIM; Benvenuti, Robert; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Nemes, Jason; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to school notification of persons authorized to contact or remove a child.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, if the cabinet is granted custody of a dependent, neglected, or abused child, to notify the school in which the child is enrolled of persons authorized to contact the child or remove the child from school grounds. |
| Current Status: | 4/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/29/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/29/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/29/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/29/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 3/29/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3/14/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/8/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/8/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/8/2017 - Senate Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 99-0 with Committee Substitute 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Consent Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House Heath & Family Services, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/15/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Heath & Family Services 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Heath & Family Services 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 8/30/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB34 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (KING, KIM; Elliott, Daniel; Hale, David; Hart, Mark; Tipton, James) AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to compensation for members of the General Assembly.
Propose to amend Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit members of the General Assembly from receiving legislative pay for a special session that has been called by the Governor because the General Assembly adjourned without passing a state budget; submit to the voters with ballot question. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 8/30/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB35 | PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATIONS (MILLER, JERRY T.; AN ACT relating to public benefit corporations.
Amend KRS 14A.3-010, 271B.1-400, 271B.2-020, 271B.6-260, 271B.7-400, 271B.8-300, 271B.13-020, and 271B.16-210, and create a new section of Subtitle 11 of KRS Chapter 271B to establish public benefit corporations. |
| Current Status: | 3/20/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/8/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/8/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/7/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-1 3/7/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3/1/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/28/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/28/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/28/2017 - Senate Agriculture, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/17/2017 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate Agriculture 2/16/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/15/2017 - received in Senate 2/14/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 78-17 with Committee Substitute (1) 2/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/13/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 14, 2017 2/10/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/9/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/9/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/9/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/8/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/1/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB36 | SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES (COUCH, TIM; AN ACT relating to greater public awareness of taxes levied by school districts.
Amend KRS 157.440, 157.621, 160.470, 160.473, and 160.476 to expand the existing public hearing requirements for property taxes levied by school district boards of education to apply to all property tax rates rather than only rates exceeding the calculated compensating tax rate; require notice of the public hearings to be posted on the school district Web site in addition to the required newspaper advertisement. |
| Current Status: | 2/7/2017 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 9/13/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB39 | STATE FISCAL MEASURES (KING, KIM; AN ACT relating to legislative procedures for state fiscal measures.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to require roll call votes on any state fiscal measure, including an appropriation or revenue-raising measure, voted upon in the Senate or House or a committee thereof; require identification of any state fiscal measure by the director of the Legislative Research Commission, or upon a determination by the Senate or House or a committee of either; require separate vote for any state fiscal measure. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 9/14/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB41 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (KAY II, JAMES; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to the independence and transparency of the board of trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 12.028 to prevent the Governor from effecting any reorganization of the Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees; amend KRS 63.080 to prevent the Governor from removing trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems, except upon conviction of a felony or for a finding of an ethical violation as provided under KRS 61.645; amend KRS 61.645 to change the composition of the Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees to eight elected trustees and five appointed trustees, removing one gubernatorial appointment and the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet from the board; limit the definition of "investment experience"; provide that a vacancy of an elected trustee shall be filled upon a vote of a majority of the remaining elected trustees and that the vacancy shall be filled within 90 days; place the Kentucky Retirement Systems under the Model Procurement Code; establish that any raises to Kentucky Retirement Systems staff be no higher than KRS Chapter 18A employees; require disclosure of all holdings, fees, and commissions by individual investment managers, require the Kentucky Retirement Systems to report returns net of fees; require disclosure of all contracts or offering documents and contract disclosure of investment contracts to the board, the Auditor of Public Accounts and the Government Contract Review Committee; establish a ban on placement agents; amend KRS 61.650 to impose on the Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees, staff, and contract investment advisors the CFA Institute Codes of Conduct; amend KRS 12.020 and 18A.035 to make technical and conforming amendments; provide a delayed effective date for the changes to the board composition, direct the Kentucky Retirement Systems to hold elections and prescribe the initial terms of office for the new elected members; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 9/15/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB42 | LEGISLATOR RETIREMENT BENEFITS (KAY II, JAMES; Richards, Jody; Wells, William) AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators.
Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective August 1, 2017; prohibit current legislators from participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan on or after August 1, 2017; provide that current and future legislators shall only participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for any service to the General Assembly occurring on or after August 1, 2017. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 9/15/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB44 | PROMISE ZONE TAX INCENTIVES (YORK, JILL; Blanton, John) AN ACT relating to promise zone tax incentives.
Amend KRS 139.570 to allow additional compensation for sellers in the promise zone; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow an income tax credit for qualified employees equal to the individual income tax on wages earned in the promise zone, not to exceed $2,400; allow an income tax credit for qualified employers in an amount equal to $100 for each employee working within the promise zone; require reporting by the Department of Revenue to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the new tax credits; create a noncodified section to set forth the purpose of the Act and describe actions previously taken by the federal government. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 9/19/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB45 | LEGISLATOR RETIREMENT BENEFITS (ELLIOTT, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators.
Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective August 1, 2017; prohibit current legislators from participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan on or after August 1, 2017; provide that current and future legislators shall only participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for any service to the General Assembly occurring on or after August 1, 2017. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 9/21/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB46 | CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (FISCHER, JOSEPH M.; Benvenuti, Robert; Hart, Mark; Mayfield, Donna; Morgan, Wesley; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to controlled substances.
Amend KRS 218A.1412 to make trafficking in any amount of fentanyl or carfentanil subject to elevated penalties. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 9/23/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB50 | ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS (IMES, KENNY; Wells, William; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.
Amend KRS 13A.010 to amend the definition of "administrative regulation" and to define "last effective date"; amend KRS 13A.040 to require the regulations compiler to maintain a list of all administrative regulation numbers and their corresponding last effective dates; amend KRS 13A.220 and 13A.222 to make conforming changes to enable the renewal of an administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.310 to provide that, beginning July 1, 2017, an ordinary administrative regulation shall expire 7 years after its last effective date; provide that an administrative regulation that has a last effective date prior to July 1, 2012, shall expire on July 1, 2019; establish duties of regulations compiler; and establish requirements for an administrative body that does not want an administrative regulation to expire. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/8/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 3/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING to Rules 3/7/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/7/2017 - Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 80-9 with Committee Substitute 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/23/2017 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day for for February 24, 2017 2/23/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/22/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/21/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Consent Calendar 2/21/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/21/2017 - House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/17/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 9/28/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB52 | CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (MEYER, RUSS A.; Keene, Dennis; Cantrell, McKenzie; Donohue, Jeffery; Gentry, Alan; Horlander, Dennis; Jenkins, Joni L.) AN ACT relating to controlled substances.
Amend 218A.010 to provide definitions for fentanyl and fentanyl derivative; amend KRS 218A.020 to allow the Office of Drug Control Policy to request that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services schedule fentanyl analogues not approved for human use by the United States Food and Drug Administration; amend KRS 218A.050 to include fentanyl analogues not approved for human use by the Food and Drug Administration as a Schedule I controlled substance; amend KRS 218A.142 to create the offense of aggravated fentanyl trafficking; amend KRS 218A.1412 to increase the penalties for trafficking in fentanyl. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 10/6/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB56 | PUBLIC RETIREMENT INFORMATION (IMES, KENNY; Morgan, Wesley; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to the disclosure of public retirement information.
Amend KRS 61.661, 161.585, and 21.540 to require the disclosure, upon request, of the retirement benefit information of current and former members of the General Assembly, including their name, status, and projected or actual retirement benefit payments and benefits from Kentucky Retirement Systems, Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, Legislators' Retirement Plan, and the Judicial Retirement Plan. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 10/13/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB57 | KENTUCKY TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM (IMES, KENNY; AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System board of trustees.
Amend KRS 161.250 to increase the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System board membership from nine members to 11 by adding two elected trustees who are retired members; amend KRS 161.300 to conform; provide that the election of the two new retired members shall occur so that the initial term of office will begin July 1, 2017. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 10/13/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB62 | KENTUCKY EDUCATION EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS (SCHAMORE, DEAN; Cantrell, McKenzie; Elliott, Daniel; Gentry, Alan; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Sims Jr., John; Stone, Wilson; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships and declaring an emergency
Create a new section of KRS 164.7871 to 164.7885 to provide KEES scholarships to students enrolled in a registered apprenticeship program; define student eligibility; direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to promulgate regulations for awarding the scholarships; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 10/26/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB64 | AIRPORT NOISE MITIGATION (DONOHUE, JEFFERY; AN ACT relating to tax credits for airport noise mitigation.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable income tax credit for the costs of mitigating noise from a commercial airport for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, but before January 1, 2021; amend KRS 131.190 to require certain information to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission; amend various chapters in the Kentucky Revised Statutes to make conforming changes; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 10/27/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB66 | KENTUCKY BOARD OF HOME INSPECTORS (MARZIAN, MARY LOU; AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors.
Amend KRS 198B.706 to remove the standards of practice of the National Association of Home Inspectors from the list of standards of practice approved by the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors; add the standards of practice of the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors to the board's list. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/9/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB68 | PRIVATE CELLULAR PHONE NUMBERS (WATKINS, GERALD; Richards, Jody; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to the disclosure of private cellular phone numbers.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to prohibit the marketing, sharing, or selling of wireless phone numbers of subscribers without express written consent of the subscriber; amend KRS 367.990 to create a penalty between $1,000 and $10,000 for each violation. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Small Business & Information Technology
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/1/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB72 | PLANNING AND ZONING (MILLER, JERRY T.; Benvenuti, Robert; Mills, Robby; Santoro, Sal) AN ACT relating to planning and zoning.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to set requirements for filing a supersedeas bond for appeals of Circuit Court decisions before the case is transferred to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. |
| Current Status: | 4/11/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/30/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee report (1) adopted in House 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee reports (1) and (2) filed in House and (1) filed in Senate 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/30/2017 - (H) Passed w/FCCR (51-39) 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee report adopted in House 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee report filed in House Agreed 3/30/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/30/2017 - (S) Passed w/FCCR (21-17) 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate w/FCCR 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee report filed in Senate Agreed 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee Appointed in House Rep. Miller J; Rep. Linder; Rep. Osborne; Rep. Overly 3/30/2017 - Missing Action! Cannot Agree 3/29/2017 - Conference Committee Appointed in House Rep. Miller J; Rep. Linder; Rep. Osborne; Rep. Overly 3/29/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/29/2017 - Conference Committee Appointed in Senate Sen. Stivers; Sen Thayer; Sen. McGarvey 3/29/2017 - Senate Refused to Recede from Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (1) 3/15/2017 - House Refused to Concur in Senate Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1) 3/15/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1) 3/14/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/14/2017 - (S) Passed w/SCS 1, SFA 1 (21-14) 3/14/2017 - Missing Action! of Third Reading Vote 3/14/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, defeated 18-16 with Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1); bill reconsidered; passed 21-14 with Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1) 3/14/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1, SFA 1 3/8/2017 - (S) Passed Over and retained in the Orders of the Day 3/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/7/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute 3/2/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - (S) FIRST READING w/SCS 1, to Regular Calendar 3/1/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/23/2017 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate State and Local Government 2/16/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary 2/15/2017 - received in Senate 2/14/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 63-32 with Committee Substitute and floor amendments (3) (4) and (1-title) 2/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 14, 2017 2/13/2017 - floor amendment (4) filed to Committee Substitute 2/9/2017 - floor amendment (2) filed, floor amendment (3) filed to Committee Substitute 2/9/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/8/2017 - floor amendment filed 2/8/2017 - floor amendment (1-title) filed 2/8/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/8/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/8/2017 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/7/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 11/10/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB75 | WORKERS COMPENSATION COVERAGE (DOSSETT, MYRON; AN ACT relating to exemptions from workers' compensation coverage.
Amend KRS 342.650, concerning exemptions from workers' compensation, to include lawn services as well as maintenance, repair, remodeling, or similar work for not more than 20 days on a private home or on the premises of a business that employs no other workers subject to workers' compensation laws. |
| Current Status: | 3/3/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Agriculture
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| All Bill Status: | 3/3/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/3/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/2/2017 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate Agriculture 3/2/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/2/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/21/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 2/17/2017 - received in Senate 2/16/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 88-8 with floor amendment (2) 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2 2/15/2017 - floor amendment (2) filed 2/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 2/14/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/13/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 14, 2017 2/10/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/9/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/9/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/9/2017 - House Small Business & Information Technology, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/8/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Small Business & Information Technology 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Small Business & Information Technology 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 11/17/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB76 | JOB APPLICANT CRIMINAL HISTORY (BROWN JR., GEORGE; Scott, Attica; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to criminal histories of job applicants.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; title the Act: "Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act." |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Small Business & Information Technology
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 11/17/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB77 | ENHANCED SECURE IDENTITY DOCUMENTS (DUPLESSIS, JIM; Dossett, Myron) AN ACT relating to enhanced secure identity documents and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend KRS 186.410 to specify that the Transportation Cabinet is the issuing agency for operator's licenses and personal identification cards; allow applications through alternative technology; establish a base renewal period of 8 years for operator's licenses and personal ID cards; require drivers under 18 who apply for an instruction permit to enroll in a driver education course. |
| Current Status: | 3/8/2017 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 11/21/2016 - Pre-Filed 11/21/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB78 | PATIENT NOTIFICATION OF MAMMOGRAM RESULTS (DUPLESSIS, JIM; Brown, Larry; Greer, Jeff; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to patient notification of mammogram results showing dense tissue.
Create a new section of KRS 214.550 to 214.556 to require the provider of mammography services to provide information to a patient on breast density when appropriate; permit the Department for Public Health to provide updates to the definition of "dense breast tissue" if appropriate. |
| Current Status: | 4/11/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/30/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/30/2017 - (H) Passed w/FCCR (88-2) 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee report adopted in House 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee report filed in House Agreed 3/30/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/30/2017 - (S) Passed w/FCCR (35-1) 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee report filed in Senate Agreed 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee Appointed in Senate Sen. Alvarado; Sen. Raque-Adams; Sen. Parrett 3/30/2017 - Free Conference Committee Appointed in House Rep. Duplessis; Rep. Benvenuti; Rep. St. Onge; Rep. Jenkins 3/30/2017 - Missing Action! Cannot Agree 3/30/2017 - (S) Conference Committee report filed in (H) and (S) Cannot Agree 3/30/2017 - Conference Committee Appointed in Senate Sen. Alvarado; Sen. Raque-Adams; Sen. Parrett 3/30/2017 - Senate Refused to Recede from committee amendment (1-title), Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (2) 3/30/2017 - received in Senate w/Letter 3/30/2017 - Conference Committee Appointed in House Rep. Duplessis; Rep. Benvenuti; Rep. St. Onge; Rep. Jenkins 3/30/2017 - House Refused to Concur in Senate Committee Substitute (1) committee amendment (1-title) floor amendment (2) 3/30/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/29/2017 - (S) THIRD READING; floor amendment (1) withdrawn; passed 37-1 with Committee Substitute, floor amendments (2) and committee amendment (1-title) 3/29/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3/15/2017 - floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute 3/14/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute 3/14/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/8/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar, w/SCS 1, SCA 1T 3/8/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/8/2017 - Senate Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 93-0 with Committee Substitute 2/27/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/24/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/23/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Consent Calendar 2/23/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/23/2017 - House Heath & Family Services, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Heath & Family Services 2/21/2017 - (H) reassigned to committee House Heath & Family Services 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 11/21/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB79 | MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT (BURCH, TOM; Harris, Chris; Palumbo, Ruth Ann) AN ACT relating to court-ordered outpatient mental health treatment and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend KRS 202A.081 to require that an attorney be present for a patient agreed order and allow a peer support specialist to be present; require the court to appoint an outpatient provider agency recognized by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to assemble a multi-disciplinary team to develop a treatment plan, monitor treatment adherence, and report to the court; require that crisis services are available 24/7; provide that failure to abide by the order may result in rehospitalization provided that the criteria are met, procedures are initiated via affidavit by the multi-disciplinary team, and mental health examinations take place at community mental health centers; permit additional orders with due process; require that patient agreed order services are covered by Medicaid; require that courts report such orders to the Kentucky Commission on Services and Supports for Individuals with Mental Illness, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Disorders, and Dual Diagnoses; and rename this commitment process a patient agreed order; amend KRS 202A.261 to exempt certain hospitals from being required to provide particular services; amend KRS 202A.271 to require certain hospitals to be paid for services performed under portions of this Act at the same rates the hospital negotiates for other services; create new sections of KRS Chapter 202A to create a process for District Courts to order assisted outpatient mental health treatment; provide for transportation processes for the purposes of a mental health examination; establish eligibility and court proceedings; require a mental health examination and the development of a treatment plan; establish the process for hearings; require the court to appoint an outpatient provider agency to monitor and report on the person under order; authorize 72-hour emergency admission for failure to comply with orders; provide for the right to stay, vacate, or modify orders; provide for a process to change a treatment plan; permit an additional period of treatment to be ordered provided certain criteria are met; require that assisted outpatient treatment services are covered by Medicaid; make the implementation of all newly created sections of KRS Chapter 202A contingent on funding; name these new sections of the bill "Tim's Law"; APPROPRIATION. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 11/23/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB84 | PATIENT QUALITY OF LIFE (MEEKS, REGINALD; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to patient quality of life.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; establish the Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and create provisions and requirements; establish the Palliative Care Consumer and Professional Information and Education Program within the cabinet and create provisions and requirements; require all health facilities to establish systems for identifying patients or residents who could benefit from palliative care and provide information by 2020 and allow the cabinet to require action plans and impose fines for those in violation. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Heath & Family Services
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/6/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB86 | EXPUNGEMENT (OWENS, DARRYL; Jenkins, Joni L.) AN ACT relating to expungement.
Amend KRS 431.073 to make additional offenses eligible for expungement; reduce filing fee for felony expungement from $500 to $200; amend KRS 431.076 to allow expungement of charges dismissed without prejudice; amend KRS 431.078 to require certain records to be expunged if the law specifies a period for enhancement and that period has expired; amend KRS 431.079 to limit requirement of certification to convictions which have not been pardoned. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/9/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB87 | PENSION SPIKING (RIGGS, STEVEN; AN ACT relating to pension spiking and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to provide that members of the Legislators' Retirement Plan who retire on or after January 1, 2018, shall be limited to a 10% growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last three years of service to the General Assembly if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2017, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements from the compensation growth limitation; define "bona fide promotion or salary advancements" as a professional advancement in substantially the same line of work held by the member in the 4 years immediately prior to the 3-year period or a change in employment position based upon training, education, or expertise; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall refund contributions and interest on contributions, for any reductions in creditable compensation; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 21 to provide that members of the Judicial Retirement Plan who retire on or after January 1, 2018, shall be limited to a 10% annual growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last 60 months of service if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2017, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements from the compensation growth limitation; define "bona fide promotion or salary advancements" as a professional advancement in substantially the same line of work held by the member in the 4 years immediately prior to the 60 month period or a change in employment position based upon training, education, or expertise; require the Judicial Form Retirement System to refund contributions and interest on contributions for any reductions in creditable compensation; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement; amend KRS 61.598 to provide that members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System who retire on or after January 1, 2018, shall be limited to a 10% growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last 5 years of employment if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2017, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements, alternative sick leave payments, lump-sum payments for compensatory time, increases due to the member being on unpaid leave for any reason in the preceding year, and overtime paid under a grant program or due to a state or federally declared emergency; provide that the Kentucky Retirement Systems shall refund employee contributions for any reductions in creditable compensation provided by this section; provide that the Kentucky Retirement Systems shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement and allow the member to appeal a decision of the system to the board; remove provisions charging employers for creditable compensation growth greater than 10% during the employee's last 5 years of employment; amend KRS 16.645 and 78.545 to conform; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/9/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB89 | CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS (OWENS, DARRYL; AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Amend KRS 186.990, 194A.990, 341.990, and 516.120 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for unlawful registration of a car to evade taxes, misrepresentation to receive public assistance or unemployment benefits, and unlawful use of slugs from $100 to $1,500; amend KRS 205.8461, 205.8463, 209.990, 238.995, 434.850, and 434.851 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for unlawful referral practices of a Medicaid provider, fraudulent Medicaid claims, wantonly or recklessly exploiting a vulnerable adult, charitable gaming fraud, unlawful diversion of charitable gaming funds, and unlawful access to computers in the second degree from $300 to $1,500; amend KRS 209.990 to raise the threshold level for a Class C felony for knowingly exploiting a vulnerable adult from $300 to $1500; amend 217.181 to raise the threshold levels for a Class C and D felony for theft of a legend drug; amend KRS 434.650, 434.655, 434.660, 434.670, 434.690, 514.030, 514.040, 514.050, 514.060, 514.070, 514.080, 514.090, 514.110, 514.120, and 517.060 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for various fraud and theft crimes from $500 to $1500; amend KRS 304.47-020 to raise the threshold level for a fraudulent insurance act from $500 to $1500; amend KRS 365.241 to raise the threshold level for a Class D felony for counterfeit intellectual property from $1,000 to $1,500. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/7/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB90 | NUCLEAR POWER (WATKINS, GERALD; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to nuclear power.
Amend KRS 278.600 to define "plan for storage of high-level nuclear waste," "storage," and "low-level nuclear waste"; amend KRS 278.610 to allow certification if the facility and its plans for waste storage are approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; eliminate requirement that facility have a plan for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; eliminate requirement that cost of waste disposal be known; eliminate requirement that facility have adequate capacity to contain waste; give the Public Service Commission authority to hire consultant to perform duties relating to nuclear facility certification; prohibit construction of low-level nuclear waste disposal sites in Kentucky. except as provided in KRS 211.852; repeal KRS 278.605, relating to construction of nuclear power facilities; direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to review regulations required for permitting nuclear facilities and report to LRC. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/8/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB96 | STATE HEALTH PLAN (FISCHER, JOSEPH M.; AN ACT relating to agency participation in the state health plan.
Amend KRS 78.530 to provide that fire districts that begin participating in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) on or after July 15, 2017, were established by a merger or an interlocal agreement to provide public services that was entered into on or after July 15, 2017, but not later than July 15, 2018, between two or more fire districts with not more than fifteen (15) employees each, shall be exempt from the requirement of signing a contract for employee health insurance with the Personnel Cabinet as a condition of participation in CERS. |
| Current Status: | 2/17/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/16/2017 - received in Senate 2/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 92-0 2/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/13/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2/10/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/9/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/9/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/9/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/8/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 1/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/8/2016 - Pre-Filed
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HB103 | EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES (MOFFETT, PHIL; Morgan, Wesley; Wells, William) AN ACT relating to educational opportunities and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to describe the intent of the General Assembly and the purposes of authorizing public charter schools; identify charter school authorizers; define terms; describe the characteristics and the requirements of a charter school; identify student enrollment practices; allow participation by charter school students in extracurricular activities; identify charter school employee rights and retirement information; identify the authorizer application process; identify the requirements and the components of a charter school application; describe charter school renewal and revocation processes; identify a process to convert an existing school to a charter school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to specify the charter school funding process; establish the public charter school facility revolving loan program and identify the use of the program; fund and identify uses of the fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to allow charter schools first right of refusal to purchase or lease closed or unused school facilities or school facilities for sale or lease; amend KRS 161.220 to include a teacher employed in a charter school in the state-sponsored retirement system; amend KRS 78.510 to include charter schools in the definition of "county" so as to include noncertified employees of public charter schools in the state-sponsored retirement system; amend KRS 156.108 to prohibit the approval of new districts of innovation; define opportunity schools and identify the Kentucky Board of Education's role in authorizing opportunity schools; amend KRS 160.107 to delete references to districts of innovation; identify the requirements for a school applying to become an opportunity school and delete all references to a district of innovation and replace with opportunity school; APPROPRIATION. |
| Current Status: | 1/6/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB105 | PROTECTION OF RIGHTS (NELSON, RICK; AN ACT relating to the protection of rights.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 446 to define "protected activities," "protected activity provider," "protected rights" " place of public accommodation, resort, or amusement, " and " standard goods or services" ; provide legislative intent; prohibit any statute, regulation, ordinance, order, judgment, of other law or action by any court, commission, or other public agency from impairing, impeding, infringing upon, or otherwise restricting the exercise of protected rights by any protected activity provider; prohibit a protected activity provider from being fined, imprisoned, held in contempt, or otherwise punished or found liable for actions or inactions related to providing or refusing to provide protected activities unless a court finds that the complaining person or the government proved by clear and convincing evidence that a compelling governmental interest in infringing upon the act or refusal to act existed and the least restrictive means was used. |
| Current Status: | 1/6/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB106 | PUBLIC ACCOMODATIONS (NELSON, RICK; AN ACT relating to public accommodations.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to require the executive branch of state government to designate every multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facility it controls to only be used by persons based on their biological sex; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to require cities, counties, urban-counties, consolidated local government, charter counties, and unified local governments to designate every multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facility it controls to only be used by persons based on their biological sex; create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to require the Court of Justice to designate every multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facility it controls to only be used by persons based on their biological sex; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require a local board of education to designate every multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facility it controls to only be used by persons based on their biological sex; amend KRS 7.100 to require that the Legislative Research Commission designate every multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facility it controls to only be used by persons based on their biological sex; amend KRS 164A.575 to require governing boards of an institution of higher education to designate every multiple occupancy bathroom or changing facility they control to only used by persons based on their biological sex. |
| Current Status: | 2/7/2017 - (H) reassigned to committee House Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/6/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB107 | SANITATION DISTRICTS (FISCHER, JOSEPH M.; Benvenuti, Robert; Santoro, Sal) AN ACT relating to sanitation districts.
Amend KRS 220.110 to limit a sanitation district's power to tax to the direct use of sanitary or storm sewers; prohibit the taxation of indirect or imputed benefits; amend KRS 220.135 to define "consumption" to include only the direct use of sanitary or storm sewers; amend KRS 220.250 to prohibit a district from adopting a financing plan that taxes indirect use of sanitary or storm sewers; amend KRS 220.510 to prohibit a district from collecting a tax on an indirect use or an imputed benefit. |
| Current Status: | 1/6/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB113 | OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE (RICHARDS, JODY; Riggs, Steven; Benvenuti, Robert; Hart, Mark; Pratt, Phillip; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons) AN ACT relating to occupational licensure for military service members and veterans.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to require administrative bodies to issue professional licenses or certificates to military service members or veterans within two years of an honorable discharge if the training received by the service member or veteran could reasonably be expected to provide the necessary experience and skills; grant the administrative body the right to deny licensure or certification if training is not equivalent; allow appeal rights; require administrative bodies to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the section; clarify that military training and experience cannot be substituted for the acquisition of a college degree or passage of a specific examination when either is a prerequisite for licensure or certification. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/14/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 3/14/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING to Rules 3/7/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/27/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations 2/24/2017 - received in Senate 2/23/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 99-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (1) 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/22/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/21/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute 2/21/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Regular Calendar 2/21/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/21/2017 - House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/17/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations 1/6/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB114 | SECRETARY OF STATE REGISTERED ENTITIES (RICHARDS, JODY; AN ACT relating to entities registered with the Secretary of State.
Amend KRS 14A.1-070 to define "veteran" and "veteran-owned business"; create a new section of Subchapter 2 of KRS Chapter 14A to exempt a veteran-owned business from paying filing fees to the Secretary of State's office for filing various business documents; amend KRS 14A.2-060 to exempt a veteran-owned business from paying the filing fee for annual reports and amended annual reports for four years after the initial registration of the business. |
| Current Status: | 3/3/2017 - (H) recommitted to committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 3/3/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/2/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/2/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/2/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/1/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/7/2017 - (H) reassigned to committee House State Government 1/6/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs & Public Protection 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB117 | UNEMPLOYMENT TAX CREDIT (RICHARDS, JODY; AN ACT relating to the unemployment tax credit.
Amend KRS 141.065 to allow an income tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, but before January 1, 2021, equal to $1,000 for employers who hire certain unemployed individuals, if the individual was employed in the coal industry immediately prior to becoming unemployed; limit the current unemployment tax credit to taxable years beginning before January 1, 2021; define the purpose of the tax credits and data required to determine if the tax credits achieve the purpose; require the Department of Revenue to provide information on these credits to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190, 131.135, 131.618, 131.650, 131.990, 141.389, and 131.020 to make various conforming changes. |
| Current Status: | 1/6/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB119 | SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (GOOCH JR., JIM; Castlen, Matt; Benvenuti, Robert; Hale, David; Riggs, Steven; Santoro, Sal) AN ACT relating to solid waste management.
Amend KRS 109.012 to define "franchise," "local government," and "service company" and include "solid waste management services" in the definition of "solid waste management"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 109 to prohibit a local government from displacing a current provider of solid waste management services without notification and public hearing; prescribe timetables for a local government to make a decision on an action to displace a current provider of solid waste management services; allow displacement if services pose a risk to health or safety of residents or a material breach of contract; amend KRS 224.43-315 to provide that an agreement with a county containing a non-designated city shall include both the county and city; amend KRS 224.43-345 to identify additional representatives for an advisory committee; amend KRS 224.50-760 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 3/20/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/8/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/8/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/7/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 22-16 3/7/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3/2/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/1/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - Senate Natural Resources and Energy, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Natural Resources and Energy 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 with Committee Substitute (1) 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Regular Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House Natural Resources & Energy, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Natural Resources & Energy 1/6/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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HB144 | MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATION (SANTORO, SAL; Hale, David) AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define "solid waste collection service vehicle"; require motor vehicle operators to yield the right-of-way to these vehicles and the collection service's employees; provide that the section may be cited as the Slow Down to Get Around Law. |
| Current Status: | 3/16/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/6/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/6/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/6/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/3/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 3/3/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017 3/2/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/1/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - Senate Transportation, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/21/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Transportation 2/17/2017 - received in Senate 2/16/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2017 2/15/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/14/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/14/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/14/2017 - House Transportation, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/13/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Transportation 2/7/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation 1/5/2017 - Introduced
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HB145 | DRUG EDUCATION (TIPTON, JAMES; Bentley, Danny; Benvenuti, Robert; Hart, Mark; Meeks, Reginald; Morgan, Wesley; Rothenburger, Rob; Simpson, Arnold; Webber, Russell) AN ACT relating to drug education.
Amend KRS 156.160 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to require physical and health education instruction in prescription opioid abuse prevention and the connection between abuse and addition to other drugs; require the Office of Drug Control Policy to develop recommendations for the instruction in prescription opioid abuse prevention to be published on the Web site of the Department of Education. |
| Current Status: | 3/15/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/14/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/9/2017 - Senate Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/23/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 2/22/2017 - received in Senate 2/21/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 97-0 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2/15/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/14/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/14/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/14/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/13/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/7/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 1/5/2017 - Introduced
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HB150 | JEFFERSON COUNTY RESOURCE ALLOCATION (RIGGS, STEVEN; AN ACT relating to meetings concerning the allocation of resources to Jefferson County.
Amend KRS 18A.115 to require cabinet secretaries or deputy secretaries and the commissioner of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to meet regularly with certain Jefferson County officials to discuss the state services regulated by those officials that are provided or not provided to Jefferson County; require reimbursement according to state travel guidelines. |
| Current Status: | 2/7/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/6/2017 - Introduced
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HB162 | EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES (CARNEY, JOHN BAM; Benvenuti, Robert; Hart, Mark; Horlander, Dennis; Koenig, Adam; McCoy, Chad; Meyer, Russ A.; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Pratt, Phillip; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons; Reed, Brandon; Rothenburger, Rob; Santoro, Sal; Sims Jr., John; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to opportunities in education.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a separate income tax credit for tuition assistance based on contributions made to a qualified scholarship-granting organization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide goals and reporting of metrics related to those goals; amend KRS 141.0205 to establish the order in which the credits may be taken; create a new section of KRS 136.500 to 136.575 to allow financial institutions to take the tax credit against the tax imposed by KRS 136.505; create a new section of KRS 136.500 to 136.575 to order all tax credits; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to publish a list of certified nonpublic schools and nonpublic schools seeking certification; require the Department of Revenue to report information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 131.190, 131.135, 131.618, 131.650, 131.990, 141.389, and 131.020 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/17/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 1/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB165 | KENTUCKY COAL TAX INCENTIVES (DUPLESSIS, JIM; AN ACT relating to tax incentives to promote the increased use of Kentucky coal.
Amend KRS 141.0405 to once again permit the coal incentive tax credit, which was previously allowed and which sunsetted for most types of facilities in tax year 2009; amend provisions to provide an incentive to taxpayers purchasing coal, that is subject to Kentucky severance and processing tax, for use in the generation of electricity or for certain industrial processes; provide for the sunset of the credit; make technical corrections; repeal KRS 141.0406, relating to claims for the coal incentive tax credit. |
| Current Status: | 2/7/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB167 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (MILLER, JERRY T.; AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Amend KRS 16.642 to clarify that the board of trustees shall have the power to invest State Police Retirement System (SPRS) funds in the same fashion as Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) funds under KRS 61.650; amend KRS 61.645 to allow the Kentucky Retirement Systems board to promulgate an administrative regulation to conduct trustee elections by electronic ballot; amend KRS 78.790 to clarify that the board of trustees shall have the power to invest County Employees Retirement System (CERS) funds in the same fashion as KERS funds under KRS 61.650; state that amendments to KRS 16.642 and 78.790 are made to conform to amendments made to KRS 61.650 in 2002 to show intent to apply KRS 61.650 changes to SPRS and CERS. |
| Current Status: | 3/8/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed
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| All Bill Status: | 3/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 3/6/2017 - received in Senate 3/6/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 91-0 with Committee Substitute 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 6, 2017 3/3/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/2/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Consent Calendar 3/2/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/2/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/1/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/7/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 1/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB168 | TVA IN-LIEU-OF-TAX PAYMENTS (ROWLAND, BART; Castlen, Matt; DeCesare, Jim; Dossett, Myron; Heath, Richard; Imes, Kenny; Meredith, Michael; Miles, Suzanne; Petrie, Jason; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons; Richards, Jody; Riley, Steve; Stone, Wilson; Thomas, Walker) AN ACT relating to TVA in-lieu-of-tax payments and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend KRS 96.895 to require that a portion of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in-lieu-of-tax revenue deposited in the general fund be distributed to agencies designated by counties that have TVA property located in that county or purchase power from TVA, increasing from 0% currently to 50% or a maximum of $6,000,000. |
| Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - House Appropriations & Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 1/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB172 | MEDICAL IMAGING AND RADIATION THERAPY BOARD (GREER, JEFF; AN ACT relating to the Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 311B.100 to require individuals licensed or certified in the field prior to the creation of the Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to be licensed by the board if they have graduated from a postsecondary institution, passed a national examination, been licensed in this or another state, and have maintained continuing education requirements; allow the board to deny licensure for cause; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 2/23/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
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| All Bill Status: | 2/22/2017 - received in Senate 2/21/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 98-0 with Committee Substitute 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2/16/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/15/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Consent Calendar 2/15/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/15/2017 - House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/10/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations 2/7/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations 1/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB173 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (MILLER, JERRY T.; AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Amend KRS 16.505 to require that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments provided to members of the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member as it relates to "creditable compensation"; require that for members entering SPRS on or after September 1, 2008, compensatory time payments excluded from "creditable compensation" apply to lump-sum compensatory time payments; amend the definition of "final compensation" to utilize partial fiscal years in determining the final compensation of a member who began participating in SPRS on or after September 1, 2008, but prior to January 1, 2014, in situations where the member does not have three complete fiscal years of service; make technical amendments; amend KRS 16.582 to remove language which prohibits an injury or disease resulting from military service from being considered a disabling condition for hazardous members of Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 61.510 and 78.510 to utilize partial fiscal years in determining the final compensation of a member who began participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) and the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) on or after September 1, 2008, but prior to January 1, 2014, in situations where the member does not have the required three (hazardous) or five (nonhazardous) complete fiscal years of service; require that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member as it relates to "creditable compensation"; provide that interim positions in KERS and probationary positions in CERS shall not be renewable by the employer for the same employee unless the employee has not been employed by the agency for 12 months; require that for members entering KERS or CERS on or after September 1, 2008, compensatory time payments excluded from "creditable compensation" shall apply to lump-sum compensatory time payments; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.542 to remove the requirement that the estate be designated as beneficiary of a member's account when he or she requests a refund of contributions prior to retirement; provide that the member's estate shall be beneficiary of his or her account from Kentucky Retirement Systems if prior to retirement the member fails to designate a beneficiary or the beneficiary designation is found to be void; provide that a beneficiary may not be changed on or after the first day of the month in which a retired employee begins receiving retirement benefits; provide that reemployed retirees who establish a second retirement account will have their estate named beneficiary if they fail to designate a beneficiary for their new account; amend KRS 61.545 to remove provisions allowing a member who is simultaneously eligible for participation in more than one retirement system administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems to select participation in only one system; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.552 to conform to federal law the payment options available to members for purchasing service credit; remove service purchase provisions no longer applicable to current members; require agencies that fail to report employees to the retirement system to pay penalties and interest on employer contributions from the date the contributions should have been reported to the system; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.555 to provide that the service credit that is granted without cost to employees who are called to active duty military deployment shall be limited to those whose rights to such benefits have not been terminated under the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA); require employees participating in the hybrid cash balance plan on or after January 1, 2014, who are called to active duty military deployment to pay their employee contributions if they are granted service credit, as required by USERRA, for the period of active duty deployment; require employers to make contributions for service credited to employees who are called to active duty military deployment as required by USERRA; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.557 to make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.560 to prevent retirees reemployed on or after September 1, 2008, from paying into the systems; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.590 to make technical changes; require a retiring employee to separate employment with all participating system employers; amend KRS 61.680 to provide for consolidation of accounts with other state-administered retirement systems only if the member retires simultaneously from all state-administered retirement systems or retires from the other state-administered retirement systems within one month of retiring from the systems administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems; make technical amendments; amend KRS 16.520, 61.525, 61.526, 61.5525, 61.592, 61.702, 78.540, 78.610, and 78.615 to make technical and conforming amendments. |
| Current Status: | 3/20/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/8/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/8/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/7/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 3/7/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3/2/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/1/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/23/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/22/2017 - received in Senate 2/21/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 94-3 with Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1) 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1 2/17/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1 2/16/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/13/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2017 2/10/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/9/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/9/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/9/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/8/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/8/2017 - (H) reassigned to committee House State Government 2/7/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 1/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB177 | IDLING MOTOR VEHICLES (DECESARE, JIM; AN ACT relating to idling motor vehicles.
Amend KRS 189.430 to allow motor vehicle engine idling for no longer than 15 minutes; require that the vehicle doors be locked while it is idling. |
| Current Status: | 2/21/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Transportation
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| All Bill Status: | 2/17/2017 - received in Senate 2/16/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 76-20 with floor amendment (1) 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 2/15/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2017 2/15/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/14/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/14/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/14/2017 - House Transportation, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/13/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Transportation 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB178 | WAGES (OVERLY, SANNIE; Keene, Dennis; Adkins, Rocky; Burch, Tom; Coursey, Will; Donohue, Jeffery; Gentry, Alan; Marzian, Mary Lou; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Schamore, Dean; Scott, Attica; Stone, Wilson; Wayne, Jim) AN ACT relating to wages.
Amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.80 per hour beginning on August 1, 2017, to $10.35 per hour beginning on August 1, 2018, to $11.90 per hour beginning on August 1, 2019, to $13.45 per hour beginning on August 1, 2020, and to $15.00 per hour beginning on August 1, 2021; amend KRS 337.010, relating to the definition of employees of retail stores and service industries, to increase the applicable threshold of business that applies to from $95,000 to $500,000. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB179 | WAGES (OVERLY, SANNIE; Flood, Kelly; Adkins, Rocky; Burch, Tom; Coursey, Will; Donohue, Jeffery; Gentry, Alan; Keene, Dennis; Marzian, Mary Lou; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Schamore, Dean; Scott, Attica; Sims Jr., John; Stone, Wilson; Wayne, Jim; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to wages.
Amend KRS 337.420 to define "equivalent jobs" as those that are equal under the federal Equal Pay Act, or jobs that are dissimilar but equivalent in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; amend KRS 337.423 to prohibit wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race, or national origin by prohibiting wage differentials for employees who perform equivalent jobs; provide exceptions for wage differentials based on seniority or merit systems, systems that measure wages by quantity or quality of production, and factors other than sex, race, or national origin; amend KRS 337.425 to require the promulgation of administrative regulations to specify criteria for determining jobs that are dominated by employees of a particular sex, race, or national origin, and acceptable methodology for determining equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; require that the promulgation occur on or before July 1, 2018; EFFECTIVE IN PART July 1, 2019. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB181 | MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC AUTHORITIES (GOOCH JR., JIM; Johnson, Dan) AN ACT relating to municipal electric authorities.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 96 to permit municipal utilities to join together to buy and sell electricity and natural gas; specify elements of an agreement to create a municipal electric authority; determine what powers an authority will have, including the power to undertake projects, bonding, and other borrowing power; specify limits to financial transactions; amend KRS 45A.365 and 424.260 to conform; cite as Municipal Electric Authority Act. |
| Current Status: | 2/23/2017 - House Natural Resources & Energy, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Natural Resources & Energy 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB182 | RURAL KENTUCKY BUSINESS TAX CREDIT (HARRIS, CHRIS; Blanton, John) AN ACT relating to the establishment of a tax credit to promote investments in rural Kentucky businesses and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 136 to establish a new tax credit against the taxes imposed on insurance companies and financial institutions, for contributions made by them into rural growth funds which make investments in certain businesses principally operating in certain areas of the state; declare findings and the purpose of the credit; define terms; require an entity to follow a process to apply for certification as a rural growth fund, and for investors in that entity to receive tax credits awarded by the Department of Revenue; allow the department to issue $60,000,000 in tax credits; provide credit sunset terms and other conditions for participating in the program and for claiming the credit; provide for revocation of tax credits; allow the department to audit rural growth funds; limit any liability of the Commonwealth in regard to rural growth funds or investments made by them; require various reports to be filed with the department and the Legislative Research Commission to enable evaluations of the credit program; provide for the ordering of the credit; declare short title to be the Kentucky Rural Jobs Tax Credit Act of 2017; APPROPRIATION. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB186 | KENTUCKY TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM (NELSON, RICK; Carney, John Bam) AN ACT relating to survivor benefits in the Kentucky Teachers Retirement system.
Amend KRS 161.520 to remove marriage as a disqualifying event for a widow or widower who is receiving survivor's benefits from the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System. |
| Current Status: | 3/30/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/1/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/28/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/24/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/23/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/23/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/23/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB189 | AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (DECESARE, JIM; Westrom, Susan; Santoro, Sal; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to area development districts.
Amend KRS 147A.070 to require area development districts to use specific hiring practices and comply with state accountability and transparency standard measures; require a report to LRC from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and Education and Workforce Development Cabinet on allocations of funds provided to the area development districts and require area development districts to report on the use of state and federal funds; create a new section of KRS Chapter 147A to specify the requirements for audits of area development districts; make the section specifying requirements for audits; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2018. |
| Current Status: | 3/20/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/8/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/8/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/6/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 3/6/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 6, 2017 3/2/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/1/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 99-0 with Committee Substitute 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Consent Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB191 | INSURANCE (ROWLAND, BART; Greer, Jeff; Riggs, Steven) AN ACT relating to insurance.
Amend KRS 329A.070 to exempt certain individuals employed by an insurance company from the Kentucky Private Investigators Licensing Act; amend KRS 304.9-430 to exempt individuals employed by an insurance company to investigate fraudulent claims from licensure requirements of a staff adjuster, and delete an expired subsection; amend KRS 304.20-020 to provide that any insured named in the policy, rather than the named insured, may reject uninsured motor vehicle coverage and provide that if a named insured rejected coverage, in addition to coverage provided in or supplemental to renewal, the insurer is not required to provide coverage supplemental to a reinstatement, substitute, replacement, or amended policy issued to the same named insured by the same insurer or its affiliates; amend KRS 304.39-230 to specify the method for determining the date for when the last reparation payment is made; amend KRS 304.9-295 and 304.9-436 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 3/20/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/8/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/8/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/6/2017 - floor amendments (1) and (2) filed 3/6/2017 - (S) THIRD READING Passed (29-7) 3/6/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/3/2017 - (S) Passed Over and retained in the Orders of the Day 3/3/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017 3/1/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/28/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/28/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/28/2017 - House Banking & Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/21/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Banking and Insurance 2/17/2017 - received in Senate 2/16/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 94-0 with floor amendment (1) 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/14/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/13/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2017 2/13/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/10/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/10/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/10/2017 - House Banking & Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/9/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Banking & Insurance 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB192 | FOSTER YOUTH OPERATORS LICENSE (BROWN JR., GEORGE; Westrom, Susan; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to foster youth operator’s license.
Amend KRS 186.450 and 186.470 to allow a minor who is in the custody of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to sign an application for an operator's license; allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to request that a minor's license be canceled; amend KRS 186.590, relating to liability for negligence of the minor while driving a motor vehicle, to conform; amend KRS 605.102 to require the prudent parent standard be used to determine if a child is developmentally appropriate to apply for an operator's license, motorcycle operator's license, intermediate license, or any instruction permit. |
| Current Status: | 3/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/2/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/2/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/1/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 2/28/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 2/28/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 28, 2017 2/23/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/22/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/22/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/22/2017 - Senate Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/21/2017 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate Health and Welfare 2/17/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee Senate Transportation 2/16/2017 - received in Senate 2/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 2/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/13/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2/10/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/9/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/9/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/9/2017 - House Heath & Family Services, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/8/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Heath & Family Services 2/8/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Heath & Family Services 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB195 | ADULT EDUCATION (TIPTON, JAMES; Hart, Mark; Stone, Wilson) AN ACT relating to adult education.
Amend KRS 164.0064 to allow the Kentucky Adult Education Program to establish programs aligned with the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education, which upon successful completion will result in the issuance of a High School Equivalency Diploma; require at least one program to include a test aligned with the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education, to serve as a qualifying test, which upon passing will entitle students to receive a High School Equivalency Diploma; delete external diploma program; grandfather in previously recognized high school equivalency diplomas; forbid invalidation of issued High School Equivalency Diplomas due to changes in test selection; amend KRS 164.0062, 15.382, 15.3971, 15.540, 18A.201, 18A.204, 61.906, 95.951, 141.0205, 151B.131, 158.145, 158.146, 158.6455, 158.842, 159.010, 160.180, 161.011, 161.044, 164.0232, 164.0234, 164.7874, 164.7879, 194A.717, 197.045, 198B.712, 205.704, 237.120, 316.030, 317.450, 317A.050, 317B.025, 326.040, 342.730, 342.732, and 533.200 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/8/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 3/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/3/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/2/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/2/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/2/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/21/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 2/17/2017 - received in Senate 2/16/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2017 2/15/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/14/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/14/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/14/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/13/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB196 | CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (OVERLY, SANNIE; Adkins, Rocky; Burch, Tom; Coursey, Will; Donohue, Jeffery; Gentry, Alan; Keene, Dennis; Marzian, Mary Lou; Schamore, Dean; Scott, Attica; Sims Jr., John; Stone, Wilson; Wayne, Jim; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to misclassification of employees in the construction industry.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to set forth legislative findings and declarations behind employee misclassification problems; provide definitions; set forth determination of misclassified workers; set forth investigation process and violations; establish court remedies; require notice by an employer; grant commissioner authority to promulgate administrative regulations; require agencies to share the information of a misclassifying employer to other interested state agencies; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.485 to prohibit contractors with multiple violations from contracting with the state for two years; amend KRS 131.190 to require the Department of Revenue to provide copies to three other state agencies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the Office of Employment and Training to provide copies of orders to three other state agencies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to require the commissioner to provide copies to three other state agencies. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB197 | MILITARY EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC CREDIT (OVERLY, SANNIE; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to academic credit for military experience.
Amend KRS 164.2951 to require the Council on Postsecondary Education to develop and implement a statewide policy for public postsecondary education institutions to provide academic credit for military service and training for active duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces, Reserves, and National Guard as well as veterans of the Armed Forces. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB201 | LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (CANTRELL, MCKENZIE; Burch, Tom; Donohue, Jeffery; Flood, Kelly; Jenkins, Joni L.; Marzian, Mary Lou; Overly, Sannie; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Scott, Attica; Wayne, Jim; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to local governments.
Amend Section 13 of 2017 RS HB 3/GA to set forth that a city, county, urban-county government, consolidated local government, charter county, or unified local government has the authority to adopt and enforce an ordinance which sets forth a minimum wage in excess of the state minimum wage; amend KRS 337.275 to require employers to pay the minimum wage set by the state or, if the local government in which the employer is located raises the minimum wage, then pay that minimum wage to her or her employees. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB203 | TAX CREDITS (FLEMING, KEN; AN ACT relating to tax credits.
Amend KRS 154.20-236 to eliminate the angel investor tax credit limitation of $3 million for all qualified investors in a calendar year beginning in 2017. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB204 | DOCTORAL PROGRAMS (CARNEY, JOHN BAM; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to advanced practice doctoral programs at comprehensive universities.
Amend KRS 164.295 to remove the maximum number of advanced practice doctoral programs that may be offered by the six comprehensive universities; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to review advanced practice doctorates consistent with its review schedule for all other academic programs; prohibit a comprehensive university from offering a terminal degree in veterinary medicine, chiropractic, or optometry or a primary degree in architecture. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB205 | SKILLED WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT (CARNEY, JOHN BAM; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to the development of a skilled workforce, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship program to help students who have not earned a postsecondary degree attain an industry-recognized degree, certificate, or credential; define terms for the program including eligible program of study and participating institution; designate the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program and require the agency to promulgate regulations for the administration of the program; define student eligibility for the program; prescribe the scholarship amount calculation and maximum scholarship amount; require the authority to provide an annual report to the secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; establish the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarhsip Program fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB206 | DUAL CREDIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (CARNEY, JOHN BAM; AN ACT relating to the dual credit scholarship program and making and appropriation therefor and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish the Dual Credit Scholarship Program; define terms for the program, including "eligible high school student" and "participating institution"; designate the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program and require the agency to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration of the program; define student eligibility for the program; prescribe the scholarship amount calculation and maximum scholarship amount; require the authority to provide an annual report on the program; establish the Dual Credit Scholarship Program trust fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 4/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/30/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/30/2017 - (H) Passed 88-0 3/30/2017 - House Concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and committee amendment (1-title) 3/30/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 3/30/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in Senate committee amendments (1-title) and Committee Substitute 3/30/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/30/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title) 3/30/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1, SCA 1T 3/29/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 30, 2017 3/29/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules, w/SCS 1, SCA 1T 3/29/2017 - Senate Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/15/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Education 3/15/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/15/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/15/2017 - Senate Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/14/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 3/14/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 3/14/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/14/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/8/2017 - received in Senate 3/8/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/6/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/3/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/3/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB207 | INSURANCE (MCCOY, CHAD; AN ACT relating to insurance.
Create a new section of Subtitle 45 of KRS Chapter 304 to require independent directors of a risk retention group and an attorney-in-fact for a reciprocal insurer to adhere to the same standards; establish a one year waiting period to qualify as independent; establish standards for and approval by the commissioner of material service provider contracts; require adoption of written policy for board of director responsibilities in the plan of operation; require and establish standards for an audit committee; allow for a waiver by the commissioner of certain audit committee requirements; establish and require disclosure of governance standards; require reporting to the commisioner of material noncompliance with the provisions of the section for risk retention groups; amend KRS 304.45-020 to define "board of directors," "director," "material relationship," and "material service provider contract"; amend KRS 304.45-030 to require notice to the commissioner of any other subsequent material changes to a risk retention group's plan of operation or feasibility study and make technical corrections; amend KRS 304.45-040 and 304.45-060 to conform; repeal and reenact KRS 304.45-050 to adopt alternative model language from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2018. |
| Current Status: | 3/16/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/6/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/6/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/6/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/3/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 3/3/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017 3/1/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/28/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/28/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/28/2017 - House Banking & Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/21/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Banking and Insurance 2/17/2017 - received in Senate 2/16/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 95-1 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/13/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2017 2/13/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/10/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/10/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/10/2017 - House Banking & Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/9/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Banking & Insurance 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB211 | EMPLOYMENT (HEATH, RICHARD; AN ACT relating to employment.
Amend KRS 337.010 to remove exemptions in definition of employee for agricultural workers and domestic service workers; amend KRS 342.630 to indicate that agricultural employers are subject to KRS Chapter 342; amend KRS 342.650 to remove exemptions for domestic service employees and agricultural employees from coverage under KRS Chapter 342; amend other statutes to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB216 | TUITION PROGRAM TAX DEDUCTION (ROWLAND, BART; Miles, Suzanne) AN ACT relating to an income tax deduction for qualified tuition programs.
Amend KRS 141.010 to allow contributions to a qualified tuition program (a "529 Plan") of up to $4,000 to be excluded from adjusted gross income. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB228 | AGRICULTURE BUILDINGS (DECESARE, JIM; AN ACT relating to agriculture buildings and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 227.300 to prohibit the commissioner of Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction from requiring exempt buildings used for agritourism and previously used for agricultural purposes to install fire protection sprinkler system, create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to prohibit any local government or special purpose governmental entity from modifying the state building code to require fire protection sprinkler systems in buildings used for agritourism activities and previously used for agricultural purposes; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 2/24/2017 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| All Bill Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs & Public Protection 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB229 | SCHOOL CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS (MORGAN, WESLEY; AN ACT relating to school curriculum requirements.
Create a new section KRS Chapter 158 to require the memorization of multiplication tables in the third grade, a Kentucky history course in the sixth grade, and a United States history course in the seventh and eighth grades. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB231 | CAREER READINESS (RILEY, STEVE; Rowland, Bart) AN ACT relating to career readiness.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to identify a student who obtains a sufficient score on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery and signs enlistment papers for any branch of service as career-ready. |
| Current Status: | 2/23/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| All Bill Status: | 2/22/2017 - received in Senate 2/21/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 93-0 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2/15/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/14/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/14/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/14/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/13/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB233 | PUBLIC EMPLOYEE HEALTH INSURANCE (WELLS, WILLIAM; AN ACT relating to public employee health insurance.
Amend KRS 18A.2254 to remove the requirement that the Personnel Cabinet submit the administrative regulation for the state employee self-insurance plan to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services prior to filing with the Legislative Research Commission; add the option of a Health Savings Account to the Public Employee Health Insurance Program; require the administrative fees associated with the employee's health savings account be an authorized expense charged to the public employee health insurance trust fund. |
| Current Status: | 3/30/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/1/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/28/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB234 | COAL MINING (GOOCH JR., JIM; Blanton, John; Miles, Suzanne; Mills, Robby; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons) AN ACT relating to coal mining.
Amend KRS 350.055 to change the reference in the public notice of intention to mine coal from "mining site" to "permitted area"; amend KRS 350.060 to remove the requirement that all areas overlying underground workings of coal mines be permitted. |
| Current Status: | 3/27/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 36-2 3/15/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/8/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules 3/8/2017 - Senate Natural Resources and Energy, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/7/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Natural Resources and Energy 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/7/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Natural Resources and Energy 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Natural Resources and Energy 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 87-0 with floor amendment (1) 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/17/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House Natural Resources & Energy, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Natural Resources & Energy 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB238 | PROPRIETARY EDUCATION (PRATT, PHILLIP; Hart, Mark; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to proprietary education and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 165A.350 to allow the Kentucky Commission on Proprietary Education to condition proprietary school agent surety bonds to recover administrative costs, acquire and maintain student records, and indemnify students and their parents or guardians; permit indemnification when a student is unable to complete courses because the proprietary school ceased operations; amend KRS 165A.360 to authorize the commission to condition proprietary school surety bonds to recover administrative costs and acquire and maintain student records; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 3/27/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 3/15/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/14/2017 - (S) SECOND READING to Rules 3/14/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/9/2017 - Senate Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/8/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Education 3/8/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/8/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 3/6/2017 - received in Senate 3/3/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/2/2017 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 3/2/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 3/1/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday March 2, 2017 3/1/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/28/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/28/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/28/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/27/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB240 | PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION (GENTRY, ALAN; Cantrell, McKenzie) AN ACT relating to public construction.
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 343 to require contractors and subcontractors for public works estimated to cost over $1,000,000 to participate in applicable apprenticeship programs; prohibit members of public authorities from voting for the award of a public work contract estimated to cost over $1,000,000 unless the contractor participates in the applicable apprenticeship programs; amend KRS 343.010 to define "public authority" and "public works." |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB245 | STATE TAX ADMINISTRATION (MILLER, JERRY T.; AN ACT relating to state tax administration.
Amend KRS 131.130 to permit the commissioner to respond to the public's and taxpayers' questions and publish those responses; allow the department to include examples as part of any response or publication. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/8/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 3/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING to Rules 3/7/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/7/2017 - Senate Appropriations and Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/27/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 2/24/2017 - received in Senate 2/23/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 99-0 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/22/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/21/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/21/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/21/2017 - House Appropriations & Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/16/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB246 | SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (MILLER, JERRY T.; Riggs, Steven; Bratcher, Kevin D.; Fleming, Ken; Moffett, Phil) AN ACT relating to solid waste management and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 109.041 to prohibit a county or waste management district from prohibiting or restricting materials recovery by a city in a county containing a consolidated local government; prohibit the consolidated local government or waste management district from hindering, delaying, impairing, prohibiting, or impeding a city or its contractors from utilizing a solid waste management facility; prohibit a county or waste management district from levying a fee that is based on the composition of the solid waste stream of the city if the waste stream is in conformity with state and federal law for the use of the solid waste management facility receiving the waste; amend KRS 109.115 to provide for the mayoral appointment of a seven-member board of directors of a waste management district for a county containing a consolidated local government and to restrict current appointment language to other counties; establish a two-year term for directors and require appointment of new board; amend KRS 109.120 to require that waste management district rules and regulations in counties containing a consolidated local government be approved by the appropriate legislative body; provide that rules and regulations of a district that were adopted prior to the effective date of this Act shall sunset on August 31, 2017, unless reauthorize by the new board; require that districts make notices, meeting agenda's and minutes available on a Web site operated by the consolidated local government; declare offices of board in county containing a consolidated local government vacant; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - (H) Passed 60-30 3/15/2017 - House Concurred in Senate floor amendment (1) 3/15/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in Senate floor amendment (1) 3/15/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/15/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 23-15 with floor amendment (1) 3/15/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SFA 1 3/14/2017 - (S) Passed Over and retained in the Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3/8/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 3/8/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules 3/8/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/7/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/7/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 66-29 with Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (2) 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1 2/21/2017 - floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute 2/16/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/16/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/15/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Regular Calendar 2/15/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/15/2017 - House Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB247 | SCHOOL PROPERTY TOBACCO USE (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; Wuchner, Addia; Richards, Jody; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to the prohibition of tobacco use on school property.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit use of tobacco products by students, school personnel, and visitors in schools, school vehicles, properties, and activities; require policies to be in place by the 2018-2019 school year; require smoke-free policies and signage be adopted; provide that existing bans are not impacted; repeal 438.050. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB248 | PHYSICIAN PRECEPTOR TAX INCENTIVE PROGRAM (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to the physician preceptor tax incentive program.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an individual income tax credit for Kentucky-licensed physicians who as voluntary preceptors administer at least three core clinical rotations for certain medical students; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting of statistics; amend sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to make conforming changes. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB250 | 2016-2018 EXECUTIVE BRANCH BUDGET AMENDMENT (FLOOD, KELLY; Overly, Sannie) AN ACT amending the 2016-2018 executive branch biennial budget and making an appropriation therefor and declaring an emergency.
Amend 2016-2018 executive branch biennial budget to include language provisions relating to the Preschool Education Program, the Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening Program, and the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB255 | NONPROFIT ENTITIES (STONE, WILSON; DeCesare, Jim; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to wages and hours in nonprofit entities.
Amend 337.010(2)(a)10. to clarify the exemption for an organized nonprofit camp, religious, or nonprofit educational conference center that it must not be in operation for more than 210 days instead of 7 months in a calendar year. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/8/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 3/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/6/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/6/2017 - Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 99-0 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House Economic Development & Workforce Investment, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/15/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HB257 | KENTUCKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP (DECESARE, JIM; AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Economic Development Partnership and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 154.10-050 to allow the Kentucky Economic Development Partnership to set the salaries of executive officers; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 4/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/30/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/30/2017 - (H) Passed 65-28 3/30/2017 - House Concurred in Senate floor amendment (1) 3/30/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in Senate floor amendment (1) 3/30/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/29/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-0 with floor amendment (1) 3/29/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 27, 2017 3/14/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 3/1/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/28/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/28/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/28/2017 - Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 59-33 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House Economic Development & Workforce Investment, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/15/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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HB259 | PLANNING AND ZONING (MCCOY, CHAD; AN ACT relating to planning and zoning.
Amend KRS 100.111 to declare the production of Kentucky Proud hand-crafted functional or decorative products on agricultural lands of 5 or more acres as agricultural uses. |
| Current Status: | 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Agriculture
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| All Bill Status: | 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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HB260 | CIVIL RIGHTS (NEMES, JASON; Cantrell, McKenzie; Hatton, Angie; Meyer, Russ A.; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons; Richards, Jody; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to civil rights.
Amend KRS 344.030 to include within the definition of reasonable accommodations, accommodations made for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; amend KRS 344.040 to make an unlawful practice for employers who fail to accommodate an employee affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition; require employers to provide notice to all employees regarding discrimination for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. |
| Current Status: | 2/23/2017 - House Economic Development & Workforce Investment, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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HB263 | TAXATION (WAYNE, JIM; Burch, Tom; Cantrell, McKenzie; Donohue, Jeffery; Flood, Kelly; Graham, Derrick; Jenkins, Joni L.; Marzian, Mary Lou; Meeks, Reginald; Owens, Darryl; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Scott, Attica) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 140.130 to decouple from changes to the federal estate tax since 2003; amend KRS 141.010 to provide for a reduction and phase-out of the pension exclusion, disallow the domestic production activities deduction, establish a cap for itemized deductions, and define "taxpayer"; amend KRS 141.020 to provide for changes to income tax rates; amend KRS 141.066 to provide for a refundable earned income credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to recognize changes in income tax credits; amend KRS 141.0401 to lower the exclusion threshold; amend KRS 141.120 to change apportionment methods to use a "throwback" rule and market-based sourcing for receipts; amend KRS 141.200 to require "combined" reporting for corporations; amend KRS 134.810, 136.310, 136.530, 141.040, 141.121, 141.206, and 141.420 to conform; amend KRS 141.205 to recognize "tax haven" foreign countries and tax all income apportioned or allocated to those countries; amend KRS 141.383, 148.544, and 148.546 to make the film industry tax credit nonrefundable and nontransferable; create a new section of KRS 6.905 to 6.935 to require review and sunset of all economic development tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to allow LRC employees to review selected tax documents; amend KRS 138.270 to reduce motor fuels dealer compensation to one percent; amend KRS 132.020 to make the real property tax rate 12.2 cents per $100, remove the rate adjustment provision, and remove the recall provisions; amend KRS 132.260 to clarify requirements for reporting of rental space for mobile or manufactured homes, private aircraft, and certain boats or vessels; amend KRS 132.730, 132.751, 132.810, and 132.815 to clarify property tax treatment of manufactured homes; amend KRS 140.300 to clarify the treatment of agricultural valuation on inherited property; amend KRS 279.200, 279.530, 279.220, and 139.530 to repeal rural electric and telephone co-op taxes; amend KRS 132.097 and 132.099 to amend the exemption for personal property shipped out of state; amend KRS 139.105, 139.200, 139.220, 139.270, 139.340 and 139.740 to impose sales tax on selected services; amend KRS 243.0305 and 243.990 to recognize changes in the distilled spirits case tax; amend KRS 138.130, 138.140, and 138.143 to change the tax on cigarette rolling papers, to raise the tobacco taxes, to impose a floor stock tax, and to tax e-cigarettes; amend KRS 65.125, 65.674, 67.862, 67.938, 67A.843, 68.245, 68.248, 82.095, 97.590, 132.0225, 132.023, 132.024, 132.027, 132.029, 157.440, 160.470, 160.473, 67C.147, 78.530, 342.340, and 134.810 to remove the provisions of HB 44 that allow for recall of certain tax rates and make conforming and technical changes; repeal KRS 132.017, 132.018, 132.025, 132.720, 143A.035, and 243.710, relating to recall petitions and to various tax rates; provide that estate tax provisions apply for deaths occurring on or after August 1, 2017, sales tax provisions are effective for periods beginning on or after October 1, 2017, motor fuels compensation provisions are effective August 1, 2017, and property tax provisions are for assessments on and after January 1, 2018. |
| Current Status: | 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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HB264 | POSTSECONDARY FINANCIAL AID (RAND, RICK; Gentry, Alan; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to postsecondary financial aid, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program; direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program; define participating institution and student eligibility for the scholarship; prescribe the calculation of the scholarship amount; require participating institutions to submit information to the authority required for the administration of the program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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HB267 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (KAY II, JAMES; AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to terms of members of the General Assembly.
Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prevent Senators from serving more than four consecutive terms of office, not including partial terms, and prevent Representatives from serving more than six consecutive terms of office, not including partial terms, beginning with those elected in 2020; allow legislators to resume service in the house from which they were term-limited after two years have elapsed; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| Current Status: | 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs
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| All Bill Status: | 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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HB269 | CERTIFIED AND CLASSIFIED SCHOOL PERSONNEL (RILEY, STEVE; AN ACT relating to substitutes for certified and classified school personnel.
Amend KRS 160.380 to allow relatives who are currently ineligible for employment in a school district to serve as substitutes. |
| Current Status: | 3/20/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/8/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/8/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/7/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-3 3/7/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3/3/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/2/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/2/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/2/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 99-0 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/21/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/17/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/17/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/16/2017 - (H) Posting Waived 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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HB273 | LEGISLATOR RETIREMENT BENEFITS (MILLS, ROBBY; Wells, William) AN ACT relating to retirement benefit participation for members of the General Assembly and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS 6.145 to 6.237 to allow individuals who become a member of the General Assembly on or after April 1, 2017, to make a one-time irrevocable election to not participate in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for their service to the General Assembly; allow members of the General Assembly who began contributing to the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System on or after December 31, 2014, but prior to April 1, 2017, to make a one-time irrevocable election by December 31, 2017, to discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for their service to the General Assembly and receive a refund of accumulated contributions; provide that the election to not participate or discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System shall apply to all future service of the General Assembly; amend KRS 6.505, 61.510, and 61.525 to conform; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/9/2017 - Introduced
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HB274 | CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE (PRATT, PHILLIP; AN ACT authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state which have been duly audited and approved according to law and have not been paid because of the lapsing or insufficiency of former appropriations against which the claims were chargeable or the lack of a procurement document in place and making an appropriation therefor and declaring an emergency.
Appropriate funds for the payment of claims against the Commonwealth; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 3/27/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - (H) Passed 93-0 3/15/2017 - House Concurred in Senate Committee Substitute 3/15/2017 - Missing Action!; for Concurrence w/SCS 1 3/14/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/14/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/14/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 25-9 with Committee Substitute 3/14/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3/8/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/7/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar, w/SCS 1 3/7/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/7/2017 - Senate Appropriations and Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/27/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 2/24/2017 - received in Senate 2/24/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 95-0 with committee amendment (1) 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/HCA 1 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, February 24, 2017 2/23/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/22/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/22/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/21/2017 - House Appropriations & Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/16/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/9/2017 - Introduced
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HB276 | STATE GOVERNMENT (MOFFETT, PHIL; AN ACT relating to statutorily mandated boards, councils, and commissions within state government.
Repeal various sections in KRS Chapters 11, 15., 18A, 36, 64, 146, 147, 153, 158, 164, 171, 177, 198B, 205, 211, 216, 336, 342, and 403 to abolish inactive boards, commissions, committees, and councils, including the Agricultural Resource Development Authority, the Architectural Barriers Advisory Committee, the Athletic Trainers Advisory Council, the Auto and Truck Recyclers Licensing Advisory Board, the Capitol Centennial Commission, the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, the Child Support Enforcement Commission, the Children’s Health Insurance Program Advisory Council, the Diabetes Research Board, the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, the Advisory Committee for Educational Improvement, the e-Health Network Board, the Council for Families and Children, the Family Health Care Providers Board, the Innovation Commission, the Labor-Management Advisory Council, the My Old Kentucky Home Advisory Commission, the National Guard and Reserve Employers’ Council, the Natural History Museum Board of Directors, the Personnel Steering Committee, the Public Officials Compensation Commission, the Southern Growth Policies Board, the Underground Railroad Advisory Council, the War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission, the Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council, the Bicentennial Commission, the Health Care Infrastructure Authority, and the Historical Events Celebration Commission; amend KRS 148.400 to direct the use of funds in the “My Old Kentucky Home Endowment Fund”; amend KRS 403.705 to decrease the responsibilities of local domestic violence coordinating councils and to direct any recommendations be transferred to the commissioner of the Department for Community Based Services; repeal, reenact and amend KRS 407.707 to create a Sexual Assault Response Team Advisory Committee attached to the Department for Community Based Services, staffed as necessary by the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; transfer any committee recommendations to the commissioner of the Department for Community Based Services; require the secretary to make certain appointments; establish continuation of service of members of the Sexual Assault Response Team Advisory Committee; direct transfer of funds of abolished boards, commissions, committees, and councils to the appropriate cabinets and agencies; amend various KRS sections to conform. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/14/2017 - (H) Passed 93-0 3/14/2017 - House Concurred in Senate committee amendment (1-title) and Committee Substitute 3/14/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/8/2017 - (S) THIRD READING; floor amendment (1) withdrawn; passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title) 3/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/7/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar, w/SCS 1, SCA 1T 3/6/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/6/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 90-0 2/27/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/24/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/23/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/23/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/23/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/9/2017 - Introduced
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HB277 | LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION (REED, BRANDON; Sims Jr., John) AN ACT relating to local boards of education.
Amend KRS 160.180 to remove board of education member eligibility restriction that no aunt, uncle, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law be employed by that board. |
| Current Status: | 4/11/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/30/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/30/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-1 3/30/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/29/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 30, 2017 3/15/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/14/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/14/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/9/2017 - Senate Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 74-13 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/21/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/17/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/16/2017 - (H) Posting Waived 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/9/2017 - Introduced
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HB281 | GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (NEMES, JASON; AN ACT relating to government contracts.
Create a new section of KRS 45A.690 to 45A.725 to establish standards and rules for the Attorney General when awarding contingency fee personal service contracts for legal services; require the Attorney General to make written findings of the need for a contingency fee contract; set limits on the amount of the contingency fee; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to post information regarding the contract on its Web site; require the contractor to maintain certain records; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet and the Attorney General to submit a report on all contingency fee contracts to the Government Contract Review Committee by September 1 of each year; amend KRS 45A.695 to require the Attorney General to participate in discussions with contingency fee offerors to determine their qualifications; amend KRS 15.100 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 3/30/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitutes and committee amendment (1-title)
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| All Bill Status: | 3/30/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/30/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 26-12 with Committee Substitute (1) and committee amendment (1-title) 3/30/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 30, 2017 3/30/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules, w/SCS 1, SCA 1T 3/29/2017 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/15/2017 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/14/2017 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/8/2017 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/7/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Judiciary 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/7/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Judiciary 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary 2/27/2017 - received in Senate 2/24/2017 - floor amendment (5) filed 2/24/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 62-32 with floor amendment (5) 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2,3,4 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2,3,4 2/22/2017 - floor amendment (4) filed 2/16/2017 - floor amendments (2) and (3) filed 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/16/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/15/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/15/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/15/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/15/2017 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary 2/9/2017 - Introduced
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HB282 | REORGANIZATION (PETRIE, JASON; AN ACT relating to reorganization.
Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to rename the Department for Public Advocacy as the Department of Public Advocacy; confirm Executive Order 2016-901. |
| Current Status: | 4/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/30/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/30/2017 - (H) Passed 61-31 3/30/2017 - House Concurred in Senate floor amendments (1) (2-title) and (3) 3/30/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in Senate floor amendments (1) (2-title) and (3) 3/30/2017 - received in House 3/30/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-2-1 with floor amendments (1) (2-title) and (3) 3/30/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SFA 1, 2T, 3 3/29/2017 - floor amendment (3) filed 3/29/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 30, 2017 3/14/2017 - floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/6/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/6/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 94-0 2/22/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/9/2017 - Introduced
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HB283 | PUBLIC RETIREMENT INFORMATION (MILLER, JERRY T.; AN ACT relating to the disclosure of public retirement information.
Amend KRS 61.661, 161.585, and 21.540 to require the disclosure of the retirement benefit information for individuals who are receiving combined annualized retirement benefits from the state-administered retirement systems exceeding twice Kentucky's annualized per capita personal income; required disclosure for each individual shall include their name, status, and projected or actual retirement benefit benefits from Kentucky Retirement Systems, Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, Legislators' Retirement Plan, and the Judicial Retirement Plan; require information to be posted on the executive branch transparency Web site as provided by KRS 42.032; amend KRS 42.032 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/17/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed
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| All Bill Status: | 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/9/2017 - Introduced
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HB286 | LEGISLATOR RETIREMENT BENEFITS (KAY II, JAMES; Meyer, Russ A.; Nemes, Jason) AN ACT relating to eliminating retirement benefits for legislators taking office on or after January 1, 2018.
Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective January 1, 2018; amend KRS 61.525 to prohibit future members of the General Assembly from participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System unless they participated in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System or the Legislators' Retirement Plan as members of the General Assembly prior to January 1, 2018; amend KRS 61.510, 61.520, and 61.525 to make technical and conforming amendments. |
| Current Status: | 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/9/2017 - Introduced
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HB287 | STATE OFFICER RETIREMENT BENEFITS (KAY II, JAMES; Meyer, Russ A.) AN ACT relating to eliminating retirement benefits for state officers and their political appointments taking office on or after December 1, 2019.
Amend KRS 61.525 to provide that, effective December 1, 2019, certain elective and appointed officers as exempted from the classified service under KRS 18A.115 shall not participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) during his or her term of office; amend KRS 61.510 to change the definition of "employee" to exclude elective or appointed officers otherwise ineligible to participate KERS; make technical and conforming amendments to KRS 61.520 and 61.525. |
| Current Status: | 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/9/2017 - Introduced
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HB291 | PUBLIC SAFETY (BANTA, KIM; Meeks, Reginald; Santoro, Sal) AN ACT relating to public safety.
Amend KRS 446.010 to define "drone"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 500 prescribe permitted and prohibited uses of drones; provide exceptions; prohibit use of evidence obtained by a drone in violation of stated prohibitions; authorize that section of the bill to be cited as the "Citizens' Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 501 to clarify criminal liability for offenses committed using a drone; create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create the offense of obstructing an emergency responder; create new section of KRS Chapter 511 to create offense of trespass on critical infrastructure. |
| Current Status: | 3/29/2017 - floor amendment (3) filed to Committee Substitute
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute 3/14/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute 3/14/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules 3/14/2017 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/8/2017 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/7/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Judiciary 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/7/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Judiciary 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 99-0 with Committee Substitute 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Consent Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House Small Business & Information Technology, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/15/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Small Business & Information Technology 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Small Business & Information Technology 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB292 | FUEL TAX REVENUES (MILLER, JERRY T.; Koenig, Adam; Simpson, Arnold) AN ACT relating to the distribution of fuel tax revenues.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 177, regarding allocation of a portion of fuel tax revenue to the rural secondary and county road aid funds, to change the revenue-sharing formula on the portion of fuel tax revenue which exceeds $825 million in any year to divide 48.2% of motor fuel tax revenues in excess of $825 million between incorporated and unincorporated areas based on population and road mileage; clarify that the share of the two splits allocated to incorporated areas shall be used by cities and unincorporated urban places in accordance with Sections 3, 4, and 5 of the Act; clarify that the share of the two splits allocated to unincorporated areas shall be used by counties, with 54.8% going to rural secondary roads and 45.2% used for county roads; amend KRS 177.365 to clarify that the allocation of fuel taxes to incorporated areas shall be used by cities for city streets; amend KRS 177.366 to eliminate the use of population as the sole factor in distributing municipal road aid funds and instead allocate 75% of the funds based on population, and 25% based on road mileage; amend KRS 177.010 to define the term "revenue-sharing road" amend KRS 177.320, 177.330, 177.360, 177.369, 179.410, 179.415, 138.220, and 177.020 to conform; EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2018. |
| Current Status: | 3/7/2017 - House Appropriations & Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB295 | ADOPTION TAX CREDIT (ADKINS, ROCKY; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to an adoption tax credit.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow an income tax credit for qualified adoption expenses incurred by an individual in an amount equal to 20% of the allowable federal credit for qualified adoption expenses; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 131 and 141 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB296 | WORKERS COMPENSATION (KOENIG, ADAM; Rowland, Bart; DeCesare, Jim; Dossett, Myron; Pratt, Phillip; Wells, William; Wuchner, Addia) AN ACT relating to workers compensation.
Amend KRS 342.020 to limit the obligation to pay medical benefits indefinitely for certain permanent partial disabilities; limit medical benefits to age 70 or four years after date of injury, whichever is later, except for permanent total awards or awards involving prosthetic devices which continue for as long as the employee is disabled; limit the number of urine drug screens for which an employer, insurer, or payment obligor is required to pay; amend KRS 342.035 to require the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to develop, adopt, and implement treatment guidelines and a pharmaceutical formulary on or before December 31, 2018; amend KRS 342.040 to reduce the amount of interest paid on awards; amend KRS 342.125 to clarify that the four-year reopening window begins only from the date of the original order granting or denying benefits; amend KRS 342.185 to provide a statute of repose for cumulative trauma claims; amend KRS 342.320 to increase limitation on attorney's fees to $18,000; amend KRS 342.700 to extend subrogation recovery of medical expenses and delete reference to legal fees and expense; amend KRS 342.730 to allow payment of temporary total disability benefits to be offset for net wages paid to an employee during a period of light-duty work or work in an alternative job position; amend KRS 342.990 to conform; specify the applicability of substantive changes to claims arising on or after effective date of Act and remedial changes to all claims irrespective of injury date. |
| Current Status: | 3/7/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor
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| All Bill Status: | 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/7/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING; floor amendment (2) defeated; passed 58-40 with floor amendments (1) (3) and (4) 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2,3,4 2/21/2017 - floor amendments (2) and (3) and (4) filed 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House Economic Development & Workforce Investment, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/15/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB299 | WORKERS COMPENSATION NOMINATING COMMISSION (CASTLEN, MATT; Brown, Larry) AN ACT relating to the reorganization of the Workers' Compensation Nominating Commission.
Amend KRS 342.213 to abolish the Workers' Compensation Nominating Commission; create the Workers' Compensation Nominating Committee; set the number and experience of members; describe the duties and responsibilities of the committee; amend KRS 12.020, 336.020, and 342.228 to conform; confirm Executive Order 2016-319. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/14/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 23-12 3/14/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/6/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/6/2017 - Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 69-20 2/27/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/24/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/23/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/23/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/22/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/21/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB302 | SALES AND USE TAX (NEMES, JASON; Sims Jr., John) AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.
Amend KRS 139.470 to exempt from sales and use tax 35% of the gross receipts derived from the sale of utilities to restaurants located in Kentucky; exemption applies for sales made on and after July 1, 2017, but before August 2, 2022; require Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission. |
| Current Status: | 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB304 | NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT (WUCHNER, ADDIA; Marzian, Mary Lou; Flood, Kelly; Hart, Mark; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons; Westrom, Susan) AN ACT relating to nurse licensure compact.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to enact and enter into the Nurse Licensure Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for registered nurses or practical nurses; permit the Kentucky Board of Nursing to limit or revoke the multistate licensure privilege of any nurse to practice in Kentucky; establish application requirements; require reporting of any actions taken by the Kentucky Board of Nursing to the home state of the licensee; require compact states to participate in a coordinated licensure information system and provide for interchange of information; establish the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators; provide immunity for party states, officers, employees, or agents of a party state's nurse licensing board who act in accordance with the provisions of the compact; prohibit amendment of the compact unless the amendment has been enacted into the laws of all party states; provide for severability for any provision in the compact that is contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance; repeal KRS 314.470, which set forth the prior version of the Nurse Licensure Compact; EFFECTIVE December 31, 2018, or upon adoption of compact by 26 states, whichever is earlier. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/8/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 3/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING to Rules 3/7/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/7/2017 - Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 99-0 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/17/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House Heath & Family Services, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/15/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Heath & Family Services 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Heath & Family Services 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB306 | WORKERS COMPENSATION (MEREDITH, MICHAEL; Reed, Brandon; Bechler, Lynn; Hale, David; Pratt, Phillip; Richards, Jody; Rowland, Bart; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to an exemption from workers' compensation for religious organizations.
Amend KRS 342.650 to include certain ministers and caretakers of a church or religious organization with employees who are exempt from workers' compensation insurance. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/8/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-2 3/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/6/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/6/2017 - Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 89-2 2/27/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/24/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/23/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/23/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/23/2017 - House Economic Development & Workforce Investment, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB307 | STUDENT LEARNING (WUCHNER, ADDIA; Carney, John Bam; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons) AN ACT relating to implementation of screening and interventions to improve student learning.
Amend KRS 158.305 to revise the definition of "dyslexia"; define "qualified screening tool"; require each school district to develop a policy related to its response-to-intervention system; require teacher preparation programs to include dyslexia and response-to-intervention components; require professional development for teachers on dyslexia and response-to-intervention components; require the Department of Education to establish a list of qualified screening tools; require school districts to administer a qualified screening tool to students at least once per year; describe the action to be taken by schools when a student shows characteristics of dyslexia; require the Department of Education to develop dyslexia resources for teachers. |
| Current Status: | 3/15/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar, w/SCS 1 3/14/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/9/2017 - Senate Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 99-0 with Committee Substitute 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/21/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/17/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Consent Calendar 2/17/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/16/2017 - (H) Posting Waived 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB310 | LAND BANK AUTHORITIES (JENKINS, JONI L.; Koenig, Adam; Donohue, Jeffery; Moffett, Phil; Richards, Jody; Riggs, Steven) AN ACT relating to land bank authorities.
Amend KRS 65.350 to clarify definition of "party" or "parties" and add definition of "local government lien"; amend KRS 65.355 to allow acquisition of blighted properties consistent with KRS 99.705; amend KRS 65.365 to allow use of electronic mail instead of postal services; amend KRS 65.370 to incorporate properties acquired through local government liens, and clarify that agreements may provide a purpose for the acquisition, extinguish certain property tax claims upon acquisition, assign proceeds of disposition to the authority, assign 50% of subsequent ad valorem taxes to the authority for 5 years; amend KRS 65.375 to make a technical amendment to language. |
| Current Status: | 2/23/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/22/2017 - received in Senate 2/21/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-2 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2/16/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/15/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/15/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/15/2017 - House Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB311 | VETERANS NURSING HOMES (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; Blanton, John; Johnson, Dan; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons; Thomas, Walker; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to employment at veterans' nursing homes.
Amend KRS 40.325 to permit the executive director of the Office of Kentucky Veterans' Centers to contract to hire licensed nursing staff at the state veterans' nursing homes, and exempt those contracts from certain provisions in KRS Chapter 45A; amend KRS 45A.690 to exempt these nursing contracts from the definition of "personal service contracts." |
| Current Status: | 3/20/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/8/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/8/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/6/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 3/6/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 6, 2017 3/3/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/2/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/2/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/2/2017 - Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/24/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection 2/23/2017 - received in Senate 2/22/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-2 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/16/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/15/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/15/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/15/2017 - House Veterans, Military Affairs & Public Protection, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Veterans, Military Affairs & Public Protection 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs & Public Protection 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB312 | STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE (RILEY, STEVE; Mayfield, Donna) AN ACT relating to student financial assistance.
Amend KRS 164.7531 to end the Best in Class, Best in Care, and Best in Law programs by June 30, 2018; amend KRS 164.769 to allow teacher scholarship recipients who teach dual credit coursework in a high school to receive two semesters of teacher scholarship promissory note cancellation for each semester spent teaching. |
| Current Status: | 3/20/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/8/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/8/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/7/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 3/7/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3/3/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/2/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/2/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/2/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/27/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 2/24/2017 - received in Senate 2/23/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 99-0 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/22/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/21/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/21/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/21/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/17/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HB325 | CREDIT UNIONS (WELLS, WILLIAM; AN ACT relating to credit unions.
Amend KRS 286.6-100 to grant the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions the authority to charge credit unions an annual fee and fees for extraordinary services performed by the department. |
| Current Status: | 3/30/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/1/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/28/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/16/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/16/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/15/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/15/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/15/2017 - House Banking & Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Banking & Insurance 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance 2/13/2017 - Introduced
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HB327 | CIVIL RIGHTS (MARZIAN, MARY LOU; Burch, Tom; Cantrell, McKenzie; Flood, Kelly; Graham, Derrick; Jenkins, Joni L.; Owens, Darryl; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Simpson, Arnold; Wayne, Jim) AN ACT relating to civil rights.
Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition against discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/13/2017 - Introduced
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HB328 | EXPUNGEMENT (OWENS, DARRYL; AN ACT relating to expungement.
Amend KRS 431.073 to make additional offenses eligible for expungement; reduce filing fee for felony expungement from $500 to $200; amend KRS 431.076 to allow expungement of charges dismissed without prejudice; amend KRS 431.078 to require certain records to be expunged if the law specifies a period for enhancement and that period has expired; amend KRS 431.079 to limit requirement of certification to convictions which have not been pardoned. |
| Current Status: | 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 2/13/2017 - Introduced
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HB330 | TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (OSBORNE, DAVID W.; Hoover, Jeff; Jenkins, Joni L.) AN ACT relating to tax increment financing and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 65.490 to allow an extension of time for certain tax increment financing pilot programs; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 4/11/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/30/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/30/2017 - (H) Passed 72-8 3/30/2017 - House Concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (2) 3/30/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (2) 3/30/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/30/2017 - (S) THIRD READING; Committee Substitute (1) withdrawn; passed 30-7-1 with Committee Substitute (2) 3/30/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 30, 2017 3/30/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules, w/SCS 2 3/29/2017 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 3/14/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules, w/SCS 1 3/7/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/7/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/1/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING; floor amendments (1) and (2) ruled out of order; passed 79-14 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2,3 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2,3 2/23/2017 - floor amendments (1) and (2) and (3) filed 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 24, 2017 2/23/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/22/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/22/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/21/2017 - House Appropriations & Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/16/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/13/2017 - Introduced
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HB336 | PHARMACY BENEFITS (ROWLAND, BART; AN ACT relating to cost-sharing requirements for pharmacy benefits.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit a health benefit plan from requiring a copayment for pharmacy benefits that exceeds the amount the pharmacy or pharmacist would receive from all payment sources. |
| Current Status: | 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance
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| All Bill Status: | 2/13/2017 - Introduced
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HB338 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (MARZIAN, MARY LOU; Meeks, Reginald) AN ACT relating to economic development.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to require retail electric suppliers to use increasing amounts of renewable energy; require retail electric suppliers to take energy-efficiency measures and implement energy-efficiency programs that increase energy savings over a period of time; provide for alternative compliance plans for public utilities who fail to meet renewable energy or efficiency requirements; define renewable energy; specify reporting requirements to the Public Service Commission regarding progress in diversifying energy sources and energy savings; require the Public Service Commission to develop tariff guidelines for purchase of renewable power. |
| Current Status: | 3/8/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed
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| All Bill Status: | 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy 2/13/2017 - Introduced
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HB339 | TAXATION (NEMES, JASON; Sims Jr., John) AN ACT relating to taxation.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 establishing the apparently wholesome food income tax credit equaling 20% of the fair market value of apparently wholesome food donated in Kentucky; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow Department of Revenue to provide information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend various statutes to conform and to make technical changes. |
| Current Status: | 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/13/2017 - Introduced
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HB340 | LAND CONSERVATION TAX CREDIT (KAY II, JAMES; AN ACT relating to income tax credits promoting land conservation.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a qualified conservation contribution income tax credit; require annual report; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide for the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 146.560 to include the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund Board in the evaluation of credit applications; amend KRS 262.908 to include the Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easements (PACE) Corporation board in the evaluation of credit applications; amend various statutes to allow the Department of Revenue to report credit information to the Legislative Research Commission. |
| Current Status: | 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/13/2017 - Introduced
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HB351 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (MILLER, JERRY T.; AN ACT relating to Kentucky Retirement Systems agency participation and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 61.522 to remove installments as a payment option for agencies required to pay the actuarial costs for ceasing participation in the Kentucky Retirement Systems; clarify conditions in which an employee seeking to transfer funds to the ceasing employer's alternative retirement program is not included in the employer actuarial cost calculation; specify that the systems shall develop separate assumptions for determining the employer's cost to cease participation; specify the formula for determining the assumed rate of return in the cost calculation; provide noncodified language to state the provisions shall apply retroactively to any matter pending before the Kentucky Retirement Systems board; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0-1 3/15/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/15/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules 3/14/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 3/14/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/14/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/8/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 3/8/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/8/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 3/6/2017 - received in Senate 3/3/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 64-18 with Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1) 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1 3/1/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 2, 2017 2/27/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute 2/24/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/23/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Regular Calendar 2/23/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/23/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/21/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/14/2017 - Introduced
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HB355 | TAX CREDITS (KOENIG, ADAM; Kay II, James) AN ACT relating to tax credits.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to establish the Kentucky affordable housing credit, which applies to the income and insurance taxes, in an amount related to the amount of federal low-income housing tax credit; limit the total amount of all credits awarded during any year to the greater of 50 percent of the federal low-income housing tax credits awarded on qualified projects or $5,250,000; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow the income tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the income tax credit; create a new section of KRS Chapter 136 to order the insurance tax credits; amend various statutes to conform. |
| Current Status: | 3/7/2017 - House Appropriations & Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/14/2017 - Introduced
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HB362 | SALES AND USE TAX (JOHNSON, D J; AN ACT relating to sales and use taxes.
Amend KRS 139.570 to increase the maximum amount of compensation that a seller shall deduct from each sales and use return from $50 to $1,500 for timely remitting the sales and use tax to the Department of Revenue; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2017. |
| Current Status: | 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/14/2017 - Introduced
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HB363 | NATURAL RESOURCE SEVERANCE TAX (MILES, SUZANNE; AN ACT relating to the natural resources severance and processing tax.
Amend KRS 143A.010 to amend the definition of "processing" to include the act of loading or unloading limestone that has not otherwise been severed or treated in the Commonwealth; amend KRS 143A.035 to allow a credit for substantially identical severance or processing taxes paid to another state or political subdivision thereof; provide that no taxpayer may claim a total amount of credit that exceeds his or her tax liability; allow the Department of Revenue to report tax credit information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend other sections to conform; EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2017. |
| Current Status: | 3/7/2017 - House Appropriations & Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 2/21/2017 - (H) reassigned to committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy 2/14/2017 - Introduced
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HB365 | PHARMACY BENEFITS (GREER, JEFF; McCoy, Chad; Richards, Jody) AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefits.
Amend KRS 304.17A-165 to prohibit insurers from requiring the use of mail-order pharmacies and prohibit a difference in cost-sharing between retail and mail-order pharmacies; amend KRS 18A.225 to require any plan offered by the Personnel Cabinet to prohibit the requirement of mail-order pharmacies, and to prohibit a difference in cost-sharing; amend KRS 205.522 to require a managed care organization that provides Medicaid benefits from requiring the use of mail-order pharmacies and prohibit a difference in cost-sharing between retail and mail-order; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2018. |
| Current Status: | 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Heath & Family Services
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| All Bill Status: | 2/14/2017 - Introduced
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HB367 | KENTUCKY TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM (PALUMBO, RUTH ANN; Carney, John Bam; DeCesare, Jim) AN ACT relating to retiree health benefits from the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency.
Require the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System (KTRS) board to provide the same dependent subsidy provided to state employees for the remainder of the 2017 plan year if the retired teacher participates in the Kentucky Employees Health Plan and selected couple, family, or parent plus coverage; provide that the KTRS board shall have the authorization to provide the dependent subsidy in the 2018 plan year; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 3/30/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/1/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/28/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/24/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/23/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/23/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/23/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/14/2017 - Introduced
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HB368 | TAX CREDITS (BANTA, KIM; Simpson, Arnold) AN ACT relating to tax credits.
Amend KRS 144.132 to allow persons that contract with one or more certificated air carriers for the transportation by air of persons, property, or mail and that purchase and pay for the aviation fuel used for that purpose a sales and use tax credit equal to the amount in excess of $1,000,000 each fiscal year; repeal various statutes. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/8/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 3/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING to Rules 3/7/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/7/2017 - Senate Appropriations and Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/6/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 82-8 with Committee Substitute 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 24, 2017 2/23/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/22/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/22/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/21/2017 - House Appropriations & Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/16/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/14/2017 - Introduced
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HB372 | DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENTS (HALE, DAVID; AN ACT relating to district health departments.
Amend KRS 212.840 to target funding for district health departments. |
| Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 92-0 with floor amendment (1) 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 2/23/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 24, 2017 2/23/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/22/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/22/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/21/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government 2/14/2017 - Introduced
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HB373 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (MILLER, JERRY T.; AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to casino gaming.
Amend Section 226 of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to define and permit casino gaming; prior to July 1, 2027, require that 100 % of the proceeds go to the Kentucky Employee Retirement System for nonhazardous employees and to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System in equal amounts after administrative expenses to pay for oversight of casino gaming is deducted; include ballot language. |
| Current Status: | 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs
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| All Bill Status: | 2/14/2017 - Introduced
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HB377 | WORKERS COMPENSATION FUNDING COMMISSION (DECESARE, JIM; AN ACT relating to workers compensation funding commission.
Amend KRS 337.1223 to provide discretion to the Workers' Compensation Funding Commission to consult with the Office of Financial Management and grant the commission the authority to also contract with outside investment firms with the parameters of KRS chapter 45A, and require that the Office of Financial Management be consulted and particapte in the selection of outside incestment firms; howwever,the Funding Commission has the final approval. Fees for the outside contracts shall be paid from the investment earnings. |
| Current Status: | 4/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/30/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/30/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/30/2017 - (H) Passed 86-3 3/30/2017 - House Concurred in Senate committee amendments (1-title) Committee Substitute (1) 3/30/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in Senate committee amendments (1-title) Committee Substitute (1) 3/30/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/30/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and committee amendment (1-title) 3/30/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 30, 2017 3/30/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules, w/SCS 1, SCA 1T 3/14/2017 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 3/7/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/6/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/6/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/6/2017 - Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/1/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/28/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 82-11 2/28/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 28, 2017 2/24/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/23/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/23/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/23/2017 - House Economic Development & Workforce Investment, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/16/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 2/15/2017 - Introduced
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HB380 | TAXATION (PRATT, PHILLIP; AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 141.432 to require that a qualified community development entity be organized or formed in and have its principal place of business in Kentucky and commit to invest federal new market tax credits in the same dollar amount as it invests state new markets tax credits; amend KRS 141.433 to require the Department of Revenue to make available to the public a list of all qualified community development entities that were certified for the credit as well as their respective credit amounts; require the Department of Revenue to report information regarding the new markets development program tax credit to the Legislative Research Commission; determine order of application of tax credits; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to conform and make technical changes. |
| Current Status: | 2/23/2017 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| All Bill Status: | 2/16/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/15/2017 - Introduced
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HB382 | TAXATION (KAY II, JAMES; AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 141.010 to allow an exclusion from adjusted gross income for payments made by an employer to an employee's student loan balance up to $5,250 per year; define qualified education loan; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report deduction and credit information to the Legislative Research Commission; require the Department of Revenue to report information related to the student loan benefits deduction to the Legislative Research Commission; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/16/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/15/2017 - Introduced
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HB399 | RURAL KENTUCKY BUSINESS INVESTMENT (BLANTON, JOHN; Harris, Chris; Brown, Larry; Couch, Tim; Wells, William) AN ACT relating to the establishment of a tax credit to promote investments in rural Kentucky businesses and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 136 to establish a new tax credit against the taxes imposed on insurance companies and financial institutions, for contributions made by them into rural growth funds which make investments in certain businesses principally operating in certain areas of the state; declare findings and the purpose of the credit; define terms; require an entity to follow a process to apply for certification as a rural growth fund, and for investors in that entity to receive tax credits awarded by the Department of Revenue; allow the department to issue $60,000,000 in tax credits; provide credit sunset terms and other conditions for participating in the program and for claiming the credit; provide for revocation of tax credits; allow the department to audit rural growth funds; limit any liability of the Commonwealth in regard to rural growth funds or investments made by them; require various reports to be filed with the department and the Legislative Research Commission to enable evaluations of the credit program; provide for the ordering of the credit; declare short title to be the Kentucky Rural Jobs Tax Credit Act of 2017. |
| Current Status: | 3/7/2017 - House Appropriations & Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 2/16/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue 2/15/2017 - Introduced
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HB401 | KENTUCKY TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM (LINDER, BRIAN; Hart, Mark; Johnson, Dan; Palumbo, Ruth Ann; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons; Reed, Brandon) AN ACT relating to members of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System who are called to active military duty.
Amend KRS 161.168 to require the state to pay the employee contribution for all members of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System who are called to active military duty so that the member receives service credit in the system for the period of military deployment. |
| Current Status: | 3/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| All Bill Status: | 3/6/2017 - received in Senate 3/3/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 95-0 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017 3/2/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/1/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - House Veterans, Military Affairs & Public Protection, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/28/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Veterans, Military Affairs & Public Protection 2/16/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs & Public Protection 2/15/2017 - Introduced
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HB436 | EDUCATION EXPENSES (WUCHNER, ADDIA; Hale, David; Sims Jr., John) AN ACT relating to income tax deductions for education expenses.
Amend KRS 141.010 to exclude contributions to 529 plan or STABLE account or eligible education expenses from adjusted gross income; amend KRS 164A.370 to subject excess contributions to and refunds of 529 plans to income tax; create new sections of KRS Chapter 164A to require reporting of information relating to deductions for 529 plan or STABLE account contributions to Department of Revenue and Legislative Research Commission; define terms relating to STABLE accounts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms relating to eligible education expenses; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to disclose information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend various KRS sections to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/16/2017 - Introduced
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HB445 | TAXATION (BANTA, KIM; AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt charitable gaming supplies and equipment from sales and use tax; amend sections of KRS Chapter 131 and 141 to make technical corrections and establish reporting requirements. |
| Current Status: | 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/16/2017 - Introduced
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HB446 | TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM (CARNEY, JOHN BAM; AN ACT relating to the Teachers' Retirement System.
Create a new section of KRS 161.220 to 161.716 to permit the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) to use and accept electronic signatures as deemed appropriate; amend KRS 161.220 to emphasize that annual compensation does not include benefit or salary adjustments that are not available to all members of an agency; amend KRS 161.290 to require all public employers to provide paid leave to teacher trustees serving on the KTRS board; amend KRS 161.310 to clarify the types of remuneration included in retirement incentives; amend KRS 161.340 to require TRS to contract for insurance; amend KRS 161.430 to update contract language regarding money managers and consultants; remove references to the book value of assets in regard to limitations on funds managed internally by the system's investment staff; remove the requirement that the board investment committee may consist of the executive secretary of the system and two trustees; require the system's staff to be subject to fiduciary requirements applicable to board members and investment consultants and managers; make technical amendments; amend KRS 161.470 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 161.480 to automatically designate a TRS member's spouse as beneficiary for an active member's account balance upon employment until changed by the member; declare the member's spouse as beneficiary of the active member's account balance in the event all named beneficiaries predecease the active member or the member fails to designate a beneficiary; amend KRS 161.500 to specifically address service credit for contracts exceeding 185 days; amend KRS 161.515 to clarify the retirement factor for service purchases; amend KRS 161.520 to delete the requirement of physicians' statements corroborating the mental competency of an adult child waiving survivorship benefits; amend KRS 161.540 to specify eligibility requirements for including annual leave credit in the retirement calculation for year-round contracts; amend KRS 161.545 to provide that full-time sabbatical leave by university staff participating in the TRS shall be deemed full-time employment for retirement purposes; require employee and employer contributions to be paid during the period of sabbatical leave; amend KRS 161.553 to adjust the cost schedules of providing statutory benefit improvements for annuitants; amend KRS 161.560 to require participating employers to file contribution data with TRS 15 days after each payroll period and set penalties for noncompliance; amend KRS 161.568 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 161.597 to require a refund of prior installment payments and a reduction in service credit for a member in default on installment payments; amend KRS 161.605 to make technical changes; require a refund of retirement contributions made on compensation that exceeds salary limitations; provide that breaks in service are required before returning to work for the employer even if in a position not covered by KTRS if the member is under age 60; begin running of breaks in service from date of retirement; prohibit prearranged agreements between a retiring member and employer for member to return to work after retirement and require certification thereof; allow KTRS to provide medical insurance to retired members who return to work when medical insurance is not available from the employer; allow the commissioner of education to pay reemployed retirees in excess of statutory maximums if the commissioner deems that the employees have the necessary experience to provide services and support to persistently low-achieving schools as provided by KRS 160.346; require retired members under age 60 returning to work for certain state universities and state community colleges to comply with the separation-from-service requirements, effective July 1, 2017; amend KRS 160.612 to reduce the $500 minimum monthly disability benefit by benefit payments from all state-administered retirement systems for part-time employees and substitute teachers participating in the TRS who apply for disability benefits on or after July 1, 2017; provide that part-time employees and substitute teachers are not eligible to apply for a disability retirement allowance if they are eligible for a nondiscounted service retirement allowance; amend KRS 161.614 to include mediation awards; amend KRS 161.620 to clarify the option for seeking inflation adjustments; amend KRS 161.630 to make technical change; amend KRS 161.643 to authorize TRS to require more frequent submission of annual reports on reemployed employees by participating employers; amend KRS 161.650 to automatically designate a TRS member's spouse as beneficiary for a retired member's remaining account balance at the time of death unless changed by the member; declare the member's spouse as beneficiary of the retired member's remaining account balance in the event all named beneficiaries predecease the retired member or the member fails to name a beneficiary for the account balance; amend KRS 161.655 to automatically designate a TRS member's spouse as beneficiary for the life insurance benefit available to active and retired members unless changed by the member; declare the member's spouse as beneficiary of the life insurance benefit available to active and retired members if, upon the death of the member, all named beneficiaries predecease the member or the member fails to name a beneficiary; amend KRS 161.661 to provide that members who begin participating on or after July 1, 2017, shall not be eligible for a disability benefit if they are eligible for any unreduced benefit and that they shall have their $500 minimum monthly disability benefit reduced by benefit payments from all state-administered retirement systems; amend KRS 161.680 to clarify the system's authority to collect overpayments; amend KRS 161.550 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/16/2017 - Introduced
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HB448 | INDUSTRIAL HEMP (JOHNSON, DAN; AN ACT relating to industrial hemp.
Amend KRS 260.850 to align definition for "certified seed" with federal requirements; define the term "extract"; clarify definitions of "hemp products" and "industrial hemp" to include extracts and align with federal definition; create a new section of KRS Chapter 260 outlining marketing and transportation requirements for industrial hemp and industrial hemp products; amend KRS 260.855 to align THC concentration level requirements to that of federal law. |
| Current Status: | 3/15/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Agriculture
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/15/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture 3/6/2017 - received in Senate 3/3/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 with Committee Substitute 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Friday March 3, 2017 3/2/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Consent Calendar 3/1/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - House Agriculture, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/27/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Agriculture 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Agriculture 2/16/2017 - Introduced
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HB449 | LEGISLATOR RETIREMENT BENEFITS (BENVENUTI, ROBERT; AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators.
Create a new section of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to prohibit future members of the General Assembly from participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System unless they participated in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System or the Legislators' Retirement Plan as members of the General Assembly prior to August 1, 2017; allow current members of the General Assembly participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System to make a one-time election to discontinue participation and to take a refund of accumulated contributions; amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective August 1, 2017; allow current members of the General Assembly participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan to make a one-time election to discontinue participation and take a refund of accumulated contributions; amend KRS 61.510 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/16/2017 - Introduced
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HB454 | SCHOOL CURRICULUM (SHELL, JONATHAN; Carney, John Bam; Bentley, Danny; Fleming, Ken; Greer, Jeff; Meade, David; Morgan, Wesley; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Nelson, Rick; Schamore, Dean; Wuchner, Addia; York, Jill) AN ACT relating to school curriculum.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, a local school district shall provide essential skills curriculum to students; require each student to attain essential skills to graduate; amend KRS 158.645 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring the Kentucky Department of Education to develop an age-appropriate drug awareness and prevention program; require local school boards to ensure that students receive annual instruction in drug awareness and prevention. |
| Current Status: | 3/14/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Education
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/14/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/8/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Education 3/8/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/8/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 3/3/2017 - received in Senate 3/2/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 72-21 with Committee Substitute 3/1/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 2, 2017 3/1/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/28/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/28/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/28/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/27/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/16/2017 - Introduced
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HB457 | KENTUCKY BUSINESS INVESTMENT PROGRAM (DECESARE, JIM; AN ACT relating to tax incentives offered through the Kentucky Business Investment Program.
Amend KRS 154.32-010 to define terms; amend KRS 154.32-020 to allow an approved company engaged in the development of infrastructure, including the erection of buildings, necessary to facilitate the location of manufacturing, agribusiness, nonretail service and technology, or national or regional headquarters operation in this state to qualify for tax credits against KRS 141.020, 141.040, and 141.0401; sunset tax credit program; amend KRS 154.32-070 to outline credit provisions; amend KRS 154.32-100 to require reporting to the Legislative Research Commission; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide credit for infrastructure activity; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide order in which credits may be taken; amend KRS 131.190 to allow Department of Revenue to report data; amend various statutes to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/17/2017 - Introduced
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HB472 | TAXATION (PRATT, PHILLIP; AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 141.432 to require that a qualified community development entity be organized or formed in and have its principal place of business in Kentucky and commit to invest federal new market tax credits in the same dollar amount as it invests state new markets tax credits; amend KRS 141.433 to require the Department of Revenue to make available to the public a list of all qualified community development entities that were certified for the credit as well as their respective credit amounts; require the Department of Revenue to report information regarding the new markets development program tax credit to the Legislative Research Commission; determine order of application of tax credits; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 131 and 141 to conform and make technical changes. |
| Current Status: | 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/17/2017 - Introduced
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HB483 | HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS (CANTRELL, MCKENZIE; Jenkins, Joni L.) AN ACT relating to mandatory benefits for health benefit plans.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit insurers from imposing any preexisting condition exclusions, any lifetime dollar limits or unreasonable annual dollar limits on benefits, to prohibit rescission except as authorized by KRS 304.17A-240, or from discriminating against an individual in premiums or contributions based on the individuals sex, to require insurers provide coverage for essential health care benefits, guaranteed acceptance of individuals or employers who apply for coverage, and to provide coverage, not subject to cost-sharing requirements for certain preventative services; amend KRS 304.17A-005 to remove definitions for guaranteed acceptance program (GAP), GAP insurer, GAP plan, GAP qualified individual, GAP supporting individual, and high-cost condition; amend KRS 304.17A-095 to require all individual and small group health benefit plans to have a minimum loss ratio of 80% and for large group health benefit plans a minimum loss ratio of 85%; amend KRS 304.17A-0952 and 304.17A-0954 to remove gender from case characteristics for rating factors; amend KRS 304.17A-096 to make technical correction; amend KRS 304.17A-200 to prohibit any insurer offering a health benefit plan from establishing eligibility rules based on certain factors and to remove references to preexisting conditions provisions; amend KRS 304.17A-220, 304.17A-250, 304.17A-706, and 304.18-114 to remove references to preexisting condition exclusions; amend KRS 304.17A-256 to require all health benefit plans which provide dependent coverage to provide that coverage until the dependent turns 26 years old; amend KRS 304.17B-001 to make technical corrections and to remove definitions for GAP, GAP participating insurer and preexisting condition exclusion; amend KRS 304.17B-007 to remove reference to GAP and GAP participating insurer; amend KRS 304.17B-015 and 304.17B-021 to remove reference to GAP; amend KRS 304.17C-010, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to make technical corrections; repeal 304.17A-230, 304.17A-410, 304.17A-430, 304.17A-450, 304.17B-023, and 304.17B-025. |
| Current Status: | 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Heath & Family Services
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| All Bill Status: | 2/17/2017 - Introduced
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HB520 | CHARTER SCHOOLS (CARNEY, JOHN BAM; Heath, Richard) AN ACT relating to charter schools and making an appropriation therefor.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to describe the intent of the General Assembly and the purposes of authorizing public charter schools; establish a public charter school project and identify public charter school authorizers; define terms; describe the characteristics and the requirements of a public charter school; identify the requirements and the components of a public charter school application; describe the responsibilities of public charter school authorizers; describe public charter school renewal and revocation processes; identify the components of a public charter school annual report; identify the requirements for student enrollment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to identify funding practices for public charter schools; allow public charter schools to accept gifts and donations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to identify employment conditions for public charter school staff; amend KRS 161.220 to include a qualified teacher employed by the board of directors of public charter schools in the state-sponsored retirement system; amend KRS 78.510 to include public charter schools in the definition of "county" so as to include noncertified employees of public charter schools in the state-sponsored retirement system; APPROPRIATION. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - (H) Passed 53-43 3/15/2017 - House Concurred in Senate Committee Substitute 3/15/2017 - received in House w/Letter 3/15/2017 - (S) THIRD READING; floor amendment (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), and (12) filed to Committee Substitute; passed 23-15 with Committee Substitute 3/15/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/15/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules, w/SCS 1 3/15/2017 - Senate Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/8/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Education 3/8/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 3/8/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/7/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Education 3/7/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/7/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 3/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 3/6/2017 - received in Senate 3/3/2017 - floor amendmenst (1) and (3) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (2-title) filed 3/3/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 56-39 with Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title) 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017 3/3/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably w/HCS 1, HCA 1, to Rules 3/3/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/2/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 3/2/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Education 3/2/2017 - (H) SECOND READING 3/2/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 2/27/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Education 2/27/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 2/27/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/17/2017 - Introduced
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HCR27 | MILEAGE BASED TRANSPORTATION TASK FORCE (KOENIG, ADAM; Create the Mileage-Based Transportation Funding Task Force to develop and study the implementation of a mileage-based transportation funding mechanism; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least monthly during the 2017 Interim and to submit any proposed findings or recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2017.
Create the Mileage-Based Transportation Funding Task Force to develop and study the implementation of a mileage-based transportation funding mechanism; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet at least monthly during the 2017 Interim and to submit any proposed findings or recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2017. |
| Current Status: | 2/7/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - Introduced
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HCR31 | AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (DECESARE, JIM; Westrom, Susan) Direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study the performance and policies of Kentucky's 15 area development districts, beginning no later than July 1, 2017; provide that the LRC may hire a consultant for some of the analysis and review; report the findings to the appropriate interim joint committee by December 1, 2019.
Direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study the performance and policies of Kentucky's 15 area development districts, beginning no later than July 1, 2017; provide that the LRC may hire a consultant for some of the analysis and review; report the findings to the appropriate interim joint committee by December 1, 2019. |
| Current Status: | 3/7/2017 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| All Bill Status: | 2/23/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/9/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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HCR49 | PENSION BENEFITS (KAY II, JAMES; A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION reaffirming the Commonwealths commitment to maintaining pension benefits for state and local government employees, teachers, and retirees.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION reaffirming the Commonwealths commitment to maintaining pension benefits for state and local government employees, teachers, and retirees. |
| Current Status: | 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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HCR50 | COAL INDUSTRY (HATTON, ANGIE; Blanton, John; Brown, Larry; Couch, Tim; Fugate, Chris; Prunty, Melinda Gibbons; Rothenburger, Rob; Sims Jr., John; Thomas, Walker) A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging congress to pass the bipartisan revitalizing the economy of coal communities by leveraging local activities and investment act to accelerate dispersement one billion dollars in available funding in the abandoned mine reclamation fund to revitalize coal communities hardest hit by the downturn of the coal industry.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging congress to pass the bipartisan revitalizing the economy of coal communities by leveraging local activities and investment act to accelerate dispersement one billion dollars in available funding in the abandoned mine reclamation fund to revitalize coal communities hardest hit by the downturn of the coal industry. |
| Current Status: | 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment
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| All Bill Status: | 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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HJR56 | WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEMS (WEBBER, RUSSELL; Johnson, Dan; DuPlessis, Jim; Hatton, Angie; Miles, Suzanne; Tipton, James) Direct the Kentucky Division of Water to conduct a study identifying privately owned and operated small wastewater treatment plants in the state, as well as providing certain data relating to the plants, to devise a practical emergency intervention method to respond to plant failures, and to suggest any legislative changes that are necessary to prevent failures or abandonment of these plants and ensure continuity of service to the plants' customers; EMERGENCY.
Direct the Kentucky Division of Water to conduct a study identifying privately owned and operated small wastewater treatment plants in the state, as well as providing certain data relating to the plants, to devise a practical emergency intervention method to respond to plant failures, and to suggest any legislative changes that are necessary to prevent failures or abandonment of these plants and ensure continuity of service to the plants' customers; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 3/27/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 3/15/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/8/2017 - (S) SECOND READING to Rules 3/8/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 3/8/2017 - Senate Natural Resources and Energy, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/7/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Natural Resources and Energy 3/7/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 3/7/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/28/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Natural Resources and Energy 2/28/2017 - received in Senate 2/27/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 87-0 with floor amendment (1) 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/24/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/23/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/23/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/23/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/23/2017 - House Natural Resources & Energy, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Natural Resources & Energy 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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HR52 | SOCIAL SECURITY ACT (PRUNTY, MELINDA GIBBONS; Riley, Steve; Brown, Larry; Wuchner, Addia) Urge the Uniited States congress to to amend Section 1833(a)(1)(Y) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(a)(1)(Y)) to include coverage for a colorectal cancer screening test, regardless of the code that is billed, for the establishment of a diagnosis as a result of the test or for the removal of tissue or other procedure that is furnished in connection with, as a result of, and in the same clinical encounter as the screening test.
Urge the Uniited States congress to to amend Section 1833(a)(1)(Y) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395l(a)(1)(Y)) to include coverage for a colorectal cancer screening test, regardless of the code that is billed, for the establishment of a diagnosis as a result of the test or for the removal of tissue or other procedure that is furnished in connection with, as a result of, and in the same clinical encounter as the screening test. |
| Current Status: | 3/2/2017 - adopted by voice vote
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| All Bill Status: | 2/13/2017 - to House Floor 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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SB1 | PUBLIC EDUCATION (WILSON, MIKE; Givens, David P.; Alvarado, Ralph; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Rick; Meredith, Stephen; Stivers, Robert; Thayer, Damon; West, Stephen) AN ACT relating to public education and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 156.557 to require school districts to develop and implement a personnel evaluation system based on a statewide framework for teaching; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) from imposing reporting requirements related to the system on local districts; require evaluations annually for teachers who have not attained continuing service status and every three years for teachers with continuing service status, principals, and assistant principals; prohibit evaluation results from being included in school accountability; amend KRS 156.160 to allow a foreign language course, career and technical education course, or a computer technology or programming course to meet the arts and humanities requirement for high school graduation; amend KRS 158.305 to require KDE to provide assistance in implementing a response-to-intervention system if requested by a local district; amend KRS 158.6453 to implement a process for reviewing academic standards and assessments; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration of the process; delete program reviews and audits from the statewide assessment system; revise the statewide assessment requirements; prohibit the statewide assessment from including any standards not included in the board-approved standards; require a college admissions and placement exam to be given in the fall of grade 10 and spring of grade 11 and require KDE to pay for it; delete provisions regarding WorkKeys assessments; amend requirements for the annual school report card; require KDE to implement a standards review process for visual and performing arts, practical living skills, and foreign language and require KDE to provide recommendations to schools for including those programs, and a writing program, in their curriculum; direct KDE to develop a school profile report for schools to describe implementation of the mandated standards in the visual and performing arts, practical living skills, and foreign language; amend KRS 158.6455 to revise the accountability system; require school improvement results to look at growth over three years as compared to similar schools; include progress toward English proficiency, quality of school climate and safety, high school graduation rates, and postsecondary readiness in the accountability system; require each local workforce investment board to compile a list of industry-recognized certifications; require KDE to pay for the cost of initial assessments taken to achieve industry-recognized certifications; amend the criteria for schools and districts receiving consequences and assistance under administrative regulations promulgated by the Kentucky Board of Education; amend KRS 158.649 to revise dates regarding review and reporting of school improvement plans; amend KRS 158.782 to describe KDE's monitoring and review process for low- performing schools and change the criteria for the Kentucky Board of Education providing highly skilled education assistance to schools and districts; amend KRS 158.805 to allow Commonwealth school improvement funds to be used for personnel costs; amend KRS 158.840 to prohibit KDE from requiring intervention reporting except in certain circumstances; amend KRS 160.345 to allow an alternative principal selection process in any school district and delete language regarding principal replacement; amend KRS 160.346 to delete provisions relating to the low-performing school identification and intervention process; add provisions for identifying schools for targeted support and improvement and comprehensive support and improvement; describe intervention requirements for schools identified for targeted support and improvement; define and describe a turnaround audit and intervention process for schools identified for comprehensive support and improvement; require the Kentucky Board of Education to establish exit criteria for schools identified for targeted support and improvement and comprehensive support and improvement; require a school to enter an intervention process selected by the commissioner after three years without exiting comprehensive support and improvement status; delete provisions pertaining to the current school audit process and the current intervention options approved by the Kentucky Board of Education; amend various KRS sections to conform; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 4/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/29/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/29/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/29/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/29/2017 - (S) Passed 37-0 3/29/2017 - Senate Concurred in House floor amendments (2) and (5) 3/29/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in House floor amendments (2) and (5) for Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3/15/2017 - floor amendments (4) and (5) filed 3/15/2017 - received in Senate w/Letter 3/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 94-0 with floor amendments (2) and (5) 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 3/14/2017 - floor amendment (4) and (5) filed 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2, 3 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3/8/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/7/2017 - floor amendments (1), (2) and (3) filed 3/7/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/7/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/7/2017 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/6/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Education 2/22/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/21/2017 - received in House 2/17/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-0 with Committee Substitute 2/17/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1 2/16/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 17, 2017 2/16/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules, w/SCS 1 1/4/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Education 1/4/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 1/4/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/3/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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SB2 | RETIREMENT (BOWEN, JOE; McDaniel, Christian; Adams, Julie Raque; Alvarado, Ralph; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Rick; Hornback, Paul; Thayer, Damon; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to retirement and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 21.540 to require the Judicial Form Retirement System, which administers the Legislators' Retirement Plan and the Judicial Retirement Plan, to post descriptive and financial information to the system's Web site; amend KRS 61.645 to specify that investment fee and commission reporting requirements for the Kentucky Retirement Systems shall include profit sharing, carried interest, and partnership incentives; provide that the systems may not have to disclose contracts on a Web site if disclosure would result in competitive disadvantage but require those contracts to be released to the trustees, State Auditor, and the LRC Govt. Contract Review Committee; subject the systems to KRS Chapter 18A regarding personnel; subject hiring of executive director to Senate confirmation; make technical amendments; amend KRS 161.250 to specify that investment fee and commission reporting requirements for the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System must include profit sharing, carried interest, and partnership incentives; provide that the Teachers' Retirement System may not have to disclose contracts on a Web site if disclosure would result in competitive disadvantage, but require those contracts to be released to the trustees, State Auditor, and the LRC Govt. Contract Review Committee; amend KRS 161.340 to make hiring of executive secretary subject to Senate confirmation; amend various KRS sections to place all state retirement systems under Model Procurement Code regarding contracts and clarify ban on placement agents; amend KRS 7A.220 to increase the membership of the Public Pension Oversight Board; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 3/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 2/28/2017 - delivered to Governor 2/28/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 2/28/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 2/27/2017 - (S) Passed 35-0 2/27/2017 - Senate Concurred in House floor amendment (1) 2/24/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in House floor amendment (1) for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/23/2017 - (H) THIRD READING; floor amendment (3) defeated; floor amendment (2) ruled out of order; passed 99-0 with floor amendment (1) 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2,3 2/22/2017 - floor amendment (3) filed 2/22/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2 2/21/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/21/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/17/2017 - floor amendment (2) filed 2/16/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/16/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/16/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/16/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/13/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/9/2017 - received in House 2/8/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1) 2/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 8, 2017 2/8/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules 2/8/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/4/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 1/4/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 1/4/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/3/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 10/18/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB3 | PUBLIC RETIREMENT INFORMATION (MCDANIEL, CHRISTIAN; Adams, Julie Raque; Alvarado, Ralph; Bowen, Joe; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Rick; Schickel, John; Schroder, Wil; Seum, Dan; Thayer, Damon) AN ACT relating to the disclosure of public retirement information.
Amend KRS 61.661, 161.585, and 21.540 to require the disclosure, upon request, of the retirement benefit information of current and former members of the General Assembly, including the member's name, status, and projected or actual retirement benefit payments and benefits from the Kentucky Retirement Systems, the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, the Legislators' Retirement Plan, and the Judicial Retirement Plan. |
| Current Status: | 1/9/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - delivered to Governor 1/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 1/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 1/7/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 95-1 1/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Saturday, January 7, 2017 1/7/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably to Rules 1/6/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House State Government 1/6/2017 - (H) SECOND READING 1/6/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/6/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/5/2017 - (H) Posting Waived 1/5/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House State Government 1/5/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 1/5/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/5/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 1/5/2017 - received in House 1/5/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 36-0 with committee amendments (1-title) and Committee Substitute (1) 1/5/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 5, 2017 1/5/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably w/SCS1, to Rules 1/4/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 1/4/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 1/4/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/4/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/3/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/3/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 11/16/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB4 | MEDICAL REVIEW PANELS (ALVARADO, RALPH; Thayer, Damon; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Rick; Humphries, Stan; Kerr, Alice Forgy; Meredith, Stephen; Seum, Dan; Westerfield, Whitney) AN ACT relating to medical review panels.
Establish KRS Chapter 216C; create within that chapter various new sections establishing a medical review panel system for use in civil litigation relating to health care providers, including sections setting out definitions, delineating covered health care facilities and providers, panel membership and formation, functions and deliberations of the panel, and utilization of panel results in civil actions; allow for the electronic filing of proposed complaints if the Cabinet for Health and Family Services establishes an electronic filing system. |
| Current Status: | 3/16/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/6/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/6/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/6/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/3/2017 - (S) Passed 25-11 3/3/2017 - Senate Concurred in House Committee Substitute 3/2/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in House Committee Substitute on Friday, March 2, 2017 3/2/2017 - received in Senate w/ Letter 3/1/2017 - floor amendment (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) and (21) filed to Committee Substitute 3/1/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 51-45 with Committee Substitute 3/1/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3/1/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably to Rules w/HCS 1 2/28/2017 - floor amendment (11) filed 2/28/2017 - House Heath & Family Services, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/27/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Heath & Family Services 2/23/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Heath & Family Services 2/23/2017 - (H) SECOND READING 2/23/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/6/2017 - floor amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7-title) (8) (9) and (10) filed 1/5/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Heath & Family Services 1/5/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 1/5/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/5/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Heath & Family Services 1/5/2017 - (H) Posting Waived 1/5/2017 - received in House 1/5/2017 - (S) THIRD READING; floor amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5-title) (6) (7) (8) (9) and (10) ruled out of order; passed 23-13 with Committee Substitute (1); floor amendments (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16)) (17) (18) and (19) 1/5/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 5, 2017 1/5/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably w/SCS1, to Rules 1/4/2017 - floor amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5-title) (6) (7) (8) (9) and (10) filed 1/4/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Health and Welfare 1/4/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 1/4/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/4/2017 - Senate Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/3/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/3/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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SB6 | LABOR ORGANIZATIONS (STIVERS, ROBERT; Alvarado, Ralph; Seum, Dan; Thayer, Damon) AN ACT relating to labor organizations and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to set forth requirements for labor organizations collecting moneys for dues and for political activities; for enrollment for members; and for maintaining financial records; amend KRS 336.990 to set forth a civil penalty for a violator; amend KRS 336.180, 337.060, 67A.6909, 67C.416, and 345.110 to conform; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 1/9/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - delivered to Governor 1/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 1/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 1/7/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 57-39 1/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Saturday, January 7, 2017 1/7/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably to Rules 1/6/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 1/6/2017 - (H) SECOND READING 1/6/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/6/2017 - House Economic Development & Workforce Investment, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/5/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 1/5/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 1/5/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/5/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 1/5/2017 - (H) Posting Waived 1/5/2017 - received in House 1/5/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 25-11 with committee amendment (1) and Committee Substitute (1) 1/5/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably w/SCS 1, SCA 1T, to Rules 1/5/2017 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate State and Local Government 1/5/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/5/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/4/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 1/4/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 1/4/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/3/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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SB9 | JUDICIAL REDISTRICTING (SCHICKEL, JOHN; Buford, Tom; Adams, Julie Raque; Carpenter, Jared; Girdler, Rick; Harris, Ernie; Hornback, Paul; McDaniel, Christian; West, Stephen; Westerfield, Whitney) AN ACT relating to judicial redistricting.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to authorize the Supreme Court to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to perform an analysis to determine the need to rearrange the judicial circuits and districts or reallocate the number of judges relative to population and caseload; require the analysis to be completed within two years of December 31 of the year of the decennial census; require the Supreme Court to submit the analysis to the General Assembly by January 31 of the following year; provide that if the analysis indicates a need for rearrangement of judicial circuits and districts or reallocation of the number of judges due to population or caseload, the Supreme Court may submit certification as required by the Constitution of Kentucky which may include a proposal; amend KRS 23A.020 to realign the boundaries of the judicial circuits; amend KRS 23A.040 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to two judges and two divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.045 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to three judges and three divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.050 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to four judges and four divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.055 to increase the allocation of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit to six judges and six numbered divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 24A.030 to realign the boundaries of the judicial districts; amend KRS 24A.050 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to two District Judges and two numbered divisions of District Court; amend KRS 24A.060 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to three District Judges and three numbered divisions of District Court. |
| Current Status: | 3/7/2017 - floor amendments (5) and (6) filed
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| All Bill Status: | 3/7/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Judiciary 3/7/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 3/7/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - floor amendments (3) and (4) filed 3/6/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary 3/3/2017 - floor amendmentst (1) and (2) filed 3/2/2017 - received in House 3/1/2017 - (S) THIRD READING; floor amendment (1) ruled out of order; floor amendments (2) and (3) defeated; passed 23-13 with Committee Substitute 3/1/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1, SFA 1,2,3 2/28/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1, SFA 1,2,3 2/27/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 1, 2017 2/24/2017 - floor amendments (2) and (3) filed to Committee Substitute 2/24/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably w/SCS 1, to Rules 2/23/2017 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/15/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/10/2017 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate Judiciary 2/9/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/9/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 2/9/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/8/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/8/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 2/8/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 2/8/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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SB11 | NUCLEAR POWER (CARROLL, DANNY; Humphries, Stan; West, Stephen) AN ACT relating to nuclear power.
Amend KRS 278.600 to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means of permanent disposal and to add definitions of "storage," "low-level nuclear waste," and "mixed nuclear waste"; amend KRS 278.610 to allow certification if the facility and its plans for waste storage are approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; eliminate the requirement that the facility have a plan for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; eliminate the requirement that cost of waste disposal be known; eliminate the requirement that the facility have adequate capacity to contain waste; give the Public Service Commission authority to hire a consultant to perform duties relating to nuclear facility certification; prohibit construction of low-level nuclear waste disposal sites in Kentucky except as provided in KRS 211.852; direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to review regulations required for permitting nuclear facilities and report to LRC; repeal KRS 278.605, relating to construction of nuclear power facilities. |
| Current Status: | 3/27/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 65-28 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3/8/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/7/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/7/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/7/2017 - House Economic Development & Workforce Investment, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/6/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 3/3/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment 3/2/2017 - received in House 3/1/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 27-8 with Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1) 3/1/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 1, 2017 2/21/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute 2/16/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/15/2017 - (S) FIRST READING w/SCS 1, to Regular Calendar 2/15/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/15/2017 - Senate Natural Resources and Energy, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Natural Resources and Energy 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 9/19/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB12 | PUBLIC POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION GOVERNANCE (STIVERS, ROBERT; AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education governance and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 258.095 to modify the definition of persons who would qualify as the "owner" of a dog for purposes of that chapter. |
| Current Status: | 1/9/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - delivered to Governor 1/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 1/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 1/7/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 57-35 1/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Saturday, January 7, 2017 1/7/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably to Rules 1/6/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House State Government 1/6/2017 - (H) SECOND READING 1/6/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/6/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/5/2017 - (H) Posting Waived 1/5/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House State Government 1/5/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 1/5/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 1/5/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 1/5/2017 - received in House 1/5/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 25-11 with committee amendment (1-title) and Committee Substitute (1) 1/5/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 5, 2017 1/5/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 1/5/2017 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate State and Local Government 1/5/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/4/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/4/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 1/4/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/3/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/7/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB14 | HEROIN TRAFFICKING (SCHICKEL, JOHN; Seum, Dan; Alvarado, Ralph; Buford, Tom; Carpenter, Jared; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Girdler, Rick; Hornback, Paul; Kerr, Alice Forgy; McDaniel, Christian; Meredith, Stephen; Schroder, Wil; Thayer, Damon; West, Stephen; Westerfield, Whitney) AN ACT relating to trafficking and heroin.
Amend KRS 218A.1412 to require that persons who traffic in heroin or fentanyl be charged as Class C felons for the first offense. |
| Current Status: | 3/30/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HCA 1T, HFA 1, 2
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| All Bill Status: | 3/29/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed and floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCA 1T, HCS 1 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HCA 1T 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HCA 1T 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HCA 1T 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HCA 1T 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HCA 1T 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017 3/2/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, HCA 1, to Regular Calendar 3/1/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/27/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary 2/15/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary 2/14/2017 - received in House 2/14/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 36-0 with Committee Substitute 2/14/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 14, 2017 2/14/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules, w/SCS 1 2/14/2017 - Senate Appropriations and Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/10/2017 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 2/9/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules, w/SCS1 2/9/2017 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary 1/4/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/4/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 1/4/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/3/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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SB16 | EXPUNGEMENT (HIGDON, JIMMY; AN ACT relating to expungement.
Amend KRS 431.073 to allow discretionary expungement of Class D felonies, other than sex crimes, offenses against a victim who is a minor, or offenses which would qualify a person as a violent offender; specify a ten-year waiting period. |
| Current Status: | 2/22/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 2/17/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/17/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 2/17/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/16/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/16/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 2/16/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/16/2017 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate State and Local Government 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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SB18 | MEDICAL REVIEW ORGANIZATIONS (ALVARADO, RALPH; AN ACT relating to medical review organizations.
Amend KRS 311.377 to add medical malpractice actions, actions arising out of review of credentials or retrospective review and evaluation, and actions by an applicant for or grantee of staff privileges to materials that are confidential and privileged and not subject to discovery, subpoena, or introduction into evidence, in any civil action in any court. |
| Current Status: | 3/30/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2T, 3
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2T, 3 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2T, 3 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2T, 3 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2T, 3 3/3/2017 - floor amendment (3) filed 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2T 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017 3/2/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - floor amendment (1) and (2-title) filed 3/1/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/1/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/27/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary 2/14/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary 2/10/2017 - received in House 2/9/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 22-12 2/9/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/8/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 9, 2017 2/8/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules 2/8/2017 - Senate Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare 1/4/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/4/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 1/4/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees 1/3/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 1/3/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/7/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB20 | JUVENILE JUSTICE (WESTERFIELD, WHITNEY; AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 15A, 27A, and 194A to require reporting of statistics, including age, race, and gender, to determine whether there is disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice, social welfare, and educational discipline systems and create training requirements; create new sections of KRS Chapters 15A and 158, to require the development and reporting of plans to ameliorate disproportionate minority contact with juvenile justice and education systems; amend KRS 156.095 to require professional development for education professionals on juvenile justice topics; create a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to allow the Division of Protection and Advocacy to investigate the use of restraint and seclusion in schools and require confidentiality; amend KRS 15.334 to require training on juvenile justice topics; create new sections of KRS Chapter 610 to create a minimum age of criminal responsibility of 12 years of age; amend KRS 503.010 to define "physical restraint"; amend KRS 503.110 to limit the permissible use of physical restraint by teachers or school personnel; amend KRS 635.020 to limit the youthful offender process to cases involving offenses against persons; amend KRS 158.135 to define "state agency children"; amend KRS 15A.220 to require facilities under contract to DJJ to report data; add data reporting from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 635.060 to allow a child who has committed an offense that would be a Class D felony if committed by an adult to be retained on probation for 18 months if the court-ordered substance abuse or mental health program is longer than 12 months and to limit the exclusion of children from the time limits placed on certain dispositions; amend KRS 610.105 to expand a court's options for diversion of a child's adjudicated case; amend KRS 600.020 to define "restorative justice practices"; amend KRS 630.070 to limit detention for a child violating a court order to 30 days; amend various sections to conform; amend KRS 15A.305, 610.030, 610.190, 610.200, 610.220, 635.010, and 630.030 to make technical corrections; repeal KRS 610.012. |
| Current Status: | 3/15/2017 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 2/23/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably w/SCS 1, SCA, to Rules 2/23/2017 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Judiciary 2/22/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 2/22/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/13/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary 2/10/2017 - Introduced
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SB24 | SUPERINTENDENT SCREENING COMMITTEE (THOMAS, REGINALD; AN ACT relating to superintendent screening committee membership.
Amend KRS 160.352 to require the appointment of a school equity council member to the superintendent screening committee, if an equity council exists; allow a board to add a high school student to the superintendent screening committee. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 8/26/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB27 | KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM (SCHICKEL, JOHN; AN ACT relating to a board of directors of a college within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.
Amend KRS 164.350 to require the board of directors of a community and technical college to approve biennial budget requests and to accept or reject donations of land or funds to the college; amend KRS 164.600 to change the terms of office for members of boards of directors; hold members of boards of directors harmless for proper actions and require that they be provided legal counsel upon request; require an outside agency or foundation associated with a college to notify the local board of directors of upcoming meetings, to conduct open meetings, to publicly disclose all financial documents, including donations and moneys raised and expended, and to prohibit the agency's or foundation's citizen members from having a conflict of interest or being a relative of a college employee. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 8/30/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB33 | WAGES (THOMAS, REGINALD; AN ACT relating to wages.
Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on July 1, 2018, $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2019, and $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2020, and to raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $3.05 per hour on the effective date of the Act, $3.95 per hour on July 1, 2019, and $4.90 per hour on July 1, 2020; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 9/20/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB37 | EXPUNGEMENT (NEAL, GERALD A.; AN ACT relating to expungement.
Amend KRS 431.073 to reduce filing fee for felony expungement from $500 to $200; allow the court to waive all or any portion of the fee if an applicant is indigent or financially unable to pay; amend KRS 431.078 to allow the court to waive all or any portion of the filing fee for misdemeanor, violation, or traffic infraction expungement if an applicant is indigent or financially unable to pay. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 10/4/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB38 | TIMBER THEFT (EMBRY JR., C.B.; Bowen, Joe; Parrett, Dennis) AN ACT relating to timber theft.
Amend KRS 364.130 to specify that a person, regardless of state of mind or whether the person believes to be authorized or not, is liable for three times the stumpage value of the timber and three times the cost of any damages to property when he or she takes the timber of another without legal right or color of title. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/8/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/8/2017 - (S) Passed 37-0 3/8/2017 - Senate Concurred in House floor amendment (2) 3/8/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in House floor amendment (2) for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/8/2017 - received in Senate w/ Letter 3/7/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 95-0 with floor amendment (2) 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1,2 3/1/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1, 2 2/28/2017 - floor amendment (2) filed 2/28/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 2/24/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/23/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 28, 2017 2/23/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/22/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/22/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/22/2017 - House Agriculture, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/21/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Agriculture 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Agriculture 2/17/2017 - received in House 2/16/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-0 2/16/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2017 2/15/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/14/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/14/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/14/2017 - Senate Agriculture, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 10/4/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB41 | SALES AND USE TAX (SCHICKEL, JOHN; AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for currency and bullion.
Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax sales or purchases of bullion or currency made on or after July 1, 2017, but before July 1, 2021. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 10/11/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB45 | PUBLIC RETIREMENT INFORMATION (BOWEN, JOE; AN ACT relating to the disclosure of public retirement information.
Amend KRS 61.661, 161.585, and 21.540 to require the disclosure, upon request, of the retirement benefit information of current and former members of the General Assembly, including the member's name, status, and projected or actual retirement benefit payments and benefits from the Kentucky Retirement Systems, the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, the Legislators' Retirement Plan, and the Judicial Retirement Plan. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| All Bill Status: | 11/10/2016 - (S) WITHDRAWN 10/27/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB51 | CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE (WESTERFIELD, WHITNEY; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Hornback, Paul) AN ACT relating to protection of critical infrastructure.
Create a new section of Chapter 183 to create the offense of unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system; define "critical infrastructure," " unmanned aircraft," and "unmanned aircraft system"; prohibit the use of an unmanned aircraft system to collect evidence or information about critical infrastructure without prior written consent and make the unlawful use of an unmanned aircraft system for this purpose a Class A or Class B misdemeanor. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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SB53 | SCHOOL COUNCILS (SCHICKEL, JOHN; AN ACT relating to school councils.
Amend KRS 160.345 to require the local school superintendent or designee to establish school policies, make personnel decisions, determine instructional materials, determine student support services, plan professional development, and fill principal vacancies; require superintendent to consult with principals and school councils; require the principal or principal's designee in a school containing any combination of grades K-5 to develop and implement a school wellness policy; amend KRS 158.197 to allow the principal or principal's designee to authorize the display of specific educational materials; amend KRS 158.153, 158.792, and 158.844 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| All Bill Status: | 12/5/2016 - (S) WITHDRAWN 11/22/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB54 | SCHOOL COUNCILS (SCHICKEL, JOHN; AN ACT relating to school councils.
Amend KRS 160.345 to require the local school superintendent or designee to establish school policies, make personnel decisions, determine instructional materials, determine student support services, plan professional development, and fill principal vacancies; require superintendent to consult with principals and school councils; require the principal or principal's designee in a school containing any combination of grades K-5 to develop and implement a school wellness policy; amend KRS 158.197 to allow the principal or principal's designee to authorize the display of specific educational materials; amend KRS 158.153, 158.792, 158.844, 158.070, and 156.095 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/5/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB55 | PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS (BUFORD, TOM; AN ACT relating to physician assistants.
Amend KRS 311.856 and 311.858 to permit a physician assistant to prescribe or dispense all legend drugs and Schedule II through V controlled substances to the extent delegated by the supervising physician; permit a physician assistant to sign for and distribute professional samples of drugs; require physician assistants authorized to prescribe drugs to register with the DEA, KASPER, the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, and any applicable state-controlled substance regulatory authority; require a physician assistant, prior to prescribing controlled substances, to complete an application signed by the supervising physician and submit to the Board of Medical Licensure for approval or denial within 30 days; mandate that dispensing activities of a physician assistant comply with state and federal law and to only occur in an emergency; amend KRS 218A.010 to add physician assistants to the definition of a "practitioner." |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/6/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB58 | KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM (SCHICKEL, JOHN; AN ACT relating to chief executive officers of colleges within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.
Amend KRS 164.350 to require the board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to develop an evaluation process to be used by the local board of directors to evaluate a college's chief executive officer; amend KRS 164.600 to require the local board of directors of a community or technical college to select and evaluate the college's chief executive officer. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/7/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB62 | HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS (MCGARVEY, MORGAN; Buford, Tom) AN ACT relating to health savings accounts.
Amend KRS 427.010 to exempt health savings accounts from execution, attachment, garnishment, distress, or fee bill. |
| Current Status: | 3/27/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 97-0 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/8/2017 - (H) SECOND READING to Rules 3/8/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/8/2017 - House Banking & Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/7/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Banking & Insurance 3/7/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 3/7/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Banking & Insurance 3/1/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance 2/28/2017 - received in House 2/27/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 2/27/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/21/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/17/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/17/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/8/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB63 | CIVIL RIGHTS (MCGARVEY, MORGAN; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to civil rights.
Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation," "gender identity," " local Commission," and " real estate-related transaction"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition on discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.100, 344.110, and KRS 18A.095 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 344.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.680, 344.370, and 344.380, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/8/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB67 | HEALTH BENEFIT COVERAGE (ADAMS, JULIE RAQUE; AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage for tobacco cessation treatment.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurance coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation services that have a rating of A or B in the current recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation services that have a rating of A or B in the current recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage. |
| Current Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| All Bill Status: | 12/14/2016 - (S) WITHDRAWN 12/9/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB70 | CHARTER SCHOOLS (NEAL, GERALD A.; AN ACT relating to charter schools.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to describe the intent of the General Assembly and the purposes of authorizing public charter schools; establish a charter school pilot project and identify charter school authorizer; define terms; describe the characteristics and the requirements of a charter school; identify the requirements and the components of a charter school application; describe the responsibilities of authorizers; describe charter school renewal and revocation processes; identify the components of a charter school annual report; identify the requirements for student enrollment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to identify student enrollment and withdrawal requirements to be followed by a charter school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to identify charter school staff as employees of the authorizer; specify that charter school employees are covered under any existing collective bargaining agreement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to specify the charter school funding process. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/9/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB71 | CIVIL RIGHTS (NEAL, GERALD A.; AN ACT relating to civil rights.
Amend KRS 344.040 to make it unlawful to require a job applicant to disclose his or her criminal history prior to making an offer of employment to the applicant. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/9/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB72 | EXPUNGEMENT (NEAL, GERALD A.; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to expungement.
Amend KRS 431.073 to make additional offenses eligible for expungement; reduce filing fee for felony expungement from $500 to $200; amend KRS 431.076 to allow expungement of charges dismissed without prejudice; amend KRS 431.078 to require certain records to be expunged if the law specifies a period for enhancement and that period has expired; amend KRS 431.079 to limit requirement of certification to convictions which have not been pardoned. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/3/2017 - Introduced (Pre-Filed) 12/9/2016 - Pre-Filed
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SB78 | TOBACCO USE (ALVARADO, RALPH; Adams, Julie Raque) AN ACT prohibiting tobacco use on school property.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit use of tobacco products by students, school personnel, and visitors in schools, school vehicles, properties, and activities; require policies to be in place by the 2018-2019 school year; require smoke-free policies and signage be adopted; specify punishments for use of tobacco products; provide that existing bans are not impacted; repeal 438.050. |
| Current Status: | 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education
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| All Bill Status: | 2/16/2017 - received in House 2/15/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 25-8-2 with Committee Substitute 2/15/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2/10/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/9/2017 - (S) FIRST READING w/SCS1, to Regular Calendar 2/9/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/9/2017 - Senate Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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SB79 | HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS (ALVARADO, RALPH; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny) AN ACT relating to health care providers.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define "direct primary care membership agreement"; establish conditions for services under a direct primary care membership agreement; exempt from KRS Chapter 304. |
| Current Status: | 3/17/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/7/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/7/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/7/2017 - (S) Passed 37-1 3/7/2017 - Senate Concurred in House Committee Substitute 3/7/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in House Committee Substitute on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3/6/2017 - received in Senate w/ Letter 3/6/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 85-6 with Committee Substitute 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 3/1/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/28/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/27/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1 2/24/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/24/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/23/2017 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Regular Calendar 2/23/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 2/23/2017 - House Heath & Family Services, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/22/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Heath & Family Services 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Heath & Family Services 2/16/2017 - received in House 2/15/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-1 with Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1) 2/15/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2/13/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute 2/9/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/8/2017 - (S) FIRST READING w/SCS 1, to Regular Calendar 2/8/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/8/2017 - Senate Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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SB80 | TEACHER CERTIFICATION (WILSON, MIKE; AN ACT relating to the maintenance of teacher certification.
Amend KRS 161.095 to prohibit the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) from imposing conditions for a teacher to maintain his or her certification; amend KRS 161.1211 to prohibit the EPSB from requiring a Rank III teacher to obtain a Rank II or Rank I to maintain his or her certificate; and amend KRS 161.020 and 156.553 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/23/2017 - Senate Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education 1/3/2017 - Introduced
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SB85 | MEDICAL MALPACTRICE (ALVARADO, RALPH; AN ACT relating to evidence of medical malpractice actions.
Create a new section of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence to prohibit the introduction of expressions of sympathy, compassion, commiseration, or a general sense of benevolence in medical malpractice actions. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| All Bill Status: | 1/4/2017 - Introduced
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SB88 | LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (SEUM, DAN; AN ACT relating to the incorporation of cities in counties containing consolidated local governments.
Amend KRS 67C.111 to remove the prohibition on incorporations of cities within consolidated local governments; amend KRS 81.050 and 81A.410 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 2/15/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 1/4/2017 - Introduced
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SB89 | HEALTH BENEFIT COVERAGE (ADAMS, JULIE RAQUE; Alvarado, Ralph; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; McGarvey, Morgan) AN ACT relating to health benefit coverage for tobacco cessation treatment.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurance coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation medicines and services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid coverage for United States Food and Drug Administration-approved tobacco cessation medication and services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; specify restrictions and limits of coverage. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/14/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/14/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 90-1 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3/3/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/2/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/2/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/2/2017 - House Heath & Family Services, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/1/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Heath & Family Services 2/27/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Heath & Family Services 2/22/2017 - received in House 2/22/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-2 2/22/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/17/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2/16/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/15/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/15/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/15/2017 - Senate Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare 1/4/2017 - Introduced
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SB91 | MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT (ADAMS, JULIE RAQUE; Alvarado, Ralph; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Humphries, Stan; Kerr, Alice Forgy; McGarvey, Morgan; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to court-ordered outpatient mental health treatment and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend KRS 202A.081 to require that an attorney be present for a patient agreed order and allow a peer support specialist to be present; require the court to appoint an outpatient provider agency recognized by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to assemble a multi-disciplinary team to develop a treatment plan, monitor treatment adherence, and report to the court; require that crisis services are available 24/7; provide that failure to abide by the order may result in rehospitalization provided that the criteria are met, procedures are initiated via affidavit by the multi-disciplinary team, and mental health examinations take place at community mental health centers; permit additional orders with due process; require that patient agreed order services are covered by Medicaid; require that courts report such orders to the Kentucky Commission on Services and Supports for Individuals with Mental Illness, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Disorders, and Dual Diagnoses; and rename this commitment process a patient agreed order; amend KRS 202A.261 to exempt certain hospitals from being required to provide particular services; amend KRS 202A.271 to require certain hospitals to be paid for services performed under portions of this Act at the same rates the hospital negotiates for other services; create new sections of KRS Chapter 202A to create a process for District Courts to order assisted outpatient mental health treatment; provide for transportation processes for the purposes of a mental health examination; establish eligibility and court proceedings; require a mental health examination and the development of a treatment plan; establish the process for hearings; require the court to appoint an outpatient provider agency to monitor and report on the person under order; authorize 72-hour emergency admission for failure to comply with orders; provide for the right to stay, vacate, or modify orders; provide for a process to change a treatment plan; permit an additional period of treatment to be ordered provided certain criteria are met; require that assisted outpatient treatment services are covered by Medicaid; make the implementation of all newly created sections of KRS Chapter 202A contingent on funding; name these new sections of the bill "Tim's Law"; APPROPRIATION. |
| Current Status: | 3/30/2017 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| All Bill Status: | 3/29/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/29/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/29/2017 - (H) Consideration of Governor's Veto Veto Overridden (91-0) 3/29/2017 - Missing Action! for consideration of Governor's Veto 3/29/2017 - received in House 3/29/2017 - (S) Consideration of Governor's Veto Veto Overridden (35-1) 3/29/2017 - Missing Action! for consideration of Governor's Veto 3/27/2017 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/14/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 95-0 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3/8/2017 - (H) SECOND READING to Rules 3/8/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/8/2017 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/7/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Judiciary 3/7/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 3/7/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary 3/1/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary 2/28/2017 - received in House 2/27/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 34-3 with Committee Substitute 2/27/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1 2/24/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/23/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/22/2017 - (S) FIRST READING w/SCS 1, to Consent Calendar 2/22/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/22/2017 - Senate Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/16/2017 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate Health and Welfare 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 1/4/2017 - Introduced
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SB96 | RADON TESTING (ADAMS, JULIE RAQUE; AN ACT relating to radon testing in childcare centers.
Create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.8996 to require licensed child-care centers to be tested for radon at least once every five years as part of their initial licensure and license renewal; require the most current report to be posted in a public place within the child-care center. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health and Welfare
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| All Bill Status: | 1/5/2017 - Introduced
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SB102 | EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES (ALVARADO, RALPH; Adams, Julie Raque; Schickel, John; Thayer, Damon; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to opportunities in education.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a separate income tax credit for tuition assistance based on contributions made to a qualified scholarship-granting organization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide goals and reporting of metrics related to those goals; amend KRS 141.0205 to establish the order in which the credits may be taken; create a new section of KRS 136.500 to 136.575 to allow financial institutions to take the tax credit against the tax imposed by KRS 136.505; create a new section of KRS 136.500 to 136.575 to order all tax credits; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to publish a list of certified nonpublic schools and nonpublic schools seeking certification; require the Department of Revenue to report information to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 131.190, 131.135, 131.618, 131.650, 131.990, 141.389, and 131.020 to conform. |
| Current Status: | 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 1/6/2017 - Introduced
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SB104 | RETIREMENT BENEFITS (MCDANIEL, CHRISTIAN; AN ACT relating to prospective retirement benefits and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS 6.500 to 6.577 to provide that members of the Legislators' Retirement Plan who retire on or after January 1, 2018, shall be limited to a 10% growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last three years of service to the General Assembly or an employer participating in any of the other state-administered retirement systems, if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2017, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements from the compensation growth limitation; define "bona fide promotion or salary advancements" as a professional advancement in substantially the same line of work held by the member in the four years immediately prior to the three-year period or a change in employment position based upon training, education, or expertise; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall refund contributions and interest on contributions for any reductions in creditable compensation; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement; create a new section of KRS 21.345 to 21.580 to provide that members of the Judicial Retirement Plan who retire on or after January 1, 2018, shall be limited to a 10% annual growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last 60 months of service if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2017, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements from the compensation growth limitation; define "bona fide promotion or salary advancements" as a professional advancement in substantially the same line of work held by the member in the four years immediately prior to the 60-month period or a change in employment position based upon training, education, or expertise; require the Judicial Form Retirement System to refund contributions and interest on contributions for any reductions in creditable compensation; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement; amend KRS 61.598 to provide that members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System who retire on or after January 1, 2018, shall be limited to a 10% growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last five years of employment if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2017, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements, alternative sick leave payments, and lump-sum payments for compensatory time from the compensation growth limitation; exempt from the compensation growth limitation those years of compensation where in the immediately preceding fiscal year the member earned less than 12 months of service credit during the fiscal year, was paid worker's compensation benefits, was on leave without pay for any reason, earned increases directly attributable to overtime hours worked under a federal grant, grant pass-through, or similar program, or earned increases directly attributable to overtime performed during a state of emergency; provide that the Kentucky Retirement Systems shall refund employee contributions and interest on contributions for any reductions in creditable compensation provided by this section; provide that the Kentucky Retirement Systems shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement and allow the member to appeal a decision of the system to the board; remove provisions charging employers for creditable compensation growth greater than 10% during the employee's last five years of employment; create a new section of KRS 21.345 to 21.580 to permit a member of the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Judicial Retirement Plan to opt out of the traditional defined benefit plan and elect to participate in the hybrid cash balance plan; provide that, on the member's effective election date, the value of the member's accumulated contributions, less any interest, shall be deposited into the member's hybrid cash balance account and be considered part of the member's accumulated account balance; provide that on the member's effective election date, an employer pay credit shall be applied to the member's accumulated account balance for each contributing month prior to the effective election date; require the Judicial Form Retirement System to provide the electing member with information detailing the consequences of the member's election; provide that a member shall not be eligible to make an election until a private letter ruling by the IRS is received; make the benefit election under this section irrevocable; amend KRS 21.402 to conform; create a new section of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to permit a member of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, or the State Police Retirement System to opt out of the traditional defined benefit plan and elect to participate in the hybrid cash balance plan; provide that, on the member's effective election date, the value of the member's accumulated contributions, less any interest, shall be deposited into the member's hybrid cash balance account and be considered part of the member's accumulated account balance; provide that on the member's effective election date, an employer pay credit shall be applied to the member's accumulated account balance for each contributing month prior to the effective election date; require the Kentucky Retirement Systems to provide the electing member with information detailing the consequences of the member's election; provide that a member shall not be eligible to make an election until a private letter ruling by the IRS is received; make the benefit election under this section irrevocable; amend KRS 6.525, 16.583, 16.645, 61.597 and 78.545 to make technical and conforming amendments; provide for severability among provisions of the Act; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 3/27/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 72-17 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3/3/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/2/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/2/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/2/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/1/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/21/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/16/2017 - received in House 2/15/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute 2/15/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1 2/13/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2/9/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/8/2017 - (S) FIRST READING w/SCS 1, to Regular Calendar 2/8/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/8/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 1/6/2017 - Introduced
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SB107 | GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENTS (STIVERS, ROBERT; AN ACT relating to gubernatorial appointments and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 63.080 to permit the Governor or other appointing authority to remove and replace certain board or council appointments to comply with statutory proportional representation requirements for the board or council and to permit the Governor to remove and replace appointments if a board or council is unable to perform its statutory duties; amend KRS 156.029, 164.011, 164.131, 164.180, 164.321, 164.350, 164.821, and 164.830 to conform; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 3/21/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING; floor amendment (1) defeated; passed 60-33 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 3/7/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017 3/7/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/6/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 3/6/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/6/2017 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/3/2017 - (H) posted in committee House State Government 2/27/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government 2/23/2017 - received in House 2/23/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 32-6 with Committee Substitute 2/23/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1 2/22/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/22/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably w/SCS 1, to Rules 2/22/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/8/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/8/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 2/8/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/8/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/7/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/7/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 2/7/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 1/7/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 1/7/2017 - Introduced
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SB109 | CONSOLIDATED LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (MCGARVEY, MORGAN; Seum, Dan) AN ACT relating to planning and zoning in consolidated local governments.
Amend KRS 100.137 to clarify the powers of certain cities within a consolidated local government regarding home rule powers that do not conflict with the comprehensive plan. |
| Current Status: | 2/8/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| All Bill Status: | 1/7/2017 - Introduced
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SB114 | MOTOR VEHICLE COVERAGE (GIRDLER, RICK; AN ACT relating to required minimum tort liability coverage for motor vehicles.
Amend KRS 304.39-110 to increase required minimum tort liability coverage for motor vehicle insurance arising out of property damage to $25,000. |
| Current Status: | 4/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/29/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/29/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/29/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/29/2017 - (S) Passed 36-0 3/29/2017 - Senate Concurred in House floor amendment (1) 3/29/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in House floor amendment (1) for Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3/15/2017 - received in Senate w/Letter 3/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 91-1 with floor amendment (1) 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HFA 1 3/14/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/7/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/6/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 3/3/2017 - taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 3/3/2017 - (H) Placed in the Regular Orders of the Day 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017 3/2/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/1/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - House Banking & Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/28/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Banking & Insurance 2/28/2017 - (H) reassigned to committee House Banking & Insurance 2/27/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation 2/23/2017 - received in House 2/23/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 with floor amendment (1) 2/23/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SFA 1 2/22/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/21/2017 - floor amendment (1) filed 2/15/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/14/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Regular Calendar 2/14/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/14/2017 - Senate Banking and Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/8/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Banking and Insurance 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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SB116 | MEDICAL IMAGING BOARD (MEREDITH, STEPHEN; AN ACT relating to the board of medical imaging and radiation therapy and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 311B.100 to require individuals licensed or certified in another state in the field of medical imaging and radiation therapy to be licensed by the board if they have graduated from a postsecondary institution, passed a national certifying examination, are licensed in good standing in another jurisdiction, have at least 5 years of experience, and have maintained continuing education requirements; allow the board to deny licensure for cause; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 3/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/6/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/6/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/6/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/3/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 96-0 3/3/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/2/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 3, 2017 3/2/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/1/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/1/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/1/2017 - House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/28/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations 2/27/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations 2/22/2017 - received in House 2/21/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 2/21/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day 2/17/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2/15/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably to Rules 2/15/2017 - Senate Health and Welfare, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/14/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Health and Welfare 2/14/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 2/14/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/13/2017 - (S) reassigned to committee Senate Health and Welfare 2/13/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 2/13/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/8/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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SB118 | SCHOOL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (SCHRODER, WIL; AN ACT relating to school financial statements.
Amend KRS 424.220 to provide certain school districts an alternative method of publishing annual financial statements by publishing the statement prominently on the district's Web site for not less than 90 days and by publishing a legal display advertisement in a qualified newspaper that announces the statement has been prepared and published on the Web site, provides the electronic address of that Web site, and notifies that copies of the statement have been provided to local newspapers, news services, and radio and television stations that have requested receipt of the statement; amend KRS 160.463 to provide school districts with 300,000 or more inhabitants with the same alternative method of publishing annual financial statements. |
| Current Status: | 2/23/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| All Bill Status: | 2/23/2017 - (S) SECOND READING 2/23/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/22/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/22/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 2/22/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/22/2017 - Senate State and Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/8/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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SB119 | POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION (GIVENS, DAVID P.; AN ACT relating to post-secondary education contract spaces and an approration therefor and declaring an emergency.
Appropriate supplemental General Fund moneys in each year of the 2016-2018 fiscal biennium to the Council on Postsecondary Education to fully fund veterinary medicine and optometry slots; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - (H) reassigned to committee House Appropriations & Revenue
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| All Bill Status: | 2/27/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Education 2/23/2017 - received in House 2/23/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 2/23/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017 2/21/2017 - (S) SECOND READING to Rules 2/21/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/21/2017 - Senate Appropriations and Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/17/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 2/17/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 2/17/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/8/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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SB120 | CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS (WESTERFIELD, WHITNEY; AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments, in making an appropriation therefor.
Amend KRS 17.510 to provide that juveniles adjudicated in other states are not required to register in Kentucky and make the provision retroactive; amend KRS 453.190 to define a "poor person" as one who has an income at or below 100% on the Supreme Court's sliding scale of indigency; amend KRS 534.060 to provide that no person shall be imprisoned for nonpayment of fines or court costs unless the failure to pay was willful and not due to an inability to pay; amend KRS 534.070 to raise the daily credit against a fine or court costs for time served to $75 per day or $150 per day if the defendant works at a community service or community labor program; provide that a jailer shall release the defendant, unless the defendant is incarcerated on other orders, once he or she has sufficient credit to satisfy the fine or court costs; amend KRS 23A.205 and 24A.175 to provide that if a defendant is a poor person and that he or she is unable to pay court costs in the foreseeable future, the defendant shall not be ordered to pay court costs or placed in jail for failing to pay court costs; amend various statutes to conform; amend KRS 439.250 and 439.345 to provide supervised compliance credits for some individuals on probation, parole, and post-release supervision; amend KRS 439.3108 to increase the time the Department of Corrections or the Parole Board can place a supervised individual who violates the conditions of community supervision in a detention facility; amend KRS 439.3401 to prohibit those convicted of manslaughter in the 2nd degree, reckless homicide, fetal homicide in the 3rd degree, and fetal homicide in the 4th degree from being paroled until he or she serves at least 50% of the sentence imposed; prohibit those convicted of a violation of manslaughter in the second degree or reckless homicide, when the victim was a peace officer or firefighter killed in the line of duty, from being paroled until he or she serves at least 85% of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 439.3406 to prohibit an inmate from being placed on mandatory reentry supervision if the inmate has not served at least 6 months since he or she was recommitted for a violation or has twice been released on mandatory reentry supervision; create new sections of KRS Chapter 439 to require the Department of Corrections to implement a reentry drug supervision pilot program for certain inmates and parolees with substance use disorders; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to allow law enforcement organizations to create Angel Initiative Programs; amend KRS 202A.121 to allow appointed counsel access to records; create a new section of KRS Chapter 197 to allow the Department of Corrections to administer a Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP); create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to require the Kentucky State Corrections Commission to oversee a PIECP; amend various sections in KRS Chapter 335B relating to employment and licensure of persons convicted of crimes to narrow the class of offenses to which the chapter applies, to add consideration of the passage of time since the commission of the offense to the criteria considered in making licensure decisions, to delete language relating to a hiring or licensing authority's subjective view of an ex-offender's rehabilitation, and to require an open hearing prior to a license denial for an ex-offender; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 335B.060 to exempt peace officers and other law enforcement personnel; repeal KRS 335B.040; amend various statutes to conform; amend KRS 532.100 to allow Class C and D felons eligible for placement in a local jail to participate in an approved community work program or other form of work release with the approval of the Department of Corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 533 to allow jails to operate a day reporting program; create new sections of KRS Chapter 441 to operate a reentry center with the approval of the Department of Corrections; amend various statutes to conform; amend KRS 15.280 to provide that the Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center is not the record custodian of the data sent to the center; amend KRS 15A.075 to reconstitute the Criminal Justice Counsel; create new sections of KRS Chapter 197 to specify how cost savings shall be calculated and create the criminal justice reinvestment fund to collect and appropriate those savings. |
| Current Status: | 4/10/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/29/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/29/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/29/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/29/2017 - (S) Passed 36-0 3/29/2017 - Senate Concurred in House Committee Substitute (2) 3/29/2017 - Missing Action! for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (2) for Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3/15/2017 - received in Senate w/Letter 3/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 85-9 with Committee Substitute (2) 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/15/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably to Rules w/HCS 1, HCS 2 3/14/2017 - floor amendment (5) filed to Committee Substitute and floor amendment (6) filed 3/14/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary 3/14/2017 - (H) recommitted to committee House Judiciary 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/HCS 1, HFA 1, 2, 3, 4 3/8/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3/7/2017 - (H) SECOND READING to Rules 3/7/2017 - floor amendment (1), (2), (3), and (4) filed to Committee Substitute 3/7/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably w/HCS 1 3/6/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Judiciary 3/6/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 3/6/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/28/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary 2/28/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary 2/27/2017 - received in House 2/24/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 35-1 with Committee Substitute 2/24/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 24, 2017 2/23/2017 - (S) SECOND READING to Rules 2/23/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably w/SCS 1, to Rules 2/23/2017 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/16/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Judiciary 2/16/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 2/16/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/10/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary 2/9/2017 - Introduced
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SB126 | RETIREMENT SYSTEM (MCDANIEL, CHRISTIAN; Schickel, John) AN ACT relating to the final compensation calculation for state and county employees entering the retirement systems on or after September 1st, 2008.
Amend KRS 16.505, 61.510 and 78.510 to define final compensation to allow state and county employees, who entered the retirement systems on or after September 1, 2008, but prior to January 1, 2014, to use partial fiscal years, which may contain less than 12 months of service credit, to reach a final compensation calculation that is at least 60 months for non-hazardous employees and at least 36 months for hazardous employees. |
| Current Status: | 3/27/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 97-0 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/8/2017 - (H) SECOND READING to Rules 3/8/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/8/2017 - House Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/7/2017 - (H) Returned to Committee House Local Government 3/7/2017 - (H) FIRST READING 3/7/2017 - (H) Taken From Committee 3/6/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government 3/3/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government 3/1/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government 2/28/2017 - received in House 2/27/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 37-0 2/27/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 2/24/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017 2/22/2017 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules 2/21/2017 - (S) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 2/21/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/21/2017 - Senate Appropriations and Revenue, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/8/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue 2/7/2017 - Introduced
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SB135 | HEALTH SERVICE CORPORATIONS (BUFORD, TOM; AN ACT relating to non-profit health service corporations.
Amend KRS 304.32-130 to remove the requirement that dues may not result in excess reserves; and to establish alternative criteria for the determine of member or subscriber dues for nonprofit hospital, medical-surgical, dental, or other health service plan. |
| Current Status: | 3/27/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 97-0 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/14/2017 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules 3/8/2017 - (H) FIRST READING to Consent Calendar 3/8/2017 - (H) Reported Favorably 3/8/2017 - House Banking & Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 3/6/2017 - (H) posted in committee House Banking & Insurance 3/6/2017 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance 3/3/2017 - received in House 3/2/2017 - (S) THIRD READING, passed 38-0 3/2/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/1/2017 - (S) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 2, 2017 2/28/2017 - (S) SECOND READING to Rules 2/28/2017 - (S) Reported Favorably 2/28/2017 - House Banking & Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing) 2/21/2017 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Banking and Insurance 2/21/2017 - (S) FIRST READING 2/21/2017 - (S) Taken From Committee 2/9/2017 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Banking and Insurance 2/8/2017 - Introduced
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SB136 | TUITION FOR NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS (CARPENTER, JARED; Buford, Tom; Adams, Julie Raque; Carroll, Julian M.; Carroll, Danny; Humphries, Stan; Smith, Brandon) AN ACT relating to in-state tuition for Kentucky national guard members.
Amend KRS 164.2844 to require any active member of the Kentucky National Guard to be treated as a Kentucky resident for tuition purposes when enrolling in a Kentucky public postsecondary institution. |
| Current Status: | 3/27/2017 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| All Bill Status: | 3/15/2017 - delivered to Governor 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House 3/15/2017 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate 3/15/2017 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 97-0 3/15/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day 3/14/2017 - (H) Posted for Passage in Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3/8/2017 - (H) SECOND READIN |