Kentucky House Bill 28 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: Passed on April 10 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-04-10 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 75)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #5) [MS Word]

Amend KRS 6.611 to implement the "no cup of coffee" rule for legislators, limit allowable payments for attendance of individual legislators to events held in-state, define "in-state" and include administrative regulations and legislative proposals not introduced in the General Assembly to the definition of "legislation"; amend KRS 6.747 to specify that the legislative agent or employer may not furnish out-of-state transportation or lodging for a legislator with certain exceptions; amend KRS 6.767 to prohibit a legislator, candidate, or campaign committee from accepting a campaign contribution from an executive agency lobbyist, or an employer of a legislative agent or executive agency lobbyist during a regular session of the General Assembly, except for a special election held during a regular session of the General Assembly; amend KRS 6.811 to prohibit a legislative agent or employer from giving anything of value to a legislative candidate, prohibit a legislative agent from soliciting, controlling, or delivering a campaign contribution, prohibit an employer of a legislative agent from making a campaign contribution to a legislator, candidate, campaign committee, or caucus campaign committee during a regular session of the General Assembly, and delete language allowing legislative agents and their employers to purchase food or beverages for legislators not to exceed $100 ("no cup of coffee" rule); amend KRS 6.821 to conform, and to include the cost of advertising during a General Assembly by an employer of a legislative agent or their affiliates in the employer's statement filed with the Legislative Ethics Commission..

AN ACT relating to the Code of Legislative Ethics.

Rep. Brent Yonts [D]	Rep. Mitchel Denham [D]	Rep. James Glenn [D]	Rep. Jeff Hoover [R]
Rep. Martha King [D]	Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]	Rep. Tom Riner [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-04-10	House	signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 75)
2014-03-31	House	delivered to Governor
2014-03-31	House	enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
2014-03-31	House	passed 95-0
2014-03-31	House	House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute
2014-03-31	House	posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute
2014-03-31	House	to Rules (H)
2014-03-31	House	received in House
2014-03-31	Senate	3rd reading, passed 35-1 with Committee Substitute
2014-03-31	Senate	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 31, 2014
2014-03-28	Senate	reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute as a Consent Bill
2014-03-27	Senate	returned to State & Local Government (S)
2014-03-27	Senate	1st reading
2014-03-27	Senate	taken from State & Local Government (S)
2014-03-13	Senate	to State & Local Government (S)
2014-03-11	Senate	received in Senate
2014-03-10	House	3rd reading, passed 94-0 with Committee Substitute
2014-03-06	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 7, 2014
2014-02-28	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2014-02-27	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
2014-02-18	House	posted in committee
2014-01-07	House	to State Government (H)
2014-01-07	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/HB28.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/HB28/bill.doc
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/HB28/HCS1.doc
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/HB28/SCS1.doc
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/HB28/vote_history.pdf