Kentucky House Bill 34 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-01-03 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; create a new section in KRS Chapter 337 to define "city," "prevailing wage," "prevailing wage rate," and "public works project"; permit a city to enact prevailing wage ordinances; amend KRS 65.016 to grant local governments the authority to adopt and enforce ordinances that require employers in their jurisdiction to provide leave to employees and set a higher minimum wage than state and federal rates; amend KRS 65.870 to remove state preemption of local firearms regulations and allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 237.115 to conform; amend KRS 383.210 and 383.215, relating to forcible entry and detainer, to allow a local government to set an alternative time period from the date of the service of the warrant and the date of the hearing to more than the minimum of three days; require the local government to notify the sheriff, the court of jurisdiction, and the administrative office of the courts of that action.

AN ACT relating to local regulatory actions.

Rep. Josie Raymond [D]

Rep. George Brown [D]

Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton [D]

Rep. Daniel Grossberg [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-01-03	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-01-03	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/hb34.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/hb34/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/23RS/hb34/LM.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/23RS/hb34/CI.pdf