KY HB8 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Passed on April 12 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-12 - filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 166)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Passed on April 12 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-12 - filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 166)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Summary
Amends KRS 68.200 to define “gross receipts” and to apply the license fee to gross receipts derived from transportation network company services; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 131 to require that the Department of Revenue submit an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue pertaining to tax law changes and actions taken by the department; amends KRS 131.010 to define “administrative writings” and “tax form”; amends KRS 131.020 to establish requirements for the Office of Tax Policy and Regulation within the Department of Revenue to publish administrative writings, tax forms, and instructions to the tax forms on its website; amends KRS 131.030, 131.081, 131.130, and 131.131 to conform; amends KRS 131.190 to allow reporting of information by the Department of Revenue; amends KRS 131.400, 131.420, 131.435, 131.440, and 131.445 to require that the Department of Revenue offer a tax amnesty program, to provide various revenue measures for the operation of certain state agencies, to allow the Executive Branch Ethics Commission to increase the registration fee to provide funding for a new online filing system, to require that the Office of the State Budget Director submit reports on tax expenditure recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue, and to apply specified provisions to 2023-2024, 2024-2025, and 2025-2026 fiscal years; amends KRS 138.472 to define terms and to allow a bad debt deduction for the motor vehicle rental and ride share excise tax; amends KRS 138.475 and 186.050 to remove hybrid vehicles from the electric vehicle ownership fee; amends KRS 138.510 to redistribute up to $250,000 per fiscal year in historical horse racing pari-mutuel tax revenues to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission for the benefit of Thoroughbred, standardbred, and American quarter horse aftercare facilities in Kentucky and up to $250,000 per fiscal year to the Kentucky equine management internship program, to eliminate distributions of the excise tax on historical horse races to the Kentucky Thoroughbred and standardbred breeders incentive funds, to include the Bluegrass Community and Technical College in the distribution of pari-mutuel tax revenues that are required to be used for construction, expansion or renovation of facilities or the purchase of equipment for equine programs, and to require the host track to grant the Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet a race title sponsorship and promotional package at multiple-day international harness racing event with purses and awards over $5 million; amends KRS 138.513 to make a technical correction; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to allow a sales and use tax exemption for a preliminarily approved company or an approved company; amends KRS 139.470 to increase the sales and use tax de minimis filing threshold to $12,000; amends KRS 139.480 to exempt the sale, use, storage, or consumption of currency and bullion from sales and use tax; amends KRS 140.040 to define “power of appointment” to mean only a general power of appointment; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow an income tax credit for the sales and use tax paid on a qualified broadband investment in this state; amends KRS 141.010 to update the Internal Revenue Code reference date to the Internal Revenue Code in effect on December 31, 2023, for income tax purposes; amends KRS 141.020 to further define “GF appropriations” to exclude any appropriation from the budget reserve trust fund account that is supported solely by moneys from the budget reserve trust fund account and specifically identified in the appropriation language as not being a GF appropriation; extends the sunset date to January 1, 2027, in relation to the exclusions from income tax earned by nonresident disaster response employees and disaster response businesses; amends KRS 141.0205 to order the qualified broadband investment tax credit; amends KRS 141.039 to delay the deferred tax deduction until January 1, 2026; amends KRS 141.040 to extend the sunset date to January 1, 2027, in relation to the exclusions from income tax earned by disaster response businesses; amends KRS 143.022 to allow refunds of tax paid on coal transported directly to a market outside of North America until July 1, 2026; creates new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish an economic development program for data centers, to define terms, to make declarations and state purposes for the sales and use tax incentive, to provide a process for companies to apply, to prohibit the rehabilitation or replacement of existing data centers, and to require a memorandum of agreement between the Cabinet for Economic Development and an eligible company; amends KRS 154.30-010 to allow modified new revenues for income tax to be used for calendar years 2023 to 2026; amends KRS 186.010 to eliminate the definition of “hybrid vehicle”; amends KRS 186.162 to require the Transportation Cabinet to identify the cost of issuing a child victims’ trust fund special license plate and to require the transfer of revenues received in excess of the cost to the child victims’ trust fund; amends KRS 186.531 to eliminate fees for obtaining certain personal identification cards; amends KRS 224.50-868 to extend the fee currently imposed for each new motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer tire sold in Kentucky to July 1, 2026; amends KRS 224.60-130 to extend the date for reimbursements of corrective action projects using moneys in the petroleum storage tank account; amends KRS 224.60-142 to extend the date of registration for owners of petroleum storage tanks containing motor fuels in order to be eligible to participate in the fund and extends the date allowing owners and operators to submit affidavits and applications through July 15, 2031, relevant to current petroleum storage tank accounts; amends KRS 224.60-145 to extend the small operator assistance and small operator tank removal accounts to July 15, 2031; amends KRS 230.400 to require that $100,000 each fiscal year be transferred from the Kentucky Thoroughbred development fund to the Kentucky problem gambling assistance account; amends KRS 230.445 to require that $25,000 each fiscal year be transferred from the Kentucky quarter horse, paint horse, Appaloosa, and Arabian development fund to the Kentucky problem gambling assistance account; amends KRS 230.770 to require that $75,000 each fiscal year be transferred from the Kentucky standardbred development fund to the Kentucky problem gambling assistance account, to require the racing commission to account for all moneys within the standardbred development fund by separating those moneys as required for distribution, to establish an international harness racing event reserve account for a Kentucky track that hosts an international harness racing event spanning several days and distributes at least $5 million in purses and awards, and beginning July 31, 2024, to provide that $300,000 from the standardbred development fund be transferred annually to the international harness racing reserve account until the reserve account reaches $900,000; RETROACTIVE; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY;
Title
AN ACT relating to fiscal matters, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Sponsors
| Rep. Jason Petrie [R] | Rep. Steven Rudy [R] | Rep. Josh Bray [R] |
Roll Calls
2024-03-28 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 418 (Y: 87 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2024-03-28 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/FINAL fccr1 RSN# 3189 (Y: 34 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2024-03-25 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 3042 (Y: 36 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-03-15 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 298 (Y: 73 N: 11 NV: 0 Abs: 14) [PASS]
2024-03-28 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/FINAL fccr1 RSN# 3189 (Y: 34 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2024-03-25 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 3042 (Y: 36 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-03-15 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 298 (Y: 73 N: 11 NV: 0 Abs: 14) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 166) |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | House ruled line item vetoes invalid |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | taken from the Orders of the Day |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | taken from Rules |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | to Rules (H) |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | received in House |
| 2024-04-10 | House | became law on April 10, 2024, without Governor's Signature |
| 2024-04-09 | House | 2 line items vetoed |
| 2024-03-28 | House | delivered to Governor |
| 2024-03-28 | House | enrolled, signed by President of the Senate |
| 2024-03-28 | House | enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House |
| 2024-03-28 | House | passed 87-9 with Free Conference Committee Report (1) |
| 2024-03-28 | House | Free Conference Committee report adopted in House |
| 2024-03-28 | House | posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Free Conference Committee Report (1) |
| 2024-03-28 | House | taken from Rules |
| 2024-03-28 | House | to Rules (H) |
| 2024-03-28 | House | received in House |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | passed 34-0 with Free Conference Committee Report (1) |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Committee Report (1) |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | Free Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | Conference Committee report adopted in House and Senate |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | Conference Committee appointed in House |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | Conference Committee appointed in Senate |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | Senate refused to recede from Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | posted for passage for receding from Senate Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | to Rules (S) |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-03-26 | House | House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-26 | House | posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-25 | House | to Rules (H) |
| 2024-03-25 | House | received in House |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | passed 36-1 with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | floor amendment (1) withdrawn |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | 3rd reading |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 25, 2024 |
| 2024-03-22 | Senate | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-03-22 | Senate | floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-03-21 | Senate | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-15 | Senate | to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| 2024-03-15 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-03-15 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-03-15 | House | 3rd reading, passed 73-11 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-03-14 | House | placed in the Orders of the Day |
| 2024-03-14 | House | taken from Rules |
| 2024-03-14 | House | reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-03-05 | House | returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H) |
| 2024-03-05 | House | 2nd reading |
| 2024-03-05 | House | taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H) |
| 2024-03-04 | House | returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H) |
| 2024-03-04 | House | 1st reading |
| 2024-03-04 | House | taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H) |
| 2024-03-01 | House | to Appropriations & Revenue (H) |
| 2024-02-26 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-02-26 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Appropriations
Budget and Financial Administration
Environment and Conservation
Fees
Fiscal Note
Fuel
Local Mandate
Motor Vehicles
Budget and Financial Administration
Environment and Conservation
Fees
Fiscal Note
Fuel
Local Mandate
Motor Vehicles
