| HB136 | Pass | Amend KRS 91A.070 to establish procedures for city ad valorem taxes not collected by the sheriff, including the due date, possible installment payments, penalties and interest for nonpayment, and other matters not in conflict with law; ordinance may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 99) |
| HB340 | Pass | Amend KRS 148.542 to add definitions for "enhanced incentive county," "Kentucky-based company," and "resident"; amend KRS 148.544 to establish thresholds for Kentucky-based companies to qualify for the film tax credit incentives and lower the thresho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 74) |
| HB276 | Pass | Amend KRS 224A.111 governing loans made by the Kentucky Infrastructure authority using the federally assisted wastewater fund to provide for a 30 year payback and to commence principal and interest payments on the loan no later than one year after in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 73) |
| HB407 | Pass | Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to abolish the Office of Mine Safety and Licensing, the Division of Safety Analysis, Training, and Certification, and the Division of Safety Inspection and Licensing; create the Division of Mine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 87) |
| HB330 | Pass | Amend KRS 156.730 to clarify the process of appointing a member from the Senate and House of Representatives to the Kentucky State Council for the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 90) |
| SB193 | Pass | Amend KRS 45A.850 to allow the executive director to recommend to the Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet as a managing underwriter the Kentucky underwriter which received the highest score for specific bond transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 81) |
| HB203 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 121.180 to establish a single threshold for campaign finance reporting; EFFECTIVE November 4, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Bill defeated 43-49 |
| HB299 | Pass | Amend KRS 132.380 to clarify that, if a second property valuation administrator exam within a county is necessary, notice shall be made by issuing a press release in that county and by posting an announcement on the Web site of the Department of Reve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 67) |
| SB192 | Pass | Amend KRS 443.053 to provide that so long as there is no material change to an existing contract, an entity, corporation, and organization currently contracted with a unit of local government, combination of units of local government, or regional aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 66) |
| HB449 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.346 to require schools that remain classified as persistently low-achieving for four years to implement the internal innovation option; provide requirements of the internal innovation option.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate |
| HB528 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 528.010 to include in the definition of "gambling device" an electronic device used to facilitate Internet gambling and to define "simulated gambling program"; amend KRS 528.100 to conform EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| HB306 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 6.350 to specify that the actuarial analysis required on retirement legislation shall include the impact on funding levels and unfunded liabilities over time; specify the qualification requirements of the actuary completing the analysis; am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day |
| HB270 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 214.185 to permit mental health professionals to provide outpatient mental health counseling to minors aged 16 and older upon their request without the consent of a parent or guardian and to permit mental health services to be provided to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB143 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 246.010 to include bees within the definition of "livestock."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Conference Committee appointed in Senate |
| HB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 222.005 to define "pathological gambling" and "problem gambling"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to establish the Problem and Pathological Gamblers Awareness and Treatment Program; direct the use of funds and limit annual administra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| HB71 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 222.005 to define "incapacitated by alcohol and other drug abuse"; amend KRS 222.431 to permit a person meeting the definition of "incapacitated by alcohol and other drug abuse" to be court ordered to treatment; amend KRS 222.432 to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To House Rules Committee |
| HB353 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 6.521, 6.525, 6.577, 21.345, 21.402, 21.405, 21.410, 21.420, and 21.427 to make technical and clerical changes for the Legislative Retirement Plan and the Judicial Retirement Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day |
| SB115 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 171 to establish the Books for Brains Program to promote the development of a comprehensive statewide program for encouraging preschool children to develop an appreciation of books; attach the program to the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To House Rules Committee |
| HB412 | Engross
Sine Die | Confirm Executive Orders 2014-460 and 2014-559, which reorganize various offices in the Department of Education; amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.017 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day |
| HB236 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.352 to allow a high school student enrolled in the district to be appointed to the superintendent screening committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To House Rules Committee |
| HB256 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Rules Committee |
| HB206 | Intro
Sine Die | 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; apply the provision retroactively to citations issued on or after July 1, 2014; EM...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Rules Committee |
| HB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to create definitions and establish authority and standards for expedited partner therapy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Rules Committee |
| HB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 238.505 add exceptions to the definition of "year"; include electronic gaming device as a new definition; amend KRS 238.530 to increase the distributor license fee from $1,000 to $2,500; increase the manufacturing license fee to $3,500; ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Rules Committee |
| SB91 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 96.530 and KRS 96.740 to require members appointed to city utility commissions and municipal utility boards to be customers of the utility; requirement that these appointees be residents, taxpayers and voters of the city is deleted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Local Government Committee |
| HB91 | Pass | Amend KRS 238.505 to include banquets in the list of activities that may be considered to be charity fundraising events; amend KRS 238.535 to allow raffles to be conducted beyond the limits of a county; amend KRS 238.545 to allow minors to play bingo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 45) |
| SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to establish procedures for local governments to enter into the retail or wholesale sale of a commercial product or service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | amend KRS 133.047 to clarify that Department of Revenue shall provide a fee schedule; define "reasonable fee" to each property valuation administrator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| HB429 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.8996 to establish the Kentucky Child Care Advisory Council; establish membership; establish duties; and require an annual report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 49) |
| HB188 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 620.040 to require unannounced visits to the residence or location where the reported child abuse or neglect or human trafficking of a child occurred; amend KRS 620.050 to require ongoing unannounced visits to the residence or location wher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| HB321 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 116.095 to require that the county clerk redact the Social Security number from any voter registration record before allowing the record to be inspected, duplicated, or furnished.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HB512 | Pass | Amend KRS 131.600 to add definitions; amend KRS 131.602 to require nonparticipating manufacturers to post a financial instrument in addition to posting an escrow; require nonparticipating manufacturers to certify compliance; require importer to be jo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 55) |
| SB201 | Pass | Amend KRS 158.030 to ensure tuition charged to a student who is allowed to enroll in a primary school program before meeting the age requirement is the same as the tuition charged to a student who meets the age requirement; clarify that students enro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 62) |
| HB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend 158.6453 to allow school-based decision making councils to select and use interim or formative assessments for their students; amend KRS 160.345 to require school councils to adopt a policy regarding the testing and reporting of student progres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Education Committee |
| HB201 | Pass | Amend KRS 382.520 to provide that a loan secured by a real estate mortgage shall secure payment of all interest rate modifications, rather than interest rate reductions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 48) |
| HB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 146 to establish an endangered and threatened plant species list to be maintained by the Kentucky State Nature Preserves commission; prohibit the taking or possession of an endangered and threatened plant species wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Rules Committee |
| SB168 | Pass | Amend KRS 154.33-501 to replace reference to the East Kentucky Corporation with reference to Shaping Our Appalachian Region, Inc; amend KRS 154.33-550 to create the Kentucky Appalachian Regional Development Fund, to be administered by the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 58) |
| SB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Ch 65, defining dog and local government, allowing regulation of animal welfare and public safety, so long as the regulation does not discriminate on the basis of dog breed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a short title, "The Sherry Ballard Fetal Homicide Act," for KRS 507A.010 to 507A.060.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
| HB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; require the Department for Public Health to promulgate administrative regulations for emergency allergy treatment training and certification and stocking of epinephrine auto-injectors; permit th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Rules Committee |
| HB212 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 117.075 and 117.085 to allow voters who on account of age, disability, or illness are not able to appear at the polls on election day to cast an absentee ballot on those days in-person absentee voting is conducted in the county clerk's offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| HB498 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter160 to require a targeted focus school to undergo an audit and implement an internal innovation plan; define "focus school" and "internal innovation plan"; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Rules Committee |
| SB51 | Pass | Amend KRS 202A.400, relating to the duty to take precautions against a patient's violent behavior, to expand the definition of "patient" to include persons currently under the care or treatment of mental health professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 61) |
| HB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 351.106 to require an additional two hours of annual first-aid training for mine foremen; allow the annual mine foremen training to be completed nonconsecutively and to be provided by a certified mine instructor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Rules Committee |
| SB140 | Pass | Amend KRS 620.270 to require that interested parties be notified of a review to be conducted by a citizen foster care review board review and of the right to attend and participate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 63) |
| HB243 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 supplementa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To House Rules Committee |
| SB114 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 237.110 to prohibit administrative regulations which would require concealed deadly weapon license applicants to clean guns in class; replace hands-on classroom gun cleaning requirements with instructor demonstrations; allow firearms safety...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
placed in the Orders of the Day |
| SB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.345 to require the school superintendent to consult with the principal or principal's designee and the school council when establishing school policy, making personnel decisions, determining instructional materials, and student support ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB100 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to allow local governments to establish energy project assessment district programs in order to advance the efficient use of energy and water resources by allowing for energy projects to be financed by assessment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 54) |
| SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to establish a putative father registry in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; set forth what data the registry will contain and who may access the data; amend KRS 199.480 and 199.990 to conform; amend K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate Health and Welfare Committee |
