| KY | HB147 | Pass | Amends KRS 132.017 to define “next regular election,” as it pertains to placing on the ballot the question of whether a local property tax rate shall be levied, to specify that the election may occur in the same or a subsequent calendar year as t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-27
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 225) |
| KY | HB388 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to provide that members of local boards, commissions, committees, and other bodies created by or appointed by consolidated local governments have geographic diversity; amends KRS 67C.103 to require that the ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 181) |
| KY | HB509 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 61.870 to 61.884, the Open Records Act, to require a public agency to furnish an officer, employee, board member, or commission member an agency email account; define terms; allow the governing body of a public agency or i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB723 | Pass | Amends KRS 147A.154 and 147A.158 to sunset the existing Government Resources Accelerating Needed Transformation (GRANT) Program as established in the Department for Local Government and to transfer the moneys in the existing fund to the Cabinet for E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 188) |
| KY | HB596 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS 65.210 to 65.300 to make interlocal agreements concerning the sharing of occupational or insurance premium tax revenue between a city and a county terminable only with the consent of both parties; amends KRS 65.250 to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 158) |
| KY | HB323 | Pass | Amends KRS 95A.262 to permit the Kentucky Fire Commission to establish a reimbursement program for cancer screenings for firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 142) |
| KY | HB418 | Pass | Amends KRS 262.850 to decrease the minimum number of acres to qualify as an agricultural district from 250 acres to 50 acres, to add cities that are within one mile of the agricultural district to the list of entities to be notified of the proposal, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 136) |
| KY | HB472 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 381 to allow the appointment of a receiver for a planned community when it fails to maintain the infrastructure, common area, storm water detention or retention area, or other facility that it is legally obligated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 150) |
| KY | HB533 | Pass | Amends KRS 103.240 to include the payment of working capital expenditures as an allowable use for moneys received from the sale of bonds; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 128) |
| KY | HB782 | Pass | Creates a new section within KRS 15.530 to 15.590 to create the Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator academy and to add training provisions for part-time telecommunicators h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 108) |
| KY | HB443 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to require that local laws dealing with subdivision plats and development plans be set out by objective standards and applied ministerially, and to set out conditions for application of discretion; EFFECTIVE J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.34) |
| KY | HB475 | Pass | Amends KRS 441.053, relating to jail health care operations, to remove the prohibition that an entity that provides medical, dental, psychological, or pharmacy services to the Department of Corrections and local jails cannot also provide claims manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.36) |
| KY | HB528 | Pass | Amends KRS 65.7631 to extend the 5 percent rate of total monthly revenues deposited into the commercial mobile radio services (CMRS) fund for assisting with the adoption and operation of next-generation statewide 911 initiatives to July 1, 2025, with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 49) |
| KY | HB583 | Pass | Amends KRS 224.1-401 to require that the chief executive officers of all forms of local government and mayors receive notification of a declaration of an environmental emergency in their jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 60) |
| KY | HB492 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define “qualified local government,” to require that each employee of a qualified local government who has access to federal tax information submit to a criminal background check by the Department of Ken...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 48) |
| KY | HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 446.350 to define "government" and "substantially burden"; outline relief that may be sought if statute is violated; apply to laws adopted before or after enaction of this statute; include severability clause; waive sovereign, governmental,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HCR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Urge local governments to facilitate the creation of long-term recovery groups prior to the occurance of disasters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB724 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 67.083 to allow a fiscal court of any county to levy all taxes not in conflict with the Constitution of Kentucky, provided that the fee or tax is authorized by the statutes of this state; amend KRS 67A.070 to allow urban-county governments ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | HB14 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 181 of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit the General Assembly to authorize a county, city, town, or municipal corporation to assess and collect local taxes and fees that are not otherwise in conflict with the Constitutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | HB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 65.8835 and 100.991 to state that a local government shall possess a lien on property of a person found by a final order to have committed a violation of an ordinance created under KRS Chapter 100.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB797 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 minimum wage of hourly and tipped e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB730 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section in KRS Chapter 134 to establish a quarterly installment payment program; define terms; provide installment payment calculation guidelines; require specific property tax information be sent to the taxpayer through notifications or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB820 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 27A to define terms; require the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) to develop and maintain a statewide database and searchable public website that contains information on state and local fines and fees asses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB807 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 96 to require electric utilities that own and operate a municipal electric utility to establish a utility board to administer the functions of the utility; require utility rates, terms of service and customer servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB795 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 83A.130, 83A.140, and 83A.150 to require a city's legislative body to create an agenda that is distributed to members of the body at least 72 hours prior to the meeting and made available to the public at the time of the meeting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to establish definitions; establish a petition process for citizens of a qualifying city to place the question of creating a new independent district and local board of education within the boundaries of the cit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 441.035 to require cities to enter into an interlocal agreement with the county to subsidize the cost of lodging persons in jail who were arrested in the boundaries of the city; provide for a default payment if a contract is not agreed to; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB545 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 67C.103 to provide that a runoff election shall be held if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast and the candidates receiving the two highest number of votes are of separate political parties; provide that the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapters 67, 67A, 67C, 75, 75A, 95, 183, and 273 to prohibit residency requirements for employees or volunteers of a fire department while allowing a response time requirement in counties, charter county governments, unifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB455 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to establish requirements for persons delivering alcoholic beverages on behalf of a retail package licensee; amend KRS 241.066 to limit the number of quota retail package licenses to one license for every 2,000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee |
| KY | HB299 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new section of KRS Chapter 14 to define terms; require the Secretary of State to create a grant database that will be a central repository for all state grants; require agencies to report grant opportunities to the Secretary of State for inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB466 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 91.514 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 426 to establish that any residential property that is purchased at a master commissioner's sale in a county that has a land bank authority and was occupied prior to or at the time of the sale ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 381.697 to require the governing authority of a city to mandate the proper care of a burial ground.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB425 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize the establishment of children's early learning services taxing districts; define terms; provide a method and alternative method for the creation of each district and the funding of the district to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB337 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers from state and local ad valorem taxes; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 92, 132, 133, 134, 136, 141, 186, 186A, and 235 to confo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB297 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 65.016 and 337.275 to allow local governments to pass an ordinance setting employees' minimum wages at a rate higher than that found in KRS 337.275 for employers located within that government's jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB309 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to prohibit a public agency or any other entity created by an act of the General Assembly from using public funds for lobbying activity or to employ or enter into a contract with a lobbyist; define terms; exempt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB246 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 177 to establish the procedures for the Transportation Cabinet and local governments to enter into a lease agreement with private entities for the naming rights of roads or bridges and for the installation of signa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 100, relating to local planning and zoning, to require local governments to prioritize housing within applicable zones by easing minimum square footage requirements and aesthetic design requirements; facilitating th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To House Local Government Committee |
