| HB1 | SALES AND USE TAX (STUMBO G) AN ACT proposing to amend Section 181 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to local levies of sales and use taxes.
Propose to amend Section 181 of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to confer upon the proper authority of any city or county the power to levy a local option sales and use tax, subject to specifically enumerated conditions and limitations; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval; supply ballot language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2015 - Missing Action!
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB1.htm |
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| HB19 | DISPOSAL OF VEHICLES (COLLINS H) AN ACT relating to the disposal of vehicles forfeited to law enforcement agencies.
Amend KRS 218A.420, regarding the disposition of forfeited property, to clarify that any vehicle forfeited which is contaminated with methamphetamine shall not be used, resold, or salvaged for parts, but shall instead be destroyed or salvaged for scrap metal; clarify that determination of methamphetamine contamination is made by law enforcement agencies; clarify that the presence of prepackaged materials or other products or precursors not subject to extraction shall not qualify a vehicle as being contaminated. |
| | Current Status: | 3/30/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB19.htm |
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| HB40 | EXPUNGEMENT (OWENS D) AN ACT relating to criminal records.
Amend KRS 431.076 to expand the scope of an expungement motion under that statute to include felonies referred to a grand jury where no indictment ensues; amend KRS 431.078 to expand that statute's expungement process to include Class D felonies; amend KRS 527.040 to expressly provide that an expunged felony does not trigger the application of that statute. |
| | Current Status: | 3/2/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB40.htm |
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| HB57 | PUBLIC PROCUREMENT (DONOHUE J) AN ACT relating to public procurement.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A making findings of the General Assembly and establishing policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to promote the Kentucky and United States economies by requiring a preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods produced in Kentucky and the United States; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to define "manufactured in Kentucky," "manufactured in the United States," "Kentucky," and "United States," require preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in Kentucky in construction and maintenance contracts and subcontracts; provide for a waiver of the Kentucky preference requirement; require a preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in the United States if the Kentucky waiver is granted, and provide for a waiver of the United States preference requirement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A establishing a short title of "Kentucky Buy American Act"; amend KRS 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.080, and 424.260 to require compliance with the "Kentucky Buy American Act." |
| | Current Status: | 1/6/2015 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | Position: | Oppose |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB57.htm |
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| HB100 | EPAD (KAY II J) AN ACT relating to energy project assessment districts or EPAD.
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 assessments imposed on only those properties participating in a program; define terms; establish the basic required parameters of a program; allow local governments to impose assessments on participating properties and provide the terms for the collection of the assessments, including the grant of senior tax lien status therefor; allow local governments to issue bonds to finance a program; prohibit a local government from imposing an assessment on property under a program except upon the request of the owner of record; provide that no provision of this Act shall be interpreted to expand the statutory powers of eminent domain belonging to a local government, state agency, or private entity; provide that a local government may only engage financing to administer a program from certain financial institutions; declare short title of the Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/23/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB100.htm |
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| HB108 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (YONTS B) AN ACT relating to Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Amend KRS 16.505 to clarify that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member; make technical amendments; amend KRS 16.582 to remove language which prohibited an injury or disease resulting from military service from being considered a disabling condition for hazardous members of Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 61.510 and 78.510 to utilize partial fiscal years in determining the final compensation of a nonhazardous member who began participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and the County Employees Retirement System on or after September 1, 2008, but prior to January 1, 2014, in situations where the member does not have 5 complete fiscal years of service; to clarify that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member; provide that interim positions in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and probationary positions in the County Employees Retirement System shall not be renewable by the employer for the same employee unless the employee has not been employed by the agency for 12 months; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.542 to remove the requirement that the estate be designated as beneficiary of a member's account when they request a refund of contributions prior to retirement; provide that the member's estate shall be beneficiary of his or her account from Kentucky Retirement Systems if prior to retirement the member fails to designate a beneficiary or the beneficiary designation is found to be void; provide that a beneficiary shall not be changed on or after the first day of the month in which a retired employee begins receiving retirement benefits; provide that reemployed retirees who establish a second retirement account will have their estate named beneficiary if they fail to designate a beneficiary for their new account; amend KRS 61.545 to remove provisions allowing a member who is simultaneously eligible for participation in more than one retirement system administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems to select participation in only one system; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.552 to clarify and conform to federal law the payment options available to members for purchasing service credit; remove service purchase provisions no longer applicable to current members; require agencies who fail to report employees to the retirement system to pay penalties and interest on employer contributions from the date the contributions should have been reported to the system; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.555 to provide that the service credit that is granted without cost to employees who are called to active duty military deployment shall be limited to those whose rights to such benefits have not been terminated under the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA); require employees participating in the hybrid cash balance plan on or after January 1, 2014, who are called to active duty military deployment to pay their employee contributions if they are granted service credit, as required by USERRA, for the period of active duty deployment; require employers to make contributions, for service credited to employees as required by USERRA, who are called to active duty military deployment: make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.557 to make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.560 to clarify that retirees reemployed on or after 9/1/2008 shall not pay into the systems and to make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.590 to make technical changes and to clarify that a retiring employee must separate employment with all participating system employers; amend KRS 61.623 to require all recipients of a retirement allowance from Kentucky Retirement Systems to receive retirement allowance payments by electronic funds transfer to a financial institution; provide that if the member does not have a bankaccount or the member's bank does not participate in electronic funds transfers that the member will receive payment of his or her retirement allowance to an electronic fund transfer card issued by Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 61.645 to allow the Kentucky Retirement Systems board by promulgation of administrative regulation to conduct trustee elections by electronic ballot; amend KRS 61.650 to increase the Kentucky Retirement Systems investment committee membership from 5 trustees to 7 trustees and to make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.680 to provide for consolidation of accounts with other state-administered retirement systems only if the member retires simultaneously from all state-administered retirement systems or retires from the other state-administered retirement systems within one month of retiring from the systems administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.702 to define "monthly contribution rate"; require recipients or the spouse or dependent children of a recipient of a retirement allowance, who is eligible to participate in Medicare to participate in the plans administered by the systems for Medicare eligible recipients; provide that a member who retired prior to July 1, 2003, who has established a second retirement account shall not receive more than the monthly contribution rate for retiree health benefits: make technical amendments; amend KRS 16.520, 61.525, 61.5525, 61.592, 78.540, 78.610, and 78.615 to make technical and conforming amendments; provide non-codified section to provide that the successor of the additional board trustee elected by the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) added by SB 2 in the 2013 Regular Session shall be elected in the same period as all other CERS trustees in 2017 and shall have a shortened term from 2017 to 2021 to coincide with all other future CERS trustee terms of office. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2015 - received in House w/Letter
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| | Position: | Under Evaluation |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB108.htm |
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| HB116 | RETIREMENT BENEFIT SPIKING (YONTS B) AN ACT relating to retirement benefit spiking.
Amend KRS 61.598 to provide that the last participating employer shall not be required to pay for pension spiking costs that are less than $2,500. |
| | Current Status: | 2/23/2015 - House State Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location:
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| | Position: | Oppose |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB116.htm |
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| HB136 | MUNICIPAL PROPERTY TAXES (SIMPSON A) AN ACT relating to the administration of municipal property taxes.
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 also provide an amnesty program for forgiveness or reduction of taxpayer penalties or interest. |
| | Current Status: | 3/30/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB136.htm |
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| HB145 | PUBLIC SMOKING (WESTROM S) AN ACT prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit indoor smoking in businesses, places of employment, and other listed public places; exempt private residences, unless used for child care or adult day care; permit smoking in designated nonenclosed areas; require posting of "no smoking" signs at specified locations; permit local governments to adopt stricter regulations by ordinance; provide for enforcement by all peace officers and designated health department and local government employees; provide for the issuance of uniform citations for violations; require that employers and others not discriminate against persons reporting violations; provide for fines for violation; provide that fines go to the agency whose employee issued the citation; provide that no court costs or other fees be charged for violations; exempt certain research and manufacturing laboratories and agricultural buildings; amend KRS 344.040, relating to unlawful practices by an employer, to add reference to state law, local ordinance, or local board of health regulation relating to smoking; amend KRS 431.450, relating to uniform citations, to provide for issuing citation forms to health departments; authorize the Department of Kentucky State Police to create and issue uniform smoking violation citations; repeal various statutes permitting smoking in public buildings; provide that Sections 1 to 6 may be referred to as the Smokefree Kentucky Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2015 - (S) discharge petition filed
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| | Position: | Under Evaluation |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB145.htm |
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| HB168 | INCOMPATIBLE LICENSES (STUMBO G) AN ACT relating to incompatible licenses.
Amend KRS 243.110 to specify malt beverage licenses which are to be considered incompatible. |
| | Current Status: | 3/20/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB168.htm |
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| HB195 | PROCUREMENT (DENHAM M) AN ACT relating to procurement.
Amend KRS 45A.343 to clarify the application of the Model Procurement Code to local public agencies; amend KRS 45A.380 to include sale of materials and equipment at reduced prices in items that may be purchased through noncompetitive negotiation; amend KRS 45A.420 to include services and materials as items that may be negotiated for when subject to price agreements; expand the price agreements to include those with another local public agency, a public university, or a foreign activity defined in KRS 45A.295 if there is no vendor in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; amend KRS 45A.425 to clarify that a city may dispose of its property under KRS 82.083; amend KRS 45A.494 to delete the requirement that reciprocal preference statutes be part of advertisements for bids; amend KRS 82.083 to allow for low value surplus property to be more easily disposed of; allow the Finance and Administration Cabinet to sell surplus property for the city; amend KRS 424.260 to exempt the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, or professional services from another public agency or political subdivision of the state from advertising requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB195.htm |
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| HB198 | DISTILLERIES (KEENE D) AN ACT relating to distilleries.
Amend KRS 243.120 to allow a distiller in wet territory to sell distilled spirits by the drink at retail on the distillery premises; limit sales to distilled spirits produced and bottled at the distillery premises; apply the distillery souvenir package tax and distribution system to a distillery's by-the-drink sales; follow all other law concerning distilled spirits by the drink sales. |
| | Current Status: | 3/23/2015 - (H) Returned to Committee House Rules
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB198.htm |
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| HB202 | LOCAL TRANSIENT ROOM TAX (THOMPSON T) AN ACT relating to local transient room tax.
Amend KRS 91A.392 to allow excess money collected from the transient room tax to be used to defray the costs to operate, renovate, or expand a governmental or nonprofit convention center or fine arts center if an amount equal to one year's required debt service is held in reserve to satisfy any future debt service obligations of the bond; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2015. |
| | Current Status: | 3/20/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB202.htm |
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| HB213 | CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (TILLEY J) AN ACT relating to controlled substances and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 72.026 to increase the scope of mandatory coroner and medical examiner examinations and reporting in deaths involving a Schedule I controlled substance; amend KRS 100.982 to mirror federal law in regard to addicted persons and residential care facilities; amend KRS 196.288 to direct that a portion of recaptured savings from criminal justice reforms be directed to jail-based substance abuse treatment programs for prisoners, to community mental health centers for community members, and to KY-ASAP for substance abuse prevention programming; and to combat neonatal abstinence syndrome; and to prosecutorial and defense agencies to fund social workers and expedited prosecutions; amend KRS 205.560 to amend the protocols for Medicaid provider credentialing relative to substance abuse treatment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid to offer a broad array of substance abuse treatment resources; amend KRS 216B.020 to amend the certificate of need process relative to substance abuse treatment facilities; annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 217.186 to allow the opiate overdose rescue medication naloxone to be prescribed to persons, agencies, or school employees capable of administering the medication in emergency situations; allow first responders to access and utilize the medication; allow pharmacists certified to do so to prescribe and dispense the medication; amend KRS 218A.050 to include acetylfentanyl in the list of schedule I controlled substances; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to create a criminal defense for use in emergency drug overdose situations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to require state-funded substance abuse programs from discriminating against pregnant women; create and amend various sections in KRS Chapter 218A to restructure the existing trafficking in controlled substance offenses into a three-tiered structure based upon peddling, trafficking, and aggravated trafficking; amend KRS 218A.500 to exempt from the drug paraphernalia statute needles exchanged at a local health department operating a treatment outreach program with local approval and needles and sharps declared to a peace officer prior to a search of the defendant's person; amend KRS 625.050 to provide a safe harbor protection for a pregnant addict who complies with prenatal care and substance abuse treatment instructions; include noncodified language encouraging the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to study certain opioid treatment initiatives, establish an evidence-based treatment task force relating to the disease of addiction, develop county and regional wraparound teams for opioid addiction, collaborate with medical schools and post-graduate training programs to include ten hours of coursework on addiction for all medical professionals, increase continuing education units for medical and health professionals relating to the disease of addiction, and make legislative recommendations to the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare; direct the Department of Criminal Justice Training to conduct regionalized heroin-specific in-service training for law enforcement officers by December 31, 2016; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/25/2015 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location:
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| | Position: | Under Evaluation |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB213.htm |
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| HB219 | LAND BANK AUTHORITIES (JENKINS J) AN ACT relating to land bank authorities.
Amend KRS 65.350 to define "certificate of delinquency," "fee office," "local government lien," and "taxing jurisdiction"; amend KRS 65.355 to expand the authority of land bank authorities; amend KRS 65.360 to clarify membership of the land bank authority; amend KRS 65.365 to update mailing list requirements; amend KRS 65.370 to update notice provisions; amend KRS 65.375 to require a motion from the landbank authority to obtain property upon sale with no satisfactory bid, to require that the property be vacant or abandoned for the motion to be made, to provide that all government taxes and liens shall be extinguished upon transfer to the land bank, to allow the land bank to keep proceeds from the sale of property, and to provide that the land bank shall receive a portion of property tax collected on property sold by the land bank for five years following the sale; amend KRS 99.715 to allow cities to transfer property to a land bank. |
| | Current Status: | 3/2/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB219.htm |
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| HB225 | FIRE DEPARTMENTS (SINNETTE K) AN ACT relating to fire departments.
Amend KRS 95.500, relating to fire department platoons in cities on the registry compiled by the Department for Local Government, to require the division of the fire department into platoons to exclude, in addition to the fire chief and assistant chief, clerical employees, maintenance employees, and arson investigators from being on call for 24 hours with the platoon. |
| | Current Status: | 4/2/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB225.htm |
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| HB240 | PLANNING AND ZONING (SINNETTE K) AN ACT relating to planning and zoning.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to set requirements for filing a supersedeas bond for appeals of Circuit Court decisions before the case is transferred to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2015 - Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location:
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB240.htm |
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| HB245 | BURIAL GROUND MAINTENANCE (RICHARDS J) AN ACT relating to the maintenance of burial grounds.
Amend KRS 381.700 to eliminate an exemption for private burial grounds within corporate city limits and subject them to city maintenance requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 3/4/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB245.htm |
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| HB276 | WASTE WATER (MCKEE T) AN ACT relating to waste water.
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 initiation of operations. |
| | Current Status: | 3/30/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB276.htm |
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| HB278 | FIREARMS (JENKINS J) AN ACT relating to local controls of firearms, ammunition, and firearms accessories.
Amend KRS 65.870 to specifically exempt a duly organized law enforcement agency that enacts and enforces regulations pertaining to firearms, ammunition, or accessories in the course of official duties; exempt any entity subject to the prohibitions of the section to the extent that it may regulate or prohibit the carrying of firearms and ammunition by an employee during and in the course of the employee's official duties. |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2015 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB278.htm |
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| HB279 | BLIGHTED PROPERTIES (JENKINS J) AN ACT relating to blighted and deteriorated properties.
Amend KRS 99.700 to expand findings to include all local government jurisdictions; amend KRS 99.705 to define "alternative government entity," "local government," and "nuisance code"; amend KRS 99.710 to expand the availability of spot condemnation to all forms of local government; allow the duties that could be fulfilled by a vacant property review commission to be assigned to an alternative government entity with a similar mission; amend KRS 99.715, 99.720, 99.725, and 99.730 to conform; create a new section of KRS 99.700 to 99.730 to establish a tax delinquency diversion program for blighted property; amend KRS 416.540 to define "government lien" and "local government" and make technical corrections; amend KRS 416.570 to provide that a petition filed for a condemnation instituted pursuant to KRS 99.700 to 99.730 include certification of the assessment made by the property valuation administrator, a list of all government liens against the property and the amount due, and an estimate of the expense necessary to bring the property up to code; amend KRS 416.580 to provide that the presumed fair market value of property in eminent domain proceedings brought under KRS 99.700 to 99.730 shall be the assessed value as established by the property valuation administrator reduced by the total amount of all government liens and the estimated cost of repairs necessary to bring the property up to code; provide that the presumption may be rebutted by the property owner through submission of an independent appraisal establishing a different fair market value; amend KRS 416.610 and 416.660 to conform; amend KRS 134.128 and 134.504 to reference the tax delinquency diversion program established by Section 8 of the Act; amend 92.305 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 3/2/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB279.htm |
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| HB297 | INTERLOCAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS (QUARLES R) AN ACT relating to interlocal cooperation agreements.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to allow amendment of interlocal agreements when the amendments are solely for new members to the agreement; establish filing requirements for new members and existing members; allow for the addition of new members without legislative action, under certain circumstances. |
| | Current Status: | 2/6/2015 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB297.htm |
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| HB308 | PUBLIC EMPLOYEE INCENTIVE PAY PROGRAM (RIGGS S) AN ACT relating to public employee incentive pay programs and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 15 and KRS 95A.250, relating to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund and the Firefighters Foundation Program fund, to increase the annual supplement payment to local governments for qualifying law enforcement officers and firefighters from $3,000 to $4,000 in 2016 and $4,500 in 2018; provide a reimbursement to local governments to fully reimburse for required contributions to the employee pension system resulting from the supplement increase; provide partial compensation for local government administrative expenses; amend KRS 95A.262 to increase the annual allocation to volunteer fire departments from the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education from $8,250 to $11,000 in 2016 and $12,000 in 2018. |
| | Current Status: | 2/23/2015 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB308.htm |
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| HB333 | PEACE OFFICERS (BELL J) AN ACT relating to peace officers.
Amend KRS 15.520 relating to complaints against police officers to set up a system of disciplinary protocols relating to law enforcement agency proceedings against an officer accused of misconduct; create a new section of KRS 67C.301 to 67C.327, relating to a police force merit system in a consolidated local government, to create a similar disciplinary protocol system for officers employed by consolidated local governments. |
| | Current Status: | 4/3/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB333.htm |
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| HB344 | LOCAL OPTION SALES AND USE TAX (THOMPSON T) AN ACT relating to local option sales and use taxes.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to establish the parameters and requirements for the levy of local option sales and use taxes, if a proposed constitutional amendment allowing such a levy is approved; create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to establish tax administration provisions; amend KRS 139.570, 139.670, 139.778, 144.132, and 183.525 to conform; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to share information related to the local option, sales and use taxes with local jurisdictions imposing the tax; provide that the provisions of the Act will be effective on January 1, 2017, only if the proposed constitutional amendment is approved by the voters of the Commonwealth at the November 2016 general election; if the proposed amendment is not approved, the Act is void. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2015 - (S) discharge petition filed
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB344.htm |
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| HB348 | SPECIAL PURPOSE GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES (DENHAM M) AN ACT relating to special purpose governmental entities.
Amend KRS 65A.010 to clarify that a private entity does not include an entity that is created wholly or in part by a local government or one whose membership includes appointees by a local government, or whose voting membership includes ex-officio local government officials, and clarify that excluded entities are those whose finances, as well as their budgets and financial information, are integrated with the local government in which it operates; amend KRS 65A.020 to allow one-time grant revenues to be excluded in the calculations of the level of the annual fees the special purpose governmental entities are to pay DLG for the registration fees; amend KRS 65A.030 to allow a board, commission, or agency established by statute that has regulatory or oversight responsibilities for a category of special purpose governmental entities to, with the auditor of public accounts' consent, provide alternative financial reviews to satisfy the attestation engagement requirement in the section, and allow the exclusion of one-time grant receipts in determining the requirements relating to audits and financial statements of the special purpose governmental entities. |
| | Current Status: | 3/19/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Neutral |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB348.htm |
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| HB418 | 911 EMERGENCY SERVICES (KING M) AN ACT relating to 911 emergency services and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to establish legislative findings and declarations for KRS 65.750 to 65.760 and KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643; amend KRS 65.750 to add definitions; amend KRS 65.760 to allow for collection of local 911 fees from VoIP and establish permitted uses of locally collected 911 fees; amend KRS 65.7621 to add definitions; amend KRS 65.7629 raise CMRS service charge and index it to the CPI-U; amend KRS 65.7631 make changes to the CMRS distribution formula to allow for PSAP consolidation reimbursement and implementation of next generation 911 capacity; amend KRS 65.7635 to provide a collection method for the CMRS service charge from prepaid CMRS services; and amend KRS 65.7633 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/11/2015 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB418.htm |
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| HB443 | PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS (COMBS L) AN ACT relating to public-private partnerships and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 45A.030 and 45A.075 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to provide an explicit framework for the use of public-private partnerships (P3s) as an alternative method of procurement, construction, or financing of capital projects and services by state government; define terms and establish procurement procedures; establish certain oversight and General Assembly authorization requirements; amend KRS 175B.005, 175B.010, 175B.020, 175B.025 175B.030, 175B.035, 175B.040, 175B.045 and 175B.095 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 175B to provide for the use of P3 procurement pursuant to that chapter as an alternative method for developing and financing major transportation projects; define terms and amend the definition of a transportation project to align with current federal usage; make numerous conforming changes; provide that the provisions of this Act relating to state government P3 procurement shall apply only to projects initially undertaken on or after the effective date of this Act; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2015 - (S) discharge petition filed
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| | Position: | Under Evaluation |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB443.htm |
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| HB444 | RETIREMENT BENEFIT CALCULATIONS (BUTLER D) AN ACT relating to retirement benefit calculations.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to provide that members of the Legislators' Retirement Plan who retire on or after January 1, 2016, shall be limited to a 10% growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last three years of service to the General Assembly if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2015, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements from the compensation growth limitation; define "bona fide promotion or salary advancements" as a professional advancement in substantially the same line of work held by the member in the 4 years immediately prior to the 3-year period or a change in employment position based upon training, education, or expertise; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall refund contributions and interest on contributions, for any reductions in creditable compensation; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 21 to provide that members of the Judicial Retirement Plan who retire on or after January 1, 2016, shall be limited to a 10% annual growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last 60 months of service if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2015, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements from the compensation growth limitation; define "bona fide promotion or salary advancements" as a professional advancement in substantially the same line of work held by the member in the 4 years immediately prior to the 60 month period or a change in employment position based upon training, education, or expertise; require the Judicial Form Retirement System to refund contributions and interest on contributions, for any reductions in creditable compensation; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement; amend KRS 61.598 to provide that members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System, who retire on or after January 1, 2016, shall be limited to a 10% growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last five years of employment if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2015, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements, alternative sick leave payments, and lump-sum payments for compensatory time from the compensation growth limitation; exempt from the compensation growth limitation those years of compensation where in the immediately preceding fiscal year the member was paid worker's compensation benefits or was on unpaid maternity, FMLA, or approved sick leave for a period of 5 weeks or for a period of at least 10% of the employee's contract days if the employee is hired to work a specific number of days during the year; provide that the Kentucky Retirement Systems shall refund employee contributions and interest on contributions, for any reductions in creditable compensation provided by this section; provide that the Kentucky Retirement Systems shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement and allow the member to appeal a decision of the system to the board; remove provisions charging employers for creditable compensation growth greater than 10% during the employee's last five years of employment; amend KRS 16.645, 61.645, and 78.545 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/23/2015 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB444.htm |
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| HB457 | LICENSED ACTIVITIES (GREER J) AN ACT relating to licensed activities.
Amend KRS 244.290 and 244.480 to remove certain population restrictions on cities; amend KRS 244.480 remove certain population restrictions on cities. |
| | Current Status: | 2/24/2015 - (H) posted in committee House Licensing and Occupations
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB457.htm |
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| HB458 | CYCLING CAPITAL OF KENTUCKY (RADER M) AN ACT designating London, Kentucky as the cycling capital of Kentucky.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the city of London as the cycling capital of Kentucky. |
| | Current Status: | 2/23/2015 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB458.htm |
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| HB466 | DATA CENTER PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (DECESARE J) AN ACT relating to local property tax exemptions for data centers.
Amend KRS 91.260 and 92.300 to clarify that certain classes of data centers may constitute manufacturing establishments and qualify for temporary exemption from local property taxes as an inducement to their location within a given city or urban-county, as allowed by local ordinance. |
| | Current Status: | 2/23/2015 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB466.htm |
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| HB467 | ILLEGAL GAMBLING DEVICE PLACEMENT (RICHARDS J) AN ACT relating to the placement of illegal gambling devices in business establishments and declaring an emergency.
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 |
| | Current Status: | 2/24/2015 - (H) SECOND READING to Rules
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB467.htm |
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| HB527 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS (MEYER R) AN ACT relating to investments made by local governments.
Amend KRS 66.480, relating to investments for local governments, to remove the 20% restriction from securities and to add to the permitted investments local governments may make mutual funds and exchange traded funds and funds investing in individual equities as long as no more than 5% of the portfolio is composed of individual equities at the time of purchase and high quality corporate bonds meeting the qualifications set out therein if the funds are managed by a professional investment advisor; provide that these two additional investment types cannot exceed 20% of the total amount of money invested by the local government; establish an investment limit of 5% of the total amount of money invested in any one issuer unless the issuer is the U.S. government or an agency thereof, or an entity whose obligations are guaranteed by the federal government. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HB527.htm |
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| HCR8 | MUNICIPAL BANKRUPTCY (MONTELL B) A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study municipal bankruptcy.
Direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study municipal bankruptcy. |
| | Current Status: | 2/6/2015 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HC19.htm |
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| HJR7 | KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (MONTELL B) A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) board of trustees to have an actuarial audit completed of the assumptions and funding methods adopted by the systems.
Direct the Kentucky Retirement Systems to engage an independent actuarial firm to perform an actuarial audit of the assumptions and funding methods adopted by the systems and report the findings to the KRS board of trustees and the Public Pension Oversight Board. |
| | Current Status: | 3/23/2015 - (H) Returned to Committee House Rules
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/HJ7.htm |
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| SB3 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS (HORNBACK P) AN ACT relating to telecommunications.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to modify the telecommunications deregulation plan in KRS 278.541 et. seq.; end most Public Service Commission authority over exchanges with 15,000 or more housing units; for less populous exchanges, PSC jurisdiction reduced and obligation to provide basic local exchange (wireline) service is reduced; give utility option to substitute internet protocol or wireless service in some situations; provide that customers in some situations would have right to reject IP or wireless service and have their wireline restored; federal jurisdiction unaffected, especially over carrier to carrier issues; end PSC jurisdiction over consumer cellphone complaints; end PSC jurisdiction over consumer broadband complaints; retain PSC jurisdiction over wholesale issues, carrier to carrier, anti-competitive practices; amend KRS 278.54611 and 278.5462 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2015 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor
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| | Position: | Neutral |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB3.htm |
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| SB5 | CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to controlled substances.
Amend KRS 72.026 to increase the scope of mandatory coroner and medical examiner examinations and reporting in deaths involving a Schedule I controlled substance; amend KRS 196.286 and 196.288 to increase the scope of the required cost-savings calculations; direct that a portion of recaptured savings from criminal justice reforms be directed to funding of KY-ASAP programs operating in or under the supervision of county jails, and a portion to community mental health centers offering substance abuse treatment for heroin and other opiate abuse disorders; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to specify the controlled substance treatment services to be offered under Medicaid; amend KRS 217.186 to increase the availability of Naloxone for use as a rescue drug for narcotic overdose situations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to provide an opportunity for deferred prosecution for persons seeking emergency help in drug overdose situations; amend KRS 218A.1412 to establish a 50 percent minimum time service requirement for higher-level traffickers in heroin and to remove the quantity thresholds in heroin and fentanyl prosecutions; amend KRS 218A.500 to provide the ability to deviate from the service requirement in cases where the defendant provides assistance to the prosecution; amend KRS 439.3401 to require a minimum 50 percent time service requirement for homicide and fetal homicide offenders in situations in which the decedent died due to a Schedule I drug overdose; direct the Department of Criminal Justice Training to conduct regionalized heroin-specific in-service training for law enforcement officers by December 31, 2015. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2015 - (H) Returned to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB29.htm |
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| SB28 | ILLEGAL GAMBLING DEVICES (WILSON M) AN ACT relating to the placement of illegal gambling devices in business establishments and declaring an emergency.
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"; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/19/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB28.htm |
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| SB29 | MOTOR FUELS TAXES (HARRIS E) AN ACT relating to motor fuels taxes and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 138.210(10) to set the minimum value for the average wholesale price of gasoline used for computation of the motor fuels tax at $2.354 per gallon; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/4/2015 - Senate Transportation, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location:
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB29.htm |
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| SB57 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (WEBB R) AN ACT proposing to amend the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the right to farm.
Propose to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to create a right to farm within provisions of the law; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval. |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2015 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Position: | Oppose |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB57.htm |
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| SB62 | RETIREMENT OF ELECTED OFFICIALS (SCHICKEL J) AN ACT relating to reemployment after retirement of elected officials.
Amend KRS 61.637 to provide that elected officials who are reelected to a new term of office in the same position and who then retire following reelection but prior to taking the new term of office shall be deemed to have a prearranged agreement and will have his or her initial retirement voided. |
| | Current Status: | 3/19/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB62.htm |
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| SB81 | STATE REGULATION (SCHICKEL J) AN ACT relating to state regulation.
Amend KRS 241.010 to define "bed and breakfast," "discount in the usual course of business," and "marina"; expand the definition of "alcoholic beverage" to include a powder or crystal containing alcohol; amend KRS 241.020, 241.030, 241.080, 241.090, 243.035, 243.037, 243.040, 243.380, 243.430, 243.470, 243.550, and 244.590 to describe the powers, duties, titles, and qualifications of the administrators of the Division of Distilled Spirits and the Division of Malt Beverages; amend KRS 241.060, 242.1292, 243.100, 243.110, 243.160, 243.200, 243.220, 243.250, 243.360, 243.390, 243.440, 243.490, 243.520, 243.530, 243.560, 243.620, 243.640, 243.650, 243.660, 243.670, 244.060, 244.070, 244.085, 244.150, 244.260, 244.340, 244.350, and 244.990 to create consistent and modern terminology throughout the alcohol statutes; amend KRS 241.140, 241.190, and 241.250 to clarify the functions of local alcohol administrators; create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to allow a local option election on distilled spirit souvenir package sales by distilleries within the precinct; create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to authorize a local option election on by the drink alcoholic beverage sales at marinas within the precinct; amend KRS 242.123 and 242.124 to permit a golf course or small farm winery local option election in any dry or moist city or county; amend KRS 242.1241 to conduct a small farm winery local option election in the same manner as in KRS 242.020; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to establish the terms of a sampling license, to include both free and paid samples; amend KRS 243.030 to permit either the administrator of distilled spirits or malt beverages to issue a license that allows the sale of distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages; amend KRS 243.0305 to allow a distillery to sell souvenir packages of distilled spirits if the distillery is located in a moist precinct that has authorized that type of sale; establish the limitations of a distiller's sampling license; amend KRS 243.033 to authorize a caterer to cater alcoholic beverages at a private party or special event at a non-federally bonded portion of a distillery premises; forbid a caterer from catering alcoholic beverages at an event hosted by the caterer either alone or as a joint venture; amend KRS 243.036 to apply a distilled spirits and wine auction license to malt beverages; include raffles as a part of the auction license; amend KRS 243.042 to allow a qualified historic site to obtain a supplemental bar license for a riverboat or railroad train; amend KRS 243.045 to clarify that a transitional license entitles the holder to the same rights and privileges of the corresponding permanent license; amend KRS 243.060 and 243.070 to authorize a local qualified historic site license fee up to a maximum that matches the state fee; amend KRS 243.082 to merge state park NQ1 license language with that of the other types of NQ1 licensees; amend KRS 243.084 to authorize a marina NQ2 retail drink license; amend KRS 243.086 to permit a bed and breakfast NQ3 retail drink license; limit bed and breakfast drink sales to paid overnight guests; amend KRS 243.090 to make most local alcohol licenses expire on the same date as the corresponding state license; prorate the cost of a local license in the first year to allow the local license to synchronize with the state license; amend KRS 243.130, 243.155, and 243.157 to allow employees of distillers, rectifiers, wineries, small farm wineries, and microbreweries to sample their employer's products for purposes of education, quality control, and product development; enable small farm wineries to enter into "custom crush" agreements with one another; clarify that a small farm winery may sell and serve its products by virtue of a precinct election; permit a small farm winery to sell its wine products that are unmarketable as wine to a distiller; prohibit the location of a microbrewery in moist territory; amend KRS 243.230 to remove the city population threshold for quota retail drink licenses; amend KRS 243.450 to indicate that a state administrator may deny a license if the applicant is a delinquent taxpayer; amend KRS 243.500 to exempt lawful pari-mutuel betting or charitable gaming from the list of prohibited gambling offenses by a licensee; amend KRS 243.540 to make the license termination provisions apply to a default under a lease or security agreement; describe how a landlord or creditor may dispose of alcoholic beverages in its possession; amend KRS 243.630 to define "transfer" to include the transfer of a business and license to a different premises; create a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to forbid any person to possess, sell, offer for sale, or use any powdered or crystalline alcoholic beverage product; amend KRS 244.080 to specify how a person must be manifestly under the influence of alcoholic beverages or controlled substances before alcohol sales to that person are prohibited; amend KRS 244.110 to limit entrance requirements to only quota retail drink and package licenses; amend KRS 244.130 to allow a distiller to provide free production by-products and non-alcoholic merchandise worth up to $25 per item for a distillery tour or event conducted by a church or charitable organization; amend KRS 244.240 to permit distillers, rectifiers, wineries, and wholesalers to give discounts in the usual course of business if the same discounts are offered to all licensees of the same license type buying similar quantities; amend KRS 244.290 and 244.480 to make a local ordinance limiting election day alcohol sales effective only if the ordinance was adopted after June 25, 2013; require a retail drink licensee in territory with Sunday distilled spirits and wine sales to acquire the Sunday license before conducting the sales; amend KRS 244.360 to set rules for a licensee to display its license number on its licensed premises; amend KRS 242.1244, 243.034, 243.050, 243.075, 243.260, 243.882, 244.050, and 83A.022 to conform; repeal KRS 241.075, 242.127, 242.129, 243.031, 243.072, 243.460, 243.505, 243.510, 243.892, and 244.295. |
| | Current Status: | 3/23/2015 - House Licensing and Occupations, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location:
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB81.htm |
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| SB89 | FIREARMS SALES (CARROLL D) AN ACT relating to firearms sales to current and retired employees.
Amend KRS 45A.600 to allow state employees with government-issued firearms that are being replaced to purchase the firearms from the agency; amend KRS 45A.047 to conform; amend KRS 65.041 to allow local government employees whose service weapons are being replaced to purchase the firearms from the local government. |
| | Current Status: | 3/19/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB89.htm |
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| SB90 | NUCLEAR POWER (CARROLL D) AN ACT relating to nuclear power.
Amend KRS 278.600 to define "storage" and amend a definition to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means of permanent disposal; amend KRS 278.610 to delete the requirement that the Public Service Commission certify the facility as having a means for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; change all references to disposal of nuclear waste to storage of nuclear waste; prohibit construction of low-level waste disposal sites in the Commonwealth except as provided in KRS 211.852; require the Public Service Commission to determine whether the construction or operation of a nuclear power facility, including one constructed by an entity regulated under KRS Chapter 96, would create low-level nuclear waste or mixed wastes that would be required to be disposed of in low-level waste disposal sites in the Commonwealth; repeal KRS 278.605, relating to construction of nuclear power facilities. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2015 - (H) Referred to Committee House Tourism Development and Energy
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB90.htm |
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| SB91 | MUNICIPAL UTILITY BOARD MEMBERSHIP (CARROLL D) AN ACT relating to board membership for municipal utilities.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 3/23/2015 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government
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| | Position: | Under Evaluation |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB91.htm |
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| SB95 | WORKER'S COMPENSATION (BUFORD T) AN ACT relating to workers compensation.
Amend several provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act in KRS Chapter 342 to define and recognize temporary partial disability benefits and amend other statutes to comply; define medical provider; limit medical benefits to age 70 or five years after date of injury, whichever is later except for permanent total awards or awards involving prosthetic devices which continue for as long as the employee is disabled; allow attorney's fees or increased payments for medical fee disputes that are decided in favor of the claimant; amend the reopening statutes to allow for reopening for additional temporary total or partial benefits; permit claimants who have awards of $60 or less per week to elect a lump sum and receive a one point higher discount rate than that set by the commissioner; require settlements for future medicals to be approved by the federal Medicare Secondary Payer Act; increase attorneys' fees to a total of $24,000; specify that administrative law judges do not approve attorney's fees; enumerate changes to the manner that income benefits are determined; increase the maximum for temporary total or partial income benefits from 100% of the state average weekly wage to 120% of the state average weekly wage; increase the maximum of permanent partial income benefits from 75% to 85% of the state average weekly wage; increase and clarify multiplier language factors; provide that the time limit for permanent partial income benefits is determined by the impairment ratings; make other amendments to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor
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| | Position: | Oppose |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB95.htm |
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| SB104 | AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (WILSON M) AN ACT relating to area development districts.
Create a new section of KRS 147A.050 to 147A.140 to allow a county to suspend its affiliation with an area development district; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to prohibit an area development district from acting as both a fiscal agent and service provider relative to the provisions of the WIA and WIOA. |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Position: | Neutral |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB104.htm |
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| SB117 | TRAFFIC SAFETY PROGRAMS (WESTERFIELD W) AN ACT relating to county attorney operated traffic safety programs.
Amend KRS 186.574 to add fees in lieu of court costs for county-attorney-operated traffic safety school programs and provide for the distribution of funds collected. |
| | Current Status: | 3/20/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Neutral |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB117.htm |
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| SB124 | CANINES (BUFORD T) AN ACT relating to canines.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 3/23/2015 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Agriculture
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| | Position: | Oppose |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB124.htm |
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| SB130 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY (GIRDLER C) AN ACT relating to commercial activities of local governments.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 3/23/2015 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Position: | Oppose |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB130.htm |
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| SB146 | KNIVES (WEBB R) AN ACT relating to knives.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit any unit of local government from having local knife control ordinances; establish limitations on local action; require repeal of any local knife ordinance; provide that parties may sue to enjoin violations. |
| | Current Status: | 2/12/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Position: | Oppose |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB146.htm |
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| SB157 | RETIREMENT BENEFITS SPIKING (MCDANIEL C) AN ACT relating to retirement benefits spiking.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to provide that members of the Legislators' Retirement Plan who retire on or after January 1, 2016, shall be limited to a 10% growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last three years of service to the General Assembly if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2015, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements from the compensation growth limitation; define "bona fide promotion or salary advancements" as a professional advancement in substantially the same line of work held by the member in the 4 years immediately prior to the 3-year period or a change in employment position based upon training, education, or expertise; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall refund contributions and interest on contributions, for any reductions in creditable compensation; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 21 to provide that members of the Judicial Retirement Plan who retire on or after January 1, 2016, shall be limited to a 10% annual growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last 60 months of service if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2015, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements from the compensation growth limitation; define "bona fide promotion or salary advancements" as a professional advancement in substantially the same line of work held by the member in the 4 years immediately prior to the 60 month period or a change in employment position based upon training, education, or expertise; require the Judicial Form Retirement System to refund contributions and interest on contributions, for any reductions in creditable compensation; provide that the Judicial Form Retirement System shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement; amend KRS 61.598 to provide that members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System, who retire on or after January 1, 2016, shall be limited to a 10% growth in the creditable compensation earned during their last five years of employment if that compensation is used to calculate their retirement benefits; provide that only creditable compensation earned on or after July 1, 2015, shall be subject to the creditable compensation growth limitations; exempt bona fide promotions or salary advancements, alternative sick leave payments, and lump-sum payments for compensatory time from the compensation growth limitation; exempt from the compensation growth limitation those years of compensation where in the immediately preceding fiscal year the member was paid worker's compensation benefits or was on unpaid maternity, FMLA, or approved sick leave for a period of 5 weeks or for a period of at least 10% of the employee's contract days if the employee is hired to work a specific number of days during the year; provide that the Kentucky Retirement Systems shall refund employee contributions and interest on contributions, for any reductions in creditable compensation provided by this section; provide that the Kentucky Retirement Systems shall determine what constitutes a bona fide promotion or salary advancement and allow the member to appeal a decision of the system to the board; remove provisions charging employers for creditable compensation growth greater than 10% during the employee's last five years of employment; amend KRS 16.645, 61.645, and 78.545 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 3/23/2015 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB157.htm |
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| SB168 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (ROBINSON A) AN ACT relating to economic development.
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 for Local Government; create new sections of KRS 154.33 to identify the purposes for which money from the fund may be used and to provide an application process; repeal KRS 154.33-501, 154.33-515, 154.33-520, 154.33-525, 154.33-527, 154.33-533, 154.33-535, 154.33-540, 154.33-545, 154.33-555, 154.33-560, 154.33-565, 154.33-570, 154.33-575, 154.33-580, 154.33-585 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 3/23/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB168.htm |
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| SB189 | PUBLIC SMOKING (ADAMS J) AN ACT prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 438 to define terms; prohibit indoor smoking in businesses, places of employment, and other listed public places; exempt private residences, unless used for child care or adult day care; permit smoking in designated nonenclosed areas; require posting of "no smoking" signs at specified locations; permit local governments to adopt stricter regulations by ordinance; provide for enforcement by all peace officers and designated health department and local government employees; provide for the issuance of uniform citations for violations; require that employers and others not discriminate against persons reporting violations; provide for fines for violation; provide that fines go to the agency whose employee issued the citation; provide that no court costs or other fees be charged for violations; exempt certain research and manufacturing laboratories and agricultural buildings; amend KRS 344.040, relating to unlawful practices by an employer, to add reference to state law, local ordinance, or local board of health regulation relating to smoking; amend KRS 431.450, relating to uniform citations, to provide for issuing citation forms to health departments; authorize the Department of Kentucky State Police to create and issue uniform smoking violation citations; repeal various statutes permitting smoking in public buildings; provide that Sections 1 to 6 may be referred to as the Smokefree Kentucky Act. |
| | Current Status: | 2/19/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection
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| | Position: | Under Evaluation |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB189.htm |
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| SB200 | PUBLIC EMPLOYEE INCENTIVE PROGRAM (CARROLL D) AN ACT relating to public employee incentive pay programs and making an appropriation therefor.
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 15 and KRS 95A.250 relating to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund and the Professional Fire Fighters Foundation Program Fund to increase the annual supplement payment to local governments for qualifying law enforcement officers and fire fighters from $3,000 to $4,000 in 2016 and $4,500 in 2018; provide a reimbursement to local governments to fully reimburse for required contributions to the employee pension system resulting from the supplement increase; provide partial compensation for local government administrative expenses; and amend KRS 95A.262 to increase the annual allocation to volunteer fire departments from the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education from $8,250 to $11,000 in 2016 and $12,000 in 2018. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Position: | Support |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB200.htm |
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| SB202 | 911 EMERGENCY SERVICES (HIGDON J) AN ACT relating to 911 emergency services.
Amend KRS 65.7621 to add definitions; amend KRS 65.7627 to specify that prepaid wireless service charge revenue is deposited into the CMRS fund; amend KRS 65.7629 to make changes to collection of CMRS service charge from prepaid CMRS connections; amend KRS 65.7635 to remove language related to the collection of CMRS service charge from prepaid CMRS connections; create a new section of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 to establish and specify the collection of a prepaid wireless service charge; create new sections of KRS Chapter 142 to add definitions; require the Department of Revenue to collect the prepaid wireless service charge; require sellers to register with the department; require sellers to file returns with the department; allow for audits and actions by aggrieved sellers; require sellers to keep records; impose interest on delinquent prepaid wireless service charges; allow for penalties for nonpayment; specify the deposit of prepaid wireless service charge revenue into the CMRS fund; specify individual and corporate liability for collection of prepaid wireless service charge. |
| | Current Status: | 2/19/2015 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection
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| | Position: | Oppose |
| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB202.htm |
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