| HB10 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (IMES K) Propose to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit the General Assembly or an agency or committee it creates to review, approve, or disapprove any administrative regulation of the executive branch during or between regular sessions of the General Assembly; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval; supply ballot language. |
| | Current Status: | 2/12/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 2/9/2018 - received in Senate
2/8/2018 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 68-22
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB10.htm |
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| HB11 | POWER OF ATTORNEY (SHELL J) Establish KRS Chapter 457 to adopt portions of the Uniform Power of Attorney Act of 2006; establish definitions for the chapter; provide that the chapter shall apply to all powers of attorney except for certain exceptions; provide that powers of attorney are durable and for their execution; provide a choice-of-law rule for determining the law that governs the meaning and effect of the power of attorney; detail the relationship between a power of attorney and a conservator or guardian; outline when a power of attorney becomes effective; detail when a power of attorney terminates; establish default rules for coagents and successor agents; allow for the reimbursement and compensation of an agent; detail how an agent accepts his or her appointment; outline an agent's duties; provide that a principal can lower the standard of liability for an agent with a few exceptions; establish a list of persons that may petition the court to review the agent's conduct; address when an agent is liable; detail how an agent can resign; provide protections for persons who accept a power of attorney in good faith; impose liability for refusal to accept a power of attorney; clarify that the principles of law and equity supplement the chapter unless displaced by a provision of the chapter; provide that the remedies under the chapter are not exclusive and do not abrogate any other cause of action or remedy; amend KRS 367.93103, relating to funeral planning declarations, to clarify that a funeral declaration included in a will or power of attorney does not invalidate the will or power of attorney; amend KRS 372.140 and 387.530 to conform; repeal KRS 386.093, relating to the effect of incapacity or death on a power of attorney. |
| | Current Status: | 4/26/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/14/2018 - delivered to Governor
4/14/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB11.htm |
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| HB22 | PUBLIC SAFETY (BANTA K) Amend KRS 446.010 to define "unmanned aircraft system"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 500 to prescribe permitted and prohibited uses of drones; provide exceptions; prohibit use of evidence obtained by a drone in violation of stated prohibitions; authorize that section to be cited as the "Citizens' Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 501 to clarify criminal liability for offenses committed using a drone; create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create the offense of obstructing an emergency responder. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2018 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE
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| | Recent Status: | 3/23/2018 - filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
3/12/2018 - delivered to Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB22.htm |
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| HB28 | JOB APPLICANT CRIMINAL HISTORIES (BROWN JR. G) Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; title the Act "Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act." |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB28.htm |
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| HB43 | APPELLATE JUDGES (NEMES J) Amend KRS 118A.110 to define "retention election" for appellate judges; create a new section of KRS Chapter 118A to create an election process for retaining appointed appellate judges, following the ratification of a constitutional amendment to provide for appointments of appellate judges; amend KRS 118A.020, 118A.030, 118A.060, 118A.100, and 118A.140 to conform; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 21A.020 to set staggered terms for appellate judges; EFFECTIVE contingently on January 1, 2020. |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2018 - (H) reassigned to committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB43.htm |
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| HB44 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (NEMES J) Propose to amend Sections 117, 118, 119, and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky to fill terms of justices of the Supreme Court and judges of the Court of Appeals by appointment by the Governor from a list of three nominees provided by the judicial nominating commission; provide for appointed justices and judges who seek additional terms to stand for elections in their districts; limit individuals to two full terms of office; schedule transitional provisions; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval. |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2018 - (H) reassigned to committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB44.htm |
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| HB46 | CREDIT FREEZES (FISCHER J) Amend KRS 367.365 to allow for security freezes to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; allow consumers to request a replacement personal identification number or password in the same manner as the original security freeze request; remove the expiration of a credit freeze after seven years; include gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/30/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/20/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/20/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB46.htm |
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| HB49 | PERSONAL JURISDICTION (NEMES J) Amend KRS 454.210 to expand personal jurisdiction of courts over nonresidents. |
| | Current Status: | 1/22/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/19/2018 - received in Senate
1/18/2018 - floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB49.htm |
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| HB59 | CELL PHONE NUMBER DISCLOSURE (WATKINS G) Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to prohibit the marketing, sharing, or selling of wireless phone numbers of subscribers without express written consent of the subscriber; amend KRS 367.990 to create a penalty between $1,000 and $10,000 for each violation. |
| | Current Status: | 3/22/2018 - (H) recommitted to committee House Small Business and Information Technology
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| | Recent Status: | 3/16/2018 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
3/15/2018 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Regular Calendar
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB59.htm |
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| HB63 | TELEPHONE SOLICITATION (KING K) Amend KRS 367.46955 to prohibit knowingly using a caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information with the intent of defrauding or causing to another person or wrongfully obtain anything of value. |
| | Current Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Small Business and Information Technology
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
11/20/2017 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB63.htm |
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| HB76 | CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (MOFFETT P) Propose to take the sense of the people of Kentucky regarding the calling of a convention to revise or amend the Constitution of Kentucky, as provided by Section 258 of the present Constitution. |
| | Current Status: | 1/17/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB76.htm |
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| HB89 | CONSOLIDATED LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (WAYNE J) Amend KRS 100.137 to clarify the powers of certain cities within a consolidated local government, regarding home rule powers that do not conflict with the comprehensive plan. |
| | Current Status: | 1/4/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB89.htm |
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| HB93 | BROKERAGE FINANCIAL ACCOUNT EXPLOITATION (ELLIOTT D) Create a new section of KRS Chapter 292 to require qualified individuals to report exploitation to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and to the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions, to allow account disbursements to be delayed under certain circumstances if there is a reasonable belief that the disbursement may result in exploitation, to provide immunity from administrative, civil, or criminal liability for compliance with the Act, to require broker-dealers and investment advisors to provide access to or copies of certain records, and to provide an exemption from the Kentucky Open Records Act for certain records; amend KRS 209.020 to add the Department of Financial Institutions as an authorized agency; and amend KRS 209.030 to avoid duplicative reporting requirement. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
3/29/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by Speaker of the House
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB93.htm |
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| HB110 | ADULT EXPLOITATION (DUPLESSIS J) Amend KRS 209.020 to change the definition of "exploitation" to include obtaining or using controlled substances prescribed to a vulnerable adult or a member of the adult's household; amend KRS 209.990 to create a Class C felony for that form of exploitation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/15/2018 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations and Revenue
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| | Recent Status: | 2/15/2018 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
2/14/2018 - (H) FIRST READING w/HCS 1, to Regular Calendar
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB110.htm |
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| HB135 | AIR AMBULANCE COVERAGE (GREER J) Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to define balance bill and insured; create a new section of subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define registered air ambulance service provider, to prohibit a health benefit plan from using an allowed amount for air ambulance services under certain conditions, to determine when an air ambulance transport is medically necessary, to require assumption of charges by the insurer under certain conditions, to require notification to the air ambulance service of assumption by the insurer, prohibit the air ambulance provider from certain actions following receipt of notification, to establish payment requirements for the insurer, to establish the Independent Dispute Resolution program for disputed air ambulance service charges within the Department of Insurance, to require reporting by registered air ambulance service providers and the department, to set requirements for registration in the program, to set requirements to be an independent reviewer for the program, and to establish procedures for the Independent Dispute Resolution program; and amend KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-430, 304.17B-001, 304.17B-015, 304.17B-033, 304.17C-010, 304.18-114, 304.38A-010, and 304.39-241 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking and Insurance
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| | Recent Status: | 1/4/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB135.htm |
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| HB182 | PAID SICK LEAVE (CANTRELL M) Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provide that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; set forth allowable uses of earned paid sick time; designate how notice of need to use sick time is provided by employees; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalty for employers that fail to follow paid sick leave requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 1/17/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development and Workforce Investment
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| | Recent Status: | 1/11/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB182.htm |
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| HB184 | WAGE AND HOUR LAW (KOENIG A) Amend KRS 337.010 to clarify that employers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act federal wage and hour law that are comparable or greater should apply over KRS Chapter 337; amend KRS 337.285 to bring into conformity with federal overtime law; amend KRS 337.385 to conform the statute of limitations to federal law. |
| | Current Status: | 1/17/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development and Workforce Investment
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| | Recent Status: | 1/11/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB184.htm |
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| HB188 | PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURITY (MEEKS R) Amend KRS 367.363 to include additional definitions; amend KRS 367.3645 to provide for a free security freeze in the event a protected person has been notified of a security breach pursuant to the Act or has been notified of a free security freeze, and to make technical corrections; amend KRS 367.365 to require consumer reporting agencies to encrypt electronic data contained in consumer files and consumer reports; allow for security freezes to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; allow consumers to request a replacement personal identification number or password in the same manner as the original security freeze request; remove the expiration of a credit freeze after seven years; include gender-neutral language; to prohibit a credit reporting agency from charging a fee for security freeze in the event a consumer has been notified of a security breach or of a free security freeze; require that consumer reporting agencies notify consumers of security breaches in compliance with KRS 365.732(4) to (7) and provide five years of credit monitoring; allow for a security freeze placed at one nationwide consumer reporting agency to be sent and applied to other nationwide consumer reporting agencies; require third-party agents to notify consumer reporting agencies of security breaches; require consumer reporting agencies to comply with KRS 365.732(3); prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; amend KRS 365.730 to extend definitions to KRS 365.732; to conform the definition of "personally identifiable information"; amend KRS 365.732 to define "encrypt" and "security breach"; provide an exemption for consumer reporting agencies subject to this Act; prohibit electronic or substitute notice from being sent to electronic and email accounts involved in the security breach; provide for the request for three consumer reports from each nationwide consumer reporting agency by consumers affected by a security breach; prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; require certain information holders to encrypt personally identifiable data; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.931 to exempt certain persons from the definition of "nonaffiliated third parties"; conform the definition of "personally identifiable information"; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.932, KRS 61.933, 61.934,171.450, 42.722, and 42.726 to conform; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/17/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking and Insurance
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| | Recent Status: | 1/11/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB188.htm |
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| HB195 | CIVIL RIGHTS (MARZIAN M) Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition against discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/18/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 1/16/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB195.htm |
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| HB212 | CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCIES (GRAHAM D) Amend KRS 367.3645 to allow security freezes for protected persons to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; prohibit consumer reporting agencies from charging a fee for the placement or removal of a security freeze or the creation of a record for a protected person; make technical corrections; amend KRS 367.365 to allow security freezes for consumers to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; prohibit consumer reporting agencies from charging a fee for the placement, temporary lifting, or removal of a security freeze, or for providing or replacing a personal identification number or password; remove the expiration of a security freeze after seven years; make technical corrections; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/22/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking and Insurance
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| | Recent Status: | 1/18/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB212.htm |
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| HB217 | HOME INSPECTIONS (BRATCHER K) Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to require home inspectors to be granted access to all areas of a home when conducting an inspection; provide appeal to the Board of Home Inspectors'; require the inspector to notify all realtors involved in the transaction if access is denied; impose a fine not to exceed $500; stipulate that denial of reasonable access to a home inspector is grounds for termination of an offer to buy without recourse against the offeror. |
| | Current Status: | 1/22/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
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| | Recent Status: | 1/18/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB217.htm |
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| HB224 | UNCLAIMED LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES (HARRIS C) Amend KRS 304.15-420 to make Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act retroactive; require the Department of Insurance to promulgate administrative regulations to specify what constitutes a good-faith effort to confirm the death of an insured. |
| | Current Status: | 1/23/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking and Insurance
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| | Recent Status: | 1/19/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB224.htm |
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| HB282 | ARTICLE V CONVENTION (WELLS W) Create new sections of KRS Chapter 6 to apply upon the passage of an Article V Application by the General Assembly on the same subject or containing the same proposed amendment text as two-thirds (2/3) of the other states and the United States Congress calling an Article V Convention; establishment of a delegation, its parameters, oath, certification, and revocation of certification and authority; establish preferred procedures and planning to be performed by the Article V Convention; establish an oversight convention committee charged with overseeing the delegates and their actions, recalling a delegate acting outside proper authority, and provide notifications to relevant elected officials; establish authority with the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Legislative Research Commission of Kentucky to enforce the Article V application, delegate actions, and delegate voting. |
| | Current Status: | 2/2/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
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| | Recent Status: | 1/31/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB282.htm |
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| HB315 | CONCEALED CARRY (BENVENUTI R) Amend KRS 527.020 to include an attorney specified in KRS 15.100(2) in the list of persons who may carry a concealed deadly weapon at all times and in all locations throughout the Commonwealth if the attorney has a license. |
| | Current Status: | 3/15/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection
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| | Recent Status: | 3/14/2018 - received in Senate
3/13/2018 - (H) THIRD READING, passed 90-6
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB315.htm |
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| HB322 | PLANNING AND ZONING (GOOCH JR. J) Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 allowing a party to recover court costs and reasonable attorney's fees when appealing an action of an enforcement officer, or underlying zoning regulation or ordinance that results in a monetary penalty, is finally found to be arbitrary, unenforceable, or unconstitutional. |
| | Current Status: | 3/14/2018 - House Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | Recent Status: | 3/12/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Local Government
2/9/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB322.htm |
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| HB332 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS (CANTRELL M) Amend KRS 278.5461 to include a definition of "personally identifiable information"; amend KRS 278.5462 to provide that no telecommunications or Internet service provider shall collect personally identifiable information from a customer as a result of the customer's use of the telecommunications or Internet services without the customer's express written approval. |
| | Current Status: | 2/12/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Small Business and Information Technology
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| | Recent Status: | 2/8/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB332.htm |
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| HB333 | OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS (RICHARDS J) Create new sections of KRS Chapter 423 to define various terms; limit the applicability of the Act to notarial acts performed on or after January 1, 2019; allow a notarial officer to perform a notarial act in Kentucky; outline requirements for certain notarial acts; require a personal or online appearance before a notarial officer; specify the requirements of identifying an individual before a notarial officer; allow a notarial officer to refuse to perform a notarial act; state who may perform a notarial act in Kentucky; recognize notarial acts performed in other states; recognize notarial acts performed in federally recognized Indian tribes under federal law, and in foreign countries; allow a notary public to perform a notarial act by means of communication technology; require a notarial act to be evidenced by a certificate; provide short form certificates for use by notarial officers; outline the requirements for an official stamp of a notary public; assign responsibility of the notary public's stamping device to the notary public; require a notary public to maintain a journal chronicling all notarial acts performed by that notary public; require a notary public to register with the Secretary of State that the notary public will be performing notarial acts with respect to electronic records; outline the necessary requirements to be a notary public; outline grounds for suspending, denying, or revoking a commission as a notary public; require the Secretary of State to maintain an electronic database of notaries public; detail prohibited acts; establish the validity of notarial acts; allow the Secretary of State to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this Act; require all commissions occurring after the effective date of this Act to comply with this Act; state that a portion of this Act may be cited as the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to state that a paper copy of an electronic record shall satisfy a law requiring a tangible document; create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to create the Kentucky Notarization and Recording Standards Commission; amend KRS 423.200 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 369.103 to allow electronic signatures on transactions relating to the conveyance of interests in real property and the creation or transfer of negotiable instruments; amend KRS 62.065 to allow a surety to cover more than one required bond; repeal KRS 423.010, 423.020, 423.030, 423.040, 423.050, 423.060, 423.070, 423.080, 423.110, 423.130, 423.140, 423.150, 423.160, 423.170, 423.180, 423.190, 423.200, and 423.990; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019. |
| | Current Status: | 2/12/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/8/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB333.htm |
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| HB348 | JUDICIAL DISTRICTS (HOOVER J) Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to authorize the Supreme Court to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to perform an analysis to determine the need to rearrange the judicial circuits and districts or reallocate the number of judges relative to population or caseload; amend KRS 23A.040 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to two judges and two divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.045 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to three judges and three divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.050 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to four judges and four divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.055 to increase circuit judges in the Sixteenth Circuit; amend KRS 24A.030 to realign the boundaries of the judicial districts; amend KRS 24A.050 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to two District Judges and two numbered divisions of District Court; amend KRS 24A.060 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to three District Judges and three numbered divisions of District Court; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2019. |
| | Current Status: | 4/2/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/27/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/27/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB348.htm |
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| HB369 | CONTRACTS (ROWLAND B) Amend KRS 360.010 to specify when parties are bound to interest rate in contract and the interest rate parties are entitled to receive after default; create a new section of KRS Chapter 371 to specify that an obligation to pay or satisfy a debt is not extinguished by any action taken by a creditor for the purposes of the creditor's own financial, tax, or accounting records or affairs. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2018 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 3/29/2018 - delivered to Governor
3/29/2018 - Enrolled, Signed by President of the Senate
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB369.htm |
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| HB378 | NOTICE (PRUNTY M) mend KRS 383.195 to provide that in when there is no written contract, or a tenancy at will or by sufferance, the landlord may terminate the tenancy giving seven (7) day's notice. |
| | Current Status: | 2/22/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/20/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
2/15/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB378.htm |
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| HB468 | MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTIONS (UPCHURCH K) Amend KRS 186A.115, regarding motor vehicle inspections, to allow motor vehicle dealers or employees of motor vehicle dealers to be certified as motor vehicle inspectors under certain conditions and limitations. |
| | Current Status: | 3/2/2018 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| | Recent Status: | 2/28/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation
2/26/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB468.htm |
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| HB472 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (MORGAN W) Propose to amend Sections 119 and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky extending the term of district judges from four years to six years and increasing the requirement of being a licensed attorney from two years to at least four years to serve as a district judge. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Constitutional Amendments, and Intergovernmental Affairs
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| | Recent Status: | 2/26/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB472.htm |
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| HB503 | ATTORNEYS (HATTON A) Create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 creating a statute of limitations for actions asserting that an attorney engaged in solicitation; repeal KRS 21A.300, KRS 21A.310, and KRS 21A.320. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/26/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB503.htm |
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| HB515 | COMMONWEALTH CIVIL ACTIONS (IMES K) Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes relating to the Franklin Circuit Court to provide alternative concurrent venue and jurisdiction when appealing the decisions of state agencies, and to move venue from Franklin Circuit Court to the Circuit Courts of the counties in which events underlying the enforcement actions occurred. |
| | Current Status: | 3/5/2018 - (H) posted in committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/28/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
2/26/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB515.htm |
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| HB543 | PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS (JENKINS J) Amend KRS 329A.070 to delete an individual conducting an investigation on their own behalf from the list of those exempted from licensure requirements; add an employee of a private business conducting an internal investigation to the list; require an employee of a private investigator or a private investigating firm to be registered with the board; delete 240 hours per year maximum of supervised work. |
| | Current Status: | 3/1/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
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| | Recent Status: | 2/27/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB543.htm |
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| HB550 | UNIFORM RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT ACT (CANTRELL M) Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 383.500 to apply the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act on a statewide basis; repeal, reenact, and amend the various sections of KRS 383.500 to 383.715 constituting that Act without substantive change. |
| | Current Status: | 3/1/2018 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/27/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB550.htm |
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| SB2 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (ALVARADO R) Propose amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the General Assembly the power to limit damages for injuries resulting in death or for injuries to persons or property, and to provide a uniform statute of limitations; provide for submission to the voters. |
| | Current Status: | 3/9/2018 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 3/8/2018 - (S) Passed Over and retained in the Orders of the Day
3/8/2018 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1, SFA 1
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB2.htm |
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| SB10 | JUDICIAL REDISTRICTING (SCHICKEL J) Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to authorize the Supreme Court to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to perform an analysis to determine the need to rearrange the judicial circuits and districts or reallocate the number of judges relative to population and caseload; require the analysis to be completed within two years of December 31 of the year of the decennial census; require the Supreme Court to submit the analysis to the General Assembly by January 31 of the following year; provide that if the analysis indicates a need for rearrangement of judicial circuits and districts or reallocation of the number of judges due to population or caseload, the Supreme Court may submit certification as required by the Constitution of Kentucky which may include a proposal; amend KRS 23A.020 to realign the boundaries of the judicial circuits; amend KRS 23A.040 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to two judges and two divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.045 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to three judges and three divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.050 to reallocate judicial circuits entitled to four judges and four divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 23A.055 to increase the allocation of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit to six judges and six numbered divisions of the Circuit Court; amend KRS 24A.030 to realign the boundaries of the judicial districts; amend KRS 24A.050 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to two District Judges and two numbered divisions of District Court; amend KRS 24A.060 to reallocate judicial districts entitled to three District Judges and three numbered divisions of District Court; include noncodified language regarding dates of implementation, the renumbering of certain circuits, and the impact on the office of Commonwealth's attorney in the affected circuits; EFFECTIVE December 31, 2021. |
| | Current Status: | 3/1/2018 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
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| | Recent Status: | 2/23/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
2/22/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB10.htm |
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| SB11 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS (MCGARVEY M) Amend KRS 278.5461 to include a definition of "personally identifiable information"; amend KRS 278.5462 to provide that no telecommunications or Internet service provider shall collect personally identifiable information from a customer as a result of the customer's use of the telecommunications or Internet services without the customer's express written approval. |
| | Current Status: | 1/3/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Natural Resources and Energy
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
10/18/2017 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB11.htm |
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| SB33 | PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURITY (MCGARVEY M) Amend KRS 367.363 to include additional definitions; amend KRS 367.3645 to provide for a free security freeze in the event a protected person has been notified of a security breach pursuant to the Act and to make technical corrections; amend KRS 367.365 to require consumer reporting agencies to encrypt electronic data contained in consumer files and consumer reports; allow for security freezes to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; allow consumers to request a replacement personal identification number or password in the same manner as the original security freeze request; remove the expiration of a credit freeze after seven years; include gender-neutral language; to prohibit a credit reporting agency from charging a fee for security freeze in the event a consumer has been notified of a security breach; require that consumer reporting agencies notify consumers of security breaches in compliance with KRS 365.732(4) to (7) and provide five years of credit monitoring; allow for a security freeze placed at one nationwide consumer reporting agency to be sent and applied to other nationwide consumer reporting agencies; require third-party agents to notify consumer reporting agencies of security breaches; require consumer reporting agencies to comply with KRS 365.732(3); prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; amend KRS 365.730 to extend definitions to KRS 365.732; to conform the definition of "personally identifiable information"; amend KRS 365.732 to define "encrypt," and "security breach"; provide an exemption for consumer reporting agencies subject to this Act; prohibit electronic or substitute notice from being sent to electronic and email accounts involved in the security breach; provide for the request for three consumer reports from each nationwide consumer reporting agency by consumers affected by a security breach; prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; require certain information holders to encrypt personally identifiable data; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.931 to exempt certain persons from the definition of "nonaffiliated third parties"; conform the definition of "personally identifiable information"; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.932, KRS 61.933, 61.934,171.450, 42.722, and 42.726 to conform; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/3/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Banking and Insurance
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced (Pre-Filed)
12/8/2017 - Pre-Filed
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB33.htm |
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| SB42 | LAWFUL TAKING OF WILDLIFE (WEBB R) Amend KRS 150.363 to define "unmanned aircraft systems" and prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems to track, hunt, or harvest wildlife; amend KRS 150.710 to prohibit the use of unmanned aircraft systems to conduct surveillance of persons lawfully engaged in hunting, trapping, or fishing. |
| | Current Status: | 1/4/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Natural Resources and Energy
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| | Recent Status: | 1/2/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB42.htm |
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| SB87 | JURY SERVICE PAY (SEUM D) Amend KRS 29A.170 to increase payment to jurors for jury duty in Circuit and District Court from five dollars to ten dollars per day; require that jurors be paid fifteen dollars per day as reimbursement of expenses incurred; amend KRS 32.070 to require that persons summoned for jury service in Circuit Court and jurors serving as grand jurors and petit jurors be paid the sum of fifteen dollars per day as reimbursement of expenses incurred. |
| | Current Status: | 3/8/2018 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 3/8/2018 - (S) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/SCS 1, SCA 1T
3/7/2018 - (S) Passed Over and retained in the Orders of the Day
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB87.htm |
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| SB135 | OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS (SCHRODER W) Create new sections of KRS Chapter 423 to define various terms; limit the applicability of the Act to notarial acts performed on or after August 1, 2019; allow a notarial officer to perform a notarial act in Kentucky; outline requirements for certain notarial acts; require a personal or online appearance before a notarial officer; specify the requirements of identifying an individual before a notarial officer; allow a notarial officer to refuse to perform a notarial act; state who may perform a notarial act in Kentucky; recognize notarial acts performed in other states; recognize notarial acts performed in federally recognized Indian tribes under federal law, and in foreign countries; allow a notary public to perform a notarial act by means of communication technology; require a notarial act to be evidenced by a certificate; provide short form certificates for use by notarial officers; outline the requirements for an official stamp of a notary public; assign responsibility of the notary public's stamping device to the notary public; require a notary public to maintain a journal chronicling all notarial acts performed by that notary public; require a notary public to register with the Secretary of State that the notary public will be performing notarial acts with respect to electronic records; outline the necessary requirements to be a notary public; outline grounds for suspending, denying, or revoking a commission as a notary public; require the Secretary of State to maintain an electronic database of notaries public; detail prohibited acts; establish the validity of notarial acts; allow the Secretary of State to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this Act; require all commissions occurring after the effective date of this Act to comply with this Act; state that a portion of this Act may be cited as the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to state that a paper copy of an electronic record shall satisfy a law requiring a tangible document; create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to create the Kentucky Notarization and Recording Standards Commission; amend KRS 423.200 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 369.103 to allow electronic signatures on transactions relating to the conveyance of interests in real property and the creation or transfer of negotiable instruments; amend KRS 62.065 to allow a surety to cover more than one required bond; repeal KRS 423.010, 423.020, 423.030, 423.040, 423.050, 423.060, 423.070, 423.080, and 423.990; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2019. |
| | Current Status: | 2/8/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 2/7/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB135.htm |
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| SB189 | JUROR PAY (NEAL G) Amend KRS 29A.170 to increase juror pay and expense allowance; amend KRS 32.011 to conform to repeal; repeal KRS 32.070, relating to expense allowances for jurors. |
| | Current Status: | 2/22/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/21/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB189.htm |
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| SB194 | UNIFORM FIDUCIARY ACCESS TO DIGITAL ASSETS ACT (WESTERFIELD W) Establish KRS Chapter 395A and create new sections thereof to enact the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act to establish a framework for the management and disposition of digital assets upon death or incapacitation; define terms; set forth the applicability of the chapter to fiduciaries, agents, personal representatives, conservators, guardians, and trustees; provide that the chapter does not apply to a digital asset of an employer that is used by an employee in the ordinary course of business; enumerate the rights and limitations of a personal representative of a decedent to access the electronic communications or digital assets of the decedent; permit a court to grant a conservator or guardian the right to access electronic communications of a protected person after a hearing conducted pursuant to applicable state law; enumerate the rights and limitations of an agent to access a principal's electronic communications and digital assets; enumerate the rights and limitations of a trustee, or successor of a trustee, to access the electronic communications and digital assets of an account holder or successor account holder; provide that a fiduciary who is an account holder or has the right to access an account holder's digital assets may do so, subject to certain limitations; provide that an account holder may limit a fiduciarys access to any digital asset by affirmative act, separate from his or her assent to other provisions, in a terms-of-service agreement; specify when a provision in a terms-of-service agreement is void as against public policy of Kentucky; provide that a choice-of-law provision in an agreement is unenforceable to the extent that it limits a fiduciarys access to a digital asset; allow a fiduciary with authority over the property of a decedent, protected person, principal, or settler to access tangible property containing digital assets; specify the documents or instruments that a fiduciary must provide to a custodian in order to access, control, or copy a digital asset; provide that a custodian must comply with a request made within 60 days of receipt of the request; require that the provisions of the chapter be applied and construed so as to promote uniformity of law among the states; establish conformity with federal requirements related to electronic signatures and records; provide that the chapter may be cited as the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. |
| | Current Status: | 2/23/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary
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| | Recent Status: | 2/22/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB194.htm |
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| SB207 | BUILDING CODE VIOLATIONS (MEREDITH S) Amend KRS 198B.130 to allow a court award under KRS Chapter 198B or the Uniform Building Code to include attorney's fees if a certificate of occupancy has not been issued. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations
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| | Recent Status: | 2/26/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB207.htm |
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| SB225 | FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS (WEST S) Establish Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 286 and create new sections of that subtitle relating to credit; define terms; require a license to make credit access loans; require locations to be physically located in Kentucky with at least one full-time employee; establish qualifications of an applicant for a license to offer credit access loans; require the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to periodically review a licensee's compliance with licensure qualifications; establish form requirements for an application to offer credit access loans and a $500 filing fee; provide commissioner with discretion to establish a nonrefundable supervision fee in lieu of other fees; require that licensees maintain an agent in Kentucky for service of process and notify the commissioner in writing at least five days prior to any change in the status of an agent; establish the filing fee for a license and establish requirements for additional materials to accompany the application, including a surety bond or irrevocable letter of credit of $25,000 per location not to exceed $200,000 for a single licensee; allow the commissioner to require background checks at the expense of the applicant; require the commissioner to investigate completed applications for compliance and issue licenses if requirements have been satisfied; require licenses to be conspicuously posted; provide for annual expiration and renewals of licenses upon showing of continued compliance; establish due process procedures for the denial of a license; establish license renewal fee of $500; provide commissioner with discretion to establish a biennial license; prohibit transfer or assignment of a license, and set out requirements for a change of a control of a licensee; require five days' notice to the commissioner of a change in principal place of business, location, or name of a licensee; allow for the collection of certain interest, fees, and charges on a credit access loan and limit the term of each loan to not more than twelve months; limit credit access loan plans to an aggregate principal balance of $1,500, and provide for other specific loan plan terms; allow for the collection of fees after a default by a customer and for returned or dishonored checks; establish requirements for disclosures made by licensees to customers; require licensees to provide customers with a periodic billing statement; establish requirements for recordkeeping by a licensee; prohibit unfair or deceptive acts by a licensee; prohibit customers from having more than one outstanding credit access loan plan and require licensees to inquire about the plan prior to the database becoming fully operational; prohibit licensees from using certain devices or agreements and require licensees to comply with certain state and federal laws; prohibit certain provisions in a credit access loan plan; provide that credit access loan plans made with an unlicensed person are void; exempt credit access loans from certain other statutes; grant authority to commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations; grant examination, investigatory, and subpoena powers to the commissioner and remedies for enforcement; require licensees and other persons to pay reasonable examination and investigation costs; allow for written complaints to be submitted to the commissioner and vest exclusive administrative power to investigate complaint with commissioner; allow commissioner to suspend or revoke a license, issue cease and desist orders, order refunds and civil penalties, censure or bar persons from the business of a licensee, and establish due process procedures; allow commissioner authority to enter into consent orders, seek civil penalties and make criminal referrals, and take enforcement action without opportunity for prior hearing in extraordinary circumstances; require licensees to report certain events within 15 days of occurrence; require the filing of an annual report by a licensee and exempt the reports from disclosure or discovery; require the commissioner to prepare an annual report and analysis reflecting the results of operations of licensees; allow the commissioner to license applicants through a multistate licensing system and extend federal and state privileges to information disclosed to the licensing system; establish a database for credit access loan plans and reporting requirements for licensees; establish requirements for operation and use of database and conduct of third-party providers; establish the information a licensee may access in the database and exempt certain reported information from disclosure or discovery; prohibit local government units from regulating or having authority over the business of making credit access loans; make licenses available to certain persons chartered, organized, or licensed pursuant to KRS Chapter 286 as of January 1, 2018; establish the name of this subtitle as the "Kentucky Credit Access Act"; amend KRS 286.1-011 to specify that the Department of Financial Institutions regulates matters under KRS Chapter 286 and 292. |
| | Current Status: | 3/1/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Banking and Insurance
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| | Recent Status: | 2/28/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB225.htm |
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| SB229 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (WILSON M) Propose to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to forbid the application of foreign law if citizens' rights would be infringed upon; submit to voters. |
| | Current Status: | 3/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State and Local Government
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| | Recent Status: | 3/1/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB229.htm |
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| SB248 | SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION (MCGARVEY M) Amend KRS 367.363 to include additional definitions; amend KRS 367.3645 to provide for a free security freeze in the event a protected person has been notified of a security breach and to make technical corrections; amend KRS 367.365 to require consumer reporting agencies to encrypt electronic data contained in consumer files and consumer reports; allow for security freezes to be requested by methods established by the consumer reporting agency; allow consumers to request a replacement personal identification number or password in the same manner as the original security freeze request; remove the expiration of a credit freeze after seven years; include gender-neutral language; prohibit a credit reporting agency from charging a fee for security freeze in the event a consumer has been notified of a security breach; require that consumer reporting agencies notify consumers of security breaches in compliance with KRS 365.732(4) to (7) and provide three years of credit monitoring; allow for a security freeze, temporary lift, or removal request placed at one nationwide consumer reporting agency to be sent and applied to other nationwide consumer reporting agencies; require third-party agents to notify consumer reporting agencies of security breaches; require consumer reporting agencies to comply with KRS 365.732(3); prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; amend KRS 365.732 to define "encrypt," "personally identifiable information," and "security breach"; provide an exemption for consumer reporting agencies subject to this Act; prohibit electronic or substitute notice from being sent to electronic and e-mail accounts involved in the security breach; provide for the request of one consumer report from each nationwide consumer reporting agency by consumers affected by a security breach; prohibit requirements that consumers waive rights or submit to arbitration; require certain information holders to encrypt personally identifiable data; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.931 to include exemption for certain persons from the definition of "nonaffiliated third parties"; conform the definition of "personally identifiable information"; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.932, 61.933, 61.934, 171.450, 42.722, and 42.726 to conform; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/5/2018 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor
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| | Recent Status: | 3/1/2018 - Introduced
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| | State Bill Page: | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB248.htm |
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