Kentucky House Bill 150 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 17 2011 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-28 - returned to State & Local Government (S)
Pending: Senate State & Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Amend KRS 67.825 to exclude unified local governments from being able to create a charter county government; amend KRS 67.830 to require that a petition seeking the creation of a charter county commission be signed by 20 percent of the residents of both unincorporated and incorporated areas of the county; specify the composition of the commission; provide for a process for when a comprehensive plan cannot be decided upon, and an extension process for the plan determination; provide that it shall take a majority of the residents of the county and a majority of city residents of at least one city to form a charter county government or consolidate services or functions; provide for when a comprehensive plan fails to be adopted; amend KRS 67.845 to apply dissolution provisions to participating cities within the charter county government; amend KRS 67.855 to apply ordinance powers provisions to participating cities within the charter county government; create a new section of KRS 67.825 to 67.875 to set out requirements for the petition process for forming a commission to study the creation of a charter county government or for the consolidation of services and functions; amend KRS 78.530 to allow agencies that are established by a merger or interlocal agreement consisting of at least one agency who participated in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) on or before April 9, 2002, to be exempt from the requirement of signing a contract for employee health insurance with the Personnel Cabinet as a condition of participation in CERS; amend KRS 67.077 to consolidate, streamline, and set out procedures for county ordinance passage; amend KRS 65.182, 65.660, 65.662, 65.810, 67.045, 75.015, and 65.125 to conform; repeal KRS 67.075 and 67.076; apply the amendments to KRS 78.530 to existing agencies established before the effective date of the Act.

AN ACT relating to local government.

Rep. Dennis Horlander [D]

Rep. Dennis Keene [D]

Rep. Sal Santoro [R]

Rep. Arnold Simpson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-28		returned to State & Local Government (S)
2011-02-28		2nd reading
2011-02-28		taken from State & Local Government (S)
2011-02-25		returned to State & Local Government (S)
2011-02-25		1st reading
2011-02-25		taken from State & Local Government (S)
2011-02-22		to State & Local Government (S)
2011-02-17		received in Senate
2011-02-16		3rd reading, passed 96-2 with Committee Substitute, floor amendment (2)
2011-02-14		floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute
2011-02-10		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 11, 2011
2011-02-10		2nd reading, to Rules
2011-02-09		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
2011-02-01		posting waived
2011-01-05		to Local Government (H)
2011-01-04		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB150.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB150/bill.doc