KY HB477 | 2016 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 23 2016 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-24 - to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

Summary

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to set forth legislative findings and declarations regarding employee misclassification problems; provide definitions; set forth determination of misclassified workers; set forth investigation process and violations; establish court remedies; require notice by an employer; grant commissioner authority to promulgate administrative regulations; require agencies to share the information of a misclassifying employer with other interested state agencies; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.485 to prohibit contractors with multiple violations from contracting with the state for two years; amend KRS 131.190 to require the Department of Revenue to provide copies of assessments for failure to pay income tax to three other state agencies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the Office of Employment and Training to provide copies of assessments for failure to pay income tax to three other state agencies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to require the commissioner to provide copies of orders to three other state agencies.

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Title

AN ACT relating to misclassification of employees in the construction industry.

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History

DateChamberAction
2016-03-24Senateto Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)
2016-03-23Senatereceived in Senate
2016-03-22House3rd reading, passed 77-20 with Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (8)
2016-03-11Housefloor amendments (4) (5) and (6) withdrawn
2016-03-11Housefloor amendment (8) filed to Committee Substitute
2016-03-07Houseposted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 8, 2016
2016-03-04House2nd reading, to Rules
2016-03-03Houseand (4), (5), and (6) filed to Committee Substitute
2016-03-03Housefloor amendments (1), (2), (3), and (7-title) filed to Bill
2016-03-03Housereported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
2016-02-26Houseposted in committee
2016-02-24Houseto Labor & Industry (H)
2016-02-23Houseintroduced in House

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