KY HB63 | 2015 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 6 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-23 - to Rules (H)
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Summary

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 118A to establish the clean judicial elections fund; define terms; establish fund to distribute transfers to certified judicial candidates running for Justice of the Supreme Court; provide that the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance administer the fund and promulgate necessary administrative regulations; designate that moneys in the fund be invested in accordance with administrative regulations developed by the State Investment Commission; require the registry to publish information about campaign expenditures in the judicial campaigns of the previous year; establish requirements to be designated a certified judicial candidate and gain access to the fund; provide guidelines for distribution of funds to certified judicial candidates; direct that judicial review of any final action of the registry be expedited by the court; provide for civil and criminal penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide that a person entitled to a state tax refund may designate on that person's income tax return an amount to be credited to the fund; amend KRS 21A.140 to permit the Supreme Court to allow members of the Kentucky Bar Association to contribute to the clean judicial elections fund with their bar dues; EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2016.

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Title

AN ACT relating to public financing for judicial campaigns and making an appropriation therefor.

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History

DateChamberAction
2015-03-23Houseto Rules (H)
2015-03-23Housetaken from the Regular Orders of the Day
2015-02-23Houseposted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 24, 2015
2015-02-13House2nd reading, to Rules
2015-02-12Housereported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2015-02-03Houseposting waived
2015-01-06Houseto Judiciary (H)
2015-01-06Houseintroduced in House

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