Kentucky Senate Bill 241 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: Passed on March 29 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-29 - delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 139)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Amend 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 197, sec. 11, to direct the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to make the conservation easement acquisitions required to be made under the section instead of the Finance and Administration Cabinet; delete the provision requiring the Finance and Administration Cabinet to procure outside counsel; provide that the conservation easement transfers not be subject to KRS 382.850 provided that the conservation easements stipulate that they will not inhibit coal mining operations; allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to work with third parties, contractors, and partners to perform the due diligence necessary to complete the transactions; move the closing date for the acquisitions back to June 30, 2024; provide that notwithstanding KRS 56.040, surveys for the lands involved in the transactions directed by the section may be completed after closing; require funds to be held in escrow to reconcile any differences in acreage of the lands once the surveys are completed; authorize the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to sign all necessary documents to complete the transactions; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to deliver all documents relating to the due diligence it has already performed to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources on the effective date of the Act; allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to accept, via assignment, contracts that the Finance and Administration Cabinet has already entered into in the course of performing its due diligence; amend 2022 Kentucky Acts Chapter 199, Part I, Operating Budget, L. Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, 7. Fish and Wildlife Resources, (4) Kentucky Cumberland Forest Conservation Program, to provide that the $3,875,000 one-time allocation in fiscal year 2022-2023 to support the Kentucky Cumberland Forest Conservation Program shall not lapse and shall carry forward; amend KRS 45A.800 to add the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to several definitions for KRS Chapter 45A; amend KRS 45A.810 to create one or more engineering and engineering-related services section committees in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and provide for the selection process for the members of the committees; amend KRS 45A.815, 45A.825, 45A.830, 45A.837 to conform; amend KRS 56.040 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to provide for the examination and certification of title when acquiring an interest in land from state funds; amend KRS 150.022 to remove language relating to the removal of a member of the Fish and Wildlife Commission by the Governor; amend KRS 150.0242 to provide that the department shall not be subject to any provision of KRS Chapter 45A that requires Finance and Administration Cabinet approval for any part of its procurement process; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations on or before January 1, 2024 implementing procedures for the procurement of engineering services; amend KRS 150.120 to remove the requirement that the Governor and the Finance and Administration Cabinet approve of the department's sale of contraband; subject sales of contraband to audit by the Auditor of Public Accounts; amend KRS 150.152 to specify certain aspects of the audit of the department by the Auditor of Public Accounts; amend KRS 150.170 to provide for a five acre minimum for a resident owner of farmlands to be hunting and fishing license-exempt when fishing or hunting on their own lands; amend KRS 150.175 to change some department-issued license names and to remove the requirement that an applicant under the age of 16 get written consent from a parent before applying for a youth statewide hunting license; amend KRS 150.195 to remove the requirement that county clerks sell licenses and permits issued by the department; specify other entities authorized to sell licenses and permits issued by the department; make conforming changes; amend KRS 150.250 to remove the requirement that the Governor and the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet approve before thedepartment can enter into a contract with the federal government; amend KRS 150.990 to conform; provide that the requirements of the Act apply to all procurements and acquisitions of interests in land undertaken by the department, including those commenced prior to the effective date of the Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Sen. Robin Webb [D]	Sen. Stephen Meredith [R]	Sen. Jared Carpenter [R]	Sen. John Schickel [R]
Sen. Damon Thayer [R]	Sen. Johnnie Turner [R]

2023-03-29 - Senate - Senate: Motion to move the previous question RSN# 2725 (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-03-29 - House - House: Veto Override RCS# 344 (Y: 75 N: 17 NV: 0 Abs: 8) [PASS]
2023-03-29 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RSN# 2726 (Y: 36 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-03-16 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 310 (Y: 83 N: 13 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2023-03-07 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 sfa1 RSN# 2551 (Y: 34 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-29	House	delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 139)
2023-03-29	House	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2023-03-29	House	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2023-03-29	House	received in Senate
2023-03-29	Senate	passed 75-17
2023-03-29	Senate	veto overridden
2023-03-29	Senate	posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
2023-03-29	Senate	taken from Rules
2023-03-29	Senate	to Rules (H)
2023-03-29	Senate	received in House
2023-03-29	House	passed 36 -1
2023-03-29	House	veto overridden
2023-03-29	House	posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
2023-03-29	House	to Rules (S)
2023-03-29	House	received in Senate
2023-03-24	Senate	Vetoed
2023-03-16	Senate	delivered to Governor
2023-03-16	Senate	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2023-03-16	Senate	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2023-03-16	Senate	received in Senate
2023-03-16	House	3rd reading, passed 83-13
2023-03-16	House	placed in the Orders of the Day
2023-03-16	House	taken from Rules
2023-03-16	House	reported favorably, to Rules
2023-03-10	House	to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2023-03-10	House	returned to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-10	House	2nd reading
2023-03-10	House	taken from Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-09	House	returned to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-09	House	1st reading
2023-03-09	House	taken from Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-07	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-07	House	received in House
2023-03-07	Senate	3rd reading, passed 34-1 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (1)
2023-03-03	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 07, 2023
2023-03-02	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2023-03-01	Senate	floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2023-03-01	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
2023-02-23	Senate	to State & Local Government (S)
2023-02-21	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2023-02-21	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/sb241.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/sb241/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/sb241/bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/23RS/documents/0139.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/SB241/SCS1.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/SB241/SFA1.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/sb241/vote_history.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/23RS/sb241/FN.pdf