Kentucky Senate Bill 92 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on March 20 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-03-20 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 041)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Amend KRS 149.330 to change the definition of "person" to include any natural person or director, officer, or agent of a business organization; amend KRS 149.344 to require loggers or operators who have received bad actor designations to provide prior notice to the division before engaging in any timber harvesting operations until they have paid all civil penalties and performed all required site remediation; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations setting forth the form and manner of the prior notice; beginning on January 1, 2016, require the cabinet to issue an emergency order requiring any third-time bad actor to cease all timber harvesting operations until all required site remediation has been performed and all civil penalties have been paid or a repayment plan has been established and maintained; specify that all bad actor designations, including those issued prior to the effective date of the Act, be included in determining the applicability of KRS 149.344 to a logger or operator; amend KRS 149.346 to require the cabinet to serve notice to a logger or operator of evidence of a violation of the reporting requirements and provide for an administrative hearing to answer the charges; amend KRS 149.348 to establish penalties for violation of the reporting requirements; provide that directors, officers, and agents of operators or loggers doing business as certain business organizations shall be personally liable for the civil penalties incurred by the operators or loggers; make technical corrections.

AN ACT relating to timber harvesting.

Sen. Joe Bowen [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-20	Senate	signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 041)
2015-03-11	Senate	delivered to Governor
2015-03-11	Senate	enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
2015-03-11	Senate	received in Senate
2015-03-11	House	3rd reading, passed 99-0
2015-03-10	House	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 11, 2015
2015-03-10	House	reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules as a Consent Bill
2015-03-04	House	posting waived
2015-03-04	House	returned to Natural Resources & Environment (H)
2015-03-04	House	1st reading
2015-03-04	House	taken from Natural Resources & Environment (H)
2015-03-04	House	to Natural Resources & Environment (H)
2015-03-03	House	received in House
2015-03-03	Senate	3rd reading, passed 36-0
2015-03-02	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 3, 2015
2015-02-26	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2015-02-25	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
2015-02-05	Senate	to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
2015-02-03	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB92.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB92/bill.doc
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/15RS/SB92/vote_history.pdf