| HB1 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 56.8605 to redefine "financing agreement" and "funding notes" to include financing or refinancing of pension obligations owed to Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System under KRS 161.550(1)(b); amend KRS 56.868 to authorize the Kentucky Asset/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| SB83 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 304.47-060 to extend existing civil immunity provisions in certain situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
posting waived |
| HB323 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish the Dual Credit Scholarship Program; define eligibility for the program; direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program; establish a trust fund for mone...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| SB299 | Engross
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow persons convicted of certain felonies the right to vote as provided by the General Assembly; submit to voters with question.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
posted in committee |
| HB96 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 620.100 to require that counsel appointed prior to a temporary removal hearing to represent a child or an indigent parent, custodian, or other party must have been trained in domestic violence issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
to Judiciary (S) |
| HB608 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11A to require public servants to report suspected ethics violations to the Executive Branch Ethics Commission under the protection of KRS 61.102; amend KRS 11A.010 to add definitions; amend KRS 11A.020 to clarify ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| HB85 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to direct the Office for the Blind to provide the Kentucky State Police with language regarding visually impaired and blind pedestrians to be added to the Kentucky Driver Manual.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
to Transportation (S) |
| SB244 | Engross
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit the General Assembly or an agency or committee it creates to review, approve, or disapprove any administrative regulation of the executive branch during or between regular sessions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
posted in committee |
| HB2 | Engross
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 181 of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to confer upon the proper authority of any city or county the power to levy a local option sales and use tax, subject to specifically enumerated conditions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| HB74 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to create within the Office of the State Treasurer a trust to be used to establish accounts for the benefit of disabled persons as a companion to the federal ABLE Account legislation; amend KRS 205.200 to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
floor amendment (1) filed |
| HB160 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to require the Department for Public Health to establish guidelines for safe disposal of hypodermic syringes, needles, and sharps and provide these guidelines to certain medical facilities and pharmacies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1) |
| HB388 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require unannounced visits to the residence or location where the reported child abuse or neglect or human trafficking of a child occurred when an investigation is required; require ongoing unannounced visit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB297 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 351.160 to delete references to inspections by state coal mine inspectors; repeal KRS 351.140 and 351.150; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
to Labor & Industry (H) |
| HB374 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to establish the parameters and requirements for the levy of local option sales and use taxes, if a proposed constitutional amendment allowing such a levy is approved; create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
floor amendment (3) filed |
| SB175 | Engross
Sine Die | Propose to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to create a crime victims' bill of rights; submit to voters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 22, 2016 |
| HB629 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 304.17A-141 to remove reference to KRS 304.17A-143; amend KRS 304.17A-142 to apply to all health benefit plans issued or renewed after the effective date; require insurers to maintain a Web page on their Web site providing information on fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-21
to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| SB192 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require all public high school students to pass a civics test in order to receive a regular diploma; direct the Kentucky Department of Education to prepare or approve the test with 100 questions drawn from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
posted in committee |
| HB411 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to require an applicant for the federal low-income housing tax credit to notify the local government wherein the project is located that an application has been forwarded to the Kentucky Housing Corporation; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S) |
| HB367 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 14A.1-070 to define "veteran" and "veteran-owned business"; create a new section of Subchapter 2 of KRS Chapter 14A to exempt veteran-owned businesses from paying filing fees to the Secretary of State's office for filing various business do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| HB290 | Engross
Sine Die | Omnibus no-excuse absentee voting bill creating a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to allow in-person voting for any reason in the clerk's office or other approved location at least 12 days before an election; amend KRS 117.085, 117.0851, 117.086, 117....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) |
| SB253 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to describe the intent of the General Assembly and the purposes of authorizing public charter schools; establish a charter school pilot project and identify charter school authorizers; define terms; describe the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
to Education (H) |
| SB205 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216.555 to establish language related to the contents of advertising or nongovernmental publications related to long-term care facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
posted in committee |
| SB202 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes relating to the Franklin Circuit Court to modify standards for venue and jurisdiction in actions and give concurrent jurisdiction to other Circuit Courts in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
to Judiciary (H) |
| HB467 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 36.392 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) |
| HB448 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to provide that an employer ceasing participation in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System or the County Employees Retirement System as provided by KRS 61.522 that elects to provide an alternative retirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
to State & Local Government (S) |
| HB457 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 56.803 to require that state lease offers be qualified as meeting minimum square footage and requirements set out in the public notice before proceeding to inspection by the Finance and Administration Cabinet's Department of Facilities Mana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
to State & Local Government (S) |
| HB442 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 382.365 to allow attorneys to file affidavits which provide evidence of release of a lien encumbering real property with county clerks and provide lienholders a remedy if a false affidavit is filed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
to Judiciary (S) |
| HB300 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 61.645 to require that vacancies in an elected position on the Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees be filled, for the remaining term of office, by a majority vote of the remaining elected trustees rather than by a majority vote of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
to State & Local Government (S) |
| SB37 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 531 to prohibit a person under 18 years of age from transmitting a nude image of himself, herself, or another person under 18 years of age to another person by computer or electronic means as a violation for the fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
posted in committee |
| HB519 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to establish a process to designate a lay caregiver to be contacted upon discharge from a hospital; provide instructions to designated lay caregiver; provide that the designation of a lay caregiver not interfer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
to Health & Welfare (S) |
| SB66 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 311.377 to add medical malpractice actions, actions arising out of review of credentials or of retrospective review and evaluation, and actions by an applicant for or grantee of staff privileges to materials that are confidential and privil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
to Judiciary (H) |
| SB227 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 15.404 to set the basic training of peace officers as that found in KRS 15.440; amend KRS 15.440 to set the local government qualifications for participating in the KLEFP fund at 928 hours as set by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
to Judiciary (H) |
| SB172 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 21.345 to 21.580 permitting a member of the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Judicial Form Retirement System to opt out of the traditional defined benefit plan and elect to participate in the hybrid cash balance plan; p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
to State Government (H) |
| SB260 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 11.160 to clarify procedure for confirmation of appointments made by the Governor and to delete provisions related to confirmation by the House of Representatives of appointments made by the Governor; amend KRS 342.213 to prohibit the Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
to State Government (H) |
| HB458 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS Chapter 304.17A-165 to prohibit insurers from requiring the use of mail-order pharmacies, except for specialty drugs which cannot be provided by retail pharmacies, and prohibit a difference in cost-sharing between retail and mail-order; def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| HB539 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that if a public school student receives an assignment requiring home access to the Internet, and the student has inadequate access, the public school shall provide an alternate assignment, allow com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
to Education (S) |
| SB180 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 446 to define "protected activities," "protected activity provider," and "protected rights"; provide legislative intent; prohibit any statute, regulation, ordinance, order, judgment, of other law or action by any c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
floor amendments (1), (2), (3) and (4) filed |
| SB81 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Department of Education to develop a military-connected student identifier in the student information system; direct the Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for the creati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| SB198 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 337.010 to provide that neither a franchisee nor an employee of a franchisee shall be deemed to be an employee of the franchisor for purposes of KRS Chapter 337; amend KRS 338.021 to provide that neither a franchisee nor an employee of a fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
to Labor & Industry (H) |
| SB278 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish an elective social studies course on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament, or a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
to Education (H) |
| SB8 | Engross
Sine Die | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to judicial redistricting for Circuit and District Courts to require the Supreme Court of Kentucky to recommend to the General Assembly a proposal to adjust Circuit Court and Di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H) |
| HB413 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to prohibit the marketing, sharing, or selling of wireless phone numbers of subscribers without express written consent of the subscriber; amend KRS 367.990 to create a penalty of $10,000 for each violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
to Judiciary (S) |
| HB476 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 194A.735 to expand eligibility, subject to sufficient funding, for the homelessness prevention project to individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness who have been admitted into hospital emergency departments at least 10 times annually...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
to Health & Welfare (S) |
| HB94 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 202A.081 to require that an attorney is present for a patient agreed order and allow a peer support specialist to be present; require the court to appoint a case management service or team employed by a community mental health center to dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| SB212 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216B.020 to remove abortion facilities from the exemptions for certificate of need; amend KRS 216B.0431 to require abortion facilities to comply with licensure and certificate of need standards required for certain ambulatory surgical cente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
to Health & Welfare (H) |
| SB136 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 218A.020. 218A.070, and 218A.090 to classify all hydrocodone products as Schedule II controlled substances; amend KRS 314.011 relating to advanced practice registered nurses and KRS 320.210 and 320.240 relating to optometrists to preserve t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-14
posted in committee |
| HB393 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 227.715 to expand the sales of fireworks for seasonal retailers to a full 30 days surrounding both the July 4th and New Year's holidays; amend KRS 227.752 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S) |
| SB173 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to establish procedures for local governments to enter into the retail or wholesale sale of a commercial product; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45 to establish procedures for state entities to enter into t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| HB456 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.345 to require the council or, if no council exists, the principal in each school containing any grades five through 12, to adopt a policy to administer a drug abuse prevention program, that includes opioid abuse prevention; require the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-11
to Education (S) |
| SB50 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.070 to require schools to schedule the first student attendance day no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26, unless a school has adopted a year-round calendar; allow a waiver when a school has missed at least seven days each yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-10
to Education (H) |
