| KY | HB147 | Pass | Amends KRS 132.017 to define “next regular election,” as it pertains to placing on the ballot the question of whether a local property tax rate shall be levied, to specify that the election may occur in the same or a subsequent calendar year as t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-27
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 225) |
| KY | HB6 | Pass | The State/Executive Branch Budget: Details Part I, Operating Budget; details Part II, Capital Projects Budget; details Part III, General Provisions; details Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; details Part V, Funds Tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 175) |
| KY | HB319 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Cybersecurity (KentuckyCYBER) Program and governing board within the Council on Postsecondary Education; establish the purpose and duties of KentuckyCYBER Governing Board; create the Ke...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB388 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to provide that members of local boards, commissions, committees, and other bodies created by or appointed by consolidated local governments have geographic diversity; amends KRS 67C.103 to require that the ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 181) |
| KY | HB509 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 61.870 to 61.884, the Open Records Act, to require a public agency to furnish an officer, employee, board member, or commission member an agency email account; define terms; allow the governing body of a public agency or i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB581 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to define “retail filling station” and “electric vehicle charging station”; prohibits local governments from using the zoning process or adopting any measure to prohibit or restrict the ability of a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 186) |
| KY | SB259 | Pass | Amends KRS 65.503, relating to the board of the West End Opportunity Partnership, to stipulate that the board has the authority to set its own procedures to determine successors, to allow more than one nominee from the institutions from which members...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 170) |
| KY | HB723 | Pass | Amends KRS 147A.154 and 147A.158 to sunset the existing Government Resources Accelerating Needed Transformation (GRANT) Program as established in the Department for Local Government and to transfer the moneys in the existing fund to the Cabinet for E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 188) |
| KY | HB596 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS 65.210 to 65.300 to make interlocal agreements concerning the sharing of occupational or insurance premium tax revenue between a city and a county terminable only with the consent of both parties; amends KRS 65.250 to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 158) |
| KY | HB323 | Pass | Amends KRS 95A.262 to permit the Kentucky Fire Commission to establish a reimbursement program for cancer screenings for firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 142) |
| KY | HB418 | Pass | Amends KRS 262.850 to decrease the minimum number of acres to qualify as an agricultural district from 250 acres to 50 acres, to add cities that are within one mile of the agricultural district to the list of entities to be notified of the proposal, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 136) |
| KY | HB462 | Pass | Amends KRS 205.506 to establish the conditions under which a recovery residence may provide on-site clinical services or access to on-site clinical services; amends KRS 222.500 to define terms related to recovery residences; amends KRS 222.502 to per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 132) |
| KY | HB472 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 381 to allow the appointment of a receiver for a planned community when it fails to maintain the infrastructure, common area, storm water detention or retention area, or other facility that it is legally obligated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 150) |
| KY | HB712 | Pass | Amends KRS 147A.090 to provide that area development district boards of directors have the power and duty to cooperate with the Kentucky Ohio River Regional Recreation Authority (KORRRA); creates new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to promote outdoor rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 151) |
| KY | SB58 | Pass | Amends KRS 132.017 to reduce the number of qualified voters needed to form a petition committee, to allow each sheet of the petition to contain the names of voters from more than one voting precinct, to remove the requirement that petition signees pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-07
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 115) |
| KY | HB29 | Pass | Amends KRS 189.503 to allow local governments to apply to the Transportation Cabinet for permission to include segments of state-maintained highways in racing events permitted by a local government; and amends KRS 189.505 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 91) |
| KY | HB43 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS 75.100 to 75.260 to require a fire protection district, volunteer fire department district, or subdistrict to host a public hearing and provide notice of the hearing when making a change to fire protection services involv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 92) |
| KY | HB456 | Pass | Amends KRS 337.285 to add sheriff’s offices and county police forces to the local government agencies eligible for an exception to overtime compensation, and to list statutory authority for other entities that work with law enforcement departments ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 86) |
| KY | HB561 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms, to establish operations and requirements of a Certified Child Care Community Designation Program to be administered by the Cabinet for Economic Development for the purpose of creating new oppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 88) |
| KY | HB782 | Pass | Creates a new section within KRS 15.530 to 15.590 to create the Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator academy and to add training provisions for part-time telecommunicators h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 108) |
| KY | HB443 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to require that local laws dealing with subdivision plats and development plans be set out by objective standards and applied ministerially, and to set out conditions for application of discretion; EFFECTIVE J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.34) |
| KY | HB475 | Pass | Amends KRS 441.053, relating to jail health care operations, to remove the prohibition that an entity that provides medical, dental, psychological, or pharmacy services to the Department of Corrections and local jails cannot also provide claims manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.36) |
| KY | HB528 | Pass | Amends KRS 65.7631 to extend the 5 percent rate of total monthly revenues deposited into the commercial mobile radio services (CMRS) fund for assisting with the adoption and operation of next-generation statewide 911 initiatives to July 1, 2025, with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 49) |
| KY | HB492 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define “qualified local government,” to require that each employee of a qualified local government who has access to federal tax information submit to a criminal background check by the Department of Ken...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 48) |
| KY | HB551 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to allow law enforcement agencies to contract with retired peace officers to assist with homicide cold cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 63) |
| KY | HB583 | Pass | Amends KRS 224.1-401 to require that the chief executive officers of all forms of local government and mayors receive notification of a declaration of an environmental emergency in their jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 60) |
| KY | SB125 | Pass | Amends KRS 189.281 to extend the ability for local governments to start off-highway vehicle (OHV) pilot programs to July 1, 2027, and to expand the definition of “local government” to include any local government that operates a public OHV trail ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.24) |
| KY | SB101 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 247.801 to amend the definition of "agritourism activity"; define "working animal"; create a new section of KRS 247.800 to 247.810 to prohibit a city, town, county, or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth from restricting a perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
placed in the Orders of the Day |
| KY | HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 446.350 to define "government" and "substantially burden"; outline relief that may be sought if statute is violated; apply to laws adopted before or after enaction of this statute; include severability clause; waive sovereign, governmental,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HCR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Urge local governments to facilitate the creation of long-term recovery groups prior to the occurance of disasters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB357 | Pass | Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit certain entities from requiring, incentivizing, or assigning a merchant category code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from other retailers, to prohibit keeping or causing to be kept any list,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch.14) |
| KY | HB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 67.160 to use gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB741 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to define terms relating to blockchain technology; allow individuals to use digital assets and self-hosted wallets; provide an exemption of income tax for transactions less than $200; allow home digital asset mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB577 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 132.590 to find and determine that property valuations administrators are officers whose jurisdiction and duties are coextensive to that of the state within the meaning of Section 246 of the Constitution; update the salary schedule; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 96 to define terms; prohibit any utility operating under the chapter from constructing a facility that generates electricity using solar energy if constructing the facility would result in more than one percent of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee |
| KY | HB724 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 67.083 to allow a fiscal court of any county to levy all taxes not in conflict with the Constitution of Kentucky, provided that the fee or tax is authorized by the statutes of this state; amend KRS 67A.070 to allow urban-county governments ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | HB12 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 441.420 to 441.450 to prohibit the building, reconstructing, remodeling, or renovation of a jail unless it is a regional jail and the General Assembly provides express approval; provide exceptions to the prohibition includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB18 | Pass | Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing ordinances that prohibit owners of housing accommodations from refusing to lease or rent the housing accommodation to a person whose source of income to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 3) |
| KY | HB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 138.510 to allocate moneys to a newly created fund from the pari-mutuel racing tax distribution; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish a fund relating to local governments and administered by the Department for Local Governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of Subchapter 1 of KRS Chapter 224 to define "recycling facility" and require a notice of violation of KRS Chapter 224 by a recycling facility be sent to the local governing body where the facility is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| KY | SB353 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 70.325 to allow constables an alternative training requirement to receive certification to exercise peace officer powers; amend KRS 189.950 to conform; amend KRS 15.340 to require the Department of Criminal Justice Training to accept qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB337 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 12.020 and 194A.030 to establish the Office of Medicinal Cannabis, the Division of Enforcement and Compliance, and the Division of Licensure and Access in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218A.202 require the Administra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to require any lobbyist or lobbyist employer who engages in lobbying activity with a local government to file a registration statement with the Department for Local Government; define terms; require the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, pow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 65.003 to state that an appeal from a final order issued by a person or group responsible for enforcement of a code of ethics may be taken to the Circuit Court of the county in which that person or group is located; amend KRS 65.8831 to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 67.160 to include gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB314 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit any rule, regulation, tax, fee, or any other mandate issued by the World Health Organization, United Nations, World Economic Forum, or any other international organization from having jurisdiction wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB316 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of Subchapter 43 of KRS Chapter 224 to establish the Keep Kentucky Free of Litter fund and set up a cash awards program for the 20 peace officers with the highest conviction numbers related to littering; create new sections of KR...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
