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{"bill_id":213132,"bill_number":"HB1","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend the Constitution of Kentucky relating to hunting, fishing, and harvesting wildlife.","description":"Propose to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to create a right to hunt, fish, and harvest nonthreatened species using traditional methods; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval.","status_desc":"Enrolled","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State","last_action_date":"2011-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB1/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB1.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213133,"bill_number":"HB3","title":"AN ACT relating to hiring unauthorized aliens.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to create define terms relating to bill; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A relating to public agencies to require use of federal employment verification programs and prohibit hiring unauthorized aliens; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to require all contractors and subcontractors with public agencies to use federal employment verification programs, not hire unauthorized aliens, and provide sworn affidavits of compliance; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to provide for civil enforcement and canceling of contracts; permit courts to enjoin violations; require suspension from further public agency contracts for 5 years if employer is found to have hired unauthorized aliens.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-25","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB3/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB3.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213134,"bill_number":"HB11","title":"AN ACT relating to promotional sampling of distilled spirits and wine.","description":"Amend KRS 243.0305 to make the hours and days of operation for a souvenir retail liquor licensee subject to local ordinance; amend KRS 243.130, 243.154, and 243.170 to allow manufacturers, small farm winery wholesalers, and wholesalers to distribute wine or distilled spirits under a sampling license; amend KRS 244.050 to allow retail drink, retail package, and souvenir retail liquor licensees to give a customer 3 distilled spirit samples per day rather than 2 samples under a sampling license; permit a licensed distiller, wholesaler, small farm winery, or small farm winery wholesaler to acquire a sampling license; limit these sampling licensees to providing the standard size and number of complimentary samples of distilled spirits or wine per day to each customer during regular business hours at a retailer's licensed premises; authorize the sampling licensee or its agents, servants, or employees to address the customer and pour and serve samples at the retailer's premises; require retail licensees to sell the distilled spirits used for a complimentary sampling event at no more than the retail licensee's normal selling price; permit the retail licensee to bill on a per-event basis in the usual course of business; forbid a distiller from using its sampling license on its distillery premises unless it also holds a souvenir retail liquor license; prohibit a wholesaler, small farm winery, or small farm winery wholesaler from using its sampling license at its business premises if the premises is located in a dry territory; prelude a distiller, wholesaler, small farm winery, or small farm winery wholesaler sampling licensee from concurrently holding a distilled spirits sampling event and a wine sampling event at the same premises unless the Department for Alcoholic Beverage Control has approved the event in advance; authorize distiller licensees to give a consumer who is touring the distillery for educational purposes one complimentary sample of up to 1/2 ounce of un-aged product manufactured at the distillery premises; enable distiller, wholesaler, small farm winery, or small farm winery wholesaler sampling licensees to offer consumers branded nonalcoholic promotional items of nominal value in conjunction with a distillery or winery tour or a complimentary sampling event.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB11/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB11.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213135,"bill_number":"HB12","title":"AN ACT relating to evidence.","description":"Amend KRS 422.300 to add out-of-state hospitals to the chapter's provisions relating to the production of medical records for adjudicative proceedings.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB12/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB12.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213136,"bill_number":"HB13","title":"AN ACT relating to tuition for foster children.","description":"Amend KRS 164.2847 to permit tuition and fee waivers for foster children taking dual credit or dual enrollment courses in high school.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB13/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB13.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213137,"bill_number":"HB14","title":"AN ACT relating to probate fees.","description":"Amend KRS 61.315 to exempt the estate of anyone who is eligible for state death gratuity benefits, and the estate of any regular member of the Armed Forces, from probate fees.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB14/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB14.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213138,"bill_number":"HB15","title":"AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine prescription substances, make exemptions, and establish penalties for prohibited conduct; amend KRS 218A.1446, relating to the recording of pseudoephedrine transactions, to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB15/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB15.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213139,"bill_number":"HB16","title":"AN ACT relating to obesity in school children.","description":"Amend KRS 158.856 to clarify that school physical activity assessment tools shall generate: data on the amount of time and the types of activity required by KRS 160.345(11); performance and progress data necessary to monitor health risk behaviors and indicators identified by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to design programs to increase physical activity of children and reduce childhood diabetes and obesity; fitness information to assist students and the student's parents or guardians in planning home activities; and aggregate school fitness data to assist school councils in reviewing and implementing wellness policies; require school districts to submit supporting data with required summary; amend KRS 160.345 to require schools containing kindergarten through grade 5 to provide a minimum of 45 minutes per week of physical activity for half day kindergarten and 90 minutes per week for full day kindergarten through grade 5.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB16/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB16.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213140,"bill_number":"HB17","title":"AN ACT relating to early education assessment and intervention.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define \"aphasia,\" \"dyscalculia,\" dyslexia,\" \"phonemic awareness,\" and \"scientifically based research\"; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for district-wide reporting on the use of K-3 response-to-intervention implementation in reading by August 1, 2012, in mathematics by August 1, 2013, and behavior by August 1, 2014; require the Department of Education, on or before January 1, 2012, to make available technical assistance, training, and a Web-based resource to assist all local school districts in the implementation of the system and instructional tools based on scientifically based research; require the department to collaborate with other state agencies and organizations; require conformity with 20 U.S.C. sec. 1414(a)(1)(E) for initial evaluations of students with suspected disabilities; require the department to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education on implementation by November 30, 2012, and annually thereafter; amend KRS 157.200 to conform with the federal definition of a \"specific learning disability.\"","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"floor amendments (2-title) and (3) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB17/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB17.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213141,"bill_number":"HB18","title":"AN ACT relating to the reporting of stolen items with vehicle identification numbers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to require a law enforcement agency to enter a stolen item with a vehicle identification number into the NCIC database.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB18/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB18.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213142,"bill_number":"HB19","title":"AN ACT relating to domestic relations.","description":"Amend KRS 403.135 to permit the inclusion of a minor child's name in a domestic relations proceeding.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB19/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB19.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213143,"bill_number":"HB20","title":"AN ACT relating to child custody.","description":"Amend KRS 620.090 to specify that when the court issues a temporary order granting custody of a child to the cabinet, the court may order arrangements for medical, visual, and dental examinations; provide that children who are in temporary custody for a period not exceeding 45 days from the date of the removal may be in the custody of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or with another appropriate person or agency.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB20/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB20.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213144,"bill_number":"HB21","title":"AN ACT relating to public financing for judicial campaigns.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 118A to establish the clean judicial elections fund; define terms; establish fund to distribute transfers to certified judicial candidates; 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 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 a civil penalty up to $10,000 for an actual violation of these provisions, and a Class D felony for any knowing violation of these provisions; provide that a person entitled to a state tax refund may designate on their income tax return an amount to be credited to the fund; permit the Supreme Court to require members of the Kentucky Bar Association to submit an annual fixed amount not to exceed $25 to be dedicated to the clean judicial elections fund; provide for a January 1, 2012 effective date.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB21/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB21.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213145,"bill_number":"HB22","title":"AN ACT relating to underground petroleum storage tank contractors.","description":"Amend KRS 224.60-135 to grant the state fire marshal authority to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a program to identify and certify persons who install, repair, close, or remove underground petroleum storage tanks; require certification in order to install, repair, close, or remove an underground storage tank for a petroleum storage tank owner or operator; amend KRS 227.280 to extend the state fire marshal's authority to refer violations to the circuit court of the county in which the offense was committed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Environment (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB22/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB22.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213146,"bill_number":"HB23","title":"AN ACT relating to pawnbrokers.","description":"Amend KRS 226.010 to define \"pawnbroker,\" \"pledgor,\" and \"permitted user\"; amend KRS 226.040 to expand registry requirements associated with pawn transactions, prohibit pawn transactions with persons unwilling or unable to provide required identification, and require submission of information to the Department of Kentucky State Police or contracted vendor; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to establish or contract for the provision of pawn database services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB23/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB23.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213147,"bill_number":"HB24","title":"AN ACT relating to public records.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 7 requiring the Legislative Research Commission to provide public access to legislative branch financial information by January 1, 2012; create a new section of KRS Chapter 26A requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide public access to judicial branch financial information by January 1, 2012; create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to provide public access to executive branch financial information by January 1, 2012; amend KRS 164A.565 to require the governing boards of each postsecondary educational institution to make budget, financial statements, and governing board meeting records available on each institution's Web site by January 1, 2012; direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study the use of the Internet by local governments to provide citizen access to their financial and other information.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB24/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB24.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213148,"bill_number":"HB25","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 508.025 relating to third degree assault to include an assault on an operator or passenger of a taxi, bus, or other passenger vehicle for hire within that offense; amend KRS 508.050 and 525.060 relating to menacing and disorderly conduct to increase the penalty for those offenses where the offense is committed against an operator or passenger of a taxi, bus, or other passenger vehicle for hire.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB25/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB25.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213149,"bill_number":"HB26","title":"AN ACT relating to wastewater.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to express the findings of the General Assembly regarding wastewater and to authorize the creation of a regional wastewater commission as a pilot project area within Bullit, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade, Nelson, Oldham, and Spencer Counties; establish definitions for \"commission,\" \"member entity,\" \"organizing official,\" \"wastewater,\" and \"sources of collected water,\" allow 2 or more member entities owning wastewater systems to acquire, construct, operate, and improve those systems; establish a method for member entities to form a regional wastewater commission; require the governing body of any member entity proposing participation in the commission to publish notice of a public hearing in accordance with KRS Chapter 424 at least 30 days' prior to the hearing; establish appointments of 1 commissioner to represent each member entity; require that the commissioner be a customer, resident, or authorized representative of the member entity; require no less than 3 commissioners and set the terms for the commissioners at 4 years; allow the commission to appoint a chair and officers; allow member entities to join existing commissions at any time; allow the commission salaries for other officers and employees; allow the commission's fund to pay expenses of commissioners and employees; require bonding for commissioners and other minor officials and bonds paid by the commission fund; require commission meetings and records be subject to open meetings and open records laws; allow removal of a commissioner for cause; establish a method for a member entity to withdraw from the commission; establish the commission as a public body corporate and politic; allow the commission to execute contracts, make loans, issue and repay revenue bonds, receive proceeds from loans or grants, purchase, acquire, hold, and dispose of real and personal property, and exercise powers granted under KRS Chapters 58 and 224A; allow the commission to have full and complete supervision, management, and control over all of its facilities; require construction or expansion of any wastewater facility proposed be approved by either the Division of Water or the United States Environmental Protection Agency; exempt the commission from taxation; require the commission to procure the services of a certified public accountant to conduct an audit of all funds and fiscal transactions annually; exempt the commission from regulation by the Public Service Commission, except for contracts between the commission and a utility regarding provision of services that would result in an increase in rates paid by customers of that utility subject to approval by the Public Service Commission; allow the commission to set its rates and terms through contracts with member entities, nonmember entities, and neighboring states; establish minimum contract requirements; require a vote by the commission for rate changes and adjustments and notice requirements prior to rate changes; require the commission to procure professional or independent accounting to determine operating, maintenance, and debt service costs and provide reccommendations for specific rates to offset the costs every 5 years; require the commission to determine final rates and charges based on the 5-year study consultation; require the commission to provide at least 60 days' written notice to the governing bodies of the member entities prior to the effective date of any change in rates or charges for service; amend KRS 58.010 to include a regional wastewater commission in the definition of \"governmental agency\"; amend KRS 224A.011 to include a regional wastewater commission in the definition of \"governmental agency,\" and to include facilities related to the collection, transportation, and treatment of wastewater in the definitions of \"infrastructure project\" and \"water resources project\"; amend KRS 278.010 to exclude a regional wastewater commission from the definition of \"public utility.\"","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-07","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB26/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB26.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213150,"bill_number":"HB27","title":"AN ACT relating to continuity of health care.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-500 to define \"acute-care hospital\" for health insurance purposes; amend KRS 304.17A-527 to require that an agreement between a managed care plan and an acute-care hospital shall include provisions for a term of not less than three years, a six-month notice to the plan and the commissioner of the Department of Insurance by the acute-care hospital prior to termination or nonrenewal, procedures to ensure continuity of care for covered persons not less than 30 days prior to termination, no less than 20 days' notice prior to termination by the managed care plan to the covered person of the procedures to follow for continuity of care, including an expedited internal appeal process and an expedited external appeal if necessary, and a requirement mediation or binding arbitration between the managed care plan and the acute-care hospital for any dispute regarding a covered person's access to continuity of care in the event of termination or nonrenewal of the provider agreement; amend KRS 304.17B-001 to conform.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"floor amendments (1) and (2-title) withdrawn","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB27/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB27.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213151,"bill_number":"HB28","title":"AN ACT relating to campaign finance.","description":"Amend KRS 121.015 to define \"personal funds.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB28/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB28.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213152,"bill_number":"HB29","title":"AN ACT relating to historic farms.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 171 establishing a Historic Farms Program; set out General Assembly findings; establish criteria and recognition process for a historic farm designation; allow for recognition of \"heritage farms\"; stipulate regulatory powers; repeal KRS 171.388; designate short title of \"Young Family Farm Heritage Act.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB29/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB29.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213153,"bill_number":"HB30","title":"AN ACT relating to digital citizenship.","description":"Amend KRS 156.660 to define \"digital citizenship\" as a set of characteristics that conceptualize the rewards as well as risks facing all technology users; set forth the characteristics; amend KRS 156.675 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to require that each local school board implement an acceptable use policy that requires all school district employees who use technology to comply with the policy which shall include the characteristics of digital citizenship; amend KRS 156.095 to include technology and the characteristics of digital citizenship in the professional development activities which shall be provided for teachers; and amend KRS 158.148 to require local school districts to include in their student behavior codes behavior as it relates to being a good digital citizen.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB30/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB30.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213154,"bill_number":"HB31","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.","description":"Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 189A, relating to driving under the influence, to restructure the existing penalties from a four-tiered structure to a three-tiered structure; expand the five-year look back window for prior offenses from 5 years to 10 years, and to allow forfeiture of motor vehicles used in a DUI if the operator's license had been previously suspended; amend KRS 281A.2102 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB31/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB31.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213155,"bill_number":"HB32","title":"AN ACT relating to state employee health insurance.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 18A.225 to 18A.2287 to require the Personnel Cabinet to establish a pilot program to improve the health and wellness outcomes of state employees; require the pilot program to provide a reduced monthly cost for a fully insured health benefit plan or self-insured plan offered by the Public Employee Health Insurance Program to an employee who participates in wellness activities; require the wellness activities to be approved by the cabinet; require the cabinet to determine the amount of the reduced monthly cost and the level of participation required to qualify for the reduced cost; establish that the pilot program is to be in effect January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2015; require the Cabinet to submit an annual report on the results of the pilot program on or before December 1.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB32/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB32.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213156,"bill_number":"HB33","title":"AN ACT relating to publications of state agencies.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 57 to prohibit any agency of the state executive or legislative branch from mailing an unsolicited publication to any person who has not requested a copy, unless the mailing is determined to be essential by the Governor or by the General Assembly; require state agencies to submit annual and biennial reports to the General Assembly or the Legislative Research Commission online rather than on paper; amend KRS 12.110 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB33/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB33.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213157,"bill_number":"HB34","title":"AN ACT relating to coroners.","description":"Amend KRS 189.910, 189.920 and 189.940 to permit a coroner or deputy coroner to equip a private or public vehicle with red and blue lights and a siren with the permission of the legislative body of the county, urban-county, consolidated local government, or unified local government and to use the lights and siren only to respond to the scene of an emergency involving the reported death of a human being.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-07","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB34/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB34.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213158,"bill_number":"HB35","title":"AN ACT relating to domestic violence.","description":"Amend KRS 403.720 relating to domestic violence orders to include dating partners among the class of persons allowed to obtain domestic violence protective orders.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-25","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB35/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB35.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213159,"bill_number":"HB36","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky.","description":"Propose to amend Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit members of the General Assembly from receiving legislative pay for a special session that has been called by the Governor because the General Assembly adjourned without passing a state budget; submit to the voters with ballot question.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB36/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB36.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213160,"bill_number":"HB37","title":"AN ACT relating to the General Assembly.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to require a 48 hour waiting period prior to a vote on an appropriation or revenue bill or amendment.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB37/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB37.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213161,"bill_number":"HB38","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms, including ammunition and accessories for firearms.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 relating to firearms, ammunition, and firearms accessories made in Kentucky, marked as made in Kentucky, and used in Kentucky to specify that these items, with specified exemptions, are exempt from federal law; name the law the \"Kentucky Firearms Freedom Act\".","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB38/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB38.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213162,"bill_number":"HB39","title":"AN ACT relating to school funding.","description":"Amend KRS 157.310 to clarify the intention of the General Assembly that no mandate be placed on the public schools without program funding to carry out the mandate; require legislation relating to the public schools that includes a fiscal note pursuant to KRS 6.955 or a state mandate pursuant to 6.965 to include provision for funding that is adequate for compliance with the mandate; clarify that no school district shall be compelled to comply with mandated enactments of the General Assembly that do not provide adequate funding; specify that this amendment does not relieve a school district from the obligation to comply with state or federal laws relating to health, safety, or civil rights.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB39/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB39.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213163,"bill_number":"HB40","title":"AN ACT relating to fees in public universities and colleges.","description":"Amend KRS 164.400 to permit the boards of regents and boards of trustees of the public universities and colleges to establish fees sufficient for the payment of instructional and operational expenses consistent with the recommendations of the Council on Postsecondary Education; clarify the types of fees that boards may require payment of; prohibit mandatory athletic or meal fees for nonresident or commuter students; delete provision referencing incidental fees.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB40/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB40.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213164,"bill_number":"HB41","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 189.920 relating to lights on emergency vehicles to permit publicly owned","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB41/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB41.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213165,"bill_number":"HB42","title":"AN ACT relating to out-of-state durable medical equipment providers.","description":"Create a new Section of KRS Chapter 216B to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate an administrative regulation requiring a provider of durable medical equipment located in another state to maintain an office or place of business in Kentucky if that state requires durable medical equipment providers with a principal place of business in Kentucky to maintain an office or place of business within that state.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"returned to Committee on Committees (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-04","committee":"Committee on Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB42/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB42.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213166,"bill_number":"HB43","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protection.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 367.110 to 367.300, the Consumer Protection Act, to require that advertisements which contain restrictions or limitations fully disclose the restrictions or limitations in the advertisement; provide exception; amend KRS 367.990 to provide for a civil penalty; amend KRS 367.180, 367.190, and 367.230 to conform.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"Labor and Industry","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB43/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB43.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213167,"bill_number":"HB44","title":"AN ACT relating to the definition of \"American Indian.\"","description":"Amend KRS 446.010 to define \"American Indian\" to mean a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America, including Central America, and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment to the tribe of origin or to the community of original peoples; make conforming amendments.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-25","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB44/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB44.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213168,"bill_number":"HB45","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 99, 124, and 144 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to a Judge of the County Court.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 99, 124, and 144 of the Constitution of Kentucky to eliminate the Office of Judge of County Court in merged county-and-city government; submit to the voters for approval or disapproval.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB45/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB45.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213169,"bill_number":"HB46","title":"AN ACT relating to wills.","description":"Amend KRS 394.150 and 394.300 to allow the will of a nonresident probated longer than eleven years ago to be recorded in Kentucky in the same manner as a Kentucky will for the purpose of passing title to real property without the necessity of undergoing a second probate proceeding in this state.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB46/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB46.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213170,"bill_number":"HB47","title":"AN ACT relating to the enforcement of local government ordinances.","description":"Amend KRS 82.700, dealing with local government nuisance codes to include counties within the definition of local governments, define \"amelioration costs\" and \"premises\"; amend KRS 82.720 to allow a local government to possess liens for amelioration costs imposed pursuant to KRS 82.700 to 82.725 and KRS 381.770; Amend KRS 381.770, relating to nuisances to provide that the liens possessed in accordance with KRS 381.770 take precedence over all other liens, except state, county, school board, and city taxes.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB47/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB47.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213171,"bill_number":"HB48","title":"AN ACT relating to state government contracts and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.550 to redefine \"privatization contract\" and eliminate the definition of \"services\"; amend KRS 45A.551 to specify the procedure for approving a state agency's request to enter into a privatization contract, including approval by the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Governor, and the General Assembly, to require the agency to list in writing an analysis of the need for the privatization, and to indicate that privatization contracts are to be procured under KRS 45A.695; amend KRS 45A.552, 45A.553, and 45A.695 to conform; require existing contracts to be canceled for convenience unless previously authorized by statute; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB48/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB48.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213172,"bill_number":"HB49","title":"AN ACT relating to prison inmate canteen operations.","description":"Amend KRS 196.270 to require that inmate canteen operations be subject to the Open Meetings Act, the Open Records Act, and the Model Procurement Code; require a separation between the canteen and general inmate food service in their staffing and management.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB49/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB49.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213173,"bill_number":"HB50","title":"AN ACT relating to recognition of American Indian tribes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 to allow a group desiring to be formally recognized as an American Indian tribe to submit a petition to the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission; provide criteria that must be met to be recognized as an American Indian tribe; authorize the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission to approve petitions submitted for recognition, provide approved petitions to the Governor and, if the Governor accepts the recommendation, provide for issuance of an executive order recognizing the approved group; require the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission to promulgate administrative regulations identifying the procedures to be followed in submitting a petition and appealing a decision of the commission.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB50/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB50.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213174,"bill_number":"HB51","title":"AN ACT relating to human remains and burial objects.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 171 to require persons excavating archaeological sites on private property to obtain a permit from the Kentucky Heritage Council; establish a process by which the landowner shall provide reasonable access to the cemeteries to the descendants and relatives of those buried within; place responsibility on the landowner to maintain the cemetery's integrity; make denial of access to the cemetery a violation; set out a process by which the state shall dispose of human remains within its custody and control; permit a legally recognized tribal government to conduct reinterment ceremonies for Native Americans; require a person who encounters or accidentally disturbs human remains to immediately cease disturbing the ground in the area of the human remains; place responsibility of encountered or accidentally discovered human remains on the cemetery owner or the state and require responsible party to dispose of; require persons wishing to possess human remains or burial objects to obtain a permit from the Vital Statistics Branch of the Department for Public Health and limit possession to teaching, medical, scientific, or training purposes; make unlawful possession of human remains or burial objects a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class D felony for each subsequent offense; require a person who unlawfully possesses human remains or burial objects to reimburse the state for the cost of properly disposing of the remains and objects; prohibit the excavation of human remains and burial objects; amend KRS 525.105 to delete the requirement that desecration of a venerated object is shown only when one's purpose is commercial gain or exploitation; require that the tools, implements, or vehicles used in desecrating human objects be seized and sold with profits from such sale going to the council; require a violator to reimburse the Commonwealth for its costs in properly disposing of the human remains and the landowner for damage to the property; amend KRS 525.120 to increase penalty for abuse of a corpse from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony; require human remains possessed or so used to be seized and forfeited to the state; require the violator to reimburse the Commonwealth for the cost of properly disposing of the human remains.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB51/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB51.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213175,"bill_number":"HB52","title":"AN ACT relating to elder and vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 209.990 to provide a civil remedy with treble damages for use against persons who are convicted of exploitation of an adult and fail to return the victim's property within 30 days of an order by the sentencing court to do so; amend KRS 381.280 to include the commission of a felony under KRS Chapter 209 among the offenses that trigger an offender's forfeiture of the right to inherit property from the victim of the offense; direct that any escheated property be directed to the elder and vulnerable victims trust fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 41 to establish the elder and vulnerable victims trust fund to provide funding for programs combating elder and vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB52/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB52.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213176,"bill_number":"HB53","title":"AN ACT relating to trusts and estates.","description":"Amend KRS 395.005 to allow residents of other states who are not related to a decedent to be appointed as a fiduciary if the appointment is done pursuant to a will of the decedent.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB53/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB53.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213177,"bill_number":"HB54","title":"AN ACT relating to trusts and estates.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to prohibit persons convicted of a felony under that chapter from serving in any capacity that has authority over the victim of the offense or the victim's estate.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB54/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB54.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213178,"bill_number":"HB55","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 allowing a sales and use tax refund on the purchase of building materials used to repair or replace homes in a disaster area; effective July 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB55/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB55.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213179,"bill_number":"HB56","title":"AN ACT relating to animals.","description":"Amend KRS 525.125, 525.130, and 525.135 to forfeit ownership of animals involved in cruelty and torture cases and prohibit ownership or possession of animals of the same species for two years.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB56/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB56.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213180,"bill_number":"HB57","title":"AN ACT relating to the gross revenues and excise tax fund.","description":"Amend KRS 136.650 to increase the hold harmless amount for fiscal year 2011-2012 and every fiscal year thereafter; amend KRS 136.654 to require the Department of Revenue to detemine if it is necessary for a participating political subdivision to certify its total tax receipt.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB57/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB57.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213181,"bill_number":"HB58","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.005 to expand the definition of \"ignition interlock device\"; amend KRS 189A.010 to include driving the wrong way on a four-lane highway among the list of factors for triggering aggravated DUI penalties; amend KRS 189A.070 to provide that a reduction in the time period of a license revocation does not lessen the time required for ignition interlock usage; amend KRS 189A.085 to run the period of a license plate impoundment from the date of sentencing to the day the offender is authorized to resume driving and require ignition interlock usage beginning with the first DUI offense; amend KRS 189A.340 to establish an assistance fund for indigent defendants; amend KRS 189A.410 to require ignition interlock usage while an offender is driving on a hardship license.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-25","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB58/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB58.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213182,"bill_number":"HB59","title":"AN ACT relating to traffic control devices.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to require local governments that have installed speed bumps or speed humps on a roadway under its jurisdiction to denote the speed bumps or speed humps using a road sign or paint them so that they are clearly visible to persons traveling the roadway.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB59/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB59.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213183,"bill_number":"HB60","title":"AN ACT relating to water quality reporting.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 224.70 to define \"public water system,\" and \"Tier 2 and Tier 3\"; require public water system owners or operators to report Tier 3 violations within 30 days; require violations be posted on the owner or operator's Internet Web site; if a Web site does not exist, require notification to customers upon written or oral request; allow the Energy and Environment Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the notification process; clarify that the requirements for Tier 3 notifications are supplementary and do not impair or supersede federal national drinking water standards.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Environment (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB60/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB60.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213184,"bill_number":"HB61","title":"AN ACT relating to the exclusion of abortion coverage for health insurance exchanges.","description":"Establish Subtitle 17D of KRS Chapter 304 and create a new section to define \"abortion,\" \"elective abortion,\" and \"health benefit exchange\"; create a new section to prohibit qualified health benefit plans in Kentucky from offering abortion coverage through a health benefit exchange but permit individuals to purchase optional supplemental coverage for elective abortions outside of the state exchange if a separate premium is paid for the coverage; set forth provisions regarding the calculation of the premium, per enrollee, for elective abortion coverage; set forth provisions regarding signature and notice requirements; prohibit an issuer of elective abortion coverage from discounting or reducing the premium paid for other coverage based on the fact an individual has elective abortion coverage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB61/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB61.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213185,"bill_number":"HB62","title":"AN ACT relating to school buses.","description":"Amend KRS 189.540 to allow a local school board to sell commercial advertising on school buses; prohibit certain types of advertising; specify uses for advertising revenue.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB62/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB62.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213186,"bill_number":"HB63","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal record expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 431.076 to allow a defendant to petition a court to expunge a misdemeanor criminal charge which has been dismissed with prejudice in exchange for a plea of guilty to another offense.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB63/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB63.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213187,"bill_number":"HB64","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal procedure.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to require the Department of Corrections to develop cost of incarceration and supervision information; create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to require an acknowledgement of consultation with the cost of incarceration and supervision information prior to the acceptance of a felony plea bargain; amend KRS 532.055 relating to truth-in-sentencing to require that the cost of incarceration and supervision information be included in the sentencing phase of a trial.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB64/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB64.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213188,"bill_number":"HB65","title":"AN ACT relating to energy drinks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to prohibit the sale of energy drinks to children under 18 years of age; amend 217.015 to define the term \"energy drink\".","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Military Affairs & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Military Affairs and Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB65/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB65.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213189,"bill_number":"HB66","title":"AN ACT relating to compulsive gambling and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to establish the compulsive gamblers awareness and treatment fund; amend KRS 222.005 to define \"pathological gambling\" and \"problem gambling\"; direct the use of funds and limit annual administrative costs to $50,000; establish the Compulsive Awareness and Treatment Fund Advisory Council; establish the council's membership and responsibilities; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to develop standards, establish a funding and application process, certify disbursement of funds, and report annually; amend KRS 138.510 to provide funding from the total amount wagered in Kentucky; amend KRS 154A.130 to provide funding from the gross revenues of the state lottery; amend 238.570 to provide funding from the gross receipts from all charitable gaming; amend KRS 164.7871 to conform; amend KRS 222.001, 222.003, and 222.005 to define terms and to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB66/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB66.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213190,"bill_number":"HB67","title":"AN ACT relating to school buses.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to allow a local school board to sell advertising on school buses; prohibit certain types of advertising.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-18","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB67/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB67.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213191,"bill_number":"HB68","title":"AN ACT relating to incompatible offices.","description":"Amend KRS 61.080 to make membership on a governing body of certain districts, local ethics bodies, and planning units, incompatible offices with other such positions within a county.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB68/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB68.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213192,"bill_number":"HB69","title":"AN ACT relating to the reporting of deaths in nursing homes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 216 to require each long term care facility or hospice facility to require a designated reporter to report all deaths to the appropriate coroner or medical examiner within 24 hours, in the case of a resident dying while away from the facility the report is required within 24 hours of the facility receiving notification of the death; require coroners or medical examiners to accept the report and, upon finding reasonable cause to suspect death as a result of maltreatment, to continue the investigation as a coroner's case, as a police report or as a report to the appropriate Commonwealth's attorney; amend KRS 216B.990 to create a Class C misdemeanor for the first offense when a designated reporter fails to report a death and a Class B misdemeanor for subsequent offenses; create a fine of $200 per week for long term care facilities that fail to designate an employee as the designated reporter; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to require the Attorney General to establish a Kentucky Multidisciplinary Commission on Adult Abuse and Neglect, require each investigation of a death in a nursing home to be conducted by a specialized multidisciplinary team, require local protocols to be developed in each county or by contiguous county groups specifying how state protocols are to be followed; amend KRS 216B.590 to require surveyors and investigators to undergo at least 2 hours of training surrounding evidence preservation following a death in a nursing home due to suspected abuse or neglect; create a new section of KRS chapter 216 to require each long term care facility to conduct a three hour Attorney General-approved training session every 2 years covering the prevention of adult abuse and neglect; amend KRS 209.990 to make failure to report the abuse or neglect of an adult a Class A misdemeanor.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB69/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB69.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213193,"bill_number":"HB70","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote.","description":"Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to exclude a convicted felon from the right to vote only until expiration of probation, final discharge from parole, or maximum expiration of sentence; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB70/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB70.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213194,"bill_number":"HB71","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of vehicles on a highway.","description":"Amend KRS 189.030 to require that headlamps on a vehicle shall be illuminated whenever the vehicle is being operated on a highway.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB71/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB71.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213195,"bill_number":"HB72","title":"AN ACT relating to domestic relations.","description":"Amend KRS 403.200 to permit a court to provide for wage assignment and automatic electronic transfer of funds for payment of spousal maintenance; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB72/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB72.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213196,"bill_number":"HB73","title":"AN ACT relating to child welfare.","description":"Amend KRS 600.020 to establish a new definition for \"independent living\" as it relates to a child committed to the custody of the Commonwealth; amend KRS 620.140 to establish that a child committed to the custody of the Commonwealth may request, no later than 12 months after attaining the age of 18 years, to extend or reinstate the commitment; amend KRS 620.250 to allow local foster care review boards to have access to the educational records of children committed to the custody of the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB73/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB73.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213197,"bill_number":"HB74","title":"AN ACT relating to weights and measures.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 363.510 to 363.850 to allow the Commissioner of Agriculture to promulgate administrative regulations relating to tobacco moisture testing devices; amend KRS 363.510 to include instruments to measure internal moisture or density of unprocessed bulk tobacco in the \"weights and measures\" definition.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB74/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB74.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213198,"bill_number":"HB75","title":"AN ACT relating to school dropout prevention.","description":"Amend KRS 158.145 to revise the existing declaration of the General Assembly to phase in an increase in the compulsory attendance age and to set a high school graduation rate of at least 90 percent by July, 2016; amend KRS 158.146 to revise the use of dropout prevention grants; to direct the Kentucky Department of Education to establish standards and indicators to measure progress and to assist schools in implementing research-based strategies; authorize the commissioner of education to approve alternative programs granting high school and college credit; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish the Commonwealth Mentor Initiative; create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to provide one hour per week leave to state employees who become certified Commonwealth mentors to volunteer in a private or public school; specify conditions for mentor approval; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require boards of trustees and boards of regents to encourage personnel to participate in the Commonwealth Mentor Initiative; amend KRS 159.010 to gradually increase the compulsory attendance age to 18 by July 1, 2015; amend KRS 159.020 to conform; amend KRS 157.224 to require the commissioner of education to report performance data on students with disabilities and initiatives for improvement; encourage the department, the KY Tech System and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to work with local school districts to expand career pathways to keep students engaged; require the commissioner of education and the president of the Council on Postsecondary Education to engage others in the study of alternative education; express the General Assembly's intent to provide funding support to help districts with programs and services required by increasing compulsory attendance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB75/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB75.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213199,"bill_number":"HB76","title":"AN ACT relating to historic preservation.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 relating to the disposition of historic or prehistoric human remains; define terms relating to the disposition of historic or prehistoric human remains; declare public policy of the Commonwealth regarding historic or prehistoric human remains; establish property confirmation process by which property owners or developers verify whether property contains known human remains; require the Kentucky Heritage Council to promulgate administrative regulations related to the disposition of historic and prehistoric human remains; prohibit the issuance of building permits under KRS Chapter 198B until the property owner or developer has completed the preconditions relating to human remains; formulate the procedures and requirements for a human remains outcome review; prescribe the procedures and requirements for an adverse effects determination; list prohibited actions subject to the penalties prescribed in KRS 381.990 regarding the disposition of human remains; establish the procedures and requirements for a human remains disposition agreement between the Kentucky Heritage Council and a property owner or developer; authorize the Kentucky Heritage Council to establish a plan for the disposition of human remains if a human remains disposition agreement cannot be reached; create an emergency inspection process for unforeseen human remains or unforeseen adverse effects on human remains; allow property owners or developers to appeal in specified ways when aggrieved by decisions of the Kentucky Heritage Council; exempt from human remains disposition process actions taken under KRS 381.755 or KRS Chapter 72, surface coal mining conducted in accordance with a permit issued under KRS Chapter 350, archaeological investigations and data recovery projects conducted under relevant portions of the federal National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and archaeological surveys; amend KRS 164.715 to state that no person shall willfully injure, destroy, or deface any human remains found on any property when protected under this Act; amend KRS 171.313 to require the Kentucky Historical Society to cooperate in the processes established under this Act; amend KRS 171.381 to require the Kentucky Heritage Council to develop and control the system for the disposition of human remains under this Act; require the state historic preservation officer to coordinate and administer the system for the disposition of historic and prehistoric human remains established under this Act; amend KRS 381.990 to create the offense of intentional desecration of human remains; levy fines of not less than $1,000 and not more than $2,000 for each act of intentional desecration of human remains; declare that intentional desecration of human remains is a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class D felony for each subsequent offense.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB76/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB76.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213200,"bill_number":"HB77","title":"AN ACT relating to echocardiograms for infants.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to require institutions that care for infants to have an echocardiogram performed on each newborn infant; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover echocardiograms for infants 28 days of age or younger.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB77/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB77.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213201,"bill_number":"HB78","title":"AN ACT relating to delinquent property taxes.","description":"Amend KRS 134.452 to reduce third-party purchaser fees beginning January 1, 2012.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB78/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB78.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213202,"bill_number":"HB79","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 189.030 to require illumination of headlights during any period of precipitation that necessitates the use of windshield wipers by motorists.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB79/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB79.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213203,"bill_number":"HB80","title":"AN ACT relating to annuity nonforfeiture provisions.","description":"Amend KRS 304.15-365 to prohibit surrender charges beyond the maturity date of an annuity except for certain annuity contracts with renewable periods with an interest rate in excess of the minimum rate, and that meet certain conditions; allow an annuity contract that provides flexible considerations to have a separate surrender charge schedule and separate calculation of maturity dates.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB80/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB80.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213204,"bill_number":"HB81","title":"AN ACT relating to the school meal program.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that a student whose family income meets reduced-price or full-price meals shall not be denied the same meal offerings as made available to all other students if the student is unable to pay for a meal; permit the local school board to seek reimbursement of unpaid meal charges from the parents or guardians in the small claims division of the District Court or other appropriate means; prohibit the board from requiring a student be provided a substitute, alternative, or lesser meal offering.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"floor amendments (1-title) and (2) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB81/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB81.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213205,"bill_number":"HB82","title":"AN ACT relating to residential property.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82, relating to cities, to require a creditor to register vacant residential property with the local government in which the property is located; create penalty for failure to comply.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB82/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB82.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213206,"bill_number":"HB83","title":"AN ACT relating to adjustments to child support awards for shared parenting time.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to establish conditions for adjusting the presumptive child support award under the child support guidelines table on the basis of a shared parenting order for physical custody of a child; exempt children receiving public assistance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB83/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB83.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213207,"bill_number":"HB84","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax holidays and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to establish a three day sales and use tax holiday the first weekend in August each year to exempt clothing, school supplies, school art supplies, computers, and school computer supplies; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB84/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB84.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213208,"bill_number":"HB85","title":"AN ACT relating to dextromethorphan abuse.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to prohibit any person from possessing one gram or more of pure dextromethorphan or dextromethorphan that has been extracted from solid or liquid form; prohibit sale of products containing dextromethorphan as the only active ingredient to individuals younger than 18; from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. require retail establishments to show a photo ID and sign a document stating the customer is older than 18 before purchase; after 10:00 p.m. and until 7:00 am require retail establishments to secure products such that only a supervisory person may access them; require a person to request the product, show a photo ID, and sign a document stating the customer is older than 18; establish penalties for violation.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB85/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB85.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213209,"bill_number":"HB86","title":"AN ACT relating to early education assessment and intervention.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define \"aphasia,\" \"dyscalculia,\" \"dysgraphia,\" \"dyslexia,\" \"phonemic awareness,\" and \"scientifically based research\"; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for district reporting on implementation of a response-to-intervention system in grades K-3 in reading and writing by August 1, 2012, in mathematics by August 1, 2013, and in behavior by August 1, 2014; require the Department of Education to make available technical assistance, training, and a Web-based resource to assist all local school districts in the implementation of the system and instructional tools based on scientifically based research; require the department to collaborate with other state agencies and organizations; require conformity with 20 U.S.C. 1414(a)(1)(E) for initial evaluations of students with suspected disabilities; require the department to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education on implementation by November 30, 2012, and annually thereafter; amend KRS 157.200 to conform with the federal definition of a \"specific learning disability.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB86/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB86.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213210,"bill_number":"HB87","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance agents.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers to provide a copy of information sent to an insured regarding the insured's policy and a list of the affected insureds to the agent who sold the contract of insurance to the insureds listed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB87/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB87.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213211,"bill_number":"HB88","title":"AN ACT relating to healthy goals for the school children of the Commonwealth.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish the goal of increasing time for physical activity to 30 minutes per day or 150 minutes per week in 100% of schools with kindergarten through grade 5 by November 1, 2013; require the Kentucky Department of Education to identify model programs, provide resources and assessment tools, develop a checklist for collecting data for public reporting; encourage physical activity plans in schools containing grades 6 through 8; report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare by November 1, 2011, and annually thereafter on progress toward meeting the goal; and share aggregate school district and county data with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB88/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB88.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213212,"bill_number":"HB89","title":"AN ACT relating to the inclusion of the body mass index on school physical examination forms.","description":"Amend KRS 156.160 to require that preventative health care examination forms include a measure of body mass index; permit the Department of Education to share aggregate data from the forms by school district or county with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB89/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB89.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213213,"bill_number":"HB90","title":"AN ACT relating to educating parents and caregivers about pediatric abusive head trauma.","description":"Create a new section of noncodified language to acknowledge Kentucky's high ranking in child abuse deaths and to recognize the importance of a pediatric abusive head trauma prevention program for new parents offered at several Louisville area hospitals; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define the phrase \"birthing center\" and to strongly encourage all birthing centers in the Commonwealth to provide a program relating to the prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma at the time of discharge.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB90/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB90.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213214,"bill_number":"HB91","title":"AN ACT relating to identification for food stamp users.","description":"Amend KRS 205.200 to require that an applicant for benefits under the food stamp program show a government-issued photo ID card at the initial interview to determine eligibility; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require retail establishments to require a government-issued photo ID card before accepting payment from a food stamp enrollee using a food stamp card; require cashiers to request a government-issued photo ID card of a food stamp enrollee before accepting payment from another individual using a food stamp enrollee's card; amend KRS 205.990 to require that retail establishments that fail to comply shall be fined $500 for the first offense and $1,000 for each subsequent offense, and give the cabinet authority to revoke the food stamp privileges of retail establishments that don't comply.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB91/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB91.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213215,"bill_number":"HB92","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Sections 30 and 31 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to elections of members to the General Assembly.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 30 and 31 of the Constitution of Kentucky to extend the terms of State Representatives from two to four years and State Senators from four to six years beginning in 2012; include transitional schedule; submit to voters for approval or disapproval.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB92/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB92.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213216,"bill_number":"HB94","title":"AN ACT relating to public safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 177.010 to 177.890 to require the Department of Highways to inspect all public railroad grade crossings with an average daily traffic count of 750 vehicle or more at least 2 times per year; require results of the inspection to be kept on file for 5 years; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations to establish standards for railroad grade crossings; require the department to publish the list on its Web site.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB94/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB94.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213217,"bill_number":"HB95","title":"AN ACT relating to property taxes.","description":"Amend KRS 132.690 to require property valuation administrators to verify that any property subject to a homestead exemption continues to be occupied by the person claiming the exemption.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB95/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB95.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213218,"bill_number":"HB96","title":"AN ACT relating to information technology.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to establish definitions relating to Internet Web sites, blogs, and message boards; require registration by parties who post entries to these interactive services; require providers of these services to conspicuously identify the parties who post entries; require providers of these services to disclose, upon request, the names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of parties posting entries; establish penalties of $500 for first offense and $1,000 for each subsequent offense.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB96/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB96.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213219,"bill_number":"HB97","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms, including ammunition and accessories for firearms.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 relating to firearms, ammunition, and firearms accessories made in Kentucky, marked \"made in Kentucky,\" and used in Kentucky to specify that these items are exempt from federal law; specify that the exemption does not apply to machine guns, silencers, exploding ammunition, and firearms with a bore of 1 1/2 inches; name law the \"Kentucky Firearms Freedom Act.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB97/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB97.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213220,"bill_number":"HB98","title":"AN ACT relating to the Great Schools Tax Credit Program.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a Great Schools Tax Credit Program; provide a nonrefundable credit against the income tax imposed under KRS 141.020 or 141.040, and the limited liability entity tax imposed under KRS 141.0401, for contributions made to a scholarship organization that is organized solely for the purpose of receiving and distributing cash contributions to provide educational scholarships to eligible students at qualified schools; amend KRS 141.010 to exclude from the definition of \"adjusted gross income\" the amount received by an eligible student or by an individual on behalf of an eligible student as an educational scholarship under the program; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the order in which the credit may be claimed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB98/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB98.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213221,"bill_number":"HB99","title":"AN ACT relating to court costs.","description":"Amend KRS 23A.220 and 24A.185 relating to supplemental court fees imposed by counties to support courthouse operation and construction to require an annual public accounting of the disposition of the funds collected and to restrict expenditure of those funds to Court of Justice purposes only; amend KRS 147A.021 to require the Department for Local Government to publish the collected information; include noncodified transitional provisions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB99/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB99.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213222,"bill_number":"HB100","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 6.525 to prohibit members of the Legislators' Retirement Plan, who begin contributing on or after the effective date of the Act, from using salary earned in another state-administered retirement system or plan to calculate benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB100/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB100.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213223,"bill_number":"HB101","title":"AN ACT relating to the protection of adults.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to define the terms \"adult\" and \"cabinet\"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a registry of persons found to have abused, neglected, or exploited an adult; require an appeal process for persons against whom allegations have been substantiated by the cabinet, and prohibit a licensed or certified facility or program from employing a person on the registry; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to prohibit health care facilities and services licensed under KRS Chapter 216B from employing, contracting with, or accepting volunteer services from a person whose name appears on the registry; amend KRS 205.5606 to prohibit persons who provide services or supports from employing, contracting with, or accepting volunteer services from a person whose name appears on the registry; amend KRS 210.795 to prohibit an individual whose name appears on the registry from being a provider and to prohibit a provider from employing, contracting with, or accepting volunteer services from a person whose name appears on the registry.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB101/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB101.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213224,"bill_number":"HB102","title":"AN ACT relating to Rosenwald Schools.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 171 establishing within the Kentucky African-American Heritage Commission a Rosenwald Schools Advisory Council responsible for identifying, preserving, and opening to the public existing Rosenwald School sites in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; amend KRS 171.805 to list coordination of the council among the duties of the Kentucky African-American Heritage Commission.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-18","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB102/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB102.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213225,"bill_number":"HB103","title":"AN ACT relating to charter schools and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to describe the intent of the General Assembly and the purposes of authorizing public charter schools; define terms; establish the Public Charter School Commission and identify membership selection and responsibilities of members; outline the requirements and limitations on the establishment of charter schools including identification of charter school authorizers; describe responsibilities of authorizers; describe charter school application, renewal, and revocation process; establish the Public Charter School Commission trust fund and identify uses of the fund; require the commissioner of education to distribute charter school information to potential authorizers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to identify student enrollment and withdrawal requirements to be followed by a charter school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to identify employment conditions for charter school staff; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to require local, state, and federal funds to be distributed to charter schools using formulas and allocation processes used in non-charter schools; amend KRS 161.220 to include a teacher employed by a board of directors of a public charter school as a member within the state retirement system; amend KRS 161.220 to include employees of boards of directors of public charter schools in the state-sponsored retirement system; amend KRS 78.510 to include noncertified employees of public charter schools in the state-sponsored retirement system; amend KRS 61.690 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB103/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB103.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213226,"bill_number":"HB104","title":"AN ACT relating to drug offender information.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to establish a public Web site containing information on persons convicted of felony drug trafficking offenses and provide for removal of that information under specified circumstances.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB104/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB104.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213227,"bill_number":"HB105","title":"AN ACT relating to health care mandates.","description":"Establish Subtitle 17D of KRS Chapter 304 and create new sections thereof to define terms and prohibit any federal or state law that compels a person, employer, or health care provider to participate in a health care system; define \"abortion,\" \"elective abortion,\" \"health benefit exchange,\" and \"small group\"; prohibit elective abortion coverage by a qualified health benefit plan delivered or issued by a health benefit exchange in accordance with the opt-out provision of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act; amend KRS 304.5-160 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB105/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB105.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213228,"bill_number":"HB106","title":"AN ACT relating to civil rights.","description":"Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for \"sexual orientation\" and \"gender identity\"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition against discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.680, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.360, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB106/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB106.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213229,"bill_number":"HB107","title":"AN ACT relating to government contracts.","description":"Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 45A to expand and refine the list of entities included in definition of \"contracting body\"; allow committee to determine the definition of \"governmental emergency\"; refine the definition of \"memorandum of agreement\"; correct references to universities and colleges and institutions of higher education; refine the definition of \"personal service contract\" to eliminate professional skill or judgment requirement and specifically include contracts for personal or professional services and group health care for public employees; allow the committee to establish reporting schedule for exempt personal service contracts and memoranda of agreement; exempt contracts between postsecondary institutions and health care providers, but require reporting of such contracts; require committee review of all personal service contracts and memoranda of agreement in excess of $1,000,000, except for contracts involving child support collections which are exempted; exempt contracts $40,000 and under from request for proposals process, but require three quotes when feasible, and determination of unfeasibility may be reviewed by the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet or the committee; exempt contracts $40,000 and under not requiring professional skill or judgment from routine review process, but require filing within 30 days for informational purposes; prohibit delegation of decision-making authority by secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, except with respect to institutions of higher education that have elected to implement procurement procedures in accordance with statutory authority; delete requirement for annual reports; delineate powers of the committee.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2011-03-16","last_action":"vetoed","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB107/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB107.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213230,"bill_number":"HB108","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits for hiring legally blind or severely disabled individuals.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide a nonrefundable income tax credit for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, for taxpayers who contract with a resident nonprofit organization for services performed by individuals who are legally blind or severely disabled; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the order in which the credit may be claimed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB108/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB108.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213231,"bill_number":"HB109","title":"AN ACT relating to passenger rail.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 174 to create a Passenger Rail Transportation Advisory Board to advise the executive and legislative branches of government on matters pertaining to passenger rail transportation; provide for appointment of members and for terms of office; prohibit payment for board members and for reimbursement of expenses; provide for a chair and vice chair appointed by the members; provide for quarterly meetings and attach to the Transportation Cabinet for administrative purposes; prescribe duties for the board; provide for initial terms of office.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB109/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB109.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213232,"bill_number":"HB110","title":"AN ACT relating to low-profit limited liability companies.","description":"Amend KRS 275.100 to allow a limited liability company meeting and operating under certain conditions to be recognized as a low-profit limited liability company or L3C; amend KRS 14A.3-010 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB110/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB110.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213233,"bill_number":"HB111","title":"AN ACT relating to employers.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 335B to require a state agency, board, or commission that issues a license, credential, or permit that is a prerequisite to a person engaging in an occupation or business to refuse to issue or suspend the license, credential, or permit of a person who hires an unauthorized alien; require that the license be denied or suspended six months for each unauthorized alien employed; require the Labor Cabinet to promulgate regulations to provide for the uniform enforcement of this Act.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"Labor and Industry","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB111/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB111.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213234,"bill_number":"HB112","title":"AN ACT relating to postsecondary education residency requirements.","description":"Amend KRS 164.020 to require that the minimum qualifications for admission to a public postsecondary institution shall require a person to be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident, or meet other specified requirements; amend residency requirements to conform; amend KRS 164.518 to require status as a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident in order to be eligible for an early childhood education scholarship; amend KRS 164. 753 to require status as a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident to be eligible for postsecondary grants and scholarships administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA); amend KRS 164.753 and 164.7535 to require status as a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident to be eligible for College Access Program grants; amend KRS 164.769 to make U.S. nationals and permanent residents eligible for the Teacher Scholarship Program; amend KRS 164.785 to require status as a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident to be eligible for the Kentucky Tuition Grant Program; amend KRS 164.7874 to clarify language requiring status as a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident to be eligible for the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES) program; amend KRS 164.7885 to require a participating institution to verify to KHEAA the student's status as a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident for the purposes of implementing the KEES program; amend KRS 164.7891 to make U.S. nationals and permanent residents eligible for the Osteopathic Medicine Scholarship Program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB112/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB112.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213235,"bill_number":"HB113","title":"AN ACT relating to deadly weapons.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to permit persons over 21 who are not prohibited from possessing firearms to carry firearms openly or concealed and, specify permitted locations; amend KRS 527.020 relating to carrying concealed deadly weapons to eliminate the crime of carrying a concealed deadly weapon and, specify conditions for a peace officer carrying concealed deadly weapon; amend KRS 527.040 relating to possession of firearm or handgun by a convicted felon to update a federal agency reference and make a technical change; amend KRS 150.172 relating to hunting to permit carrying openly or concealed firearm for self-defense while hunting; amend KRS 237.102 to prohibit banning of possession or carrying of firearms during a disaster; amend KRS 237.106 relating to possession of firearms in vehicles to expand right to sue for violation of rights and, add a reference to elementary and secondary schools in exemptions.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB113/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB113.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213236,"bill_number":"HB114","title":"AN ACT relating to the destruction of firearms.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 500 to provide that a firearm used in the commission of a homicide, fetal homicide, or assault against a peace officer or firefighter shall be destroyed upon the conclusion of the criminal proceeding; establish the procedure for certification of destruction; amend KRS 16.210, 16.220, 237.090, 500.090, and 527.060 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB114/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB114.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213237,"bill_number":"HB115","title":"AN ACT relating to the reporting of tax inducements.","description":"Amend KRS 48.010 to define terms related to the economic development and tourism project expenditure report; amend KRS 48.315, 131.585, and 224.43-505 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to require, no later than October 15, 2012, and annually thereafter, the publication of a state economic development and tourism project expenditure report by the Office of State Budget Director and the submission of that report to the Legislative Research Commission; create a new section of KRS Chapter 131 to require the Department of Revenue to provide data to the Office of State Budget Director on development tax expenditures and tax expenditures annually; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the department to disclose the information; create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require the submission of data by the Cabinet for Economic Development to the Office of State Budget Director; create a new section of KRS Chapter 148 to require the submission of data by the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to the Office of State Budget Director.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB115/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB115.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213238,"bill_number":"HB116","title":"AN ACT relating to the sunsetting of tax inducement programs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to require a systematic review by the Program Review and Investigations Committee of the Legislative Research Commission, with the assistance of the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, the Cabinet for Economic Development and the Department of Revenue, of each tax increment financing, tourism development, and economic development program one year prior to its expiration as scheduled; amend KRS 131.190 to provide for confidentiality of information supplied to Legislative Research Commission staff related to the systematic review.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB116/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB116.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213239,"bill_number":"HB117","title":"AN ACT relating to broadband telecommunications.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to provide that any business in the Commonwealth of Kentucky with annual gross earnings of less than $50,000 a year shall be offered the same rate as the bundled residential or individual rate for broadband telecommunications service, notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the oversight of the Federal Communications Commission; amend KRS 278.5462 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB117/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB117.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213240,"bill_number":"HB118","title":"AN ACT relating to property tax.","description":"Amend KRS 132.020 to specify the property tax rate for wooden boats 25 years old or older; amend KRS 132.200 to subject wooden boats 25 years old or older to state property tax only; effective January 1, 2012.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB118/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB118.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213241,"bill_number":"HB119","title":"AN ACT relating to the training of city government officials.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 64 to define \"city,\" \"city officer,\" \"training unit\"; and \"training incentive multiplier\"; establish requirements and options for city governments to pass an optional city official training program that includes financial incentives for undergoing training relevant to city operations; provide that the ordinance can be repealed by the city, that the training incentive payments are not used in calculating retirement benefits, are not considered compensation for establishing compensation of elected city officers or for setting maximum compensation under KRS 83A.075(2), and to allow a city to use other methods of promoting training for elected officers and employees of the city; amend KRS 78.510 to exclude the training incentive from the County Employees Retirement System.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB119/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB119.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213242,"bill_number":"HB120","title":"AN ACT relating to educator evaluation.","description":"Amend KRS 156.557 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to establish a statewide system of evaluation for all certified personnel; require the Department of Education, in partnership with professional organizations, to develop the system prior to the 2012-2013 school year; require the board to establish the weights to be applied to each performance criteria.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"floor amendments (1-title) and (2) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB120/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB120.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213243,"bill_number":"HB121","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to ban possession, trafficking, or manufacture of 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone the primary ingredient of a drug with a street name \"dove\"; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 217 and 218A and KRS 530.064 relating to unlawful transaction with a minor to conform; EMERGENCY","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB121/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB121.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213244,"bill_number":"HB122","title":"AN ACT relating to membership of the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs.","description":"Amend KRS 154.12-203 to include the Chief Justice in membership of the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB122/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB122.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213245,"bill_number":"HB123","title":"AN ACT relating to status offenders.","description":"Amend KRS 630.050 to require that persons filing juvenile status offense complaints provide certain supporting documentation for inclusion and presentation to the court; create a new section of KRS Chapter 630 to establish time frames for the expiration of valid court orders; amend KRS 610.265 and 630.010 to restrict the secure detention of status offenders; amend KRS 630.080 to clarify which agency is to provide the dispositional report to the court and the contents of that report; amend KRS 610.020, 610.030, and 610.060 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-16","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB123/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB123.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213246,"bill_number":"HB124","title":"AN ACT relating to promotional increments for state employees.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.110 to allow the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to approve the salary of a full-time state employee with status who is promoted or reclassified to a higher pay grade to the same salary level that would be available to new appointments in that grade.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-18","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB124/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB124.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213247,"bill_number":"HB125","title":"AN ACT relating to regulation of for-profit postsecondary educational institutions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 165 to require that effective July 1, 2012, the supervision of any private for-profit postsecondary educational institution offering an associate degree or higher shall be transferred from the State Board for Proprietary Education to the Council on Postsecondary Education; amend KRS 164.945 to clarify that the definition of \"college\" includes nonprofit and for-profit colleges; amend KRS 164.947 to clarify that the Council on Postsecondary Education has responsibility for licensing for-profit and nonprofit colleges offering an associate degree or higher; amend KRS 165A.310 to clarify that proprietary schools are for-profit; add definitions of \"formal\" and \"informal\" complaints; amend KRS 165A.320 to include traditional, Web-based, and distance learning; amend KRS 165A.340 to add by July 1, 2012, three members to the State Board for Proprietary Education representative of community-based occupations and one program graduate and reduce school member representation on the board by two; clarify the responsibilities of the executive director; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations, including board operations and accountability procedures, to require member institutions to publish outcomes and accountability data; to require institutions to obtain signatures of students that they have been made aware of accountability information; to require quality standards; to review advertisements and recruitment materials pursuant to KRS 367.170; to ensure sufficient bonds to cover reimbursement of student expenses if an institution is closed; to establish procedures for resolving student complaints; amend KRS 165A.370 to clarify investigation and complaint procedures; amend KRS 165A.390 to clarify that a certificate of approval may be suspended or revoked for violations of Kentucky statutes or administrative regulations, or reasonable professional and consumer protection standards; establish a process for transfer of board membership.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-25","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB125/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB125.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213248,"bill_number":"HB126","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 531.010 relating to pornography definitions to specify what constitutes lack of consent; amend KRS 531.090 relating to voyeurism to specify an alternate disposition of a case where the defendant is a minor and the offense is a first offense; amend KRS 531.100 relating to video voyeurism to specify an alternative disposition where a defendant is a minor and the offense is a first offense; amend KRS 531.340 relating to distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor to specify an alternative disposition where the defendant is a minor and the offense is a first offense; amend KRS 635.060 relating to dispositions in juvenile cases to specify that violations of listed statutes by a minor for a first offense are punishable by a fine and a community services work program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to specify that a minor committing an offense specified in the Act shall only be charged with and punished using the alternative sentence when the offense is a first offense; amend KRS 216.302 relating to causing a suicide to specify that when transmitting an image of a minor causes that minor to commit suicide that it is a violation of this section.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-16","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB126/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB126.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213249,"bill_number":"HB127","title":"AN ACT relating to Purple Heart motor vehicle license plates.","description":"Amend KRS 186.166 to require that the Purple Heart license plate include a picture of the Purple Heart medal and the words \"Combat Wounded\"; require change in design to take effect upon the first replating of the license plate.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB127/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB127.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213250,"bill_number":"HB128","title":"AN ACT relating to the filing of deeds in lieu of foreclosure in the county clerk's office.","description":"Amend KRS 382.110 to require mortgage holders to file deeds in lieu of foreclosure within ten days of executing the deed; amend KRS 382.990 to provide that a mortgage holder failing to record a deed within ten days is guilty of a violation.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB128/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB128.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213251,"bill_number":"HB129","title":"AN ACT relating to the publication of legal advertisements.","description":"Amend KRS 424.130 to allow advertisements for the purpose of informing the public and the advertisement is a notice of delinquent taxes, or notice of the sale of tax claims to be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in addition to the existing requirement of once, preceded by a half page notice of advertisement the previous week; amend KRS 424.220 to allow cities of the sixth class that have not conducted an annual audit under the provisions of KRS 91A.040(2) or (3) to publish a legal display advertisement to satisfy the financial statement publication requirements set out in paragraph (a) of subsection (6) of the section; amend KRS 67A.070 to require all ordinances of an urban-county government to be published either in full or otherwise by title and certified synopsis that includes the publication of the full text of sections that impose taxes or fees; remove the requirement for the publication of resolutions; remove the requirement to publish the full text of ordinances or resolutions imposing fines, forfeitures, or imprisonment.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB129/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB129.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213252,"bill_number":"HB130","title":"AN ACT relating to outdoor recreation and tourism development and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to establish the Kentucky Mountain Trail Authority (KMTA) as an independent, de jure municipal corporation attached to the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet for administrative purposes only; authorize the KMTA to establish the Kentucky Mountain Regional Recreation Area for tourism and outdoor recreation opportunities for residents and visitors; establish the process by which counties participate in the authority and appoint representatives to serve on the board; authorize board meetings and establish duties; authorize the board to adopt bylaws for governance; outline methods for appointing an executive director and hiring additional staff; establish that all personnel and operational costs of the corporation shall be paid from funds accruing to the corporation, through fees, grants, or other self-funding mechanisms; enable the authority to procure insurance, execute contracts, accept grants and loans, maintain an office, assess fees for trails, parking, and other trail-related recreational purposes, and to promulgate administrative regulations to govern the Kentucky Mountain Regional Recreational Area; authorize the board to hire trail rangers; establish procedures for the authority to issue revenue bonds and revenue refunding bonds; ensure that participating landowners are not liable for willful negligence or similar damages; establish a framework for adopting administrative regulations for a penalty schedule for violations of trail laws and rules.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB130/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB130.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213253,"bill_number":"HB131","title":"AN ACT relating to alcohol and substance abuse treatment for pregnant and post-partum women.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to express the intent of the General Assembly; amend KRS 222.037 to permit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish pilot projects for treatment; create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to create the offense of alcohol or controlled substance endangerment of a child prior to birth; permit a court to order a toxicology test with probable cause; establish penalties and conditions for sentencing to treatment; amend KRS 214.160 to permit the cabinet to provide notification of a possible violation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB131/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB131.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213254,"bill_number":"HB132","title":"AN ACT relating to the care of individuals with mental retardation or other developmental disorders.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 202B.070, relating to the duty of individuals with direct care","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"floor amendments (1) (2) and (3-title) withdrawn","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB132/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB132.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213255,"bill_number":"HB133","title":"AN ACT relating to college student financial awareness.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require public postsecondary institutions to provide new undergraduates with information regarding credit cards and debt management and encourage them to conduct informational sessions; encourage nonpublic postsecondary institutions to provide new undergraduates with information regarding credit cards and debt management and to conduct informational sessions; permit institutions to utilize existing debt education materials from nonprofit entities; and require the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to assist institutions in identifying appropriate materials and curricula.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB133/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB133.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213256,"bill_number":"HB134","title":"AN ACT related to suicide prevention.","description":"Amend KRS 156.095 to name the subsection related to suicide prevention awareness \"Rachael's Law.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB134/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB134.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213257,"bill_number":"HB135","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of the distilled spirits industry.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the distilled spirits income tax credit, in an amount equal to the ad valorem tax assessed and timely paid as provided by KRS 132.160, to taxpayers storing at least 400,000 barrels; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide for the ordering of the credit.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB135/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB135.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213258,"bill_number":"HB136","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle registration.","description":"Amend KRS 186.050, to require that voluntary donations for the Agricultural Program Trust Fund accompanying farm vehicle registrations be listed separately on any notices and that the voluntary contribution not be automatically added to the cost of registration; amend KRS 186.164 to require that voluntary donations accompanying any special license plate be listed separately on any notices and that the voluntary contribution not be automatically added to the cost of registration","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB136/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB136.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213259,"bill_number":"HB137","title":"AN ACT relating to property tax.","description":"Amend KRS 132.010 to redefine \"compensating tax rate\" and define \"four percent (4%) rate\" and \"taxing district\"; amend KRS 132.017 and 132.0225 to conform; amend KRS 132.023 to require all taxing districts to calculate separate real and personal property tax rates; create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to allow a one-time adjustment in property tax rates in 2012 to align real and personal property rates; amend KRS 68.245, 157.440, 160.470, 210.480, 212.755, 65.125, 67.934, 67.938, 67A.850, 67C,125, 67C.147, 78.530, 132.012, 132.028, 160.475, and 342.240 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 173 to require the Department of Libraries and Archives to calculate tax rates for library taxing districts; repeal KRS 68.248, 132.018, 132.024, 132.025, 132.027, 132.029, and 160.473; EFFECTIVE beginning January 1, 2012.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB137/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB137.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213260,"bill_number":"HB138","title":"AN ACT relating to metropolitan correctional services departments.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67B to require that procedural due process be afforded to any person brought before a merit board of a metropolitan correctional services department and the board shall have the authority to issue subpoenas to compel the production of witnesses or documents.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB138/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB138.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213261,"bill_number":"HB139","title":"AN ACT relating to campaign finance.","description":"Amend KRS 121.035 to permit corporations to make independent expenditures.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB139/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB139.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213262,"bill_number":"HB140","title":"AN ACT relating to administrative regulations.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to delay the effective date of administrative regulations with a major economic impact until 60 days following adjournment of the next regular session of the Kentucky General Assembly or until the effective date of legislation ratifying the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.010 to define \"major economic impact\"; amend KRS 13A.250 to require the fiscal note to include a cost analysis of the administrative regulation's effect on regulated entities and a determination by the promulgating administrative body as to the overall economic impact of the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.230, 13A.330, and 13A.331 to conform.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB140/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB140.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213263,"bill_number":"HB141","title":"AN ACT relating to corrections personnel in a consolidated local government.","description":"Amend KRS 67C.400 through 67C.418 to grant corrections officers of a consolidated local government the right to collectively bargain.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB141/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB141.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213264,"bill_number":"HB142","title":"AN ACT relating to landlords and tenants.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to provide that the victim of an assault, domestic violence, or stalking may terminate their lease or contract on their dwelling upon thirty days written notice to the landlord accompanied with a copy of a judicial no contact order issued against the perpetrator of the offense.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB142/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB142.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213265,"bill_number":"HB143","title":"AN ACT relating to the exemption of elevator contractor license requirements for the Kentucky State Fair Board.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.4009 to permit the Kentucky State Fair Board to hire licensed elevator mechanics; exempt the board from the licensure requirement for elevator contractors; EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB143/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB143.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213266,"bill_number":"HB144","title":"AN ACT relating to unlawful employment practices.","description":"Amend KRS 344.040 to prohibit an employer from using an employee's credit history in an employment action.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"Labor and Industry","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB144/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB144.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213267,"bill_number":"HB145","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of watercrafts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to provide a method for calculating property tax due on watercraft owned by certain disabled veterans, applicable for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2012.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Military Affairs & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Military Affairs and Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB145/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB145.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213268,"bill_number":"HB146","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle license plates.","description":"Amend KRS 186.041 to allow 100 percent service-connected disabled veterans up to three disabled veteran license plates free of charge.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Military Affairs & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Military Affairs and Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB146/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB146.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213269,"bill_number":"HB147","title":"AN ACT relating to operator's licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 186.412 to permit a veteran to request at the time of application that a personal identification card or an operator's license issued under KRS 186.412 bear a designation denoting the applicant's status as a veteran.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-16","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB147/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB147.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213270,"bill_number":"HB148","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 500.080 to include a loss of consciousness within the definition of \"physical injury.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB148/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB148.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213271,"bill_number":"HB149","title":"AN ACT relating to delinquent property taxes.","description":"Amend KRS 134.127 to allow the county clerk to prepare an in-house document to release any notice filed pursuant to KRS 382.440 or 382.450 when a certificate of delinquency has been paid in full to the county clerk; amend KRS 134.128 to allow clerks with oil and gas certificates of delinquency to request a later sale date so that all certificates can be sold in one sale, and to provide that any certificates received after the sale shall be sold in the next annual sale; amend KRS 134.490 to require a second notice to be sent if the first notice is returned as undeliverable, and to change the process for obtaining updated information; amend KRS 134.504 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB149/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB149.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213272,"bill_number":"HB150","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Amend KRS 67.825 to exclude unified local governments from being able to create a charter county government; amend KRS 67.830 to require that a petition seeking the creation of a charter county commission be signed by 20 percent of the residents of both unincorporated and incorporated areas of the county; specify the composition of the commission; provide for a process for when a comprehensive plan cannot be decided upon, and an extension process for the plan determination; provide that it shall take a majority of the residents of the county and a majority of city residents of at least one city to form a charter county government or consolidate services or functions; provide for when a comprehensive plan fails to be adopted; amend KRS 67.845 to apply dissolution provisions to participating cities within the charter county government; amend KRS 67.855 to apply ordinance powers provisions to participating cities within the charter county government; create a new section of KRS 67.825 to 67.875 to set out requirements for the petition process for forming a commission to study the creation of a charter county government or for the consolidation of services and functions; amend KRS 78.530 to allow agencies that are established by a merger or interlocal agreement consisting of at least one agency who participated in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) on or before April 9, 2002, to be exempt from the requirement of signing a contract for employee health insurance with the Personnel Cabinet as a condition of participation in CERS; amend KRS 67.077 to consolidate, streamline, and set out procedures for county ordinance passage; amend KRS 65.182, 65.660, 65.662, 65.810, 67.045, 75.015, and 65.125 to conform; repeal KRS 67.075 and 67.076; apply the amendments to KRS 78.530 to existing agencies established before the effective date of the Act.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-17","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB150/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB150.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213273,"bill_number":"HB151","title":"AN ACT relating to divestiture of investments in companies doing business in Sudan and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define terms; require the State Investment Commission, the Judicial Retirement Board, the Kentucky Retirement Systems Board, and the Kentucky Teachers Retirement Board to identify those companies with which it has direct holdings that are doing business in the Sudan, and to compile those companies into a list; require the boards to send written notice to the companies on the list that they may become subject of divestment and outline the steps available to the companies to be removed from the list; require the boards to file a written report to the United States Attorney General detailing the requirements of this Act, and to the Governor, the Legislative Research Commission, and the other public funds information regarding their actions relating to the companies on the list; clarify that a public fund has no obligation to take action under this Act upon certain occurrences; authorize a public fund to take any action necessary to comply with this Act notwithstanding any other provisions of law; indemnify board members, and officers, agents, and employees of the boards for their good faith actions under this Act; require the Commonwealth to reimburse the public funds for their net losses as a result of compliance with this Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB151/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB151.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213274,"bill_number":"HB152","title":"AN ACT relating to the safe disposal of prescription medications and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 224.50 to define \"cabinet\" \"department\" \"permanent drop off box\" \"Prescription drugs and medicines\" \"prescription drug recycling\" \"safe drop off drugs program\" and \"secure collection site;\" require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to work with waste coordinators and city, county, and sheriffs offices to establish a prescription drugs drop off program; make the contents of the box that receives the prescription drugs and medicines the property of the cabinet; require the cabinet to develop the rules and procedures for the collection of the prescription drugs and medicines, the method for haulers to pick up and dispose of the wastes and the method of disposal for prescription drugs and medicines to ensure they do not leach into the waters of the Commonwealth; require the cabinet to work with pharmaceutical companies to develop a prescription drug and medicine recycling program; require police officers of the city, county or sheriff's office participating in the program to determine the secure collection site within the police station, post signage for the public, monitor the prescription drugs and medicines deposited into the permanent box and inform the cabinet of pick up needs; amend KRS 224.43-310 to require the cabinet to include a description of cities and counties participating in the safe drop off drugs program in the solid waste management report to the Legislative Research Commission and the Governor; amend KRS 224.43-315 to require counties to report to the cabinet on participation in the safe drop off drugs program; amend KRS 224.43-505 to allow a portion of the remediation fee to go for grants for the safe drop off drugs program; include the safe drop off drug program grants under the general solid waste grant requirements; and amend KRS 224.43-710 to include a safe drop off drugs program under the list of eligible types of technical assistance from the cabinet.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB152/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB152.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213275,"bill_number":"HB153","title":"AN ACT relating to child care.","description":"Amend KRS 199.896 to require child-care centers and family child-care homes to operate a system of video monitoring that records the actions of individuals in all areas of the centers or homes during operating hours.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB153/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB153.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213276,"bill_number":"HB154","title":"AN ACT relating to intercollegiate athletics.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require, beginning no later than the 2012-2013 academic year, the public comprehensive universities' men's basketball teams to annually play each other.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB154/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB154.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213277,"bill_number":"HB155","title":"AN ACT relating to the real estate transfer tax.","description":"Amend KRS 142.050 to clarify that a voluntary surrender under a mortgage in lieu of a foreclosure proceeding is not subject to the real estate transfer tax.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB155/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB155.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213278,"bill_number":"HB156","title":"AN ACT relating to cruelty to animals.","description":"Amend KRS 525.130, relating to cruelty to animals, to define \"shelter\" and establish shelter and shade requirements for dogs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB156/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB156.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213279,"bill_number":"HB157","title":"AN ACT relating to animal impoundment.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 258 to define \"animal control officer\" \"humanely destroy\" and \"reasonable expenses\"; allow animal control officers to take physical custody of an animal if there is probable cause or the officer has a warrant finding probable cause to believe that the animal is in imminent harm, cruelly treated or tortured; require the animal control officer to file a petition of facts with the District Court 96 hours after taking custody of the animal and request action by that same court; allow the animal to be humanely destroyed if a licensed veterinarian deems the animal to be severely injured or diseased; require the District Court to place the petition on the docket and issue a summons for the owner or person caring for the impounded animal; require the court to determine physical custody of the animal pending a final decision of the court on the question of animal cruelty or torture; provide a method for the owner to be noticed of animal's custody if the court could not determine the animal's ownership; require the owner to relinquish ownership after court order or post a surety bond for the care of the animal pending final disposition of the case; allow the court to waive bond if the owner is found indigent; allow the court to order the animal humanely destroyed upon written assessment by a licensed veterinarian; allow agent caring for the impounded animal to draw on the bond for care expenses and provide method for return of unused portion of bond.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Agriculture & Small Business (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB157/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB157.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213280,"bill_number":"HB159","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to legislative sessions.","description":"Propose to amend Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky to require the General Assembly to remain in the even-year regular session beyond 60 days if necessary to enact a budget bill or bills and consider budget memoranda; provide that members of the General Assembly shall receive no compensation for their services after the 60th legislative day; provide for two - day veto override period after enactment of a budget in any extended session; prohibit consideration of any other bill or resolution having the force and effect of law during the extended session.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB159/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB159.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213281,"bill_number":"HB160","title":"AN ACT relating to death investigations.","description":"Amend KRS 72.280 to require the state medical examiner to prepare an informational pamphlet for citizens explaining the process of a death investigation and the means by which additional private medical testing may be done.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB160/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB160.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213282,"bill_number":"HB161","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to legislative sessions.","description":"Propose to amend Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky to require the General Assembly to remain in the even-year regular session beyond sixty days if necessary to enact a budget bill or bills; prohibit consideration of any other bill or resolution having the force and effect of law after the sixtieth legislative day.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB161/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB161.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213283,"bill_number":"HB162","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle usage tax.","description":"Amend KRS 138.4602 allowing a trade-in allowance for new vehicles purchased on or after July 1, 2011, but before July 1, 2013, and providing that the total amount of reduced tax receipts related to the trade-in allowance be capped at $25 million.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB162/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB162.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213284,"bill_number":"HB163","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of motorcycles.","description":"Amend KRS 189.285 to require the use of protective headgear for any person who operates or rides as a passenger on a motorcycle.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB163/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB163.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213285,"bill_number":"HB164","title":"AN ACT relating to the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 387 to enact the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, as recommended to the states by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State laws, to govern jurisdictional questions and disputes between states in regard to cases concerning guardians and conservators; amend KRS 387.520 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB164/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB164.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213286,"bill_number":"HB165","title":"AN ACT relating to county consolidation.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 67 to establish a new procedure for the optional consolidation of counties; exclude consolidated local governments, charter county governments, urban-county governments, and unified local governments from the procedures; permit two or more counties to consolidate with such action initiated by public petition or local ordinance; require signatures of 20% or more of the number of persons voting in last presidential election for initiation petition; provide for the contents and certification of petitions as prescribed; require the county judge/executive in the initiating county within 10 days to notify the other local governments and their citizens of the proposal as prescribed; require responding action in adjoining counties within 120 days or initial action becomes void; require a special election within 90 days if adjoining counties enter the process; require approval in each county for consolidation to become effective; prescribe the language for the ballot, other election procedures, and advertisement of the election by the sheriff; require a simple majority of those voting in each county for approval; require all election costs to be paid for by the state, and prohibit any organizational changes in a newly consolidated county for 10 years; prohibit any new county from becoming effective until the end of terms of current officeholders and require new officers to be elected in the same manner and at same time as other county officials; require the county judge/executive in each county to appoint 6 citizens to a transition committee as prescribed; require transition committee to divide county into 3-8 magisterial districts and to select 2-5 names for the new county to be decided by the voters; require final report of the transition committee as prescribed; provide for a gubernatorial appointee to break tie vote on questions relating the name of the new county, the formation of magisterial districts, or other issues on ballot; require all taxes from immediate year to remain in effect until changed by the new county; require the creation of a special taxing district for repayment of prior financial obligations in previously existing counties as prescribed; require surplus funds to be spent in the areas where funds were raised as prescribed; permit voters to determine the location of new county seat from previously existing locations; require county seat to remain at that location for not less than 10 years; require other remaining county buildings to be maintained as branch offices for 10 years as prescribed; require the Department for Local Government to promulgate administrative regulations awarding preference points on community development block grant applications and provide technical and advisory assistance to consolidated counties; require, upon consolidation, all appointments to boards of special districts to remain in effect until the expiration of the term, at which point the appropriate appointing authority shall make new appointments; amend KRS 567.280 to provide for federal and state election districts as prescribed; repeal KRS 67.190, 67.200, 67.210, 67.220, 67.230, 67.240, 67.250, 67.260, 67.270, 67.290, and 67.310.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB165/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB165.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213287,"bill_number":"HB166","title":"AN ACT relating to the use of Kentucky-grown agricultural products in state resort parks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 148.830 to 148.840 to require any contract for the provision and sale of food services and agricultural products in state resort park restaurants, gift shops, concessions, and golf courses to promote the sale of Kentucky-grown agricultural products under the Kentucky Proud Program in accordance with KRS 45A.645, 148.830, 148.835, and 260.017; amend KRS 148.830 to establish promotion program in the Department of Parks to promote the sale of Kentucky-grown agricultural products in state resort park restaurants, gift shops, concessions, and golf courses, in conjunction with the Kentucky Proud Program; require the commissioner of the Department of Parks to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the program; amend KRS 148.835 to establish a promotion program within the Department of Parks that requires the Department of Parks to purchase Kentucky farm-raised catfish and horticultural products if the purchasing officer determines such products are available, can be priced to encourage their sale, and meet the quality standards of the Department of Parks; require the commissioner of the Department of Parks to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the program; amend KRS 148.840 to require the Department of Parks to establish a steering committee to plan and assist in the implementation of the promotion program identified in KRS 148.830 and 148.835 and, upon implementation of the promotion program, require the steering committee to evaluate the promotion program and submit an initial report to the Governor, the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, and the Legislative Research Commission no later than July 1, 2012, and subsequent annual reports no later than July 1 of each year thereafter; require that the steering committee meet at least once each year at a date and location to be determined by its members to ensure the continuation of the promotion program.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB166/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB166.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213288,"bill_number":"HB167","title":"AN ACT relating to the Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 304.10-010 to 304.10-210 to adopt the provisions of the Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact, including a preamble to explain the necessity of the legislation; Article I to state the purposes of the compact, including establishment of a clearinghouse for receipt and dissemination of premium tax and clearinghouse transaction data related to nonadmitted insurance of multi-state risks; Article II to define terms; Article III to establish the Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact Commission and its venue; Article IV to grant authority for the commission to establish mandatory rules; Article V to establish the powers of the commission; Article VI to establish the organization of the commission; Article VII to establish meetings and authorized acts of the commission; Article VIII to authorize rules and operation procedures and rulemaking functions of the ommission; Article IX to establish commission records requirements and enforce authority; Article X to establish a method of dispute resolution; Article XI to authorize review of commission decisions; Article XII to establish commission finance requirements; Article XIII to establish that any state is eligible to be a compacting state, the effective date of the compact, and the authority of the commission to propose future amendments to the compact; Article XIV to establish requirements for withdrawal from the compact, default of a compacting state, termination of a compacting state, and the method for dissolution of the compact; Article XV to establish severability of the terms of the compact and require liberal construction of the compact terms to effectuate the purpose of the compact; and Article XVI to recognize the priority of the enforcement of compacting state laws, except any law regarding non-admitted insurance of multi-state risks which are regulated and preempted by the compact; amend KRS 91A.080 and 304.10-180 to conform by prohibiting assessment of a local government premium tax on multi-state surplus lines in conformity with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; effective upon contingency.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB167/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB167.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213289,"bill_number":"HB168","title":"AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to religious freedom.","description":"Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky that prohibits the Commonwealth from burdening freedom of religion for persons or religious organizations; provide that the right to act or refuse to act in a manner motivated by sincere religious belief shall not be burdened unless the Commonwealth demonstrates it has a compelling governmental interest in so doing; define \"burden\" for the purposes of this section.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB168/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB168.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213290,"bill_number":"HB169","title":"AN ACT relating to science education and intellectual freedom.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to encourage local school district teachers and administrators to foster an environment promoting objective discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories; allow teachers to use, as permitted by the local board of education, materials in addition to state-approved texts and instructional materials for discussion of scientific theories; clarify that provisions do not promote religious doctrine or discrimination; provide that the section may be cited as the Kentucky Science Education and Intellectual Freedom Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB169/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB169.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213291,"bill_number":"HB170","title":"AN ACT relating to health care coverage.","description":"Create a new Subtitle in KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions for \"direct purchase\", \"health care system\", and \"penalty or fine\"; prohibit the General Assembly from requiring any individual to participate in any health care system or plan, or impose a penalty or fine regarding participation; permit an individual or an employer to pay directly for health care services and a health care provider to accept direct payment without penalties or fines; direct the Attorney General of Kentucky to undertake and initiate all necessary legal proceedings to protect and defend Kentuckians' rights as set forth in this Act; prohibit the Governor, the Personnel Cabinet, and state agencies from participating in or complying with any federal law, regulation, or policy that would compromise the freedom of choice in the health care decisions of any resident of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB170/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB170.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213292,"bill_number":"HB171","title":"AN ACT relating to an alternative high school diploma for special needs students.","description":"Amend KRS 156.160 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for an alternative high school diploma for students with disabilities completing a modified curriculum and an individualized course of study; amend KRS 158.140 to require local boards of education to award the diploma to eligible students; amend KRS 313.040 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB171/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB171.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213293,"bill_number":"HB172","title":"AN ACT relating to nutrition and physical activity standards for childcare agencies.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to identify model practices and establish nutrition standards and age-appropriate physical activity criteria for licensed child-care centers; require a report by December 1 of each year on the implementation of the standards and criteria.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB172/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB172.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213294,"bill_number":"HB173","title":"AN ACT relating to hunting and fishing licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 150.170 to exempt members of any branch of the United States Armed Forces based in Kentucky from having to obtain a license to engage in sport hunting or fishing on any military property belonging to the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB173/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB173.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213295,"bill_number":"HB174","title":"AN ACT relating to 911 emergency services and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend and create various sections of KRS Chapter 65 to add definitions; create the Kentucky 911 Emergency Communications Authority; establish a board of directors to manage the authority; establish an executive director of 911 emergency communications and change duties to include next generation 911 and reflect other technical changes; establish the Kentucky 911 fund; change the duties of the board to reflect needs of next generation 911 system; include new items to be implemented by administrative regulation by the board; require the board to gather information on 911 funding procedures on or before July 1, 2012; establish a 911 service charge; make technical changes required by the transition to a next generation 911 system; include regulations that local governments must follow with regard to use of 911 funds collected under KRS 65.760; amend KRS 39G.040 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"to Military Affairs & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Military Affairs and Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB174/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB174.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213296,"bill_number":"HB175","title":"AN ACT relating to civil actions involving the termination of parental rights.","description":"Amend KRS 625.070 to provide that service of process is not required upon a parent who placed the child with an emergency medical services provider, police station, fire station, or hospital under the provisions of KRS 405.075.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB175/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB175.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213297,"bill_number":"HB176","title":"AN ACT relating to the exclusion of abortion coverage for health insurance exchanges.","description":"Create Subtitle 17D of KRS Chapter 304 to define \"health benefit exchange\" and \"small employer\" for the purposes of health benefit exchange group health plans; create a new section of Subtitle 17D of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit abortion coverage by a qualified health benefit plan through a health benefit exchange in accordance with the opt-out provision of the federal \"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB176/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB176.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213298,"bill_number":"HB177","title":"AN ACT relating to fireworks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 227 to require reporting the storage of consumer fireworks to the local fire chief in the jurisdiction where the storage facility is located; amend KRS 227.700 to redefine \"fireworks\"; amend KRS 227.702 to define \"consumer fireworks\"; amend KRS 227.704 to conform; amend KRS 227.706 to define \"display fireworks\"; amend KRS 227.710 to define \"competent display operator\" and establish requirements for the operation of a fireworks display; amend KRS 227.715 to permit permanent business establishments that sell consumer fireworks as a secondary course of business to only sell those described in 227.702(1); require seasonal stands and businesses selling fireworks year round as primary source of business to acquire wholesale/retail license from and register with state fire marshal; permit fire marshal to assess fee not to exceed $250; prohibit the sale of consumer fireworks near an open flame or gas or electric cooking devices, or where paints, oil, varnishes or butane lighters are sold; permit the possession and use consumer fireworks; establish restrictions for use.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Military Affairs & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Military Affairs and Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB177/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB177.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213299,"bill_number":"HB178","title":"AN ACT proposing to repeal Section 233A of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to marriage.","description":"Propose to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to repeal the definition of marriage; submit to voters for approval or disapproval.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB178/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB178.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213300,"bill_number":"HB179","title":"AN ACT relating to open meetings.","description":"Amend KRS 61.810 to exclude meetings of conference committees and free conference committees formed according to Senate and House Rules to consider biennial budget bills for the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of state government from exceptions to open meetings requirements.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB179/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB179.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213301,"bill_number":"HB180","title":"AN ACT relating to peace officers.","description":"Amend KRS 61.365 relating to federal peace officers who have been granted Kentucky peace officer powers to add the United States Mint Police and restrict their jurisdiction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB180/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB180.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213302,"bill_number":"HB181","title":"AN ACT relating to civil liability for emergency care.","description":"Amend KRS 411.148, relating to the \"Good Samaritan\" law and nonliability for emergency care, to apply the law to all persons rendering care without remuneration, rather than to named persons; repeal KRS 311A.150.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB181/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB181.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213303,"bill_number":"HB182","title":"AN ACT relating to deferred deposit transactions.","description":"Amend KRS 286.9-010 to define \"annual percentage rate\",\"consideration\", and \"interest\"; amend KRS 286.9-100 to delete the service fee of $15 per $100 loan and establish a maximum annual percentage rate of thirty-six percent (36%), provide that making a deferred deposit transaction in violation of the maximum interest provisions of this Act is an unfair, false, misleading and deceptive practice in violation of the Consumer Protection Act and subject to its rights and remedies, and prohibit a licensee from engaging in deceptive practices to evade the requirements of Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 286; amend KRS 286.9-102 to require a licensee to conspicuously display interest charges for services; and create a new section of Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 286 to provide that knowing violation of the maximum allowable interest rate provisions of this Act shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest for the transaction and the person who paid the interest, or his or her legal representative, may recover twice the amount paid in any action against the lender if commenced within two (2) years of the deferred deposit transaction.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB182/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB182.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213304,"bill_number":"HB183","title":"AN ACT changing the classification of the City of Wurtland, in Greenup County.","description":"Reclassify Wurtland in Greenup County, population 1,063, from a city of the sixth class to a city of the fifth class.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB183/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB183.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213305,"bill_number":"HB184","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund.","description":"Amend KRS 15.460 and 15.470 to provide that police officers receiving the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund salary supplement shall continue to receive the supplement when called to active duty with the United States Armed Forces.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB184/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB184.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213306,"bill_number":"HB185","title":"AN ACT relating to the exclusion of abortion coverage for health insurance exchanges.","description":"Establish Subtitle 17D of KRS Chapter 304 and create a new section to define \"health benefit exchange\" and \"small employer\" for the purposes of health benefit exchange group health plans; create a new section of Subtitle 17D of KRS Chapter 304 to prohibit abortion coverage by a qualified health benefit plan through a health benefit exchange in accordance with the opt-out provision of the federal \"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act\".","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB185/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB185.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213307,"bill_number":"HB186","title":"AN ACT relating to operator's licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 186.412 to permit a veteran to request at the time of application that a personal identification card or an operator's license issued under KRS 186.412 bear a designation denoting the applicant's status as a veteran.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"to Military Affairs & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Military Affairs and Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB186/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB186.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213308,"bill_number":"HB187","title":"AN ACT relating to special license plates and making an appropriation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to create an I Support Veterans special license plate; amend KRS 186.162 to establish the fees for the I Support Veterans special license plate; amend KRS 186.166 to require the I Support Veterans license plate to be perpetually produced.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB187/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB187.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213309,"bill_number":"HCR7","title":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a legislative task force to establish a strategy to provide home laptop computers for middle school students; establish task force by August 1, 2011; report findings to appropriate committee or committees no later than December 1, 2011.","description":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a legislative task force to establish a strategy to provide home laptop computers for middle school students; establish task force by August 1, 2011; report findings to appropriate committee or committees no later than December 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR7/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC7.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213310,"bill_number":"HCR12","title":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to study whether counties should be offered the option of conducting elections in centralized voting centers rather than in voting precincts.","description":null,"status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR12/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC12.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213311,"bill_number":"HCR13","title":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Legislative Task Force on Childhood Obesity to meet at least monthly during the 2011 Interim of the General Assembly; require the task force to report any recommendations and findings by November 30, 2011, to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare.","description":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Legislative Task Force on Childhood Obesity to meet at least monthly during the 2011 Interim of the General Assembly; require the task force to report any recommendations and findings by November 30, 2011, to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR13/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC13.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213312,"bill_number":"HCR15","title":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to study the factors impacting the academic achievement of African-American male students in the public schools of the Commonwealth and the characteristics of schools that are effective in producing high levels of achievement for this population; require a draft report by October 15, 2012, for review by the Interim Joint Committee on Education.","description":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to study the factors impacting the academic achievement of African-American male students in the public schools of the Commonwealth and the characteristics of schools that are effective in producing high levels of achievement for this population; require a draft report by October 15, 2012, for review by the Interim Joint Committee on Education.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR15/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC15.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213313,"bill_number":"HCR24","title":"Direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study the sufficiency of highway fuel taxes to meet highway funding needs over the next two decades, the effect of the anticipated decline in gasoline demand and its effect on road fund revenue, and alternative methods to fund Kentucky's highways in the face of reduced fuel consumption; report findings to the appropriate committee or committees by December 1, 2011.","description":"Direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study the sufficiency of highway fuel taxes to meet highway funding needs over the next two decades, the effect of the anticipated decline in gasoline demand and its effect on road fund revenue, and alternative methods to fund Kentucky's highways in the face of reduced fuel consumption; report findings to the appropriate committee or committees by December 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR24/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC24.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213314,"bill_number":"HCR26","title":"Urge Congress to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the issue of American prisoners of war and those missing in action.","description":"Urge Congress to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the issue of American prisoners of war and those missing in action.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Military Affairs & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-05","committee":"Military Affairs and Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR26/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC26.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213315,"bill_number":"SB1","title":"AN ACT relating to fiscal policy, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Establish the Kentucky Council on Revenue Reform to assess the effectiveness of the state and local tax and revenue system and propose legislation to revise revenue statutes; declare legislative findings; provide for the appointment of members to the council; require the council to report to the Legislative Research Commission on or before November 30, 2011; provide sunset date for the council; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB1/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB1.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213316,"bill_number":"SB2","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 21.345 to 21.580 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan and the Judicial Retirement Plan to new members effective July 1, 2012, and to prohibit legislators and judges who take office on or after the effective date of this Act from participating in a retirement system for their service as a legislator or judge if the individual is retired and receiving a benefit from a state-administered retirement system; create a new section of KRS 21.345 to 21.580 to allow members of the Legislators' Retirement Plan and the Judicial Retirement Plan with less than 5 years of service to transfer their membership and account balance to the Public Employees Retirement System; create a new section of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to close the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System to new members effective July 1, 2012, and to prohibit retired members of other state-administered retirement systems from contributing to these systems or the Public Employees Retirement System if they are reemployed on or after the effective date of this Act; create a new section of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to allow members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System, with less than 5 years of service to transfer their membership and account balance to the Public Employees Retirement System; create KRS Chapter 61A to establish the Public Employees Retirement System, a defined contribution plan administered by the board of the Kentucky Retirement Systems for new employees hired by a participating agency in the retirement systems closed under the provisions of this Act; establish administrative requirements of the Public Employees Retirement System and authorize the board to establish or amend existing plans or to contract with the Kentucky Deferred Compensation Authority for administration of the plans; establish eligibility for membership in the Public Employees Retirement System; provide that individual agencies may establish additional defined contributions with matching contributions for reemployed retirees not eligible to participate in the Public Employees Retirement System; establish matching employer contributions of 5% for non-hazardous employees and 8% for hazardous employees contributing to the Public Employees Retirement System and vesting rules for employer contributions; establish the State Treasurer as custodian of the Public Employees Retirement System; require that each employer shall contribute to the Public Employees Retirement System the amount that is otherwise contributed for employees still participating in the closed systems and to provide that the contributions shall be distributed to fund benefits and expenses of the Public Employees Retirement System and to pay off unfunded liabilities of the closed systems; cross-reference statutes pertaining to the Kentucky Employees Retirement System related to the Kentucky Retirement Systems board, investment committee, employer duties, confidentiality of member accounts, correction of errors in records, and statements made under oath; allow the General Assembly to suspend or reduce benefits provided under the Public Employees Retirement System; establish minimum line-of-duty disability and death benefits for members of the Public Employees Retirement Systems of 25% of pay to the member or deceased member's spouse and 10% for each dependent child and require the systems to contract with a insurance company duly licensed in the state of Kentucky for administration; authorize the board to establish retiree health coverage for members and beneficiaries upon retirement or in-the-line-of-duty disablement or death and to establish a benefit of $10 per month for non-hazardous employees and $15 per month for hazardous employees; amend KRS 6.515 and 21.370 to increase the cost of purchasing active duty military service to the full actuarial cost for members of the Legislators' Retirement Plan and the Judicial Retirement Plan; prohibitservice purchases made on or after the effective date of this Act in the Legislators' Retirement Plan and the Judicial Retirement Plan from being used to vest for retiree health benefits; require service purchased on or after the effective date of this Act in the Legislators' Retirement Plan and the Judicial Retirement Plan to assume the earliest retirement date and cost of living adjustments in determining the appropriate actuarial cost and allow service in the Public Employees Retirement System to be used for determining eligibility for retirement in the Legislators' Retirement Plan but not the amount of benefits; amend KRS 6.525 to prohibit salary earned in another state administered system from being used to determine benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan if the member does not have service in the other state-administered retirement systems prior to the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 61.645 to provide a process for members of the Public Employees Retirement System to vote for existing elected trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems board and to make conforming changes; amend KRS 61.650 to establish the board of the Kentucky Retirement Systems as trustee of the Public Employees Retirement System; amend KRS 61.675 to establish employer reporting requirements for the Public Employees Retirement System; amend KRS 61.680 and 161.607 to allow service in the Public Employees Retirement System to be used for determining eligibility for retirement but not the amount of benefits; amend KRS 16.520, 16.645, 61.525, 61.645, 61.650, 61.675, 78.540, and 78.545 to conform; require the board of the Public Employees Retirement System to provide an update on the plan, including any legal issues involving state or federal law, to the Interim Joint Committee on State Government no later than October 31, 2011.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB2/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB2.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213317,"bill_number":"SB3","title":"AN ACT relating to schools.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to define charter schools and to prescribe the requirements and conditions under which a local board of education may authorize a charter school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for charter schools including an appeal process; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to specify that teachers and staff shall participate in the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System and the County Employees Retirement System, respectively; ensure they receive health benefits the same as other school employees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to describe the transfer of public funds to charter schools in a district; amend KRS 159.070 to permit under certain conditions that a parent shall be permitted to enroll for attendance their children in the public school nearest their home; amend KRS 160.346 to permit a persistently low-achieving school to be converted to a charter school as one of the intervention options.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"returned to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB3/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB3.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213318,"bill_number":"SB4","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11A to prohibit a public servant or candidate for statewide elected office from accepting a campaign contribution from a lobbyist; amend KRS 11A.990 to include penalty provisions; amend KRS 83A.045, 117.045, 118.025, 118.165, 118.215, 118.225, 118.367, 118.561, 118.591, 118.601, and 118A.060 to change certain filing deadlines for elective offices from the last Tuesday in January to the last Tuesday in April; to change the date of the primary from the first Tuesday after the third Monday in May to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in August; and to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to prohibit a candidate for statewide elected office to solicit or accept campaign contributions from a lobbyist or spouse of a lobbyist; amend KRS 121.015 to include \"lobbyist\" in KRS Chapter 121 definitions; amend KRS 121.120 to require candidates and slates of candidates for statewide office and their campaign committees to file electronically with the registry if contributions, loans, of campaign account balances exceed $25,000; amend KRS 121.180 to establish a single campaign finance reporting threshold of $5,000; to require candidates to file campaign finance reports 15 and 30 days prior to the primary, and 15, 30, and 60 days prior to the regular election, and to require candidates for statewide office to additionally file a report 60 days prior to the primary; and to change the filing deadline for supplemental reports from not later than ten days after November 1 to not later than ten days after December 31; amend KRS 121.990 to include penalty provisions; name the Act the \"Public Officials Accountability Act of 2011\"; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB4/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB4.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213319,"bill_number":"SB5","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative action on appropriations and revenue bills.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to require appropriations and revenue bills to be available for public review prior to certain legislative actions thereon, define terms, and provide that legislation enacted without specified public review period shall be null and void; amend KRS 48.100 to establish the process for legislative action on budget bills during regular sessions of the General Assembly.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB5/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB5.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213320,"bill_number":"SB6","title":"AN ACT relating to unauthorized aliens.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 432 to define terms; set out the intent of the chapter and prevent the adoption of policies, administrative regulations, or laws that restrict the enforcement of federal immigration laws; allow for determining the immigration status of a person on reasonable suspicion, the arrest of an unlawful alien upon probable cause, and the transference of a convicted unlawful alien to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the United States Customs and Border Protection; specify that officials or agencies may not be prohibited from sharing the immigration status of a person under specific instances; indemnify a governmental law enforcement officer where the officer has been brought into a legal action; make it a Class D felony to intentionally smuggle persons for profit or commercial purposes, a Class B felony if the smuggled person is under 18 or the offense involved a deadly weapon, or a Class C felony if serious physical injury is used or threatened; define trespassing by an unauthorized alien in the first degree and set out the penalties for conviction; make it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to transport or conceal unauthorized aliens, or encourage an unauthorized alien to come to this state; amend KRS 186A.320 to include motor vehicles used in violation of Section 8 of this Act in the impoundment procedures.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB6/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB6.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213321,"bill_number":"SB7","title":"AN ACT relating to public records.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 7 to require the Legislative Research Commission to create a Web site to provide certain information on the expenditure of state funds; create a new section of KRS Chapter 26A to require the Chief Justice to create a Web site to provide certain information on the expenditure of state funds; create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to create a Web site to provide certain information on the expenditure of state funds; create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to require all executive branch agencies to make financial data available to the Finance and Administration Cabinet; require the cabinet to give the Legislative Research Commission and the Court of Justice control over their expenditure data by January 1, 2012; amend KRS 164A.565 to require the governing boards of each postsecondary educational institution to make financial data available to the Finance and Administration Cabinet; and provide that the Act shall be known as the \"Taxpayer Transparency Act of 2011.\"","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-08","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB7/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB7.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213322,"bill_number":"SB8","title":"AN ACT relating to a one-stop-shop to conduct business in the Commonwealth and making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 14 to require the Secretary of State to establish a business-one-stop electronic state business portal to facilitate interaction among businesses and governmental agencies in the Commonwealth, to mandate that certain elements be included in the development of the business portal, to coordinate with appropriate cabinet to develop certain aspects of the business portal, and to have the basics of the business portal operational by July 1, 2012; Amend KRS 11.202 to require the Commission on Small Business Advocacy to submit an annual report beginning December 1, 2012 to LRC and the Secretary of State with an analysis of how to improve the business-one-stop portal so that it is more user friendly; amend KRS 42.730 to direct the executive director of the Commonwealth Office of Technology to conduct research regarding the various technical and filing requirements necessary for the successful development of the business portal, to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 31, 2011; make an appropriation to the Commonwealth Office of Technology for a study; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB8/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB8.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213323,"bill_number":"SB9","title":"AN ACT relating to full disclosure in public safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to specify how the phrase \"individual, private setting\" shall be interpreted in informed consent situations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311.710 to 311.820 to require an ultrasound prior to an abortion; amend KRS 311.990 to provide a criminal penalty.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB9/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB9.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213324,"bill_number":"SB10","title":"AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky, adopting a 21st Century Bill of Rights.","description":"Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky adopting a 21st Century Bill of Rights; claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; establish that no law or rule shall compel certain persons to participate in health care systems or to provide abortion services; prohibit laws that prevent the severing of coal, that restrict posting of the Ten Commandments, that restrict hunting and fishing, or that infringe upon the lawful possession or use of firearms or ammunition; prohibit expansion of gambling unless it is permitted by a constitutional amendment; establish that governmental agencies should promote the use of Kentucky coal and make public information available on the Internet, and that the General Assembly should provide a reasonable period of time for public review and comment on any appropriation or revenue measure.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB10/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB10.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213325,"bill_number":"SB11","title":"AN ACT relating to false claims.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to establish a civil mechanism for the recovery of false or fraudulent claims made against the Commonwealth's Medicaid System, including provisions increasing damages and civil penalties against wrongdoers, delineating mandatory and discretionary activities of the Attorney General, authorizing private litigants to bring claims in the name of the state against wrongdoers, establishing procedural mechanisms for handling civil actions of this type in the courts, prohibiting retaliation against employees who assist in suits of this type, and establishing time limitations for the filing of these suits.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB11/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB11.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213326,"bill_number":"SB12","title":"AN ACT relating to principal selection.","description":"Amend KRS 160.345 to authorize the superintendent to appoint a school principal after consultation with the school-based decision making council; make changes to conform and delete outdated language.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB12/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB12.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213327,"bill_number":"SB13","title":"AN ACT relating to education performance incentives and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 158.845 to 158.849 to establish performance awards to teachers, based on student achievement on Advanced Placement tests or International Baccalaureate tests in advanced science and mathematics, beginning no later than the 2012-2013 academic year; require that the Kentucky Department of Education distribute the awards; provide that if funds in the science and mathematics fund are insufficient for making the required awards that the expenditure to make awards shall be considered a necessary government expense; amend KRS 158.847 to authorize use of the science and mathematics advancement fund for monetary awards to teachers; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB13/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB13.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213328,"bill_number":"SB21","title":"AN ACT relating to school attendance.","description":"Amend KRS 159.070 to permit a parent or legal guardian to enroll for attendance a child in the school nearest to the child's home, except in cases in which there are academic or skill prerequisites for attendance in the school; provide that those residing the shortest travel distance to a school be given first priority in cases where the capacity of the school may be exceeded; permit a child to attend a school other than the one closest with permission of the district.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB21/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB21.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213329,"bill_number":"SB22","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 508.025 relating to assault in the third degree to make assaulting a physician, physician's assistant, nurse, nurse practitioner, certified registered nurse anesthetist, respiratory therapist, laboratory technician, radiology technician, or social worker providing services in the emergency room of a hospital a Class D felony; amend KRS 508.078 relating to terroristic threatening in the second degree to include the persons specified above and emergency medical services persons in the emergency room of a hospital a Class D felony.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB22/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB22.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213330,"bill_number":"SB23","title":"AN ACT relating to personal care services.","description":"Amend KRS 216.710 to add a Class A misdemeanor offense to the definition of crime; add the nurse aide abuse registry to the definitions; amend KRS 216.712 to require a check of the nurse aide abuse registry; prohibit employment of persons listed on the nurse aide abuse registry; require annual criminal background checks and nurse aide abuse registry checks.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB23/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB23.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213331,"bill_number":"SB24","title":"AN ACT relating to the enactment of an interstate racing and wagering compact.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to authorize and direct the Governor to execute an interstate compact on participation in live pari-mutuel horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering activities; define terms; establish compact commission and assign powers and duties; establish rule-making procedure; permit compact commission to charge fees; establish rights and responsibilities of member states, restrictions on authority, and construction, saving, and severability; establish effective provision based upon enactment by at least six states.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB24/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB24.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213332,"bill_number":"SB25","title":"AN ACT relating to annexation maps and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 81A.470 to eliminate requirement for recording annexation map, description, and copy of ordinance with the Department for Local Government, retroactively to July 15, 2010; amend KRS 81.420 to clarify public notice requirements for a merged or consolidated city; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB25/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB25.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213333,"bill_number":"SB26","title":"AN ACT relating to identification cards for people experiencing homelessness.","description":"Amend KRS 186.531 to establish a $4 charge for a personal identification card issued to a person without a fixed, permanent address; amend KRS 186.412 to establish that a personal identification card issued to a person without a fixed, permanent shall be valid for one year from the date of issuance.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB26/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB26.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213334,"bill_number":"SB27","title":"AN ACT relating to the exclusion of abortion coverage for health insurance exchanges.","description":"Establish Subtitle 17D of KRS Chapter 304 and create new sections thereof to define \"health benefit exchange\" and \"small employer\" for the purposes of health benefit exchange individual and small group health plans; prohibit abortion coverage by a qualified health benefit plan through a health benefit exchange in accordance with the opt-out provision of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, except when the life of the mother is endangered.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB27/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB27.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213335,"bill_number":"SB28","title":"AN ACT relating to school districts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to require the Commonwealth to provide state funds from the general fund to a local school district to offset the costs of implementing any changes to Kentucky Revised Statutes that result in mandated changes to the local district assignment plan; provide that this expenditure is the state's first priority over other financial obligations; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to outline the process and procedures to be used in requesting and paying the funds.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB28/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB28.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213336,"bill_number":"SB29","title":"AN ACT relating to necessaries.","description":"Amend KRS 404.040 to provide for gender neutrality in the furnishing of necessaries during marriage; amend KRS 140.090 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB29/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB29.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213337,"bill_number":"SB30","title":"AN ACT relating to industrial hemp.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 260 to define \"department\", \"industrial hemp\", and \"THC\"; require persons wanting to grow or process industrial hemp to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture; require criminal history checks by local sheriff; require the Department of Agriculture to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out the provisions of the Act; require sheriff to monitor and randomly test industrial hemp fields; assess a fee of $5 per acre for every acre of industrial hemp grown, with a minimum fee of $150, to be divided equally between the Department of Agriculture and the appropriate sheriff's department; require licensees to provide the Department of Agriculture with names and addresses of any grower or buyer of industrial hemp, and copies of any contracts the licensee may have entered into relating to the industrial hemp; clarify that the Act does not authorize any person to violate federal law; require Kentucky to adopt any federal rules or regulations relating to industrial hemp.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB30/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB30.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213338,"bill_number":"SB31","title":"AN ACT relating to the school calendar.","description":"Amend KRS 158.070 to prohibit a school district from establishing the first instructional","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB31/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB31.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213339,"bill_number":"SB32","title":"AN ACT relating to the inclusion of the body mass index on school physical examination forms.","description":"Amend KRS 156.160 to require that preventative health care examination forms include a measure of body mass index; require the Department of Education to share aggregate data from the forms by state, school district, or county with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB32/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB32.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213340,"bill_number":"SB33","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms, including ammunition and accessories for firearms.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 relating to firearms, ammunition, and firearms","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB33/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB33.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213341,"bill_number":"SB34","title":"AN ACT relating to nuclear power.","description":"Amend KRS 278.600 to define \"storage\" and amend a definition to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means for permanent disposal; amend KRS 278.610 to delete the requirement that the Public Service Commission certify the facility as having a means for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; change all references to the disposal of nuclear waste to the storage of nuclear waste; prohibit construction of low-level waste disposal sites in the Commonwealth except as provided in KRS 211.852; require the Public Service Commission to determine whether the construction or operation of a nuclear power facility, including ones constructed by entities regulated under KRS Chapter 96, would create low-level nuclear waste or mixed wastes that would be required to be disposed of in low-level waste disposal sites in the Commonwealth; repeal KRS 278.605.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB34/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB34.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213342,"bill_number":"SB35","title":"AN ACT relating to school funding.","description":"Amend KRS 157.310 to clarify the intention of the General Assembly that no mandate be placed","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB35/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB35.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213343,"bill_number":"SB36","title":"AN ACT relating to career and technical education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.812 to express legislative goals for career and technical education; amend KRS 158.810 to define terms related to career and technical education; create a new section to KRS Chapter 156 to require the Department of Education to issue core content standards, assess student progress, and develop new courses relevant to college and career readiness; create a new section to KRS Chapter 158 providing for the creation and use of evidence-based models assessing the needs of at-risk students; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to define terms related to career and technical education and to establish a career and technical education accessibility fund; amend KRS 158.814 to address unmet needs for career and technical education; amend KRS 158.816 to add criteria to the assessment of technical education students; amend KRS 18A.010 to exempt technology center employees from the count of full-time executive branch employees; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"recommitted to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB36/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB36.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213344,"bill_number":"SB37","title":"AN ACT relating to university undergraduate completion.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require each public university to submit to the","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB37/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB37.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213345,"bill_number":"SB38","title":"AN ACT relating to the protection of adults.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to define the terms \"adult\" and \"cabinet\"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a registry of persons found to have abused, neglected, or exploited an adult; require an appeal process for persons against whom allegations have been substantiated by the cabinet; prohibit a licensed or certified facility or program from employing a person on the registry; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to prohibit health care facilities and services licensed under KRS Chapter 216B from employing, contracting with, or accepting volunteer services from a person whose name appears on the registry; amend KRS 205.5606 to prohibit persons who provide services or supports from employing, contracting with, or accepting volunteer services from a person whose name appears on the registry; amend KRS 210.795 to prohibit an individual whose name appears on the registry from being a provider; prohibit a provider from employing, contracting with, or accepting volunteer services from a person whose name appears on the registry.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB38/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB38.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213346,"bill_number":"SB39","title":"AN ACT relating to state government contracts.","description":"Amend KRS 14A.9-010 to require certain exempt foreign entities to obtain a certificate of authority from the Secretary of State in order to be awarded a state construction contract; amend KRS 45A.480 and 176.085 to require that certain persons exempt from having to obtain a certificate of authority under KRS 14A.9-010 must produce the certificate if awarded a state construction contract.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB39/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB39.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213347,"bill_number":"SB40","title":"AN ACT relating to influenza vaccinations for minors.","description":"Amend KRS 315.010 to expand the definition of \"practice of pharmacy\" to include the administration of influenza vaccines to individuals 9 to 13 years of age; amend KRS 315.205 to include an influenza vaccine administered to an individual who is age 9 to 13 years in the notification to the individual's primary care provider.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB40/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB40.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213348,"bill_number":"SB41","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 116.055 to permit a registered independent to vote in the primary of one party for each primary and to require that an independent be registered as an independent on December 31 immediately preceding the primary; amend KRS 118.125 to prohibit a primary candidate from being a registered independent; amend KRS 117.125 to require that electronic voting machines be reprogrammed to allow a registered independent to vote for a party's candidates in a primary; amend KRS 118.015 to define \"registered independent\" as a person who is not a member of a political party, a political organization, or a political group.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB41/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB41.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213349,"bill_number":"SB43","title":"AN ACT relating to the imposition of tolls or fees on federal interstate highways.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 177 to prohibit the imposition of tolls or user fees on any portion of the Interstate highway system currently in existence; name the Act the \"Keeping Kentucky's Freeways Free Act of 2011.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB43/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB43.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213350,"bill_number":"SB44","title":"AN ACT relating to the employment of persons with criminal records in long-term care facilities, nursing facilities, and assisted living communities.","description":"Amend KRS 216.789 to prohibit employment by a long-term care facility, nursing facility, or an assisted living community of all persons convicted of a felony offense related to theft; abuse or sale of illegal drugs; abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an adult; or a sexual crime.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"floor amendments (1-title) and (2) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB44/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB44.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213351,"bill_number":"SB45","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.110 to make ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine or their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers a Schedule IV controlled substance; amend KRS 218A.180 relating to dispensing and prescriptions by practitioners to prohibit a practitioner from dispensing more than 9 grams of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine and their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers to an ultimate user in a 30 day period; prohibit a prescription for more than 9 grams of product, prohibit refilling a prescription prior to the expiration of 30 days from the prior prescription; repeal KRS 218A.1446 relating to over the counter sales of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"returned to Rules (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB45/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB45.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213352,"bill_number":"SB46","title":"AN ACT relating to the destruction of firearms.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 500 to provide that a firearm used in the commission of a homicide, fetal homicide, or assault against a peace officer or firefighter shall be destroyed upon the conclusion of the criminal proceeding; establish the procedure for certification of destruction; amend KRS 16.210, 16.220, 237.090, 500.090, and 527.060 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB46/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB46.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213353,"bill_number":"SB47","title":"AN ACT relating to pain management facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 216B.015 to define \"pain management facility\" and amend the definition of \"health facility\" to include a pain management facility; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require that all pain management facilities be licensed; provide that all pain management facilities shall have a designated physician who meets established criteria and is responsible for the licensure requirements of the facility; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations related to pain management facilities.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB47/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB47.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213354,"bill_number":"SB48","title":"AN ACT relating to public airports.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 183 to allow airport boards to establish an entity to develop airport facilities and operate certain services.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB48/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB48.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213355,"bill_number":"SB49","title":"AN ACT relating to dating violence.","description":"Amend KRS 403.720 to include persons in dating relationships within the coverage of Kentucky's domestic violence laws.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB49/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB49.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213356,"bill_number":"SB50","title":"AN ACT relating to the capture and transportation of carbon dioxide.","description":"Amend Subchapter 27 of KRS Chapter 154 to include carbon dioxide transmission pipeline eligibility for Incentives for Energy Independence Act; grant companies constructing carbon dioxide transmission pipelines eminent domain powers; require carbon dioxide transmission pipeline to obtain construction certificate from the Ky State Board on Electric Generation and Siting; amend KRS 154.27-010, 154.27-020, 278.495, 278.700, and 278.714 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB50/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB50.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213357,"bill_number":"SB51","title":"AN ACT relating to child booster seats.","description":"Amend KRS 189.125 to apply the child booster seat requirement to children who are both under the age of 8 years and shorter than 57 inches in height.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB51/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB51.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213358,"bill_number":"SB52","title":"AN ACT relating to posting of legislators' per diem requests on the Internet.","description":"Amend KRS 6.190 to require the Legislative Research Commission to post legislators' requests for reimbursement on the Internet.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB52/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB52.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213359,"bill_number":"SB53","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative ethics.","description":"Amend KRS 6.611 of the Code of Legislative Ethics to include food and beverages consumed on the premises in the definition of \"anything of value\"; amend KRS 6.686 to permit the Commission to dismiss a complaint without prejudice if a complainant or person acting in cooperation with the complainant publicly discloses or comments upon the existence of a complaint or preliminary inquiry; amend KRS 6.767 to prohibit a legislator, a candidate for the General Assembly, or his campaign committee from accepting, during a regular session of the General Assembly, a campaign contribution from an employer of a legislative agent, or from a permanent committee as defined in KRS 121.015 and to change the grace period to return a prohibited contribution from fourteen to thirty days; amend KRS 6.811 to prohibit a legislative agent or employer from offering or giving anything of value to a candidate for the General Assembly or to a legislator's or a candidate's spouse or child; prohibit a legislative agent from directly soliciting campaign contributions for a legislator or candidate; prohibit an employer of a legislative agent from making a campaign contribution to a legislator, candidate, or campaign committee for a legislator or candidate during a regular session of the General Assembly; delete the provision allowing each legislative agent and his employer to spend up to $100 annually on food and beverages for each legislator and his immediate family; amend KRS 6.821 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB53/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB53.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213360,"bill_number":"SB54","title":"AN ACT relating to fire protection districts in consolidated local governments.","description":"Amend KRS 75.031 to require fire districts that operate in a consolidated local government and one neighboring county have one member of the board of trustees appointed from the neighboring county.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-17","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB54/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB54.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213361,"bill_number":"SB55","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans' nursing homes.","description":"Amend KRS 40.325 to make the spouse of a veteran eligible for admissions, if that spouse has volunteered at least fifteen years in any of the state veterans' nursing homes; require the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs to promulgate administrative regulations to determine eligibility.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-05","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB55/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB55.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213362,"bill_number":"SB56","title":"AN ACT relating to Bible literacy courses in the public schools.","description":"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 combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible; require that the course provide students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, mores, oratory, and public policy; permit students to use various translations of the Bible for the course; amend KRS 158.197 to permit a school council to offer an elective social studies course on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament, or a combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB56/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB56.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213363,"bill_number":"SJR10","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 7 in Letcher County from the Perry County line to its intersection with Kentucky Route 15 at the western limits of Isom, as the \"Ruben Watts Highway\" in honor of former Letcher County Judge Executive Ruben Watts.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 7 in Letcher County from the Perry County line to its intersection with Kentucky Route 15 at the western limits of Isom, as the \"Ruben Watts Highway\" in honor of former Letcher County Judge Executive Ruben Watts.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR10/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SJ10.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213364,"bill_number":"SJR12","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to name various portions of US 60 in Carter County in honor of fallen firefighters.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to name various portions of US 60 in Carter County in honor of fallen firefighters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR12/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SJ12.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213365,"bill_number":"SJR15","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to name the bridge on US 31E from KY 509 to Whitesides Drive, in Nelson County, as the \"Wolf Bridge\" and erect appropriate signs.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to name the bridge on US 31E from KY 509 to Whitesides Drive, in Nelson County, as the \"Wolf Bridge\" and erect appropriate signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR15/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SJ15.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":213366,"bill_number":"SJR16","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor the memory of Specialist Russell E. Madden by designating Kentucky Route 1120 in the city of Bellevue, KY the \"SPC Russell E. Madden Memorial Highway.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to honor the memory of Specialist Russell E. Madden by designating Kentucky Route 1120 in the city of Bellevue, KY the \"SPC Russell E. Madden Memorial Highway.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-04","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-01-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR16/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SJ16.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":223325,"bill_number":"HB198","title":"AN ACT relating to postsecondary educational institution capital projects.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 164A to provide an interim process for approval of certain cash-funded capital projects, subject to approval by the governing board and the Council on Postsecondary Education and other restrictions; provide procedures to comply with LRC v. Brown.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-16","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB198/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB198.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224118,"bill_number":"HB4","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky False Claims Act.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15 to establish a False Claims Act with provisions that establish enhanced civil liability and penalties for committing fraud against the state; allow the Attorney General or private citizens to sue on behalf of the state to recover those amounts, with some of the proceeds of the action being distributed to the person successfully bringing the action; grant the Attorney General enhanced investigatory authority; provide an administrative sanctioning system for fraudulent Medicaid providers; provide civil protections for fraud whistleblowers.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-15","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-25","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB4/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB4.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224119,"bill_number":"HB10","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits for hiring legally blind or severely disabled individuals.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide a nonrefundable income tax credit for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, for taxpayers who contract with a resident nonprofit organization for services performed by indiviudals who are legally blind or severely disabled; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the order in which the credit may be claimed.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB10/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB10.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224120,"bill_number":"HB188","title":"AN ACT relating to charitable health care services and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 216.940 to define terms; amend KRS 216.941 to allow for grants to charitable health care providers; create a new section of KRS 216.940 to 216.945 to establish the charitable health care services fund and to provide that 10 percent of fines collected by the boards of dentistry, medical licensure, nursing, optometric examiners, and pharmacy be transferred to the fund ; amend KRS 311.990, 313.022, 314.991, 315.195, 315.990, and 320.310 to conform; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB188/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB188.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224121,"bill_number":"HB189","title":"AN ACT relating to an income tax deduction for teachers.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to provide a deduction for the cost of tuition for a teacher enrolled in a masters degree program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB189/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB189.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224122,"bill_number":"HB191","title":"AN ACT relating to disabled parking.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to require publicly owned parking lots with over five hundred parking spaces to maintain at least one extra van-only disabled parking space for each five hundred spaces in the lot above the Uniform State Building Code requirements; amend KRS 198B.990 to provide penalties for violations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB191/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB191.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224123,"bill_number":"HB192","title":"AN ACT relating to instruction in voting.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require secondary schools to provide information to twelfth-grade students on how to register to vote, vote in an election using a ballot, and vote using an absentee ballot; recommend instructional methods.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB192/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB192.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224124,"bill_number":"HB193","title":"AN ACT prohibiting smoking in all public places and places of employment.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to state findings and purpose; define terms; prohibit smoking in enclosed public places or enclosed places of employment; prohibit smoking within reasonable distances outside of public places and places of employment; require no smoking signs to be posted; require all sleeping quarters of all hotels and public accommodations that are rented to guests to be smokefree; require the prohibition on smoking in a place of employment to be communicated to employees; permit more restrictive smoking policies in enclosed and outdoor places; prohibit a less restrictive interpretation of prohibition on smoking; require the Department for Public Health to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the provisions of this Act including issuing citations, assessing and collecting fines, taking public complaints, and holding public hearings; require the department, local health departments, city managers, county administrators, and their designees to enforce the smoking prohibitions; require an owner, manager, operator, or employee of a public place or place of employment to direct a person who is smoking to extinguish the product being smoked, refuse them service, ask them to leave if they do not, and contact law enforcement if they refuse to leave; require an employer to direct an employee who is smoking to extinguish the product, ask them to leave if they do not, and contact law enforcement if they refuse to leave; permit a private citizen to bring legal action to enforce the provisions of this Act; permit application for injunctive relief to enforce the provisions of this Act; prohibit retaliation for exercising rights, reporting, or prosecuting under this Act and fine $1,000 for each violation; set fines of $100 for a first violation and $250 for each subsequent violation for smoking in a prohibited area; set fines of $250 for a first violation, $500 for a second violation within 1 year of the first, and $2,500 for each additional violation within 1 year of the first for permitting smoking in a public place or place of employment where smoking is prohibited by this Act; require 50% of collected fines to be allocated to the department and 50% to the enforcing agency; declare the provisions of this Act to be liberally construed and severable; permit this Act to be cited as the Smokefree Kentucky Act.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"floor amendments (1) and (2) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB193/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB193.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224125,"bill_number":"HB194","title":"AN ACT relating to the use of public assistance for gambling.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to prohibit a person receiving public assistance from using electronic benefit cards or cash obtained with electronic benefit cards for any type of gambling at any location; require recipient to sign a statement of understanding and agreement to comply; create a new section of KRS Chapter 154A to prohibit a licensed lottery retailer from permitting the use of public assistance electronic benefit cards for the purchase of lottery tickets; amend KRS 154A.990 to add a violation for the first offense and a Class B misdemeanor for each subsequent offense; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to prohibit a licensed pari-mutuel operation from permitting the use of public assistance electronic benefit cards for the purpose of pari-mutuel wagering; amend KRS 230.990 to add a violation for the first offense and a Class B misdemeanor for each subsequent offense; create a new section of KRS 238 to prohibit a licensed charitable gaming organization from permitting the use of public assistance electronic benefit cards for the purpose charitable gaming; amend KRS 238.995 to add a violation for the first offense and a Class B misdemeanor for each subsequent offense.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB194/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB194.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224126,"bill_number":"HB195","title":"AN ACT relating to the abolishment of the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation.","description":"Amend KRS 42.4592 to delete transfers to the secondary wood products development fund; amend KRS 1154.20-170 to make an internal reference correction; amend KRS 154.47-005 to define \"cabinet\" as the Economic Development Cabinet and strike references to the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation and its board; amend KRS 154.47-040 to delete all references to the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation and require information regarding secondary wood products for state capital construction be maintained by the Cabinet for Finance and Administration; delete requirement that the board review any capital construction applications for secondary wood products; amend KRS 154.47-050 and 154.47-055 to delete references to the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation developing a workforce training curricula and place that function in the Department of Workforce Investment in the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; amend KRS 154.47-060 to make permissive the University of Kentucky's contracting for use of the Quicksand Wood Utilization Center as a secondary wood products training center; delete contracting for the center by the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation; amend KRS 154.47-065 to permit the cabinet to work with the Division of Forestry to establish benchmarks for Kentucky forest industries; amend KRS 154.47-075 to delete the board from the implementation of a program of training assistance; repeal KRS 42.4586, 154.47-015, 154.47-020, 154.47-025, 154.47-030, 154.47-035, 154.47-045, and 154.47-070; and abolish the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation and transfer all records, documents, assets and liabilities to the Cabinet for Economic Development.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB195/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB195.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224127,"bill_number":"HB196","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 139 to expand the sales and use tax base to include certain services, rental of commercial real estate, and the sale, rental, or lease of shelf space or any other area to display a product; repeal certain sales and use tax exemptions; increase the sales and use tax rate from six percent to seven percent; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to apply the provisions of Chapter 141 to taxable years beginning before January 1, 2012; amend KRS 141.020, 141.040, and 141.0401 to make the individual income tax, corporation income tax, and the limited liability entity tax effective for tax years beginning before January 1, 2012; and amend KRS 138.358 and various sections of KRS Chapter 139 to conform; repeal KRS 139.486.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB196/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB196.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224128,"bill_number":"HB197","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 186.190 to delete the requirement that a license plate remain on a motor vehicle upon sale; allow the seller of a motor vehicle to apply to the county clerk to transfer a plate with existing valid registration onto a newly acquired vehicle; set forth the procedures for an individual who trades in a motor vehicle with existing valid registration to place that registration plate on the newly purchased vehicle; require all vehicle transfer and plate transfers to adhere to the 15 day time schedule in KRS 186.020 and 186A.070; exempt transactions between motor vehicle dealers; amend KRS 186.045 to clarify procedures for disposition of vehicles repossessed by a secured party; amend KRS 186A.100 to clarify procedures for issuance of a temporary vehicle tag; make temporary tags good for 30 rather than 60 days, with an option to extend the validity of the tag if the purchaser has not received a permanent registration plate; amend KRS 186.232 to prohibit the county clerk from transferring title on a motor vehicle for which there are delinquent ad valorem taxes; amend KRS 186.165 to apply the plate transfer provisions of Section 1 to holders of special license plates; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to restrict the use of the motor vehicle information system to carry out the functions of titling and registration to the Transportation Cabinet and county clerks; EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB197/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB197.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224129,"bill_number":"HB199","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 20 of KRS Chapter 304 to define \"commercial property and casualty,\" \"loss run statement,\" and \"provide\"; require an insurer to provide a loss run statement within 20 days of a written request from an insured insurer; require the receiving insurer to provide the statement to the insured within five calendar days of receipt; provide that a loss run statement shall be for a five-year loss run history or a complete history of the insured if less than five years; prohibit the receiving insurance agent from divulging confidential consumer information to a third person; prohibit an insurer from charging a fee for preparing and furnishing a loss run statement; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to provide that an agent who fails to provide a loss run statement as requested within the specified time frame to another insurer or an insured shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $250 for each day the agent fails to provide the statement; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers to inform claimants upon notification of a motor vehicle damage claim that the claimant has a right to choose their repair facility and provide that appraisals for motor vehicle damage claims must include a notice so stating; create a new section of Subtitle 99 of KRS Chapter 304 to provide that persons violating Section 3 of this Act shall be subject to a civil fine in an amount not less than $250 and not more than $5,000.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2011-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB199/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB199.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224130,"bill_number":"HB200","title":"AN ACT relating to the commemoration of Kentucky Medal of Honor recipients.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to require the creation of a plaque to honor Kentucky Congressional Medal of Honor recipients; require the Department for Facilities and Support Services to design, install, and provide routine maintenance of the plaque.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB200/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB200.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224131,"bill_number":"HB201","title":"AN ACT relating to jurisdictional limits for Kentucky courts.","description":"Amend KRS 24A.230 and 24A.290 to increase the jurisdictional limit of the small claims division of District Court from $1,500 to $2,500, for both claims and counterclaims.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB201/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB201.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224132,"bill_number":"HB202","title":"AN ACT relating to commercial driver's licenses.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 281A to establish standards for the waiver of the driving skills test by applicants with military service who have experience operating commercial-sized motor vehicles; specify that applicants are still required to take the knowledge test and pay the application fee; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate an administrative regulation to create a waiver form; amend KRS 281A.130, relating to requirements for issuance of commercial driver's licenses, to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB202/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB202.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224133,"bill_number":"HB203","title":"AN ACT relating to public records.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 7 requiring the Legislative Research Commission to provide public access to legislative branch financial information by January 1, 2012; create a new section of KRS Chapter 26A requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide public access to judicial branch financial information by January 1, 2012; create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to provide public access to executive branch financial information by January 1, 2012; amend KRS 164A.565 to require the governing board of each postsecondary educational institution to make budget, financial statements, and governing board meeting records available on each institution's Web site by January 1, 2012; direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study the use of the Internet by local governments to provide citizen access to their financial and other information.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB203/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB203.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224134,"bill_number":"HB204","title":"AN ACT relating to state construction contracts.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.030 to define \"project labor agreement\" and \"community workforce agreement\"; amend KRS 45A.080 to require all construction contracts to be awarded through the competitive sealed bidding process and to prohibit the use of project labor agreements in construction bid specifications; amend KRS 45A.085 to exclude construction contracts from competitive negotiation; amend KRS 45A.095 to exclude construction contracts from noncompetitive negotiation except for emergency situations; amend KRS 45A.100 to delete small purchase authorization for construction projects; and amend KRS 164A.575 to limit capital construction procurement to competitive sealed bidding under KRS 45A.080, and prohibit the use of project labor agreements in construction contract specifications.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB204/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB204.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224135,"bill_number":"HB205","title":"AN ACT relating to the State Board of Agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 246.120 to change the membership of the State Board of Agriculture; create a noncodified section to specify how to carry out the changes to the board.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB205/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB205.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224136,"bill_number":"HB206","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.","description":"Propose an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to increase","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB206/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB206.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224137,"bill_number":"HB207","title":"AN ACT relating to the homestead exemption provisions of the Constitution.","description":"Amend KRS 132.810 to double the homestead exemption for property tax purposes in certain circumstances if a Constitutional amendment is enacted by the General Assembly and approved by the voters in the November 2012 general election.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB207/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB207.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224138,"bill_number":"HB208","title":"AN ACT relating to public assistance.","description":"Amend KRS 205.200 to create a substance abuse screening program for adult recipients","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB208/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB208.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224139,"bill_number":"HB209","title":"AN ACT relating to doctoral programs in physical therapy.","description":"Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Western Kentucky University to offer doctorates in physical therapy with approval of the Council on Postsecondary Education.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB209/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB209.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224140,"bill_number":"HB210","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to require the Transportation Cabinet to issue every","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB210/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB210.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224141,"bill_number":"HB211","title":"AN ACT changing the classification of the City of Greensburg, in Green County.","description":"Reclassify Greensburg, in Green County, population 2,392, from a city of the fifth class to a city of the fourth class. As provided in Section 156A of the Kentucky Constitution, the population requirements for the classification established by the former Section 156 of the Kentucky Constitution remain in effect until changed by law. Therefore, classification of a city of the fourth class requires a population of 3,000 to 7,999.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB211/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB211.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224142,"bill_number":"HB212","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Amend KRS 139.480 to provide a sales and use tax exemption for drugs and over-the-counter drugs used in the diagnosis, cure, treatment, or prevention of disease in beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, swine, or poultry; amend KRS 139.472 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB212/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB212.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224143,"bill_number":"HB213","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.085 to allow precinct election officers and alternate precinct election officers to vote by mail-in absentee ballot, and to vote on a voting machine in the county clerk's office or other place designated by the county board of elections and approved by the State Board of Elections up to the close of normal business hours on the day before the election.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB213/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB213.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224144,"bill_number":"HB214","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 205.470 to provide for special needs trust assistance for eligible beneficiaries, either as a state trust with individual accounts and pooled investment or a separately established account for an individual beneficiary.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB214/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB214.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224145,"bill_number":"HB215","title":"AN ACT relating to unborn children.","description":"Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to create the Kentucky Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, with provisions defining terms, setting out factual findings by the General Assembly, requiring a determination of fetal age prior to performing an abortion and prohibiting an abortion after 20 weeks of fetal development except in cases of emergency, allowing for civil and injunctive relief, establishing privacy protections, allowing for severability of the various provisions, and establishing a criminal penalty for violations; amend KRS 213.101 to expand the statistical reporting system for abortions; repeal KRS 311.780 to conform.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB215/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB215.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224146,"bill_number":"HB216","title":"AN ACT relating to children in motor vehicles.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to prohibit smoking in a motor vehicle containing a child under the age of 17; amend KRS 189.990 to establish penalties effective January 1, 2012; set the fine for violation at $25 for the first offense and $50 for each subsequent offense; provide for a probationary period ending January 1, 2012, during which courtesy warnings will be issued.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB216/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB216.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224147,"bill_number":"HB217","title":"AN ACT relating to the practice of diabetes education and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to define \"diabetes education\" and \"licensed diabetes educator\"; exempt specified health care professionals from licensing restrictions; create the Kentucky Board of Licensed Diabetes Educators and enumerate the powers and duties of the board; establish a revolving fund for fees and other moneys; establish requirements for licensure and set fees; require continuing education for license renewal; establish provisions for penalties and license denial, suspension, or revocation; require administrative hearings conducted under KRS Chapter 13B; recognize November fourteenth as World Diabetes Day.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB217/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB217.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224148,"bill_number":"HB218","title":"AN ACT relating to child support.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to establish conditions for adjusting the presumptive child support award under the child support guidelines table on the basis of a shared parenting order for physical custody of a child; exempt children receiving public assistance; and amend KRS 403.212 to establish new amounts in the child support guidelines table and delete the old amounts.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB218/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB218.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224149,"bill_number":"HB219","title":"AN ACT relating to minors on premises where alcoholic beverages are sold or consumed.","description":"Amend KRS 244.085 to allow a person who is 18 to 21 years of age and employed as a musician or technician with a band or musical group to remain on the premises where alcoholic beverages are sold or consumed if the band or group has a verbal or written contract to perform that night.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB219/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB219.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224150,"bill_number":"HB220","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to allow a sales and use tax refund on the purchase of building materials used to repair or replace homes in a disaster area; effective July 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB220/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB220.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224151,"bill_number":"HB221","title":"AN ACT relating to grain.","description":"Amend KRS 251.451 to change the amount that a grain warehouseman is required to be bonded for by increasing the minimum to $25,000 and capping the maximum at $1,000,000, except as otherwise authorized by the section; amend KRS 251.720 to cap the amount that a grain dealer is required to be bonded for by capping the maximum at $1,000,000, except as otherwise authorized by the section.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB221/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB221.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224152,"bill_number":"HB222","title":"AN ACT relating to jurisdictional limits for District Court.","description":"Amend KRS 24A.230 and 24A.290 to increase the jurisdictional limit of the small claims division of the District Court from $1,500 to $4,000 for both claims and counterclaims; amend KRS 24A.310 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB222/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB222.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224153,"bill_number":"HB223","title":"AN ACT relating to child care articles containing bisphenol-A.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to define \"baby food,\" \"infant formula,\" and \"reusable food or beverage container\"; prohibit the manufacture, sale, or distribution of any reusable food or beverage container containing bisphenol-A; prohibit the manufacture, sale, or distribution of any infant formula or baby food stored in container containing bisphenol-A; require manufacturers to use least toxic alternatives; prohibit replacement of bisphenol-A with carcinogens or reproductive toxicants; amend KRS 217.990 to assess a fine of not more than $10,000 for violations; EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2012.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB223/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB223.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224154,"bill_number":"HB224","title":"AN ACT relating to judgment liens.","description":"Amend KRS 426.720 relating to judgment liens on real property to provide that if the real property is under joint ownership, then the lien shall not extend beyond the debtor's interest in the property or the debtor's share of proceeds from the sale of the property.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB224/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB224.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224155,"bill_number":"HB225","title":"AN ACT relating to school dropout prevention.","description":"Amend KRS 159.010 to require compulsory attendance for children ages 6 to 17 by July 1, 2015, and for children ages 6 to 18 by July 1, 2016; continue dropout conferences until July 1, 2016; make technical corrections; amend KRS 159.020 to conform; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to clarify the purpose of alternative education programs; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing definitions, policies, and guidelines for student assignment and data collection protocols relative to alternative education programs; require local school districts to track the academic progress of students enrolled in alternative education programs; require the Kentucky Department of Education to file a data report by December 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, to the Interim Joint Committee on Education; require the use of experienced and certified teachers; prohibit the use of probationary teachers and staff; require appropriate staff development; require districts to track expenditures and report them to the Kentucky Department of Education; amend KRS 158.812 to add language stating to the intent of the General Assembly relative to career and technical education programs.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"returned to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB225/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB225.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224156,"bill_number":"HCR29","title":"Honor pregnancy resource centers; encourage Congress to grant centers assistance for medical equipment and abstinence education.","description":"Honor pregnancy resource centers; encourage Congress to grant centers assistance for medical equipment and abstinence education.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR29/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC29.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224157,"bill_number":"HCR36","title":"Provide that when the House of Representatives and the Senate adjourn on January 7, 2011, they adjourn until February 1, 2011, when the second part of the 2011 Regular Session shall convene.","description":"Provide that when the House of Representatives and the Senate adjourn on January 7, 2011, they adjourn until February 1, 2011, when the second part of the 2011 Regular Session shall convene.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-01-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR36/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC36.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224158,"bill_number":"HCR37","title":"Express support for federal legislation requiring the United States Environmental Protection Agency to consider affordability when implementing its combined sewer overflow control measures.","description":"Express support for federal legislation requiring the United States Environmental Protection Agency to consider affordability when implementing its combined sewer overflow control measures.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR37/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC37.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224159,"bill_number":"SB57","title":"AN ACT relating to shock probation.","description":"Amend KRS 439.265 to prohibit shock probation if the defendant has been convicted of either manslaughter or reckless homicide and also received a conviction for driving under the influence arising from the same incident.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB57/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB57.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224160,"bill_number":"SB58","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 allowing a sales and use tax refund on the purchase of building materials used to repair or replace homes in a disaster area; effective July 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB58/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB58.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224161,"bill_number":"SB59","title":"AN ACT relating to mechanical systems.","description":"Amend KRS 236.060 to exempt piping located at or to be installed at a manufacturing or processing plant from the jurisdiction of KRS Chapter 236 if the plant is subject to regulation under 29 C.F.R. sec. 1910.119, 40 C.F.R. Part 68, or either's state equivalent.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"recommitted to Natural Resources and Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB59/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB59.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224162,"bill_number":"SB60","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensure of court reporters and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Establish and create new sections of KRS Chapter 309, regarding the licensing and regulation of court reporters; define terms; prohibit a person from practicing court reporting unless licensed; clarify that a court reporter is not required for any court proceeding, administrative proceeding, deposition, or any other proceeding, but if a court reporter is retained for the proceeding the court reporter must be licensed; establish the Kentucky Board of Court Reporting and its appointment, terms of office, and meeting procedures; delineate the duties of the board; require the board to administer and effectuate the purposes of the Act and to promulgate administrative regulations; establish requirements for licensure; establish the term of the license as two years; allow the board to enter into reciprocal agreements for licensure if the board finds that the state, agency, or other entity has the same or more stringent requirements as the board; include requirements that a nonresident must meet to be licensed; require the board to promulgate licensing fees in an administrative regulation; set fees within specified limits; require the board to promulgate by administrative regulation the specific continuing education required for license renewal; establish other renewal procedures; permit any person engaged in court reporting on the effective date of this Act to be licensed for an initial two-year period if the person applies and certain requirements are met; permit any member of the Kentucky Court Reporters Association holding the certified court reporter designation on the effective date of this Act to apply and be licensed if certain requirements are met; permit any person engaged in court reporting and who holds the Registered Professional Reporter designation or higher to be licensed if certain requirements are met; allow temporary licensure including a limit on the number of temporary licenses issued; require a person conducting business as a court reporting firm to be licensed; indicate the requirements for a person to be licensed as a court reporting firm including the appointment of a designated representative for the firm; establish requirements for the designated representative of the firm; establish renewal procedures for the firm; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations for continuing education for a designated representative for renewal or reinstatement of a firm's license that uses a designated representative not holding a license as a court reporter; indicate the requirements for reinstatement of a court reporter firm license and require the board to establish the reinstatement fee in administrative regulations; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations establishing an inactive status; enumerate grounds of disciplinary action by the board against a licensee; allow the board to impose a fine not to exceed $1,000 in lieu of or in addition to other penalties imposed by the board; add conditions for reinstatement of a license; authorize the board to conduct administrative hearings in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B; specify the investigation and complaint process; enable the board to seek remedies at law or equity in the Circuit Court of the county in which the licensee resides to restrain or enjoin unauthorized practice; grant right to an appeal of any final order of the board to the Circuit Court of the county in which the licensee resides; establish a Kentucky Board of Court Reporting fund to fund the board; provide that any amount remaining at the close of the fiscal year not needed to defray expenses incurred by the board shall be transferred to the special account established by KRS 31.185(4) and used to offset the costs of providing court reporting services to indigent parties in criminal cases and to assist indigent parties in obtaining transcripts; name this Act the Kentucky Court Reporter Act of 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB60/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB60.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224163,"bill_number":"SB61","title":"AN ACT relating to recreational tourism and economic development and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 97 to enable local parks and recreation boards and regional recreation boards to establish landowner incentive programs for increasing access to lands for recreational use and tourism development; require those local parks and recreation boards, as well as the regional recreation boards choosing to implement a landowner incentive program for recreational use of lands, develop a proposed program and submit the proposal to local governing bodies, which includes the legislative body of any city, unified local government, consolidated local government, charter county government or fiscal court of any county, for review and approval; require local governing bodies to conduct a public hearing on the proposed landowner incentive program and require that any program approved be adopted as an ordinance; establish minimum provisions for landowner incentive programs; clarify that landowner incentives do not constitute a charge, as defined in KRS Chapter 411.190; specify the types of incentives which may be adopted including: remuneration of a portion or all of local taxes actually paid by the landowner to the local governing body, or by other measures; cost-sharing programs for equipment or other types items; grants; participation in pilot programs; participation in demonstration projects for improving environmental management of the land used for outdoor recreation; and other similar incentive programs; amend KRS 147A.028 to establish a recreational lands fund to support the development of outdoor recreation for tourism development; authorize the Department for Local Government to establish a grants program for local governing bodies using moneys from the recreational lands fund; amend KRS 186A.130 to redistribute portions of the $15 fee required for the certificate of title for an all-terrain vehicle fee, as follows: $5 to the Transportation Cabinet, rather than the current $9; and $4 to the Kentucky Department for Local Government, to be deposited in the recreational lands fund for grants to local governing authorities for increasing recreational use of lands; make corresponding changes in the distribution of the $10 fee required for replacement or corrected certificate of title for an all-terrain vehicle, allocating $3 to the Transportation Cabinet, rather than the current $6, and allocating $3 to the Kentucky Department for Local Government for the recreational lands fund.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB61/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB61.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224164,"bill_number":"SB62","title":"AN ACT relating to delinquent property tax sales.","description":"Amend KRS 134.128 to allow certificates of delinquency related to unmined minerals or oil and gas to be sold as part of the annual sale of certificates of delinquency; apply new provisions to the sale of certificates of delinquency on or after the effective date of the Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB62/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB62.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224165,"bill_number":"SB63","title":"AN ACT relating to diabetes.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Medicaid Services, the Department for Public Health, the Office of Health Policy, and the Personnel Cabinet to collaborate to identify goals and benchmarks to reduce the incidence of diabetes in Kentucky, improve diabetes care, and control complications associated with diabetes; require each to report on the impact of diabetes, programs and activities for controlling and preventing diabetes, action plans to address diabetes, and budget plans for programs addressing diabetes by January 10 of each odd-numbered year to the Legislative Research Commission.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB63/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB63.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224166,"bill_number":"SB64","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Center for African-American Heritage.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to create a Kentucky Center for African-American Heritage; provide for membership, terms, and organization; establish duties and objectives.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB64/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB64.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224167,"bill_number":"SB65","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protection.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 relating to consumer protection to prohibit business solicitation within 30 days following a motor vehicle accident, provide exceptions, and establish penalty; amend KRS 21A.310 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB65/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB65.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224168,"bill_number":"SB66","title":"AN ACT relating to the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center Corporation.","description":"Amend KRS 154.40-030 to establish that appointments to and removal from the board of the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center Corporation be made by the county judge/executive of Pike County, the mayor of Pikeville, and by the Governor.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB66/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB66.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224169,"bill_number":"SB67","title":"AN ACT relating to the civil rights of deaf and hard of hearing persons.","description":"Amend KRS 344.120 to require movie theaters with five or more screens to provide closed captioning for deaf and hard of hearing persons; amend KRS 344.190 to require the Commission on Human Rights to review and approve available closed captioning technologies and set the minimum numbers of closed captioned showings of a movie which must be offered at each covered theater.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB67/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB67.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224170,"bill_number":"SB68","title":"AN ACT relating to the solicitation of accident and disaster victims.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 21A.300 as a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to prohibit the solicitation of disaster and accident victims for the first 30 days following the disaster or accident; repeal KRS 21A.310 and 21A.320.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-06","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB68/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB68.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224171,"bill_number":"SB69","title":"AN ACT relating to early high school graduation and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to be numbered KRS 158.142 to establish the option for early high school graduation beginning in the 2012-2013 school year; define the curriculum requirements for early graduation and admission into a Kentucky public two-year institution or four-year university; establish the Early Graduation Scholarship Certificate and the processes for awarding it and using it; create a new section of KRS 164 to create the early graduation scholarship fund to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend KRS 157.360 to describe how state funds from the SEEK appropriation will be transferred to the scholarship fund to support early high school graduates; amend KRS 158.140 to limit the powers of the Kentucky Board of Education or a local board from imposing graduation requirements that would prohibit a student from pursuing an early graduation program; amend KRS 164.7879 to prescribe how an annual KEES award for an early graduate would be calculated; amend KRS 157.420 to conform; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB69/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB69.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224172,"bill_number":"SB70","title":"AN ACT relating to environmental protection.","description":"Amend KRS 224.1-530 to require use of Regional Screening Level Table for US EPA Region 3 rather than Region 9 and the guidance in the Risk-Based Concentration Table User's Guide rather than the Region 9 Preliminary Remediation Goals.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB70/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB70.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224173,"bill_number":"SB71","title":"AN ACT relating to the practice of diabetes education and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to define \"diabetes education\" and \"licensed diabetes educator\"; exempt specified health care professionals from licensing restrictions; create the Kentucky Board of Licensed Diabetes Educators and enumerate the powers and duties of the board; establish a revolving fund for fees and other moneys; establish requirements for licensure and set fees; require continuing education for license renewal; establish provisions for penalties and license denial, suspension, or revocation; require administrative hearings conducted under KRS Chapter 13B; recognize November fourteenth as World Diabetes Day.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB71/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB71.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224174,"bill_number":"SB72","title":"AN ACT relating to health-facility-acquired infections.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require health care facilities to implement infection prevention program for high risk areas and, throughout the facility, by January 1, 2012; require implementation of best practices that include identification of infected prevention and control policy and public postings of policies and worker and staff education programs; require health facilities to report data on health-facility-acquired infections; require the use of an approved method of data collection and reporting; require the secretary to implement a method for patients to report by July 1, 2012; require the secretary to serve as the chief administrative officer for data collection; exempt cabinet employees from liability; require a report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by January 30 of each year; establish penalties for violations; state legislative findings in noncodified section.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB72/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB72.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224175,"bill_number":"SB73","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle dealers.","description":"Amend KRS 190.046 to establish that a manufacturer or distributor shall not require a motor vehicle dealer to submit a claim sooner than 30 days after the dealer completes the preparation, delivery, or warrranty service authorizing the claim; establish a time schedule for payment of claims by the manufacturer or distributor; provide that a dealer shall not be required to maintain defective parts for more than 30 days after submission of a claim; establish that a manufacturer-sponsored or distributor shall compensate dealers for manufacturer or distributor-sponsored promotion events; establish time schedule for payment of claims made by dealers for promotion events; establish audit guidelines for manufacturers or distributors.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts ch. 3)","last_action_date":"2011-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB73/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB73.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224176,"bill_number":"SB74","title":"AN ACT relating to interscholastic athletics and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 156.070 to require the state board or agency designated to manage interscholastic athletics to identify how a school is assigned to compete in a specific district or region; require a school to be assigned to compete in a district that is within a 100-mile driving distance of the school and in a region that is within a 150-mile driving distance of the school; allow a school board to appeal the district or region assignment for a school athletic team; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB74/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB74.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224177,"bill_number":"SB75","title":"AN ACT relating to chiropractic.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitles 17A, 17B, and 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to require that specified health benefit plans and health insurance provide reimbursement for any service that is within the lawful scope of practice of a licensed doctor of chiropractic; define \"doctor of chiropractic,\" \"nonroutine office visit,\" and \"routine office visit\"; require that individual procedures performed by a doctor of chiropractic be treated as separate and distinct treatments and not be combined into payment for an office visit or other outpatient visit for specified treatment; provide that only one evaluation and management procedure performed on the same date by the same provider shall be reimbursed; prohibit imposition upon the insured of more than one coinsurance or copayment for each routine or nonroutine office visit to a doctor of chiropractic; require reimbursement at no less than the reimbursement rates in effect on October 15, 2008; require insurers to report fee methodology to providers; require that a contract between an insurer and a doctor of chiropractic comply with the new sections.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-03-01","last_action":"floor amendment (2) filed","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB75/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB75.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224178,"bill_number":"SB76","title":"AN ACT changing the classification of the City of Pikeville, in Pike County.","description":"Reclassify Pikeville in Pike County, population 6,419, from a city of the third class to a city of the fourth class. As provided in Section 156A of the Kentucky Constitution, the population requirements for the classification established by the former Section 156 of the Kentucky Constitution remain in effect until changed by law. Therefore, classification of a city of the fourth class requires a population of 3,000 to 7,999.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB76/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB76.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224179,"bill_number":"SB77","title":"AN ACT relating to personal identification cards.","description":"Amend KRS 186.412 to allow holders of personal ID cards who have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder to receive a sticker identifying that condition to place on the ID card; require payment of $1 fee to obtain sticker.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-01","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB77/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB77.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224180,"bill_number":"SB78","title":"AN ACT relating to property taxes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 134 to allow persons holding a first priority recorded mortgage that is subject to state property taxes to register their interest with the county clerk; amend KRS 134.122 to require county clerks to submit a list of certificates of delinquency to the Department of Revenue and require the department to publish a list of certificates of delinquency on their Web site; amend KRS 134.452 to make changes to what a third-party purchaser of a certificate of delinquency may collect and to prohibit fees or interest from being incurred after a payment has been made in the amount specified in the notice provided according to KRS 134.490; amend KRS 134.490 to require a third-party purchaser of a certificate of delinquency to notify a holder of a first priority recorded mortgage registered with the county clerk that the certificate of delinquency has been purchased and to require the third-party purchaser to send notice to the holders of a first priority mortgage registered with the county clerk at least 45 days prior that legal action will be taken to enforce collection; amend KRS 134.504 to require the county attorney or the department to mail a notice to a person holding a first priority mortgage that is registered with the county clerk advising of a certificate of delinquency, to require the county attorney or department to mail a second notice to a person holding a first priority recorded mortgage advising that the certificate of delinquency may be purchased by a third-party purchaser, and to require the county attorney or department to notify a person holding a first priority recorded mortgage of intent to initiate legal action to enforce collection of the amount due on a certificate of delinquency; amend KRS 134.125 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-01-07","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB78/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB78.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":224181,"bill_number":"SB79","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 186.050 to establish a three tiered weight classification system for farm trucks, consisting of the following categories: under 26,000 pounds, 26,001 to 38,000 pounds, and over 38,000 pounds; amend KRS 281.010 to clarify the definition of \" interstate commerce; amend KRS 281.011 to exempt farm trucks registered under KRS 186.050(4) from the definition of \"motor carrier\"; amend KRS 281.605 to specify that vehicles exempted from the chapter except for safety regulations shall not be required to obtain a US DOTE number or similar number from the Transportation Cabinet; amend KRS 281.600 to clarify that the Department of Vehicle Regulation's regulatory authority extends to motor carrier transportation and limit certain regulatory authority of the cabinet; amend KRS 281.730 to define Kentucky's planting and harvesting season as being year round for the purposes of providing a limited exemption to farm truck operators regarding hours of service reporting and limits.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB79/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB79.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":250987,"bill_number":"HB254","title":"AN ACT relating to law enforcement training.","description":"Amend KRS 15.334 to establish that the enforcement and service of orders of protection shall be a required training subject taught to all students attending a law enforcement basic training course and for all certified peace officers attending a required two-year training course provided by the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; and provide that the statute shall be known and may be cited as \"Cole's Law.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB254/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB254.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":250990,"bill_number":"SCR49","title":"Acknowledge and support the Kentucky Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights.","description":"Acknowledge and support the Kentucky Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR49/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SC49.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":250993,"bill_number":"SB89","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new participants effective July 1, 2011, and to provide participation in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System in lieu thereof; amend KRS 6.515 to modify the cost of purchasing active duty military service to the full actuarial cost in the Legislators' Retirement Plan, prohibit service purchases made on or after July 1, 2011, from being used to vest for retiree health benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan, and require service purchased on or after July 1, 2011, in the Legislators' Retirement Plan to assume the earliest retirement date and cost-of-living adjustments in determining the appropriate actuarial cost; amend KRS 6.525 to prohibit salary earned in another state-administered system from being used to determine benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan if the member does not have service in the other state-administered retirement system prior to July 1, 2011; amend KRS 61.680 to conform and to make a technical amendment.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB89/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB89.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":250997,"bill_number":"HB239","title":"AN ACT relating to energy.","description":"Amend KRS to create new sections of KRS Chapter 96 and Chapter 278 to encourage greater energy efficiency, conservation, and the use of renewable resources in order to promote energy independence and security by diversifying the portfolio of energy sources used for generating electricity for Kentucky retail electric customers, stabilize long-term energy prices and encourage economic growth, and create high-quality jobs, training, business, and investment opportunities in the Kentucky energy sector; delineate the various energy forms and sources that qualify as renewable energy; set specific obligations to achieve specified increases in the applications of various renewable energy forms; set specific obligations to increase the efficiency of electric usage through targeted low-income weatherization programs and Kentucky state energy programs; provide for alternative plans for public utilities and city-owned or city-controlled electric generating facilities by offsetting reductions in energy use and increased efficiency of use; provide for Public Service Commission denial of issuance of certificates for public convenience and necessity for new or expanded conventional generating capacity for utilities that fail to fulfill their obligations to diversify energy sources and increase efficient use of energy; specify reporting requirements and intervals to the PSC regarding progress in diversifying energy sources and increasing efficient use of energy.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB239/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB239.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251002,"bill_number":"HB244","title":"AN ACT relating to property tax.","description":"Amend KRS 132.810 to provide that a service-connected totally disabled veteran or a totally and permanently disabled individual may document the disability at the time of application for the homestead exemption and shall not be required to apply for the homestead exemption on an annual basis; apply to property assessed on or after January 1, 2012.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB244/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB244.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251022,"bill_number":"HB270","title":"AN ACT relating to the maintenance of railroad bridges.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require that any railroad bridge located over a stream, river, lake, or any other body of water shall be maintained by the responsible railroad company to prevent the flaking of paint into the water; amend KRS 277.990 to establish a penalty of $1,000 dollars per day for each violation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB270/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB270.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251024,"bill_number":"HB236","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency personnel and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 95A.250 to increase the supplement that a local government may receive annually for each qualified professional firefighter it employs to $3,500; include emergency medical technicians and paramedics that are certified by the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services and employed by a local government in the supplement; amend KRS 95A.260 to allow funds to be used for supplements given to emergency medical technicians and paramedics certified by the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services and employed by a local government; amend KRS 95A.262 to increase the aid given to qualifying volunteer fire departments to $10,000; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB236/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB236.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251026,"bill_number":"SB88","title":"AN ACT relating to prescribers and prescription drug monitoring.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.202 to require prescribers of schedule II or III controlled substances to conduct a search using the electronic monitoring system created by KRS 218A.202, to the extent possible conduct a search of electronic monitoring systems bordering Kentucky, report all suspect activity to the state police, and require the CHFS to define the term \"suspect activity.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB88/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB88.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251047,"bill_number":"HB243","title":"AN ACT relating to abortions performed upon minors.","description":"Amend KRS 311.732 to require that a minor who petitions a court for permission to obtain an abortion be a Kentucky resident.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB243/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB243.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251052,"bill_number":"HB232","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal record expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 431.078 relating to misdemeanor record expungement to remove the requirement that offenses arise from the same incident when multiple offenses are sought to be expunged.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB232/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB232.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251063,"bill_number":"HB230","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require that a health benefit plan that includes chiropractic benefits shall not impose a co-payment exceeding 50% of the total cost of the service provided and that the benefits, limitations, conditions and exclusions shall be clearly stated.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB230/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB230.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251091,"bill_number":"HB250","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.030 to delete provision attaching the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors to the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction; amend KRS 198B.040 to conform; amend KRS 198B.700 to clarify the definition of \"home inspection\"; amend KRS 198B.702 to exempt fire protection sprinkler contractors, fire protection system certificate holders, or certified fire sprinkler inspectors and persons providing estimates for remodeling or repair; amend KRS 198B.704 to attach the board to the Division of Occupations and Professions for administrative purposes, revise the composition of the board, set the terms for board members, and permit the board to designate a secretary; amend KRS 198B.706 to require the board to clarify home inspection reports, to allow the board to issue or deny applications for licensure and renewal, and to specify disciplinary actions the board may take against licensees; amend KRS 198B.710 to conform; amend KRS 198B.712 clarify prohibition on unlicensed home inspection and require the board to specify license criteria in administrative regulation; amend KRS 198B.714 to give the board the authority to determine if other jurisdictions have similar licensing requirements; amend KRS 198B.722 to clarify requirement for a background check and specify that continuing education must be completed prior to applying for license renewal; amend KRS 198B.730 to allow the board to issue a cease and desist order prior to a hearing; amend KRS 198B.732 to specify that penalties apply only to unlicensed activity in Kentucky and to remove Housing, Buildings and Construction Legal Division as the board legal adviser; amend KRS 198B.738 to specify that home inspectors may not indicate compliance with the Kentucky Residential Code; amend KRS 198B.4005, 227.300, 227.530, 227.560, 227A.040, 236.030, 318.077, and 318.130 to conform; repeal KRS 198B.708.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-07","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB250/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB250.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251103,"bill_number":"HB238","title":"AN ACT relating to school calendar days and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.070 to allow a school district to make up instructional time lost by lengthening the instructional day or by holding school on nontraditional days; require the Department of Education to verify that an amended calendar includes the equivalent of the minimum numbers of required days; provide that an amended calendar will not result in the loss of SEEK funds or the loss of service credit for employees; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB238/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB238.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251109,"bill_number":"SB84","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 99, 124, and 144 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to elected county officers.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 99, 124, and 144 of the Constitution of Kentucky to eliminate the Office of Judge of the County Court as well as the offices of other members of the Fiscal Court in merged city-and-county governments; submit to voters for approval or disapproval.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB84/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB84.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251110,"bill_number":"HB257","title":"AN ACT relating to qualifications for military service.","description":"Amend KRS 211.760 to require tattoo facilities to conspicuously display a notice in a prominent place easily seen by patrons; set minimum dimensions of notice sign at 11 by 14 inches with 1 inch letters; direct the cabinet to supply the sign to the tattoo facilities; require the notice to warn that any tattoo on the neck, forearm, or lower leg automatically disqualifies the wearer from military service in the United States Armed Forces.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB257/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB257.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251111,"bill_number":"HB256","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Housing Corporation declaring and emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 198A.010 to define \"area median income\" and to redefine \"persons and families of lower and moderate income\" to mean combined income that does not exceed 200 percent percent of the area median income; amend KRS 198A.065 and 198A. 090 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB256/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB256.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251119,"bill_number":"HB274","title":"AN ACT relating to mental illness.","description":"Amend KRS 532.130, relating to definitions for criminal case defenses, to define \"severely mentally ill defendant\"; amend KRS 532.135, relating to defenses in criminal cases, to include a severely mentally ill defendant; amend KRS 532.140, relating to the prohibition against executing a seriously mentally retarded defendant, to also prohibit the execution of a severely mentally ill defendant after the effective date of this Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB274/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB274.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251136,"bill_number":"HCR45","title":"Urge Congress to cease and desist enacting mandates that are beyond the scope of its constitutionally delegated powers; urge Congress to repeal the individual health insurance mandate; and, direct distribution of the Resolution.","description":"Urge Congress to cease and desist enacting mandates that are beyond the scope of its constitutionally delegated powers; urge Congress to repeal the individual health insurance mandate; and, direct distribution of the Resolution.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR45/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC45.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251149,"bill_number":"HCR42","title":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to create the Task Force on Children Exposed to and Affected by Domestic Violence; require the task force to assess state and local response and services to children exposed to domestic violence; study strategies to identify children; study initiatives to reduce the negative effects on children; state the objectives of the task force; state the desired outcomes of the task force; establish membership of the task force; require monthly meetings during the 2011 interim; require a report to be submitted to LRC by December 31, 2011.","description":null,"status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"recommitted to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR42/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC42.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251153,"bill_number":"HB262","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle accident reports.","description":"Amend KRS 189.580 and 189.635 to prohibit the inclusion of a person's Social Security number on a motor vehicle accident report.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB262/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB262.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251157,"bill_number":"HB260","title":"AN ACT relating to assistance animals.","description":"Amend KRS 258.500 to change the definition of assistance dog to assistance animal; define assistance animal to include a dog and a cat; require licensing authorities to accept an assistance animal as such if the person applying for the license is disabled or has epilepsy and has a recommendation by a doctor or psychiatrist for the assistance animal's use.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"returned to Committee on Committees (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-04","committee":"Committee on Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB260/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB260.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251165,"bill_number":"SB87","title":"AN ACT relating to jurisdictional limits for Kentucky courts.","description":"Amend KRS 24A.120 relating to the civil jurisdiction of District Court to increase jurisdictional amount from $4,000 to $7,500; amend KRS 24A.230 relating to small claims jurisdiction of District Court to increase jurisdictional amount from $1,500 to $3,000; amend KRS 24A.290 relating to counterclaims in the small claims division of District Court to increase jurisdiction from $1,500 to $3,000.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB87/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB87.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251168,"bill_number":"SB92","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 261.260 to clarify that the Department of Agriculture promulgates administrative regulations determining bond amounts and conditions if stockyard owners or operators, market agencies, or livestock dealers do not have surety bonds filed under requirements of the federal Packers and Stockyards Act.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"floor amendment (4) filed to Committee Substitute","last_action_date":"2011-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB92/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB92.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251178,"bill_number":"HB279","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, relating to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, to create the Office of Policy and Budget; rename the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs to the Office of Communications and Administrative Review; create the Office of Administrative and Technology Services; abolish the Office of Fiscal Services and move its responsibilities to the newly created Office of Administrative and Technology Services; abolish the Office of Technology and move its responsibilities to the newly created Office of Administrative and Technology Services; create the Department for Income Support; abolish the Department for Disability Determination Services and move its responsibilities to the newly created Department for Income Support; rename the Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities; rename the Department for Human Support Services the Department for Family Resource Centers and Volunteer Services; abolish the Office of Contract Oversight and move its responsibilities to the newly created Office of Policy and Budget; abolish the Governor's Office of Wellness and Physical Activity and move its responsibilities to the Department for Public Health; change the title of the Division of Child Support to the Department for Income Support; reassign certain functions of the Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services to the Department for Aging and Independent Living; establish the Governor's Office of Electronic Health Information; establish the responsibilities of the Office of the Ombudsman and the Office of Electronic Health Information under the Office of the Secretary; change the title of the Division of Women's Physical and Mental Health to the Division of Women's Health; establish the responsibilities of the Office of Policy and Budget and the Department for Income Support; abolish the Division of Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Services and move its responsibilities to the Division of Protection and Permanency within the Department for Community Based Services; change the title of Chief information officer within the Office of Administrative and Technology Services to executive director; change the title of the Division of Adult and Child Health Improvement to the Division of Maternal and Child Health; change the title of the Division of Health Care Facilities and Services in the Office of the Inspector General to the Division of Health Care; change the title of the Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to the Division of Behavioral Health; change the name of the HIV and AIDS Advisory Council to the HIV and AIDS Planning and Advisory Council; establish that the cabinet may transfer or designate as surplus real property that it owns for child-care centers and senior citizens centers; add two members to the State Interagency Council for Services to Children with an Emotional Disability; add two new members appointed by the Governor to the Statewide Trauma Care Program Advisory Committee; transfer the functions, duties, and responsibilities of the weatherization program funded by the United States Department of Energy from the Department for Community Based Services, Cabinet for Health and Family Services, to the Finance and Administration Cabinet; repeal KRS 194.210, 194A.085, and 194A.092; confirm Executive Order 2010-431 to the extent not otherwise confirmed or superseded by this Act.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB279/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB279.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251180,"bill_number":"HB233","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal conviction records.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to publish a Web site containing specific information concerning persons convicted of criminal conduct; provide for exceptions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB233/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB233.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251215,"bill_number":"HB269","title":"AN ACT relating to coal miners.","description":"Designate the third week of August as Coal Miners Appreciation Week.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB269/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB269.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251236,"bill_number":"HB264","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid.","description":"Amend KRS 205.590 to establish the Technical Advisory Committee on Behavioral Health, the Technical Advisory Committee on Children's Health, and the Technical Advisory Committee on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; establish membership of the advisory committees.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB264/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB264.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251239,"bill_number":"HB234","title":"AN ACT relating to training about complex regional pain syndrome.","description":"Amend KRS 314.073 to require all nurses who are licensed and practicing on the effective date of this Act to receive two hours of training concerning the recognition and treatment of complex regional pain syndrome, also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy by December 31, 2014; require all nurses licensed after the effective date of this Act to complete training concerning complex regional pain syndrome within their first three years of practice.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB234/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB234.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251257,"bill_number":"HB240","title":"AN ACT relating to restraining orders upon conviction of a sexual offense.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510, relating to sex offenses, to provide that a conviction of a felony offense under the chapter operates as an application for a restraining order prohibiting contact with the victim, unless the victim requests otherwise; provide the defendant with notice of his or her right to request a hearing on the restraining order; provide for the time of the hearing; provide for contents of the order; provide for modification of an order upon petition of the victim or defendant; provide for a modification hearing; provide for entering an order into the KSP LINK computer system; provide civil and criminal immunity for law enforcement officers acting in good faith in enforcing an order; provide for nondisclosure of a victim's personal information; provide that violation of an order is a Class A misdemeanor.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB240/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB240.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251268,"bill_number":"HB253","title":"AN ACT relating to sand and gravel operations.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 350 to exempt property owners who extract and transport sand and gravel from and over their privately owned land from the requirement to obtain a surface mining permit even if the transportation of the sand and gravel crosses a public road.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Environment (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB253/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB253.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251271,"bill_number":"SB86","title":"AN ACT relating to Bible literacy course in the public schools.","description":"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 combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible; require that the course provide students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, mores, oratory, and public policy; permit students to use various translations of the Bible for the course; amend KRS 158.197 to permit a school council to offer an elective social studies course on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament, or a combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB86/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB86.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251281,"bill_number":"HB273","title":"AN ACT relating to sex education.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to set forth legislative intent; identify the requirements of a sex education program for districts that offer sex education instruction; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to implement and administer a sex education program; require the department to maintain a list of sex education curricula and prepare a report of sex education curricula used in the districts; require the department to establish education and training qualifications for sex education teachers; identify the Act as the \"Healthy Youth Act.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB273/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB273.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251288,"bill_number":"HB278","title":"AN ACT relating to nurse education.","description":"Amend KRS 164.298 to clarify the definition of \"governing board\" and to include a college governing board as an entity required to collaborate with the Kentucky Board of Nursing in offering an advanced practice doctoral degree in nursing.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB278/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB278.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251297,"bill_number":"HB245","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle usage tax.","description":"Amend KRS 138.470 to clarify the exemption allowed for transfers involving the change in legal form of a business entity; provide exemptions from the motor vehicle usage tax for certain transfers between a grantor, a trust, trust beneficiaries, and other persons; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2010.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB245/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB245.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251299,"bill_number":"HB228","title":"AN ACT relating to campaign finance.","description":"Amend KRS 121.150(6) to increase the limit on campaign contributions to school board candidates from $100 for individuals and $200 for organizations to $1,000.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB228/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB228.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251318,"bill_number":"HB235","title":"AN ACT relating to sexual offenses.","description":"Amend KRS 510.320 to require that a defendant, after a finding of probable cause or the issuance of an indictment and upon the request of the victim of the offense, or parent or guardian of the victim, shall be compelled to undergo a human immunodeficiency virus test no later than 48 hours after the request; provide for follow-up testing.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB235/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB235.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251319,"bill_number":"SB94","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 261.220 to clarify actions that the Commissioner of Agriculture may employ to enforce Chapter 261 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB94/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB94.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251325,"bill_number":"HB247","title":"AN ACT relating to radon contractors and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 regarding the certification and regulation of radon measurement contractors, mitigation contractors, and radon laboratories; define terms; establish the Kentucky Radon Program Advisory Committee and its appointment and meeting procedures; delineate the powers and duties of the committee; establish who is exempt from certification requirements; establish certification requirements for measurement contractors, mitigation contractors, and radon laboratories including the responsibilities of each certificate holder; require mitigation contractors, measurement contractors, and radon laboratories to be certified on or before July 1, 2012; require mitigation and measurement contractors to maintain general liability insurance coverage in the amount of $500,000; require mitigation and measurement contractors to maintain a license and permit bond during the term of certification in an amount of $10,000; include requirements for the display and advertising of a measurement or mitigation contractor's certification number; require a person certified as both a measurement and mitigation contractor who conducts post-mitigation measurement on a building in which he or she performed the mitigation to utilize an independent certified laboratory or measurement contractor; require a business entity to have an owner or employee associated with the business entity certified as a measurement or mitigation contractor; establish requirements for annual renewal of certification or radon laboratory; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations for establishing an inactive certification status; authorize the cabinet to grant reciprocity with other jurisdictions; discipline certificate holders for unprofessional conduct including a fine not to exceed $500; permit the cabinet to institute proceedings in the Circuit Court of the county where the person resides for an injunction; provide a right of appeal in the Circuit Court of the county where the person resides in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations on continuing education requirements; require the cabinet to maintain a registration program through promulgation of an administrative regulation for all mitigation systems installations including the fee for these installations; include reporting requirements for measurement and mitigation contractors with times and format of reports to be promulgated by administrative regulation; establish a trust and agency fund to be used by the cabinet for administrative and other purposes; amend KRS 211.855 to specify the powers and duties of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to administer, coordinate, and enforce the provisions of this Act; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for a quality control program plan, mitigation, and measurement standard operating procedures; repeal KRS 211.856, 211.857, and 211.858; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB247/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB247.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251335,"bill_number":"SB85","title":"AN ACT relating to public health.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require science-based content and age appropriate and medically accurate standards for human sexuality education; provide that a parent or guardian may excuse a child from the educational program and permit the parent or guardian to review instructional material upon request; specify that nothing requires a school district, public school, or family resource and youth services center to offer human sexuality education; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to permit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to refuse federal funding for abstinence-only education; require science-based content if state funds are received by the cabinet or subcontractor for human sexuality education or teen pregnancy prevention; permit the cabinet to promulgate an administrative regulation to specify instructional content; and require an entity that receives state funding and offers human sexuality education or teen pregnancy prevention to adopt science-based content.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB85/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB85.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251336,"bill_number":"SB90","title":"AN ACT relating to nursing homes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 216.537 to 216.595 to establish the Civil Monetary Penalty Fund Advisory Committee; establish the membership and duties of the advisory committee.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB90/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB90.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251338,"bill_number":"HB259","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 353 to define terms; state legislative findings; direct Energy and Environment Cabinet to seek one to five projects demonstrating injection of carbon dioxide into geologic storage; provide a process for pooling of pore space necessary to create underground carbon storage reservoirs; create a process whereby ownership of and liability for stored carbon dioxide will pass to the federal or state government following a period of monitoring of the storage facility; direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to undertake discussions with surrounding states concerning accidental migration of geologically stored carbon across state lines; require annual reports.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB259/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB259.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251340,"bill_number":"SB81","title":"AN ACT relating to metal detectors in state parks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 148 to define \"metal detector\" and \"public area\"; allow use of metal detectors in public areas; require registration of use of metal detector within state park or monument office; amend KRS 148.991 to provide a penalty for violation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB81/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB81.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251350,"bill_number":"SB91","title":"AN ACT relating to staffing requirements for long term care facilities.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 216B to require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure; establish minimum staffing requirements; prohibit long-term care facilities from admitting new residents if the facility fails to comply with the minimum staffing requirements, beginning on the second day of noncompliance and continuing until six days after the required staffing is achieved, with exceptions allowed for weather emergencies and other similar events; require additional staffing based on the needs of the residents; exempt intermediate-care facilities for the mentally retarded, institutions for the treatment of mental illnesses, personal care homes, and family care homes from the minimum staffing requirements; create a 20-member board to review staffing requirements on an annual basis; establish a civil fine of no more than $1,000 for each day that the staffing requirements are not maintained.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB91/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB91.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251376,"bill_number":"HB255","title":"AN ACT relating to a health insurance tax exclusion, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to allow an exclusion for health insurance premiums that are deductible pursuant to federal legislation enacted during 2010.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB255/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB255.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251379,"bill_number":"HB251","title":"AN ACT relating to correctional programs.","description":"Amend KRS 197.045 relating to good time credit for state inmates, to provide a 90 day good time credit for an inmate who completes a civics education program and passes an examination thereon.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB251/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB251.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251381,"bill_number":"HB280","title":"AN ACT relating to a health insurance tax exclusion, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to allow an exclusion for health insurance premiums that are deductible pursuant to federal legislation enacted during 2010.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB280/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB280.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251397,"bill_number":"HB261","title":"AN ACT relating to police and fire department members.","description":"Amend KRS 95.440 to remove age limitation requirement for police or fire department members in a city of the second class or urban-county government.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB261/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB261.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251410,"bill_number":"HB241","title":"AN ACT relating to physician assistants.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 311.840 to 311.862 to permit physician assistants to prescribe, dispense, and administer drugs and medical devices as delegated by the supervising physician and to prescribe all legend drugs and Schedules II to V controlled substances; amend KRS 311.840 to make a technical change to define \"legend drug\"; amend KRS 311.856 to delete the provisions requiring a supervising physician to prohibit a physician assistant from prescribing and dispensing controlled substances and to sign records of service; amend KRS 311.858 to make a technical change to delete the provision that physician assistants may prescribe and administer nonscheduled legend drugs by delegation of the supervising physician; amend KRS 311.860 to change the term \"nonseparate location\" to \"physician's primary location\" and to change the required months of on-site supervision of new physician assistant graduates from 18 months to 6 months.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB241/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB241.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251421,"bill_number":"HB268","title":"AN ACT relating to the Firefighters Foundation Program fund and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 95A.250 to increase the annual payment derived from the Firefighters Foundation Program fund to qualified professional firefighters from $3,000 to $3,500; amend KRS 95A.262 to increase the annual payment to qualified volunteer fire departments from $8,250 to $10,000.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB268/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB268.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251430,"bill_number":"SB82","title":"AN ACT relating to city classification.","description":"Reclassify the City of Guthrie in Todd County, population 1,457, from a city of the fifth class to a city of the fourth class. As provided in Section 156A of the Kentucky Constitution, the population requirement for the classification of cities established by the former Section 156 of the Constitution remain in effect until changed by law. Therefore, classification of a city of the fourth class requires a population of 3,000 to 7,999.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB82/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB82.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251461,"bill_number":"HB237","title":"AN ACT relating to disposal of coal combustion wastes.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 224 to define \" CCR or coal combustion residual\" \" EAP\" \"Encapsulated CCR\" and \"Unencapsulated CCR\"; express sentiment for a balanced approach to disposal of CCRs that protect the health and safety of the public and the environment and the need for beneficial reuse of CCRs; require disposal of CCRs as solid waste or in impoundments permitted by the Energy and Environment cabinet and prohibit permit by rule or registered permit by rule for disposal of CCRs; require liners, groundwater monitoring, toxic substance monitoring; require emergency action plans for surface CCR impoundments that are deemed as high potential hazard by the United States Environmental Protection Agency; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for coal ash CCR emergency action plans within 180 days of the effective date of the Act; establish specific contents of the EAP; amend KRS 109.012 to include CCR as a solid waste; amend KRS 151.250 to prohibit exemption for surface CCR impoundments regardless of size or type and prohibit use of permit by rule or registered permit by rule for surface CCR impoundments; and amend 224.50-760 to delete utility wastes, wastes from coal gasification facilities approved by the cabinet from the definition of special wastes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Environment (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB237/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB237.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251485,"bill_number":"HB227","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal history record checks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to provide that any person may request the Department of Kentucky State Police to conduct a background check on that person through a name-based or fingerprint-supported search; establish search prerequisites and limitations.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-25","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB227/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB227.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251492,"bill_number":"HB276","title":"AN ACT relating to inspection of motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.115 to require the Transportation Cabinet to create an affidavit form for inspection of motor vehicles owned by servicemen or servicewomen who are Kentucky residents stationed outside of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB276/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB276.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251499,"bill_number":"HB277","title":"AN ACT relating to welfare of animals.","description":"Amend KRS 257.192 to change the name of the Animal Control Advisory Board to the Animal Care Advisory Board; amend 258.095 to change the name of the Animal Control Advisory Board; amend KRS 258.117 to authorize the Animal Care Advisory Board to establish standards for the humane care of animals in publicly funded animal shelters, make policy recommendations on animal welfare and upgrade of animal shelters to the General Assembly, require audits of shelters receiving funds from the Animal Control and Care Fund, and establish performance standards to improve rates of animal adoption and reduce rates of euthanasia; amend KRS 258.119 to require all publicly funded shelters to establish an animal control and care program that meets the Animal Care Advisory Board's minimum standards; and amend KRS 436.605 to allow peace officers, animal control officers and agents of humane societies employed, appointed or contracted with a city or county for animal control services that have the peace officer powers under KRS 61.300 to enter premises without a warrant under reasonable suspicion of animal cruelty, mistreatment, or torture.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB277/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB277.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251507,"bill_number":"HB281","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.110 to make ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine or their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers a Schedule IV controlled substance; amend KRS 218A.180 relating to dispensing and prescriptions by practitioners to prohibit a practitioner from dispensing more than 9 grams of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine and their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers to an ultimate user in a 30-day period, prohibit a prescription for more than 9 grams of product, prohibit refilling a prescription prior to the expiration of 30 days from the prior prescription; repeal KRS 218A.1446 relating to over-the-counter sales of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB281/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB281.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251544,"bill_number":"HB265","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid.","description":"Amend KRS 205.6318 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to assign contract oversight, performance, and monitoring duties to department personnel and to establish the required expertise of the personnel assigned these duties.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB265/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB265.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251560,"bill_number":"HB266","title":"AN ACT relating to aquaculture.","description":"Amend KRS 260.010 to define \"Department\"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 260 to create definitions, to establish guidelines for reporting country of origin information on aquacultural products, to establish labeling, advertising, and recordkeeping requirements for aquacultural products, and to require the Commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 260.960 to conform; amend KRS 260.990 to establish penalties for violating the provisions of the Act; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB266/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB266.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251600,"bill_number":"SB93","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 261.240 to clarify language that concern reporting requirements of livestock received and sold at stockyards.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"returned to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB93/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB93.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251611,"bill_number":"HB249","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle repair insurance claims.","description":"Create a new section of subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to define \"authorized claim\", \"automobile liability insurance policy\", \"insurer\", \"loss payee\", and \"repair facility\"; require insurers to issue payment for authorized claims, when a motor vehicle is subject to a lien, directly to the vehicle repair facility for completed repairs and to provide written notice of completion of the vehicle repair to a loss payee within 30 days after completion of the repair; require insurers to issue payment for authorized claims, when a motor vehicle is not subject to a lien, jointly to the policy holder and the vehicle repair facility naming both the policy holder and the vehicle repair facility as payees; state that a violation of this Act constitutes an unfair claims settlement practice that may be disciplined pursuant to KRS 304.12-120; state that a vehicle repair facility's endorsement of a payment instrument tendered under this Act is certification by the facility of completion of the repair that is the subject of the authorized claim.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB249/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB249.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251614,"bill_number":"HB282","title":"AN ACT relating to nurses.","description":"Amend KRS 314.042 to delete the requirement for an advanced practice registered nurse to enter into a collaborative agreement with a physician before engaging in the prescribing or dispensing of nonscheduled legend drugs.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-17","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB282/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB282.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251645,"bill_number":"HB272","title":"AN ACT relating to peace officer certification and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 15.400 to increase the maximum break in employment before loss of Peace Officer Professional Standards (POPS) certification from 60 to 100 days for those peace officers who were deemed to have met the standards by virtue of employment on December 1, 1998; provide individuals who retired with POPS certification on or after July 1, 2008, who are reemployed with a law enforcement agency within 100 days following the effective date of this Act with automatic POPS certification; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB272/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB272.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251650,"bill_number":"HB229","title":"AN ACT relating to public employees.","description":"Amend KRS 15.400 to increase the maximum break in employment before loss of Peace Officer Professional Standards (POPS) certification from 60 to 100 days for those peace officers who were deemed to have met the standards by virtue of employment on December 1, 1998 and to provide individuals who retired with POPS certification on or after July 1, 2008, who are reemployed with a law enforcement agency within 100 days following the effective date of this Act with automatic POPS certification; amend KRS 18A.205 to provide that a retiree who has been reemployed in a full-time position within state government on or after September 1, 2008, shall be eligible for life insurance benefits; amend KRS 61.510 and 78.510 to provide that the retirement systems shall add one or more fiscal years to the final compensation calculation for employees participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System or the County Employees Retirement System on or after September 1, 2008, if the member does not have five complete fiscal years of service upon retirement; amend KRS 61.637 to make technical changes.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB229/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB229.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251651,"bill_number":"HB258","title":"AN ACT relating to election costs and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 117.045 to increase the minimum amount from $60 to $100 to be paid by the county board of elections to an election officer per election day or primary day served; to change the payment made to precinct election officers and precinct election judges for certain deliveries from the mileage reimbursement permitted for state employees to a flat fee of $10; amend KRS 177.187 to increase the minimum compensation amount from $10 to $25 for reimbursement of actual expenses paid by the county to an election officer for attending each training session; amend KRS 117.345 to increase from $255 to $1,500 the amount of money that the State Board of Elections is required to pay to a county treasurer for each precinct in the county that contains a voting machine.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB258/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB258.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251655,"bill_number":"HCR46","title":"Urge Congress to call an Article V convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting federal expenditures from exceeding federal revenues; limiting federal debt, spending, and taxes; requiring each congressional measure to be confined to a single subject; providing a minimum time before passage of legislation; clarifying the constitutional limits on congressional power; and empowering state legislatures to repeal acts of Congress and administrative regulations.","description":"Urge Congress to call an Article V convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting federal expenditures from exceeding federal revenues; limiting federal debt, spending, and taxes; requiring each congressional measure to be confined to a single subject; providing a minimum time before passage of legislation; clarifying the constitutional limits on congressional power; and empowering state legislatures to repeal acts of Congress and administrative regulations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR46/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC46.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251661,"bill_number":"HB248","title":"AN ACT relating to airborne contaminants.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish procedures for civil actions arising from exposure to silica; define related terms; require that a physical impairment be an essential element in a civil action based on exposure to silica; require a prima facie showing of a physical impairment before bringing or maintaining a civil action; provide for dismissal of civil actions for failure to establish a prima facie showing of a physical impairment resulting from exposure to silica; toll the statute of limitations on claims not barred by the effective date until such time as an individual discovers or should have discovered a physical impairment; distinguish claims for nonmalignant conditions from claims for silica-related cancer; establish requirements for wrongful death claims; exempt a premises owner from liability unless the individual's exposure occurred while on the property of the owner, and extend liability exemption relating to invitees and contractors hired before January 1, 1972; exempt a premises owner from liability for exposure occurring after January 1, 1972 unless it can be shown that the premises owner intentionally violated a safety standard; provide that civil actions resulting from exposure to silica shall not affect the rights of any party involved in bankruptcy proceedings, or workers' compensation or veteran's benefit programs; require the plaintiff in a civil action to show that a particular defendant's conduct was a substantial factor in causing the alleged injury or loss; make provisions applicable to any civil action pending on the effective date of the Act and to claims filed on or after the effective date of the Act; provide conditions for recovery of costs and fees to prevailing party; create a new section of subchapter 10 of KRS Chapter 224, to establish Airborne Contaminant Claim Review Board and establish membership and duties; include a noncodified provision requesting the Supreme Court to adopt and revise rules relating to venue and consolidation of claims arising from exposure to silica; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2012.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB248/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB248.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251667,"bill_number":"HB252","title":"AN ACT relating to farm trucks.","description":"Amend KRS 186.050 to establish a three-tiered weight classification system for farm trucks, consisting of the following categories: 26,000 pounds or less, 26,001 to 38,000 pounds, and over 38,000 pounds.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB252/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB252.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251674,"bill_number":"SB80","title":"AN ACT relating to public utilities.","description":"Amend KRS 278.021 to define circumstances that constitute abandonment of a gas, water, electric, or sewer service public utility; provide for control and responsibility for abandoned utilities placed in receivership to remain with the court-appointed receiver until the Franklin Circuit Court, after hearing, orders the receiver to return control to the utility or to liquidate the assets; provide that the Public Service Commission may, without holding a hearing, petition the Franklin Circuit Court for temporary receivership of an abandoned utility under certain circumstances; provide that an order granting temporary receivership shall expire sixty days after entry if the commission does not, after notice and hearing, bring an action seeking permanent receivership; create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to require that any gas, water, electric, or sewer utility service that receives a notice of discontinuance or termination of service from one or more of its suppliers that will prevent the provision of service to its customers, notify the commission in writing within one (1) business day of receipt of the notice.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Natural Resources and Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB80/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB80.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251703,"bill_number":"HB267","title":"AN ACT relating to tobacco products.","description":"Amend KRS 138.130 to define \"financial instrument\" and \"wholesaler of other tobacco products and snuff\"; delete references to \"cigarette paper\"; amend KRS 138.140 to clarify tax responsibilities of wholesalers and manufacturers of other tobacco products and snuff; require invoice itemization for other tobacco products and snuff transferred to retailers; amend KRS 138.146 to allow for the sale of tax evidence on a deferred payment basis; require a financial instrument for those purchasing tax evidence on a deferred payment basis; set parameters for the financial instrument; give Department of Revenue authority to make demand on a financial instrument; permit the Department of Revenue to allow tax evidence compensation for resident and nonresident wholesalers, and unclassified acquirers; delete outdated tax compensation language; denote requirements for proper itemization of other tobacco products and snuff delivered to retailers; amend KRS 138.165 to include other tobacco products and snuff in contraband seizure requirements; clarify sale steps for seized vending machines; amend KRS 138.175 to add other tobacco products and snuff to goods that may be deemed contraband; amend KRS 138.195 to set the unclassified acquirer annual license fee at $250; allow the department to obtain information and reports electronically; allow for the sale or purchase of untax-paid cigarettes from one licensee to another; create a new section of KRS 138.130 to 138.205 to set out circumstances under which a license shall be granted to a person; amend KRS 365.270 to add unclassified acquirer to \"wholesaler\" definition; set the presumptive cost of doing business at 3.25 percent; amend KRS 365.390 to include unclassified acquirers under the enforcement fee requirements; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform; make technical changes; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB267/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB267.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251707,"bill_number":"HB271","title":"AN ACT relating to railroads.","description":"Amend 277.990 to increase the fine for violations of KRS 277.200, regarding railroads blocking grade crossings, to $500 per offense.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB271/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB271.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251710,"bill_number":"HB283","title":"AN ACT relating to students with autism and truancy.","description":"Amend KRS 159.150 to provide that if a student has a documented autism spectrum disorder and an individualized education program or treatment records that indicate that the nature of the disability may reasonably necessitate school absences or tardiness, then his or her absences or tardiness for more than three days per year shall be considered validly excused, and the student shall not be reported as truant.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"floor amendments (1-title) and (2) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB283/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB283.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251715,"bill_number":"HB246","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal record expungement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a person convicted of one Class D felony or series of Class D felonies arising out of a single event to petition to have the felony record expunged under specified circumstances; amend KRS 431.078, relating to misdemeanor expungements, to begin the five-year waiting period from the date of adjudication of the offense; amend KRS 527.040, relating to possession of a firearm by a felon, to exempt individuals who have had their felony records expunged; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to keep a confidential index of expungement orders for utilization in the preparation of presentence investigations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB246/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB246.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251744,"bill_number":"HB226","title":"AN ACT relating to local government.","description":"Modify KRS Chapter 198B to expressly recognize local government authority to adopt more stringent fire safety provisions in accordance with the codes and standards of the National Fire Protection Association.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB226/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB226.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251746,"bill_number":"SB83","title":"AN ACT relating to school calendar days and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.070; to require a school calendar to include makeup days for the average number of days missed in the three highest years over the past five years; establish the minimum and maximum number of minutes by which a school instructional day may be lengthened; require a school calendar to be approved by the department of education; require a local board of education to submit to the Department of Education for approval a plan to make up instructional days missed; require the commissioner of education to waive the makeup of instructional days missed under certain conditions; amend KRS 157.350 and 158.649 to conform; provide that the commissioner of education shall approve waivers for the makeup of all remaining instructional days scheduled to occur on or after June 21, 2011 for calendar year 2010-2011; require the school term for fiscal years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 to include the equivalent of 177 six-hour instructional days; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"recommitted to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-16","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB83/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB83.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251748,"bill_number":"HB242","title":"AN ACT relating to metals.","description":"Amend KRS 433.890 relating to the purchase of metals by recyclers to require signed proof of ownership or authorization to sell any metal which has been smelted, burned, or melted.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB242/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB242.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251751,"bill_number":"HB263","title":"AN ACT relating to musical performances.","description":"Amend KRS 244.085 to allow a person who is 18 to 21 years of age and employed as a musician or technician with a band or musical group to remain on the premises where alcoholic beverages are sold or consumed if the band or group has a verbal or written contract to perform on that date.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB263/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB263.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251776,"bill_number":"HB231","title":"AN ACT relating to the Board of Claims.","description":"Amend KRS 44.110 to extend the period of time during which an action may be filed with the Board of Claims from one year to three years from when the claim for relief accrued.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB231/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB231.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":251785,"bill_number":"HB275","title":"AN ACT relating to temporary motor vehicle tags.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.100 to make temporary registration tags issued by the county clerk valid for 60 days rather than 30 days.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-01","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB275/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB275.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252392,"bill_number":"SB103","title":"AN ACT relating to TVA and Breaks Interstate Park peace officers.","description":"Amend KRS 61.886, 61.887, 61.888, and 61.889 to provide that commissions appointing Tennessee Valley police officers and Breaks Interstate Park police officers as Kentucky peace officers, and associated security bonds, are to be recorded in the Office of the Secretary of State; provide that TVA officers and Breaks Interstate Park officers commissioned as peace officers shall have authority upon or about property owned or leased by the TVA or Breaks Interstate Park; allow supplemental authority to be granted by the sheriff of any county in which the TVA or Breaks Interstate Park owns or controls property; allow peace officer authority to be extended during times of disaster or other emergency.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB103/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB103.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252398,"bill_number":"HB288","title":"AN ACT relating to real estate appraisal management companies.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 324A to define terms related to real estate appraisal management companies; require registration of real estate appraisal management companies with the board and provide qualifications and limitations on registration; require board to establish a reasonable filing fee in administrative regulation; specify the inclusion of the annual national registry fee required under federal law and maintained by the Appraisal Subcommittee of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council; require surety bond not to exceed $500,000; require registrants and persons owning 10% or more of the registrant to submit to a national criminal history check through the Federal Bureau of Investigation; provide requirements for registered companies and their employees, directors, officers, and agents; require executive director of the board to maintain a register of all applicants; grant board the authority to penalize registrants for specified offenses; exempt specified parties from provisions of the Act; specify that the Act shall be known as the Kentucky Appraisal Management Company Registration Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB288/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB288.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252399,"bill_number":"HB309","title":"AN ACT relating to life insurance beneficiaries.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to define \"retained asset account\"; preclude an insurer from using a retained asset account as the mode of settlement of payment to a life insurance beneficiary unless the insurer discloses the use of a retained asset account to the beneficiary or the beneficiary's legal representative prior to the transfer of life insurance proceeds to a retained asset account; require an insurer to inform a beneficiary of the right to receive a lump-sum payment of life insurance proceeds in the form of a bank check or similar other immediate full payment of benefits; require insurers to disclose all payment options available to beneficiaries, in written or electronic format, upon the distribution of anything other than a lump-sum payment of life insurance proceeds; set forth specific disclosure requirements upon the use of a retained asset account rather than a lump-sum payment; establish annual insurer reporting requirements to the Department of Insurance regarding retained asset accounts; require all marketing materials, disclosure statements, and supplemental contract forms utilized in connection with retained asset accounts to be filed with the Department of Insurance prior to their use; authorize the commissioner to disapprove any materials, statements, or forms that are inconsistent with the provisions of the section or are otherwise untrue, unfair, deceptive, false, or misleading; require insurers to return any balance held in a retained asset account to the beneficiary if no funds are withdrawn from the account, or if no affirmative directive has been provided to the insurer by the beneficiary, during any continuous 3 year period; authorize the commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations; provide a short tile of the \"Beneficiaries Bill of Rights.\"","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB309/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB309.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252404,"bill_number":"HB310","title":"AN ACT relating to tax increment financing.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7043, 65.7045, 65.7049, and 154.30-060 to expand the application of the tax increment financing provisions to mixed-use development projects located in a research park owned by a public university, and to projects that are within three miles of a military base; amend KRS 65. 7051 and 65.7053 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB310/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB310.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252420,"bill_number":"HB300","title":"AN ACT relating to extradition.","description":"Amend KRS 440.380 to provide that, in addition to a county judge/executive, the mayor of a consolidated local government or an urban-county government may authorize an officer to retrieve a fugitive that has waived extradition.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB300/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB300.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252444,"bill_number":"HB307","title":"AN ACT relating to the natural resources severance and processing tax.","description":"Amend KRS 143A.010 to amend the definition of \"processing\" to include the act of loading or unloading natural resources in the Commonwealth; amend KRS 143A.035 to expand the credit allowed against the tax for certain limestone sold in interstate commerce and to allow a credit for similar taxes paid to another state or political subdivision thereof; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB307/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB307.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252496,"bill_number":"HB290","title":"AN ACT relating to absentee ballots.","description":"Amend KRS 117.085 to prohibit disclosure of a voter's identity, when that voter has requested an absentee ballot, until the voter has either returned the absentee ballot to the county clerk or seven days prior to the date of the election, whichever is earlier.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB290/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB290.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252506,"bill_number":"HB293","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle medical insignia decals.","description":"Amend KRS 186.412 to allow a motor vehicle operator to purchase two medical insignia decals rather than one to affix to both front and rear windows of the vehicle.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB293/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB293.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252553,"bill_number":"HB302","title":"AN ACT relating to historic military events and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 38.440 to permit veterans' service organizations to drill or parade with arms; permit people participating in reenactments of the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, United States Civil War, or Spanish-American War to drill or parade with arms; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB302/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB302.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252554,"bill_number":"HB311","title":"AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.180 to permit electronic prescriptions for methamphetamine and Schedule II controlled substances.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB311/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB311.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252570,"bill_number":"SB96","title":"AN ACT relating to tax increment financing.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7043, 65.7045, 65.7049, and 154.30-060 to expand the application of the tax increment financing provisions to mixed-use development projects that are both within three miles of the border and within three miles of a military base; amend KRS 65. 7051 and 65.7053 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB96/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB96.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252592,"bill_number":"HB298","title":"AN ACT relating to employee safety.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 281 which sets forth safety requirements for railroad employee contract carriers with regard to the transporting of railroad employees. The bills includes guidelines for railroad employee contract carriers such as driver qualifications, time limits for drivers, drug and alcohol testing for drivers, and vehicle inspections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB298/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB298.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252640,"bill_number":"HB315","title":"AN ACT relating to TVA and Breaks Interstate Park peace officers.","description":"Amend KRS 61.886, 61.887, 61.888, and 61.889 to provide that the commission of Tennessee Valley police officers and Breaks Interstate Park police officers as Kentucky peace officers, and associated security bonds, are to be recorded in the Office of the Secretary of State; provide that TVA officers and Breaks Interstate Park officers commissioned as peace officers shall have authority upon or about property owned or leased by the TVA or Breaks Interstate Park; provide that supplemental authority may be granted by the sheriff of any county in which the TVA or Breaks Interstate Park owns or controls property; provide that when supplemental authority has not been granted, peace officer authority may be extended during times of disaster or other emergency.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB315/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB315.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252656,"bill_number":"SB99","title":"AN ACT relating to charitable gaming and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 238 to extend the definition of \"charitable gaming\" to include slot machines and electronic, computer, or other technologic aids; delete the limited duration requirement for charity fundraising events; extend the definition of \"manufacturer\" to include bingo paper and charity gaming tickets and the provision of electronic and computer devices; authorize the Department of Charitable Gaming to establish and implement standards for electronic systems of accounting and recordkeeping; allow the department to approve all electronic, computer, or other technologic aids; direct the department to issue temporary licenses to charitable organizations that have been in existence at least 3 years; permit denial of a license for intentionally making false or misleading statements; grant employees of the department authority to inspect the books and records of a licensed manufacturer or distributor; require a charity to be located in the county, or a contiguous county to the county, in which charitable gaming is conducted; lower the minimum percentage of adjusted gross receipts that must be retained for net receipts from 40% to 20%, and lower the percentages leading to various forms of licensee discipline accordingly; exclude listed costs when calculating the net receipt percentage; prohibit inaccurate reporting of the financial records of charitable gaming events; permit advertisement of linked bingo prizes in excess of $5,000; require charitable organizations to obtain department approval prior to using any electronic, computer, or other technologic aid in the conduct of bingo; direct the department to promulgate administrative regulations concerning linked bingo games; limit carryover or progressive prizes in seal card games to no more than $7,500; modify the cash prize bingo limit from $5,000 per event to $5,000 per day; require records and books to be maintained in accordance with generally accepted standards of accounting and require a charity to maintain records for six years at its offices or at a location designated and approved by the department; require any charity participating in linked bingo games to use a point-of-sale system; permit the department to mandate electronically filed reports within six years; integrate any additional fees related to the operation of a charitable gaming facility into the basic licensing fee; prohibit certain activities by an owner, officer, or contractee of a licensed charitable gaming facility; forbid the receipt of a charitable gaming facility license unless the applicant has been in operation for at least the last 3 consecutive years; authorize penalties for making intentionally false or misleading financial statements; establish the racing charitable gaming fund as a trust and agency fund administered by the department; require a charitable gaming facility operated by a licensed racing association to remit 5% of its net receipts to the fund; distribute the fund moneys exclusively to licensed charitable organizations within six months after the end of each fiscal year, to be used solely for charitable purposes; direct the department to promulgate administrative regulations to determine the application process and method of distribution of payments from the fund; require that any examination and inspection of charitable gaming supplies and equipment take place away from the gaming floor to avoid the appearance of any form of harassment against game patrons; designate sanctions against individuals found to be the cause of one or more serious violations and define \"serious violation\"; establish requirements for appeals to administrative actions by the department; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB99/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB99.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252657,"bill_number":"SB100","title":"AN ACT relating to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.","description":"Amend KRS 194A.005 to add definitions for the Kentucky Health and Family Services Board and Health and Family Services Nominating Committee and redefine \"secretary\" as chief executive officer; create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the nominating committee, membership, nomination process, and eligibility standards for membership; specify recommendations to the nominating committee to be made by the Governor; specify process for selecting members and length of term for membership; require nominating committee to submit three nominations to the Governor and specify procedure for submitting nominations; require the Governor's office to provide support services to the nominating committee; establish the Kentucky Board of Health and Family Services to provide oversight and accountability for the duties of the cabinet and to employ the cabinet secretary; specify board membership, selection process, and rules of procedure; require the board to set qualifications for secretary position, conduct a search, recommend three individuals to the Governor for appointment, and submit three additional names if the Governor rejects submitted names; specify that the secretary serves at the pleasure of the board; require the secretary to submit a budget request to the board for approval before submittal pursuant to KRS Chapter 48; specify other duties of the board to include review of cabinet programs, development of federal strategies, and submission of report to the Governor and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB100/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB100.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252662,"bill_number":"HB316","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 30 and 31 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to length of terms for members of the General Assembly.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 30 and 31 of the Constitution of Kentucky to extend the terms of State Representatives from two to four years and State Senators from four to six years beginning in 2014; include transition schedule; submit to voters for approval or disapproval.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB316/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB316.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252685,"bill_number":"HB306","title":"AN ACT relating to tax increment financing.","description":"Amend KRS 154.30-010 to extend the activation date allowed for signature tax increment financing projects that were approved by January 1, 2008 but not yet activated to anytime within ten years of the original project commencement date; apply the extension retroactively to qualifying agreements.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"reassigned to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism & Labor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB306/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB306.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252699,"bill_number":"HB305","title":"AN ACT amending the 2010-2012 executive branch budget bill, relating to Medicaid and Postsecondary Education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend 2010 (1st Extra. Sess.) Kentucky Acts Chapter 1, the state/executive branch budget, to reallocate funds from fiscal year 2011-2012 to fiscal year 2010-2011 for Medicaid and Postsecondary Institutions; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"Free Conference Committee appointed in House","last_action_date":"2011-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB305/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB305.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252705,"bill_number":"HB317","title":"AN ACT relating to highway rest areas.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 176 directing the Department of Highways to display the United States flag, the Kentucky flag, and the POW/MIA flag at all highway rest areas.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB317/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB317.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252742,"bill_number":"HB286","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Confirm Executive Order 2010-856, which reorganizes various offices in the Department of Education.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB286/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB286.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252745,"bill_number":"HB289","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle.","description":"Amend KRS 189.960, regarding yielding the right-of-way to public safety vehicles, to clarify statutory references; amend KRS 189.394, regarding fines for speeding, to include violations over a 70 MPH speed limit to the fine table.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB289/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB289.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252765,"bill_number":"HB304","title":"AN ACT relating to foreclosure actions.","description":"Amend KRS 413.140 and 413.090 to reduce the statute of limitations for filing an action for a deficiency judgment after a foreclosure sale of real estate from 15 years to one year from the date of sale; amend KRS 426.520 to require the plaintiff in a foreclosure action to serve notice to the defendant of a deficiency within one year of the initial filing of the foreclosure if the property sells for two-thirds of the appraisal.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB304/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB304.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252766,"bill_number":"HB297","title":"AN ACT relating to status offenders.","description":"Amend KRS 610.200 to allow a peace officer to release a truant child to the child's school; amend KRS 630.030 to allow a peace officer to detain a truant child; amend KRS 630.040 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB297/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB297.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252797,"bill_number":"HCR89","title":"Concurrent resolution urging the United States Congress to make a series of amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 to update the list of toxic chemicals based on scientific data, prohibit persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemicals and other priority toxics, preserve state authority when more restrictive, establish new safety standards for children and developing fetuses, and reward innovation for safer alternative to toxic chemicals widely in use; and require copies be sent to the Kentucky congressional delegation.","description":"Concurrent resolution urging the United States Congress to make a series of amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 to update the list of toxic chemicals based on scientific data, prohibit persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemicals and other priority toxics, preserve state authority when more restrictive, establish new safety standards for children and developing fetuses, and reward innovation for safer alternative to toxic chemicals widely in use; and require copies be sent to the Kentucky congressional delegation.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR89/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC89.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252806,"bill_number":"HB284","title":"AN ACT relating to deceased members of the United States Armed Forces.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 36 to provide that a person designated by a member of the U. S. Armed Forces on Department of Defense Form DD 93 shall have authority and responsibility for the disposition of the soldiers remains if the soldier died while serving in the military; amend KRS 367.97501 relating to cremation to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB284/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB284.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252827,"bill_number":"SB97","title":"AN ACT relating to public protection.","description":"Amend KRS 61.315 to add that the spouse or dependents of an \"emergency responder\" of a nonprofit ambulance service under KRS Chapter 311A are eligible for in-the-line-of duty state death benefits; require the promulgation of administrative regulations; clarify \"federal active duty\"; amend KRS 164.2842 to provide that dependents of those eligible under KRS 61.315(1) are eligible for free tuition at state-supported schools; amend KRS 346.155 to provide that dependents of those eligible under KRS 61.315(1) are eligible to receive a lump-sum payment if the dependants are not eligible for death or disability benefits under a pension plan.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB97/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB97.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252838,"bill_number":"HB292","title":"AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and require the court with jurisdiction over a person sentenced to death to sentence the person to imprisonment for life without benefit of probation or parole; amend KRS 24A.110, 27A.430, 431.060, 431.215, 431.510, 439.265, 506.010, 506.030, 506.040, 506.080, 507.020, 509.040, 520.120, 527.200, 532.030, 532.040, 532.050, 532.100, 532.140, 533.010, 610.265, 635.020, 635.090, 640.040, 17.176, 507A.020, and 422.285 to conform; repeal KRS 422.287, 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309, relating to the death penalty.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB292/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB292.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252840,"bill_number":"SB95","title":"AN ACT relating to career and technical education area technology centers and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to incorporate language previously found in budget language relating to the procedures for transferring a state-operated area technology center to a local board of education; describe how the state employees in a center shall be treated in a transfer including contracts, accumulated sick leave, compensatory and annual leave time; describe how funds shall be transferred from the Office of Career and Technical Education; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require after July 1, 2011, new area technology centers and transferred area technology centers to establish a process for engaging the local development office and employers in the service area to make recommendations regarding local programming; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB95/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB95.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252859,"bill_number":"HB308","title":"AN ACT relating to implementation of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvements Act of 2007.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to establish a procedure where a person who has been declared a mental defective and committed to a mental institution can obtain relief from disability for prohibition of firearm possession as permitted by the federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System Improvement Amendments Act of 2007.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB308/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB308.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252870,"bill_number":"HB295","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances, including controlled substance precursors.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to report information relating to defendants convicted of offenses in KRS Chapter 218A relating to controlled substances and thefts of anhydrous ammonia in KRS Chapter 514 and other specified violations to the Office of Drug Control Policy; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to require the Office of Drug Control Policy to institute a Precursor Block List as a part of the Kentucky Electronic Methamphetamine Precursor Tracking system to prohibit persons convicted of offenses stated above from purchasing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine for not less than five years following conviction; amend KRS 218A.1437 relating to possession of methamphetamine precursors to reduce amount that may be possessed from 9 grams to 7 1/2 grams; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to permit persons prohibited from purchasing methamphetamine precursors to possess them under a prescription; amend KRS 218A.1438 to add an affirmative defense and make a technical correction; reduce amount of methamphetamine precursors that may be purchased from 9 grams to 7 1/2 grams; amend KRS 218A.1446 relating to the purchase of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine to block persons convicted of those offenses from purchasing or possessing these substances except by prescription and make these substances prescription drugs only for these persons; create a new section of KRS Chapter 439 to require the Parole Board to order the parolee to participate in the Precursor Block List and to refrain from purchasing methamphetamine precursors for five years after release from parole; create a new section of KRS Chapter 533 to place a defendant on probation, home incarceration, or conditional discharge on the Precursor Block List for five years; effective July 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB295/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB295.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252873,"bill_number":"HB299","title":"AN ACT relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on election days.","description":"Amend KRS 224.290, 244.480, and 242.100 to prohibit the retail sale of alcoholic beverages during the hours the polls are open on any primary, regular, or local option election day unless the locality's local governmental body has adopted an ordinance that permits its sale of within its jurisdictional boundaries on any primary, regular, or local option election day.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB299/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB299.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252882,"bill_number":"HB314","title":"AN ACT relating to Department of Parks employees.","description":"Amend KRS 148.026 to prohibit the commissioner of parks from contracting with any person, firm, or corporation to accomplish the duties and functions being carried out by state park employees described in KRS 18A.005(18)(a).","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB314/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB314.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252929,"bill_number":"HB313","title":"AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.","description":"Amend KRS 527.020, relating to carrying concealed deadly weapons, to permit the director of the Division of Law Enforcement and conservation officers of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to carry concealed deadly weapons; expand locations where a loaded or unloaded firearm or other deadly weapon may be carried in a motor vehicle to include any container, compartment, or storage space originally installed in the motor vehicle by its manufacturer; exempt persons prohibited from possessing firearms by law from being permitted to have a firearm in a motor vehicle.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB313/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB313.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252941,"bill_number":"HB285","title":"AN ACT relating to health care coverage.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitle 17 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish definitions for \"direct purchase\" \"health care system\" and \"penalty or fine\"; prohibit the General Assembly from requiring any individual to participate in any health care system or plan, or to impose a penalty or fine regarding participation; permit an individual or an employer to pay directly for health care services and a health care provider to accept direct payment without penalties or fines; direct the Attorney General to undertake and initiate all necessary legal proceedings to protect and defend Kentuckians' rights as set forth in this Act; prohibit the Governor, the Personnel Cabinet, and state agencies from participating in or complying with any federal law, regulation, or policy that would compromise the freedom of choice in the health care decisions of any resident of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB285/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB285.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252942,"bill_number":"HB303","title":"AN ACT relating to the veterans' program trust fund.","description":"Amend KRS 40.460 to delete a reference to the Department of Veterans' Affairs as the administrator of the veterans' program trust fund.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB303/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB303.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252949,"bill_number":"HB296","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency medical services.","description":"Repeal and reenact, or amend, various sections of KRS Chapter 311A to define terms, including \"alternate transport vehicle,\" \"emergency medical services provider,\" \"emergency medical services personnel,\" and \"transport\"; establish board membership and annual meeting requirements and grant powers and duties; establish types and levels of certification or licensure for emergency medical services personnel and require the board to promulgate administrative regulations for same; designate the board as the primary oversight agency charged with overseeing the Emergency Medical Services for Children Program; restrict persons not licensed or certified and authorize the board to act on prohibited activities; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a complaint process; permit board to grant power of investigation, hearings, and discipline to executive director; establish sanctions, disciplinary actions, and penalties for the violation of the chapter; permit immediate temporary suspension of license or certification; prohibit persons from operating as an emergency medical services provider without a license; establish license or certification renewal process for all levels of emergency medical services personnel, continuing education requirements, and mandatory compliance with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome education and training requirements; permit the board to establish a fee schedule through administrative regulations; establish privileges and immunities for emergency medical services personnel; require the emergency medical services grant program to provide funding for each county; require funds to be administered by the board according to KCTCS policy and procedure; permit paramedic to draw blood from a criminal defendant; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish the scope of practice for all types and levels of licensure and certification; require the board to review and approve protocols; require the board to collect data from EMS providers relating to provision of emergency medical services rendered; permit the board to issue limited certification or licensure to felon; amend KRS 311.550, 314.181 and 311.669 to conform; repeal KRS 213.413, 311A.070, 311A.115, 311A.120, 311A.130, 311A.140, 311A.160, and 311A.165.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB296/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB296.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252969,"bill_number":"HB312","title":"AN ACT relating to sewer collection charges.","description":"Amend KRS 96.931, to include within the definitions of \"governing body\" and \"sewer body\" a board or commission independent of a city authorized by statute to operate sewer facilities; amend KRS 96.932 to grant sewer bodies the power to suspend water services for failure to pay sewer charges; amend KRS 96.934 to allow suspension of water services for failure to pay for sewer charges; amend KRS 96.936 to allow water suppliers to send a copy of any charges for disconnection and reconnection of water supplies for failure to pay, and require that an authorized representative of the sewer body be present at discontinuation of water services for nonpayment of sewer charges; amend KRS 96.340 to delete references to delegated authority by the city to certain bodies.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB312/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB312.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252974,"bill_number":"SB101","title":"AN ACT relating to crisis intervention team training.","description":"Amend KRS 210.365 to delete the word \"encounter\" and replace it with \"required police action\" in the reference to interactions of law enforcement officers and persons with mental illness; establish that law enforcement officers shall report to their agencies required police action with persons with mental illness, mental illness and substance abuse disorders, mental illness and mental retardation, mental illness and developmental disabilities, and mental illness and dual diagnoses.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB101/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB101.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252975,"bill_number":"SB98","title":"AN ACT relating to civil rights.","description":"Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for \"sexual orientation\" and \"gender identity\"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition on discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.100, 344.110, and KRS 18A.095 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.680, 344.370, and 344.380, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; and make various technical amendments.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB98/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB98.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252995,"bill_number":"SB102","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 202A to permit qualified mental health professionals to conduct an evaluation or examination using telehealth services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB102/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB102.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":252999,"bill_number":"HB287","title":"AN ACT relating to the Local Government Economic Development Program.","description":"Amend KRS 42.4588 to change the administration of the multicounty Local Government Economic Development Program by removing it from the Cabinet for Economic Development and placing it in the Department for Local Development; amend KRS 42.4595, 42.460, 11A.233, 154.12-224, and 154.12-225 to conform; confirm Executive Order 2010-429.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB287/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB287.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":253012,"bill_number":"HB301","title":"AN ACT relating to professional licensure and certification.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to specify that any active duty military personnel shall have any professional license or certificate renewed without payment of fees or obtaining continuing education as long as they are an active duty member of the Armed Forces and for six months after discharge; create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to require that the professionally licensed or certified spouse of any active duty military personnel transferred to Kentucky shall be issued a six month temporary license by the administrative body with jurisdiction over that profession in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-08","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB301/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB301.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":253013,"bill_number":"HB294","title":"AN ACT relating to payments for firefighters permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty.","description":"Amend KRS 95A.070 to provide a consumer price index adjustment to the health and life insurance supplement that the state pays to firefighters, as defined in KRS 61.315, who are permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB294/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB294.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":253036,"bill_number":"HB291","title":"AN ACT relating to health-facility-acquired infections.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require each health care facility to implement an infection prevention program for high risk areas and, throughout the facility, by July 1, 2012; require implementation of best practices that include the development of an infection prevention and control policy and public postings of policies and worker and staff education programs; require health facilities to report data on health-facility-acquired infections; require the use of an approved method of data collection and reporting; require the secretary to implement a method for patients to report by July 1, 2012; require the secretary to serve as the chief administrative officer for data collection; exempt cabinet employees from liability; require a report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by January 30 of each year; require the secretary to promulgate administrative regulations and set a time schedule for reporting; establish penalties for violations; state legislative findings in noncodified section.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-02","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB291/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB291.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254657,"bill_number":"HB328","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.010 to subject a person who commits a subsequent DUI while a charge for a prior DUI offense is pending to sentencing as an aggravated DUI offender.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB328/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB328.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254662,"bill_number":"SB104","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.","description":"Amend several provisions of the workers' compensation Act in KRS Chapter 342; define and recognize temporary partial disability benefits and amend other statutes to comply; limit medical benefits to age 70 or five years after the date of injury whichever is later, except for permanent total awards or awards involving prosthetic devices which continue for as long as the employee is disabled; allow attorney's fees or increased payments for medical fee disputes that are decided in favor of the claimant; require utilization review doctors to be licensed in Kentucky and treat patients for at least 50% of their practice; amend the reopening statutes to allow for reopening for additional temporary total or partial benefits; allow employees of subcontractors and leasing companies to receive the safety penalty increase if a contractor who is not their employee violates a safety statute or regulation; provide that the employee of an employer intentionally violating a safety statute or regulation which violation is the proximate cause of the employee's injury may claim compensation under KRS Chapter 342 and maintain a tort action against the employer; permit claimants who have awards of $60 or less per week to elect a lump sum and to receive a one point higher discount rate than that set by the commissioner; require settlements for future medicals to be approved by the federal Medicare Secondary Payor Act; permit claimants to recover damages from an insurance carrier who commits an unfair claims settlement practice; increase attorneys' fees to a total of $24,000; specify that administrative law judges do not approve attorney's fees; prohibit application of up-the ladder liability and exclusivity for a general contractor not if a subcontractor has secured workers' compensation insurance for its employees; enumerate changes to the manner that income benefits are determined; increase the maximum for temporary total or partial income benefits from 100% of the state average weekly wage to 120% of the state average weekly wage; increase the maximum of permanent partial income benefits from 75% to 85% of the state average weekly wage; increase and clarify multiplier language factors; provide that the time limit for permanent partial income benefits are determined by the impairment ratings; other amendments to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB104/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB104.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254675,"bill_number":"HB321","title":"AN ACT relating to planning and zoning in consolidated local governments.","description":"Amend KRS 100.217 to limit the term of board of adjustment members to one year in cities of the first class, counties containing cities of the first class, and consolidated local governments; amend KRS 100.253 to delete provisions pertaining to counties containing a city of the first class and consolidated local governments; amend KRS 100.405 to provide restrictions on civil actions of the planning commission in counties containing a city of the first class or a consolidated local government.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB321/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB321.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254677,"bill_number":"HB330","title":"AN ACT relating to public utilities.","description":"Amend KRS 278.021 to define circumstances that constitute abandonment of a gas, water, electric, or sewer service public utility; provide for control and responsibility for abandoned utilities placed in receivership to remain with the court-appointed receiver until the Franklin Circuit Court, after hearing, orders the receiver to return control to the utility or to liquidate the assets; provide that the Public Service Commission may, without holding a hearing, petition the Franklin Circuit Court for temporary receivership of an abandoned utility under certain circumstances; provide that an order granting temporary receivership shall expire sixty days after entry if the commission does not, after notice and hearing, bring an action seeking permanent receivership; create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to require that any gas, water, electric, or sewer utility service that receives a notice of discontinuance or termination of service from one or more of its suppliers that will prevent the provision of service to its customers, notify the commission in writing within one (1) business day of receipt of the notice.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB330/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB330.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254682,"bill_number":"HB320","title":"AN ACT relating to first responders.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to create \"9/11 First Responders Day\"; request the Governor to proclaim annually; state the purpose of the designation.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB320/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB320.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254686,"bill_number":"HB324","title":"AN ACT relating to property valuation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to declare that property valuation administrators may use a variety of identified valuation methods to determine fair cash value.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB324/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB324.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254687,"bill_number":"HB319","title":"AN ACT relating to an income tax deduction for volunteer firefighters.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 and amend KRS 141.010 to allow a deduction from income tax for volunteer firefighters who meet certain qualifications.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB319/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB319.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254699,"bill_number":"HB333","title":"AN ACT relating to fireworks and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 227.700 to 227.750 regarding fireworks to define terms; require permit to manufacture, sell, offer for sale, ship, or receive fireworks; prohibit consumer purchase of fireworks by mail order; prohibit issuance of permit to person under 18; establish $1,000 annual permit fee for manufacturer, distributor, retailer, wholesaler, and exhibitor, and $100 fee for seasonal retailer; authorize conduct of business associated with each permit; direct permit fees collected as expendable receipts of the fire prevention division; charge the state fire marshal with enforcement of chapter; require Division of Fire Prevention to assign a number to each permit; require a permit holder to affix the number to all orders and invoices; require a consignee to hold a permit before shipping or delivering fireworks; authorize purchases only from a seller holding a permit; require a distributor, manufacturer, and wholesaler to keep accurate record of sales; direct that requests for retailer's or seasonal retailer's permits be accompanied by a statement that the sale of fireworks is permissible in the local jurisdiction; grant localities authority to restrict sale of fireworks by ordinance; permit the fire marshal to inspect the location for each permit and to revoke permits for violation of the chapter; authorize permissible fireworks including those classified as D.O.T., Class C common fireworks, and items that comply with construction, chemical composition, and labeling regulations of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission and those permitted for use by the general public; permit retailer or seasonal retailer to sell permissible items of consumer fireworks; exclude items from definition of fireworks; establish requirements for storage, location, and display of fireworks; forbid the retail sale of consumer fireworks to intoxicated person or persons under the age of 16; prohibit exploding or igniting fireworks from within a moving vehicle; prohibit the manufacture, possession, shipment, sale, and use of \"illegal ground salutes\"; list exceptions to application of chapter; establish conditions for seizure of fireworks as contraband and the process required prior to resale or disposal of seized items; require an exhibitor's license to perform outdoor fireworks display, proximate pyrotechnic display, or indoor or outdoor display using flame effects; establish conditions and application requirements for issuance of an exhibitor’s license and renewal; establish penalties and conditions for denial, suspension, revocation, or refusal to renew exhibitor's license or certification; direct the fire marshal to establish a program of certification for an outdoor fireworks display operator, proximate pyrotechnic display operator, and flame effect display operator; direct the fire marshal to promulgate administrative regulations to establish scope and type of required examinations; prohibit anyone other than a certified operator to perform an outdoor display using display or 1.4G fireworks; require a certified operator to be present during preparation for a display; prohibit an exhibitor or certified operator from performing outdoor fireworks display, proximate pyrotechnic display, or flame effect display except in accordance with NFPA regulations and administrative regulations promulgated by the state fire marshal; exempt individuals and organizations using consumer fireworks for personal or display use; establish requirements for public displays, including permit application process; require fire personnel and extinguishers at each event; require the fire marshal to collect a permit fee from the sponsor for each event; require Class B fireworks to be stored in accordance with NFPA regulations and federal, state, and local laws; charge the fire marshal with the administration and enforcement of this chapter; direct the fire marshal to promulgate administrative regulations relating to licensing of exhibitors, certification of operators, training, examinations, manufacture, handling, and standards for storage and use, and the code for fireworks display; grant control of the legal sale and use of fireworks to local jurisdictions; establish penalties for violation of chapter; amend KRS 227.782 to direct moneys collected from fees into the fire prevention and public safety fund; require that funds be used to administer this Act and to support fire and safety prevention programs; amend KRS 227.990 to establish penalties and to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB333/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB333.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254703,"bill_number":"HB326","title":"AN ACT relating to voter registration.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 116 to direct the Department for Fish and Wildlife Resources to incorporate an application for voter registration with a hunting license or permit.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB326/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB326.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254714,"bill_number":"HB331","title":"AN ACT relating to business organizations.","description":"Create and amend various sections in KRS Chapters 14, 14A, 271B, 272, 274, 275, 362.2, and 386, all relating to business entities, to modify the process and standards for business filings with the Secretary of State, the usage of indistinguishable names, the maintenance of a corporation's registered office and registered agent, the allocation of attorney's fees in litigation, the transfer of corporate assets to a subsidiary, business entity dissolutions, LLC membership, and conversions in an entity's organizational form; make certain sections retroactive to January 1, 2011, to be contemporaneous with the effective date of the Kentucky Business Entity Filing Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB331/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB331.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254723,"bill_number":"HB327","title":"AN ACT relating to the prevailing wage.","description":"Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the exemption threshold from $250,000 to $1,000,000 for prevailing wage construction projects.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"to Labor & Industry (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Labor and Industry","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB327/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB327.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254725,"bill_number":"HB329","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 42.560 to require 50 percent of the energy assistance trust fund interest to be distributed to the Finance and Administration Cabinet for weatherization services to low-income household;, and 50 percent to be distributed to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for energy assistance services for low-income households; amend KRS 42.566 to require appropriated expenditures from the energy assistance trust fund to be distributed, with 40 percent to the Finance and Administration Cabinet for weatherization services to low-income households; and 60 percent to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for energy crisis or prevention services for low-income households; amend KRS 42.650 to change the name of the Division of Geographic Information to the Division of Geographic Information Systems, and the Office of Enterprise Information Technology Policy and Planning to the Office of Application Development; amend KRS 42.724 to move the Division of Geographic Information Systems from the Office of Enterprise Technology to the Office of Application Development, to rename the Division of Software Engineering to the Division of Financial Information Technology, and rename the Division of Consulting and Project Management the Division of Agency Information Technology; amend KRS 42.740 rename the Kentucky Geospatial Board the Geographic Information Advisory Council; transfer the Weatherization Assistance Program to the Finance and Administration Cabinet; authorize the Finance and Administration Cabinet to contract with the Kentucky Housing Corporation to manage the Weatherization Assistance Program; amend KRS 42.726, 42.742, 42.744, and 116.200 to conform; confirm Executive Order 2010-436.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-18","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB329/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB329.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254731,"bill_number":"HCR94","title":"Establish the Kentucky Cancer Survivors and Friends Caucus to address quality-of-life issues for cancer survivors.","description":"Establish the Kentucky Cancer Survivors and Friends Caucus to address quality-of-life issues for cancer survivors.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR94/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC94.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254776,"bill_number":"HB332","title":"AN ACT relating to a tax credit for volunteer firefighters.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to create a tax credit for volunteer firefighters; amend KRS 141.0205 to recognize the credit.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB332/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB332.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254778,"bill_number":"HB318","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 138.140 and 138.143 to increase the tax on cigarettes, snuff, and other tobacco products and provide for a floor stocks tax; amend KRS 140.130 to decouple from changes to the federal estate tax since 2003; amend KRS 141.010 to provide for a phase-out of the pension exclusion; amend KRS 141.020 to provide for changes to income tax rates and to impose the tax on adjusted gross income; amend KRS 141.081 to conform; amend KRS 141.066 to provide for a refundable earned income credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to recognize changes in income tax credits; amend KRS 139.200 to impose sales tax on selected services; amend KRS 141.383, 148.544, and 148.546 to make the film industry tax credit nonrefundable and non transferable; provide that income tax provisions apply for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, estate tax provisions apply for deaths occurring on or after August 1, 2011, and sales tax provisions apply for periods beginning on or after July 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-04","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB318/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB318.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254787,"bill_number":"HB322","title":"AN ACT relating to exemptions from local government premium taxes.","description":"Amend KRS 91A.080 to exempt from the local government premium fee or tax authorized by this section: surety bonds required by law for public works projects; state government and all units of local government, including school districts; and, self-insured groups whose membership is composed of any political subdivision of the state.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB322/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB322.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254791,"bill_number":"SB105","title":"AN ACT relating to the protection of children in child-care facilities during emergencies.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to require a child-care center to have a written plan for evacuation in the event of fire, natural disaster, or other threatening situation; require the plan to be updated annually; require the plan to be provided to local emergency officials and parents; effective December 31, 2011.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"floor amendments (2) (3) and (4) filed to Committee Substitute","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB105/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB105.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254802,"bill_number":"HB334","title":"AN ACT relating to group life insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.16-030 to authorize payment of premiums for an employee group life insurance policy entirely by the insured employees; create a new section of Subtitle 16 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize the sale of group life insurance to a resident of Kentucky who is a member of a group, other than an employee group, a labor union group, a trustee group, a public employee group, or an association group, to a resident of Kentucky, if the commissioner of insurance determines that issuance of the policy is not contrary to the best interest of the public, would result in economies of acquisition or administration, and the benefits are in reasonable relation to the premiums; authorize an offer of group life insurance in Kentucky under a policy issued in another state if the other state meets the requirements imposed on Kentucky group plans pursuant to this section; require that the premium for the policy be paid by either the policyholder, the covered persons, or partly by the policyholder and partly by the covered person; authorize an insurer to exclude or limit coverage of a person under a group life policy if there is not satisfactory evidence of the individual's insurability; amend KRS 304.16-085 to define \"dependent\" for purposes of group life insurance policies, other than an employee group, a labor union group, a trustee group, a public employee group, or an association group, to include an employee's or member's spouse, a child under age eighteen (18), a child older than age eighteen (18) who is unmarried, supported by the member, and a full-time student, and a dependent child regardless of age who is unmarried and incapable of self-sustaining employment due to a physical or mental condition during the continued incapacity and subject to notice from the employee or member that the child has attained the termination age.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB334/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB334.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254804,"bill_number":"HB325","title":"AN ACT relating to dental care benefit plans.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17C of KRS Chapter 304 to define \"covered services\" and \"dental plan\"; provide that a dental plan shall not require a participating dentist to provide noncovered services at a fee set by or subject to the dental plan; provide that a third-party administrator for a dental plan shall not make available any providers in its dentist network that sets dental fees for any noncovered services; provide that the penalties in KRS 304.99-010 shall apply to any violation of this section.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB325/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB325.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254820,"bill_number":"HB323","title":"AN ACT relating to child care.","description":"Amend KRS 199.986 to establish a preliminary license for licensed child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8982 to establish a preliminary certificate of operation for certified family child-care homes.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-16","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-18","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB323/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB323.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":254822,"bill_number":"SB106","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances, including controlled substance precursors.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to report information relating to defendants convicted of offenses in KRS Chapter 218A relating to methamphetamine and thefts of anhydrous ammonia in KRS Chapter 514 and other specified violations to the Office of Drug Control Policy; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to require the Office of Drug Control Policy to institute a Precursor Block List as a part of the Kentucky Electronic Methamphetamine Precursor Tracking system to prohibit persons convicted of offenses stated above from purchasing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine for not less than five years following conviction; amend KRS 218A.1437 relating to possession of methamphetamine precursors to reduce amount that may be possessed from 9 grams to 7 1/2 grams; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to specify that persons prohibited from making purchases of methamphetamine precursors may only possess them by means of a prescription; amend KRS 218A.1438 to add an affirmative defense and make a technical correction; reduce amount of methamphetamine precursors that may be purchased from 9 grams to 7 1/2 grams; amend KRS 218A.1446 relating to the purchase of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine to block persons convicted of those offenses from purchasing or possessing these substances except by prescription and make these substances prescription drugs only for these persons; create a new section of KRS Chapter 439 to require the Parole Board to order the parolee to participate in the Precursor Block List and to refrain from purchasing methamphetamine precursors for five years after release from parole; create a new section of KRS Chapter 533 to place a defendant on probation, home incarceration, or conditional discharge on the Precursor Block List for five years; effective July 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-03","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB106/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB106.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255211,"bill_number":"HCR99","title":"Affirm support for comprehensive federal immigration reform.","description":"Affirm support for comprehensive federal immigration reform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR99/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC99.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255217,"bill_number":"HB342","title":"AN ACT relating to financial matters.","description":"Amend KRS 395.005 to allow a bank or trust company organized under the laws of a state other than Kentucky to be appointed as fiduciary for matters of descent, will, and administration to the extent permitted pursuant to KRS 286.3-920(6) and this Act; amend KRS 286.3-010 to establish definitions for \"out-of-state trust company\" and \"trust representative office\"; create a new section of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to authorize Kentucky state trust companies to have trust offices and trust representative offices in Kentucky as well as in other states to the extent the reciprocal state's laws permit a Kentucky trust company to establish an office in the foreign state; establish requirements for a Kentucky state trust company to establish a trust office or trust representative in Kentucky or in another state; create a new section of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to authorize out-of-state trust companies to have trust offices and trust representative offices in Kentucky to the extent the out-of-state trust company's home state allows Kentucky trust companies to establish trust offices or trust representative offices in the foreign state; establish requirements for an out-of-state trust company to establish a trust office or trust representative in Kentucky; amend KRS 286.3-450 to allow the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to enter into cooperative, coordinating, and information-sharing agreements and agreements for joint examinations and joint enforcement actions with other supervisory agencies having concurrent authority over trust offices and trust representative offices; amend KRS 286.3-290 to clarify that a branch office of an out-of-state bank may conduct fiduciary activities authorized under Kentucky law for banks, provided that a branch office of a Kentucky bank is permitted to engage in substantially similar activities in the out-of-state bank's host state.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB342/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB342.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255224,"bill_number":"HB345","title":"AN ACT relating to contracts.","description":"Amend KRS 336.130 to prohibit the requirement of membership or financial support of a labor organization as a condition of employment; make a violation of KRS 336.130 a Class D felony; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to apply amendment to KRS 342.130 to new labor agreements but not to previously entered agreements; make corresponding amendments.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"to Labor & Industry (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Labor and Industry","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB345/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB345.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255273,"bill_number":"HB347","title":"AN ACT relating to veterinarians.","description":"Amend KRS 321.185 to provide that veterinarians who report suspected animal cruelty cases are not in violation of client/patient confidentiality requirements contained in the statute.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"recommitted to Agriculture & Small Business (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB347/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB347.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255296,"bill_number":"HB344","title":"AN ACT relating to disabled veterans' license plates.","description":"Amend KRS 186.162 to eliminate all registration and clerk fees for disabled veterans’ license plates.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB344/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB344.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255354,"bill_number":"HB346","title":"AN ACT relating to child support.","description":"Amend KRS 205.712 to establish that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, working in agreements with financial institutions, shall operate a data match system related to child support payments and establish that the requirements for the financial institutions regarding the data match system are detailed in referenced statutes; amend KRS 205.778 to establish authority for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to identify financial accounts of parents who have failed to make child support payments and allow the cabinet to take action against those accounts; amend KRS 205.792 to properly reference an established range of statutes; amend KRS 405.465 and 405.467 to make a technical language change.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-25","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB346/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB346.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255374,"bill_number":"HB336","title":"AN ACT relating to tuition charges for veterans who are non-Kentucky resident students in public postsecondary education institutions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to permit public universities to establish tuition rates for non-Kentucky students who are veterans that are no greater than the maximum tuition reimbursement for a Kentucky resident student who is a veteran and qualifies under the Post-9/11 GI-Bill.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-15","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB336/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB336.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255386,"bill_number":"HB343","title":"AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation.","description":"Amend KRS 341.370 to prohibit disqualification for unemployment benefits for a worker who leaves a job to follow a military spouse who has been reassigned to another military base or duty location that is 100 miles or more from the worker’s home.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB343/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB343.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255430,"bill_number":"HB335","title":"AN ACT relating to nursing homes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 216.510 to 216.595 to establish the Civil Monetary Penalty Fund Advisory Committee; establish the membership and duties of the advisory committee.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB335/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB335.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255446,"bill_number":"SB107","title":"AN ACT relating to autism spectrum disorders.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Office of Autism Spectrum Disorders; provide that the office shall be headed by a director and its responsibilities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the State Interagency Autism Spectrum Disorder Council and establish the council's membership and responsibilities; amend KRS 194A.620 to apply the definition of \"autism spectrum disorders\" to the newly created sections of KRS Chapter 194A.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB107/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB107.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255540,"bill_number":"HB338","title":"AN ACT relating to minor users of tanning devices.","description":"Amend KRS 217.922 to prohibit people under the age of 14 from using a tanning device.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB338/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB338.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255615,"bill_number":"HB337","title":"AN ACT relating to staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 216B to require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure; establish minimum staffing requirements; prohibit long-term care facilities from admitting new residents if the facility fails to comply with the minimum staffing requirements, beginning on the second day of noncompliance and continuing until six days after the required staffing is achieved, with exceptions allowed for weather emergencies and other similar events; require additional staffing based on the needs of the residents; exempt intermediate-care facilities for the mentally retarded, institutions for the treatment of mental illnesses, personal care homes, and family care homes from the minimum staffing requirements; create a 16-member board to review staffing requirements on an annual basis; establish a civil fine of no more than $1,000 for each day that the staffing requirements are not maintained.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB337/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB337.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255645,"bill_number":"HB341","title":"AN ACT relating to leaves of absence for teachers.","description":"Amend KRS 161.770 to permit a local board of education to grant a leave of absence for reasons deemed appropriate or necessary.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-07","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB341/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB341.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255647,"bill_number":"HB339","title":"AN ACT relating unemployment compensation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to prevent a worker from receiving unemployment benefits in successive benefit years unless the worker has returned to work and earned 5 times his weekly benefit rate received in the prior benefit year.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB339/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB339.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255692,"bill_number":"HCR98","title":"Urge the formation of a task force to study and offer recommendations on establishing an urban agriculture segment in the state.","description":"Urge the formation of a task force to study and offer recommendations on establishing an urban agriculture segment in the state.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR98/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC98.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":255694,"bill_number":"HB340","title":"AN ACT relating to the manufacturing of energy production components.","description":"Amend KRS 154.20-400 to add definitions; amend KRS 154.20-410 and 154.20-415 to expand the types of alternative and renewable energy qualifying for incentives; amend KRS 154.27-010 to add definitions; amend KRS 154.27-020 to expand the types of alternative fuels, renewable energy, energy storage, and component manufacturing facilities qualifying for incentives.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-17","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB340/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB340.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":260464,"bill_number":"HB372","title":"AN ACT relating to estimated income tax penalties.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS Chapters 131, 141, and 154 to amend the calculation of the estimated tax penalty; clarify that no interest is due on estimated tax payments; allow for annualized income for taxpayers whose income fluctuates during the year; mimic the federal estimated tax penalty calculation as nearly as practicable; apply to taxable years beginning January 1, 2011.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB372/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB372.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":260495,"bill_number":"HB356","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 189 to define the term \"mini-truck\" and add mini-trucks to the definition of \"motor vehicle\"; permit the operation of mini-trucks on highways other than interstate highways and highways with a speed limit greater than 55 mph; require operators of mini-trucks to comply with the same insurance, title, registration and usage tax requirements as a motor vehicle; amend KRS 186.010 to define the term \"mini-truck\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB356/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB356.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":260496,"bill_number":"HB371","title":"AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.","description":"Amend KRS 211.402 to include prescription assistance in the Kentucky Physicians Care Program and establish eligibility guidelines.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB371/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB371.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":260535,"bill_number":"SB109","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend sections of KRS Chapter 256 to clarify gender language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB109/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB109.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":260624,"bill_number":"HB353","title":"AN ACT relating to the release of large animals in Kentucky counties.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to prohibit the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources or any other state agency from releasing a species that in adulthood may weigh more than five hundred (500) pounds without the approval of the legislative body for the county into which the species is to be released.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB353/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB353.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":260668,"bill_number":"HB368","title":"AN ACT relating to surface mining.","description":"Amend KRS 350.450 to require coal mine permittees for all types of mining practices to dispose of remaining overburden in the mined area, areas under the abandoned mine land program, or areas approved by the cabinet; require use of lifts and compacted fills; prohibit deposition of overburden in streams; amend KRS 440 to prohibit disposal of spoil or overburden in intermittent, perennial, and ephemeral streams or any other waters of the Commonwealth; prescribe areas where spoil may be disposed; amend KRS 350.410 to make internal reference corrections and specify that restoration to approximate original contour includes configuration and elevation of the area prior to mining and require disposal of remaining overburden in the mined area, areas under the abandoned mine land program, or areas approved by the cabinet and the use of lifts and compacted fills; and prohibit deposition of overburden in streams.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Environment (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB368/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB368.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":260940,"bill_number":"HB361","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to establish a refund program for new small businesses; EFFECTIVE October 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB361/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB361.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":260944,"bill_number":"HB351","title":"AN ACT relating to duties owed to another person.","description":"Amend KRS 411.148 to provide that each person has a duty to render emergency care to certain injured persons; provide immunity from civil liability; establish exceptions and penalty; create a new section of KRS Chapter 519 to provide that a person has a duty to report known felony conduct and the discovery of a dead body; provide for exceptions and establish penalty; repeal KRS 311A.150.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB351/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB351.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261001,"bill_number":"HB364","title":"AN ACT relating to school personnel.","description":"Amend KRS 160.380 to permit a relative of a principal to be employed in the same school if the relative had been employed in the school for 14 or more years before the principal was employed.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB364/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB364.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261134,"bill_number":"SB110","title":"AN ACT relating to optometry.","description":"Amend KRS 320.210 to modify the definition of the practice of optometry to include types of diagnoses and treatment of diseases, disorders, or conditions of the eye and its appendages by a licensed optometrist; permit prescribing and adapting visual aids and Schedule III or lower drugs or employing vision therapy or orthoptics, low vision rehabilitation, and certain laser surgery procedures; include the correction and relief of ocular abnormalities by surgical procedures not otherwise excluded in the practice of optometry; list a variety of procedures that are excluded from the practice of optometry, except for the preoperative and postoperative care of those procedures; indicate that a person is regarded as practicing optometry if he or she performs or advertises to perform optometric operations of any kind, prescribes or provides any means or device to help the human eye, or uses the word \"optometrist\" or other similar designation in connection with his or her name; amend KRS 320.240 to authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations for optometrist licensure; forbid an individual from practicing optometry unless he or she is licensed by the board; establish the board's sole jurisdiction over the practice of optometry; declare that in a public health emergency, the Commissioner of Health may authorize therapeutically licensed optometrists to administer inoculation for systemic health reasons; name KRS 320.210 and 320.240 the \"Better Access to Quality Eye Care Act.\"","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts ch. 1)","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB110/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB110.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261150,"bill_number":"SB108","title":"AN ACT relating to courts.","description":"Amend KRS 24A.120, relating to jurisdiction of District Court in civil cases, to increase jurisdiction from $4,000 to $5,000; amend KRS 24A.230 and 24A.290, relating to the small claims division of District Court, to increase jurisdiction from $1,500 to $2,500.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB108/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB108.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261190,"bill_number":"SB111","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS Chapter 263 to clarify gender language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"returned to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB111/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB111.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261198,"bill_number":"HB354","title":"AN ACT relating to foreclosure actions.","description":"Amend KRS 413.140 and 413.090 to reduce the statute of limitations for filing an action for a deficiency judgment after a foreclosure sale of real estate from 15 years to one year from the date of sale; amend KRS 426.520 to require the plaintiff in a foreclosure action to serve notice to the defendant of a deficiency within one year of the initial filing of the foreclosure if the property sells for two-thirds of the appraisal.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-18","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB354/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB354.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261210,"bill_number":"HB352","title":"AN ACT relating to executive branch employee compensation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to provide that a state employee who is not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act shall be paid at a rate of one and one-half hours for each hour the employee is required to work to clear roads during an ice or snow weather emergency on a state holiday.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB352/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB352.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261262,"bill_number":"HB357","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of Corrections.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 196, relating to the Department of Corrections, to create the Office of the Inspector General; provide that the Governor shall appoint the inspector general and set the duties of the office; amend KRS 196.026 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB357/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB357.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261405,"bill_number":"HB366","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 508.160 to add disarming the officer of defensive of control weapons, add acts which do not constitute an offense.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB366/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB366.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261422,"bill_number":"HB365","title":"AN ACT relating to veterinarians.","description":"Amend KRS 321.181 to define \"Veterinarian wellness program\" and \"Veterinary wellness committee\"; amend KRS 321.237 to conform; amend KRS 321.240 to delete language relating to giving examinations to veterinarians.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"returned to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-25","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB365/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB365.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261435,"bill_number":"HB355","title":"AN ACT relating to health care insurance and wellness programs.","description":"Amend KRS 304.12-100 to change \"employee wellness programs\" to \"wellness programs\"; authorize any rewards or incentives offered under these programs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB355/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB355.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261440,"bill_number":"HB360","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend and create sections of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the office of Constable.","description":"Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky allowing the legislative body of a county to abolish the office of constable; amend Section 99 of the Constitution of Kentucky to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB360/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB360.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261453,"bill_number":"SB115","title":"AN ACT relating to surface mining.","description":"Amend KRS 350.450 to require coal mine permittees for all types of mining practices to dispose of remaining overburden in the mined area, areas under the abandoned mine land program, or areas approved by the cabinet; require use of lifts and compacted fills; prohibit deposition of overburden in streams; amend KRS 350.440 to prohibit disposal of spoil or overburden in intermittent, perennial, and ephemeral streams or any other waters of the Commonwealth; prescribe areas where spoil may be disposed; amend KRS 350.410 to make internal reference corrections and specify that restoration to approximate original contour includes configuration and elevation of the area prior to mining; require disposal of remaining overburden in the mined area, areas under the abandoned mine land program, or areas approved by the cabinet and the use of lifts and compacted fills; and prohibit deposition of overburden in streams.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to Natural Resources and Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB115/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB115.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261483,"bill_number":"HB370","title":"AN ACT relating to school safety.","description":"Amend KRS 158.148 to require the discipline code to prohibit harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyberbullying against students and define term; amend KRS 525.070 to expand the crime of harassment to include harassment, intimidation, bullying, or cyberbulling as defined in KRS 158.148 by students on school property and at school-sponsored events.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB370/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB370.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261488,"bill_number":"HB359","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define the term \"mini-truck\" and add mini-trucks to the definition of \"motor vehicle\"; permit the operation of mini-trucks on highways other than interstate highways and highways with a speed limit greater than 55 mph; require operators of mini-trucks to comply with the same insurance, title, registration and usage tax requirements as operators of a motor vehicles; amend KRS 186.010 to define the term \"mini-truck\" and include mini-trucks under the definition of \"motor vehicle\"; amend KRS 190.010 to exclude dealers of mini-trucks from the requirement they be a licensed motor vehicle dealer.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB359/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB359.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261539,"bill_number":"HB358","title":"AN ACT relating to assignment of death benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 61.705 to allow the designated beneficiary of a member of the Kentucky Retirement Systems to assign the death benefit to a bank, licensed funeral home, or other lawfully recognized business entity upon the death of the member; amend KRS 161.655 to allow the designated beneficiary of a member of the Teachers' Retirement System to assign the life insurance policy benefit to a bank, licensed funeral home, or other lawfully recognized business entity; amend KRS 61.690 and 161.700 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB358/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB358.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261620,"bill_number":"SB114","title":"AN ACT relating to health benefit plan wellness programs.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize health benefit plans to offer incentives or rewards to members who participate in a voluntary wellness or health improvement program; the authorized incentives and rewards shall not be deemed a violation of the rebate prohibition contained in KRS 304.12-090 and 304.12.010; if a health plan member is unable to participate in a wellness or health improvement programs due to a medical condition, verification may be required; and, an insurer shall not be prohibited from offering incentives or rewards to members participating in a wellness or health improvement program if otherwise allowed by state or federal.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB114/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB114.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261645,"bill_number":"HB348","title":"AN ACT relating to elk hunting permits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to hold a postseason elk quota hunt for each year that a regular elk quota hunt is held; define terms; require the department to hold a postseason modern firearms elk quota hunt for anterless elk and spikes following the regular elk quota hunt; require hunters for the postseason quota hunt to be drawn from the pool of applicants who were not drawn for the regular quota hunt and who live in the elk restoration zone; require the department to draw a number of participants in the postseason quota hunt equal to the number of unused permits from the previous regular quota hunt or to draw 25 participants, whichever is greater; require postseason elk quota hunt participants to comply with regular quota hunt rules, except that they may only hunt in public and private hunting areas in the Knott County elk managment unit or the Stoney Fork elk management unit.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB348/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB348.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261672,"bill_number":"HB369","title":"AN ACT relating to a health facility patient's visitation rights.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to allow a patient or legal guardian of a patient of a health facility who is 18 years of age or older to designate in writing, an individual, not legally related by marriage or blood, who the patient wishes to have visitation rights; require the health facility to note this designation in the patient's permanent medical records.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB369/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB369.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261715,"bill_number":"HB367","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to reorganize various entities within the Personnel Cabinet; rename the Department for Personnel Administration the Department of Human Resources Administration; rename the Office of Government Training the Governmental Services Center; rename the Department for Employee Insurance the Department of Employee Insurance; create the Office of Diversity and Equality within the Office of the Secretary; create the Center for Strategic Innovation within the Office of the Secretary; amend KRS 18A.025 to create the Division of Technology Services within the Department of Human Resources Administration; abolish the Division of Employee Benefits and transfer responsibilities to the Office of Employee Relations; abolish the Division of Communications and Recognition and transfer all duties to the Office of Employee Relations; rename the Division of Staffing Services the Division of Career Opportunities; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform; and confirm Executive Order 2010-428.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB367/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB367.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261773,"bill_number":"HB349","title":"AN ACT creating the Government Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7 relating to the Legislative Research Commission to create a permanent Government Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee, set forth its membership, require the subcommittee to monitor the Department of Corrections, local jails and corrections activities and to monitor the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and its activities; limit investigations to those agencies and programs without the direction or authorization of the General Assembly or the Legislative Research Commission.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-08","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB349/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB349.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261855,"bill_number":"SB113","title":"AN ACT relating to outdoor recreation and tourism development and making an appropriation therefore.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to establish the Kentucky Mountain Trail Authority (KMTA) as an independent, de jure municipal corporation attached to the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet for administrative purposes only; authorize the KMTA to establish the Kentucky Mountain Regional Recreation Area for tourism and outdoor recreation opportunities for residents and visitors; prioritize the development of trails and outdoor recreation on private lands, through agreements with willing landowners who would become participating landowners, with the KMTA; identify eighteen (18) eastern Kentucky counties which would be target counties for initial development of the KMTA; identify a process whereby target counties would become full participating counties in the authority and authorized to appoint two representatives, one from the governmental sector and one representing participating landowners, to serve on the KMTA board; establish a process whereby counties outside the target counties could fulfill requirements to become a participating county in the KMTA through one of the fifteen (15) area development districts (ADDs); require the chair of each ADD board to designate a county, which has fulfilled the requirements to become a “participating county” as the district’s designated liaison county, which would serve on the KMTA’s board; authorize the ADDs to assist counties throughout the state in planning and developing involvement with the KMTA; amend KRS Chapter 147A to authorize ADDs to provide assistance to counties interested in participating in the KMTA as part of the regular duties of the ADD board and staff; authorize KMTA board meetings and establish duties; authorize the KMTA board to adopt bylaws for governance; outline methods for appointing an executive director and hiring additional staff; establish that all personnel and operational costs of the corporation shall be paid from funds accruing to the corporation, through fees, grants, or other self-funding mechanisms; enable the authority to procure insurance, execute contracts, accept grants and loans, maintain an office, assess fees for trails, parking, and other trail-related recreational purposes, and to promulgate administrative regulations to govern the Kentucky Mountain Regional Recreational Area; authorize the board to hire trail rangers and establish experience and training requirements for rangers; establish procedures for the authority to issue revenue bonds and revenue refunding bonds; ensure that participating landowners are not liable for willful negligence or similar damages; establish a framework for adopting administrative regulations for a penalty schedule for violations of trail laws and rules.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB113/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB113.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":261961,"bill_number":"SCR95","title":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to study the feasibility of reducing the case loads of speech language pathologists.","description":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to study the feasibility of reducing the case loads of speech language pathologists.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR95/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SC95.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262015,"bill_number":"SCR93","title":"Urge Congress to reform the manner in which the federal reserve system is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States to increase accountability and transparency, and direct distribution of the resolution.","description":"Urge Congress to reform the manner in which the federal reserve system is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States to increase accountability and transparency, and direct distribution of the resolution.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR93/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SC93.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262166,"bill_number":"HB363","title":"AN ACT relating to diabetes.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Medicaid Services, the Department for Public Health, the Office of Health Policy, and the Personnel Cabinet to collaborate to identify goals and benchmarks to reduce the incidence of diabetes in Kentucky, improve diabetes care, and control complications associated with diabetes; require each to report on the impact of diabetes, programs and activities for controlling and preventing diabetes, action plans to address diabetes, and budget plans for programs addressing diabetes by January 10 of each odd-numbered year to the Legislative Research Commission.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB363/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB363.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262200,"bill_number":"HB362","title":"AN ACT relating to ginseng.","description":"Amend KRS 246.650 to define \"Ginseng\" and delete the definition of \"Cultivated ginseng\"; amend KRS 246.660 to prohibit information relating to the purchase or sale of ginseng from being subject to public disclosure; to require the department to establish licensing requirements for ginseng dealers; to require the department to promulgate administrative regulations establishing administrative violations and civil penalties relating to ginseng; create a new section of KRS 246.650 to 246.660 to establish a Kentucky ginseng fund; amend KRS 246.990 to establish penalties and establish a mechanism for the seizing of ginseng.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB362/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB362.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262257,"bill_number":"HB350","title":"AN ACT relating to occupational and physical therapy.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 304.17A to limit a copayment or coinsurance amount for the services of a physical therapist or occupational therapist to no more than 20% of the charge for the service provided; require insurers to clearly state the availability of therapies under their plans.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB350/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB350.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262290,"bill_number":"SB112","title":"AN ACT relating to occupational and physical therapy.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 304.17A to limit a copayment or coinsurance amount for the services of a physical therapist or occupational therapist to no more than 20% of the charge for the service provided; require insurers to clearly state the availability of therapies under their plans.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB112/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB112.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262566,"bill_number":"HB389","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 501.020 relating to definitions of mental states for the Penal Code to change \"must\" to \"shall\" and add gender references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB389/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB389.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262619,"bill_number":"HB377","title":"AN ACT relating to 911 emergency services and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7621 to add new definitions; create new sections of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 to create the Kentucky 911 Emergency Communications Authority and establish the board of directors; amend KRS 65.7623 to provide the board of directors take over for the CMRS Board; amend KRS 65.7625 to establish an executive director of 911 emergency communications and provide that the director assist with the development of a next generation 911 strategy; amend KRS 65.7627 to establish the 911 fund to be made up of 911 service charges and prepaid wireless service charges; amend KRS 65.7629 to exempt from prepaid wireless services from the 911 service charge and make technical changes; amend KRS 65.7631 to make technical changes; amend KRS 65.7633 to require the board to establish procedures for the submission of a state 911 plan, including the development of a next generation 911 system; create a new section of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 requiring the board to recommend an equitable 911 funding procedure before July 1, 2012; amend KRS 65.7635 to conform; amend KRS 65.7635 to remove language relating to prepaid CMRS services, which will take effect on January 1, 2012; create a new section of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 to create definitions for this section, provide a mechanism for a 1.4% prepaid wireless service charge to be assessed at the point of sale of prepaid wireless telecommunications services; provide that sellers remit the prepaid wireless service charge to the Department of Revenue, which shall forward the funds to the Kentucky 911 Emergency Communications Authority; amend KRS 65.7639 and 65.7641 to conform; repeal KRS 39G.040; provide that Sections 11 and 12, relating to prepaid wireless service charges, are effective as of January 1, 2012.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB377/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB377.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262637,"bill_number":"HB393","title":"AN ACT relating to DNA.","description":"Amend KRS 17.169 to include local law enforcement as persons authorized to collect DNA samples; amend KRS 17.170 to provide for the collection of DNA samples at arraignment from all persons charged with a felony offense; amend KRS 17.175 to provide for expungement of DNA samples in specified circumstances; amend KRS 64.060 to establish a $5 payment from the State Treasury to the collecting agency for each DNA sample collected.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB393/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB393.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262696,"bill_number":"SB123","title":"AN ACT relating to 911 emergency services and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7621 to add new definitions; create new sections of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 to create the Kentucky 911 Emergency Communications Authority and establish the board of directors; amend KRS 65.7623 to provide the board of directors take over for the CMRS Board; amend KRS 65.7625 to establish an executive director of 911 emergency communications and provide that the director assist with the development of a next generation 911 strategy; amend KRS 65.7627 to establish the 911 fund to be made up of 911 service charges and prepaid wireless service charges; amend KRS 65.7629 to exempt from prepaid wireless services from the 911 service charge and make technical changes; amend KRS 65.7631 to make technical changes; amend KRS 65.7633 to require the board to establish procedures for the submission of a state 911 plan, including the development of a next generation 911 system; create a new section of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 requiring the board to recommend an equitable 911 funding procedure before July 1, 2012; amend KRS 65.7635 to conform; amend KRS 65.7635 to remove language relating to prepaid CMRS services, which will take effect on January 1, 2012; create a new section of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 to create definitions for this section, provide a mechanism for a 1.4% prepaid wireless service charge to be assessed at the point of sale of prepaid wireless telecommunications services; provide that sellers remit the prepaid wireless service charge to the Department of Revenue, which shall forward the funds to the Kentucky 911 Emergency Communications Authority; amend KRS 65.7639 and 65.7641 to conform; repeal KRS 39G.040; provide that Sections 11 and 12, relating to prepaid wireless service charges, are effective as of January 1, 2012.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Natural Resources and Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB123/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB123.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262820,"bill_number":"HB392","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.010, 189A.070, and 189A.090, relating to DUI, to provide that a","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB392/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB392.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262837,"bill_number":"HB375","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Sections 30, 31, and 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to elections and qualifications of members of the General Assembly.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 30, 31, and 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to change the terms of Senators from four to six years and the terms of Representatives from two to four years, and to prevent Senators and Representatives from serving more than three consecutive terms of office beginning in 2014.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB375/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB375.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262845,"bill_number":"SB121","title":"AN ACT relating to jurisdictional limits for Kentucky courts.","description":"Amend KRS 24A.120 to increase the jurisdictional limit of District Court to $10,000; amend KRS 24A.230 and 24A.290 to increase the jurisdictional limit of the small claims division of District Court from $1,500 to $3,500, for both claims and counterclaims.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB121/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB121.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262847,"bill_number":"HB374","title":"AN ACT relating to public protection in an individual, private setting.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to specify how the phrase \"individual, private setting\" shall be interpreted in informed consent situations.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB374/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB374.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262878,"bill_number":"HB373","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky National Guard.","description":"Amend KRS 36.110 to specify that the Governor's aides-de-camp be commissioned officers from the Kentucky National Guard.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB373/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB373.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262880,"bill_number":"SB125","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health records.","description":"Amend KRS 210.235 to specify additional conditions under which patient records may be disclosed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB125/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB125.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262896,"bill_number":"SB122","title":"AN ACT relating to campus police officers.","description":"Amend KRS 164.9485, 164.950, 164.955, 164.960, 164.970, and 164.980 to identify a higher education campus police department and a safety and security department as separate entities; and amend KRS 164.955 to identify a campus police department as a public police department and its officers as public police officers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB122/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB122.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262905,"bill_number":"SB128","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to permit an enrollee in a home and community based services waiver program to make a direct purchase of all necessary medical devices, equipment, and supplies; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate an administrative regulation to implement the section.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-04","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB128/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB128.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262913,"bill_number":"SB120","title":"AN ACT relating to environmental wastewater laboratories.","description":"Create a new section of Subchapter 10 of KRS Chapter 244 to allow the Energy and Environment Cabinet to certify laboratories that submit environmental data relating to tests for water quality; require that all environmental samples collected be submitted to a certified laboratory; allow the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations that establish standards for the operation of laboratories relating to wastewater pollution, set fees for certification, and evaluate the competency of the laboratories.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB120/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB120.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262952,"bill_number":"HB388","title":"AN ACT relating to the school calendar and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.070 to permit a school district to adjust its calendar to use days that had been scheduled without the presence of students as makeup days and to use primary election day for a makeup day due to days missed for weather-related, safety, or health emergencies; make technical corrections; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB388/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB388.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262959,"bill_number":"HB391","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency medical technicians.","description":"Amend KRS 311A.140 to require eligibility for Kentucky certification as an emergency medical technician for a member of the United States military or National Guard who was trained as an EMT by the military, served in that capacity during the course of military service, and holds a current national certification as an EMT.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB391/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB391.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262986,"bill_number":"HB394","title":"AN ACT relating to districts of innovation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to define \"district of innovation\" and related terms; authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to approve districts of innovation, not to exceed five districts per year; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations to prescribe the conditions and procedures to be used by a local board of education to be approved as a district of innovation; specify what the administrative regulations shall address; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to describe the requirements for a district to be an applicant as a district of innovation; prescribe the statutory requirements with which schools of innovation within districts of innovation must comply; require 80 percent of eligible employees in a school to vote in favor of becoming a school of innovation before the school is eligible to be a participant; describe the conditions under which a school may be exempt from KRS 160.345 or sections thereof; and identify areas in which districts may request approval of practices that are different than current statutory requirements.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB394/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB394.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262994,"bill_number":"SB129","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to ban possession, trafficking, or manufacture of 3,4-methylenedioxpyrovalerone and two related chemicals, which are the primary ingredients of a drug with a street name \"dove\"; amend KRS 218A.010 to ban additional named synthetic cannabinoids and piperazines; amend various other sections of KRS Chapters 217, 218A, and 530.064, relating to unlawful transaction with a minor; to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB129/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB129.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262995,"bill_number":"HB400","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 514.040, relating to theft by deception, to include the issuance of a check with knowledge that it will not be honored by the drawee for lease, rent, or purchase of property, for payment to an auction escrow account, for child support, or for taxes or fees to state or local government.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB400/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB400.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":262998,"bill_number":"HB380","title":"AN ACT relating to intrastate manufacture or production of goods of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 365 to define \"boundaries of the Commonwealth\" \"goods\" and \"produced\"; remove from federal jurisdiction all goods that are produced or manufactured within the Commonwealth of Kentucky if those goods are retained or remain in Kentucky and do not move through interstate commerce; affirm that jurisdiction by the United States Congress or federal authorities under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution are inapplicable to goods produced in the Commonwealth of Kentucky even from the standpoint of the good's materials or parts; require stamping of intrastate goods that will be eligible under the Act; and apply the Act only to those goods produced after July 15, 2012.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB380/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB380.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263016,"bill_number":"HB396","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 248.410, 248.420, and 248.450 to replace \"weighman\" with \"weighperson.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB396/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB396.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263028,"bill_number":"HB397","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal matters.","description":"Amend KRS 501.020 relating to definition of mental states for the Penal Code to correct gender references and change \"must\" to \"shall.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB397/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB397.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263066,"bill_number":"HB401","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 248.010, 248.280, 248.330, 248.350, 248.420, 248.460, and 248.990 to replace \"warehouseman\" with \"warehouseperson\" and insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB401/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB401.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263115,"bill_number":"HB384","title":"AN ACT relating to presidential elections.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 118 to set forth the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote; create Article I to allow any state and the District of Columbia to be a member of the agreement; create Article II to provide that member states shall conduct a statewide popular vote for the election of President and Vice President; create Article III to specify the manner of appointing presidential electors in member states; create Article IV to provide that the compact shall take effect when states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes enact the agreement and allow a state to withdraw from the agreement; create Article V to set forth definitions of the compact.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB384/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB384.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263167,"bill_number":"SB116","title":"AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to permit the county/judge executive and members of the fiscal court to carry a concealed deadly weapon in their own courthouse if they have a concealed deadly weapon license, except carrying in a Court of Justice courtroom while a judicial proceeding is in progress without permission from the presiding judge; prohibit peace officers and other persons from prohibiting or attempting to prohibit named county officers from carrying a concealed deadly weapon in their own courthouse.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB116/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB116.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263175,"bill_number":"HB387","title":"AN ACT relating to advance deposit account wagering licenses.","description":"Repeal and reenact KRS 230.210 to add a definition for \"Kentucky resident\" and delete the definition for \"secondary pari mutuel organization\"; amend KRS 230.260 to delete licensing of secondary pari mutuel organizations and provide for licensing of advance deposit account wagering.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB387/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB387.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263194,"bill_number":"SB127","title":"AN ACT relating to aviation security.","description":"Amend KRS 527.010 relating to definitions for weapons chapter to add definitions relating to airports; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to require airport to post weapons possession prohibition warning signs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to provide exceptions to possession of weapons on airport property; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to create the crime of unlawful possession of a weapon on airport facilities in the first degree, create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to create the crime of unlawful possession of a weapon on airport facilities in the second degree; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to create the crime of unlawful possession of a weapon on airport property in the third degree; amend KRS 527.020 relating to carrying concealed deadly weapons to prohibit judges and prosecutors with valid statewide concealed deadly weapon licenses from carrying a deadly weapon at airport facilities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 511 to create the crime of unlawful entry into an airport sterile area; create a new section of KRS Chapter 511 to create the crime of unlawful entry into an airport; amend KRS 525.060 relating to disorderly conduct to increase the penalty for the offense to a Class D felony when the act occurs on an aircraft; create a new section of KRS chapter 411 to presume that the purchase of a ticket constitutes consent to a search prior to entering a commercial or charter aircraft and prohibits suing the airline if denied boarding for refusal to be searched.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB127/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB127.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263222,"bill_number":"HB398","title":"AN ACT relating to eminent domain.","description":"Amend 416.660 relating to eminent domain to allow separately deeded tracts of land owned by the same person to be considered as a single parcel for valuation purposes.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB398/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB398.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263237,"bill_number":"HB390","title":"AN ACT relating to unborn children.","description":"Amend KRS 311.780 to prohibit abortion after the twentieth week of fetal development; amend KRS 311.990 to establish the penalty as a Class D felony; name provisions \"The Kentucky Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.\"","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB390/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB390.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263252,"bill_number":"HB383","title":"AN ACT relating to employer tax credits and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 establishing the job stimulus tax credit for an employer hiring a qualifying employee on or after April 1, 2011, but before April 1, 2013; amend KRS 141.0205 to place the new credit within the applicable order of all tax credits; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB383/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB383.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263315,"bill_number":"SB126","title":"AN ACT relating to prescription drugs.","description":"Amend KRS 211.402 to include prescription assistance in the Kentucky Physicians Care Program and establish eligibility guidelines.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB126/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB126.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263317,"bill_number":"HB382","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protection.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 relating to consumer protection to prohibit business solicitation within 30 days following a motor vehicle accident, provide exceptions, and establish penalty; amend KRS 21A.310 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB382/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB382.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263331,"bill_number":"HB378","title":"AN ACT relating to support education excellence in Kentucky funding and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 157.360 to provide that a district board of education that levies a tax that is less than the maximum tax rate in a specific year as permitted shall receive a reduced share of any additional support education excellence in Kentucky funds based on the rate in that year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB378/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB378.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263340,"bill_number":"HB385","title":"AN ACT relating to coal.","description":"Amend KRS 350.060 to require as of the effective date of the Act that any determination by the cabinet to change a bond requirement or bond amount currently in use result in a new administrative regulation that includes all bond requirements including the bond amount; proscribe bond amounts from being instituted as policy; require after the effective date of the Act an administrative regulation that fails to include bond amounts to be declared automatically deficient.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-07","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB385/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB385.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263343,"bill_number":"SB118","title":"AN ACT relating to condominiums.","description":"Amends various sections of the Kentucky Condominium Act, KRS 381.9101 to 381.9207, to provide that the seller's statement is applicable to all condominiums, with exceptions; clarify that a condominium is real estate, portions of which are designated for separate ownership; provide for lien priority as it relates to association assessments issued against a condominium; provide for the collection of attorneys fees when the association enforces the collection of assessments; and make technical corrections; amend KRS 324.360 to provide that the Kentucky Real Estate Commission may create and distribute forms and other materials to its licensees and the general public concerning condominium transactions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB118/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB118.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263349,"bill_number":"SB117","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits for the purchase of qualified plug-in electric drive vehicles.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide a nonrefundable credit against the income tax imposed under KRS 141.020 or 141.040, and the limited liability entity tax imposed under KRS 141.0401, establish program tax credit cap; amend KRS 141.0205 to establish the order in which the credit may be taken; EFFECTIVE for tax periods beginning after December 31, 2012 and before January 1, 2026.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB117/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB117.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263351,"bill_number":"HB395","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 15.010, relating to the Department of Law, to rename various units within the department and abolish the Child Support Enforcement Commission; repeal KRS 15.290; amend various other statutes to conform; confirm Attorney General Executive Order 10-01, dated June 9, 2010.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB395/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB395.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263371,"bill_number":"HB381","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal matters.","description":"Amend KRS 500.040 relating to restrictions on applicability for the Penal Code to make technical correction changing \"must\" to \"shall.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB381/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB381.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263377,"bill_number":"HB386","title":"AN ACT relating to plumbing violations.","description":"Amend KRS 318.990 to enhance penalties for violation of plumbing laws, plumbing administrative regulations, or the state plumbing code; penalize a licensee for plumbing violations with a fine of $100 to $500, imprisonment for up to 90 days, or both; punish a person who is not licensed under KRS Chapter 318 for plumbing violations with a fine of $500 to $2,500, imprisonment for up to 180 days, or both; require the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction to promulgate administrative regulations that establish a schedule of fines and violations; prohibit the promulgation of any of these administrative regulations until they have received the review, comments, and recommendations of the State Plumbing Code Committee.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB386/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB386.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263381,"bill_number":"SB119","title":"AN ACT relating to 911 emergency communications funding.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 to require the Office of Homeland Security gather information on 911 emergency communications funding and report to the Legislative Research Commission by August 1 of each year; create a non-codified section to direct the Legislative Research Commission to create a task force to conduct a study of the funding of 911 emergency services in the Commonwealth; permit the task force to consult with the State Auditor's Office, the Commercial Mobile Radio Service Board, and any provider of emergency 911 services in the Commonwealth; provide that the task force may recommend to the General Assembly a uniform rate, set at a level no higher than the 911 surcharge rate in effect on 12/31/2010, to be collected and remitted by all end-users of voice communications services with access to 911 emergency in the Commonwealth; set forth what the recommendation shall be based upon; provide that the recommendations shall include methods and operational changes to improve cost and operating efficiencies, and any cost-saving measures that may be utilized by the PSAPs, which will not jeopardize public safety, including the feasibility and effectiveness of consolidating PSAPs; require the task force to report its findings and recommendations for funding emergency 911 services by December 1, 2011, or by an alternative date designated by the LRC.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-08","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB119/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB119.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263385,"bill_number":"HB376","title":"AN ACT relating to drugs.","description":"Amend KRS 217.015 to include products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine as \"legend drugs\"; amend KRS 218A.1446 to allow the Office of Drug Control Policy to authorize use of the KASPER system for the required record keeping for ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine sales; amend KRS 217.215 to allow a pharmacist to dispense an ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine product without a prescription to a person evidencing physical symptoms treatable by those products; amend KRS 218A.202 to allow the KASPER system of prescription electronic reporting to accept data on sales of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine products.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB376/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB376.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263386,"bill_number":"SB124","title":"AN ACT relating to selection of school personnel.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop a teacher selection training module; require the department to provide training to all principals; require the department to develop and make available a training module update; allow credit hours to be given for completing initial and update training.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB124/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB124.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263396,"bill_number":"HB399","title":"AN ACT relating to inheritance tax.","description":"Amend KRS 140.070 to include great-grandchildren as Class A beneficiaries.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-09","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB399/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB399.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":263405,"bill_number":"HB379","title":"AN ACT relating to archaeological resources.","description":"Amend KRS 164.710 to define \"archaeological context\" and \"archaeological resource\"; amend KRS 164.715 to forbid intrusion and removal of archaeological resources from private land without obtaining permission; amend KRS 164.705 and 164.720 to replace \"object of antiquity\" with \"archaeological resource.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB379/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB379.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264652,"bill_number":"HB409","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate regulations requiring that only under limited circumstances may a medical assistance recipient receive care from a provider located more than 60 miles away and only under restricted circumstances may a payment be made by a medical assistance program under KRS Chapter 205 for a controlled substance prescribed by a prescriber more than 30 miles from the state border; exclude children in the custody of the cabinet or whose care is paid by state funds or state-administered federal funds; create a new chapter of KRS Chapter 218A to require that the CHFS promulgate regulations allowing a prescriber or dispenser of a controlled substance to require the patient to return to the dispenser halfway through a prescription period so that the number of remaining units may be counted; provide that if the number of remaining units is less than prescribed for the prescription period that the prescriber or dispenser may confiscate the remaining units and keep them for destruction or for dose-by-dose dispensing to the patient; create a system that dispensers shall maintain to track information about patients reviewed; require dispenser to contact prescribers when patients are found to have not complied with dosing instructions; require reviewing dispenser to note details of prescriber contacts in the system; require the Department of Medicaid Services to pay no less than $12 upon completion of a review of a Medicaid recipient; create a new section of KRS 311 to require the Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations that restrict how physicians and other practitioners regulate noncancer, non-palliative care, non-hospice care chronic pain; create a new section of KRS 313 to require the Board of Dentistry to promulgate administrative regulations that restrict how dentists regulate noncancer, non-palliative care, non-hospice care chronic pain; create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to require the Board of Nursing to promulgate new administrative regulations that restrict how APRNs regulate noncancer, non-palliative care, non-hospice care, chronic pain.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB409/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB409.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264717,"bill_number":"HB405","title":"AN ACT relating to transparency in postsecondary education advertising.","description":"Create a new Chapter of KRS 164 to require any college or university including public, nonprofit, and proprietary for-profit schools licensed by the Council on Postsecondary Education to publicly disclose according to standardized protocols in print and Web-based advertisements: the retention, graduation, job placement, and loan default rates of program graduates; whether course credits transfer to other postsecondary educational institutions; whether programs meet regional or national licensure or accreditation standards; create a new Chapter of KRS 165A to conform.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB405/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB405.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264734,"bill_number":"HB423","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.010 to provide that a motor vehicle used in the commission of specific DUI offenses is subject to forfeiture; provide exceptions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB423/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB423.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264761,"bill_number":"HCR111","title":"Create a Task Force on the feasibility of elected Public Service Commissioners; increase the number of commissioners from three to six, with one commissioner for each U.S. Congressional District, with the concurrence of both the House and the Senate; direct the task force to survey the experiences of states that have elected public service commissioners and compare those with the experiences of other states for which the Governor appoints commissioners; establish task force membership to consist of three members of the Kentucky Senate appointed by the Senate President and three members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House; provide that the Senate President shall select one co-chair from the appointed senators, and the Speaker of the House shall select one co-chair from the appointed representatives; authorize the task force to consult with the State Board of Elections regarding the financing of an elected Public Service Commission and shall make recommendations regarding the feasibility of an expanded PSC; require the task force to meet periodically during the interim at the call of the task force co-chairs and require the task force to submit a final report of its recommendations no later than December 1, 2011; to authorize LRC to alternatively assign the issues identified herein to a committee or subcommittee and designate a study completion date.","description":"Create a Task Force on the feasibility of elected Public Service Commissioners; increase the number of commissioners from three to six, with one commissioner for each U.S. Congressional District, with the concurrence of both the House and the Senate; direct the task force to survey the experiences of states that have elected public service commissioners and compare those with the experiences of other states for which the Governor appoints commissioners; establish task force membership to consist of three members of the Kentucky Senate appointed by the Senate President and three members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House; provide that the Senate President shall select one co-chair from the appointed senators, and the Speaker of the House shall select one co-chair from the appointed representatives; authorize the task force to consult with the State Board of Elections regarding the financing of an elected Public Service Commission and shall make recommendations regarding the feasibility of an expanded PSC; require the task force to meet periodically during the interim at the call of the task force co-chairs and require the task force to submit a final report of its recommendations no later than December 1, 2011; to authorize LRC to alternatively assign the issues identified herein to a committee or subcommittee and designate a study completion date.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR111/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC111.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264812,"bill_number":"HB404","title":"AN ACT relating to Kentucky Office of Homeland Security grants to law enforcement agencies.","description":"Amend KRS 16.220, relating to Kentucky Office of Homeland Security grants for firearms, body armor, and other items for law enforcement agencies, to add public airport safety and security departments established pursuant to KRS 183.880.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB404/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB404.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264831,"bill_number":"HB412","title":"AN ACT relating to pre-settlement funding providers and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367, relating to consumer protection, to regulate the business of pre-settlement funding where funds are provided to a civil litigant and repaid only out of the proceeds of the lawsuit; include provisions that address required contractual disclosures and terms, prohibited activities by funding companies, registration of funding companies with the Attorney General, and enforcement authority within the Attorney General's office.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB412/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB412.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264862,"bill_number":"SB130","title":"AN ACT relating to comprehensive universities.","description":"Amend KRS 164.295 to permit a comprehensive university to offer advanced practice doctoral programs with the approval of the Council on Postsecondary Education; require the council to promulgate administrative regulations relating to advanced practice doctoral programs.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB130/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB130.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264866,"bill_number":"HB415","title":"AN ACT relating to school employees.","description":"Amend KRS 160.380 to allow a superintendent's spouse who has at least 16 years of service in school systems to be an employee in the district in which the superintendent is employed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB415/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB415.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264881,"bill_number":"SB140","title":"AN ACT relating to medical facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 216B.015 to define \"allergy, sinus, and cold management facility\", \"pain management facility\", and amend the definition of \"health facility\" to include an allergy, sinus, and cold management facility and a pain management facility; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require that all pain management facilities be licensed; provide that all pain management facilities shall have a designated physician who meets established criteria and is responsible for the licensure requirements of the facility; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations related to pain management facilities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require that all allergy, sinus, and cold management facilities be licensed; provide that all allergy, sinus, and cold management facilities shall have a designated physician who meets established criteria and is responsible for the licensure requirements of the facility; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations related to allergy, sinus, and cold management facilities; amend sections of KRS 304.17A to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB140/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB140.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264899,"bill_number":"HB419","title":"AN ACT relating to running for public office while participating in the Senior Status Program for Special Judges.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 118 to prohibit a judge in the Senior Status Program for Special Judges from seeking nomination or election to public office until the judge has participated in the program for at least five years.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB419/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB419.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264916,"bill_number":"HB410","title":"AN ACT relating to civil actions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to specify procedures for handling comparative fault actions relating to adding parties, and answers to complaints.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB410/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB410.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264935,"bill_number":"SB141","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.005 to expand the definition of \"ignition interlock device\"; amend KRS 189A.010 to include driving the wrong way on a four-lane highway among the list of factors for triggering aggravated DUI penalties; amend KRS 189A.070 to provide that a reduction in the time period of a license revocation does not lessen the time required for ignition interlock usage; amend KRS 189A.085 to run the period of a license plate impoundment from the date of sentencing to the day the offender is authorized to resume driving and require ignition interlock usage beginning with the first DUI offense; amend KRS 189A.340 to establish an assistance fund for indigent defendants; amend 189A.345 to establish penalties for operating a vehicle without a device when prohibited from doing so; create new sections of KRS Chapter 189A to establish the ignition interlock program, require the promulgation of administrative regulations, and allow a defendant who committed an offense prior to the effective date to elect to be governed by the Act; amend KRS 189A.410 to require ignition interlock usage while an offender is driving on a hardship license amend 186.572 to provide that penalty points assessed against a person's license shall expire only after participation in the interlock ignition program; amend 189A.090 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB141/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB141.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264954,"bill_number":"SB136","title":"AN ACT relating to urban county government retiree health benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 67A.345 to require an urban-county government to pay the full health insurance premium for the spouse and dependent children of a retiree of the policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund and to remove restrictions matching retiree health insurance premium payments to the amount received by urban-county government employees.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB136/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB136.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":264967,"bill_number":"HB418","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of the distilled spirits industry.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow a distilled spirits credit equal to the amount of distilled spirits ad valorem tax timely paid in the taxable year and used for capital improvements at the premise of the distiller; provide for recapture of the tax credit if the capital improvement is sold or otherwise disposed of prior to the useful life of the asset being exhausted; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2012.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB418/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB418.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265027,"bill_number":"HB407","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 154.20 to create definitions and to establish the construction loan guarantee program; apply to commercial building construction projects; allow agency to issue loan guarantees of up to 25% of loan principal; require consideration of impact on economic development, credit-worthiness of borrower, and other factors; require application and approval process and set other standards; allow sales tax on purchases related to the project to be used to fund loan program; sunset program in 2016; create a new section of KRS 154.20 to establish the construction loan guarantee account to fund the loan guarantee program; provide for reporting and disposition of funds.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB407/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB407.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265043,"bill_number":"HB414","title":"AN ACT relating to long-term care facility administrators.","description":"Amend KRS 216A.010 to add and redefine terms; amend KRS 216A.020, KRS 216A.030 and KRS 216A.040 to change \"nursing home\" to \"long-term care\"; prohibit a person who has been disciplined within the last five years from serving on the board; amend KRS 216A.050 to make all board terms four years and prohibit more than two consecutive terms; amend KRS 216A.060 to require at least three meetings of the board per year; increase board member compensation from $50 to $150; amend KRS 216A.070 to add a disciplinary penalty of up to $2,000 per violation; change \"nursing home\" to \"long-term care\"; amend KRS 216A.080 and KRS 216A.090 to change \"nursing home\" to \"long-term care\"; permit online application; amend KRS 216A.100 to delete language related to provisional licenses and add language related to application, examination, and licensing fees and charges; amend KRS 216A.130 and 216A.150 to change \"nursing home\" to \"long-term care\"; permit board refusal to issue license to an administrator disciplined in another state in the last five years; amend KRS 216A.990 to make misdemeanor violations Class A misdemeanors; repeal KRS 216A.140.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB414/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB414.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265075,"bill_number":"SB134","title":"AN ACT relating to service of process.","description":"Amend KRS 454.140 relating to service of process in legal proceedings to require the Circuit Clerk to first direct all process to the sheriff, and then to other named officers; amend KRS 70.350 relating to service of process of constables to direct process to the sheriff first, and then to named persons including the constable; amend KRS 454.145 relating to a court appointing a person to serve process to require a court to first direct the process to the sheriff; repeal KRS 205.782 relating to service of process by constable in county containing a city of the first class; repeal KRS 421.135 relating to special bailiff to compel testimony of witness in felony case.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB134/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB134.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265081,"bill_number":"SB137","title":"AN ACT relating to natural gas as a transportation fuel.","description":"Amend KRS 152.715 to include natural gas from wells and compressed natural gas in the definition of \"alternative transportation fuels\"; amend KRS 152.720 to include cooperation between DEDI and public and private universities and the colleges within the strategy to maximize Kentucky's opportunities to access federal funds and grants; amend KRS 154.20-400 to include governmental entities within the definition of \"eligible company\"; amend KRS 154.20-415 to include public and private universities and colleges in partnerships that are encouraged.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"returned to Natural Resources and Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB137/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB137.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265098,"bill_number":"HB413","title":"AN ACT relating to DNA.","description":"Amend KRS 422.285, relating to post-conviction DNA testing, to expand the statute to cover all felony offenses.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB413/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB413.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265104,"bill_number":"HB422","title":"AN ACT relating to the Board of Student Body Presidents.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish a board of Student Body Presidents to include the student body president of each 4 year public university, 1 of the 2 student regents to be designated by the Board of Regents of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, and 1 student body president representing the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities; the board shall be advisory to the legislative and executive branches regarding postsecondary education issues and concerns of students; the board shall meet with the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Advisory Conference of Presidents at least once a year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB422/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB422.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265128,"bill_number":"SB138","title":"AN ACT relating to pain management facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 216B.015 to include pain management facilities within the definition of \"health facility\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to establish licensure and operation standards for pain management facilities; amend KRS 218A.202 to require photo identification and establish record-keeping requirements for certain controlled substance transactions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB138/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB138.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265134,"bill_number":"HB403","title":"AN ACT relating to the New Markets Tax Credit and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 141.432 modifying the definition of long-term debt security to make the computation of the interest payments limitation on the debt instrument prior to allowing the effect of the interest expense; retroactively applies to June 4, 2010.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB403/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB403.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265165,"bill_number":"SB139","title":"AN ACT relating to liens.","description":"Amend KRS 376.100 and 376.212 to expand the class of persons who may post a bond to discharge a lien.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB139/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB139.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265175,"bill_number":"HB402","title":"AN ACT relating to substance abuse screening for public assistance recipients.","description":"Amend KRS 205.200 to require the cabinet to design and implement a substance abuse screening program for individuals receiving monetary assistance, food stamps, or medical assistance; permit blood or urine testing but require less expensive methods first; state that adult recipient's are ineligible if the person does not participate in the program or tests positive for a controlled substance for which that person does not have a prescription; require screening before the person begins to receive public assistance, and once per year during a random month; make results of testing inadmissible in criminal proceedings; create a probationary period of 60 days following the first positive test, then require the recipient to pay for a second test after 60 days; recipients with a negative result must pass two additional random screenings during the next 24 months; individuals failing the second test face immediate suspension of benefits; after a subsequent failed test, a protective services visit to the home of the recipient shall be made to determine the safety of any children in the home; after a third failed test the cabinet shall investigate if the children should be renewed from the home; provide that the provisions of the Act shall not become operational unless the U.S. Congress passes a law to permit substance abuse screening as a condition of eligibility, to permit randomized substance abuse screening, and to provide funding for the program.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB402/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB402.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265189,"bill_number":"SB142","title":"AN ACT relating to cold and allergy treatment facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 216B.015 to define \"cold and allergy clinic\" and amend the definition of \"health facility\" to include a cold and allergy clinic; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require that all cold and allergy clinics be licensed; require that all pain management facilities have a designated physician who meets established criteria and is responsible for the licensure requirements of the facility; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations related to cold and allergy clinics; amend KRS 304.17A-147 and 304.17A-1473 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB142/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB142.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265195,"bill_number":"HB421","title":"AN ACT relating to intrastate coal use.","description":"Create new sections of subchapter 16 of KRS Chapter 224 to exempt coal mines and coal alteration facilities that mine or alter coal in Kentucky for use exclusively within the Commonwealth from requirements of the Clean Water Act; declare authority for the Act; define terms; name the cabinet as the principal regulator of business activity relating to the mining or alteration of coal within the Commonwealth; direct the cabinet to certify coal mines and alteration facilities that produce or alter coal in Kentucky for use exclusively within the Commonwealth; direct the cabinet to keep coal samples from mines and alteration facilities to verify that Kentucky is the origin of the coal produced or altered; declare that United States Environmental Protection Agency lacks authority to deny operation permits for certified coal mines or alteration facilities that make products that do not travel in interstate commerce; limit the application of the Act to the issuance of permits of operation required under the Clean Water Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB421/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB421.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265223,"bill_number":"HB411","title":"AN ACT relating to school funding and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to establish a fund to consist of appropriated SEEK funds unexpended at the close of a fiscal year; allow funds to be distributed to local school districts if SEEK appropriation is insufficient; establish a maximum amount to be held in the fund; require moneys within the fund to be expended as required by the executive branch budget; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB411/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB411.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265299,"bill_number":"SB132","title":"AN ACT relating to health care.","description":"Amend KRS 216A.030 to use gender-nuetral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"returned to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB132/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB132.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265311,"bill_number":"HB408","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health.","description":"Amend KRS 202A.410 to add judges and witnesses to the list of persons to be notified upon the release or escape of an involuntary committed person.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB408/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB408.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265345,"bill_number":"SB133","title":"AN ACT relating to the immunization of children.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 214.032 to 214.036 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish an immunization registry; require providers to report to the registry; provide an opt-out for reporting; amend KRS 214.032 to define the term \"cabinet\" to mean the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 214.034 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB133/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB133.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265360,"bill_number":"SB135","title":"AN ACT relating to the enforcement of local government ordinances.","description":"Amend KRS 65.8821 relating to the Local Government Code Enforcement Act allowing the assignment of a hearing officer to conduct hearings related to code enforcement on behalf of the board and to require those serving as hearing officers to take training relative to the conduct of administrative hearings pursuant to KRS 13B.080 as well as allowing the hearing officers to administer oaths; amend KRS 65.8825 to set procedure for issuing citations by either personal service to the alleged violator, leaving a copy with a person of majority age on the premises in the absence of the alleged violator, or in the absence of all persons on the property, to conspicuously post a copy of the citation and to mail a copy of the citation to the owner of record; amend KRS 65.8828 to specify that the code enforcement board conducts the hearing or upon the receipt of recommendations of a hearing officer that the board determines whether a violation was committed, and require the hearing officer, when conducting hearings to make written findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendations for consideration by the board who will then make the final determination, as well as requiring each final order of the board to include in writing the findings and conclusions of the board; amend KRS 65.8815 to set out what constitutes quorum of the board; amend KRS 82.615 relating to parking enforcement to require owners of vehicles cited for parking violations who have not responded to the notice within 7 days to be sent a second notice by first-class mail rather than certified mail; amend KRS 82.700 relating to local nuisance enforcement to allow all local governments to participate in the Local Government Nuisance Code Enforcement Act, establish appointing authority for the respective local government officers making appointments to it, and add a definition of \"owner\"; amend KRS 82.715 to extend from 7 days to 30 days the amount of time an appeal from a hearing board's determination may be made to the appropriate District Court.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB135/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB135.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265377,"bill_number":"SB131","title":"AN ACT relating to open records.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to state the General Assembly's recognition that state-supported universities have an obligation to make available to the public information relating to financial and contractual relationships with entities, organizations, and individuals; provide that a public university enters into a contract with an entity, organization, or individual to perform a university function or a function on behalf of a university, all records relating to the contract shall be open to public inspection subject to the Kentucky Open Records Act; establish process for handling requests.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB131/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB131.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265381,"bill_number":"HB406","title":"AN ACT relating to transparency in lawsuits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 446 to specify that no statute creates a private right of action unless a statute specifies that there is a private right of action; amend KRS 446.070 which provides that a person injured by a violation of any statute may recover damages from the offender to limit the right only to those statutes that specify such a right; name the act the 'Transparency in Lawsuits Act.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB406/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB406.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265394,"bill_number":"HB416","title":"AN ACT relating to accountancy.","description":"Amend KRS 325.220 to clarify the standards used for providing attesting services; include a compilation under the definition of \"attest service\"; define \"firm manager\"; specify the purpose of peer review and the standard for compliance with the process; change definition of \"review committee\" to \"peer review committee\" as responsible for administering the program and to include the standards for guidance; amend KRS 325.301 to conform; require firms that are not licensed by, and do not have an office in, this state, which perform certain attest services for a Kentucky client to comply with peer review program requirements; require all certified public accountants who are sole proprietors of a firm with an office located in this state and regularly practicing in the state to maintain current licenses to practice issued by the board; delete language specifying what is to be included in an application for a firm license; require the firm manager to submit an initial application containing information required by the board by administrative regulation; indicate requirements to renew a firm license due to expire on July 1, 2011; indicate requirements to renew a firm license due to expire on August 1, 2012, and thereafter, which shall be effective for a period of two years; include requirements for a firm license expired for a period of less than one month and for a firm with a license expiring for a period longer than one month after date of expiration; require that, effective August 1, 2012, sole proprietors shall comply with firm licensing requirements; amend KRS 325.431 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB416/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB416.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265405,"bill_number":"HB420","title":"AN ACT relating to notaries.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 423 to specify the elements of a notary's official signature and seal; amend KRS 423.010 to require the certificate of a notary public to state the serial number; amend KRS 423.160 to require serial numbers for notaries.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB420/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB420.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":265578,"bill_number":"HB417","title":"AN ACT relating to the development of youth athletic facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 91A.390 to allow the special transient room tax to be used for promoting and financing a publically or privately owned amateur youth athletic facility.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-09","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-10","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB417/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB417.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267265,"bill_number":"SB146","title":"AN ACT relating to natural resources.","description":"Amend KRS 350.570 to make technical corrections; redraft for clarity; and revise to remove unnecessary legalese.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"returned to Natural Resources and Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB146/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB146.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267283,"bill_number":"HB443","title":"AN ACT relating to cadmium.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to restrict the amount of cadmium that can be contained in articles for use and consumption by children; establish civil penalty.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB443/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB443.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267342,"bill_number":"SB144","title":"AN ACT relating to suburban fire districts.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 75 to define terms; establish a process for switching an existing fire district to a suburban fire district; establish board composition, time of election, and provisions for officer elections of a suburban fire district; set revenue process for suburban fire district, allow for recovery of costs and expenses for certain responses when the recipients are not property owners subject to taxes, and apply provisions relating to compensating tax rates and recall; set the district's fiscal and transparency responsibilities; establish duties, activities, and responsibilities of the district; set forth the administrative hierarchy of the district in relation to the subordinate fire department; allow for the appointment of special firefighters; set out the responsibilities of fire chief of the district department; require department members to take oath and give bond; establish the political freedoms of members of district departments; establish disciplinary and due process procedures for members and employees of district; allow for appeals of decisions of board of trustees in disciplinary actions; require the fire chief of a district to attend board of trustees meetings; confer certain peace officer status to regular members of the department, excepting volunteer firefighters; require the secretary of the district to keep minutes of the board; allow the board of trustees to employ or retain an attorney; require the county attorney to advise on matters when requested by the board; establish meeting protocols of the board of trustees; allow for the erection of fire hydrants; provide that the district may retain taxes collected when none were due that remain unrefunded after two years; allow the board of trustees to enter into agreements for fire protection services, including between other governmental entities, and provide for certain immunity; set circumstances when firefighters are to be declared as serving in the line of duty; provide for no extra compensation under these circumstances; establish certain immunities of the district and personnel while in performance of duties; allow for the merger of suburban fire districts; assign a short title for the Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB144/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB144.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267350,"bill_number":"HB444","title":"AN ACT relating to the recording of deeds.","description":"Amend KRS 382.300 to require all deeds filed after the effective date of the Act to include the map index number from the PVA.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB444/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB444.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267356,"bill_number":"HCR114","title":"Urge greater awareness of the need to use specially designed medical alert bands by persons using blood thinners to prevent fatal head injuries.","description":"Urge greater awareness of the need to use specially designed medical alert bands by persons using blood thinners to prevent fatal head injuries.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR114/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC114.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267357,"bill_number":"SB148","title":"AN ACT relating to courts.","description":"Amend KRS 452.400 relating to where a civil action for recovery, partition, or sale of real property. must be brought to make technical correction changing \"must' to \"shall\"; amend KRS 452.405 relating to where a civil action against a public officer for recovery of a fine or forfeiture must be brought to make technical change relating to gender related references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB148/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB148.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267368,"bill_number":"HB437","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 116.113 to specify that notification of a voter's conviction of a federal felony offense be received from the United States Attorney in accordance with federal law; amend KRS 117.075 to specify that only those voters that have been declared mentally disabled by a court and had their right to vote removed are prevented from voting and to specify that absentee ballot application requests can be emailed; amend KRS 117.085 to allow application for absentee ballot by email and parties other than voter, and to specify rules as to parties with power of attorney over voter; amend KRS 117.087 to clarify procedures as to absentee ballots and absentee vote totals; amend KRS 117.165 conform; amend KRS 117.187 to establish procedures for make-up training for precinct election officers; amend KRS 117.235 to move definition of \"electioneering\" and create definition of \"exit polling\" and to establish guidelines; amend KRS 117.236 to remove the challenger exception from section prohibiting checkoff lists or recording of voter identities and add electronic recording device to list of devices prohibited from use; amend KRS 117.275 to clarify procedures applicable to closing down voting equipment and posting return sheets, to establish procedures for designating witnesses to vote count, and to limit inspection of voting records until sixty (60) days after election day except in case of a contest or recount action; amend KRS 117.315 to require written and signed designation of challengers by chair of political party executive committee or governing authority of party for the county, and to establish requirements for challengers; amend KRS 117.355 to conform; amend KRS 117.375 to delete vote punch device from definitions; amend KRS 117.389 to delete not more than thirty (30) day testing time limit; amend KRS 117.995 to conform; repeal KRS 117.387 and 117.391; declare EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB437/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB437.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267379,"bill_number":"HB434","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 525.070 to provide that the offense of harassment shall also include the intentional exposure of a person's undergarments.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB434/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB434.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267394,"bill_number":"HB448","title":"AN ACT relating to the angel investor tax credit.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 154 to establish the angel investor tax credit program for certain investments in small businesses; define terms; state program purposes; list requirements for small businesses, investors and investment funds to qualify for program participation; provide application process for certification of businesses and investors, and for the award of tax credits; cap the total amount of angel investor and Kentucky Investment Fund Act tax credits available in all years at $40,000,000; require the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority to maintain a web site listing all businesses and investors it has certified, and all credits it has awarded; require the small business to report annually on the state of its business, and provide for tax credit recapture in certain circumstances; amend KRS 154.12-305 to include review of small businesses and investors among the stated duties of the Innovation and Commercialization Center Program; amend KRS 152.20-255 to provide that the total amount of tax credits available in the Kentucky Investment Fund Act program and the angel investor program is $40,000,000 in all years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to create the angel investor tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; provide that this act shall be known as the Kentucky Angel Investment Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB448/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB448.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267402,"bill_number":"SB149","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 434.710 relating to sufficiency of evidence in credit and debit card crimes to make technical correction changing \"must\" to \"shall\".","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB149/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB149.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267410,"bill_number":"HB433","title":"AN ACT relating to waste tires.","description":"Create new section of Subtitle 50 of KRS Chapter 224 to establish a five-member waste tire working group in the Energy and Environment Cabinet; prescribe the duties of the Waste Tire Working Group; amend KRS 224.50-868 to require retailers of new passenger tires to distribute an information sheet on how to dispose of a waste tire to customers and require the cabinet to develop the information sheet in conjunction with the Waste Tire Working Group; amend KRS 224.50-874 to require the transporter or processor that contracts for out-of-state final disposal of the tires to return a receipt to the retailer showing who took final custody of the tires; require the retailer to contact the cabinet if a receipt has not been tendered by the transporter or processor within 30 days of receiving the tires.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB433/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB433.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267420,"bill_number":"HB424","title":"AN ACT relating to city classification.","description":"Reclassify the City of Midway, in Woodford County, population 1,627, from a city of the fifth class to a city of the fourth class. Reclassify the City of Sadieville, in Scott County, population 326, from a city of the sixth class to a city of the fifth class. As provided in Section 156A of the Kentucky Constitution, the population requirements for the classification of cities established by the former Section 156 of the Kentucky Constitution remain in effect until changed by law. Therefore, classification as a city of the fourth class requires a population of 3,000 to 7,999 and classification as a city of the fifth class requires a population of 1,000 to 2,999.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB424/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB424.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267424,"bill_number":"HB426","title":"AN ACT relating to underground facility damage prevention.","description":"Amend KRS 367.4903 to designate a specific \"one-call center\" and add a definition for \"nonintrusive excavating\"; amend KRS 367.4909 to require new underground facilities to include a means for locating them on the surface; amend KRS 367.4911 and 367.4913 to clarify excavator and one-call center duties; amend KRS 367.4915 to provide an exemption for hand probing and other nonintrusive excavation in certain circumstances; create a new section of KRS 367.4903 to 367.4917 to require goverence of the one-call center by a board of directors.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB426/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB426.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267443,"bill_number":"HB436","title":"AN ACT relating to arbitration.","description":"Amend KRS 417.050 relating to arbitration to expand the circumstances under which an arbitration agreement may be invalid or inapplicable.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-01","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB436/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB436.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267448,"bill_number":"HB432","title":"AN ACT relating to correctional matters.","description":"Amend KRS 441.045 relating to state payment for jail medical care to reduce from $2,000, to $1,000 the threshold amount at which the state makes payments; delete requirement that attending physician certify under oath that the care was nonelective and necessary for the health of the prisoner; amend KRS 441.206 relating to state payments of local jail expenses to delete the requirement for monthly payment and add requirement for annual payment no later than July 31 of each year; amend KRS 532.100 relating to placing Class C and Class D felons in county jails to remove requirement for community custody classification; prohibit housing sex offenders and violent offenders; permit housing a Class D felon with a sentence of more than five years when the felon has less than five years remaining on the sentence.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB432/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB432.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267454,"bill_number":"HB450","title":"AN ACT relating to charitable health care.","description":"Amend KRS 216.941 to provide that persons providing charitable health care and registered with the state to do so shall be treated as agents of the state for liability purposes and brought within the coverage of the Board of Claims.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB450/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB450.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267455,"bill_number":"SB152","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensing of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning professionals.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.652 to add one member to the Kentucky Board of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning; amend KRS 198B.658 to establish requirements for licensing of master and journeyman heating, ventilation, and air conditioning professionals, permit the board to deny a license when a person is convicted of sexual misconduct; amend KRS 198B.664 to provide for license renewal after expiration, extend provisions for inactive license.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB152/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB152.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267478,"bill_number":"HB449","title":"AN ACT relating to alternative education programs.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to clarify the purpose of alternative education programs; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing definitions, policies, and guidelines for student assignment and data collection protocols relative to alternative education programs; amend KRS 157.360 to require that funds generated by at-risk students be used for alternative education programs; require that funds generated by exceptional children in alternative education programs be used in alternative education programs.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB449/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB449.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267479,"bill_number":"SB150","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensure of journeyman heating, ventilation, and air conditioning mechanics.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.662 to remove outdated sections and allow for the licensure of journeymen heating, ventilation, and air conditioning mechanics who can document experience prior to July 1, 1995.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB150/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB150.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267502,"bill_number":"SB143","title":"AN ACT relating to property.","description":"Repeal and reenact various sections of Subtitle 7 of KRS Chapter 355 and create several new sections of Subtitle 7 of KRS Chapter 355 to adopt the 2003 amendments to Article 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code, entitled “Documents of Title,\" to update and modernize Article 7; provide a domestic legal framework for documents of title to conform to international standards, including recognition of electronic documents of title, in addition to tangible documents of title; establish requirements for negotiable and nonnegotiable documents of title; delete obsolete references to tariffs, classifications, and regulations that do not track current commercial practices; amend KRS 355.1-201 to update the definitions to include electronic documents and tangible documents of title; amend KRS 355.2-103 to reference the definition of \"control\"; amend KRS 355.9-521 to establish forms for the “UCC Financing Statement” and the “UCC Financing Statement Addendum”; amend KRS 355.2-104, 355.2-310, 355.2-503, 355.2-505, 355.2-506, 355.2-509, 355.2-605, 355.2-705, 355.2A-103, 355.2A-514, 355.2A-526, 355.4-104, 355.4-210, 355.8-103, 355.9-102, 355.9-105, 355.9-203, 355.9-207, 355.9-208, 355.9-301, 355.9-307, 355.9-310, 355.9-311, 355.9-312, 355.9-313, 355.9-314, 355.9-316, 355.9-317, 355.9-326, 355.9-338, 355.9-406, 355.9-408, 355.9-502, 355.9-503, 355.9-507, 355.9-510, 355.9-515, 355.9-516, 355.9-518, 355.9-521, 355.9-601, and 355.9-607 to conform; create new sections of Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 355 to provide that Sections 88 to 96 shall take effect on July 1, 2013; provide that Subtitle 9 applies to a transaction or lien within its scope, even if created prior the effective date of the new sections; provide that a security interest perfected immediately prior to the effective date of this Act shall be deemed a perfected security interest under Subtitle 9 but a security interest perfected immediately prior to the effective date of the new sections shall meet the applicable requirements for perfection under Subtitle 9, within one year of the effective date of the new sections; provide that the filing of a financing statement before the effective date shall satisfy the requirements for perfection under Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 355, but the perfection shall cease to be effective if it would have ceased to be effective at the time the new sections take effect or if the financing is filed in another jurisdiction and would have ceased to be effective under that jurisdiction’s law or on June 30, 2018; provide that the filing of a continuation statement after the new sections take effect does not continue the effectiveness of the financing statement, but timely filing of the continuation statement after the effective date of the new sections and in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction shall make the financing statement effective before the new sections take effect for the period provided by the law of the other jurisdiction; regulate the initial filing of a financing statement; define “pre-effective-date financing statement” and establish the effectiveness of the statement dependent on the jurisdiction governing perfection; authorize a person to file an initial financing statement or a continuation statement subject to stated filing requirements; provide that the newly created sections determine priority of conflicting claims to collateral unless the relative priorities of the claims were established before they take effect, in which Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 355 as it existed prior to the effective date determines priority; amend KRS 131.515 to require the Secretary of State to index notices of tax liens in a tax lien index accessible to the public in the same manner as filing statements filed with the Secretary of State under Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355, including online and searchable databases; amend KRS 382.430 to require that a lien or other note of indebtedness include the address of the lienholder to be filed for record by the county clerk; require the mailing address of the assignee if an assignment of a mortgage, conveyance, or other lien or security is filed of record with the county clerk; provide that a mortgage recorded with a county clerk shall not be invalid for failure to include the principal place of business of the mortgagee or holder of the note; amend KRS 382.480 to require that federal tax liens and all other liens payable to the United States be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State, in addition to the office of the county clerk in the county wherein the subject property is located; require the Secretary of State to enter the filing of the lien in a federal tax lien index and make it accessible to the public in the same manner as financing statements filed with the Secretary of State under Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 355, including online and searchable databases; amend KRS 382.500 to provide that the Secretary of State shall be entitled to a fee from the Internal Revenue Service for each notice of tax lien filed or discharged, pursuant to KRS 355.9-515(1); provide that Sections 88 to 96 of this Act take effect July 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2011-03-16","last_action":"vetoed","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB143/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB143.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267526,"bill_number":"HB435","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 311.990 which contains duplicate penalties for violating KRS 311.780 relating to abortions performed after viability to delete the Class C felony and retain the Class D felony.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB435/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB435.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267535,"bill_number":"HB425","title":"AN ACT relating to salary schedules.","description":"Amend KRS 163.032 to direct the Kentucky Department of Education with the assistance of the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet to adopt a salary schedule for administrators for the Kentucky School for the Deaf and the Kentucky School for the Blind; require salary schedules to be comparable to administrators' salaries with similar duties and qualifications in local school districts; require the salary schedule to be computed by September 1 of each year and to include 260 days.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-08","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB425/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB425.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267537,"bill_number":"HB451","title":"AN ACT relating to disabled parking placards.","description":"Amend KRS 189.456 to require that the information contained on disabled parking placards is written on a tamper-evident sticker that is color coded based upon the year in which the placard expires.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB451/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB451.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267559,"bill_number":"HB430","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensing of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning professionals.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.652 to add one member to the Kentucky Board of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning; amend KRS 198B.658 to establish requirements for licensing of master and journeyman heating, ventilation, and air conditioning professionals, permit the board to deny a license when a person is convicted of sexual misconduct; amend KRS 198B.664 to provide for license renewal after expiration, extend provisions for inactive license.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB430/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB430.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267563,"bill_number":"HB429","title":"AN ACT relating to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.","description":"Amend KRS 139.010 to define \"direct mail,\" \"advertising and promotional direct mail,\" and \"other direct mail\"; amend KRS 139.105 to require sales of digital property to be sourced like tangible personal property; amend KRS 139.270 to allow retailers and sellers an additional 120 days to substantiate a sale for resale or an exempt sale if a request has been made by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 139.777 to provide sourcing rules for sales of advertising and promotional direct mail and other direct mail; amend KRS 139.795 to provide the seller relief from tax liability in certain instances if the Department of Revenue does not provide the seller with at least 30 days' notice of a rate change; amend KRS 139.260, 139.365, 139.735, and 139.990 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB429/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB429.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267566,"bill_number":"SB147","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 525.100 relating to public intoxication to make technical corrections relating to gender references; amend KRS 532.110 relating to the effect of multiple prison sentences to make technical corrections to change \"must\" to \"shall\" and use gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB147/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB147.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267590,"bill_number":"HB442","title":"AN ACT relating to nurse licensure.","description":"Amend KRS 314.011 to delete the definition of \"clinical internship\" and make technical change; amend KRS 314.041 to establish that an applicant for a license to practice as a registered nurse shall pass a jurisprudence examination approved by the board of nursing; delete language allowing the board of nursing to extend a provisional license; delete language requiring a clinical internship for licensure applicants; delete language requiring 120 hours of practice as a registered nurse for licensure applicants; amend KRS 314.051 to establish that an applicant for a license to practice as a licensed practical nurse shall pass a jurisprudence examination approved by the board of nursing; delete language allowing the board of nursing to extend a provisional license; delete language requiring a clinical internship for licensure applicants; delete language requiring 120 hours of practice as a registered nurse for licensure applicants; amend KRS 314.073 to require all individuals licensed under KRS Chapter 314 who renew their licenses to be required to document continuing competency during the immediate past licensure period as prescribed in regulations promulgated by the board of nursing.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB442/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB442.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267591,"bill_number":"SB151","title":"AN ACT relating to Public Service Commission members.","description":"Amend KRS 278.050 to expand membership of the Public Service Commission (PSC) from three to seven commissioners, one for each U.S. Congressional District and one for the state at large, who shall be elected for staggered four year terms beginning with the next regular election in even-numbered years for terms of four years, to begin on the first day of January of the year succeeding their election as follows: At the regular election to be held in November 2012, and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected for a term of four years one member of the Public Service Commission in each odd-numbered Congressional District and one state-at-large member in which the term of his or her predecessor in office will expire; and at the regular election to be held in November 2014, and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected for a term of four years one member of the Public Service Commission in each even-numbered Congressional District in which the term of his or her predecessor in office will then expire; provide that each member of the commission for retirement purposes shall be eligible to membership in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System as set forth in KRS 61.515 to 61.705 and the at-large commission member and a commission member designated by the Governor shall serve as co-chairs of the Public Service Commission; require that the Governor to appoint a new member of the commission to fill any vacancy; provide that all appointments made to the Public Service Commission by the Governor prior to or subsequent to the effective date of this Act shall expire on January 1, 2013; amend KRS 278.060 to require that each commissioner, including the at-large commission member, be a resident and qualified voter of this state and be no less than 25 years of age at the time of his or her election and shall have resided in this state and in his or her Congressional District for no less than three years prior to his or her election and shall not be qualified to run for commissioner if he or she holds any official relationship to any utility, or owns stocks or bonds thereof, or who has any pecuniary interest therein for three years prior to his or her election; require that members of the Public Service Commission be subject to the Executive Branch Code of Ethics in accordance with KRS 11A.001 to 11A.990; amend KRS 11A.010 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-22","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB151/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB151.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267592,"bill_number":"HB446","title":"AN ACT relating to failure to return to custody.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 520 to establish the crime of failure to return to custody when a prisoner on a community service or work program fails to return to custody; set penalty as Class A misdemeanor if the crime for which he or she was convicted was a misdemeanor and Class D felony if the crime for which he or she was convicted was a felony; amend KRS 520.030, relating to escape in the second degree, and KRS 520.040, relating to escape in the third degree, to prohibit conviction for both escape and failure to return to custody.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB446/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB446.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267601,"bill_number":"HB447","title":"AN ACT relating to income tax.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to change the applicable Internal Revenue Code reference date from December 31, 2006, to December 31, 2010.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB447/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB447.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267604,"bill_number":"HB440","title":"AN ACT relating to private documents of public interest.","description":"Amend KRS 171.620 relating to preservation of the Governor's papers and other public records to add various new types of record formats.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB440/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB440.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267620,"bill_number":"SB145","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors.","description":"Repeal and reenact all sections of KRS 198B.700 to 198B.738, relating to home inspectors, as new sections of KRS Chapter 324, relating to real estate brokers and salesmen; define terms and make various technical changes to differentiate between real estate licenses and home inspector licenses; modify board member appointments and voting requirements; establish a board member and staff code of ethics with accompanying disciplinary procedures; clarify home inspector course-of-study requirements; add reasonable costs of services and the power to create a consumer protection fund to the board's revolving fund; create a detailed procedural scheme for processing complaints against inspector licensees and holding any subsequent hearings concerning complaints; authorize hearings on inspector license denial or other discipline; conduct all administrative hearings and appeals in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B; require the board to publish an annual compilation of its decisions, actions, and orders concerning inspector licensee complaints; designate types of and reasons for disciplinary sanctions against inspector licensees; allow renewal or reinstatement of inspector licenses; permit board intervention when an unlicensed person attempts to conduct home inspections; direct the Kentucky Real Estate Commission to provide administrative support and legal assistance to the board; create a new section of KRS Chapter 324 to attach the board to the commission for administrative purposes; maintain the board's authority to promulgate administrative regulations to administer and enforce the home inspector statutes; limit the commission's ability to overrule any action of the board; require the board to give the commission the opportunity to advise and comment on the board's planned administrative regulations or any other matter the board chooses; preclude the home inspector statutes from being construed to affect the commission's licensees or the jurisdiction of the commission; amend KRS 198B.030, 198B.040, 198B.4005, 227.300, 227.530, 227.560, 227A.040, 236.030, 318.077, 318.130, 411.270, and 413.246 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB145/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB145.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267623,"bill_number":"HB445","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend 189.930 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB445/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB445.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267625,"bill_number":"HB428","title":"AN ACT relating to school facilities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to direct the Department of Education to determine urgent and critical construction needs; direct the department to provide a funding allocation to a district for a school that is closed to the public because it is structurally unsound or is otherwise uninhabitable as determined by the commissioner of education; require the funding allocation be to retire the unpaid debt on the stucturally unsound or uninhabitable building or to provide the semi-annual debt service payments on the current issue; provide that when funds are not available the costs shall be deemed a necessary government expense and shall be paid from the general fund surplus account under KRS 48.700; direct a school district that receives an allotment and receives funds from litigation or insurance to repay the allotment to the budget reserve trust fund account; direct the commissioner of education to provide an allotment to a school that was closed in 2010 because it is structurally unsound; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB428/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB428.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267626,"bill_number":"HB439","title":"AN ACT relating to campaign finance.","description":"Amend KRS 121.120 to exempt audits for candidates and slates of candidates that receive or spend less than threshold amount; allow the Registry of Election Finance to develop a system that provides for submission of reports on-line or electronically with security procedures; amend KRS 121.150 to allow acceptance of contributions after the date of primary or election in order to retire debts; provide for a period to refund prohibited funds; amend KRS 121.180 to increase campaign finance reporting exemptions; amend supplemental reporting dates and allow permissive electronic reporting; create a new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to allow credit card, debit card, electronic transfer, and other electronic transactions for campaign purposes; require the registry to adopt reporting forms and promulgate administrative regulations to implement electronic transactions; require the registry to promulgate administrative regulations to allow minor reporting discrepancies to be addressed at the next regularly scheduled reporting date.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB439/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB439.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267628,"bill_number":"HB438","title":"AN ACT relating to urban-county government retiree health benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 67A.345 to require an urban-county government to pay the full health insurance premium for the spouse and dependent children of a retiree of the policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund and to remove restrictions matching retiree health insurance premium payments to the amount received by urban-county government employees.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-18","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB438/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB438.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267633,"bill_number":"HB431","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 196.026 to create the Division of Parole and Victim Services within the Department of Corrections; amend KRS 439.320 to abolish the position of executive director of the Parole Board; amend KRS 196.701 and 196.702 to conform; repeal and reenact KRS 439.562 to establish the Kentucky Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision and define its membership and duties.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB431/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB431.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267652,"bill_number":"HB441","title":"AN ACT relating to the external statewide child fatality and near fatality review panel.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to establish a statewide child fatality and near fatality external review panel and set out its membership and duties; amend KRS 620.020 to define \"fatality,\" \"near fatality,\" and \"preventable fatality or near fatality\"; amend KRS 620.050 to require data or information concerning reports and investigations concerning a child fatality or near fatality be made available to the public; establish parameters for the release of information; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out the provisions related to the release of public information.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-10","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB441/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB441.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267656,"bill_number":"HB427","title":"AN ACT relating to school-sponsored or school-endorsed trips.","description":"Amend KRS 161.185 to require a certified or classified staff member to accompany students on non-athletic school-sponsored or school-endorsed trips.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB427/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB427.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267970,"bill_number":"SB157","title":"AN ACT relating to local school district funding adjustments.","description":"Amend KRS 157.360 to provide that local school districts with 1% growth in enrollment may request and receive a January adjustment; permit the state portion of the program to support education excellence in Kentucky to be recalculated and funded.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB157/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB157.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267971,"bill_number":"HCR124","title":"Create a Task Force on the feasibility of elected Public Service Commissioners; increase the number of commissioners from three to six, with one commissioner for each U.S. Congressional District, with the concurrence of both the House and the Senate; direct the task force to survey the experiences of states that have elected public service commissioners and compare those with the experiences of other states for which the Governor appoints commissioners; establish task force membership to consist of three members of the Kentucky Senate appointed by the Senate President and three members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House; provide that the Senate President shall select one co-chair from the appointed senators, and the Speaker of the House shall select one co-chair from the appointed representatives; authorize the task force to consult with the State Board of Elections regarding the financing of an elected Public Service Commission and shall make recommendations regarding the feasibility of an expanded PSC; require the task force to meet periodically during the interim at the call of the task force co-chairs and require the task force to submit a final report of its recommendations no later than December 1, 2011; to authorize LRC to alternatively assign the issues identified herein to a committee or subcommittee and designate a study completion date.","description":"Create a Task Force on the feasibility of elected Public Service Commissioners; increase the number of commissioners from three to six, with one commissioner for each U.S. Congressional District, with the concurrence of both the House and the Senate; direct the task force to survey the experiences of states that have elected public service commissioners and compare those with the experiences of other states for which the Governor appoints commissioners; establish task force membership to consist of three members of the Kentucky Senate appointed by the Senate President and three members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House; provide that the Senate President shall select one co-chair from the appointed senators, and the Speaker of the House shall select one co-chair from the appointed representatives; authorize the task force to consult with the State Board of Elections regarding the financing of an elected Public Service Commission and shall make recommendations regarding the feasibility of an expanded PSC; require the task force to meet periodically during the interim at the call of the task force co-chairs and require the task force to submit a final report of its recommendations no later than December 1, 2011; to authorize LRC to alternatively assign the issues identified herein to a committee or subcommittee and designate a study completion date.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR124/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC124.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":267980,"bill_number":"HCR125","title":"Urge the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Kentucky State University, the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, and the Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy to assess the economic condition and needs of black farmers in Kentucky.","description":"Urge the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Kentucky State University, the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, and the Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy to assess the economic condition and needs of black farmers in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR125/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC125.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268000,"bill_number":"SB14","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend 189.930 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"returned to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB14/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB14.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268002,"bill_number":"SB167","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Sections 36 and 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to legislative sessions.","description":"Propose an amendment to Sections 36 and 42 of the Kentucky Constitution to limit legislative sessions of the General Assembly to 30 days each year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB167/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB167.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268007,"bill_number":"HB455","title":"AN ACT relating to biomass energy facilities.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to direct the PSC to approve certain purchase power contracts where the power is generated using biomass fuel; amend KRS 278.010 to add definition of \"qualified pilot biomass energy facility.\"","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB455/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB455.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268011,"bill_number":"HB459","title":"AN ACT relating to teacher performance reviews.","description":"Amend KRS 161.790 to state that inefficiency, incompetency, or neglect of duty as a result of teacher evaluation procedures under KRS 156.557 shall be in a written record and these charges shall only be brought after the teacher has failed to comply with a valid corrective action plan; provide the right of a teacher to appeal to the commissioner of education who will appoint a performance review panel to review the charges, actions, and appeal for purposes of upholding or overturning the action of the superintendent; make changes to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB459/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB459.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268018,"bill_number":"HB453","title":"AN ACT relating to the practice of pharmacy.","description":"Amend KRS 315.010, relating to pharmacists, to define \"appropriately trained\" as meeting one of three designated courses of study; add to the definition of the \"practice of pharmacy\" to include the fitting and patient management of therapeutic diabetic shoes and inserts by an appropriately trained pharmacist or an appropriately trained and supervised pharmacy employee; permit the measuring, fitting, or adjusting of any device that uses a crush box impression system, scanning, or a noncustom-fabricated and fitted device; prohibit the employment of these methods to create a cast, mold, or scan of a part of the human body to construct a device to treat a medical condition; define \"therapeutic diabetic shoes or inserts\" as those meeting identified HCPCS codes assigned by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; describe the acceptable characteristics of shoes and inserts that meet the code standards; amend KRS 315.205 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-25","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB453/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB453.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268023,"bill_number":"HB463","title":"AN ACT relating to the criminal justice system, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to establish the sentencing policy of the Commonwealth; create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to declare the primary objectives of the Department of Corrections; amend KRS 446.010 to add pertinent definitions; create a new section of KRS 218A to declare findings of the General Assembly regarding controlled substances and treatment; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 218A, relating to controlled substances, to define quantities and to otherwise modify elements of offenses and penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to provide for pretrial release; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to allow deferred prosecution for possession cases; amend KRS 218A.275 and 218A.276 to permit risk and needs assessments for treatment and expungement of misdemeanor possession cases upon successful completion of treatment; create new sections of KRS Chapter 196 requiring the Department of Corrections to analyze savings from controlled substance modifications and use the savings for treatment, other evidence-based programs, and to expand programs at underused existing facilities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 26A, relating to the Court of Justice, to require the Supreme Court to administer a drug court program; amend KRS 532.080 to specify offenses to which persistent felony offender applies; amend KRS 197.020 to require the department to use a risk and needs assessment; amend KRS 439.3405 to clarify the circumstances for medical release from prison; amend and create various sections of KRS 439.250 to 439.560, relating to probation and parole, to require the use of risk and needs assessments, modify provisions relating to parole hearings, conditions, and deferment, and to require mandatory reentry supervision and postincarceration supervision; amend KRS 532.050, relating to presentence procedure, to require consideration of a risk and needs assessment; create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to permit the Department of Correction to implement conditional parole of specified inmates to jails; amend KRS 532.100 to permit specified Class D felons to serve sentences at county jails; create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to allow approval of any housing option for parolees that fulfills statutory requirements; create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to specify approval of housing options for prisoners on parole or conditional release; amend KRS 532.260, relating to home incarceration, to add conditional release and allow for persons with 9 months or less to serve; create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Supreme Court to create guidelines for judges to use when considering pretrial release and monitored conditional release; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow requiring those on pretrial release to use GPS monitoring; amend KRS 431.015 to allow an officer to issue a citation instead of an arrest for specified misdemeanors; amend KRS 431.525 to set a maximum bail not to exceed the amount of fine and court costs for specified crimes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish pretrial release and considerations for persons based on risk of flight and danger before trial and require credit toward bail based on time spent in jail before trial; create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Supreme Court to use evidence-based programs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to require the Department of Corrections to promulgate regulations regarding the use of evidence-based practices for treatment and supervision programs; create new sections of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to require the Department of Corrections to use evidence-based practices for treatment and supervision programs and to train their employees in the implementation and use of those practices, report on the efforts to implement evidence-based practices, administer a risk and needs assessment upon entry into community supervision and at regular intervals, permit parolees to receive compliance credits, develop a system of graduated sanctions and related procedures, permit modification of probation, establish an administrative caseload supervision program, and require sanctions for failure to comply with conditions of supervision; create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Chief Justice to submit annual reports detailing various court statistics; amend KRS 196.031 to require additional information in the Justice Cabinet's report; create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to require the Department of Corrections to create an online database with specified sentencing information; create new sections of KRS Chapter 196 to require the Department of Corrections to calculate savings from the new provisions and require savings to go into a fund; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 196 to permit the department to create community corrections pilot projects, require report, and to establish a fund; create new section of KRS Chapter 6, relating to the General Assembly, to require more information on fiscal impact statements; amend KRS 441.045 and 441.053 to require the use of the Medicaid rate in billing for jail prisoner medical and related costs; create and amend various other sections in KRS Chapter 441 to require a certificate of need before building a new local correctional facility; amend KRS 533.010 to require the court to consider a defendant's risk and needs assessment before sentencing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 534 to provide a credit for time spent in jail to apply to fines and costs; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 439 to make persons on postincarceration supervision subject to the authority of the Parole Board; amend KRS 532.043, relating to conditional discharge for sex offenses, to modify the supervision to postincarceration supervision and specify that persons on postincarceration supervision are subject to the authority of the Parole Board; provide for the implementation of a pilot project to supervise high-risk probationers; make an appropriation to the department to improve the Kentucky Offender Management System; amend various other sections to conform; EMERGENCY and DELAYED EFFECTIVE DATES.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts ch. 2)","last_action_date":"2011-03-03","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB463/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB463.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268027,"bill_number":"HB456","title":"AN ACT relating to utility franchises.","description":"Amend KRS 96.010 to forbid the recovery of a franchise fee paid to a city by a utility through the addition of a fee or surcharge to the bills of the utility customers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB456/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB456.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268050,"bill_number":"HB462","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Reinvestment Act.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 154, Subchapter 34, to expand the provisions of the Kentucky Reinvestment Act to include non-retail service or technology reinvestment projects and headquarters reinvestment projects that have a least 200 full-time employees, agree to maintain at least 85 percent of the number of full-time employees employed at the facility on the date the company receives preliminary approval, and make at least a $2.5 million capital investment in the Commonwealth; cap the amount of tax credits committed in each fiscal year by the authority for all headquarters reinvestment projects and service or technology reinvestment projects at $7 million; amend KRS 141.415 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB462/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB462.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268052,"bill_number":"HB458","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency management.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 39E to create a cost recovery program for hazardous materials teams and fire departments, and establish liabilities; amend KRS 39E.060 to authorize the Kentucky Emergency Management Commission to commence any civil action necessary in assisting hazardous materials teams and fire departments in recovering costs relating to the release of any hazardous substance; amend KRS 39E.040 to expand the duties of the commission; repeal, reenact and amend KRS 39E.190 to specify notification protocol in the event of hazardous substance release or imminent release that exceeds or could exceed authorized limits.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"recommitted to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB458/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB458.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268113,"bill_number":"SB162","title":"AN ACT relating to intermediate-care facilities for the evaluation, care, and treatment of mentally retarded persons.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to require the cabinet to contract without soliciting competing proposals for operating ICF/MR facilities if specific conditions are met; require the cabinet to develop a request for proposals for competing contracts if the conditions are not met; require the cabinet to contract without soliciting competing proposals for operating outpatient dental, medical, or psychiatric clinics at ICF/MR facilities if specific conditions are met; require the cabinet to develop a request for proposals for competing contracts if the conditions are not met.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB162/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB162.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268139,"bill_number":"SB20","title":"AN ACT relating to university board membership.","description":"Amend KRS 164.131 to add 1 nonvoting student member to the University of Kentucky's board of trustees; amend KRS 164.321 to add 1 nonvoting student member to the board of regents of each comprehensive university and 2 nonvoting student members to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; amend KRS 164.821 to add 1 nonvoting student member to the University of Louisville's board of trustees.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-22","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB20/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB20.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268161,"bill_number":"SB161","title":"AN ACT relating to the criminal justice system, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to establish the sentencing policy of the Commonwealth; create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to declare the primary objectives of the Department of Corrections; amend KRS 446.010 to add pertinent definitions; create a new section of KRS 218A to declare findings of the General Assembly regarding controlled substances and treatment; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 218A, relating to controlled substances, to define quantities and to otherwise modify elements of offenses and penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to provide for pretrial release; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to allow deferred prosecution for possession cases; amend KRS 218A.275 and 218A.276 to permit risk and needs assessments for treatment and expungement of misdemeanor possession cases upon successful completion of treatment; create new sections of KRS Chapter 196 requiring the Department of Corrections to analyze savings from controlled substance modifications and use the savings for treatment, other evidence-based programs, and to expand programs at underused existing facilities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 26A, relating to the Court of Justice, to require the Supreme Court to administer a drug court program; amend KRS 532.080 to specify offenses to which persistent felony offender applies; amend KRS 197.020 to require the department to use a risk and needs assessment; amend KRS 439.3405 to clarify the circumstances for medical release from prison; amend and create various sections of KRS 439.250 to 439.560, relating to probation and parole, to require the use of risk and needs assessments, modify provisions relating to parole hearings, conditions, and deferment, and to require mandatory reentry supervision and postincarceration supervision; amend KRS 532.050, relating to presentence procedure, to require consideration of a risk and needs assessment; create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to permit the Department of Correction to implement conditional parole of specified inmates to jails; amend KRS 532.100 to permit specified Class D felons to serve sentences at county jails; create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to allow approval of any housing option for parolees that fulfills statutory requirements; create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to specify approval of housing options for prisoners on parole or conditional release; amend KRS 532.260, relating to home incarceration, to add conditional release and allow for persons with 9 months or less to serve; create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Supreme Court to create guidelines for judges to use when considering pretrial release and monitored conditional release; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow requiring those on pretrial release to use GPS monitoring; amend KRS 431.015 to allow an officer to issue a citation instead of an arrest for specified misdemeanors; amend KRS 431.525 to set a maximum bail not to exceed the amount of fine and court costs for specified crimes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish pretrial release and considerations for persons based on risk of flight and danger before trial and require credit toward bail based on time spent in jail before trial; create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Supreme Court to use evidence-based programs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to require the Department of Corrections to promulgate regulations regarding the use of evidence-based practices for treatment and supervision programs; create new sections of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to require the Department of Corrections to use evidence-based practices for treatment and supervision programs and to train their employees in the implementation and use of those practices, report on the efforts to implement evidence-based practices, administer a risk and needs assessment upon entry into community supervision and at regular intervals, permit parolees to receive compliance credits, develop a system of graduated sanctions and related procedures, permit modification of probation, establish an administrative caseload supervision program, and require sanctions for failure to comply with conditions of supervision; create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Chief Justice to submit annual reports detailing various court statistics; amend KRS 196.031 to require additional information in the Justice Cabinet's report; create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to require the Department of Corrections to create an online database with specified sentencing information; create new sections of KRS Chapter 196 to require the Department of Corrections to calculate savings from the new provisions and require savings to go into a fund; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 196 to permit the department to create community corrections pilot projects, require report, and to establish a fund; create new section of KRS Chapter 6, relating to the General Assembly, to require more information on fiscal impact statements; amend KRS 441.045 and 441.053 to require the use of the Medicaid rate in billing for jail prisoner medical and related costs; create and amend various other sections in KRS Chapter 441 to require a certificate of need before building a new local correctional facility; amend KRS 533.010 to require the court to consider a defendant's risk and needs assessment before sentencing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 534 to provide a credit for time spent in jail to apply to fines and costs; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 439 to make persons on postincarceration supervision subject to the authority of the Parole Board; amend KRS 532.043, relating to conditional discharge for sex offenses, to modify the supervision to postincarceration supervision and specify that persons on postincarceration supervision are subject to the authority of the Parole Board; provide for the implementation of a pilot project to supervise high-risk probationers; make an appropriation to the department to improve the Kentucky Offender Management System; amend various other sections to conform; EMERGENCY and DELAYED EFFECTIVE DATES.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"floor amendment (2) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB161/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB161.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268176,"bill_number":"SB168","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11A to prohibit a public servant or candidate for statewide elected office from accepting a campaign contribution from a lobbyist; amend KRS 11A.990 to include receiving campaign contributions from lobbyists within the existing Class D penalty provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to prohibit a candidate for statewide elected office from soliciting or accepting campaign contributions from a lobbyist or spouse of a lobbyist; amend KRS 121.015 to include \"lobbyist\" in KRS Chapter 121 definitions; amend KRS 121.120 to require candidates and slates of candidates for statewide office and their campaign committees to file electronically with the registry if contributions, loans, or campaign account balances exceed $25,000; amend KRS 121.180 to establish a single campaign finance reporting threshold of $5,000; to require candidates to file campaign finance reports 15 and 30 days prior to the primary, and 15, 30, and 60 days prior to the regular election, and to require candidates for statewide office to additionally file a report 60 days prior to the primary; change the filing deadline for supplemental reports from not later than ten days after November 1 to not later than ten days after December 31; amend KRS 121.990 to include receiving campaign contributions from lobbyists within the existing Class D penalty provisions; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB168/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB168.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268182,"bill_number":"SB15","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky School Patriot Act.","description":"Amend KRS 158.175 to require each school to designate a period of time during the school day for the recitation of the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States; provide that students not participating in the recitation may quietly stand or remain seated, but shall respect the rights of those pupils electing to participate; provide that this provision be known as the Kentucky School Patriot Act.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-18","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB15/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB15.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268217,"bill_number":"SB156","title":"AN ACT relating to vehicle weight limits.","description":"Amend KRS 189.222 to allow a ten percent weight tolerance for commercial motor vehicles engaged in transporting agricultural products, livestock, poultry, and primary forest products from their point of origin to the first market, except those on interstate highways.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-01","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB156/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB156.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268230,"bill_number":"HB464","title":"AN ACT relating to the correction of factual errors in state-adopted textbooks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures for reviewing and resolving claims of factual errors found in textbooks after adoption by the State Textbook Commission.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB464/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB464.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268231,"bill_number":"SB155","title":"AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 120.055 to specify that the Rules of Civil Procedure govern service of process in a primary contest proceeding, to provide grounds upon which a contest may be brought, and to require the Circuit Judge to enter an order directing all voting materials to be placed in the custody of the circuit clerk; amend KRS 120.065 to restate the standard of review in a contest to a preponderance of the evidence and to establish that a court may determine an election is void or valid; amend KRS 120.075 to specify that a supersedeas bond be executed if necessary following an appeal of the Circuit Court judgment; amend KRS 120.095 to specify how bond amount for a primary contest is established, to require that records be transferred to custody of Circuit court to maintain security consistent with regulations, and to specify how a recount of the votes is conducted in a contest of a primary; amend KRS 120.155 to specify that the Rules of Civil Procedure govern service of process in an election contest and to provide grounds upon which contest may be brought; amend KRS 120.165 to restate the standard of review in a contest to a preponderance of the evidence and to establish that a court may determine an election is void or valid; amend KRS 120.185 to specify how bond amount for an election recount is established, to require that records be transferred to custody of Circuit Court to maintain security consistent with regulations, and to specify how a recount of the votes is conducted in an election; declare EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2011-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB155/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB155.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268242,"bill_number":"HB460","title":"AN ACT relating to auctioneer services.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 426 to permit a court upon the request of a creditor or mortgage holder to secure the services of an auctioneer licensed in this state to conduct the public sale, fix the auctioneer's fee, and order the fee to be paid out of the proceeds of the sale; include caps for the licensed auctioneer's fee that do not include expenses and fees incurred by the master commissioner for the sale under KRS 31A.010(4); require the master commissioner to employ a licensed auctioneer to handle the sale upon terms and conditions acceptable to the creditor or mortgage holder; require the sale to be conducted on the site of real property to be sold if the public sale is conducted by a licensed auctioneer; permit a master commissioner who is also a licensed auctioneer to recover fees for acting in his or her capacity as master or special commissioner under KRS 31A.010(4), but prohibit the master commissioner from collecting any extra fee for acting as an auctioneer; clarify that nothing contained in this section waives any provision of KRS 426.160, 426.200, or 426.560.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-03","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB460/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB460.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268255,"bill_number":"SB154","title":"AN ACT relating to preneed cremation authorizations.","description":"Amend KRS 367.97527 to require a crematory authority to follow a preneed cremation authorization unless a motion has been filed and a temporary injunction issued; provide procedure for filing an appeal in District Court; specify that person filing the appeal is responsible for all costs associated with storing remains; allow a decedent's authorizing agent to appeal if the court's decision is contrary to preneed cremation authorization.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB154/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB154.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268305,"bill_number":"SB158","title":"AN ACT relating to the sale of alcohol on Sunday.","description":"Prohibit souvenir retail liquor sales on Sunday.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB158/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB158.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268349,"bill_number":"SB159","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to provide for expungement of one Class D felony or series of Class D felonies arising from a single incident and the restoration of all rights of the defendant. The expungement is not available for a person convicted of a Class D felony involving a sex offense, controlled substances tracking offense, or an offense against a minor child; amend KRS 431.076 relating to expungement of records of persons found not guilty or against whom charges have been dropped add offenses where a person's case was referred to the grand jury and the grand jury did not indict the person within one year of the referral; amend KRS 17.142 relating to arrest records to conform; amend KRS 610.300 relating to records in juvenile public offense cases to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB159/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB159.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268352,"bill_number":"SB164","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 252.200 to rewrite for clarity; and make grammatical and technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"returned to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB164/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB164.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268387,"bill_number":"SB16","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 131.650 and KRS 131.652 to make technical corrections relating to the Department of Revenue.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB16/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB16.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268389,"bill_number":"HB457","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle reparation benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 304.39-241 to permit an insured's attorney to direct reparation benefits within and among elements of loss and specify items to be paid within each element of loss; permit an insured, or an insured's attorney, to direct the payment of benefits to a collateral source for any element of loss paid by the collateral source; require reparation obligors to honor any written direction of benefits provided by an insured, or an insured's attorney, on a prospective basis.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"3rd reading, passed 37-0","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB457/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB457.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268409,"bill_number":"SB165","title":"AN ACT relating to State Personnel.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.130 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB165/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB165.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268421,"bill_number":"SB160","title":"AN ACT relating to early education screening and intervention.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define \"aphasia,\" \"dyscalculia,\" \"dysgraphia,\" \"dyslexia,\" \"phonemic awareness,\" and \"scientifically based research\"; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations requiring districtwide implementation of a screening and response to intervention system in grades K-3; designate the components of the system; prohibit waiver of the requirement; require the Department of Education to make available technical assistance, training, and a Web-based resource to assist all local school districts in the implementation of the system and instructional tools based on scientifically based research; require the department to collaborate with other state agencies and organizations; require conformity with 20 U.S.C. 1414(a)(1)(E) for initial evaluations of students with suspected disabilities; require the department to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education on implementation by November 30, 2012, and annually thereafter; amend KRS 157.200 to conform with the federal definition of a \"specific learning disability\"; amend KRS 157.196 to conform with federal use of term \"individualized education program\" (IEP); require consideration of relevant scientifically based research in the formulation and implementation of the IEP.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB160/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB160.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268431,"bill_number":"SB153","title":"AN ACT relating to special districts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; provide for local legislative body approval in taxing districts for ad valorem rate changes that produce increased revenues and changes in charges by non-taxing districts that will produce increased revenues; establish procedures for submission of proposed changes to rates or charges and their approval or disapproval; amend KRS 220.035 to require districts governed by KRS 220.135 to submit proposed service charges, user fees, and any other charges, as defined in Section 1 of this Act for approval of appropriate local legislative bodies.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB153/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB153.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268492,"bill_number":"SB166","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 189.930 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"returned to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB166/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB166.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268518,"bill_number":"SCR110","title":"Urge the Kentucky Department of Agriculture to maintain lines of communication and cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture in monitoring the livestock industry in the state.","description":"Urge the Kentucky Department of Agriculture to maintain lines of communication and cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture in monitoring the livestock industry in the state.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR110/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SC110.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268534,"bill_number":"HB465","title":"AN ACT relating to the enactment of an interstate racing and wagering compact.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to authorize and direct the Governor to execute an interstate compact on participation in live horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering activities; define terms; establish compact commission and assign powers and duties; establish rule making procedure; permit compact commission to assess fees; establish rights and responsibilities of member states, restrictions on authority, and construction, saving, and severability; establish effective provision based upon enactment by no less than six states.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-01","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB465/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB465.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268537,"bill_number":"HB454","title":"AN ACT relating to the interest rate on overpayments and underpayment of tax.","description":"Amend KRS 131.183 to apply the calculated interest rate to both overpayments and underpayments; applies retroactively to all outstanding refund claims and notices of tax due.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB454/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB454.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268538,"bill_number":"HB452","title":"AN ACT relating to property taxes.","description":"Amend KRS 132.220 to restore language previously in the statutes relating to interests in property that can be assessed for taxes and establishing a priority among various individuals with interests in property relating to taxes; amend KRS 133.130 to clarify the process for exonerating asssessments; amend KRS 134.010 to amend the definition of \"taxpayer\" to conform to other definitions of \"taxpayer\" used throughout the statutes relating to property taxes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB452/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB452.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268547,"bill_number":"SB163","title":"AN ACT relating to posting of legislators' per diem requests on the Internet.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 7 to require the Legislative Research Commission to post legislators' requests for reimbursement on the Internet.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB163/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB163.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":268549,"bill_number":"HB461","title":"AN ACT relating to the involuntary commitment of individuals with an acquired or traumatic brain injury.","description":"Establish and create and KRS Chapter 202C related to the involuntary commitment of individuals with an acquired or traumatic brain injury; define terms; establish the authority for the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; establish requirements for District Courts related to these individuals; establish facility requirements and procedures; establish specific population to be served; establish rights and responsibilities of facility patients; establish requirements and procedures for facility staff; amend KRS 202A.400 to establish new provisions related to monetary liability against a mental health professional; amend KRS 202A.410 to include \"specialized nursing facility\" as an involuntary commitment facility.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-11","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB461/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB461.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270793,"bill_number":"HB471","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to terms of members of the General Assembly.","description":"Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to limit the number of consecutive years that a Senator may serve in the Senate and that a Representative may serve in the House to 12 years.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB471/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB471.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270797,"bill_number":"HCR139","title":"Create a legislative task force to study funding for elementary and secondary education; require task force to hear testimony from various professional agencies and organizations; and require task force to report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 15, 2011.","description":"Create a legislative task force to study funding for elementary and secondary education; require task force to hear testimony from various professional agencies and organizations; and require task force to report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 15, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR139/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC139.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270802,"bill_number":"HB483","title":"AN ACT relating to utility terminations.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to limit regulated electric and gas utilities from terminating customers during cold weather; require utilities to maintain records regarding notification of customers at risk of termination.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB483/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB483.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270803,"bill_number":"HB480","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 11A.010 to require that the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System board of trustees and members of the Judicial Form Retirement System who are not subject to legislative or judicial branch code of ethics shall be subject to the executive branch code of ethics; amend KRS 21.440 to require that the audit of the Judicial Form Retirement System shall be performed by the Auditor of Public Accounts at least once every five years and require the system to pay all costs of the audit; amend KRS 21.530 to prohibit members of the Judicial Form Retirement System from serving more than three consecutive terms of office on the board and prohibit the board chairman from serving more than six consecutive years as chairman; amend KRS 21.540 to prohibit assets of the Judicial Form Retirement System from being used to pay placement agents, as defined by that section; require the Judicial Form Retirement System to make system expenditures and employee salaries available on a Web site; establish conflict-of-interest provisions applicable to trustees and employees of the Kentucky Judicial Form Retirement System; amend KRS 61.645 to apply the term limits applicable to elected trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems board to appointed trustees; provide that terms served prior to July 1, 2011, shall be used to determine if a trustee has exceeded the term limits prescribed in this section; prohibit the chair of the Kentucky Retirement Systems board from serving more than six consecutive years as chair; require the Kentucky Retirement Systems' audit to be completed by the Auditor of Public Accounts at least once every five years and require the systems to pay all costs of the audit; require the Kentucky Retirement Systems to make system expenditures and employee salaries available on a Web site; prohibit assets of the Kentucky Retirement Systems from being used to pay placement agents as defined by that section; amend KRS 61.655 to include employees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems; in conflict-of-interest provisions regarding their service to the systems; include additional restrictions to the conflict-of-interest provisions applicable to employees and trustees of the board; amend KRS 161.250 to provide that terms served prior to July 1, 2011, shall be used to determine if an elective trustee of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System has exceeded term limits established under the section; require the system to make system expenditures and employee salaries available on a Web site; amend KRS 161.340 to prohibit the chairperson of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System board from serving more than six consecutive years as chairperson; amend KRS 161.370 to require the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System audit to be completed by the Auditor of Public Accounts at least once every five years and require the system to pay all costs of the audit; amend KRS 161.430 to prohibit assets of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System from being used to pay placement agents as defined by that section; amend KRS 161.460 to include additional restrictions to the conflict-of-interest provisions applicable to employees and trustees of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System; provide in noncodified sections, that trustees of the Kentucky Retirement Systems and Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System boards who are serving more than three four-year terms on the effective date of this Act shall be removed from office; trustees of the Judicial Form Retirement System who are serving more than the prescribed term limits on the effective date of this Act are allowed to complete their remaining term of office; the ban on placement agents applies to contracts established or renewed on or after July 1, 2011; that terms of office served prior to the effective date of this Act as board chair, chairman, or chairperson shall be used to determine if a current chair, chairman, or chairperson of the Kentucky Retirement Systems, Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, or Judicial Form Retirement System board has exceeded the prescribed term limits.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-24","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2011-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB480/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB480.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270820,"bill_number":"HB477","title":"AN ACT relating to variances from gas drilling permit requirements.","description":"Amend KRS 353.510 to define \"qualified formation\"; and amend KRS 353.620 to exempt proposed wells that would produce gas from qualified formations from the 1,000 foot spacing requirement of KRS 353.610(2) and the hearing requirement for proposed gas permit variances under KRS 353.620(2) if certain conditions are met.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-24","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB477/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB477.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270836,"bill_number":"HB489","title":"AN ACT relating to civil actions.","description":"Amend KRS 395.278 to require that applications to revive a case be brought by motion with notice to the other parties in the case.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB489/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB489.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270837,"bill_number":"HB467","title":"AN ACT relating to operator's license renewal.","description":"Amend KRS 186.412 to require persons who are 80 years of age or older and wish to renew an operator's license to present a letter from a licensed physician attesting that the applicant does not have a medical condition that would impair his or her ability to drive, and either present a letter from a licensed ophthalmologist or optometrist attesting that the applicant passed a vision acuity examination using the standards established in Section 2 of this Act no longer than 90 days prior to renewal or pass a visual acuity examination administered using the standards established in KRS 186.577, prior to renewal; amend KRS 186.577 to include the visual acuity examination requirement established in Section 1 of this Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB467/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB467.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270838,"bill_number":"HCR143","title":"Create a legislative task force to study funding for elementary and secondary education; require task force to hear testimony from various professional agencies and organizations; and require task force to report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 15, 2011.","description":"Create a legislative task force to study funding for elementary and secondary education; require task force to hear testimony from various professional agencies and organizations; and require task force to report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 15, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR143/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC143.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270841,"bill_number":"HCR136","title":"Establish a Timber Theft and Trespass Reduction Task Force; provide that the purpose of the task force is to study issues regarding timber theft and trespass and to develop consensus recommendations to address those issues; name the membership of the task force; require the task force to meet three times before submitting its final report; require its final report to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2011; and provide that the Legislative Research Commission has authority to alternatively assign the issues identified in the Resolution to interim joint committees or subcommittees thereof.","description":null,"status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR136/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC136.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270853,"bill_number":"HB490","title":"AN ACT relating to actions against cities.","description":"Repeal KRS 411.110, \"Action against city for injury from defect in thoroughfare.\"","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-18","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB490/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB490.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270855,"bill_number":"HCR127","title":"Express concern about the scope, justification and substance of the United States Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement's stream protection rule, recommending that the agency provide objective and scientific data to determine whether regulatory changes are necessary urge the representatives and senators representing Kentucky in U.S. Congress to withhold funds from the agency enforcing the stream protection rule until justification is provided.","description":"Express concern about the scope, justification and substance of the United States Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement's stream protection rule, recommending that the agency provide objective and scientific data to determine whether regulatory changes are necessary urge the representatives and senators representing Kentucky in U.S. Congress to withhold funds from the agency enforcing the stream protection rule until justification is provided.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR127/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC127.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270859,"bill_number":"HCR128","title":"Express concern about the scope, justification and substance of the United States Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement's stream protection rule, recommending that the agency provide objective and scientific data to determine whether regulatory changes are necessary; urge the representatives and senators representing Kentucky in U.S. Congress to withhold funds from the agency enforcing the stream protection rule until justification is provided.","description":"Express concern about the scope, justification and substance of the United States Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement's stream protection rule, recommending that the agency provide objective and scientific data to determine whether regulatory changes are necessary; urge the representatives and senators representing Kentucky in U.S. Congress to withhold funds from the agency enforcing the stream protection rule until justification is provided.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-03-02","last_action":"returned to Committee on Committees (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-04","committee":"Committee on Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR128/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC128.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270865,"bill_number":"HCR126","title":"Urge Congress to pass legislation to prohibit US EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, impose a moratorium on nonemergency air quality regulations, and require a study of the economic impact of US EPA's current and planned regulatory actions.","description":"Urge Congress to pass legislation to prohibit US EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, impose a moratorium on nonemergency air quality regulations, and require a study of the economic impact of US EPA's current and planned regulatory actions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-01","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR126/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC126.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270887,"bill_number":"HB468","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 118.315 to specify that the petitioner requirements for an officer of an entire county and a division less than a county includes counties with merged governments unless otherwise specified in the charter or local ordinance of the merged government, and to require legibly printed names on the petition.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB468/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB468.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270890,"bill_number":"HB487","title":"AN ACT relating to electrical inspections and licensure.","description":"Repeal and reenact all necessary sections of KRS 227.450 to 227.530, relating to electricians and electrical inspecting, as new sections of KRS Chapter 227A, relating to electrician licensure; establish permit requirements; set conditions for appointment as an electrical inspector; describe conditions where localities, including combinations of localities, may oversee electrical inspection and permitting; establish electrical inspector reporting and surety bond requirements; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations for fee schedules, inspection protocols, and reporting forms; set procedures for inspections and for dealing with work conducted without a permit; amend KRS 227A.010 to define \"alteration,\" \"commissioner,\" \"division,\" \"electrical inspector,\" and \"repair\"; amend KRS 227A.050 to send fees and other moneys to the department’s trust and agency account for the purposes of administering and enforcing all of KRS Chapter 227A; deposit all interest accrued by the account back into the account; amend KRS 227A.130 to add electrical inspection and permitting penalties to KRS Chapter 227A; amend KRS 198B.060 to allow local government petitions for electrical permits; clarify that the state will provide a certified electrical inspector for new building approvals; amend KRS 227.205 to create the electrical division within the department; amend KRS 132.815, 211.350, and 227A.030 to conform; repeal KRS 227.450 and 227.500.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB487/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB487.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270891,"bill_number":"HB486","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensure of medical imaging technologists and radiation therapists and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create KRS Chapter 311B, a new chapter relating to the licensure of medical imaging technologists and radiation therapists; establish legislative policy favoring regulation by a licensing board; define terms; create the Kentucky Board for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to license and regulate advanced practice professionals, medical imaging technologists, radiation therapists, and limited x-ray machine operators; set up board membership, meeting, and other procedural requirements; establish board powers and duties generally, including promulgating administrative regulations to administer and enforce the chapter, setting licensing requirements, and hiring an executive director and other board administrative staff; set minimum qualifications and powers of the executive director; require the board to recognize and enforce the standards of the national organizations for the medical imaging and radiation therapy professions; forbid practice of the regulated professions without a license from the board; exempt practitioners of the healing arts, students, and federal government employees from the chapter; list those professions requiring a license from the board; authorize the board to establish the qualifications for acquiring and maintaining licensure, with the power to identify other specialties or categories of duties consistent with KRS Chapter 311B; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations to set licensing fees; establish a trust and agency fund from licensing and other fees for use by the board; waive fees and set special procedures for licensees serving in the United States Armed Forces; allow claiming to be a licensee, employing an imaging or radiation professional, or manipulating ionizing radiation equipment or administering radiopharmaceuticals only if the person is licensed under the chapter; require licensees or employers of licensees to alert the board when a licensee has committed certain acts or has become unfit or incompetent to practice; list reasons the board may deny, revoke, or suspend a license; describe procedures for administrative hearings for licensee discipline; define conditions for instituting civil penalties; authorize the board to set reasonable fines through the promulgation of administrative regulations; repeal KRS 211.870, 211.890, and 211.993; set procedures for initial board appointments.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB486/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB486.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270897,"bill_number":"HB484","title":"AN ACT relating to information used in redistricting and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to require the Department of Corrections to create and maintain a database of information on incarcerated persons, including last known address, and to report that information to the Legislative Research Commission following the decennial census; amend KRS 7.550 to require the Legislative Research Commission to receive prisoner population data, including last known address, from the Department of Corrections and to request the same information from federal facilities, and to allocate prisoners to their last known address; create a new section of KRS Chapter 5 to require that the adjusted prisoner population data be used in redistricting Kentucky's Senatorial and Representative districts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 118B to require that the adjusted prisoner population data be used in redistricting Kentucky's Congressional districts; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB484/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB484.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270898,"bill_number":"HB494","title":"AN ACT relating to the purchase of health insurance from out-of-state insurers.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the Department of Insurance to authorize out-of-state insurers to offer health benefit plans in Kentucky; authorize the commissioner to conduct market and solvency examinations in accordance with Subtitle 2 of KRS Chapter 304 of the out-of-state companies offering health benefit plans to Kentucky residents; authorize the exemption of Kentucky state-mandated health benefits from out-of-state health benefit plans; require the out-of-state insurer to include language in the application for a plan and in the policy for a health benefit plan to make it obvious that the insurer is regulated by the laws of another state, the Kentucky Department of Insurance does not have jurisdiction over the insurer, and Kentucky's health benefit mandates do not apply; provide that the laws and regulation of Kentucky are not applicable to out-of-state health benefit plans; amend KRS 304.17A.005 to provide that plans offered by out-of-state insurers are within the definition of \"health benefit plan.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB494/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB494.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270903,"bill_number":"HB482","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Amend KRS 139.470 to remove all references to repair, replacement, or spare parts from the materials, supplies, and industrial tools exemption; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB482/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB482.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270913,"bill_number":"HB478","title":"AN ACT relating to budget memoranda.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 48.200 to 48.316 to allow the chair of the Senate or House Appropriations and Revenue Committee to direct the preparation of a document describing the changes and development of a branch budget bill; provide that the document shall be for use of the General Assembly and the public; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to delete all references to budget memoranda; amend KRS 45.031 and 48.620 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB478/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB478.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270919,"bill_number":"HB491","title":"AN ACT relating to unfair claim settlement practices.","description":"Amend KRS 304.39-210 to state that persons may pursue claims for damages under Kentucky's unfair claims settlement law in addition to the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Reparations Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB491/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB491.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270938,"bill_number":"HB473","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.202 to require certain practitioners authorized to prescribe controlled substances to register for electronic access to the controlled substance monitoring system created by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB473/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB473.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270941,"bill_number":"HB492","title":"AN ACT relating to local occupational taxes.","description":"Amend KRS 68.197 to make a technical amendment.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-18","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB492/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB492.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270950,"bill_number":"HB469","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 67.060 to specify that voters required to sign a candidate's filing form shall be voters residing in the candidate's district; amend KRS 83A.170 to delete language relating to a voter signing multiple petitions of nomination in nonpartisan primaries; amend KRS 118.105 to specify that a disqualified candidate is not eligible to fill a vacancy in candidacy and that if a vacancy in candidacy occurs in a race with an unopposed candidate that the opposite party may nominate a candidate; amend KRS 118.125, 118.315, 118A.060, and 118A.100 to require that candidate and registered voters signing nomination papers include a legible, printed name and to specify that failure to include a legible name results in the signature not being counted; amend KRS 118.591 to conform; amend KRS 160.190 to require that vacancy in board of education position with unexpired term of one (1) year or more be placed on ballot for write-in voting if no candidate files a petition of nomination for the vacancy; amend KRS 160.210 to conform; amend KRS 160.220 to govern filing and vote certification procedures in school districts whose boundaries extend beyond a single county; make provisions related to nomination papers effective November 1, 2011.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB469/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB469.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270964,"bill_number":"HB474","title":"AN ACT relating to a power of attorney.","description":"Amend KRS 386.093 to provide that an attorney in fact, appointed under a power of attorney, shall not have the right to waive the principal's civil or constitutional rights or restrict the principal's freedom.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB474/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB474.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270975,"bill_number":"HB479","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal sentencing credits.","description":"Amend KRS 532.050 to require the inclusion of a preliminary calculation of sentencing credit awarded for prior confinement to be included in a presentence report; amend KRS 532.120 to transfer the responsibility for awarded sentence credit for prior confinement from a sentencing court to the Department of Corrections, except where the credit would entitle the defendant to immediate discharge upon pronouncement of sentence; amend KRS 197.045 to divide the allowable types of sentencing credits into mandatory and discretionary categories; amend KRS 439.3401 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB479/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB479.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270993,"bill_number":"HB476","title":"AN ACT relating to persistently low-achieving or at-risk schools.","description":"Amend KRS 160.346 to clarify the definition of \"persistently low-achieving school\"; define \"at-risk school\"; change the school and district audit process; change membership of school and district audit teams; change the \"restaffing option\" to conform to guidance from the United States Department of Education; add a \"comprehensive turnaround option\"; provide discretion to local boards of education and superintendents to implement alternative models.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB476/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB476.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270995,"bill_number":"HB472","title":"AN ACT relating to public health dental services.","description":"Amend KRS 211.190 to require the cabinet to establish programs to provide oral health screenings for school children and initiatives to ensure access to dental care; require public education on matters relating to oral health.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed","last_action_date":"2011-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB472/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB472.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":270997,"bill_number":"HCR138","title":"Urge Congress to direct more resources and attention to providing treatment to combat military personnel and combat veterans suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and other combat-related stress disorders.","description":"Urge Congress to direct more resources and attention to providing treatment to combat military personnel and combat veterans suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and other combat-related stress disorders.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR138/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC138.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":271001,"bill_number":"HB488","title":"AN ACT relating to public-private transportation partnerships.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 175B and amend KRS 175B.005, 175B.010, and 175B.020 to permit creation of public-private partnerships for infrastructure development, set forth the duties and responsibilities of public-private partnerships.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB488/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB488.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":271025,"bill_number":"HCR134","title":"Honor and recognize Kentucky's female athletes.","description":"Honor and recognize Kentucky's female athletes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR134/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC134.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":271032,"bill_number":"HB481","title":"AN ACT relating to marinas.","description":"Amend KRS 235.230 to require marinas that have not passed an electrical inspection to post signs warning swimmers of potential electrical hazard; prohibit marinas that have not passed an electrical inspection by August 1, 2011, from allowing motorboats to connect to the marina's electrical system; specify electrical inspection process.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB481/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB481.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":271034,"bill_number":"HB485","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of Law.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to provide that the Attorney General may, after notice, bring legal action against the federal government to recover public moneys expended by the Commonwealth for the care of illegal aliens.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB485/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB485.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":271039,"bill_number":"HB475","title":"AN ACT relating to historic properties.","description":"Amend KRS 11.026 to increase the membership of the Historic Properties Advisory Commission from 14 to 18; add the spouses of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor as ex officio members of the commission; amend KRS 42.019 to include education and experience requirements to the position of director of the Division of Historic Properties/state curator; list the responsibilities of the state curator.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB475/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB475.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":271045,"bill_number":"HB466","title":"AN ACT relating to the salaries of county officials whose duties or jurisdictions are coextensive with that of the Commonwealth.","description":"Amend KRS 64.5275 to prohibit the reduction of salary of a county judge/executive, county clerk, jailer operating a full service jail, or sheriff, who consecutively holds the same office, when a reduction in county population requires a reclassification of the county group to which the official belongs; make retroactive to December 31, 2010.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-14","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-15","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB466/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB466.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":271047,"bill_number":"HB470","title":"AN ACT relating to mortgage originator licensing.","description":"Amend KRS 286.8-290 to require that a natural person may originate a mortgage loan secured by a dwelling that served as the natural person's own residence.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2011-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB470/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB470.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":271048,"bill_number":"HB493","title":"AN ACT relating to protective orders.","description":"Amend KRS 403.740 and 403.745 to provide that if the adverse party has been served with the summons, the hearing, currently required within 14 days of issuance of the summons, may be continued beyond the 14-day period if the parties are in agreement.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-28","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-02","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB493/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB493.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":273379,"bill_number":"SCR139","title":"Urge the United States Attorney General to investigate and prosecute those persons whose criminal conduct contributed to the financial crisis, and direct distribution of the resolution.","description":"Urge the United States Attorney General to investigate and prosecute those persons whose criminal conduct contributed to the financial crisis, and direct distribution of the resolution.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2011-02-17","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR139/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SC139.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":273475,"bill_number":"SCR134","title":"Urge Congress to call an Article V convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced federal budget.","description":"Urge Congress to call an Article V convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced federal budget.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-02-22","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2011-02-25","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR134/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SC134.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":296942,"bill_number":"HCR228","title":"Adjourn the 2011 Regular Session of the General Assembly until March 21, 2011.","description":"Adjourn the 2011 Regular Session of the General Assembly until March 21, 2011.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-08","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2011-03-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR228/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HC228.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":297448,"bill_number":"SCR258","title":"Adjourn the 2011 Regular Session of the General Assembly sine die.","description":"Adjourn the 2011 Regular Session of the General Assembly sine die.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-09","last_action":"adopted 35-2","last_action_date":"2011-03-09","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR258/2011","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SC258.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415224,"bill_number":"HB1","title":"AN ACT amending 2010-2012 branch budget bills, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend 2010 (1st Extra. Sess.) Kentucky Acts Chapter 1, the state/executive branch budget, to reallocate funds from fiscal year 2011-2012 to fiscal year 2010-2011 for Medicaid and postsecondary institutions; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Enrolled","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"line items","last_action_date":"2011-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB1/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HB1.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415240,"bill_number":"HB2","title":"AN ACT relating to school dropout prevention.","description":"Amend KRS 159.010 to require compulsory attendance for children ages 6 to 17 by July 1, 2015, and for children ages 6 to 18 by July 1, 2016; continue dropout conferences until July 1, 2016; make technical corrections; amend KRS 159.020 to conform; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to clarify the purpose of alternative education programs; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing definitions, policies, and guidelines for student assignment and data collection protocols relative to alternative education programs; require local school districts to track the academic progress of students enrolled in alternative education programs; require the Kentucky Department of Education to file a data report by December 1, 2013, and annually thereafter, to the Interim Joint Committee on Education; require the use of experienced and certified teachers; prohibit assignment of inexperienced teachers to alternative education programs, except if the commissioner of education grants a waiver of the requirement; prohibit assignment of teachers and staff being disciplined to alternative education programs; require appropriate staff development; require districts to track expenditures and report them to the Kentucky Department of Education; amend KRS 158.812 to add language stating the intent of the General Assembly relative to career and technical education programs.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-16","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB2/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HB2.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415256,"bill_number":"HB3","title":"AN ACT amending the 2010-2012 executive branch budget bill, relating to Medicaid and Postsecondary Education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend 2010 (1st Extra. Sess.) Kentucky Acts Chapter 1, the state/executive branch budget, to reallocate funds from fiscal year 2011-2012 to fiscal year 2010-2011 for Medicaid and Postsecondary Institutions; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-03-14","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB3/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HB3.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415272,"bill_number":"HR1","title":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2011 First Extraordinary Session of the House of Representatives.","description":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2011 First Extraordinary Session of the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR1/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR1.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415287,"bill_number":"HR2","title":"Invite pastors of Frankfort churches to open daily sessions of the 2011 Extraordinary Session with prayer.","description":"Invite pastors of Frankfort churches to open daily sessions of the 2011 Extraordinary Session with prayer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR2/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR2.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415305,"bill_number":"HR3","title":"Adjourn in honor of Wendell Berry upon receiving the National Humanities Medal.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Wendell Berry upon receiving the National Humanities Medal.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR3/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR3.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415320,"bill_number":"HR4","title":"Adjourn in honor and appreciation of J. H. Fletcher & Co. for the new manufacturing facility in Wurtland, Kentucky.","description":"Adjourn in honor and appreciation of J. H. Fletcher & Co. for the new manufacturing facility in Wurtland, Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR4/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR4.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415336,"bill_number":"HR5","title":"Adjourn in honor of Jamie Emmons upon receiving a Pollie Award for Local Campaign Manager of the Year from the American Association of Political Consultants.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Jamie Emmons upon receiving a Pollie Award for Local Campaign Manager of the Year from the American Association of Political Consultants.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR5/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR5.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415352,"bill_number":"HR6","title":"Encourage all Americans to contribute to the recovery of the Japanese people both materially and spiritually; express appreciation to those who have already taken part in that effort; adjourn the House of Representatives in remembrance of those affected by the tragic events in Japan.","description":"Encourage all Americans to contribute to the recovery of the Japanese people both materially and spiritually; express appreciation to those who have already taken part in that effort; adjourn the House of Representatives in remembrance of those affected by the tragic events in Japan.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR6/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR6.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415368,"bill_number":"HR7","title":"Adjourn in honor of Representative Ruth Ann Palumbo for her 20 years of service and for being the longest-serving female legislator in the General Assembly.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Representative Ruth Ann Palumbo for her 20 years of service and for being the longest-serving female legislator in the General Assembly.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR7/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR7.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415384,"bill_number":"HR8","title":"Adjourn in honor of the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team and 2011 Southeastern Conference Tournament MVP Darius Miller.","description":"Adjourn in honor of the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team and 2011 Southeastern Conference Tournament MVP Darius Miller.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR8/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR8.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415400,"bill_number":"HR9","title":"Adjourn in honor of the Rockcastle County Lady Rockets for winning the 2011 KHSAA Girls Sweet Sixteen Basketball Tournament.","description":"Adjourn in honor of the Rockcastle County Lady Rockets for winning the 2011 KHSAA Girls Sweet Sixteen Basketball Tournament.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR9/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR9.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415415,"bill_number":"HR10","title":"Honor the Rockcastle County Lady Rockets, 2011 KHSAA Girls' Sweet Sixteen Champions, and urge the Transportation Cabinet to erect highway signs honoring the team and Coach Chrysti Noble along major highway entrances into Rockcastle County.","description":"Honor the Rockcastle County Lady Rockets, 2011 KHSAA Girls' Sweet Sixteen Champions, and urge the Transportation Cabinet to erect highway signs honoring the team and Coach Chrysti Noble along major highway entrances into Rockcastle County.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-16","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-16","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR10/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR10.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415432,"bill_number":"HR11","title":"Adjourn in honor of Calgon Carbon Corporation in Boyd County on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Calgon Carbon Corporation in Boyd County on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR11/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR11.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415447,"bill_number":"HR12","title":"Adjourn in celebration of St. Patrick's Day.","description":"Adjourn in celebration of St. Patrick's Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-17","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-17","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR12/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR12.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415462,"bill_number":"HR13","title":"Recognize and honor Representative Susan Westrom upon being awarded the Assisted Living Federation of America Statesman Award.","description":"Recognize and honor Representative Susan Westrom upon being awarded the Assisted Living Federation of America Statesman Award.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR13/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR13.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415479,"bill_number":"HR14","title":"Honor Debra Gabbard for her hard work and dedication as Assistant Budget Director for the Legislative Research Commission and wish her the very best with her new career as Chief Financial Officer for the Kentucky League of Cities.","description":"Honor Debra Gabbard for her hard work and dedication as Assistant Budget Director for the Legislative Research Commission and wish her the very best with her new career as Chief Financial Officer for the Kentucky League of Cities.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR14/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR14.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415493,"bill_number":"HR15","title":"Memorialize William T. \"Bill\" Gaines and adjourn the House of Representatives in his loving memory and honor.","description":"Memorialize William T. \"Bill\" Gaines and adjourn the House of Representatives in his loving memory and honor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR15/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR15.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415508,"bill_number":"HR16","title":"Honor the members of the 1961 Ashland HS Tomcats upon the 50th anniversary of their Sweet Sixteen Championship","description":"Honor the members of the 1961 Ashland HS Tomcats upon the 50th anniversary of their Sweet Sixteen Championship","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-18","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-18","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR16/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR16.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415524,"bill_number":"HR17","title":"Honor and join in the celebration of the United Methodist Homes for Children and Youth in Versailles upon the occasion of its 140th anniversary and years of hope.","description":"Honor and join in the celebration of the United Methodist Homes for Children and Youth in Versailles upon the occasion of its 140th anniversary and years of hope.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR17/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR17.htm","sponsor":null},
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{"bill_id":415554,"bill_number":"HR19","title":"Adjourn in honor of the Christian County Colonels for winning the 2011 PNC Bank/Kentucky High School Athletic Association Boys' Sweet Sixteen Basketball Tournament.","description":"Adjourn in honor of the Christian County Colonels for winning the 2011 PNC Bank/Kentucky High School Athletic Association Boys' Sweet Sixteen Basketball Tournament.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR19/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR19.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415571,"bill_number":"HR20","title":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in recognition of County Government Month.","description":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in recognition of County Government Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR20/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR20.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415585,"bill_number":"HR21","title":"Join James L. Yates American Legion Post 9 on Veterans Boulevard in Owensboro in honoring the 92nd birthday of the first American Legion Post, which was established on March 7, 1919, in Washington, D.C.","description":"Join James L. Yates American Legion Post 9 on Veterans Boulevard in Owensboro in honoring the 92nd birthday of the first American Legion Post, which was established on March 7, 1919, in Washington, D.C.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR21/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR21.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415602,"bill_number":"HR22","title":"Adjourn in honor of Dale Emmons for being named to the 2011 Dream Team of Political Consultants by Aristotle, an international, nonpartisan campaign software and database powerhouse.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Dale Emmons for being named to the 2011 Dream Team of Political Consultants by Aristotle, an international, nonpartisan campaign software and database powerhouse.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR22/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR22.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415617,"bill_number":"HR23","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ralph Benton Felty.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Ralph Benton Felty.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR23/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR23.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415634,"bill_number":"HR24","title":"Adjourn in honor of the Pikeville College Bears for winning the 2011 Buffalo Funds/NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship.","description":"Adjourn in honor of the Pikeville College Bears for winning the 2011 Buffalo Funds/NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR24/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR24.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415650,"bill_number":"HR25","title":"Adjourn in honor ot the Marion County school district for being nationally recognized by the College Board for its AP achievement.","description":"Adjourn in honor ot the Marion County school district for being nationally recognized by the College Board for its AP achievement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR25/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR25.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415667,"bill_number":"HR26","title":"Recognize March as \"Women's History Month\" and celebrate an historical milestone achieved by the women of the 2011 General Assembly.","description":"Recognize March as \"Women's History Month\" and celebrate an historical milestone achieved by the women of the 2011 General Assembly.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR26/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR26.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415683,"bill_number":"HR27","title":"Honor Denzil Allen for being named the 2011 Floyd County Distinguished Citizen.","description":"Honor Denzil Allen for being named the 2011 Floyd County Distinguished Citizen.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR27/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR27.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415699,"bill_number":"HR28","title":"Honor the Christian County Colonels, 2011 KHSAA Boys' Sweet Sixteen Champions, and urge the Transportation Cabinet to erect highway signs honoring the team along major highway entrances into Christian County.","description":"Honor the Christian County Colonels, 2011 KHSAA Boys' Sweet Sixteen Champions, and urge the Transportation Cabinet to erect highway signs honoring the team along major highway entrances into Christian County.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR28/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR28.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415716,"bill_number":"HR29","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Elizabeth 'Betsy\" Sinnette Hampton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Elizabeth 'Betsy\" Sinnette Hampton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR29/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR29.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415731,"bill_number":"HR30","title":"Adjourn in honor and memory of former Pakistan Minister of Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti.","description":"Adjourn in honor and memory of former Pakistan Minister of Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR30/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR30.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415748,"bill_number":"HR31","title":"Adjourn in honor of Keeneland on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Keeneland on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR31/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/HR31.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415762,"bill_number":"SB1","title":"AN ACT amending the 2010-2012 executive branch budget bill, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend 2010 (1st Extra. Sess.) Kentucky Acts Chapter 1, the state/executive branch budget, to reallocate funds from fiscal year 2011-2012 to fiscal year 2010-2011 for postsecondary educational institutions; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-17","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2011-03-18","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB1/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/SB1.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415779,"bill_number":"SB2","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative pay and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 6.190, 6.211, and 6.220 to establish that compensation, expense allowances, and stationery allowances are awarded to members of the General Assembly only during a regular session, unless legislation enacted during an extraordinary session allows compensation, expense allowances, or stationery allowances for members of the General Assembly during that extraordinary session; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2011-03-14","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2011-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB2/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/SB2.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415795,"bill_number":"SB3","title":"AN ACT amending the 2010-2012 branch budget bills, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend 2010 (1st Extra. Sess.) Kentucky Acts Chapter 1, the state/executive branch budget, to: reduce General Fund appropriations by 0.316 percent in the last quarter of fiscal year 2010-2011 and by 1.58 percent in fiscal year 2011-2012, except for the Local Government Economic Assistance Fund (LGEAF), Local Government Economic Development Fund (LGEDF), Teachers' Retirement System, Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK), Finance Cabinet's debt service, and Postsecondary Education; decrease the School Facilities Construction Commission's General Fund appropriation by $7,800,000; provide that local school districts may choose not to provide a kindergarten aide for each 24 full-time equivalent kindergarten students enrolled and are encouraged to use parent volunteers; provide that a local board of education may adopt a staffing policy that allows individual schools within the district to exceed the maximum class sizes established in statute; provide that local school districts may employ preschool teachers who meet the certification standards that were in place prior to the 2002-2003 school term; reduce SEEK's General Fund appropriation by 0.65 percent in fiscal year 2011-2012; provide $166,500,000 of additional General Fund moneys to Medicaid Benefits; delete Medicaid Benefits budget surplus language; prohibit Medicaid savings from being used to increase or expand optional services, optional beneficiaries, or Medicaid reimbursement rates, unless the expansion of existing services by a managed care provider can be demonstrated to provide an overall cost savings and improved outcome; require the Department for Medicaid Services to reinstate face-to-face interviews for determining eligibility for all applicants and for the renewal of current beneficiaries for the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program; require the Department for Medicaid Services to continue face-to-face interviews for all applicants and for the renewal of current Medicaid beneficiaries, excluding institutionalized Medicaid recipients; provide $18,943,800 of General Fund moneys to postsecondary institutions by reallocating fiscal year 2011-2012 appropriations to fiscal year 2010-2011; reduce postsecondary institutions' General Fund appropriations by 1.58 percent in fiscal year 2011-2012; restore reduction amounts vetoed in fiscal year 2011-2012 for General Fund expenditure reductions, non-merit employee reductions, and contract expenditure reductions; provide that no debt service savings or savings from debt restructuring shall be used to comply with the expenditure reductions mandated for fiscal year 2011-2012; limit the total amount of General Fund debt restructuring for the 2010-2012 fiscal biennium to $202,853,800, the amount originally enacted by the 2010 Special Session of the General Assembly; limit the total amount of Road Fund debt restructuring for the 2010-2012 fiscal biennium to $105,000,000, the amount originally enacted by the 2010 Special Session of the General Assembly; appropriate $22,400,000 of General Fund moneys in fiscal year 2010-2011 and in fiscal year 2011-2012, which is in addition to the Consensus Forecasting Group estimate; direct any unspent debt service to be transferred to the Budget Reserve Trust Fund Account; require the Governor to report monthly to the Legislative Research Commission the status of all budgetary savings and efficiencies that have been achieved; prohibit any language expressing legislative intent regarding a specific appropriation from being reduced by a greater percentage than the reduction of the General Fund appropriation for that budget unit; require all General Fund savings in excess of $83,250,000 in fiscal year 2011-2012 resulting from the implementation of managed care be deposited in the Budget Reserve Trust Fund Account; suspend permissive furlough language until all savings from expenditure reductions, non-merit employee reductions, and contract reductions have been achieved; provide $4,600,000 in fund transfers to the General Fund; amend 2010 (1st Extra. Sess.) Kentucky Acts Chapter 3, the Transportation Cabinet budget, to reduce General Fund appropriations by 0.316 percent in the last quarter of fiscal year 2010-2011 and by 1.58 percent in fiscal year 2011-2012; provide $1,600,000 in fund transfers to the General Fund; amend 2010 Kentucky Acts Chapter 154, the judicial branch budget, to reduce General Fund appropriations by 0.316 percent in the last quarter of fiscal year 2010-2011 and by 1.58 percent in fiscal year 2011-2012, except for judicial retirement; amend 2010 Kentucky Acts Chapter 156, the legislative branch budget, to reduce General Fund appropriations by 0.316 percent in the last quarter of fiscal year 2010-2011 and by 1.58 percent in fiscal year 2011-2012; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2011-03-14","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2011-03-15","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB3/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/SB3.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415811,"bill_number":"SCR10","title":"Express heartfelt condolences and prayers to the people of Japan and encourage humanitarian aid and spiritual support from all Kentuckians as the country recovers from the effects of the devastating earthquake of March 11, 2011.","description":"Express heartfelt condolences and prayers to the people of Japan and encourage humanitarian aid and spiritual support from all Kentuckians as the country recovers from the effects of the devastating earthquake of March 11, 2011.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2011-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR10/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/SC10.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415827,"bill_number":"SCR35","title":"Provide that when the Senate and House of Representatives adjourn on March 24, 2011, they do so to convene again on April 6, 2011.","description":"Provide that when the Senate and House of Representatives adjourn on March 24, 2011, they do so to convene again on April 6, 2011.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2011-03-24","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2011-03-24","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR35/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/SC35.htm","sponsor":null},
{"bill_id":415842,"bill_number":"SCR62","title":"Adjourn the 2011 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly sine die.","description":"Adjourn the 2011 Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly sine die.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2011-04-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2011-04-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR62/2011/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11SS/SC62.htm","sponsor":null}
]