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{"bill_id":437519,"bill_number":"SR12","title":"Honor Mayor Diane Whalen of Florence for being named the 2012 Elected Official of the Year by the Municipal League of Northern Kentucky.","description":"Honor Mayor Diane Whalen of Florence for being named the 2012 Elected Official of the Year by the Municipal League of Northern Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR12/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR12.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437520,"bill_number":"SR11","title":"Honor Randolph J. Poe upon being named 2013 Kentucky Superintendent of the Year.","description":"Honor Randolph J. Poe upon being named 2013 Kentucky Superintendent of the Year.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR11/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR11.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437521,"bill_number":"SR10","title":"Adjourn the Senate in loving memory and honor of former Representative Paul H. Marcotte.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in loving memory and honor of former Representative Paul H. Marcotte.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR10/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR10.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437522,"bill_number":"SR9","title":"Adjourn in honor and memory of Marion County Sheriff's Deputy Carl Anthony Rakes.","description":"Adjourn in honor and memory of Marion County Sheriff's Deputy Carl Anthony Rakes.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR9/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR9.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":437523,"bill_number":"SR8","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Margot E. Cahill.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Margot E. Cahill.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR8/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR8.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437524,"bill_number":"SR7","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Albert \"Butch\" Arlinghaus.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Albert \"Butch\" Arlinghaus.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR7/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR7.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437525,"bill_number":"SR6","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Michael E. Apgar.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Michael E. Apgar.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR6/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR6.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437526,"bill_number":"SR5","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Duane Ray Skavdahl.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Duane Ray Skavdahl.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR5/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR5.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437529,"bill_number":"SJR14","title":"Designate the \"Mike Haydon Memorial Highway\" in Washington County.","description":null,"status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 76)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR14/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ14.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":437530,"bill_number":"SJR13","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to erect signs on United States Highway 25 in Madison County that read, \"Home of the B. Michael Caudill Middle School 2012 World Championship Archery Team.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to erect signs on United States Highway 25 in Madison County that read, \"Home of the B. Michael Caudill Middle School 2012 World Championship Archery Team.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR13/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ13.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":437531,"bill_number":"SB23","title":"AN ACT relating to DNA.","description":"Amend KRS 422.285 and 17.176 to expand the availability of post-conviction DNA testing; amend KRS 524.140 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"2nd reading","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB23/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB23.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437534,"bill_number":"SB22","title":"AN ACT relating to scrap metal recycling.","description":"Amend KRS 433.900 to include construction, industrial, lawn and landscape, and farm equipment to the definition of restricted metals; amend KRS 433.902 to prohibit a secondary metals recycler from conducting business without a certificate of registration issued by the Office of Occupations & Professions; grant the Attorney General authority to enforce provisions of chapter; amend KRS 433.904 to require a secondary metals recycler to send a daily report to an online database pursuant to the requirements of the Department of Kentucky State Police; assessing a fee on a secondary metals recycler for complying with reporting requirements; create new sections of KRS Chapter 433 to require the department to establish or contract with an outside vendor for the secondary metals recycler database; limit access to the database to only a permitted user; forbid a secondary metals recycler from purchasing a motor vehicle without a valid title from owner of the vehicle or unless the sale meets criteria of KRS 186A.295 or 186A.215.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB22/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB22.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":437535,"bill_number":"SB21","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Housing Corporation.","description":"Amend KRS 198A.715 to expand eligibility for funding from the affordable housing trust fund to include sponsors who meet certain requirements and work in connection with rental housing developments that receive low-income tax credits; require the Kentucky Housing Corporation to determine if an applicant for funds is an eligible sponsor that is owned, by majority interest, by a nonprofit organization that materially participates in the development and operation of the rental housing; permit the Kentucky Housing Corporation to amend and determine eligibility rather than the board of directors; make technical corrections regarding the report provided by the Kentucky Housing Corporation to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 198A.720 to extend the time the Kentucky Housing Corporation has to review applications for trust fund dollars from 60 days to 90 days; remove trust fund application ranking criteria and transfer the authority to rank applicants to the corporation, in consultation with the advisory committee for the trust fund; increase the percentage allowable to recipients of trust fund money for administrative costs from five percent to seven and one-half percent; allow the board of directors of the corporation to define \"rural areas of the Commonwealth,\" and remove exclusions in statute; repeal KRS 198A.067.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 12)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB21/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB21.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":437536,"bill_number":"SB20","title":"AN ACT relating to library district boards.","description":"Amend KRS 173.480, relating to public library districts' initial board appointments, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint the first members of the newly created library board when any of the prospective appointees presented to the judge, in the judge's opinion, are not suitable; amend KRS 173.490, relating to public library districts, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint members or fill vacancies of the library board when any of the prospective appointees presented to the judge, in the judge's opinion, are not suitable; amend KRS 173.725, relating to library districts created by petitions' initial board appointments, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint the first members of the newly created library board when any of the prospective appointees presented to the judge, in the judge's opinion, are not suitable; amend KRS 173.730, relating to library districts created by petition, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint members or fill vacancies of the library board when any of the prospective appointees presented to the judge, in the judge's opinion, are not suitable.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB20/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB20.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437537,"bill_number":"SB19","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.","description":"Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax legal tender, currency, medallions, gold or silver coins issued by the Commonwealth, the United States government, or the government of a foreign country, and bullion; make technical correction; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB19/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB19.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437538,"bill_number":"SB18","title":"AN ACT relating to preschool funding for children.","description":"Amend KRS 157.226 to count the average number of identified children with disabilities on December 1 and March 1 of the prior academic year to calculate preschool funding.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-12","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB18/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB18.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":437539,"bill_number":"SB17","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.205 to replace the requirement that various medical licensing boards promulgate administrative regulations establishing mandatory prescribing and dispensing standards related to controlled substances with a requirement for the promulgation of recommended guidelines.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB17/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB17.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":437540,"bill_number":"SB16","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":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB16/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB16.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":437541,"bill_number":"SB15","title":"AN ACT relating to violent offenders.","description":"Amend KRS 439.3401 to provide that persons convicted of criminal homicide under KRS Chapter 507 shall be classified as a violent offender and subject to mandatory service of time and all applicable restrictions on parole and service credits.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 101)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB15/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB15.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":437542,"bill_number":"SB14","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members who take office on or after August 1, 2013; amend KRS 61.510 to close the Kentucky Employees Retirement System to members of the General Assembly who take office on or after August 1, 2013; amend KRS 61.680 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB14/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB14.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":437543,"bill_number":"SB13","title":"AN ACT relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on election days.","description":"Amend KRS 244.290 to permit the sale of distilled spirits and wine on any primary, or regular, local option, or special election day; authorize the legislative body or fiscal court of a first through fourth class city or the legislative body of any form of county government to adopt an ordinance to prohibit or limit the hours and times of distilled spirits and wine sales within its boundaries on any primary, or regular, local option, or special election day; limit the changes regarding election day sales to territories that already allow some form of alcohol sales; forbid the fiscal court of a county containing a first through fourth class city from changing an election day sales decision made by a first through fourth class city within that county; preclude the county from imposing an action on a first through fourth class city if that city has taken no formal action regarding election day sales; amend KRS 244.295 to remove the prohibition against the sale of distilled spirits and wine on a primary or election day in an urban-county government; amend KRS 244.480 to permit the sale of malt beverages on any primary, or regular, local option, or special election day; authorize the legislative body or fiscal court of a first through fourth class city or the legislative body of any form of county government to adopt an ordinance to prohibit or limit the hours and times of malt beverage sales within its boundaries on any primary, or regular, local option, or special election day; establish malt beverage territorial limitations and county government restrictions identical to those for distilled spirits and wine; make technical changes; amend KRS 119.215 to conform; repeal KRS 242.100.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 121)","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB13/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB13.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":437544,"bill_number":"SB12","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new participants effective August 1, 2013; amend KRS 6.515 to increase the cost of purchasing active duty military service to the full actuarial cost in the Legislators' Retirement Plan, to prohibit service purchases made on or after August 1, 2013, from being used to vest for retiree health benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan, and to require service purchased on or after August 1, 2013, 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 systems prior to August 1, 2013; amend KRS 61.680 to conform and to make technical amendments; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB12/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB12.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":437545,"bill_number":"SB11","title":"AN ACT relating to medical marijuana.","description":"Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to establish a comprehensive system for medical marijuana in Kentucky, including provisions for medical verification of need, persons allowed to cultivate, use, and possess the drug, organizations allowed to assist in providing the drug, regulation by the state Department for Public Health, the interaction with state and local governments, including law enforcement, with persons and entities coming within the purview of the Act, and establishing required reporting and review procedures; amend KRS 218A.040 to conform; name the Act the Gatewood Galbraith Medical Marijuana Memorial Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB11/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB11.htm","sponsor":"Perry Clark"},
{"bill_id":437546,"bill_number":"SB10","title":"AN ACT relating to debt.","description":"Amend KRS 48.010 to define terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to establish limitations on the issuance of general fund debt; amend KRS 56.063 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2014.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB10/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB10.htm","sponsor":"Joe Bowen"},
{"bill_id":437547,"bill_number":"HR14","title":"Oppose the United States' participation in the United Nations' Arms Trade Treaty.","description":"Oppose the United States' participation in the United Nations' Arms Trade Treaty.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"reassigned to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR14/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR14.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":437549,"bill_number":"HR12","title":"Adjourn in honor and memory of Marion County Sheriff's Deputy Carl Anthony Rakes.","description":"Adjourn in honor and memory of Marion County Sheriff's Deputy Carl Anthony Rakes.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR12/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR12.htm","sponsor":"Terry Mills"},
{"bill_id":437550,"bill_number":"HR9","title":"Urge state police, city police, county sheriffs, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel in cities of 25,000 or more to receive one hour of training annually on Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.","description":"Urge state police, city police, county sheriffs, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel in cities of 25,000 or more to receive one hour of training annually on Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 92-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR9/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR9.htm","sponsor":"James Glenn"},
{"bill_id":437551,"bill_number":"HR7","title":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Herbert D. \"Sprocket\" Proffitt and Bernice Cupp Proffitt.","description":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Herbert D. \"Sprocket\" Proffitt and Bernice Cupp Proffitt.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR7/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR7.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":437552,"bill_number":"HJR11","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 15/South Bypass in Breathitt County as the \"Representative Teddy Edmonds Highway\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 15/South Bypass in Breathitt County as the \"Representative Teddy Edmonds Highway\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR11/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ11.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":437553,"bill_number":"HJR10","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to erect signs on Kentucky Route 86, from mile point 12 west to the Hardin County line, that read \"Fire Chief Louis Crosier Highway.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to erect signs on Kentucky Route 86, from mile point 12 west to the Hardin County line, that read \"Fire Chief Louis Crosier Highway.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR10/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ10.htm","sponsor":"Jimmie Lee"},
{"bill_id":437554,"bill_number":"HJR8","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the U.S. Highway 127 bypass in Mercer County as the \"Bataan Memorial Bypass.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the U.S. Highway 127 bypass in Mercer County as the \"Bataan Memorial Bypass.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR8/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ8.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":437555,"bill_number":"HJR5","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on Kentucky Route 3459 in Harlan County as the \"Lester Phillips Memorial Bridge.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on Kentucky Route 3459 in Harlan County as the \"Lester Phillips Memorial Bridge.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR5/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ5.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":437556,"bill_number":"HCR15","title":"Urge the Energy and Environment Cabinet to develop an action plan for energy efficiency with a voluntary minimum goal of one percent per year energy- use reduction through 2025; request reports to the Special Subcommittee on Energy.","description":"Urge the Energy and Environment Cabinet to develop an action plan for energy efficiency with a voluntary minimum goal of one percent per year energy- use reduction through 2025; request reports to the Special Subcommittee on Energy.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR15/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC15.htm","sponsor":"Keith Hall"},
{"bill_id":437557,"bill_number":"HCR13","title":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a task force to study postsecondary education appropriations and student financial aid; identify areas to be studied and task force membership; require findings and recommendations to be reported by November 29, 2013.","description":null,"status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR13/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC13.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":437558,"bill_number":"HCR6","title":"Urge Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America to establish reasonable limits on contributions and expenditures in political campaigns and to prohibit noncitizen contributions and expenditures.","description":null,"status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 14, 2013","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR6/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC6.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":437559,"bill_number":"HB75","title":"AN ACT relating to reemployment after retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 61.637 to provide that local school districts shall not be required to reimburse Kentucky Retirement Systems for retiree health care premiums on reemployed retirees who work less than 80 days a year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB75/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB75.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":437560,"bill_number":"HB74","title":"AN ACT relating to the substitution of opioids in pharmacies.","description":"Allow a practitioner to prohibit substitution when the practitioner determines that substitution is not in the best interest of the patient; exempt drugs prescribed or dispensed for patients in a nursing home or hospice care setting; prohibit substitution or interchange of those drugs without the pharmacy verifying that the substitute provides substantially similar tamper-resistance properties as determined by the board or without obtaining written consent of the prescriber; require the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy to publish and, in some cases, determine qualifying drugs for a list of opioid analgesics that incorporate tamper-resistance technologies; exempt pharmacists in hospital-based pharmacies filling prescriptions for inpatient care from compliance; Name this bill the STOPP in Kentucky Act of 2013; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB74/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB74.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":437561,"bill_number":"HB73","title":"AN ACT relating to the protection of adults and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend and create various sections of KRS 216.785 to 216.793 to define terms; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) to establish a National and State Background Check Program for prospective employees of long-term-care facilities and providers and representatives of the cabinet who perform inspections of long- term-care facilities or providers; require a registry check of the nurse aide abuse registry and any other registry identified in administrative regulations; permit queries of available information by certain licensing bodies; require the cabinet to implement the program in phases by provider category; require each nursing facility, nursing pool providing staff to a nursing facility, assisted-living community, long-term-care facility owned, managed, or operated by the CHFS, and personal services agency to continue to request conviction information; require the cabinet to use grant moneys or other funding to cover long-term-care facilities or providers to the extent that funds are available until at least May 19, 2014; require the cabinet to promulgate regulations relating to the program, including requirements to check registries, a schedule of dates for compliance, processing of registry and background checks, and fees; require the CHFS to collaborate with the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet on continuous employment assessment following an initial background check; permit the Department of Kentucky State Police and the FBI to charge for the actual cost of processing criminal background checks and assessments; require the Kentucky State Police to promulgate regulations relating to retaining of applicant fingerprints and to immediately inform the inspector general if an employee is arrested or convicted of a crime following his or her initial criminal background check; require applicants to submit to background and registry checks; prohibit long-term-care facilities or providers, or agencies within the cabinet responsible for conducting inspections, from employing individuals listed on the registry; permit a provisional period of employment; establish an informal review process; establish a formal review process; outline notification procedures for the cabinet and procedures to be followed by a long-term-care facility or provider if an employee has a disqualifying offense; establish independent review or appeal procedures; establish a fine for continuing to employ an individual with a disqualifying offense; establish an independent review process to allow for rehabilitation of a disqualifying offense, with requirements to include a written explanation of each disqualifying offense and employment and character references; require a rehabilitation review committee to review evidence and mitigating circumstances and make a recommendation to the secretary; remove civil liability for actions taken in good faith by the cabinet, the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, a long-term-care facility or provider, or an individual acting on behalf of any of these entities; establish the National and State Background Check Program fund and provide for its operation; require prospective providers to establish an individual provider's responsibilities and rights in this process; prohibit agencies providing services to senior citizens from employing an applicant with a disqualifying offense; require agencies to request a registry check; prohibit a long-term-care facility or provider from hiring an applicant if an individual has a disqualifying offense; require a long-term-care facility or provider to request a registry and background check for each applicant; require application forms for initial employment by a long-term-care facility or provider to have certain information and statements; regulate employment of individuals with certain offenses in family-care and personal care homes; amend KRS 216.533 to require long-term-care facilities operated by the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities to require applicants to submit to registry and background checks; prohibit individuals from being hired if they have a previous disqualifying offense; permit the hiring of pardoned individuals; amend KRS 216.712 to require personal services agencies to request registry checks and criminal background checks; provide for notice of fingerprint retention; prohibit an individual from owning or working for a personal services agency if he or she has a disqualifying offense; require the secretary to promulgate administrative regulations; establish procedures for background and registry checks; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB73/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB73.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":437562,"bill_number":"HB72","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal record expungement.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a felony record to be expunged under specified circumstances; require the Administrative Office of the Courts to keep a confidential index of expungement orders for the preparation of presentence investigations; amend KRS 431.078, relating to misdemeanor expungement, 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.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB72/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB72.htm","sponsor":"Arnold Simpson"},
{"bill_id":437563,"bill_number":"HB71","title":"AN ACT relating to dental examinations for Medicaid applicants.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services create a program to provide dental examinations for pregnant women before or during their second trimester.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB71/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB71.htm","sponsor":"Keith Hall"},
{"bill_id":437565,"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 allow persons convicted of a felony other than treason, intentional killing, a sex crime, or bribery the right to vote after 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":"2013-02-21","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB70/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB70.htm","sponsor":"Jesse Crenshaw"},
{"bill_id":437566,"bill_number":"HB69","title":"AN ACT relating to domestic relations.","description":"Amend KRS 403.320, relating to child visitation, to include language relating to the temporary nature of visitation orders in cases of the military deployment of an affected party, similar to that presently allowed for modifications of child custody decrees under KRS 403.340.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 79)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB69/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB69.htm","sponsor":"John Tilley"},
{"bill_id":437567,"bill_number":"HB68","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.077 to allow a registered voter and registered voter's spouse to apply for an absentee ballot in the case of an injury, illness, or other disabling condition within14 days or less of an election.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB68/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB68.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":437568,"bill_number":"HB67","title":"AN ACT relating to recycling scrap metal.","description":"Amend KRS 433.890 to prohibit a secondary metals recycler from using his own identification in the record required to be kept for metal purchases; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 433.900 to add to the definition of restricted metals roofing materials, metal fencing, and equipment used in construction, agricultural, industrial, or lawn and landscaping operations; amend KRS 433.902 to authorize the Attorney General to enforce KRS Chapter 433; amend KRS 433.904 to require end of business day report to be detailed and include the required information; amend KRS 15.232, 65.871, and 512.090 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB67/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB67.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":437569,"bill_number":"HB66","title":"AN ACT relating to radon contractors.","description":"Amend KRS 211.9109, 211.9111, and 211.9113 to delete the requirement for a radon measurement contractor to maintain errors and omissions coverage in an amount of $500,000 at all times during the certification period; enable a radon mitigation or measurement contractor to become certified without filing a license and permit bond; amend KRS 211.9117 to remove the diagnostic-purposes-only exemption from the prohibition on a person dually certified as both a measurement and mitigation contractor conducting mitigation on a residential or commercial building from conducting measurement on that same structure to determine the need for the mitigation; amend KRS 211.9121 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 78)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB66/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB66.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":437570,"bill_number":"HB65","title":"AN ACT relating to reporting of school safety incidents.","description":"Amend KRS 158.154 to require local school districts to report incidents on school property involving law enforcement to the Department of Education within five calendar days; require the Department of Education to report the data to the Center for School Safety; amend KRS 158.442 to require the Center for School Safety to include the data in its annual report.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB65/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB65.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":437571,"bill_number":"HB64","title":"AN ACT relating to police officers.","description":"Amend KRS 95.497 to allow police officers in cities of the third class to work schedules equivalent to those allowed police officers in cities of the second class.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB64/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB64.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Bell"},
{"bill_id":437572,"bill_number":"HB63","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 21.540 to clarify the prohibitions established for trustees and employees of the board of the legislative and judicial retirement system and to define \"de minimus\".","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 43)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB63/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB63.htm","sponsor":"Hubert Collins"},
{"bill_id":437573,"bill_number":"HB62","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of food sold through vending machines.","description":"Amend KRS 139.485 to exempt from sales and use tax food and food ingredients sold through a vending machine; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB62/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB62.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":437574,"bill_number":"HB61","title":"AN ACT relating to the Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to make a separate budget request for the Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission; amend KRS 34.320 to make the executive secretary of the Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission responsible for the expenditures of the commission and to require the commission to use contracting procedures under KRS Chapter 45A; amend KRS 26A.260 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to display information on its Web site distinguishing expenditures of the Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission from other judicial branch expenditures; request that the American Bar Association perform a study of the commission.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB61/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB61.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":437575,"bill_number":"HB60","title":"AN ACT relating to hunting coyotes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to allow hunters to take coyotes without bag limitation year round; allow hunters to hunt coyotes at night using shotguns that are 10-guage or smaller and bait or electronic calls to attract the coyotes.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 29)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB60/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB60.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":437576,"bill_number":"HB59","title":"AN ACT relating to early high school graduation.","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 2014-2015 school year; define the curriculum requirements for early graduation and conditional admission into a Kentucky public two-year institution or four-year university; specify that students shall obtain a qualifying benchmark score on each of the end-of-course examinations that make up the high school achievement portion of the accountability system under KRS 158.6453 and that students shall obtain a qualifying benchmark score on a world language proficiency assessment approved by the Kentucky Board of Education; establish the Early Graduation Certificate and the processes for awarding it; amend KRS 158.140 to restrict 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.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB59/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB59.htm","sponsor":"Brad Montell"},
{"bill_id":437577,"bill_number":"HB58","title":"AN ACT relating to problem, compulsive, or pathological gambling and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 222.005 to define \"pathological gambling\" and \"problem gambling\"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to establish the Problem and Pathological Gamblers Awareness and Treatment Program; direct the use of funds and limit annual administrative costs to $200,000; establish the Gamblers Awareness and Treatment Program Advisory Council; establish the council's membership and responsibilities; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations in collaboration with the council; establish a funding and application process, certify disbursement of funds, and require reports annually; assign responsibilities to the director of the Division of Behavioral Health; amend KRS 222.001 and 222.003 to conform; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB58/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB58.htm","sponsor":"Terry Mills"},
{"bill_id":437578,"bill_number":"HB57","title":"AN ACT relating to non-felony expungements.","description":"Amend KRS 431.078 relating to expungement of misdemeanor and violation arrest records to clarify that a traffic infraction does not disqualify a person from seeking such an expungement.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"passed 49-38","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB57/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB57.htm","sponsor":"Brent Yonts"},
{"bill_id":437579,"bill_number":"HB56","title":"AN ACT designating the Kentucky Long Rifle as the official gun of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 naming and designating the Kentucky Long Rifle as the official gun of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB56/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB56.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":437581,"bill_number":"HB55","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.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB55/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB55.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":437582,"bill_number":"HB54","title":"AN ACT relating to money transmitters.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 11 of KRS Chapter 286, relating to money transmitters, to authorize the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to require, by rule or order, submission of an application, report, or approval request to the State Regulatory Registry, LLC, or its successor, parent, affiliate or operating subsidiary, or to other agencies or authorities as part of a nationwide licensing system; authorize the commissioner, as he or she deems necessary, to establish relationships or contracts with and to report violations, enforcement actions, and other relevant information to other governmental agencies, the Registry, or affiliated agencies of the Registry; authorize the commissioner to use other governmental agencies, the Registry, or entities affiliated with the Registry as agents for requesting information from and distributing information to the United States Department of Justice or other governmental agencies.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 124)","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB54/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB54.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Thompson"},
{"bill_id":437583,"bill_number":"HB53","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protection.","description":"Amend KRS 278.543 to establish service targets for telephone utilities to repair certain outages and submit reports to the Public Service Commission.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB53/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB53.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":437584,"bill_number":"HB52","title":"AN ACT relating to the expansion of gaming and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 154A to set forth legislative findings; amend KRS 154A.010 to define \"authorizing county,\" \"casino,\" \"casino gaming,\" \"county,\" \"county legislative body,\" \"department,\" \"full casino gaming,\" \"gaming licensee,\" \"gross gaming revenue,\" \"handle,\" \"licensee,\" \"limited casino gaming,\" and \"principal\"; amend KRS 154A.030 to increase the board to twelve members, including the executive director of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and the Auditor of Public Accounts, and prohibit directors or their family members from holding significant interest in a gaming licensee; amend KRS 154A.040 to exempt trade secrets of a licensee; amend KRS 154A.063 to conform; create new sections of KRS Chapter 154A to require local option elections for the approval of casino gaming in counties with a population in excess of 90,000 or in cities of the fourth class or greater with a horse racing track; specify procedure for petition of election; specify that the corporation is the only government agency authorized to solicit bids for casino licensure and provide requirements for invitations to bid; specify factors to be considered when considering a bid; specify initial licensing fee and annual licensing fee; stipulate requirements for licensing of horse racing tracks for casino gaming; require tracks with a casino license to continue to run at least as many live races as were run in 2012, and provide exemptions; establish requirements and procedures for applying for supplier's licenses; prohibit any unlicensed person from furnishing gaming supplies and equipment; prohibit anyone under 21 years of age from participating in casino gaming; establish procedure for licensing of occupations related to casino gaming; grant the corporation the authority to initiate disciplinary action; establish procedure for review and appeal of actions by the corporation; establish problem gamblers awareness and treatment trust fund; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate regulations to address the expenditure of funds from the problem gamblers awareness and treatment trust fund and require an annual report on expenditures; establish 31% tax on gross gaming revenue, allow the corporation to recoup operating costs from tax for first 24 months, and cap corporation's deduction at $2 million per year thereafter; require 15% of each gaming licensee's revenue to be paid to the Kentucky equine industry enhancement fund; impose admission tax of $3 per person and dedicate funds to the regional tourism and infrastructure development fund; establish gaming revenue distribution trust fund; establish the Kentucky equine industry enhancement trust fund and stipulate uses for funds; create the regional tourism and infrastructure development fund and specify uses for funds; create the childhood education excellence development fund; create the Kentucky job creation development fund; allocate funds paid from the tax on gross gaming revenue to trust funds established by the bill; exempt gaming devices in compliance with the chapter from the provisions of 15 U.S.C. sec. 1172 and exempt shipments to Kentucky gaming licensees from 15 U.S.C. secs. 1173 and 1174; require the corporation to promulgate administrative regulations to define the types of games and the method of operation; permit the exclusion of certain persons from licensed casinos, exclusion may not be based on race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, or the amount won at a casino; define \"cheat\" and provide penalties for violation; amend KRS 243.500 to exempt the conduct and operation of authorized casino gaming; amend KRS 243.505 to exempt the operation of casino gaming licensed under this Act; amend KRS 525.090 to exempt those engaged in casino gaming licensed under KRS Chapter 154A; amend KRS 528.010 to exempt activities or devices licensed under this Act; amend KRS 528.020 to exempt those licensed under this Act; amend KRS 528.070 to exempt those licensed under this Act; amend KRS 528.080 to exempt those licensed under this Act; amend KRS528.100 to exempt casino gaming as defined under Section 2 of the Act.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB52/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB52.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":437585,"bill_number":"HB51","title":"AN ACT relating to disaster relief funding.","description":"Amend KRS 273.161 to include definition of \"disaster\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 273 to require any entity that is organized for charitable purposes according to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that raises more than $25,000 for a charitable purpose related to a disaster in Kentucky to provide quarterly financial reports to the Secretary of State and require them to provide a financial report to the Secretary of State for contributions received in excess of $25,000 between January 1, 2012 and the effective date of this Act related to a disaster in Kentucky; amend KRS 68.200 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 113)","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB51/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB51.htm","sponsor":"John Stacy"},
{"bill_id":437586,"bill_number":"HB50","title":"AN ACT relating to misdemeanor or violation expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 431.078 to provide that \"violation\" does not include motor vehicle violations, except for violations of KRS 189.520 or 189A.010.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB50/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB50.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":437587,"bill_number":"HB49","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation educational loan program.","description":"Amend KRS 164A.240 to allow the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation to establish an administrative garnishment process for the collection of defaulted educational loans made pursuant to KRS 164A.240(2)(a); limit the garnishment amount to 10% of disposable pay.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 28)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB49/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB49.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":437588,"bill_number":"HB48","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 replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to eliminate the term \"capital offense\" and replace it with Class A felony; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses to permit imprisonment for life without parole and imprisonment for life without parole for 25 years for offenses formerly denominated as capital offenses; amend KRS 532.050 to require a presentence investigation in all felony cases; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses to authorize imprisonment for life without benefit of parole for 25 years, but not life imprisonment without benefit of parole, for a Class A felony which was formerly a capital offense; repeal various statutes relating to imposition of the death penalty.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB48/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB48.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":437589,"bill_number":"HB47","title":"AN ACT relating to expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 431.078 to allow a Class D felony record to be expunged under specified circumstances; 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 the preparation of presentence investigations; amend KRS 527.040, relating to possession of a firearm by a felon, to exempt individuals who have had their felony records expunged.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB47/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB47.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":437590,"bill_number":"HB46","title":"AN ACT relating to the Council on Postsecondary Education.","description":"Amend KRS 164.011 to add the executive director of the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to the Council on Postsecondary Education; provide that ex officio members or their designees are voting members.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB46/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB46.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":437591,"bill_number":"HB45","title":"AN ACT relating to postsecondary financial aid for students with intellectual disabilities.","description":"Amend KRS 164.740 to define a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program; amend KRS 164.7535 and 164.785 to provide grants to students enrolled in a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program; create a new section of KRS 164.7874 to 164.7885 to provide Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarships to students enrolled in a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 42)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB45/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB45.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":437592,"bill_number":"HB44","title":"AN ACT relating to healthy food choices in school cafeterias.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to encourage schools to use strategic placement of food in cafeterias to promote healthy food choices by students; name the act \"The Smarter Lunchroom Act.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB44/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB44.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":437593,"bill_number":"HB43","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 205.470, relating to aging caregivers, 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":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB43/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB43.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":437594,"bill_number":"HB42","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid managed care and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define \"breach of a contract\"; provide that if any breach of a contract occurs or has occurred between a Medicaid managed care organization and any agency, department, or cabinet of the Commonwealth, then services to the Medicaid members served under the contract shall immediately cease and members shall be transitioned to a Medicaid fee-for-service program; clarify that any provider of services who is due funds as a result of a contract between a Medicaid managed care organization and the Commonwealth shall still be able to recover them; exempt any Medicaid managed care organization operating in the Commonwealth pursuant to a Section 1115 waiver on January 1, 2011; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB42/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB42.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":437595,"bill_number":"HB41","title":"AN ACT relating to DNA.","description":"Amend KRS 422.285 and 17.176 to expand the availability of post-conviction DNA testing; amend KRS 524.140 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 77)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB41/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB41.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Bell"},
{"bill_id":437597,"bill_number":"HB40","title":"AN ACT relating to utility franchises.","description":"Amend KRS 96.010 to prohibit bidders for city utility franchises from recovering the franchise fee from ratepayers through fees or surcharges on their bills.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB40/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB40.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":437598,"bill_number":"HB39","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 531.355 to criminalize the intentional viewing of child pornography where the viewing is deliberate, purposeful, and voluntary and not accidental or inadvertent.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 41)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB39/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB39.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":437599,"bill_number":"HB38","title":"AN ACT relating to coal severance revenues.","description":"Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 42 to distribute coal severance revenues among the coal producing counties on the basis of the tax collected on coal severed or processed in each respective county; amend KRS 143.090 and 164.7891 to make conforming changes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB38/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB38.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":437600,"bill_number":"HB37","title":"AN ACT relating to property leased by the state.","description":"Amend KRS 56.813 to increase from $1,000 to $10,000 the threshold amount for improvements of space leased by an agency to be amortized over the remaining term of the lease.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB37/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB37.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":437601,"bill_number":"HB36","title":"AN ACT relating to the provision of services by county interlocal agreements, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 65.250 to specify certain criteria for the approval of interlocal agreements; amend KRS 65.260 to grant the Governor's Office for Local Development the right to review all interlocal agreements; amend KRS 311A.155 to require the board to grant preference to a county that has entered into a valid interlocal agreement for the provision of emergency services across county boundaries; increase the reimbursement to a county for lost equipment for a county that has entered into a valid interlocal agreement for the provision of emergency services across county boundaries; reduce the deduction from state aid for reimbursement of lost equipment to a county for lost equipment for a county that has entered into a valid interlocal agreement for the provision of emergency services across county boundaries; amend KRS 39C.020 to increase supplementary state funds for those regional emergency management districts created through valid interlocal agreements; amend KRS 258.119 to require the Commissioner of Agriculture to grant preference to a county that has entered into a valid interlocal agreement for the provision of animal control services across county boundaries; amend KRS 224.43-505 to grant preference to a county that has entered into a valid interlocal agreement for the elimination of illegal open dumps or establishing recycling services across county boundaries, provided other criteria are met; reduce the matching grant requirement for a county that has entered into a valid interlocal agreement for the elimination of illegal open dumps or establishing recycling services across county boundaries; amend KRS 138.220 to appropriate $960,000 from any gasoline tax increase for the counties that have entered into valid interlocal agreements concerning road projects; amend KRS 177.320 for the allocation of tax revenues to counties that have entered into valid interlocal agreements for the provision of road and bridge construction and maintenance across county boundaries; establish a formula for the distribution of this revenue; set conditions for the use of this revenue by counties that have entered into valid interlocal agreements for the provision of road and bridge construction and maintenance across county boundaries; provide for the lapsing of unused funds; require the Department of Criminal Justice Training to study costs of supplemental aid to county police departments and sheriffs that enter into valid interlocal agreements for the provision of police or tax collection services across county boundaries; establish a reporting date for the department; require the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education to examine costs of supplemental aid to fire departments that enter into valid interlocal agreements for the provision of fire protection services across county boundaries; establish a reporting date for the commission; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2013.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB36/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB36.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":437602,"bill_number":"HB35","title":"AN ACT related to anti-bullying.","description":"Create a new section in KRS Chapter 2 to designate October as Anti-Bullying Month in Kentucky and to designate a purple and yellow ribbon as the symbol for anti-bully awareness.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB35/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB35.htm","sponsor":"Rita Smart"},
{"bill_id":437603,"bill_number":"HB34","title":"AN ACT relating to interlocal agreements.","description":"Amend KRS 64.5275 to require county judges/executive, county commissioners, and justices of the who are eligible for the training incentive payments in accordance with this section and who participate in the training incentive program to complete two hours of training in interlocal agreements each year in order to receive the training incentive payment.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB34/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB34.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":437604,"bill_number":"HB33","title":"AN ACT relating to industrial hemp and making an appropriation therefor.","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 to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out the new sections; require the 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 and the appropriate sheriff's department; require licensees to provide the department 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; amend KRS 218A.010 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB33/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB33.htm","sponsor":"Terry Mills"},
{"bill_id":437605,"bill_number":"HB32","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.","description":"Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 189A, relating to driving under the influence, to","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB32/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB32.htm","sponsor":"Mike Harmon"},
{"bill_id":437606,"bill_number":"HB31","title":"AN ACT relating to public financing for judicial campaigns and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 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; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to 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; amend KRS 21A.140 to permit the Supreme Court to allow members of the Kentucky Bar Association to contribute to the clean judicial elections fund with their bar dues; EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2014.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB31/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB31.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":437607,"bill_number":"HB30","title":"AN ACT relating to designating a surrogate on a living will directive.","description":"Amend KRS 311.625 to add that an employee, owner, director, or officer of a health care facility where a grantor is a resident or patient may be designated or act as surrogate if the person is a member of the same fraternal order.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB30/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB30.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":437608,"bill_number":"HB29","title":"AN ACT relating to information used in redistricting.","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.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB29/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB29.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":437609,"bill_number":"HB28","title":"AN ACT relating to shock probation.","description":"Amend KRS 439.265, relating to shock probation, to prohibit shock probation if a person is convicted of violating KRS 507.040, relating to manslaughter in the second degree, or KRS 507.050, relating to reckless homicide, and a violation of KRS 189A.010, relating to driving under the influence, arising from the same incident; permit the victim's next of kin to ask the court to permit shock probation.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB28/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB28.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":437610,"bill_number":"HB27","title":"AN ACT relating to city-operated natural gas distribution systems.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 96 to address extension, acquisition, and condemnation by city-operated natural gas distribution systems.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 112)","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB27/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB27.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Thompson"},
{"bill_id":437611,"bill_number":"HB26","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators.","description":"Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to legislators who have not previously participated in the plan and who begin their first term of office on or after the effective date of the Act; amend KRS 6.520 to provide that retirement benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan shall be based upon the legislator's highest 5 years of salary rather than his or her highest 3 years of salary; 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 the Act; limit the use of salary credited to other retirement systems in calculating benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan if the member does have service in the other state-administered systems prior to the effective date of the Act; create new sections of KRS Chapter 6 to establish the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan for legislators who begin their first term of office on or after the effective date of the Act; provide that the plan shall be administered by the Kentucky Deferred Compensation Authority; allow the authority to utilize plans already established or to establish new plans to administer the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan; provide an employer match of up to 5 percent of the legislator's wages; provide that a legislator participating in the plan shall be vested for employer contributions on a sliding scale that fully vests the legislator for the employer contributions at six years; provide that the benefits under the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan shall not constitute an inviolable contract of the Commonwealth; amend KRS 18A.245 to establish responsibilities of the board of the Kentucky Deferred Compensation Authority to administer the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan; amend KRS 61.510, governing the Kentucky Retirement Systems, to clarify that a legislator who begins his or her first term of office on or after the effective date of the Act shall not participate in these plans as a result of service in the General Assembly; amend KRS 61.680 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB26/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB26.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":437613,"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 if the offense is committed against an operator or passenger of a taxi, bus, or other passenger vehicle for hire.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB25/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB25.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":437614,"bill_number":"HB24","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"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 August 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB24/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB24.htm","sponsor":"Ron Crimm"},
{"bill_id":437615,"bill_number":"HB23","title":"AN ACT relating to abortions.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define \"health benefit exchange\" and \"small employer\" for the purposes of health benefit exchange 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; amend KRS 304.5-160 to conform; amend KRS 311.800 to provide that the amendments to KRS Chapter 304 contained in this Act shall not limit or amend the provisions of this statute, which shall remain in full force and effect.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB23/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB23.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":437616,"bill_number":"HB22","title":"AN ACT relating to non-felony expungements.","description":"Amend KRS 431.078, relating to expungement of misdemeanor and violation arrest records, to clarify that the term \"violation\" as used in that statute has the same meaning as set out in the Kentucky Penal Code.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB22/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB22.htm","sponsor":"Brent Yonts"},
{"bill_id":437617,"bill_number":"HB21","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 August 1, 2013, from using salary earned in another state-administered retirement system or plan to calculate benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan; allow members of the Legislators' Retirement Plan contributing to the plan prior to August 1, 2013, to make a one-time election to have their benefits from the Legislators' Retirement Plan based solely on their legislative salary.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB21/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB21.htm","sponsor":"David Floyd"},
{"bill_id":437618,"bill_number":"HB20","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Create a new Section of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to prohibit future members of the General Assembly from participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System unless they participated in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System as a member of the General Assembly prior to August 1, 2013; allow current members of the General Assembly participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System to make a one-time election to discontinue participation; amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective August 1, 2013, and to allow current members of the General Assembly participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan to make a one-time election to discontinue participation; amend KRS 61.510 and 61.680 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB20/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB20.htm","sponsor":"David Floyd"},
{"bill_id":437619,"bill_number":"HB19","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; require any person selling a product containing dextromethorphan to require that prospective buyers show a photo ID and sign a document stating the customer is older than 18 before purchase; create an affirmative defense for the retailer if a minor utilizes a fraudulent ID; prohibit individuals younger than 18 from possessing a product that contains dextromethorphan as the only active ingredient; prohibit individuals younger than 18 from misrepresenting their age and from utilizing a fraudulent ID to purchase or obtain dextromethorphan; establish penalties for violation.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB19/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB19.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":437620,"bill_number":"HB18","title":"AN ACT relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages on election days.","description":"Amend KRS 244.290 to permit the sale of distilled spirits and wine on any primary, or regular, local option, or special election day; authorize the legislative body or fiscal court of a first through fourth class city or the legislative body of any form of county government to adopt an ordinance to prohibit or limit the hours and times of distilled spirits and wine sales within its boundaries on any primary, or regular, local option, or special election day; limit the changes regarding election day sales to territories that already allow some form of alcohol sales; forbid the fiscal court of a county containing a first through fourth class city from changing an election day sales decision made by a first through fourth class city within that county; preclude the county from imposing an action on a first through fourth class city if that city has taken no formal action regarding election day sales; amend KRS 244.295 to remove the prohibition against the sale of distilled spirits and wine on a primary or election day in an urban-county government; amend KRS 244.480 to permit the sale of malt beverages on any primary, or regular, local option, or special election day; authorize the legislative body or fiscal court of a first through fourth class city or the legislative body of any form of county government to adopt an ordinance to prohibit or limit the hours and times of malt beverage sales within its boundaries on any primary, or regular, local option, or special election day; establish malt beverage territorial limitations and county government restrictions identical to those for distilled spirits and wine; make technical changes; amend KRS 119.215 to conform; repeal KRS 242.100.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB18/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB18.htm","sponsor":"Arnold Simpson"},
{"bill_id":437621,"bill_number":"HB17","title":"AN ACT relating to the angel investor tax credit.","description":"Create new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish the angel investor tax credit program for certain investments in small businesses; define terms; state Act's title and purposes; list requirements for small businesses and investors to qualify for participation; require the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) to establish the application process; cap the total amount of angel investor and Kentucky Investment Fund Act tax credits available in all years at $40,000,000; require KEDFA to maintain a Web site listing all businesses and investors certified and all credits awarded; require small businesses to report annually and allow for tax credit recapture in certain circumstances; 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 establish the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB17/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB17.htm","sponsor":"Arnold Simpson"},
{"bill_id":437622,"bill_number":"HB16","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":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB16/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB16.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":437623,"bill_number":"HB15","title":"AN ACT relating to dogs.","description":"Amend KRS 258.095 to amend the definition of who qualifies as the owner of a dog to include persons permitting the dog to remain on or about premises owned and occupied by the person.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB15/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB15.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":437624,"bill_number":"HB14","title":"AN ACT relating to school notification of persons authorized to contact or remove a child.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, if the cabinet is granted custody of a dependent, neglected, or abused child, to notify the school in which the child is enrolled of persons authorized to contact the child or remove the child from school grounds.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB14/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB14.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":437625,"bill_number":"HB13","title":"AN ACT relating to foreign law.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 454 to establish legislative intent that the rights of an individual afforded under the Constitutions of the Commonwealth and the United States take precedence over the application of any foreign law in any judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding; define specific terms; strictly construe waivers of constitutional rights; provide exceptions for corporate entities; prohibit choice of venue outside of the Commonwealth or United States to preserve the constitutional rights of the person against whom enforcement is sought.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB13/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB13.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":437626,"bill_number":"HB12","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative procedures for state fiscal measures.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to require roll call votes on any appropriation or revenue raising measure voted upon in the Senate or House or a committee thereof; require identification of appropriation or revenue measures as state fiscal measures by the Director of the Legislative Research Commission, or upon a determination by the Senate or House or a committee of either; require separate votes for appropriations or revenue measures; require committees to vote on appropriation and revenue measures by roll call votes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB12/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB12.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":437627,"bill_number":"HB11","title":"AN ACT relating to fire protection services.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 75 to define \"city\" and \"fire district\"; grant cities the primary right to provide fire protection services for city territory, subject to certain limitations; create a process for the provision of fire protection services to newly annexed territory; create a formula to determine the proportion of fire district indebtedness owed by the city and allow three years to pay this indebtedness; allow a fire district to continue to provide fire protection services in certain situations if written agreements are entered into with the city; amend KRS 75.010, 75.020, and 75.040 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 27)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB11/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB11.htm","sponsor":"David Floyd"},
{"bill_id":447693,"bill_number":"HB76","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 Kentucky 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 processes; establish the Kentucky 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 noncharter 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 and 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.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB76/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB76.htm","sponsor":"Brad Montell"},
{"bill_id":447694,"bill_number":"HB77","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protection.","description":"Amend KRS 367.841 and 367.860 to include KRS Chapter 14A entities within the definition of \"buyers\"; amend KRS 367.840, 367.842, and 367.865 to make technical corrections and clarify applicability to buyers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Labor & Industry (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"Labor and Industry","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB77/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB77.htm","sponsor":"Brad Montell"},
{"bill_id":447695,"bill_number":"HB78","title":"AN ACT relating to court-ordered community-based outpatient treatment.","description":"Amend KRS 202A.081 to extend the length of an order for community-based outpatient treatment; permit re-hospitalization for failure to abide by the order; require that providers use evidence-based practices.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB78/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB78.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":447697,"bill_number":"HB79","title":"AN ACT relating to the prescription of naloxone.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217.005 to 217.215 to exempt licensed health-care providers from disciplinary action for prescribing or dispensing naloxone for an opioid overdose.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"recommitted to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB79/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB79.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":447698,"bill_number":"HB80","title":"AN ACT relating to purchases by enrollees in a home and community-based services waiver program.","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":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB80/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB80.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":447700,"bill_number":"HB81","title":"AN ACT relating to harassing communications.","description":"Amend KRS 525.080 relating to harassing communications to expand the acts which create a violation of the offense and expand the means of communication; increase the penalty for a second or subsequent offense from a Class B misdemeanor to a Class A misdemeanor.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB81/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB81.htm","sponsor":"Julie Raque Adams"},
{"bill_id":447701,"bill_number":"HB82","title":"AN ACT relating to military service.","description":"Amend KRS 40.353 to broaden the eligibility criteria for the Kentucky Medal for Freedom to include members of the Armed Forces, a state National Guard, or a Reserve Component who were buried in Kentucky on or after July 15, 2008, and have a surviving spouse or parent who is a Kentucky resident.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB82/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB82.htm","sponsor":"Donna Mayfield"},
{"bill_id":447702,"bill_number":"HB83","title":"AN ACT relating to the distribution of open meetings and open records materials to local officials.","description":"Amend KRS 65.055 to require the distribution of open meetings and records materials to local government members who were appointed or elected after the most recent required distribution of open meetings and records materials to be within sixty days of the day their term of office begins, rather than the date of their election or appointment.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB83/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB83.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":447704,"bill_number":"HB84","title":"AN ACT relating to qualifications of school-based decision making council members and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 160.345 to prohibit non-tenured teachers from serving on school councils unless no tenured teachers are willing or available to serve; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB84/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB84.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":447706,"bill_number":"HB85","title":"AN ACT relating to residency of school-based decision making council members and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 160.345 to require that at least one parent representative of the school-based decision making council reside within the boundaries of the local school district; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB85/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB85.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":447708,"bill_number":"HB86","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 disposal 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 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; prohibit deposition of overburden in streams.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Environment (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB86/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB86.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":447709,"bill_number":"HB87","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.040, regarding maintenance of motor vehicle insurance, to change from three to one the number of times a person may have their vehicle registration revoked for not maintaining insurance, before the revocation constitutes a violation of KRS 304.39-080; amend KRS 186.180 to set the reinstatement fee for a revoked registration at $20.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB87/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB87.htm","sponsor":"Keith Hall"},
{"bill_id":447711,"bill_number":"HB88","title":"AN ACT relating to postsecondary education tuition and fee waivers for families of veterans.","description":"Amend KRS 164.507 to clarify that family members of deceased veterans are eligible for postsecondary education tuition and fee waivers for a period not to exceed 45 consecutive or nonconsecutive months until completion of the first bachelor's degree; amend KRS 164.515 to clarify that family members of permanently or totally disabled veterans are eligible for postsecondary education tuition and fee waivers for a period not to exceed 45 consecutive or nonconsecutive months until completion of the first bachelor's degree.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB88/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB88.htm","sponsor":"Leslie Combs"},
{"bill_id":447712,"bill_number":"HB89","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 arrest or initial appearance from all persons charged with a felony offense; amend KRS 17.175 to provide for expungement of DNA samples in specified circumstances and allow use of all samples collected in good faith; amend KRS 64.060 to establish a $5 payment from the State Treasury to the collecting agency for each DNA sample collected.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB89/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB89.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":447713,"bill_number":"HB90","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"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 August 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB90/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB90.htm","sponsor":"Rita Smart"},
{"bill_id":447714,"bill_number":"HB91","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.500 to make the sale of drug paraphernalia subject to a $10,000 fine; amend KRS 218A.510 to recommend that consideration of decorative aspects of an object not be used in determining whether it is drug paraphernalia.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB91/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB91.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":447715,"bill_number":"HB92","title":"AN ACT relating to preschool for children with disabilities.","description":"Amend KRS 157.226 to count the average number of identified children with disabilities on December 1 and March 1 of the prior academic year to calculate preschool funding.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB92/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB92.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":447718,"bill_number":"HB93","title":"AN ACT relating to outdoor warning siren systems.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39B to establish guidelines for activating outdoor warning siren systems to alert the public of severe weather conditions; require training of persons involved in activating the sirens; require annual reporting of siren activity.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB93/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB93.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":447719,"bill_number":"HB94","title":"AN ACT relating to trespass.","description":"Amend KRS 381.230 to established a simplified method for elderly or vulnerable adults to petition for an order to prevent or restrain other persons from trespassing onto the petitioner's residence.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB94/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB94.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":447721,"bill_number":"HB95","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":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB95/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB95.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":447722,"bill_number":"HB96","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 189.030 to require the illumination of headlights on motor vehicles with a model year of 2000 or newer during any period of precipitation that necessitates the use of windshield wipers by motorists; specify that there will be a courtesy warning period until July 1, 2014; establish fine range of $20 to $100; specify that no court costs or points will be imposed.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB96/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB96.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":447724,"bill_number":"HB97","title":"AN ACT relating to employment.","description":"Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with the crime; require employee to give employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave time; require employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communications with employee crime victim; create a penalty for failing to maintain confidentiality; define terms.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB97/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB97.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":447725,"bill_number":"HB98","title":"AN ACT relating to teen dating violence.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define dating and teen dating violence; require local school boards to adopt a policy related to teen dating violence; require the Center for School Safety to develop materials to be used by school professional staff as a self-study review of teen dating violence; amend KRS 158.070 to require middle school and high school professional staff to complete a minimum of one hour of self-study review of teen dating violence; amend KRS 158.444 to require that all incidents of teen dating violence be included in a statewide data collection system.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB98/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB98.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":447726,"bill_number":"HB99","title":"AN ACT relating to operator's licenses and personal identification cards.","description":"Amend KRS 186.412 to allow the operator's license or personal ID card of a person who his signed up to be an organ donor to bear the words \"organ donor.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB99/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB99.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":447728,"bill_number":"HB100","title":"AN ACT relating to auctioneers.","description":"Amend KRS 330.220 to permit an individual party to a dissolving trust or limited liability company to bid as an individual entity apart from the selling entity on real or personal property being offered pursuant to that dissolution.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 44)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB100/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB100.htm","sponsor":"Jimmie Lee"},
{"bill_id":447729,"bill_number":"HB101","title":"AN ACT relating to dogs.","description":"Amend KRS 258.095 to amend the definition of who qualifies as the owner of a dog to include persons permitting the dog to remain on or about premises owned and occupied by the person.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB101/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB101.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":447731,"bill_number":"HB102","title":"AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 341.415 and 341.530 to prohibit a reimbursing or contributing employers' account from receiving credit for benefit overpayments collected from a former employee if the overpayment resulted from the employer or it's agent's failure to timely respond to the secretary's request for information and if the employer engages in a pattern of failing to respond to claims; Amend 341.415 to impose a monetary penalty for recipients improperly obtaining benefits through misrepresentation or concealment of material information; Amend 341.550 for conforming amendments.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 45)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB102/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB102.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":447732,"bill_number":"HB103","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 507.030 to include within the offense of manslaughter in the first degree deaths caused by intentional abuse of another involving torture, confinement, or punishment.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-09","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB103/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB103.htm","sponsor":"Steven Rudy"},
{"bill_id":447733,"bill_number":"HB104","title":"AN ACT relating to art therapy.","description":"Amend KRS 309.130 to define \"licensed professional art therapist associate\"; amend KRS 309.1305 to include licensed professional art therapist associate; amend KRS 309.1315 to require the board to establish requirements and qualifications for supervision and conditions for inactive status; create a new section of KRS 309.130 to 309.1399 to provide for licensure of professional art therapist associates; provide education requirements, supervision requirements, term of licensure and extension provisions, and advancement procedures; amend KRS 309.1335 to include licensed professional art therapist associates; amend KRS 309.135 to establish fees.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 80)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB104/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB104.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":447735,"bill_number":"HB105","title":"AN ACT relating to the use of juries in competency hearings conducted in guardianship proceedings.","description":"Amend KRS 387.570 and 387.580 to allow a bench trial when the parties agree, there is no objection from interested parties, and the judge finds no cause to require a jury trial.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB105/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB105.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":447736,"bill_number":"HB106","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal sexual abuse.","description":"Amend KRS 510.110, 510.120, and 510.130, relating to criminal sexual abuse, to increase the penalties where penetration not falling within the scope of rape or sodomy occurs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB106/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB106.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":447738,"bill_number":"HB107","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 for a sexual offense 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":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB107/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB107.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":447739,"bill_number":"HB108","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":"2013-01-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB108/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB108.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":447741,"bill_number":"HB109","title":"AN ACT relating to athletic trainers.","description":"Amend KRS 311.900, 311.901, 311.903, 311.905, 311.907, 311.909, and 311.911 to require licensure rather than certification for authorized practice by athletic trainers; amend KRS 160.445 and 319B.090 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 30)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB109/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB109.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":447742,"bill_number":"HB110","title":"AN ACT relating to utility rate adjustment for fuel costs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to prohibit the use of the fuel adjustment clause by baseload generation facilities which are fired by natural gas.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-09","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB110/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB110.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":447743,"bill_number":"HB111","title":"AN ACT relating to the economic and environmental sustainability of forest lands.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 149.330 to 149.355 to require the Division of Forestry to maintain a list of approved third-party forest certification programs; deem programs accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council, the American Tree Farm System, and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative as approved; allow family forest land owners who are third-party certified to apply for official recognition from the division; allow the division to collect reasonable fees; amend KRS 131.140 to require the Department of Revenue to advise property valuation administrations that a timber production assessment model should be used on recognized third-party certified family forest land; amend KRS 132.220 to require filing with property valuation administrators; amend KRS 149.330 to define \"family forest land.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB111/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB111.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":447745,"bill_number":"HB112","title":"AN ACT relating to the promotion of organ and tissue donation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the employers' organ and bone marrow donation tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; declare short title to be the Living Organ and Bone Marrow Donor Assistance Act.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB112/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB112.htm","sponsor":"Ron Crimm"},
{"bill_id":447746,"bill_number":"HB113","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 186A.040, regarding maintenance of motor vehicle insurance, to reduce from three to one the number of times a person cited for failure to maintain the required motor vehicle insurance shall have his or her motor vehicle registration revoked, as a violation of KRS 304.39-080; amend KRS 186.180 to set the reinstatement fee for a revoked license for failure to maintain motor vehicle insurance at $20.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-09","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB113/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB113.htm","sponsor":"Ron Crimm"},
{"bill_id":447748,"bill_number":"HB114","title":"AN ACT relating to child welfare.","description":"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 by establishing language that requires the Kentucky Department of Education to provide the educational records free of charge to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 610.125 to require recommendations concerning the transition from out-of-home care to independent living to be made to a court by the Department of Juvenile Justice regarding a child in their care.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-09","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB114/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB114.htm","sponsor":"Ron Crimm"},
{"bill_id":447749,"bill_number":"HB115","title":"AN ACT relating to juvenile records.","description":"Amend KRS 610.340 to provide that a crime victim may publicly discuss information related to his or her case and within his or her own knowledge or disclosed to the victim during a juvenile court proceeding.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB115/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB115.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":447751,"bill_number":"HB116","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":"2013-01-09","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB116/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB116.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Bratcher"},
{"bill_id":447752,"bill_number":"SB3","title":"AN ACT relating to exemption of religious organizations from the insurance code.","description":"Amend KRS 304.1-120, containing exclusions from the insurance code, to delete the religious publication exclusion and substitute a religious organization exemption; require notice for delivery to all participants that sharing of medical expenses is not insurance and establish notice requirements; delete the requirements that payments shall be made directly from one subscriber to another, that subscriber amounts are voluntary with no assumption of risk or promise to pay, and the verbatim disclaimer statement.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 132)","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB3/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB3.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":447753,"bill_number":"SB7","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for legislators.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to prohibit public employers in the Commonwealth from purchasing, acquiring, furnishing, or requiring an employee to purchase or acquire uniforms, wearing apparel, safety equipment, or protective accessories not manufactured in the United States of America, unless such items are not manufactured or available for purchase in the United States; permit public employers to purchase uniforms and safety equipment manufactured outside the United States if similar items are only available from one United States manufacturer and the price is substantially higher than comparable foreign-made items; require public employers who provide stipends to employees to purchase uniforms or safety equipment to encourage employees to purchase items made in the United States; require public employers that produce an annual report or audit to include information about the purchase of uniforms or safety equipment made in the United States in those documents; require the Department for Local Government to develop and publish guidelines for local governments regarding the purchase of uniforms and safety equipment made in the United States.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"State Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB7/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB7.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":447755,"bill_number":"SB24","title":"AN ACT relating to qualified historic sites.","description":"Amend KRS 241.010 to include not-for-profit or non-profit facilities listed on the national register of historic places in the definition of a qualified historic site.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB24/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB24.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":447756,"bill_number":"SB25","title":"AN ACT relating to medical marijuana.","description":"Amend and create various statutes in KRS Chapter 218A to make marijuana a Schedule II drug with the limitation that a person for whom the drug has been prescribed may not possess more than five ounces per month of the drug or have under cultivation more than five marijuana plants; create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to require the Board of Pharmacy to establish a certification program for pharmacies seeking to dispense marijuana; designate this Act as the Gatewood Galbraith Memorial Medical Marijuana Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB25/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB25.htm","sponsor":"Perry Clark"},
{"bill_id":447758,"bill_number":"SB26","title":"AN ACT relating to debt.","description":"Amend KRS 48.010 to define terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to establish limitations on the issuance of general fund debt; amend KRS 56.063 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2014.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB26/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB26.htm","sponsor":"Joe Bowen"},
{"bill_id":447759,"bill_number":"SB27","title":"AN ACT relating to the right of redemption.","description":"Amend KRS 426.220 to decrease the right of redemption period from one year to six months for land sold under execution for less than two-thirds of its value; amend KRS 426.230 and KRS 426.240 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 103)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB27/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB27.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":447761,"bill_number":"SB28","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 344.140, 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":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB28/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB28.htm","sponsor":"Kathy Stein"},
{"bill_id":447762,"bill_number":"SB29","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 disposal 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 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; prohibit deposition of overburden in streams.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB29/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB29.htm","sponsor":"Kathy Stein"},
{"bill_id":447763,"bill_number":"SB30","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the taxing authority of local governments.","description":"Propose to amend Section 181 of the Kentucky Constitution to allow the Commonwealth to share state revenues with local governments; propose to create a new section of the Kentucky Constitution to require the General Assembly to enact laws to allow cities and counties or any combination of cities or counties to impose a sales and use tax and to establish parameters for the imposition of a sales and use tax by cities and counties; provide for ballot language; submit to voters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB30/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB30.htm","sponsor":"Kathy Stein"},
{"bill_id":447765,"bill_number":"SB31","title":"AN ACT relating to comprehensive sex education in schools.","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; 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":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB31/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB31.htm","sponsor":"Kathy Stein"},
{"bill_id":447766,"bill_number":"SB32","title":"AN ACT relating to donations.","description":"Amend KRS 150.4111 to allow resident nonprofit charitable, religious, or charitable institutions to sell donated processed wildlife; amend KRS 367.668 to require professional solicitors to provide additional information on donation receptacles; repeal 367.178.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 13)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB32/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB32.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":447768,"bill_number":"SB33","title":"AN ACT relating to court-ordered community-based outpatient treatment.","description":"Amend KRS 202A.081 to extend the length of an order for community-based outpatient treatment, permit re-hospitalization for failure to abide by the order, and require that providers use evidence-based practices.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB33/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB33.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":447769,"bill_number":"SB34","title":"AN ACT relating to the provision of information relative to Down syndrome.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the provision of certain information regarding Down syndrome upon diagnosis.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-14","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 6)","last_action_date":"2013-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB34/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB34.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":447771,"bill_number":"SB35","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 431.540 to require that defendants who are eligible but do not execute a bond under the uniform schedule appear before a judge within 12 hours for consideration for release on personal recognizance.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB35/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB35.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":447772,"bill_number":"SB36","title":"AN ACT relating to preschool funding for children.","description":"Amend KRS 157.3175 to change the birthdate for preschool eligibility from October 1 to August 1 effective in 2017; clarify that funding shall be based on the average number of eligible children served on December 1 and March 1 of the prior academic year; repeal KRS 157.226, relating to preschool programs for disabled children.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-09","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB36/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB36.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":447774,"bill_number":"SB37","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid managed care organizations.","description":"Amend KRC 205.522 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a waiver to permit Medicaid managed care organizations to provide incentives to members for decreasing inappropriate visit to hospital emergency departments for non-emergency services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-09","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB37/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB37.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":447776,"bill_number":"SB38","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid provider credentialing and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 205.560 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to accept provider credentialing by a Medicaid managed care organization; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendments (3) and (4-title) filed","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB38/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB38.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":447777,"bill_number":"SB39","title":"AN ACT relating to the expansion of Medicaid eligibility and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 205.520 to prohibit the Commonwealth from participating in the expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless authorized by the General Assembly; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB39/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB39.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":447779,"bill_number":"SB40","title":"AN ACT relating to health care exchanges and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 304.17A to prohibit the Commonwealth from operating a state-based health benefit exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unless authorized by the General Assembly; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB40/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB40.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":447780,"bill_number":"SCR16","title":"Urge Congress to enact H.R. 1489, the Return to Prudent Banking Act, to separate commercial and investment banking functions in the manner provided by the Glass-Steagall Act until its repeal in 1999.","description":"Urge Congress to enact H.R. 1489, the Return to Prudent Banking Act, to separate commercial and investment banking functions in the manner provided by the Glass-Steagall Act until its repeal in 1999.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR16/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SC16.htm","sponsor":"Perry Clark"},
{"bill_id":447782,"bill_number":"SCR19","title":"Designate Kentucky as a Purple Heart State.","description":"Designate Kentucky as a Purple Heart State.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR19/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SC19.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":447783,"bill_number":"SCR22","title":"Urge the President and Congress of the United States to adopt an appropriate flag honoring all veterans.","description":"Urge the President and Congress of the United States to adopt an appropriate flag honoring all veterans.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 6, 2013","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR22/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SC22.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":448736,"bill_number":"HB117","title":"AN ACT relating to teacher tenure.","description":"Amend KRS 161.740 to ensure that a teacher who has attained continuing contract status in one school district maintains that status in subsequent districts of employment.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB117/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB117.htm","sponsor":"Jim Stewart"},
{"bill_id":448762,"bill_number":"HB118","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 281.600 to exempt commercial motor vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle combined weight rating of 26,000 pounds or less, that are not engaged in interstate commerce, are not transporting hazardous materials, and are not designed or used to transport 16 or more passengers from the federal safety regulations in 49 C.F.R. parts 391, 393 and 396.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB118/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB118.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":448788,"bill_number":"HB120","title":"AN ACT relating to real estate appraisal.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 324A.150 to 324A.164 to establish the appraisal management company education, research, and recovery fund; direct the Real Estate Appraisers Board to assess each registrant an annual fee of $800 to be included in the fund; designate purposes of the fund; require the board to maintain a minimum fund level of $200,000 for recovery and guaranty purposes; permit the board to use funds in excess of the required minimum balance for educational and other purposes that advance the appraisal field in Kentucky; establish procedure for making claims against the fund; define \"aggrieved party\"; permit the board to require a respondent to pay costs of investigation and all proceedings when disciplinary action is imposed pursuant to the chapter; amend KRS 324A.150 to include under the definition of \"appraisal management company\" providing software products used to select appraisers or order appraisals; amend KRS 324A.154 to delete the requirement for an applicant to maintain a surety bond with the board in addition to the filing fee for the company; amend KRS 324A.164 to clarify under the exemptions from company registration that an exempt real estate broker or agent properly licensed is doing business in Kentucky by listing or selling real estate; amend KRS 324A.010 to include electronic communication under the definitions for \"appraisal\" and \"appraisal report\"; add definition for a \"federally related transaction\"; amend KRS 324A.015 to delete initial terms for board members and mandate appraiser appointees be certified and engaged in appraisal in Kentucky for at least 10 years; amend KRS 324A.030 to require certificate holders and licensees to maintain a current e-mail address and phone number; impose a penalty not to exceed $200 for failure to notify the board within 30 days if contact information has changed; prohibit a person from performing duties usually performed by a certified real property appraiser for a federally related transaction unless holding a valid license or certification for a real property appraiser in Kentucky; amend KRS 324A.035 to direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for appraisers who perform appraisals of real property in federally related transactions; amend KRS 324A.045 to mandate that 6 months or more after renewal, a former certificate or license holder shall meet all current requirements as if applying for initial certification or licensure; create a new section of KRS Chapter 324A to establish requirements for a national and state criminal background check for initial applicants for licensure or certification as a real property appraiser; amend KRS 324A.050 to include a cap on the fine per violation the board may impose at $5,000; add ability of the board to discipline if sufficient grounds exist in another jurisdiction that are sufficient to cause disciplinary action to be taken in this state; designate what constitutes the minimum standard of conduct and performance for a licensee or credential holder; authorize the board in any proceeding imposing a 30-day or more suspension or revocation to order the respondent to pay actual investigation costs and proceedings not to exceed $10,000; amend KRS 324A.065 to conform and to make a technical correction; amend KRS 324A.075 to mandate an individual from an another state with substantially equivalent to or greater requirements to apply within this state if seeking to practice within Kentucky; amend KRS 324A.090 and 324A.152 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 46)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB120/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB120.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":448813,"bill_number":"HB121","title":"AN ACT relating to property taxes.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 133 to define \"threshold amount\" and permit county clerks to elect not to prepare property tax bills below the threshold amount; amend KRS 91A.070 to permit cities to elect not to prepare property tax bills below the threshold amount.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB121/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB121.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":448839,"bill_number":"HB122","title":"AN ACT relating to vehicle weight limits.","description":"Amend KRS 189.221 and 189.222 to exempt vehicles from citations issued for gross weight limits when traveling on non-interstate highways, between the loading point and the nearest scale in the direction of the operator's destination; amend KRS 189.230 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB122/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB122.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":448868,"bill_number":"HCR26","title":"Adjourn the first part of the 2013 Regular Session on January 11, 2013, and convene the second part on February 5, 2013.","description":"Adjourn the first part of the 2013 Regular Session on January 11, 2013, and convene the second part on February 5, 2013.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"to House Floor","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":"Floor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR26/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC26.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":448894,"bill_number":"SB41","title":"AN ACT relating to limitation of actions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to set a six year statute of limitations on actions under a revolving credit plan; create a new section of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to establish a time when a cause of action accrues to collect a debt on a revolving credit plan.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB41/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB41.htm","sponsor":"Julian Carroll"},
{"bill_id":448920,"bill_number":"SB42","title":"AN ACT relating to concealed carry licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 237.110 to allow military firearms training to meet the firearms training requirement to obtain a concealed carry license.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB42/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB42.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":448945,"bill_number":"SB43","title":"AN ACT relating to physician assistants.","description":"Amend KRS 311.860 to give the supervising physician or the credentialing facility oversight of physician assistant nonseparate location practice; allow a newly graduated physician assistant to practice in either a separate on nonseparate location as delegated by the supervising physician or the credentialing facility; eliminate the 18 month waiting period before a physician assistant may practice in a separate location; remove the board's authority to modify or waive the separate location practice privileges.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB43/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB43.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":448971,"bill_number":"SB44","title":"AN ACT relating to acupuncture.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS 311.671 to 311.686 to change acupuncture from a certified to a licensed profession.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB44/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB44.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":448997,"bill_number":"SB45","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 replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to eliminate the term \"capital offense\" and replace it with Class A felony; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses to permit, imprisonment for life without parole and imprisonment for life without parole for 25 years for offenses formerly denominated as capital offenses; amend KRS 532.050 to require a presentence investigation in all felony cases; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to authorize imprisonment for life without benefit of parole for 25 years, but not life imprisonment without benefit of parole, for a Class A felony which was formerly a capital offense; repeal various statutes relating to imposition of the death penalty.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB45/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB45.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":449020,"bill_number":"SCR50","title":"Adjourn the first part of the 2013 Regular Session on January 11, 2013, and convene the second part on February 5, 2013.","description":"Adjourn the first part of the 2013 Regular Session on January 11, 2013, and convene the second part on February 5, 2013.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR50/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SC50.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":449527,"bill_number":"SB54","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services.","description":"Amend KRS 311A.015 to attach the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to the Public Protection Cabinet for administrative purposes; amend KRS 311A.020 to require all employees assigned to the board to be transferred from the KCTCS system to the KRS Chapter 18A personnel system; require new employees to be hired under provisions of KRS Chapter 18A; require the transfer of all moneys appropriated to and collected by the board to the Public Protection Cabinet; amend KRS 12.020 and 12.252 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB54/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB54.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":449535,"bill_number":"SB53","title":"AN ACT relating to nature preserves.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 146.410 to 146.535 to define \"legacy nature preserve\"; authorize the governing body of the legacy nature preserve to make improvements and allow certain activities on the legacy nature preserve; require all activities authorized by this section to comply with the articles of dedication for the legacy nature preserve and the provisions of KRS Chapter 146.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB53/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB53.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":449549,"bill_number":"SB52","title":"AN ACT relating to certificates of death.","description":"Amend KRS 213.076 to require electronic filing of death certificates as of January 1, 2015.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-12","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 4)","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB52/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB52.htm","sponsor":"Joe Bowen"},
{"bill_id":449560,"bill_number":"SB51","title":"AN ACT relating to nurses.","description":"Amend KRS 314.042 to eliminate the requirement for advanced practice registered nurses to have a \"Collaborative Agreement for the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse's Prescriptive Authority for Nonscheduled Legend Drugs.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB51/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB51.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":449576,"bill_number":"SB50","title":"AN ACT relating to industrial hemp.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 260 to define \"Commissioner,\" \"department,\" \"grower,\" \"industrial hemp,\" and \"tetrahydrocannabinol\"; establish conditions and procedures for the licensing of industrial hemp growers by the Department of Agriculture; require the department to coordinate a criminal history check with the assistance of law enforcement agencies; establish a license duration period; require the department to set the cost of the license by administrative regulation; require the department to forward a copy of an industrial hemp grower license to law enforcement agencies; specify stipulations for growers having an industrial hemp grower license; clarify that the Act does not authorize a person to violate federal law; require periodic reports to the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission; establish circumstances under which a license may be withdrawn; amend KRS 218A.010 to conform; amend KRS 260.853 to clarify the scope of industrial hemp research; amend KRS 260.857 to allow for additional members of the Industrial Hemp Commission and designate the commissioner as the commission chair; amend KRS 260.859 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-07","last_action":"became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Chapter 134)","last_action_date":"2013-04-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB50/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB50.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":449586,"bill_number":"SB49","title":"AN ACT relating to mechanic's liens.","description":"Amend KRS 376.010 and 376.230 to extend the time period in which a mechanic's lien must be filed when multiple contractors are involved in a project.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB49/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB49.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":449601,"bill_number":"SB48","title":"AN ACT relating to public library districts","description":"Create a new section of KRS 173.450 to 173.650 to provide for an alternative method of creating a public library district, appointing board members, levying an ad valorem tax and modifying the tax with fiscal court approval; specify the method of dissolution.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB48/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB48.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Rhoads"},
{"bill_id":449614,"bill_number":"SB47","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 arrest or initial appearance from all persons charged with a felony offense; amend KRS 17.175 to provide for expungement of DNA samples in specified circumstances and allow use of all samples collected in good faith; 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":"2013-01-11","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB47/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB47.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":449631,"bill_number":"SB46","title":"AN ACT relating to biomass and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to allow recovery of costs for purchase of power from certain biomass energy facilities; declare the Public Service Commission approval of cost recovery to be valid for the initial term of the purchase power agreement; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 3)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB46/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB46.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":449643,"bill_number":"HCR31","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":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"floor amendments (2) and (3) filed","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR31/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC31.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":449655,"bill_number":"HB141","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits for farmers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define \"donor,\" \"edible agricultural products,\" \"nonprofit food program,\" and \"qualified taxpayer\"; allow a qualified taxpayer/donor to receive a tax credit for donating edible agricultural products to nonprofit food programs; set the tax credit amount at ten percent; establish requirements for pass-through entities; describe the forms that shall be used to record donation information; describe standards for estimating the value of donated edible agricultural products; allow a tax credit to be carried forward to subsequent years; amend KRS 141.0205 to specify the ordering of the credit; clarify the farm operation tax credit; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB141/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB141.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":449671,"bill_number":"HB140","title":"AN ACT relating to revenue measures for financing the Kentucky Retirement Systems' unfunded liability.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to reenact the cigarette paper tax; require the revenues from this tax to be deposited into the Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability trust fund; amend KRS 138.130 and 138.140 to conform; make effective only if the General Assembly creates the Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability trust fund.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB140/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB140.htm","sponsor":"Tom Riner"},
{"bill_id":449684,"bill_number":"HB139","title":"AN ACT relating to revenue measures for financing the Kentucky Retirement Systems' unfunded liability.","description":"Amend KRS 138.140 to impose an additional cigarette surtax at a proportionate rate of 40 cents on each 20 cigarettes; deposit moneys into the Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability trust fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to reenact the cigarette paper tax; amend KRS 138.143 to impose a floor stock tax at 11:59 p.m. on June 30, 2013; allow the floor stock tax to be paid in 3 installments; amend KRS 138.130 to make conforming changes; make effective only if the General Assembly creates the Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability trust fund.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB139/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB139.htm","sponsor":"Tom Riner"},
{"bill_id":449698,"bill_number":"HB138","title":"AN ACT creating the Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability trust fund, and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to establish the Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability trust fund; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to separately account for each contribution, gift, or donation by the name and address of the individual or business entity making the contribution, gift, or donation.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB138/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB138.htm","sponsor":"Tom Riner"},
{"bill_id":449711,"bill_number":"HB137","title":"AN ACT relating to users of the public roadway.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 prohibiting the operation of a motor vehicle in a manner that causes a collision and serious physical injury or death to a vulnerable user of a public roadway; establish definition of \"vulnerable user of a public roadway\"; establish penalties for violation; permit persons convicted to petition to enter a community labor program and attend a traffic safety course in lieu of penalties; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the traffic safety program; amend KRS 27A.060 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB137/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB137.htm","sponsor":"Kelly Flood"},
{"bill_id":449724,"bill_number":"HB136","title":"AN ACT relating to an insurer's use of credit scores for underwriting purposes.","description":"Amend KRS 304.20-042 to restrict an insurer's use of credit information for property and casualty insurance contracts for underwriting or to rate risks by prohibiting the sole use of lack of credit history or lack of a credit card account without consideration of any other applicable factor independent of credit information; require an insurer to treat a consumer who has no credit history or no credit card account as if the applicant or insured had neutral credit information.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB136/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB136.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":449741,"bill_number":"HB135","title":"AN ACT relating to school and student safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish the School and Student Safety Review Subcommittee as a statutory committee of the Legislative Research Commission; amends KRS 158.442 and KRS 158.444 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB135/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB135.htm","sponsor":"Richard Henderson"},
{"bill_id":449752,"bill_number":"HB134","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits for environmental remediation.","description":"Amend KRS 141.418 to allow a tax credit for renovating or demolishing a qualified industrial building, and expand the maximum amount of credit available to each taxpayer.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB134/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB134.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Horlander"},
{"bill_id":449765,"bill_number":"HB133","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Abolish the Division of Administration and the Division of Business Filings; create the Office of Administration, Office of Business, and Office of Elections, and describe duties of the offices; confirm Executive Order 2012-01.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism & Labor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB133/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB133.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":449778,"bill_number":"HB132","title":"AN ACT relating to unborn children.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to regulate abortions in relation to the detection of a fetal heartbeat; amend KRS 311.597 to provide for professional physician discipline relative to abortions performed in violation in Section 1 of the bill; amend KRS 311.720 to define terms.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB132/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB132.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":449792,"bill_number":"HB131","title":"AN ACT relating to the enrollment of refugee or legal alien students in schools.","description":"Amend KRS 158.100 to allow a local board of education to provide services to refugees and legal aliens who are between the ages of 21 and 23; amend KRS 157.360 to adjust SEEK base funding to include refugees or legal aliens between the ages of 21 and 23 who are enrolled in a high school program.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB131/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB131.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":449805,"bill_number":"HB130","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Aviation Economic Development Fund and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 183.525, regarding the Kentucky Aviation Economic Development Fund, to direct $2 million per year, for five consecutive fiscal years starting in fiscal year 2013-2014, from the fund to airport boards who have received grants from the United States Department of Transportation's Small Community Air Service Development Program, in order to promote the development of commercial aviation services at those airports; specify that the funds dedicated to this purpose shall be distributed to all eligible airports in proportion to the amount of federal grant received; direct the Transportation Cabinet to make the grants by April 1 of each fiscal year; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB130/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB130.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":449821,"bill_number":"HB129","title":"AN ACT relating to tolls.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 and amend KRS 141.0205 to create a refundable income tax credit for eligible persons who pay tolls to commute to work across an Ohio River bridge; create a new section of KRS Chapter 175B to establish an exclusion for tolls for mass transit vehicles operated by a public agency or a subsidiary of a municipal government; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to require a transfer from the road fund to the general fund for the amount of toll credit allowed.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB129/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB129.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":449831,"bill_number":"HB128","title":"AN ACT relating to elk hunting permits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to define \"elk management unit\" and \"elk restoration zone\"; require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to hold a postseason elk quota hunt for each year that a regular season elk quota hunt is held; require all of the hunters drawn to participate in the postseason elk quota hunt to be drawn from the pool of applicants who were not drawn for the regular season elk quota hunt and who live in the elk restoration zone; require the number of permits drawn for the postseason elk quota hunt to be evenly distributed based on county of residence within the elk restoration zone; require at least 2 permits to be awarded per county; require hunters in the postseason elk quota hunt to comply with the hunting requirements for the regular season elk quota hunt in 301 KAR 2:132, Section 5, except restrict each hunter to 1 elk management unit; allow a hunter to also hunt on land that the hunter owns in the opposite elk management unit from the one to which the hunter was assigned; and require that the minimum number of elk tags issued during the regular elk quota hunt not be less than 800.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB128/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB128.htm","sponsor":"John Short"},
{"bill_id":449845,"bill_number":"HB127","title":"AN ACT relating to early fetal death certificates.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 213 to establish a process for applying for and receiving an early fetal death certificate.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB127/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB127.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":449862,"bill_number":"HB126","title":"AN ACT relating to the Petroleum Tank Environmental Assurance Fund.","description":"Amend KRS 224.60-142 to extend the date for tank owners to register, submit affidavits and file applications for their tanks in the Petroleum Storage Tank Environmental Assurance fund from July 15, 2013, to July 15, 2016; amend KRS 224.60-130 to require the cabinet to make reimbursements for those participating in the petroleum storage tank program before July 15, 2019; amend KRS 224.60-145 to extend the small operator assistance account and small operator removal account programs for 3 years from July 15, 2013, to July 15, 2016.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 47)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB126/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB126.htm","sponsor":"Brent Yonts"},
{"bill_id":449875,"bill_number":"HB125","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 281.600 to exempt commercial motor vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle combined weight rating of 26,000 pounds or less, that are not engaged in interstate commerce, are not transporting hazardous materials, and are not designed or used to transport 16 or more passengers, from the federal safety regulations in 49 C.F.R. parts 391, 393 and 396.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 81)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB125/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB125.htm","sponsor":"Brent Yonts"},
{"bill_id":449890,"bill_number":"HB124","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define \"mini-truck\"; permit the operation of mini-trucks on public roadways with a posted speed limit of 45 miles per hour or less; 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 \"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":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB124/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB124.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":449900,"bill_number":"HB123","title":"AN ACT relating to address confidentiality.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 403A; define terms; require the Commission on Women to create a confidential address protection program that shall be open to victims of certain offenses and establish a subcommittee on address confidentiality from its membership; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403A to govern application for participation in the address protection program and permit the commission to charge a fee to participants to fund program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403A to govern the cancellation of program participation and withdrawal from the program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403A to govern the circumstances under which an actual address may be given; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403A to govern circumstances in which program records may be shared; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403A to establish a list of counseling and shelter programs that provide services to victims of specified offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403A to govern voting by program participants; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403A to address custody or visitation orders and program participation; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403A to provide civil liability protection in the case of negligent disclosure of an actual address; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403A to govern the disclosure of an actual address during a court proceeding; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403A to grant the State Board of Elections promulgating authority to implement a voting program for program participants; amend KRS 117.085 to include program participants in the confidential address protection program as voters entitled to vote by absentee ballot; amend KRS 209A.030 to exempt individuals operating in their professional capacity for the confidential address protection program from certain reporting requirements.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB123/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB123.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":449916,"bill_number":"HB119","title":"AN ACT relating to public procurement.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 45A making findings of the General Assembly and establishing policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to promote the Kentucky and United States economies by requiring a preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods produced in the United States; create new section of KRS Chapter 45A defining \"manufactured in the United States\" and \"United States\", require preference for iron, steel, and manufactured goods made in the United States in construction and maintenance contracts and subcontracts, and provide for a waiver of the preference requirement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A establishing a short title of \"Kentucky Buy American Act\"; amend KRS 45A.343, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.080, and 424.260 to require compliance with the \"Kentucky Buy American Act\".","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB119/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB119.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":449927,"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, 2014, 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 and make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB10/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB10.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":449942,"bill_number":"HB8","title":"AN ACT relating to illegal drugs and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.010 to include additional substances within the definition of synthetic drugs; amend KRS 218A.050 to include additional substances within the definition of Schedule I controlled substances; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 26)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB8/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB8.htm","sponsor":"John Tilley"},
{"bill_id":455642,"bill_number":"HJR20","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Highway 1103, near the town of Line Fork in Letcher County, as the \"Banjo Pickers Highway,\" and erect appropriate signs.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Highway 1103, near the town of Line Fork in Letcher County, as the \"Banjo Pickers Highway,\" and erect appropriate signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-01-09","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR20/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ20.htm","sponsor":"John Short"},
{"bill_id":455662,"bill_number":"HJR21","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 582 in Knott County as the \"Allen Amburgey Highway\" and erect appropriate signs.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 582 in Knott County as the \"Allen Amburgey Highway\" and erect appropriate signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR21/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ21.htm","sponsor":"John Short"},
{"bill_id":455678,"bill_number":"HJR32","title":"Declare state sovereignty over powers not given to the federal government by the United States Constitution; demand that the federal government cease mandates beyond constitutionally delegated powers; prohibit federal legislation requiring state passage of laws under threat of penalties or sanctions; direct the Clerk to distribute copies of the Resolution.","description":"Declare state sovereignty over powers not given to the federal government by the United States Constitution; demand that the federal government cease mandates beyond constitutionally delegated powers; prohibit federal legislation requiring state passage of laws under threat of penalties or sanctions; direct the Clerk to distribute copies of the Resolution.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR32/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ32.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":455697,"bill_number":"HR1","title":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2013 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.","description":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2013 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR1/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR1.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":455715,"bill_number":"HR2","title":"Invite pastors of Frankfort churches to open daily sessions with prayer.","description":"Invite pastors of Frankfort churches to open daily sessions with prayer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR2/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR2.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":455733,"bill_number":"HR3","title":"Direct the appointment of a House of Representatives committee to join a like committee from the Senate to wait upon the Governor.","description":"Direct the appointment of a House of Representatives committee to join a like committee from the Senate to wait upon the Governor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR3/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR3.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":455750,"bill_number":"HR4","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Mike Haydon, the Chief of Staff of Governor Steve Beshear.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Mike Haydon, the Chief of Staff of Governor Steve Beshear.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR4/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR4.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":455766,"bill_number":"HR16","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frances Cotterill.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frances Cotterill.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR16/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR16.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":455784,"bill_number":"HR17","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Laurance L. Browning.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Laurance L. Browning.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR17/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR17.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":455804,"bill_number":"HR18","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Minkie Clark Denham.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Minkie Clark Denham.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR18/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR18.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":455820,"bill_number":"HR19","title":"Adjourning in honor and loving memory of Sarah Elizabeth Loyd Clarke.","description":"Adjourning in honor and loving memory of Sarah Elizabeth Loyd Clarke.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR19/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR19.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":455841,"bill_number":"HR22","title":"Encourage each Kentucky school to have a safety assessment performed every five years by the Kentucky Center for School Safety.","description":"Encourage each Kentucky school to have a safety assessment performed every five years by the Kentucky Center for School Safety.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-09","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 97-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR22/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR22.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":455859,"bill_number":"HR23","title":"Honor Steve Coleman on his retirement as Director of the Division of Conservation.","description":"Honor Steve Coleman on his retirement as Director of the Division of Conservation.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR23/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR23.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":455875,"bill_number":"HR24","title":"Encourage the Department of Education to include a course on United States history within social studies curriculum requirements.","description":"Encourage the Department of Education to include a course on United States history within social studies curriculum requirements.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 99-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR24/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR24.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":455892,"bill_number":"HR25","title":"Encourage the Kentucky Board of Education to require financial literacy courses in every school.","description":"Encourage the Kentucky Board of Education to require financial literacy courses in every school.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 99-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR25/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR25.htm","sponsor":"C.B. Embry"},
{"bill_id":455909,"bill_number":"HR27","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of the victims of the Sandy Hook Tragedy.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of the victims of the Sandy Hook Tragedy.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR27/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR27.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":455929,"bill_number":"HR28","title":"Adjourn in loving honor of Johnny Mains, former Maysville City Commissioner.","description":"Adjourn in loving honor of Johnny Mains, former Maysville City Commissioner.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR28/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR28.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":455945,"bill_number":"HR29","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Grayson Sorrels.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Grayson Sorrels.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR29/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR29.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":455965,"bill_number":"HR30","title":"Adjourn the House in loving memory and honor of J. Blaine Hudson.","description":"Adjourn the House in loving memory and honor of J. Blaine Hudson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR30/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR30.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":455981,"bill_number":"SJR17","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the new United States Highway 641 in Crittenden County as the \"Former State Representative Mike Cherry and Former County Judge/Executive Victor 'Pippi' Harding Highway,\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the new United States Highway 641 in Crittenden County as the \"Former State Representative Mike Cherry and Former County Judge/Executive Victor 'Pippi' Harding Highway,\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR17/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ17.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":456001,"bill_number":"SJR25","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to name US Highway 42 in Boone County between I-75 and KY 237 as the \"Kenny Price Memorial Highway,\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to name US Highway 42 in Boone County between I-75 and KY 237 as the \"Kenny Price Memorial Highway,\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR25/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ25.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":456018,"bill_number":"SR1","title":"Establish the 2013 membership of the Kentucky State Senate.","description":"Establish the 2013 membership of the Kentucky State Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR1/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR1.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":456036,"bill_number":"SR2","title":"Adopt Rules of Procedure to govern the 2013 Regular Session of the Senate.","description":"Adopt Rules of Procedure to govern the 2013 Regular Session of the Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR2/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR2.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":456052,"bill_number":"SR3","title":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2013 Regular Session with prayer.","description":"Extend an invitation to the pastors of Frankfort churches to open sessions of the 2013 Regular Session with prayer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR3/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR3.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":456071,"bill_number":"SR4","title":"Appoint a Senate committee to join a like committee from the House of Representatives to wait upon the Governor.","description":"Appoint a Senate committee to join a like committee from the House of Representatives to wait upon the Governor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR4/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR4.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":456092,"bill_number":"SR15","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Mike Haydon, the Chief of Staff of Governor Steve Beshear.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Mike Haydon, the Chief of Staff of Governor Steve Beshear.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR15/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR15.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":456108,"bill_number":"SR18","title":"Adjourning the Senate in loving memory and honor of J. Blaine Hudson.","description":"Adjourning the Senate in loving memory and honor of J. Blaine Hudson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR18/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR18.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":456128,"bill_number":"SR20","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Larry \"Lawyer\" Prater.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Larry \"Lawyer\" Prater.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR20/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR20.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":456146,"bill_number":"SR21","title":"Proclaim February 7 to 14, 2013, as Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week.","description":"Proclaim February 7 to 14, 2013, as Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-01-08","last_action":"to Senate Floor","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Floor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR21/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR21.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":456162,"bill_number":"SR23","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Nena Parales Moore.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Nena Parales Moore.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR23/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR23.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":456179,"bill_number":"SR24","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James C. Sims.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of James C. Sims.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR24/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR24.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":456196,"bill_number":"SR26","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Judge Rachel A. Hutzel.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Judge Rachel A. Hutzel.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR26/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR26.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":456214,"bill_number":"SR27","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Billy, Dakota, Tyler, Cheyenne, and Emily Wilfong.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Billy, Dakota, Tyler, Cheyenne, and Emily Wilfong.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-10","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-10","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR27/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR27.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":456233,"bill_number":"SR28","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of our beloved friend and former colleague, Representative Porter Hatcher, the Gentleman from Jefferson 43.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of our beloved friend and former colleague, Representative Porter Hatcher, the Gentleman from Jefferson 43.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR28/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR28.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":456249,"bill_number":"SR29","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bick Hile.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Bick Hile.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-01-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-01-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR29/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR29.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":456268,"bill_number":"SR30","title":"Adjourn the Senate in loving memory and honor of Clifton \"Chip\" Branham, Jr.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in loving memory and honor of Clifton \"Chip\" Branham, Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR30/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR30.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":456278,"bill_number":"SR31","title":"Honor the University of Louisville football team, 2013 Sugar Bowl Champions.","description":"Honor the University of Louisville football team, 2013 Sugar Bowl Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR31/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR31.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":487624,"bill_number":"HB1","title":"AN ACT relating to special purpose governmental entities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create KRS Chapter 65A and create new sections thereof to define terms used in the chapter; establish an online central registry for the reporting and dissemination of administrative and financial information by special purpose governmental entities; establish audit requirements for special purpose governmental entities; establish consequences for failure to comply with the reporting provisions of the chapter; establish standard dissolution provisions for special purpose governmental entities; require the Department for Local Government to provide education to the governing boards and employees of special purpose governmental entities; require special purpose governmental entities to follow ethics codes; require special purpose governmental entities to adopt an annual budget and to publicize where the adopted budget and other financial information relating to the district may be found; require all special purpose governmental entities to register with the Department for Local Government prior to December 31, 2013; amend KRS 6.764, 64.012, 65.003, 65.005, 65.065, 65.070, 65.117, 65.900, 65.905, 39F.160, 43.070, 43.075, 65.009, 65.530, 65.8925, 74.070, 75.430, 77.135, 77.140, 91.758, 91.760, 91A.360, 91A.370, 91A.372, 91A.380, 91A.570, 91A.575, 96A.190, 97.095, 97.120, 97.600, 97.720, 104.610, 107.380, 136.602, 147.635, 147A.021, 147A.090, 164.655, 173.570, 173.770, 184.080, 210.400, 212.500, 212.639, 212.794, 216.343, 220.544, 262.097, 262.280, 262.760, 262.763, 266.120, 268.170, and 273.441 to conform; create new sections of KRS 65.180 to 65.192, 65.350 to 65.375, 65.660 to 65.679, 68.600 to 68.606, 76.005 to 76.230, 76.213 to 76.240, 76.274 to 76.279, 76.295 to 76.420, 80.262 to 80.300, 80.310 to 80.610, 108.010 to 108.075, 108.080 to 108.180, KRS Chapter 109, Subtitle 50 of KRS Chapter 154, KRS Chapter 173, KRS 183.132 to 183.165, KRS 212.720 to 212.760, and KRS Chapters 267, 268, and 269 to provide that the provisions of Sections 1 to 9 of the Act apply; provide that start up expenditures shall be a necessary governmental expense; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 40)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB1/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB1.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":487625,"bill_number":"HB6","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.12-2084 to remove certain requirements in the definitions of a \"employee,\" \"full-time employee,\" include employment opportunity in the definition of \"occupational upgrade training\"; amend KRS 154.12-2088 to require the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation to consider employee retention requirements when establishing guidelines for skills upgrade training; remove certain requirements of preliminarily approved companies regarding the retention of employees receiving training; create a new section of subchapter 31 of KRS Chapter 154.31 to declare that subchapter shall be known as the Kentucky Enterprise Initiative Act; amend KRS 154.32-010 to make technical corrections to the definition of \"economic development project,\" provide a definition for \"headquarters,\" and specify that eligible costs shall include nonrecurring obligations; amend KRS 154.60-010 to define \"average hourly wage,\" specify when the number of full-time employees shall be identified, and define \"small business\"; amend KRS 154.60-020 to declare when a small business may apply for credits; create a new section of subchapter 60 of KRS Chapter 154 to declare that subchapter shall be known as the Small Business Tax Credit Program; amend KRS Chapter 141.405 and 154.12-2086 to conform.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"reported favorably, to Rules as a Consent Bill","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB6/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB6.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Thompson"},
{"bill_id":487626,"bill_number":"HB7","title":"AN ACT authorizing bonds for postsecondary education capital projects, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate to Morehead State University $9,268,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for renovation of Mignon Residence Hall; appropriate to Murray State University $9,900,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for renovation of Hester Hall, $4,940,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for capital renewal of housing and dining facilities projects under $600,000, and $590,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for upgrading the sprinkler system at College Courts; appropriate to Northern Kentucky University $45,000,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for renovation and expansion of Albright Health Center, and $12,000,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for acquisition and renovation of a new residence hall; appropriate to the University of Kentucky $110,000,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for renovation and expansion of Commonwealth Stadium and Nutter Training Center, $100,000,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for construction of the Academic Science Building, and $25,000,000 in Restricted Funds and $40,000,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for expansion of the Gatton College of Business and Economics; appropriate to the University of Louisville $9,600,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for expansion of the Student Activities Center; appropriate to Western Kentucky University $22,000,000 in Agency Bonds with corresponding debt service for construction of the Honors College facility; stipulate that there is no guarantee General Fund moneys will be appropriated for operation and maintenance of facilities in future biennia; require that appropriations and authorizations expire on June 30, 2014, unless the project is reauthorized or meets exception criteria; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 1)","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB7/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB7.htm","sponsor":"Rick Rand"},
{"bill_id":487627,"bill_number":"HB9","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":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"floor amendment (2) filed","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB9/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB9.htm","sponsor":"John Tilley"},
{"bill_id":487629,"bill_number":"HB142","title":"AN ACT relating to taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 140.130 to decouple from changes to the federal estate tax since 2003; amend KRS 141.010 to provide for a reduction and phase-out of the pension exclusion, establish a cap for itemized deductions, update the Internal Revenue Code reference date, and define \"taxpayer\"; amend KRS 141.020 to provide for changes to income tax rates; amend KRS 141.0401 to lower the exclusion threshold; amend KRS 141.120 to change apportionment methods to use a \"throwback\" rule; amend KRS 141.200 to require\"combined\"reporting for corporations; amend KRS 136.310, 136.530, 141.040, 141.121, 141.205, 141.206, and 141.420 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 141.383, 148.544, and 148.546 to make the film industry tax credit nonrefundable and nontransferable; create a new section of KRS 6.905 to 6.935 to require review and sunset of all economic development tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to allow LRC employees to review selected tax documents; amend KRS 138.210 to set the \"floor\" price at $2.616 per gallon; amend KRS 138.220 to reduce dealer compensation to 1%; amend KRS 132.020 to make the real property tax rate 12.2 cents per $100, remove the rate adjustment provision, and remove the recall provision; amend KRS 132.200 to clarify the exemption for telephone/TV equipment and pollution control equipment; amend KRS 132.260 to clarify requirements for reporting of rental space for mobile/manufactured homes, private aircraft, and certain boats/vessels; amend KRS 132.010, 132.730, 132.751, 132.810, 132.815, and 132.810 to clarify property tax treatment of manufactured homes; amend KRS 140.300 to clarify the treatment of agricultural valuation on inherited property; amend KRS 217.015 to conform; amend KRS 279.200, 279.530, 279.220, and 139.530 to repeal rural electric and telephone co-op taxes; amend KRS 132.097 and 132.099 to amend the exemption for personal property shipped out of state; amend KRS 139.105, 139.200, 139.220, 139.270, and 139.340 to impose sales tax on selected services; amend KRS 139.470 to remove the exclusion of school tax on telecom services; amend KRS 139.480 to provide an exclusion for combine header wagons and trailers; amend KRS 243.0305 and 243.990 to recognize changes in the distilled spirits case tax; create a new section of KRS 138.130 to 138.205 and amend KRS 138.130, 138.140, 138.143, and 138.195 to change the tax on cigarette rolling papers, to raise the tobacco taxes, and to impose a floor stock tax; amend KRS 65.125, 65.674, 67.862, 67.938, 67A.843, 68.245, 68.248, 82.095, 97.590, 132.018, 132.0225, 132.023, 132.024, 132.027, 132.029, 157.440, 160.470, 160.473, 67C.147, 78.530, and 342.340 to remove the provisions of HB 44 that allow for recall of certain tax rates and make conforming and technical changes; create a new section of KRS 138.510 to 138.550 and amend KRS 138.511, 138.530, and 138.550 to provide for an excise tax on advance deposit wagering; repeal KRS 132.017, 132.025, 132.720, 143A.035, and 243.710; provide that income tax provisions apply for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, estate tax provisions apply for deaths occurring on or after August 1, 2013, sales tax provisions are effective for periods beginning on or after October 1, 2013, property tax provisions are for assessments on and after January 1, 2014, and advance deposit wagering provisions apply to licensees beginning August 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB142/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB142.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":487630,"bill_number":"HB143","title":"AN ACT relating to freedom of conscience in healthcare.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to state purposes of Act; define terms; state that a healthcare provider, institution, or payor has the right not to participate in healthcare services that violate his or her conscience; prohibit civil, criminal, or administrative liability or discrimination for refusing to perform a service that violates his or her conscience; allow a civil action for damages and injunctive relief to be brought for a violation of this Act; require recovery to be at least $5,000 for each violation plus costs and attorney's fees; naming the bill the \"Healthcare Freedom of Conscience Act.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB143/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB143.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":487631,"bill_number":"HB144","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid reimbursement in schools and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define \"breach of a contract\"; provide that if any breach of a contract occurs or has occurred between a Medicaid managed care organization and any agency, department, or cabinet of the Commonwealth to reimburse a school district Medicaid provider, then services to school district Medicaid patients served under the contract shall immediately cease and school district Medicaid patients shall be transitioned to a Medicaid fee-for-service program; clarify that any school district Medicaid provider who is due funds as a result of a contract between a Medicaid managed care organization and the Commonwealth shall still be able to recover them; exempt any Medicaid managed care organization operating in the Commonwealth pursuant to a Section 1115 waiver on January 1, 2011; require that the cabinet transition all services related to the provision of Medicaid services to school district Medicaid patients to a Medicaid fee for service after the original termination date of the Medicaid managed care contracts; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB144/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB144.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":487632,"bill_number":"HB145","title":"AN ACT relating to civil actions.","description":"Amend KRS 413.140 to provide for a one-year statute of limitations for actions brought against professional land surveyors.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 48)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB145/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB145.htm","sponsor":"Brent Yonts"},
{"bill_id":487634,"bill_number":"HB146","title":"AN ACT relating to drugs and medicines.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.1440 to modify the time periods during which certain drug offenders are banned from possessing drugs containing ephedrine-based products; amend KRS 218A.1446 to allow additional means of logging sales of ephedrine-based drug products.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB146/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB146.htm","sponsor":"Brent Yonts"},
{"bill_id":487635,"bill_number":"HB147","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":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 6, 2013","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB147/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB147.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":487636,"bill_number":"HB148","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation.","description":"Amend KRS 42.4592 to delete transfer of money to secondary wood products development fund; amend 154.20-170 to make conforming internal references changes; amend 154.47-005 to delete references to the board of the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation and define \"cabinet\"; amend 154.47-040 to replace reference to the Economic Development Cabinet with \"cabinet\" and delete references to the Kentucky Wood Products Competitivess Corporation; send information on secondary wood product requirements to the Finance Administration's Department for Facilities and Support Services; remove references to the board making determinations on applications by secondary wood products businesses; amend KRS 154.47-050 to delete references to the board of the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation; amend KRS 154.47-055 to allow Workforce Development to work with universities to develop an integrated program and curricula for secondary wood products manufacturing; amend KRS 154.47-060 to allow the corporation to contract with the University of Kentucky and allow the University of Kentucky to run the Quicksand Wood Utilization Center; delete references to the corporation using the center; amend KRS 154.47-065 to replace the corporation with cabinet and allow the cabinet with the Division of Forestry to develop benchmarks for performance of Kentucky forest industries; amend KRS 154.47-075 to delete references to the board and allow the Division of Forestry to work with universities and the Labor Cabinet to develop and implement training and assistance for worker safety; 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.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 49)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB148/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB148.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":487637,"bill_number":"HB149","title":"AN ACT relating to the veterans' program trust fund.","description":"Amend KRS 40.310 to require the Department of Veterans' Affairs to manage the veterans' program trust fund.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 114)","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB149/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB149.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":487639,"bill_number":"HB150","title":"AN ACT relating to fish and wildlife.","description":"Amend KRS 150.175 to remove the distinction between the commercial and noncommercial taxidermist licenses; abolish the migratory bird permit; change the name of the waterfowl permit to the migratory bird permit; separate the senior/disabled combination license into two different licenses; create a new senior lifetime combination hunting and fishing license; allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to offer multi-year licenses or permits for certain existing annual licenses or permits; allow the department to discontinue multi-year licenses or permits at any time; amend KRS 150.603 to conform; repeal KRS 150.605.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 50)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB150/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB150.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":487640,"bill_number":"HB151","title":"AN ACT relating to patient dumping.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 438 requiring a peace officer, public employee, or private employee who brings a prisoner or other person in need of medical, dental, psychological, mental health, mental retardation, substance abuse, or alcohol abuse treatment into Kentucky to make arrangements for the treatment and payment therefor in advance; provide for civil and criminal liability for failing to make prior arrangements or failure to pay for treatment; provide exception for emergency medical care in case of an injury or medical emergency which occurs in Kentucky.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB151/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB151.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":487641,"bill_number":"HB152","title":"AN ACT relating to apprenticeship.","description":"Amend KRS 343.010 to modify the definitions of \"apprentice,\" \"apprenticeship agreement,\" and \"council\"; amend KRS 343.020 to include two public members on the Apprenticeship and Training Council; amend KRS 343.030 to eliminate the confirmation requirement for the Governor's appointment of a supervisor of apprenticeship and training; amend KRS 343.050 regarding the requirements for an apprenticeship agreement; amend the apprenticeship agreement approval requirements in KRS 343.060; amend KRS 343.070 to require an informal hearing before the supervisor for dispute resolution; amend KRS 343.080 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB152/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB152.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":487642,"bill_number":"HB153","title":"AN ACT relating to barbers.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 317 to remove requirements for a barber apprenticeship; amend KRS 317.450 to require graduation from a licensed school of barbering as a prerequisite to qualifying for a license to practice barbering; establish the probationary examination and probation period of six continuous months; permit the board to require a probationary licensee to retake any part of the exam during the probation period; eliminate the barber apprenticeship examination fee of $150 and various other apprenticeship fees, and in lieu thereof permit but not require the board to charge a single combined barber examination fee up to a maximum of $300.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 51)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB153/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB153.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":487643,"bill_number":"HB154","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 42.4588 and 42.4592 to provide for a new distribution of coal severance funds back to counties by deleting the multi-county account, and to provide for an allocation of $2 million to be split among the 12 regional industrial parks in coal counties; amend KRS 11A.233, 42.4595, 42.460, 42.480, 11A.233, 154.12-224, 154.12-225, 154.20-170, 154.22-040, 154.32-050, and 164.7890 to conform; repeal KRS 42.4586, 154.47-005, 154.47-010, 154.47-015, 154.47-020, 154.47-025, 154.47-030 154.47-035, 154.47-040, 154.47-045, 154.47-050, 154.47-055, 154.47-060, 154.47-065, 154.47-070, 154.47-075, 154.47-100, 154.47-105, 154.47-110, and 154.47-120; provide that the legislation is effective for state fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB154/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB154.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":487645,"bill_number":"HB155","title":"AN ACT relating to the Special Needs Alternative Education and Welfare Program.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 157 to establish the Students with Special Needs Scholarship Program; define terminology regarding participation; describe the process for the Kentucky Department of Education to receive student applications and to allocate scholarship funding; require a resident school district to provide annual notice of the program to parents, transfer school records, provide transportation, and permit a student to participate in the state assessment if requested; describe the requirements of a participating school application; describe parent, student, and local district responsibilities; clarify the requirements for a proportionate share of federal funds for parentally placed students with disabilities; amend KRS 157.196, 159.030, and 605.115 to conform with the definition of \"individualized education program\" in the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; direct the Office of Education Accountability to monitor and report on implementation of the program; name portions of the act the \"Special Needs Alternative Education and Welfare Act of 2012.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB155/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB155.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":487646,"bill_number":"HB156","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 one and one-half inches; name law the \"Kentucky Firearms Freedom Act.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"reassigned to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB156/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB156.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":487647,"bill_number":"HB157","title":"AN ACT relating to local government procurement.","description":"Amend KRS 67C.117 to change the amount required for a contract to be subject to advertising requirements and contractor prequalification from $10,000 to the small purchase amount in KRS 45A.385, and change the time in which the contract amount is to be measured from calendar year to fiscal year.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB157/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB157.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":487649,"bill_number":"HB158","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 532.110 to require sentences for multiple Class A or B felonies to run consecutively.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB158/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB158.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":487650,"bill_number":"HB159","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 218A to apply uniform penalty of presumptive probation, with mandatory drug treatment, to persons possessing certain drugs and paraphernalia; amend KRS 218A.1415 to make possession of a controlled substance in the first degree a Class A misdemeanor.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB159/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB159.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":487651,"bill_number":"HB160","title":"AN ACT reclassifying the City of Taylorsville.","description":"Reclassify the City of Taylorsville, in Spencer County, from a city of the fifth class to a city of the fourth class, which requires a population of 3,000 to 7,999.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB160/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB160.htm","sponsor":"Brad Montell"},
{"bill_id":487652,"bill_number":"HB161","title":"AN ACT relating to the criminal justice system.","description":"Amend KRS 514.030 to increase the penalties for theft by unlawful taking or disposition of property valued at more than $500; repeal KRS 218A.1418.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 82)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB161/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB161.htm","sponsor":"Denver Butler"},
{"bill_id":487654,"bill_number":"HB162","title":"AN ACT relating to elevator inspections and licensure.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.400 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 198B.4013 to allow both full and limited licensure as an elevator mechanic; include years of experience and types of elevators the applicant has installed, maintained, or serviced in the limited licensure application; mandate passage of an authorized examination and completion of a recognized training program for a limited elevator mechanic license; delete lapsed timing requirements.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 31)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB162/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB162.htm","sponsor":"Jeffery Donohue"},
{"bill_id":487655,"bill_number":"HB163","title":"AN ACT relating to voluntary unification of counties.","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":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB163/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB163.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":487656,"bill_number":"HB164","title":"AN ACT relating to proof of motor vehicle insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.39-117 to authorize the use of proof of motor vehicle insurance in an electronic format by download or transmission in real time to a portable electronic device, in addition to the requirement that the owner keep the paper insurance card in the motor vehicle; amend KRS 186A-042 for the purpose of licensing a personal motor vehicle to authorize the county clerk to accept an insurance card in paper or electronic format if AVIS does not list the vehicle identification number as an insured vehicle and the clerk may require the applicant to e-mail the electronic copy to the clerk and the clerk may print a copy for the clerk's records.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 83)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB164/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB164.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":487657,"bill_number":"HB165","title":"AN ACT relating to rock quarries.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 350 to define \"rock quarry\" and to create a permit exemption for owners of rock quarries who use the excavated rock solely on their own farm.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"floor amendment (1) withdrawn","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB165/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB165.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":487658,"bill_number":"HB166","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":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB166/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB166.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":487660,"bill_number":"HB167","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39G to create the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center within the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security; amend KRS 39G.010 to require the executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to administer the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center; amend KRS 61.878 to change the Office for Security Coordination to the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security; confirm Executive Order 2012-418.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 32)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB167/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB167.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":487661,"bill_number":"HB168","title":"AN ACT relating to preserving the right of Kentuckians to own and use firearms and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to state legislative findings; set forth relevant sections of the Constitution of the United States, Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, relating to the right to keep and bear arms; provide that the General Assembly is concerned about possible federal contravention of rights guaranteed under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; specify that the Commonwealth of Kentucky does not recognize federal statutes, regulations, and other actions which deny or abridge the right to keep and bear arms; require the General Assembly to take action to protect constitutional rights.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"reassigned to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB168/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB168.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":487662,"bill_number":"HB169","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; amend KRS 403.212 to establish new amounts in the child support guidelines table and delete the old amounts.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB169/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB169.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":487663,"bill_number":"HB170","title":"AN ACT relating to energy.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapters 278 and 96 to require retail electric suppliers to use increasing amounts of renewable energy; require retail electric suppliers to take energy-efficiency measures and implement energy-efficiency programs that increase energy savings over a period of time; provide for alternative compliance plans for public utilities who fail to meet renewable energy or efficiency requirements; define renewable energy; specify reporting requirements to the Public Service Commission regarding progress in diversifying energy sources and energy savings; require the Public Service Commission to develop tariff guidelines for purchase of renewable power.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB170/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB170.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":487665,"bill_number":"HB171","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, 344.040, 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 344.100 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 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, 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":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB171/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB171.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":487666,"bill_number":"HB172","title":"AN ACT relating to emergency anaphylaxis medications in schools.","description":"Amend KRS 158.836 to make provisions for students with life-threatening allergies to have access to an epinephrine auto-injector in school; require schools to have written emergency anaphylactic reaction response plan; require schools to keep an epinephrine auto-injector in a minimum of 2 locations in the school; exempt authorized person from civil liability for administering or assisting with the administration of epinephrine.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 52)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB172/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB172.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":487667,"bill_number":"HB173","title":"AN ACT relating the motor vehicles leased by units of government.","description":"Amend KRS 186.060, regarding official license plates for vehicles leased or owned by local units of government, to clarify the eligibility of vehicles leased by local governments to bear official plates.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 33)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB173/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB173.htm","sponsor":"Hubert Collins"},
{"bill_id":487669,"bill_number":"HB174","title":"AN ACT relating to transit tags for motor vehicles.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to establish a transit tag for vehicles purchased in Kentucky to be transported out of state; limit issuance of a transit tag to motor vehicles ineligible for permanent or temporary registration in Kentucky; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish application forms and issuance procedures; require proof of vehicle ownership and insurance coverage as part of the application for a transit tag; make transit tags valid for 15 days from issuance, and require the expiration date be shown on the face of the tag in a tamper-resistant manner; exempt and licensed motor vehicle dealers and distributors from the provisions of the Act; EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2014.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 34)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB174/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB174.htm","sponsor":"Hubert Collins"},
{"bill_id":487670,"bill_number":"HB175","title":"AN ACT relating to sales and use taxes.","description":"Amend KRS 139.531 to exempt from sales and use tax sales of machinery, machinery attachments, repair parts, replacement parts, horse trailers and stock trailers, feed and feed additives, water, farm chemicals, on-farm equine facilities, fuel to operate machinery, seed and commercial fertilizer, if the property is purchased by a person regularly engaged in the occupation of breeding, raising, training, racing, or exhibiting equine as a business and the property is exclusively and directly used in that occupation; amend KRS 139.470 to conform; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB175/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB175.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":487671,"bill_number":"HB176","title":"AN ACT relating to cosmetologists.","description":"Amend KRS 317A.155 to allow a licensed cosmetologist or nail technician who practices in a salon licensed by the board to render services to a terminal patient receiving the services of hospice either at home or in a hospice inpatient unit.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 53)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB176/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB176.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":487672,"bill_number":"HB178","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 36%; provide that making a deferred deposit transaction in violation of the maximum interest provisions is an unfair, false, misleading, and deceptive practice in violation of the Consumer Protection Act and subject to its rights and remedies; 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; create a new section of Subtitle 9 of KRS Chapter 286 to provide that knowing violation of the maximum allowable interest rate provisions 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 years of the deferred deposit transaction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB178/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB178.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":487673,"bill_number":"HB179","title":"AN ACT reclassifying the City of Pembroke.","description":"Reclassify the City of Pembroke, in Christian County, with a population of 869, from a city of the sixth class to a city of the fifth class, which requires a population of 1,000 to 2,999.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 54)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB179/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB179.htm","sponsor":"Myron Dossett"},
{"bill_id":487675,"bill_number":"HB180","title":"AN ACT relating to educator effectiveness and 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 consultation with teacher and principal steering committees, to develop the system prior to the 2014-2015 school year; specify criteria for the statewide plan; delete three-phase alternative evaluation plan; allow waiver of evaluation plan under certain conditions.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 55)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB180/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB180.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":487676,"bill_number":"HB181","title":"AN ACT relating to financial aid for pharmacy students.","description":"Amend KRS 164.7890 to limit the coal-producing county pharmacy scholarship amount to 40 percent of the average of pharmacy school tuition in the United States.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 84)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB181/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB181.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":487677,"bill_number":"HB182","title":"AN ACT relating to school funding.","description":"Amend KRS 157.350 to allow, under certain conditions, SEEK funding to be distributed to schools who employ teachers who reside outside the district boundary but whose children attend the district in which the teacher is employed; waive nonresident tuition fees; amend KRS 158.120 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 56)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB182/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB182.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":487678,"bill_number":"HB183","title":"AN ACT relating to auto racing.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 438 to require the presence of an ambulance and at least two emergency medical technicians during an automobile race at a race track in Kentucky; define \"ambulance,\" \"ambulance provider,\" \"automobile race track,\" and \"emergency medical technician\"; require an automobile race track to contract, on a paid or voluntary basis, to have ambulance present; require the ambulance and EMTs be located in a safe location that is accessible to all areas of the track; mandate that a driver be checked by the EMTs if involved in an on-track accident that renders considerable damage to the car; prohibit a driver from continuing the race if medical attention is refused and a waiver is not signed; impose a fine up to $500 for a first offense and $1,000 for each subsequent offense for violating this section; name the statute the \"Billy Carroll Wooldridge Act.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 6, 2013","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB183/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB183.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":487680,"bill_number":"HB184","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.023 to attach the Early Childhood Advisory Council to the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 200.700 to change the board membership of the council; amend various sections to change the name of the Early Childhood Development Authority to the Early Childhood Advisory Council and to conform; repeal KRS 200.709; confirm Executive Order 2012-586.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 57)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB184/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB184.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":487681,"bill_number":"HB185","title":"AN ACT relating to automated business record falsification devices.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 517 to prohibit the possession of an automated business record falsification device, commonly known as a tax zapper or phantom-ware; provide that possession of such devices is a Class D felony, and provide for the forfeiture of such devices and all proceeds associated with the sale or use thereof; amend KRS 139.760 to provide for a ten-year sales tax permit revocation whenever any permit holder uses an automated business record falsification device to violate any provision of the sales tax laws.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"reported favorably, to Rules as a Consent Bill","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB185/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB185.htm","sponsor":"Denver Butler"},
{"bill_id":487682,"bill_number":"HB186","title":"AN ACT relating to police officers of public institutions of postsecondary education.","description":"Amend KRS 61.315 to include police officers at public institutions of postsecondary education. Amend KRS 164.950; KRS 164.955; KRS 164.960; KRS 164.965; KRS 164.970; KRS 164.975; and KRS 164.980 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB186/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB186.htm","sponsor":"Denver Butler"},
{"bill_id":487683,"bill_number":"HB187","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Physicians Care Program.","description":"Amend KRS 211.400, relating to the Kentucky Physicians Care Program, to include underinsured individuals and the Kentucky Free Health Clinic Association.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules as a Consent Bill","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB187/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB187.htm","sponsor":"Jimmie Lee"},
{"bill_id":487685,"bill_number":"HB188","title":"AN ACT relating to local codes of ethics.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67C to prohibit consolidated local governments from providing legal representation for any elected official, appointed official, or employee who is the subject of an ethics complaint.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB188/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB188.htm","sponsor":"Larry Clark"},
{"bill_id":487686,"bill_number":"HB189","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of advance deposit account wagering licensees and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 138.511 to define \"advance deposit account wagering,\" \"advance deposit account wagering licensee,\" \"commission,\" \"handle,\" \"Kentucky resident,\" and \"takeout\"; create a new section of KRS 138.510 to 138.550 to impose a tax of one-half of one percent on amounts wagered through advance deposit wagering account licensees by Kentucky residents; amend KRS 138.530 to require the tax to be remitted weekly and to specify distribution of tax revenue; amend KRS 138.550 to specify penalty for failure to remit tax.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB189/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB189.htm","sponsor":"Larry Clark"},
{"bill_id":487687,"bill_number":"HB190","title":"AN ACT prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 438 to prohibit indoor smoking in businesses, places of employment, and other listed public places; exempt private residences, unless used for child care or adult day care; permit smoking in designated nonenclosed areas; require posting of \"no smoking\" signs as specified locations; permit local governments to adopt stricter regulations by ordinance; provide for enforcement by all peace officers and health department employees; provide for the issuance of uniform citations for violation; require that employers and others not discriminate against persons reporting violations; provide for fines for violation; provide that fines go to the organization whose employee issued the citation; provide that no court costs or other fees be charged for violations; amend KRS 344.040, relating to unlawful practices by an employer, to add reference to state law, local, ordinance, or local board of health regulation relating to smoking; amend KRS 431.450, relating to uniform citations, to provide for issuing citation forms to health departments; authorize the department of Kentucky State Police to create and issue uniform smoking violation citations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 438 to exempt smoking laboratories where machines do the smoking; repeal various statutes permitting smoking in public buildings.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB190/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB190.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":487688,"bill_number":"HB191","title":"AN ACT reclassifying the City of Ryland Heights.","description":"Reclassify the City of Ryland Heights, in Kenton County, population of 1,022, from a city of the sixth class to a city of the fifth class, which requires a population of 1,000 to 2,999.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB191/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB191.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Kerr"},
{"bill_id":487690,"bill_number":"HB192","title":"AN ACT relating to judgment liens.","description":"Amend KRS 426.720 to allow a judgment lien to be served on the debtor's or creditor's attorney of record.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 58)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB192/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB192.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Kerr"},
{"bill_id":487691,"bill_number":"HB193","title":"AN ACT relating to water commissions.","description":"Amend KRS 74.450 to increase maximum annual compensation for water commission commissioners from $500 to $6,000.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB193/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB193.htm","sponsor":"Richard Henderson"},
{"bill_id":487692,"bill_number":"HB194","title":"AN ACT relating to reading proficiency and student promotion.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to mandate retention in the second grade for students who fail to demonstrate reading proficiency unless the student is exempt for good cause; require schools to notify parents or guardians when a second grade student is not reading at grade level; require schools to report annually about second grade reading proficiency; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB194/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB194.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":487693,"bill_number":"HB195","title":"AN ACT relating to domestic violence.","description":"Amend KRS 403.740 and 403.750 to allow a court to direct the care, custody, or control of pets in domestic violence orders.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB195/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB195.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":487695,"bill_number":"HB196","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Clarifies that lack of consent is not an element of sexual abuse when there is sexual contact between a minor and a person in a position of special trust.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB196/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB196.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":487696,"bill_number":"HB197","title":"AN ACT relating to jail officers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 71 to establish a procedure for handling a complaint against a jail officer.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB197/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB197.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":487697,"bill_number":"HB198","title":"AN ACT relating to involuntary treatment for alcohol and other drug abuse.","description":"Amend KRS 222.005 to define \"incapacitated by alcohol and/or other drug abuse\"; amend KRS 222.431 to permit a person meeting the definition of \"incapacitated by alcohol and/or other drug abuse\" to be court ordered to treatment; amend KRS 222.433 to require the court to review previous drug or alcohol assessments and drug tests in an order for treatment; require the court to review previous drug or alcohol assessments or drug tests if a respondent has failed to participate with a physical examination.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB198/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB198.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":487698,"bill_number":"HB199","title":"AN ACT relating to free matriculation and tuition for family of peace officer or firefighter killed or permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty.","description":"Amend KRS 164.2841 and 164.2842 relating to educational benefits for families of law enforcement officers, firefighters, and volunteer firefighters who are killed or permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty to change the term \"law enforcement officer\" to \"peace officer.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB199/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB199.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":487700,"bill_number":"HB200","title":"AN ACT relating to real property.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS 65.350 to 65.375 to clarify, revise and expand the authority of land banks to acquire and manage tax delinquent properties; amend KRS 99.715 to allow cities to transfer property to a land bank; amend KRS 134.010 to define \"land bank authority\"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 134 to allow counties, cities, and land bank authorities to purchase certificates of delinquency prior to the public sale required by KRS 134.128; allow counties, cities, and land bank authorities to purchase certificates of delinquency held by the county clerk that were not sold; amend KRS 134.490 to require counties, cities, and land bank authorities that purchased certificates of delinquency to provide notice to the taxpayer and offer payment plans; amend KRS 134.015 to delete reference to the 11-year statute of limitations; amend KRS 134.122 and 134.125 to conform; amend KRS 134.420 and 134.546 to change the statute of limitation from 11 years to three years for taxes that become delinquent on or after January 1, 2014; reference expedited foreclosure established by Section 9 of the Act as a remedy; create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to establish an expedited foreclosure process for counties, cities, and land bank authorities that purchase certificates of delinquency.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB200/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB200.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":487701,"bill_number":"HB201","title":"AN ACT relating to membership of a consolidated local government's planning commission.","description":"Amend KRS 100.137 to allow a designee of the director of public works for a consolidated local government to be a member of the planning commission.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB201/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB201.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":487702,"bill_number":"HB202","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 147 and 148 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to elections.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 147 and 148 of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit qualified voters who chose to do so to vote by absentee ballot in person on the days prior to the regular election.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB202/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB202.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":487703,"bill_number":"HB203","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 117.085 to prevent disclosure of information in an application for an absentee ballot until after election day, except to the Secretary of State or the State Board of Elections; amend KRS 117.086 to prevent disclosure of lists of person who return their absentee ballots by mail or cast their ballots in the clerk's office until after election day.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB203/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB203.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":487705,"bill_number":"HB204","title":"AN ACT relating to parental rights.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 403.270 to 403.350 to provide that a person convicted of rape in the first degree shall have no parental or visitation rights with respect to any child born as a result of that sexual assault; create a new section of KRS Chapter 405 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB204/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB204.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":487706,"bill_number":"HB205","title":"AN ACT designating Ale-8-One as the official Kentucky original soft drink.","description":"Designate Ale-8-One as the official Kentucky original soft drink.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 85)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB205/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB205.htm","sponsor":"Donna Mayfield"},
{"bill_id":487707,"bill_number":"HB206","title":"AN ACT designating Clark County, Kentucky as the birthplace of beer cheese.","description":"Designate Clark County as the birthplace of beer cheese.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB206/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB206.htm","sponsor":"Donna Mayfield"},
{"bill_id":487708,"bill_number":"HB207","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to remove the Office of Career and Technical Education and the Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board from the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet and to place the Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board under the Department of Education; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 151B.010 to establish the authority of the commissioner of education over the Office of Career and Technical Education; amend KRS 151B.020 to remove the Office of Career and Technical Education and the Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board from the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 151B.025 to create the office of Career and Technical Education within the Department of Education, to clarify the role of the Kentucky Board of Education, the disposition of state leadership activities and funds, and the assumption of responsibilities by the commissioner previously held by the executive director; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 151B.030 to attach the Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board to the Department of Education for administrative purposes; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 151B.035 to establish the authority of the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations, personnel policies, and procedures relating to staff in the Office of Career and Technical Education; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the Career and Technical Education Advisory Committee and its membership; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to permit a local board of education to petition the commissioner of education to assume management and control of a state-operated secondary vocational education and technology center and clarify issues relating to transfer of employees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to permit a local board of education to relinquish management and control of a vocational education center to the Department of Education and clarify issues relating to the transfer of employees; repeal, reenact, and amend various sections of KRS Chapter 151B as new sections of KRS Chapter 156 to conform; repeal and reenact KRS 151B.125 to 151B.130 and 151B.410 as new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to place the Kentucky Adult Education Program with related statutes; amend KRS 158.814 to authorize the department to implement a comprehensive plan of secondary career and technical education programs in consultation with the Career and Technical Education Advisory Committee; repeal KRS 151B.250 and 151B.255; amend various sections to conform; clarify procedures for merging Office of Career and Technical Education components and employees within the department; clarify benefit protections of employees; direct statute reviser to replace references as needed; confirm Executive Order 2012-737.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 59)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB207/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB207.htm","sponsor":"Wilson Stone"},
{"bill_id":487710,"bill_number":"HB208","title":"AN ACT relating to hunting and fishing licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 150.175 to allow any person currently receiving disability insurance benefits from a private insurance company to be qualified for a senior/disabled combination hunting and fishing license.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Environment (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB208/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB208.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":487711,"bill_number":"HB209","title":"AN ACT relating to sheriffs' fees.","description":"Amend KRS 64.092(6) to increase compensation to $12 per hour for sheriffs and other law enforcement officers providing court security.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB209/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB209.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":487712,"bill_number":"HB210","title":"AN ACT relating to increasing bachelor's degree attainment rates in underserved coal-producing counties and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Coal County College Completion Program to include the Kentucky Coal County College Completion Scholarship and the Kentucky Coal County College Completion Student Services Grant; create the Kentucky Coal County District to include coal-producing counties as defined in KRS 42.4592(1)(c); direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program; define student and institutional eligibility for scholarships and grants; define the maximum grant amounts; require the authority to make an annual report on the program and a program evaluation every four years; fund the program with amounts appropriated from coal severance tax receipts in the biennial budget; APPROPRIATION.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"returned to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB210/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB210.htm","sponsor":"Leslie Combs"},
{"bill_id":487713,"bill_number":"HB211","title":"AN ACT relating to energy and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 278.010 to create a definition for \"large industrial consumer of electricity\" and \"load factor\"; amend KRS 278.018 to allow large industrial consumers of electricity to purchase electricity from any person and require retail electric suppliers to provide electricity to large industrial consumer or person seeking to provide electricity to a large industrial consumer of electricity; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"floor amendment (8) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendments (7) and (9-title) filed","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB211/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB211.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Thompson"},
{"bill_id":487715,"bill_number":"HB212","title":"AN ACT relating to clean and alternative transportation fuels.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 186 to define \"clean transportation fuel,\" \"conversion,\"\"liquefied, petroleum gas,\" and other terms associated with the retrofitting of vehicles to operate on liquefied or compressed natural gas; require safety inspections of vehicles burning natural gas; amend sections of KRS Chapter 152 to include compressed an liquefied natural gas in the definition of \"alternative transportation fuels\" and to include Kentucky's public and private colleges in the state strategy for developing those fuels; amend sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to include local government entities in the definition of \"eligible company\" for the alternative fuel and renewable energy program; create and amend sections of KRS Chapter 141 to establish income tax credits for persons who buy new vehicles fueled by natural gas or convert existing vehicles to do so; amend KRS 156.153 to direct the Department for Education to consider allowing school buses powered by natural gas; amend KRS 234.321 to require compliance with federal rather than state standards.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 116)","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB212/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB212.htm","sponsor":"Keith Hall"},
{"bill_id":487716,"bill_number":"HB213","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits for environmental remediation.","description":"Amend KRS 141.418 to increase the credit amount to $500,000 for each qualifying property; establish a process for application for the credit and claiming the credit; allow the credit to be transferrrred to a subsequent owner of the property.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB213/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB213.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":487717,"bill_number":"HB214","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensure of roofers and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 198B to define \"board,\" \"commercial roofing contractor,\" \"residential roofing contractor,\" and \"roofing\"; exempt home owner and farm owners working on their home or farm; establish the Kentucky Board of Roofing Contractors; assign duties and powers to the board; establish licensing requirements and fees for roofing contractors; provide for a phase in of licensing requirements prior to July 1, 2014; grant the board the authority to approve, deny, refuse to renew, revoke, or suspend a license for specified reasons; grant the board authority to establish examination fees and education provider application fees; establish a revolving fund for receipt of fees and fines; specify actions required for licensed roofing contractors; require the department to establish a permitting system; provide for a system of review of roofing permits on job sites.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB214/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB214.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":487718,"bill_number":"HB215","title":"AN ACT relating to property taxation.","description":"Amend KRS 132.260 to require every person providing rental space for the parking of manufactured homes, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, and aircraft, or for the docking of boats, including federally documented vessels, to report the property located on his or her premises on January 1 of each year to the property valuation administrator; amend KRS 132.010, 132.730, 132.751, 132.810, and 132.815 to make technical changes relating to the definitions of manufactured home, mobile home, and recreational vehicle; repeal KRS 132.720.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB215/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB215.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":487720,"bill_number":"HB216","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 limestone that has not otherwise been severed or treated in the Commonwealth; make technical corrections; amend KRS 143A.035 to allow a credit for substantially identical severance or processing taxes paid to another state or political subdivision thereof; provide that no taxpayer may claim a total amount of credit that exceeds his or her tax liability; make technical corrections; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB216/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB216.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":487721,"bill_number":"HB217","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.172 to modify the diagnostic and treatment protocols for controlled substance prescribing; amend KRS 218A.175 to clarify the educational requirements for certain pain management facility employees; amend KRS 218A.202 to allow hospitals and long-term-care facilities to have KASPER accounts; amend KRS 218A.205 to modify the scope of Board of Medical Licensure regulations and make the criminal record check required for licensure of persons prescribing or dispensing controlled substances a statutory rather than a regulatory requirement; amend KRS 315.335 to modify the reporting requirements for pharmacy thefts and robberies; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 2)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB217/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB217.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":487722,"bill_number":"HB218","title":"AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug counseling.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 309.080 to 309.089 to establish the requirements for an applicant for registration as an alcohol and drug peer support specialist; mandate that an alcohol and drug peer support specialist complete 500 hours of board-approved experience with 25 hours under the direct supervision of a certified or licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor with at least two years of post-certification or post-licensure experience; require an alcohol and drug peer support specialist to pass an examination approved by the board; mandate completion of three hours of domestic violence training, specify other hours of training required, and obligate applicant to live or work at least a majority of the time in Kentucky; establish requirements for an applicant for licensure as a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor with a 60 hour master's degree including completion of 2,000 hours of board-approved experience, 300 hours of which is under direct supervision of a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor; require a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor to pass a written examination approved by the International Certification Reciprocity Consortium on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse; include requirement for three hours of domestic violence training and for an applicant to live or work at least a majority of the time in Kentucky; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations to define the registration process for applicants and for supervisors of record; establish supervision required for a practicing registered alcohol and drug peer support specialist; establish reciprocity; set up revolving fund; amend KRS 309.080 to define \"licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor,\" \"licensee,\" \"practice of alcohol and drug counseling,\" \"registered alcohol and drug peer support specialist,\" and \"registrant\"; amend KRS 309.0813 to conform and to delete the requirement for the board to establish an examination committee to administer and evaluate the case method presentation and oral examination; add the requirement for the board to collect and deposit all fees, fines, and other moneys owed to the board into the State Treasury to the credit of a revolving fund; amend KRS 309.083 to change the requirements of supervision for a certified alcohol and drug counselor applicant, permitting supervision from a certified alcohol and drug counselor or licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor with at least two years of post-certification or post-licensure experience; delete the requirement for a certified alcohol and drug counselor to pass an oral examination approved by the board; mandate three hours of domestic violence training for a certified alcohol and drug counselor; require a certified alcohol and drug counselor applicant to live or work at least a majority of the time in Kentucky; amend KRS 309.084 to grant, upon application within 90 days from the effective date of this Act, licensure as a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor for a certified alcohol and drug counselor with a master's degree meeting all requirements for the clinical designation except for the 60-hour requirement and the examination; amend KRS 309.0805, 309.081, 309.085, 309.086, 309.087, and 309.089 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB218/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB218.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":487723,"bill_number":"HB219","title":"AN ACT relating to rebuilt title applications.","description":"Amend KRS 186.115 to require the Transportation Cabinet to accept rebuilt title applications in Frankfort.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 35)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB219/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB219.htm","sponsor":"Jim Stewart"},
{"bill_id":487725,"bill_number":"HB220","title":"AN ACT relating to preschool funding for children.","description":"Amend KRS 157.226 to count the average number of identified children with disabilities on December 1 and March 1 of the prior academic year to calculate preschool funding.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 86)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB220/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB220.htm","sponsor":"Rita Smart"},
{"bill_id":487726,"bill_number":"HB221","title":"AN ACT relating to local option elections.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to exempt listed projects or districts from a precinct vote in favor of prohibition if the precinct is located either partially or entirely within a qualifying city; define a qualifying city as one with a total population of at least 12,000 within its municipal boundaries based on the most recent decennial census; exclude pre-existing entertainment destination centers, theme restaurant destination attraction projects, and districts of special interest from a precinct-level vote in favor of prohibition; limit exemption for districts of special interest to those districts that are designated as an entertainment district and that have a minimum city government investment of $5,000,000 in infrastructure or other public space; forbid changes to the boundaries of a district of special interest after the submission of a prohibition petition unless the resulting vote is against prohibition.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-14","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 8)","last_action_date":"2013-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB221/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB221.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Thompson"},
{"bill_id":487727,"bill_number":"HB222","title":"AN ACT relating to a crime victim address protection program within the Department of State.","description":"Create new sections in KRS Chapter 14 to establish a crime victim address protection program for victims of domestic violence and abuse, stalking, and felony sexual offenses; to allow crime victims to use an address provided by the Secretary of State in lieu of the person's actual physical address; and to allow program participants to vote by mail-in absentee ballot; amend KRS 117.085 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 87)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB222/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB222.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":487728,"bill_number":"HB223","title":"AN ACT relating to the disposal of coal combustion wastes.","description":"Create new sections of subtitle 50 of KRS Chapter 224 to define \"CCR or coal combustion residual,\" \"EAP,\" \"encapsulated CCR,\" and \"unencapsulated CCR\"; express sentiment favoring a balanced approach to disposal of CCRs that protects 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, and toxic substance monitoring; require emergency action plans for surface CCR impoundments that are deemed as high hazard potential 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; amend KRS 224.50-760 to delete utility wastes and wastes from coal gasification facilities approved by the cabinet from the definition of special wastes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB223/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB223.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":487730,"bill_number":"HB224","title":"AN ACT relating to compulsory school age.","description":"Amend KRS 159.010 to provide that, effective July 1, 2017, school attendance shall be compulsory for students between the ages of six and seventeen; provide that, effective July 1, 2018, school attendance shall be compulsory for students between the ages of six and eighteen; provide that only prior to July 1, 2018, parents are permitted to withdraw from school a child under the age of eighteen, under certain conditions; permit, beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, each local board of education on the recommendation of the superintendent and approval of the Kentucky Department of Education to require children residing in the school district's attendance area to attend school until the age of eighteen, except as provided in KRS 159.030; if funds are available, consider an increase in funding for dropout prevention programs; express intent to provide funds necessary to implement programs to comply with increased compulsory attendance age; amend KRS 159.020 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB224/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB224.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":487731,"bill_number":"HB225","title":"AN ACT relating to construction contract payments by an insurer.","description":"Amend KRS 371.405, relating to construction contracts, to require a property or casualty insurer to make payment for restoration of a dwelling or other structure jointly to the insured and the contractor for losses in excess of 1,000.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB225/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB225.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":487732,"bill_number":"HB226","title":"AN ACT relating to charitable gaming.","description":"Amend KRS 238.535 to exempt licensed charitable organizations with bingo gross receipts in excess of $25,000, but whose bingo adjusted gross receipts are less than $7,000 from requirements on types of bingo cards to be used.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB226/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB226.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":487733,"bill_number":"HB227","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":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB227/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB227.htm","sponsor":"John Short"},
{"bill_id":487735,"bill_number":"HB228","title":"AN ACT relating to public employee benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 16.582 to remove language which prohibited an injury or disease resulting from military service from being considered a disabling condition for hazardous members of Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 61.510 and 78.510 to utilize partial fiscal years in determining the final compensation of a nonhazardous member who began participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and the County Employees Retirement System on or after September 1, 2008, in situations where the member does not have 5 complete fiscal years of service and provided the total months of service used to calculate final compensation when the partial fiscal years are added is at least 60 months; amend KRS 61.560 to remove references to employee contributions paid by a reemployed retiree; amend KRS 61.623 to allow the Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees to require retirees of the systems, by promulgation of administrative regulation, to receive their retirement allowance by electronic funds transfer to either a financial institution or to electronic fund transfer cards issued by Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 61.702 to authorize the Kentucky Retirement Systems to offer retiree health coverage through health savings accounts, health reimbursement arrangements or similar accounts, or through a reimbursement program established by the board by administrative regulation where members purchase health insurance through a health insurance exchange.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB228/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB228.htm","sponsor":"Brent Yonts"},
{"bill_id":487736,"bill_number":"HB229","title":"AN ACT relating to probation and parole.","description":"Amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Attorney General to review decisions of the Parole Board to grant parole if a victim objects.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB229/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB229.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":487737,"bill_number":"HB230","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 532.080 to increase the sentence to life without parole for 25 years for offenders with three convictions for offenses specified in KRS 439.3401","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB230/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB230.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":487738,"bill_number":"HB231","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 217.181, and various sections of KRS Chapter 514 to increase the threshold for felony theft to $1000.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB231/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB231.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":487739,"bill_number":"HB232","title":"AN ACT relating to debts owed to local governments.","description":"Amend KRS 44.001 to define terms; amend KRS 44.030 to provide that monetary claims against the state shall be offset if the claimant is indebted to the state or any local government, if the local government provides necessary information concerning the debt; provide that monetary claims against any local government shall similarly be offset if the claimant is indebted to the state; amend KRS 45.237 to define terms; provide that a local government may, in certain circumstances, refer debts to the Department of Revenue for collection action as state agencies currently do; amend KRS 45.238 to provide terms and conditions for the collection of local government debts by the department; amend KRS 45.241 to make conforming changes relating to referral of liquidated debts to the department for collection; amend KRS 131.030 to grant the department the powers necessary to collect local government debts; make technical corrections; amend KRS 131.565 to allow for the offset of individual income tax refunds if the claimant is indebted to a local government; amend KRS 131.570 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 88)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB232/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB232.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":487741,"bill_number":"HCR42","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 6, 2013; 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":"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 6, 2013; 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.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR42/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC42.htm","sponsor":"Leslie Combs"},
{"bill_id":487742,"bill_number":"HCR46","title":"Request the Legislative Research Commission to create the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force to study public safety, public protection, and gun safety issues.","description":null,"status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR46/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC46.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":487743,"bill_number":"HJR33","title":"Nullify all federal legislation, regulation, rules, and orders in violation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; require the General Assembly to enact all measures necessary to prevent the enforcement of any federal legislation, regulation, rules, and orders in violation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and allow Resolution to be cited as the Second Amendment Preservation Act.","description":"Nullify all federal legislation, regulation, rules, and orders in violation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; require the General Assembly to enact all measures necessary to prevent the enforcement of any federal legislation, regulation, rules, and orders in violation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and allow Resolution to be cited as the Second Amendment Preservation Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"reassigned to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR33/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ33.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":487744,"bill_number":"HJR36","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of US 68 in Marion County as the \"Deputy Sheriff Carl Anthony Rakes Memorial Highway\" and erect appropriate signs.","description":null,"status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR36/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ36.htm","sponsor":"Terry Mills"},
{"bill_id":487746,"bill_number":"HJR37","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on Kentucky Route 80 in Wooten, near Down Cutshin Creek Road as the \"Lt. Tommy Baker Memorial Bridge\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on Kentucky Route 80 in Wooten, near Down Cutshin Creek Road as the \"Lt. Tommy Baker Memorial Bridge\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR37/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ37.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":487747,"bill_number":"HJR38","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 80 at its intersection with United States 421 inside the city limits of Hyden as the \"Cpl. Will Baker Memorial Bridge,\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 80 at its intersection with United States 421 inside the city limits of Hyden as the \"Cpl. Will Baker Memorial Bridge,\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR38/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ38.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":487748,"bill_number":"HJR41","title":"Direct the Department of Housing, Building and Construction to form a Task Force to conduct a study of the energy consumption in manufactured housing in Kentucky and to recommend actions for stakeholders, utilities and state government to improve energy efficiency in manufactured housing; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2013.","description":"Direct the Department of Housing, Building and Construction to form a Task Force to conduct a study of the energy consumption in manufactured housing in Kentucky and to recommend actions for stakeholders, utilities and state government to improve energy efficiency in manufactured housing; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR41/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ41.htm","sponsor":"Leslie Combs"},
{"bill_id":487750,"bill_number":"HJR43","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Highway 640 in Metcalfe County as \"The \"Kentucky Headhunters Band Highway\" and erect approprite signs.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Highway 640 in Metcalfe County as \"The \"Kentucky Headhunters Band Highway\" and erect approprite signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR43/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ43.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":487751,"bill_number":"HJR44","title":"Commend the Southeastern Kentucky Shawnee for their efforts to help their elderly and youth and to recognize their work to preserve their native language and heritage, which does not include gambling and casinos.","description":"Commend the Southeastern Kentucky Shawnee for their efforts to help their elderly and youth and to recognize their work to preserve their native language and heritage, which does not include gambling and casinos.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"returned to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism & Labor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR44/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ44.htm","sponsor":"Marie Rader"},
{"bill_id":487752,"bill_number":"HJR45","title":"Honor Sergeant Charles Floyd, a Kentuckian and valued member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition who perished on that journey; declare August 20, 2013, Sergeant Charles Floyd Day in the Commonwealth.","description":"Honor Sergeant Charles Floyd, a Kentuckian and valued member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition who perished on that journey; declare August 20, 2013, Sergeant Charles Floyd Day in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 100)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR45/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ45.htm","sponsor":"Hubert Collins"},
{"bill_id":487753,"bill_number":"HJR51","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 582 in Knott County as the \"Allen Amburgey Highway,\" and erect appropriate signs.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate Kentucky Route 582 in Knott County as the \"Allen Amburgey Highway,\" and erect appropriate signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR51/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ51.htm","sponsor":"John Short"},
{"bill_id":487754,"bill_number":"HJR55","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate KY 61 in Bullitt County as the Pvt. Henry B. Mattingly Memorial Highway, and erect appropriate signs.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate KY 61 in Bullitt County as the Pvt. Henry B. Mattingly Memorial Highway, and erect appropriate signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR55/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ55.htm","sponsor":"Russell Webber"},
{"bill_id":487756,"bill_number":"HJR56","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the United States Highway 127 Bypass in Mercer County as the \"Harrodsburg Tankers Bataan Memorial Bypass.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the United States Highway 127 Bypass in Mercer County as the \"Harrodsburg Tankers Bataan Memorial Bypass.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR56/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ56.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":487757,"bill_number":"HJR58","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 420 in Franklin County as the \"Hank Hancock Highway.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 420 in Franklin County as the \"Hank Hancock Highway.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR58/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ58.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":487758,"bill_number":"HR34","title":"Proclaim the month of March 2013 as Music In Our Schools Month.","description":"Proclaim the month of March 2013 as Music In Our Schools Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR34/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR34.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":487759,"bill_number":"HR35","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Trooper Anson Blake Tribby.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Trooper Anson Blake Tribby.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR35/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR35.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":487761,"bill_number":"HR39","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of our beloved friend and former colleague, Representative Porter Hatcher, the Gentleman from Jefferson 43.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of our beloved friend and former colleague, Representative Porter Hatcher, the Gentleman from Jefferson 43.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR39/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR39.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":487762,"bill_number":"HR40","title":"Honor the University of Louisville football team, 2013 Sugar Bowl Champions.","description":"Honor the University of Louisville football team, 2013 Sugar Bowl Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR40/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR40.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":487763,"bill_number":"HR47","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Helen Wagers Vance.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Helen Wagers Vance.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR47/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR47.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":487764,"bill_number":"HR48","title":"Adjourning in loving memory and honor of Margaret Ann Toncray Burke.","description":"Adjourning in loving memory and honor of Margaret Ann Toncray Burke.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR48/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR48.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":487766,"bill_number":"HR49","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Martin Lewis \"Newt\" Voiers.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Martin Lewis \"Newt\" Voiers.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR49/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR49.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":487767,"bill_number":"HR50","title":"Recognize and honor the commemoration of the Battle of Augusta.","description":"Recognize and honor the commemoration of the Battle of Augusta.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR50/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR50.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":487768,"bill_number":"HR52","title":"Adjourning in loving memory and honor of Elmo Delaney.","description":"Adjourning in loving memory and honor of Elmo Delaney.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR52/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR52.htm","sponsor":"Jimmie Lee"},
{"bill_id":487769,"bill_number":"HR53","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Louis R. \"Louie\" Guenthner, Jr.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Louis R. \"Louie\" Guenthner, Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR53/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR53.htm","sponsor":"Ron Crimm"},
{"bill_id":487771,"bill_number":"HR54","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Michael E. Apgar.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Michael E. Apgar.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR54/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR54.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Kerr"},
{"bill_id":487772,"bill_number":"HR57","title":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2013 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.","description":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2013 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR57/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR57.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":487773,"bill_number":"SB2","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 6.500 to 6.577 to require public employers to pay the actuarial costs for increases in final compensation in the Legislators","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB2/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB2.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":487774,"bill_number":"SB4","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.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"discharge petition filed","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB4/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB4.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":487776,"bill_number":"SB5","title":"AN ACT relating to full disclosure in public safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to require an ultrasound prior to an abortion; amend KRS 311.990 to provide a criminal penalty.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"discharge petition filed","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB5/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB5.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":487777,"bill_number":"SB6","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances.","description":"Amend KRS 218A.040 to specify that death by overdose is a foreseeable result of the consumption or use of a Schedule I controlled substance; amend KRS 218A.1412 to expand the aggregation period for controlled substance trafficking amounts to 180 days and to establish a Class B felony level for traffickers in high amounts of cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine; amend KRS 501.060 to provide that illegal trafficking in a Schedule I controlled substance is sufficient to establish causation for a resultant overdose death; amend KRS 72.026 to increase the scope of mandatory coroner and medical examiner reporting in deaths involving Schedule I deaths.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB6/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB6.htm","sponsor":"Katie Stine"},
{"bill_id":487778,"bill_number":"SB8","title":"AN ACT relating to school safety.","description":"Create a new chapter of KRS 158 to require adoption of a school emergency plan, require emergency drills, and require an annual report to the department of education; amend KRS 158.163 to require safety drills within the first month of school; amend KRS 158.164 to require a lockdown practice within the first month of school; create a new chapter of KRS 158 to require local boards to review crime prevention designs when constructing or renovating a school building.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB8/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB8.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":487779,"bill_number":"SB9","title":"AN ACT relating to medical review panels involving long-term-care facilities.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 216C; create within that chapter various new sections establishing a medical review panel system for use in civil litigation relating to long-term-care facilities, including sections setting out definitions, delineating covered health care facilities and providers, panel membership and formation, functions and deliberations of the panel, and utilization of panel results in civil actions.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"posting withdrawn","last_action_date":"2013-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB9/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB9.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":487781,"bill_number":"SB55","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Section 95 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the election of state officers.","description":"Propose to amend Section 95 of the Constitution of Kentucky to hold the election of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Attorney General, Secretary of State and Commissioner of Agriculture, Labor and Statistic in even-numbered every four years, beginning in 2016; provide transitional calendar; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB55/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB55.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":487782,"bill_number":"SB56","title":"AN ACT relating to preservation of digital, video, and audio recordings by schools.","description":"Amend KRS 160.705 to require schools to retain all recordings of school activities for one week without editing, altering, or destroying recorded material, and to retain without alteration any recording of school activities that include or allegedly include an injury to a student or school employee for a minimum period of three months.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 14)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB56/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB56.htm","sponsor":"Carroll Gibson"},
{"bill_id":487783,"bill_number":"SB57","title":"AN ACT relating to the disclosure of public retirement information.","description":"Amend KRS 61.661, 161.585, and 21.540 to require the Kentucky Retirement Systems, Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, and the Judicial Form Retirement System, to disclose upon request the names, status, projected or actual benefit payments, and other retirement information of each member or recipient of a retirement allowance of the systems; require the systems to also make the information available on a searchable database on the systems' Web site or on a Web site established by the executive or judicial branch to provide government expenditure and salary data to the public.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB57/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB57.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":487784,"bill_number":"SB58","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle.","description":"Amend KRS 189.338, regarding traffic signals, to treat an intersection with a completely inoperable traffic signal as a four way stop.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB58/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB58.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":487786,"bill_number":"SB59","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 and 12.023 to transfer the Council on Postsecondary Education from the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 151B.020 and 151B.130 to conform; confirm Executive Order 2012-419.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 15)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB59/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB59.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":487787,"bill_number":"SB60","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Confirm Executive Order 2012-561, which reorganizes various offices in the Department of Education; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.017 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB60/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB60.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":487788,"bill_number":"SB61","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 2014-2015 school year; define the curriculum requirements for early graduation and conditional admission into a Kentucky public two-year institution or four-year university; specify that students shall obtain a qualifying benchmark score on each of the end-of-course examinations that make up the high school achievement portion of the accountability system under KRS 158.6453; establish the Early Graduation Scholarship Certificate and the processes for awarding it and using it; create a new section of KRS Chapter 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":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 104)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB61/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB61.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":487789,"bill_number":"SB62","title":"AN ACT relating to the reorganization of the Cabinet for Economic Development.","description":"Amend KRS 11.200 to reduce from 30 members of the Commission on Small Business Advocacy to 13 members appointed by the Governor, with two members representing each congressional district and one at-large member; attach the Commission on Small Business Advocacy to the Department for Business Development; amend KRS 12.020 to abolish the Office of Research and Information Technology, the Department for New Business Development, the Department of Financial Incentives, the Department for Existing Business Development, and the Department of Commercialization and Innovation; create the Office of the Secretary and establish within the Office of the Secretary the Office of Research and Public Affairs, the Office of Commercialization and Innovation, the Office of Compliance, Finance and Administrative Services, and the Department for Business Development; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 154 to conform; repeal KRS 154.12-216, which establishes the Business Information Clearinghouse; repeal KRS 154.12-222, which establishes the Office of Administration and Support; repeal KRS 154.12-224, which establishes the Department of Financial Incentives; repeal KRS 154.12-225, which establishes the Department for New Business Development; confirm Resolution 12-03 of the Kentucky Economic Development Partnership, dated June 27, 2012.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB62/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB62.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":487791,"bill_number":"SB63","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 5 to establish the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting, which shall be composed of state university faculty appointed by presidents of Kentucky's state universities; create a new section of KRS Chapter 5 to require the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting to develop redistricting plans for state legislative and U.S. Congressional districts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 5 to require the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting to submit the redistricting plans to the Legislative Research Commission, which shall refer the plans to the Interim Joint Committee on State Government; allow the General Assembly to enact or reject the redistricting plans, but not to alter or amend them; if the General Assembly does not enact the plans, allow them to be returned to the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting, which may incorporate changes requested by the General Assembly, but shall not be required to incorporate changes; require the Kentucky Committee on Legislative Redistricting to submit to the General Assembly new redistricting plans, which the General Assembly shall enact but not alter or amend.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB63/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB63.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":487792,"bill_number":"SB64","title":"AN ACT relating to Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarships.","description":"Amend KRS 164.7879 to provide a Kentucky educational excellence scholarship award amount for the fourth year of high school to students who graduate in three years.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 105)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB64/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB64.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":487793,"bill_number":"SB65","title":"AN ACT relating to lands of the United States Department of the Interior.","description":"Amend KRS 3.250 to allow concurrent jurisdiction with the Department of the Interior over lands of the National Wildlife Refuge System and National Fish Hatcheries located in Kentucky for purposes of criminal law enforcement; amend KRS 3.260 to allow for application to be made for concurrent jurisdiction over the lands of the National Wildlife Refuge System and National Fish Hatcheries; and amend KRS 3.265 to extend powers of the Commonwealth for the exercise of criminal law enforcement over lands of the National Wildlife Refuge System and National Fish Hatcheries located in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Environment (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB65/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB65.htm","sponsor":"Robert Leeper"},
{"bill_id":487794,"bill_number":"SB66","title":"AN ACT relating to public safety qualifications.","description":"Amend KRS 95.440 to remove provision prohibiting certain forms of local government from appointing a person over 50 years of age as a member of a police or fire department.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 68)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB66/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB66.htm","sponsor":"Robert Leeper"},
{"bill_id":487796,"bill_number":"SB67","title":"AN ACT relating to persons incompetent to stand trial.","description":"Amend KRS 186.560 to prohibit a person found incompetent to stand trial from operating a motor vehicle in Kentucky during the period of the person's incompetency.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 16)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB67/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB67.htm","sponsor":"Sara Gregory"},
{"bill_id":487797,"bill_number":"SB68","title":"AN ACT relating to the removal of abandoned water vessels and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 151.700 to 151.730 to create a water vessel removal assistance fund to be administered by the Kentucky River Authority; require the Kentucky River authority to establish criteria for when the removal of an abandoned water vessel is necessary, use amounts deposited into the water vessel removal assistance fund to assist in the removal of water vessels from any waters of this state, accept bids and contract to provide for the removal of abandoned water vessels, and promulgate administrative regulations; require the Kentucky River Authority to submit annual report detailing all bids awarded; amend KRS 235.090 to require that the Transportation Cabinet transfer 50 percent of the fees received from KRS 235.080, 235.085, and 235.130 to the water vessel assistance fund; require transfers to be made quarterly, within 30 days of the close of each fiscal quarter; amend KRS 151.720 to authorize and empower the Kentucky River Authority to implement these provisions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB68/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB68.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":487798,"bill_number":"SB69","title":"AN ACT relating to business entities.","description":"Amend KRS 11A.010 and 11A.201 to include nonprofits, trusts, and limited liability companies within the definition of \"person' in the executive branch code of ethics; amend KRS 14A.3-010 to clarify that a business type identifier must appear at the end of the business name; amend KRS 14A.9-050 to clarify that a company must actually be transacting business in Kentucky before being subject to the statute; amend KRS 271B.1-410 to conform notice provisions to those found in KRS Chapter 14A; amend KRS 275.175 to clarify means of amending an LLC management structure; amend KRS 275.185 to clarify that records inspection requests be addressed to the LLC itself; amend KRS 281.6251 to include limited partnerships and to require that manager names be listed in certificate applications; amend KRS 386A.3-050 to provide for the effect of various contingencies on the continued existence of the trust; amend KRS 386A.6-030 and 386A.6-040 to relocate between the two statutes language relating to trust distributions; amend KRS 433.900 and 433.902 to bring partnerships within the scope of Kentucky's sale of metals law","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 106)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB69/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB69.htm","sponsor":"Sara Gregory"},
{"bill_id":487799,"bill_number":"SB70","title":"AN ACT relating to participating provider agreements for limited health service benefit plans.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17C-085 to define \"covered services\" for purposes of the section.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB70/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB70.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":487801,"bill_number":"SB71","title":"AN ACT relating to energy and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 278.010 to create a definition for \"large industrial consumer of electricity\" and \"load factor\"; amend KRS 278.018 to allow large industrial consumers of electricity to purchase electricity from any person and require retail electric suppliers to provide electricity to large industrial consumer or person seeking to provide electricity to a large industrial consumer of electricity; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB71/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB71.htm","sponsor":"Joe Bowen"},
{"bill_id":487802,"bill_number":"SB72","title":"AN ACT relating to suicide prevention training.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to establish mandatory training requirements for social workers, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, fee-based pastoral counselors, alcohol and drug counselors, psychologists, and occupational therapists in suicide assessment, treatment, and management; define terms; permit training to count toward continuing education requirements; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop a model list of training programs and report the list to the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare; require the respective professional boards to promulgate administrative regulations to implement training requirements; exempt employees of state government, local government, state hospitals, community mental health centers, and agencies operating alcohol and drug abuse programs from the training requirement if they receive comparable training.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 17)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB72/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB72.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":487803,"bill_number":"SB73","title":"AN ACT relating to constables.","description":"Amend KRS 15.380 to remove constables and deputy constables from certification provisions; amend KRS 16.060 to remove reference to constables as peace officers; amend KRS 35.010 to remove constables and deputy constables from definition of \"peace officer\"; amend KRS 61.300 to remove reference to deputy constables as peace officers; amend KRS 61.310 to remove constables and deputy constables from definition as peace officers; amend KRS 64.060 to limit constables from being paid for apprehending a fugitive or executing a process of contempt in a criminal case; amend KRS 70.065 to remove constables from list of peace officers prohibitions in sexual offenses; amend KRS 70.350 to remove the authority of constables from executing documents in criminal and penal cases; amend 70.430 to remove the requirement for constables to list matters relating to criminal warrant executions and arrests; amend KRS 95.019 to remove reference to constables as peace officers; amend KRS 95.950 to remove constables and deputy constables from the definition of \"police officer\"; amend KRS 148.056 to remove constables from reference as peace officers; amend KRS 150.100 to remove reference to constables as peace officers; amend KRS 150.390 to remove reference to constables as peace officers; amend KRS 164.955 to remove reference to constables as peace officers; amend KRS 183.881 to remove reference to constables as peace officers; amend KRS 189.950 to remove the authority of constables to have emergency lights and sirens on their vehicles; amend KRS 230.240 to remove reference to constables as peace officers; amend KRS 277.280 to remove reference to constables as peace officers; amend KRS 281.765 to remove authority of constables and deputy constables from enforcing laws relating to motor vehicles and boats; amend KRS 335B.070 to remove reference to deputy constables as peace officers; amend KRS 446.010 to remove constables from definition of \"peace officer\"; and repeal KRS 64.190, relating to fees.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB73/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB73.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":487804,"bill_number":"SB74","title":"AN ACT relating to the Health Access Nurturing Development Services program.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 defining terms used in the Health Access Nurturing Development Services program and requiring agencies that receive state funds for the purpose of this program to abide by these definitions, demonstrate that it is part of a system of care, and report data to the Department for Public Health.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"floor amendment (6) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (5) filed","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB74/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB74.htm","sponsor":"Sara Gregory"},
{"bill_id":487806,"bill_number":"SB75","title":"AN ACT relating to school instructional days.","description":"Amend KRS 158.070 to permit the commissioner of education to grant the equivalent of ten instructional days for school districts that have missed an average of 20 or more days in the previous 3 years and use alternative methods of instruction on days when the school district is closed for specific reasons; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for calculating average daily attendance for instructional time granted.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 107)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB75/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB75.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":487807,"bill_number":"SB76","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 2013-2014 academic year; require the Kentucky Department of Education to distribute the awards; specify that if funds in the science and mathematics advancement 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":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB76/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB76.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":487808,"bill_number":"SB77","title":"AN ACT relating to due process for teachers.","description":"Amend KRS 161.790 to clarify the causes by which a contract of a teacher may be terminated; require the commissioner of education to initiate the appropriate due process procedures in response to a teacher's appeal of a superintendent's termination charge; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to establish hearing procedures and appointment of hearing officers for the appeal of a termination case.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB77/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB77.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":487809,"bill_number":"SB78","title":"AN ACT relating to the Crime Victims Compensation Board.","description":"Amend KRS 216B.400 to require that a medical exam of a crime victim has to occur within twelve months of the medical provider's application to receive reimbursement; amend KRS 346.040 to permit the Crime Victims Compensation Board to negotiate a binding settlement for recoverable expenses with the provider after a claim has been filed; create a new section of KRS Chapter 346 to provide that debt collection actions against crime victims, where the debt incurred is related to a recoverable claim through the board, shall cease pending action by the board and establish procedures; amend KRS 346.130 to permit the use of court records to establish the occurrence and reporting of criminal conduct and permit an award for loss of earnings or support if due to the crime and provide that the award shall be equal to net earnings at the time of the crime; amend KRS 346.140 to add donations made on behalf of a victim to the listing of offsets to be made against awards; amend KRS 532.162 to provide that if a court orders a defendant to pay restitution for criminal conduct, that reimbursement may be directed to the Crime Victims Compensation Board as appropriate; repeal KRS 346.190, relating to reciprocal agreements with other states.","status_desc":"Passed","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"floor amendments (3) and (4-title) withdrawn","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB78/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB78.htm","sponsor":"Sara Gregory"},
{"bill_id":487811,"bill_number":"SB79","title":"AN ACT relating to expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 341.078 to allow expungement of multiple unrelated misdemeanors or violations; allow expungement of felony arrests or charges on which no indictment has issued after 24 months.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB79/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB79.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":487812,"bill_number":"SB80","title":"AN ACT relating to the prohibition against implementing the United Nations Agenda 21.","description":"Create a new section of Subchapter 1 of KRS Chapter 224 to prohibit a state agency or political subdivision of the state from implementing any part of the United Nations Agenda 21 that is contrary to the United States or Kentucky Constitution, or being a member of or expending any public funds on a group or organization that will implement any part of the United Nations Agenda 21.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"State Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB80/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB80.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":487813,"bill_number":"SB81","title":"AN ACT relating to Medicaid dental services and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define \"breach of a contract\"; provide that if any breach of a contract occurs or has occurred between a Medicaid managed care organization and any agency, department, or cabinet of the Commonwealth, then dental services to the Medicaid members served under the contract shall immediately cease and members shall be transitioned to a Medicaid fee-for-service dental program; clarify that any provider of dental services who is due funds as a result of a contract between a Medicaid managed care organization and the Commonwealth will still be able to recover them; exempt any Medicaid managed care organization operating in the Commonwealth pursuant to a Section 1115 waiver on January 1, 2011; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB81/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB81.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":487814,"bill_number":"SB82","title":"AN ACT relating to parole.","description":"Amend KRS 439.340 to require the Parole Board to consider a prisoner's risk and needs assessment and to require the granting of parole when the board determines that the prisoner is likely to comply with his or her conditions of release and is not likely to be a danger to the public.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB82/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB82.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":487816,"bill_number":"SB83","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to create the Office for Education and Workforce Statistics and the Board of the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics; create new sections of KRS Chapter 151B to establish the duties of the Office for Education and Workforce Statistics and the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics and to clarify which public agencies shall contribute education and workforce data to the system; confirm Executive Order 2012-1029.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 18)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB83/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB83.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":487817,"bill_number":"SB84","title":"-AN ACT relating to persons transporting prisoners.","description":"Amend KRS 71.065 to authorize a county in which there in no jail and the jailer has been appointed as a transportation officer to employ additional persons with peace officer authority to assist the jailer.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 19)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB84/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB84.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":487818,"bill_number":"SB85","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":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB85/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB85.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":487819,"bill_number":"SB86","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to move the state crime laboratory to an independent office in the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require the Prosecutors Advisory Council to establish an capital offense database, guidelines for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in capital cases, and training programs for lineups, interrogations, and mental health issues; amend KRS 15.334 to require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to develop and require law enforcement training relating to biological evidence, lineups, interviews, and mental health issues; amend KRS 15.440 to require law enforcement agencies to have written policies on biological evidence; amend KRS 15A.020 to establish requirements for the state crime lab; amend KRS 21A.170 to require judges and justices to have training in recognizing cognitive disabilities and mental health issues; create a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to establish minimum standards for representation of persons charged with capital offenses; amend KRS 31.185 to allow attorneys privately representing capital offenders access to state criminal forensic facilities; amend KRS 61.878 to allow capital offenders greater access to public records; amend KRS 72.225 and 72.240 to provide additional standards for medical examiners; create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to prohibit the Department of Corrections from denying capital offenders access to prison officials when preparing clemency petitions; amend KRS 196.171 to require the Department of Corrections to develop staff training on mental health issues; create new sections of KRS Chapter 421 to establish standards for law enforcement lineups; amend KRS 422.285 to establish revised criteria for post-conviction DNA testing; amend KRS 431.240 to allow death row inmates up to 3 years to file post-conviction motions; amend KRS 439.450 allow death row inmates to make a personal appeal to the Parole Board; create a new section of KRS Chapter 455 to establish new standards for law enforcement interviews; create a new section of KRS Chapter 455 to require open file discovery in capital cases; amend KRS 524.140 to require the retention of biological evidence in capital cases; create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to prohibit executions when certain mental health or competency conditions are present; amend KRS 532.025 to revise the point in a case when the jury receives its instructions; amend KRS 532.075 to increase the factors considered by the Supreme Court in death penalty appeals; amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to prohibit executions of persons who are severally mentally ill; amend KRS 532.300 and 532.305 to broaden the applicability of the Kentucky Racial Justice Act; create two noncodified sections to create a commission to study judicial selection in Kentucky and require a study of the effect of the Kentucky Racial Justice Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB86/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB86.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":487820,"bill_number":"SB87","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":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB87/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB87.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":487822,"bill_number":"SB88","title":"AN ACT relating to telecommunications.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 278.541 to 278.544 to establish an alternative regulation plan for telephone utilities that operate under the price regulation plan in KRS 278.543; eliminate Public Service Commission regulation of terms, conditions, rates, and availability of service, except basic local exchange service; require electing utilities to continue to offer basic local exchange service to existing customers in some exchanges; provide that an electing utility may be relieved of that obligation if there is alternative service available; exempt an electing utility from KRS 278.020(5) and (6), relating to commission approval of change of ownership or control, KRS 278.230(1) and (2), relating to commission access to utility books and records, KRS 278.250, relating to the commission's right to investigate the condition of the utility, and KRS 278.510, relating to commission approval of consolidation with other utilities; amend KRS 278.54611 to remove commission jurisdiction over resolution of consumer complaints and end commission authority to develop standards for eligible telecommunications carriers; provide that the commission may ensure that carriers comply with FCC rules; amend KRS 278.5462 to end commission jurisdiction over consumer complaints concerning broadband service.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"returned to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB88/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB88.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":487823,"bill_number":"SB89","title":"AN ACT relating to employee misclassification.","description":"Amend KRS 131.010 to define \"person,\" \"contractor,\" \"prime contractor,\" and \"subcontractor\"; amend KRS 131.130 to require the Department of Revenue to be the determining authority on issues related to employee or contractor classification; create a new section of KRS Chapter 131 to establish criteria for determining a person to be an independent contractor; stipulate that prime contractors are not responsible for subcontractor's failure to properly classify persons; stipulate that independent contractors are not eligible for employee benefits or wages; grant the department authority to notify other government agencies when a determination of misclassification has occurred; amend KRS 131.990 to establish a penalty of $100 per determination of misclassification; amend KRS 342.640 to delete requirement that newspaper distributors shall be deemed an employee of the agency for whom he or she is selling or distributing papers.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"to Labor & Industry (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":"Labor and Industry","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB89/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB89.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":487824,"bill_number":"SB90","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal record expungement.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a felony record to be expunged under specified circumstances; require the Administrative Office of the Courts to keep a confidential index of expungement orders for the preparation of presentence investigations; amend KRS 431.078, relating to misdemeanor expungement, 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.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB90/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB90.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":487826,"bill_number":"SB91","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 allow persons convicted of a felony other than treason, intentional killing, a sex crime, or bribery the right to vote after expiration of probation, final discharge from parole, or maximum expiration of sentence; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB91/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB91.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":487827,"bill_number":"SB92","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to limit the applicability and enforceability of federal firearms laws within the boundaries of Kentucky; create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit certain firearms such as machine guns and short-barreled shot guns and rifles; amend KRS 237.030 to specify additional firearm definitions; amend KRS 237.070 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit certain persons from possessing firearms; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB92/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB92.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":487828,"bill_number":"SB93","title":"AN ACT relating to the Uniform Commercial Code and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 355.4A-108, which prohibits application of Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code to a funds transfer governed by the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act of 1978, to authorize application of the provisions of Article 4A of KRS Chapter 355, relating to a funds transfer, if the remittance transfer is an Electronic Fund Transfer as defined in the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act; provide that if there is an inconsistency concerning a funds transfer between an applicable provision of Article 4A of KRS Chapter 355 and an applicable provision of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, the provision of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act shall govern to the extent of the inconsistency; repeal, reenact, and amend 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 132, sec. 102 to correct the sections of 2012 SB 97 which take effect on July 1, 2013; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 355.9-801 and 355.9-809 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-14","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 10)","last_action_date":"2013-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB93/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB93.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":487829,"bill_number":"SB94","title":"AN ACT relating to advanced practice registered nurses.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to describe physician responsibilities when entering into or reporting a collaborative agreement with an advanced practice registered nurse; amend KRS 311.550 to define \"collaborative agreement\"; amend KRS 311.565 to authorize the medical board to determine the standard of acceptable medical practice relating to a physician's involvement in a collaborative agreement; amend KRS 314.042 to designate details for a collaborative agreement relating to nonscheduled legend drugs; make a collaborative agreement for controlled substances address the nurse's level of prescriptive authority; include in each controlled substance collaborative agreement the level of physician availability, a general plan for chart reviews and collaborative discussions, and any fee the physician will charge for entering into the collaborative agreement.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB94/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB94.htm","sponsor":"Carroll Gibson"},
{"bill_id":487831,"bill_number":"SB95","title":"AN ACT relating to tuition waivers for adopted children who serve in the military.","description":"Amend KRS 164.2847 to extend the five-year tuition waiver eligibility period for adopted children who serve in the military.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 70)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB95/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB95.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":487832,"bill_number":"SB96","title":"AN ACT relating to motor carriers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to require motor carriers registering Interstate vehicles through the International Registration Plan or intrastate vehicles greater than 26,000 pounds to complete motor carrier operation and safety regulations training annually; direct the Motor Carrier Advisory Committee(MCAC) to promulgate administrative regulations to provide standards for the education training courses; require the MCAC to approve providers of training courses, allow providers to set a fee for the course of no more than $200 and require the providers to report the fee to the MCAC; require maintenance of records by both the MCAC and the providers of training courses; provide limited exemptions from training requirements; amend KRS 281.905 to clarify the duties of the Motor Carrier Advisory Committee to include coordination and oversight of training course provided for in Section 1 of the Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 108)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB96/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB96.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":487833,"bill_number":"SB97","title":"AN ACT relating to compulsory attendance.","description":"Amend KRS 159.010 to permit, beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, each local board of education, on the recommendation of the superintendent and approval of the Kentucky Department of Education, to require children residing in the school district's attendance area to attend school until the child has reached his or her eighteenth birthday except as provided in KRS 159.030; amend KRS 159.020 to conform; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-18","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 11)","last_action_date":"2013-03-18","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB97/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB97.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":487834,"bill_number":"SB98","title":"AN ACT relating to county law libraries.","description":"Amend KRS 172.200 to allow the trustees of county law libraries using the alternative financing plan set out in KRS 172.180 to purchase equipment for county law libraries and to allow library materials and equipment to be housed in Court of Justice Facilities.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 20)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB98/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB98.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487835,"bill_number":"SB99","title":"AN ACT relating to compulsory school age.","description":"Amend KRS 159.010 to provide that, effective July 1, 2017, school attendance shall be compulsory for students between the ages of six and seventeen; provide that, effective July 1, 2018, school attendance shall be compulsory for students between the ages of six and eighteen; provide that only prior to July 1, 2018, parents are permitted to withdraw from school a child under the age of eighteen, under certain conditions; amend KRS 159.020 to conform permit, beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, each local board of education on the recommendation of the superintendent and approval of the Kentucky Department of Education to require children residing in the school district's attendance area to attend school until the age of eighteen, except as provided in KRS 159.030; if funds are available, consider an increase in funding for dropout prevention programs; if funds are available, express intent to provide funds necessary to implement programs to comply with increased compulsory attendance age.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB99/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB99.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":487837,"bill_number":"SB100","title":"AN ACT relating to the protection of adults.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to define terms; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish a registry of individuals who have been substantitated to have abused, neglected, or exploited adults; set search parameters for the registry; require that an individual's name not be placed on the registry unless all administrative appeals and any judicial proceedings have been completed; require an appeal process; state time limits for a name to remain on the adult abuse registry; restrict public access to list; create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology and the cabinet to establish a secure database to house the registry; require certain employees to apply to be listed on the registry; state cabinet's duties in running registry; state circumstances under which an individual shall be included on registry; state limit of fee to be included on list; state registries to be searched for fee; limit the entities that may access list; allow an individual to determine if his or her name is on list; require cabinet to create a Web page to allow inquiries of names on the list; require a response by the cabinet within 5 days; amend KRS 205.5606 to require that consumer-directed option providers search prospective employee's names against the list; amend KRS 210.795 to require that Hart-Supported Living Program care providers be searched against the list; amend KRS 209.140 to require the names of individuals against whom an allegation of abuse, neglect, or exploitation has been substantiated to be maintained in a confidential adult abuse registry and only permit records to be released under certain circumstances; create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to exempt the adult abuse registry from the Open Records Act; exempt all records associated with an adult abuse registry from discovery in any civil or criminal case; require that any discoverable records or records deemed subject to the Open Records Act no longer be maintained.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB100/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB100.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":487838,"bill_number":"SCR35","title":"Establish a task force to study the Unified Juvenile Code; establish membership of task force; provide that the task force is to study issues related to status offenders, the use of community resources, alternatives to detention, reinvestment of savings to create community based treatment programs, feasibility of establishing an age of criminal responsibility, issues related to domestic violence and its impact on children exposed to domestic violence, issues related to special needs children, and use of validated risk and needs assessments; provide that the task force may submit proposals for statutory changes to the Legislative Research Commission by January 6, 2014.","description":"Establish a task force to study the Unified Juvenile Code; establish membership of task force; provide that the task force is to study issues related to status offenders, the use of community resources, alternatives to detention, reinvestment of savings to create community based treatment programs, feasibility of establishing an age of criminal responsibility, issues related to domestic violence and its impact on children exposed to domestic violence, issues related to special needs children, and use of validated risk and needs assessments; provide that the task force may submit proposals for statutory changes to the Legislative Research Commission by January 6, 2014.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-14","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 9)","last_action_date":"2013-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR35/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SC35.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":487839,"bill_number":"SJR49","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate KY 867 in Magoffin County as the Spc. Ralph Honaker Jr. Memorial Highway.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate KY 867 in Magoffin County as the Spc. Ralph Honaker Jr. Memorial Highway.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR49/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ49.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":487840,"bill_number":"SJR57","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate one of the new bridges on Kentucky Route 122 at Hi Hat as the 'Doris B. Osborne \"Teacher\" Memorial Bridge' and to erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate one of the new bridges on Kentucky Route 122 at Hi Hat as the 'Doris B. Osborne \"Teacher\" Memorial Bridge' and to erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR57/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ57.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487842,"bill_number":"SJR58","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet is hereby directed to designate one of the new bridges on Kentucky Route1 22 at Hi Hat as the 'Harold G. Newman \"Teacher\" Memorial Bridge' and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet is hereby directed to designate one of the new bridges on Kentucky Route1 22 at Hi Hat as the 'Harold G. Newman \"Teacher\" Memorial Bridge' and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR58/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ58.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487843,"bill_number":"SR32","title":"Adjourn in honor of all Kentuckians who have served or are serving in the United States Navy Hospital Corps.","description":"Adjourn in honor of all Kentuckians who have served or are serving in the United States Navy Hospital Corps.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR32/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR32.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":487844,"bill_number":"SR33","title":"Recognize September 8 through September 14, 2013, as Suicide Prevention Week.","description":"Recognize September 8 through September 14, 2013, as Suicide Prevention Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR33/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR33.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":487846,"bill_number":"SR34","title":"Adjourning in honor of the award-winning Hardin County Community Fair which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.","description":"Adjourning in honor of the award-winning Hardin County Community Fair which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR34/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR34.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":487847,"bill_number":"SR36","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Barbara Sue Christian.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Barbara Sue Christian.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR36/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR36.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":487848,"bill_number":"SR37","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Marion E. \"Shug\" Stratton.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Marion E. \"Shug\" Stratton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR37/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR37.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":487849,"bill_number":"SR38","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Rebecca Lynn Guy.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Rebecca Lynn Guy.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR38/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR38.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":487850,"bill_number":"SR40","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of John Bruce Milligan III.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of John Bruce Milligan III.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR40/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR40.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":487852,"bill_number":"SR41","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Bernice Hamilton Corman","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Bernice Hamilton Corman","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR41/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR41.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":487853,"bill_number":"SR42","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Palda Marxen","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Palda Marxen","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR42/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR42.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":487854,"bill_number":"SR43","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Hallie Mae Wade Bussey Barnes.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Hallie Mae Wade Bussey Barnes.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR43/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR43.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":487855,"bill_number":"SR44","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor of African-American athletes, coaches, and referees during this time of celebration of Black History Month.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor of African-American athletes, coaches, and referees during this time of celebration of Black History Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR44/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR44.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":487857,"bill_number":"SR45","title":"Honor the Louisville Central HS Yellowjackets, 2012 KHSAA Class 3A Football Champions.","description":"Honor the Louisville Central HS Yellowjackets, 2012 KHSAA Class 3A Football Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR45/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR45.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":487858,"bill_number":"SR46","title":"Honoring Kentucky Youth Advocates and adjourning in honor of Children's Advocacy Day, February 7, 2013.","description":"Honoring Kentucky Youth Advocates and adjourning in honor of Children's Advocacy Day, February 7, 2013.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR46/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR46.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":487859,"bill_number":"SR47","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Trooper Anson Blake Tribby.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Trooper Anson Blake Tribby.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR47/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR47.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":487860,"bill_number":"SR48","title":"Declare February 13, 2013 as Arts Day in the Commonwealth.","description":"Declare February 13, 2013 as Arts Day in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR48/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR48.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":487862,"bill_number":"SR51","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Lillian Gillespie Delaney.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Lillian Gillespie Delaney.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR51/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR51.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":487863,"bill_number":"SR52","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Dalton Dingus.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Dalton Dingus.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR52/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR52.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":487864,"bill_number":"SR53","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Florence Lee \"Mimi\" Joseph.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Florence Lee \"Mimi\" Joseph.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR53/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR53.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":487865,"bill_number":"SR54","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Professor Nathan S. Lord.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Professor Nathan S. Lord.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR54/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR54.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":487867,"bill_number":"SR55","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Helen Katz.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Helen Katz.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR55/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR55.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":487868,"bill_number":"SR56","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Katherine \"Kathy\" Hanly King.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Katherine \"Kathy\" Hanly King.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR56/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR56.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487869,"bill_number":"SR59","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dan Edward Hall.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dan Edward Hall.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR59/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR59.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487870,"bill_number":"SR60","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Stoney Dye.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Stoney Dye.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR60/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR60.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487872,"bill_number":"SR61","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Roslyn Hager Burchett.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Roslyn Hager Burchett.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR61/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR61.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487873,"bill_number":"SR62","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William F. Deemer.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William F. Deemer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR62/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR62.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487874,"bill_number":"SR63","title":"Adjoun the Senate in loving memory and honor of Anna Rae Martin Hall.","description":"Adjoun the Senate in loving memory and honor of Anna Rae Martin Hall.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR63/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR63.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487875,"bill_number":"SR64","title":"Adjoun the Senate in loving memory and honor of Jeffrey Michael Hayes.","description":"Adjoun the Senate in loving memory and honor of Jeffrey Michael Hayes.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR64/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR64.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487877,"bill_number":"SR65","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Juanita Brown Compton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Juanita Brown Compton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR65/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR65.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":487878,"bill_number":"SR66","title":"Recognize and congratulate Mr. Gregory Burchett of Johnson County, Kentucky as a survivor of male breast cancer, and honor him for raising awareness of the disease for the benefit of all Kentuckians.","description":"Recognize and congratulate Mr. Gregory Burchett of Johnson County, Kentucky as a survivor of male breast cancer, and honor him for raising awareness of the disease for the benefit of all Kentuckians.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR66/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR66.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":487879,"bill_number":"SR67","title":"Honor the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour and program for setting a new attendance record of over 500,000 visitors to its distilleries in 2012.","description":"Honor the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour and program for setting a new attendance record of over 500,000 visitors to its distilleries in 2012.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR67/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR67.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":487880,"bill_number":"SR68","title":"Recognize February as Kentucky Career and Technical Education Month.","description":"Recognize February as Kentucky Career and Technical Education Month.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-05","last_action":"to Senate Floor","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":"Floor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR68/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR68.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":489483,"bill_number":"SR76","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of John Michael \"Mike\" Bell","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of John Michael \"Mike\" Bell","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR76/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR76.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":489485,"bill_number":"SR75","title":"Adjourn in honor of Richard Ray Smalley upon the occasion of his 100th birthday.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Richard Ray Smalley upon the occasion of his 100th birthday.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR75/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR75.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":489488,"bill_number":"SR74","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of John Thomas Dunaway.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of John Thomas Dunaway.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR74/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR74.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":489490,"bill_number":"SR72","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Winifred Frances Berckman Humphrey.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Winifred Frances Berckman Humphrey.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR72/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR72.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":489493,"bill_number":"SR71","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Michael Lee Adams.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Michael Lee Adams.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR71/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR71.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":489495,"bill_number":"SR70","title":"Congratulate Toyota Motor Manufacturing for being the 2012 global sales leader.","description":"Congratulate Toyota Motor Manufacturing for being the 2012 global sales leader.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR70/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR70.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":489498,"bill_number":"SR69","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Raymond E. Poole.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Raymond E. Poole.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR69/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR69.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":489502,"bill_number":"SJR73","title":"Direct the Transportation to designate the bridge on KY Route 2030 near Little Mud Creek as the 'Walter L. Akers \"Preacher\" Memorial Bridge' and to erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation to designate the bridge on KY Route 2030 near Little Mud Creek as the 'Walter L. Akers \"Preacher\" Memorial Bridge' and to erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR73/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ73.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":489504,"bill_number":"SB109","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship.","description":"Amend KRS 164.7881 to permit high school seniors beginning with the 2014-2015 academic year, and high school juniors and seniors beginning with the 2015-2016 academic year, to use their KEES awards to pay for dual credit courses; require that the funds they would have received as eligible postsecondary students be reduced proportionally over a four-, or in some cases, five-year period by an amount equal to the amount used for dual credit; amend KRS 164.7885 to conform; designate the expenditures as necessary governmental expenses if KEES funds appropriated for fiscal years 2015 and 2016 are not adequate.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"returned to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-01","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB109/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB109.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":489507,"bill_number":"SB108","title":"AN ACT relating to the IMPACT Plus Program.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services or a Medicaid managed care organization to contract directly with IMPACT Plus Program service providers and manage all aspects of the program.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB108/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB108.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":489509,"bill_number":"SB107","title":"AN ACT relating to pharmacy benefit managers.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define the terms \"contracted pharmacy,\" \"drug product reimbursement,\" and \"pharmacy benefit manager\"; require a pharmacy benefit manager to include the methodology used to calculate drug product reimbursements; establish certain requirements when a maximum allowable cost is used to determine a drug product reimbursement, including information identifying the national drug pricing compendia or source used to obtain the drug price, making the list of drugs subject to the MAC, and reviewing and making adjustments to the maximum allowable cost at least once per week; make those weekly updates available to contracted pharmacies; and provide a process for the MAC to be appealed.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 109)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB107/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB107.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":489512,"bill_number":"SB106","title":"AN ACT relating to midwifery.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish legislative intent; define terms; create the Kentucky Board of Midwifery' provide for licensure and administrative regulation requirements regarding the practice of midwifery; establish a trust and agency fund to be administered by the board to implement the licensure of midwives; set forth informed consent requirements for patient care; amend KRS 211.180 to KRS 311.550 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB106/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB106.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":489515,"bill_number":"SB105","title":"AN ACT relating to wages and hours.","description":"Amend and repeal various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to repeal the prevailing wage requirement, abolish the Prevailing Wage Review Board, and make conforming amendments.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB105/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB105.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":489519,"bill_number":"SB104","title":"AN ACT relating to project labor agreements.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.030 to define \"project labor agreement\"; amend KRS 45A.080 to prohibit project labor agreements in construction contracts; amend KRS 45A.345 to define \"project labor agreement\" and for local agency model procurement code; amend KRS 45A.365 to prohibit project labor agreements in local agency construction contracts; amend KRS 162.070 to prohibit project labor agreements in school construction; amend KRS 162.070 to prohibit project labor agreement in higher education construction contracts.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB104/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB104.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":489522,"bill_number":"SB103","title":"AN ACT relating to amusement rides and attractions.","description":"Amend KRS 247.234 to require amusement ride and attractions applicants to list prior violations when obtaining a business identification number; declare that unpaid civil penalties assessed against amusement ride and attraction operators remain in effect","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-12","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 5)","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB103/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB103.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":489524,"bill_number":"SB102","title":"AN ACT reclassifying the City of Taylorsville.","description":"Reclassify the City of Taylorsville, in Spencer County, from a city of the fifth class to a city of the fourth class, which requires a population of 3,000 to 7,999.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB102/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB102.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":489527,"bill_number":"SB101","title":"AN ACT relating to a medical order for scope of treatment.","description":"Amend KRS 311.621 to define \"medical order for scope of treatment\"; create a new section of KRS 311.621 to 311.643 to permit the completion of a medical order for scope of treatment directing medical interventions; require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations to develop a standardized medical order for scope of treatment form; list the required contents of the standardized medical order for scope of treatment; amend KRS 311.623, 311.633, and 311.637 to add the medical order for scope of treatment.","status_desc":"Senate Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB101/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB101.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":489529,"bill_number":"HR65","title":"Honor Children's Advocacy Day and adjourning in its honor, February 7, 2013.","description":"Honor Children's Advocacy Day and adjourning in its honor, February 7, 2013.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR65/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR65.htm","sponsor":"John Tilley"},
{"bill_id":489532,"bill_number":"HR64","title":"Adjourn the honor and loving memory of our beloved friend and former colleague, Representative John M. Swinford.","description":"Adjourn the honor and loving memory of our beloved friend and former colleague, Representative John M. Swinford.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR64/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR64.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":489534,"bill_number":"HR63","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Nancy Roberts Edwards.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Nancy Roberts Edwards.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR63/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR63.htm","sponsor":"Rita Smart"},
{"bill_id":489538,"bill_number":"HR62","title":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor of African-American athletes, coaches, and referees during this time of celebration of Black History Month.","description":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in honor of African-American athletes, coaches, and referees during this time of celebration of Black History Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR62/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR62.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":489541,"bill_number":"HR59","title":"Recognize September 8 through September 14, 2013, as Suicide Prevention Week.","description":"Recognize September 8 through September 14, 2013, as Suicide Prevention Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR59/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR59.htm","sponsor":"Larry Clark"},
{"bill_id":489543,"bill_number":"HJR66","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to erect signs on United States Highway 25E in Knox County that read \"Home of 2013 Kentucky School Teacher of the Year, Kristal Doolin.\"","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to erect signs on United States Highway 25E in Knox County that read \"Home of 2013 Kentucky School Teacher of the Year, Kristal Doolin.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR66/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ66.htm","sponsor":"Jim Stewart"},
{"bill_id":489547,"bill_number":"HJR61","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on Kentucky Route 2431 in Leslie County as the \"George Wooton Memorial Bridge,\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on Kentucky Route 2431 in Leslie County as the \"George Wooton Memorial Bridge,\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR61/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ61.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":489549,"bill_number":"HJR60","title":"Designate the \"PFC Billy Ray Patrick Memorial Highway\" in Perry County.","description":"Designate the \"PFC Billy Ray Patrick Memorial Highway\" in Perry County.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR60/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ60.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":489552,"bill_number":"HB263","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of tobacco.","description":"Amend KRS 138.130 to define \"financial instrument\" \"moist snuff\" \"wholesaler of tobacco products\" and \"retailer-wholesaler of tobacco products\"; delete definition of \"cigarette paper\"; amend KRS 138.140 to require retailers to purchase tobacco products from licensed wholesalers of tobacco products or licensed retailer-wholesalers of tobacco products; impose the excise tax on a retailer that chooses to purchase untaxed tobacco products; require invoice itemization for tobacco products 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; amend KRS 138.165 to require destruction of seized cigarettes and clarify sale steps for seized vending machines; create a new section of KRS 138.130 to 138.205 to establish alternatives for retailers that may have received untaxed tobacco products; provide additional penalties for multiple offenses; allow seizure of contraband tobacco products; create a new section of KRS 138.130 to 138.205 to require the filing of reports and retention of records; amend KRS 138.195 to set the unclassified acquirer annual license fee at $500; allow the department to obtain information and reports electronically; allow for the sale or purchase of untax-paid cigarettes from one licensed wholesaler 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 365.390 to include unclassified acquirers under the enforcement fee requirements; amend KRS 138.205 and 138.990 to conform and make technical changes; provide that deferred payment provisions are EFFECTIVE July 1, 2014.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB263/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB263.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":489556,"bill_number":"HB262","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the qualifications of members of the General Assembly.","description":"Propose an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to lower the age at which a Kentucky citizen may be elected to the state House of Representatives from 24 to 18 and to lower the age at which a Kentucky citizen may be elected to the state Senate from 30 to 18, if ratified, apply to legislative elections held in 2016 and any special election to fill a legislative vacancy held after the date of ratification; submit to voters with provided ballot language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB262/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB262.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":489558,"bill_number":"HB261","title":"AN ACT relating to taken wildlife.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to define \"mounted wildlife specimen\"; require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to promulgate administrative regulations allowing any person or entity to sell or buy mounted wildlife specimens except as prohibited under federal law; require the department to record transactions for mounted wildlife specimens for white-tailed deer, elk, bears, turkeys, and bobcats; exempt mounted wildlife specimens sold to or purchased from licensed taxidermists under KRS 150.4111 from the requirements of the section; create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to define \"gross score\"; require the gross score for white-tailed deer and elk to be calculated using the Boone and Crockett Club's scoring manual by an official scorer; allow measurements to be taken at any time, with no drying time being required; establish enhanced restitution values for illegally taken white-tailed deer, elk, bears, turkeys, and bobcats; allow the commissioner or designee to bring a civil action to recover the restitution values owed; revoke hunting licenses and privileges for persons owing restitution; specify that the restitution required under this section is in addition to all other penalties and restitution established by KRS Chapter 150 and the administrative regulations established thereunder.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 92)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB261/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB261.htm","sponsor":"Wilson Stone"},
{"bill_id":489561,"bill_number":"HB260","title":"AN ACT relating to tax increment financing.","description":"Amend KRS 154.30-050 to allow the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority to reduce the minimum capital investment required on certain signature TIF projects with an existing agreement from $200 million to $150 million.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 36)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB260/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB260.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":489563,"bill_number":"HB259","title":"AN ACT relating to surcharges on credit card transactions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to require disclosure of the imposition of a surcharge on a buyer based on method of payment.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB259/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB259.htm","sponsor":"Hubert Collins"},
{"bill_id":489566,"bill_number":"HB258","title":"AN ACT relating to tourism development.","description":"Amend KRS 91A.350 to require that tourist and convention commissions may be established for the purpose of promoting convention and tourist activity by marketing the location, facilities, and attractions through various marketing mechanisms; amend KRS 91A.360 to declare that commissioners appointed to tourist and convention commissions shall be appointed from persons residing, owning or operating a business, or employed by a business within the jurisdiction of the commission; amend KRS 91A.370, 91A.372, and 91A.380 to state that if a vacancy on the commission is not filled within 30 days of the receipt of the required list of candidates, then the previous appointee shall serve an additional 3 year term; amend KRS 91A.390 to clarify the purposes to which taxes collected pursuant to the section may be used.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB258/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB258.htm","sponsor":"Keith Hall"},
{"bill_id":489568,"bill_number":"HB257","title":"AN ACT relating to electrical inspections.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 227A to specify contents of an electrical permit and stipulate that applying for a permit implies consent to an electrical inspection; require the Department of Housing Buildings and Construction to appoint and assign electrical inspectors to each county; permit the department to allow local governments to administer inspection program; require certain work conducted by an electrical utility on customer's property to be performed by an electrician or master electrician, repeal sections of KRS Chapter 227 and reenact as new sections of KRS Chapter 227A with specified changes; reenact and amend KRS 227.460 to provide for electrical inspections by the department if a city fails to establish an authorized program; reenact and amend KRS 227.480 to allow permit applications to be submitted the following day in emergency situations; exempt homeowners doing work on their own home; require the department to promulgate regulations describing circumstances where inspections are required; reenact and amend KRS 227.487 to allow local programs with a fee schedule established as of January 1, 2013, to continue and to specify requirements for electrical work requiring a permit; reenact and amend KRS 227.489 to conform; reenact and amend KRS 227.491 to specify recordkeeping requirements by inspectors; reenact and amend KRS 227.492 to conform; reenact and amend KRS 227.495 to give inspectors the authority to pull an electrical service under certain conditions; specify scheduling requirements for inspection; provide permit holder appeal rights; reenact and amend KRS 227.530 to assign the Electrical Advisory Committee to the Electrical Division and appoint the commissioner to the committee; amend KRS 227A.010 to define \"alteration,\" \"commissioner,\" \"division,\" \"electrical inspector,\" \"electrical system,\" and \"repair\"; amend KRS 227A.030 to conform; amend KRS 227A.050 to appropriate funds in the trust and agency account for the administration and enforcement responsibilities of the division; amend KRS 227A.130 to allow local governments to fix penalties for violations and to establish fines for violation of the chapter; amend KRS 198B.060 to allow local governments to petition for authority to approve electrical permits if the provisions of KRS Chapter 227A are met; amend KRS 211.350 and 227.205 to conform; repeal KRS 132.815, 227.450, and 227.500.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"passed 50-32","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB257/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB257.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":489572,"bill_number":"HB256","title":"AN ACT relating to surcharges on payment transactions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to prohibit the imposition of a surcharge on a buyer based on method of payment.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB256/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB256.htm","sponsor":"Tom Riner"},
{"bill_id":489575,"bill_number":"HB255","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Housing Corporation.","description":"Amend KRS 198A.040 to allow the Kentucky Housing Corporation to process mortgage loans and to administer federal or state program contracts, as well as performing other housing-related activities, for entities located inside or outside the boundaries of the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB255/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB255.htm","sponsor":"Rita Smart"},
{"bill_id":489577,"bill_number":"HB254","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, 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; the board shall submit the names of three nominees to the Governor for consideration in the appointment of a student member to the Council on Postsecondary Education pursuant to KRS 164.011; amend KRS 164.011 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB254/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB254.htm","sponsor":"Ryan Quarles"},
{"bill_id":489581,"bill_number":"HB253","title":"AN ACT relating to disabled parking and making an appropriation therefor.","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; amend KRS 189.990 to increase the fine for a violation of KRS.189.459 to $500 and to require that 75% of the fine collected be forwarded to the personal care assistance program and 25% of the fine collected be returned to the law enforcement agencies in the county where the violation occurred.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB253/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB253.htm","sponsor":"Will Coursey"},
{"bill_id":489583,"bill_number":"HB252","title":"AN ACT reclassifying the City of Eddyville.","description":"Reclassify the City of Eddyville, in Lyon County, with a population of 2555, from a city of the fifth class to a city of the fourth class, which requires a population of 3,000 to 7,999.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 91)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB252/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB252.htm","sponsor":"Will Coursey"},
{"bill_id":489586,"bill_number":"HB251","title":"AN ACT relating to abortion facilities.","description":"Amend KRS 216B.0431 to require physicians performing abortions in abortion facilities to have admitting privileges at a local hospital and staff privileges to replace local hospital on-staff physicians and to be board-certified or eligible in obstetrics and gynecology; require a staff member trained in CPR to be present in an abortion facility.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB251/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB251.htm","sponsor":"Stan Lee"},
{"bill_id":489588,"bill_number":"HB250","title":"AN ACT relating to state emblems and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Designate The Homeplace on Green River, Inc. as the official Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural History; establish a fund for The Homeplace on Green River, Inc. through the Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB250/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB250.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":489592,"bill_number":"HB249","title":"AN ACT relating to home improvement.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 434 relating to offenses against property by fraud to create definitions for home improvement contracts; set requirements for home improvement contracts; require home improvement contracts for $100 or more to be in writing; prohibit various practices relating to home improvement contracts; create civil and criminal remedies for violation of laws relating to home improvement contracts.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB249/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB249.htm","sponsor":"David Watkins"},
{"bill_id":489595,"bill_number":"HB248","title":"AN ACT relating to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Office of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange and the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange Advisory Board; confirm Executive Orders 2012-587 and 2012-783.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB248/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB248.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":489597,"bill_number":"HB247","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Confirm Executive Order 2012-1057, relating to reorganization of the Transportation Cabinet.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB247/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB247.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":489600,"bill_number":"HB246","title":"AN ACT relating to the child fatality and near fatality external review panel.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 620 to establish an external child fatality and near fatality review panel; establish its membership, duties, and responsibilities; amend KRS 620.020 to establish definitions for \"fatality\" and \"near fatality\"; amend KRS 620.050 to allow records to be provided to the panel and to establish what information shall and shall not be publically disclosed; and amend KRS 620.090 to establish penalties.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB246/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB246.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":489602,"bill_number":"HB245","title":"AN ACT relating to notice of appeals of consolidated local government police force merit board actions.","description":"Amend KRS 67C.323 to require that the police chief and the officer receive notice of an appeal of an action by the consolidated local government police force merit board.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB245/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB245.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":489605,"bill_number":"HB244","title":"AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.","description":"Amend KRS 237.110 to allow corrections officers, current or retired, of urban-county governments or merged governments to use their professional training to satisfy the training requirement in applying for a concealed-carry permit.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB244/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB244.htm","sponsor":"Donna Mayfield"},
{"bill_id":489609,"bill_number":"HB243","title":"AN ACT relating to automobile safety equipment.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to establish unlawful practices for the sale, repair, or replacement of automobile safety equipment, as defined in KRS 304.20-060; establish penalties for the violation; amend KRS 304.20-060 to allow an insurer to offer a deductible for the replacement of damaged safety equipment.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB243/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB243.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":489612,"bill_number":"HB242","title":"AN ACT relating to reporting on economic incentive programs.","description":"Create a new section of subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require the cabinet to maintain a searchable electronic database containing information on the cost and status of economic incentive programs; specify programs and information to be included; apply to specified programs approved within last five years; require in addition a single annual written report for programs approved in preceding fiscal year; specify programs and information to be included; amend KRS 148.546, 148.8591, 154.12-100, 154.12-208, 154.12-278, 154.20-150, 154.27-050, and 154.31-030 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB242/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB242.htm","sponsor":"Larry Clark"},
{"bill_id":489615,"bill_number":"HB241","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to reorganize various offices in the Department of Education; repeal KRS 156.017; confirm Executive Order 2012-561.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB241/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB241.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":489617,"bill_number":"HB240","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 to create the Office for Education and Workforce Statistics and the Board of the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics; create new sections of KRS Chapter 151B to establish the duties of the Office for Education and Workforce Statistics and the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics and to clarify which public agencies shall contribute education and workforce data to the system; confirm Executive Order 2012-1029.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 90)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB240/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB240.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":489620,"bill_number":"HB239","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 12.020 and 12.023 to transfer the Council on Postsecondary Education from the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 151B.020 and 151B.130 to conform; confirm Executive Order 2012-419.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB239/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB239.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":489622,"bill_number":"HB238","title":"AN ACT relating to change of name.","description":"Amend KRS 401.020 and 401.030 relating to change of name for a child under 18, to permit the action for change of name to be filed in the Family Court of a county with a Family Court or the Circuit Court of a county without a Family Court if the Family Court or Circuit Court has a case involving the family pending before it, as well as in the District Court; amend KRS 401.010 and 401.040 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 89)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB238/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB238.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":489626,"bill_number":"HB237","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to prohibit future members of the General Assembly from participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System unless they participated in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System or the Legislators' Retirement Plan as a member of the General Assembly prior to July 1, 2013; allow current members of the General Assembly participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System to make a one-time election to discontinue participation and to take a refund of accumulated contributions; amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to new members effective July 1, 2013; allow current members of the General Assembly participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan to make a one-time election to discontinue participation and take a refund of accumulated contributions; amend KRS 61.510 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB237/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB237.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":489629,"bill_number":"HB236","title":"AN ACT relating to telecommunications.","description":"Amend KRS 278.544 to require competitive local exchange service carriers who resell the services of an unaffiliated company be subject to the same requirements for basic local exchange service as incumbent local exchange carriers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB236/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB236.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":489631,"bill_number":"HB235","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":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB235/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB235.htm","sponsor":"Ron Crimm"},
{"bill_id":489634,"bill_number":"HB234","title":"AN ACT relating to the State Investment Commission.","description":"Amend KRS 42.500 to clarify how the Governor's appointees to the State Investment Commission are selected, make adjustments to how funds may be invested to align with current practices and strengthen loss protection, and recognize correct terminology as used by the Securities and Exchange Commission for credit rating agencies.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 60)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB234/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB234.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":489636,"bill_number":"HB233","title":"AN ACT relating to preserving the right of Kentuckians to own and use firearms.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to declare legislative intent; invalidate and nullify all federal laws and regulations restricting ownership or possession of firearms; direct the General Assembly to take all appropriate action to safeguard Kentuckian's rights to possess firearms in accordance with the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and Section 1 of the Constitution of Kentucky; amend KRS 527.040 to add persons who have been dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces of the United States and persons illegally or unlawfully in the United States to the list of persons who shall not possess firearms.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-06","last_action":"reassigned to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB233/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB233.htm","sponsor":"Diane St Onge"},
{"bill_id":489639,"bill_number":"HB177","title":"AN ACT relating to misrepresenting military status.","description":"Amend KRS 434.444, the Kentucky Stolen Valor Act, to clarify that misrepresentation of military status must be for the purpose of monetary gain.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 115)","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB177/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB177.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":490868,"bill_number":"HB3","title":"AN ACT relating to human trafficking and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require that a child who is suspected to be a human trafficking victim be treated as a case of dependency, neglect, or abuse, and provide requirements for how to handle these cases, require the creation of administrative regulations, and require an annual report; amend KRS 620.040 to clarify duties of various agencies in child human trafficking cases and allow protective custody by law enforcement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to provide requirements for the Department of Juvenile Justice when a child is suspected to be a victim of human trafficking and require promulgation of administrative regulations; amend KRS 605.030 to permit court-designated workers to screen for human trafficking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 630 to prohibit a child victim of human trafficking from being charged with or adjudicated guilty of a status offense; amend KRS 529.010 to amend the definitions relating to prostitution and human trafficking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 529 to create a fee for a conviction of human trafficking offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 529 to establish a human trafficking victims fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 529 to require asset forfeiture for human trafficking offenders and to provide for distribution of the proceeds; create a new section of KRS Chapter 529 to prohibit the prosecution of a minor under prostitution statutes; amend KRS 529.020 and 529.080 to conform; amend KRS 15.334, relating to police training, to require training relating to human trafficking; amend KRS 15.706 to require the Prosecutors Advisory Council to collect data on human trafficking; amend KRS 15.718 to require human trafficking training for prosecutors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to designate a human trafficking unit; amend KRS 421.500, relating to victims services, to include victims of human trafficking; amend KRS 421.570, relating to victim advocates, to include training on human trafficking; amend KRS 413.249, relating to civil actions relating to childhood sexual abuse or childhood sexual assault, to include child victims of human trafficking; amend KRS 421.350, relating to testimony of certain child victims, to include child victims of human trafficking offenses; amend KRS 431.082 to provide a cause of action for victims of human trafficking; amend KRS 431.600, relating to coordination of child sexual abuse investigations and prosecutions, to include advocates for human trafficking victims; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to require the Labor Cabinet to report incidents of human trafficking and provide for reasonable cause immunity; amend KRS 337.385 to allow a court to award punitive damages and other costs and fees to victims of human trafficking; amend KRS 516.030, relating to forgery in the second degree, to include coercing another person to make or obtain a false instrument in the commission of human trafficking; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to file a report on its plan to implement provisions relating to child human trafficking victims; provide that the Act may be cited as the \"Human Trafficking Victims Rights Act.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 25)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB3/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB3.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":490876,"bill_number":"HB5","title":"AN ACT relating to the prompt payment of Medicaid claims and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to grant the commissioner of the Department of Insurance the power to enforce Kentucky's prompt payment laws as they relate to disputes between the Department of Medicaid Services, Medicaid recipients, providers of care to Medicaid recipients, or a managed care company contracted with the Department of Medicaid Services to provide care to Medicaid recipients; allow a Medicaid recipient or provider to file a claim with the DOI for a failure to comply with Kentucky's prompt payment statutes; permit interest to be charged for nonpayment and provide for additional penalties for nonpayment; create a new section of Subtitle 02 of KRS Chapter 304 to grant the commissioner of the DOI authority to enforce Kentucky's prompt payment laws as they relate to disputes between the DMS, Medicaid recipients, providers of care to Medicaid recipients, or a managed care company contracting with the DMS to provide care to Medicaid recipients; require the DOI to establish an internal appeals and hearing process for review of prompt payment claims; guarantee that currently existing unpaid \"clean\" or \"less than clean\" claims or any claims that arise after the effective date of the bill and before the implementation of hearing regulations shall be guaranteed interest payments and that each day shall continue to count as a separate violation even without a hearing process established; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Vetoed","status_date":"2013-04-05","last_action":"Vetoed","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB5/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB5.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":490882,"bill_number":"HB264","title":"AN ACT relating to the negotiation of health benefit plans.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize the purchase of health benefit plans across state lines; allow negotiation of terms based on the purchaser's, needs without regard to state-mandated health insurance benefits; provide individuals and groups the ability to form pools to seek greater advantage in negotiations for health benefit plans.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB264/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB264.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":490886,"bill_number":"HB265","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to specify definitions for assault weapons, large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices, and ammunition sellers; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; amend KRS 395.250 to require an estate's inventory to list each firearm; amend KRS 403.735 to require judges when issuing an order of protection to consider whether a person against whom the order is entered should be prohibited from possessing an firearm; amend KRS 504.030 to require judges in criminal cases where a person is found guilty by reason of insanity to demand the surrender of the defendant's firearms; amend KRS 506.080 to specify that the offense of facilitation includes assistance in providing firearms; amend KRS 508.020 to include physical injury to a minor by virtue of the intentional discharge of a firearm within the offense of assault in the second degree; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to create the offense of criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon; amend KRS 527.040 to require that the sentence for a felon in possession of a firearm run consecutively with any other felony sentence; amend KRS 527.070 to include colleges and universities within the existing ban on firearms in schools; amend KRS 532.030 to require the judge pronouncing a defendant guilty but mentally ill to demand the surrender of the person's firearms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require the State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess firearms and assault weapons, the registration of firearms and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms and ammunition sales effective January 1, 2014; repeal KRS 65.870; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB265/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB265.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":490892,"bill_number":"HB266","title":"AN ACT relating to members of the General Assembly.","description":"Amend KRS 6.190 to prohibit General Assembly members from receiving compensation, mileage allowance, and road toll reimbursement in an even-numbered year extraordinary session called by the Governor for the purpose of enacting a branch budget bill or bills; amend KRS 6.211 to prohibit General Assembly members from receiving expense allowances in an even-numbered year extraordinary session called by the Governor for the purpose of enacting a branch budget bill or bills.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB266/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB266.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":490902,"bill_number":"HB267","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to limit the applicability and enforceability of federal firearms laws within the boundaries of Kentucky; create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit certain firearms such as machine guns and short-barreled shot guns and rifles; amend KRS 237.030 to specify additional firearm definitions; amend KRS 237.070 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit certain persons from possessing firearms; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB267/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB267.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":490910,"bill_number":"HB268","title":"AN ACT relating to the auction of semiautomatic assault rifles by the Department of Kentucky State Police.","description":"Amend KRS 16.220, relating the auction of confiscated firearms by the Department of Kentucky State Police to define \"semiautomatic assault rifle\" and other terms and to prohibit the auction of a semiautomatic assault rifle by the Department of Kentucky State Police; permit the Department of Kentucky State Police to donate a semiautomatic assault rifle to a Kentucky law enforcement agency and, if no agency wants the semiautomatic assault rifle; require destruction of the semiautomatic assault rifle.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB268/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB268.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":490913,"bill_number":"HB269","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Environmental Education Council.","description":"Amend KRS 157.915 to clarify that the Kentucky Environmental Education Council will include the central office of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System in the coordination of postsecondary education environmental activities.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 93)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB269/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB269.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":490917,"bill_number":"HB270","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":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB270/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB270.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":490925,"bill_number":"HB271","title":"AN ACT relating to land conservation and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 146.560 to allow the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund to make grants to private, nonprofit land trust organizations; require dollar-for-dollar match of funds allocated; amend KRS 146.570 to allow the board to promulgate administrative regulations to allow grants to be made to private, nonprofit land trust organizations that match dollar-for-dollar.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB271/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB271.htm","sponsor":"Steven Riggs"},
{"bill_id":490930,"bill_number":"HB272","title":"AN ACT relating to special Purple Heart motor vehicle license plates.","description":"Amend KRS 186.166 to require the design of the Purple Heart license plate include a picture of the Purple Heart medal and the words \"Combat Wounded\"; specify that the design changes take effect at the next replating of the Purple Heart plate.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 117)","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB272/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB272.htm","sponsor":"Dwight Butler"},
{"bill_id":490939,"bill_number":"HB273","title":"AN ACT relating to the operation of mini-trucks.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to establish exemptions allowing the operation of a mini-truck on a public highway or roadway or the right-of-way of any public highway or roadway; permit operation of a mini-truck by persons possessing a valid operator's license who are crossing a two-lane public highway with a mini-truck if travel is two-tenths of a mile or less or who are engaged in farm or agricultural-related activities, construction, road maintenance, or snow removal; require mini-truck operators to comply with applicable traffic regulations; restrict operation of mini-trucks to daylight hours, except when engaged in snow removal or emergency road maintenance.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 61)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB273/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB273.htm","sponsor":"Bart Rowland"},
{"bill_id":490945,"bill_number":"HB274","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 12-01, dated June 5, 2012.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB274/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB274.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":490953,"bill_number":"HB275","title":"AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 376.268 to define \"contents\"; amend KRS 376.275, relating to towing and storage liens on motor vehicles, to allow the sale of a vehicle's contents to satisfy a lien for towing and storage charges; allow for the return of some personal contents upon request by owner; provide that the storage or towing company is not responsible for contents to which it does not have access.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB275/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB275.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":490958,"bill_number":"HB276","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; apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2013; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB276/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB276.htm","sponsor":"Terry Mills"},
{"bill_id":490962,"bill_number":"HB277","title":"AN ACT relating to boat dock and marina safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 235 to establish standards for marina and boat dock owners and operators to prevent electrical shocks to persons in boats, in water, and on docks around the marina; prohibit swimming within 100 yards of a boat dock or marina, except for reasons of search and rescue; require marina and boat dock compliance by August 1, 2014; amend KRS 235.010 to amend the definition of \"marina\" to include a boat dock; establish definitions for \"boat dock\" and \"boat dock or marina owner or operator\"; amend KRS 235.200 to require any equipment meeting the American Boat and Yacht Council standards to protect the public from electrical shocks; require electrical wiring onboard a vessel to be performed by a licensed electrician; amend KRS 235.990 to establish penalties for violations.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB277/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB277.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":490969,"bill_number":"HB278","title":"AN ACT relating to procurement.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.380 to expand procurement abilities to include transfers from other governmental agencies; amend KRS 45A.240 to allow for procurement when there is no vendor located in Kentucky; amend KRS 45A.425 to expand procedures for local public agencies to sell or dispose of surplus or excess personal property; amend KRS 82.083 and 424.260 to expand procedures for cities to sell or dispose of surplus or excess personal property and keep a written record; amend KRS 160.335 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB278/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB278.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":490978,"bill_number":"HB279","title":"AN ACT relating to construction of the law.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 446 to specify that government shall not burden a person's or religious organization's freedom of religion; protect the right to act or refuse to act on religious grounds; specify that government shall prove by clear and convincing evidence prove a compelling governmental interest in establishing a burden on the freedom of religion; specify what constitutes a burden.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-27","last_action":"delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Chapter 111)","last_action_date":"2013-03-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB279/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB279.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":490982,"bill_number":"HB280","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Investment Fund Act.","description":"Create new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to expand the Kentucky Investment Fund Act to allow for tax credits to be provided to individual investors making certain investments in small businesses, in addition to credits to investment funds; define terms; state Act's title and purposes; list requirements for small businesses and individual investors to qualify for participation; require the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) to establish the application process; cap the total amount of individual investor and investment fund tax credits available through the Kentucky Investment Fund Act in all years at $40,000,000; require KEDFA to maintain a Web site listing all businesses and individual investors certified and all credits awarded; require small businesses to report annually and allow for tax credit recapture in certain circumstances; amend KRS 152.20-255 to provide that the total amount of tax credits available through the Kentucky Investment Fund Act program for both individuals and funds is $40,000,000 in all years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit and make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB280/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB280.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":490990,"bill_number":"HB281","title":"AN ACT relating to land conservation and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 146.560 to allow the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund to make grants to private, nonprofit land trust organizations; require dollar-for-dollar match of funds allocated; amend KRS 146.570 to allow the board to promulgate administrative regulations to allow grants to be made to private, nonprofit land trust organizations that match dollar-for-dollar.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 62)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB281/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB281.htm","sponsor":"Keith Hall"},
{"bill_id":490994,"bill_number":"HB282","title":"AN ACT relating to child booster seats.","description":"Amend KRS 189.125, regarding vehicle occupant restraints, to require booster seats to be used by children who are less than 9 years old and are between 40 and 57 inches in height; clarify that a child of any age who is over 57 inches in height shall not be required to be secured in a booster seat.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB282/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB282.htm","sponsor":"Keith Hall"},
{"bill_id":491001,"bill_number":"HB283","title":"AN ACT relating to medical and dental insurance coverage of school board members and their families.","description":"Amend KRS 160.280 to permit a local board of education which provides medical or dental insurance to district employees to pay all or part of the premiums for board member participation in the plan; permit board members to purchase premiums for participation of dependents in the plan.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB283/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB283.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":491006,"bill_number":"HB284","title":"AN ACT relating to fire protection and volunteer fire department districts.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 75 to provide a method by which a referendum may be submitted to the voters within a fire protection district or volunteer fire protection district to add up to 2 cents to the ad valorem tax and by doing so, restrict the district from levying nontax charges or fees for providing services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB284/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB284.htm","sponsor":"Ron Crimm"},
{"bill_id":491020,"bill_number":"HB285","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":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB285/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB285.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":491025,"bill_number":"HB286","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.","description":"Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 189A relating to DUI to replace the current hardship license system with an ignition interlock licensing system.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-01","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB286/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB286.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":491031,"bill_number":"HB287","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, 2014.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 27, 2013","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB287/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB287.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":491036,"bill_number":"HB288","title":"AN ACT relating to state buildings.","description":"Amend KRS 56.770 relating to the Energy Efficiency Program for State Government Buildings to expand definitions of \"building\" and \"energy efficiency measure.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB288/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB288.htm","sponsor":"Martha King"},
{"bill_id":491047,"bill_number":"HR67","title":"Express support for the voluntary expression of religious viewpoints by students in public schools.","description":"Express support for the voluntary expression of religious viewpoints by students in public schools.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR67/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR67.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":491051,"bill_number":"HR68","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Amanda Workman.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Amanda Workman.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR68/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR68.htm","sponsor":"Hubert Collins"},
{"bill_id":491060,"bill_number":"HR69","title":"Promote the benefits of green schools.","description":"Promote the benefits of green schools.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR69/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR69.htm","sponsor":"Rita Smart"},
{"bill_id":491068,"bill_number":"SB110","title":"AN ACT relating to the standardbred development fund.","description":"Amend KRS 230.770 to delete the requirement that progeny eligible for the standardbred development fund are sired by stallions standing within the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 71)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB110/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB110.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":491072,"bill_number":"SB111","title":"AN ACT relating to the natural resources severance and processing tax.","description":"Amend KRS 143A.035 to extend the severance and processing tax credit currently allowed for limestone sold in interstate commerce to any taxpayer who sells any amount of limestone, rather than only taxpayers selling sixty percent or more limestone, in interstate commerce; EFFECTIVE October 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB111/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB111.htm","sponsor":"Joe Bowen"},
{"bill_id":491077,"bill_number":"SB112","title":"AN ACT relating to certificates of public convenience and necessity for the provision of transportation services.","description":"Amend KRS 281.625, to eliminate the ability of a human service transportation broker/provider to protest an application for a certificate of convenience and necessity to operate transportation services where the certificate is limited to the human service transportation service's nonemergency medical transportation program.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB112/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB112.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":491084,"bill_number":"SB113","title":"AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.","description":"Amend several provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act in KRS Chapter 342 to define and recognize temporary partial disability benefits; limit medical benefits to age 70 or five years after date of injury, whichever is later, except for permanent total disability 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 disability benefits; allow employees of subcontractors and leasing companies to receive the safety penalty increase if a contractor who is not an employee violates a safety statute or regulation; provide that the employee of an employer intentionally violating a safety statute or regulation which proximately causes 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 payment and 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 Payer Act; permit claimants to recover damages from an insurance carrier who commits an unfair claims settlement practice; increase attorney's 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 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; and make other amendments to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB113/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB113.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":491090,"bill_number":"SB114","title":"AN ACT relating to commercial driver's licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 281A.010 so that the definition of \"hazardous materials\" conforms with the federal definition; amend KRS 189.560 to include federal offenses listed in 49 C.F.R. sec. 383.51(d) as grounds for disqualification of a CDL holder for railroad crossing offenses; amend KRS 281A.170 to require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations relating to CDL standardized operating restrictions; amend KRS 189.990 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 21)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB114/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB114.htm","sponsor":"Chris Girdler"},
{"bill_id":491099,"bill_number":"SB115","title":"AN ACT relating to child welfare.","description":"Amend KRS 610.125 to establish the right of a child's parents, foster parents, preadoptive parents, or relatives providing care to the child to he heard in court; amend KRS 610.127 to establish that reasonable efforts to keep a child in a home shall not be made when the court determines a parent has sexually abused the child or is required to register on a sex offender registry; repeal and reenact KRS 615.030 to replace the existing interstate compact relating to the placement of children with the new interstate compact for the placement of children; amend KRS 615.040 to conform; amend KRS 621.100 to establish that court appointed counsel for a child shall have documented training on the role of counsel that includes training in early childhood, child, and adolescent development and establish the right of a child's parents, foster parents, preadoptive parents, or relatives providing care to the child to he heard in court; amend KRS 202B.210 to conform; Sections 3 and 4 related to the new interstate compact for the placement of children shall be effective when the 35th state ratifies the compact.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"2nd reading","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB115/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB115.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":491104,"bill_number":"SB116","title":"AN ACT relating to underinsured motorist coverage.","description":"Amend KRS 304.39-320 to provide that if more than 2 individual claims are asserted against an underinsured motorist and the multiple claimants agree to a settlement resulting in exhaustion of the bodily injury liability, the underinsured motorist insurer shall be entitled to a credit against total damages only to the extent of the actual amount of such settlement received by the individual claimant sseking to recover underinsured benefits.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB116/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB116.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":491112,"bill_number":"SB117","title":"AN ACT relating to codes of ethics.","description":"Amend KRS 65.003 to include subpoena power in urban-county and consolidated local government ethics codes.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"recommitted to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB117/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB117.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":491118,"bill_number":"SB118","title":"AN ACT relating to training and assessment of new superintendents, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 156.111 to expand the number of components within the superintendents training and assessment program; require first-time superintendents who are hired to complete the program within two years; require the Kentucky Board of Education to adopt administrative regulations to govern the program; amend KRS 160.350 to conform; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB118/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB118.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":491119,"bill_number":"SB119","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Abolish the Division of Administration and the Division of Business Filings in the Office of the Secretary of State; create the Office of Administration, Office of Business, and Office of Elections, and describe duties of the offices; confirm Secretary of State Executive Order 2012-01.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB119/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB119.htm","sponsor":"Sara Gregory"},
{"bill_id":491127,"bill_number":"SB120","title":"AN ACT relating to police officers of public institutions of postsecondary education.","description":"Amend KRS 61.315 to include police officers at public institutions of postsecondary education; amend KRS 164.950; KRS 164.955; KRS 164.960; KRS 164.965; KRS 164.970; KRS 164.975; and KRS 164.980 to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 22)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB120/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB120.htm","sponsor":"Perry Clark"},
{"bill_id":491137,"bill_number":"SB121","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to specify definitions for assault weapons, large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices, and ammunition sellers; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; amend KRS 395.250 to require an estate's inventory to list each firearm; amend KRS 403.735 to require judges when issuing an order of protection to consider whether a person against whom the order is entered should be prohibited from possessing an firearm; amend KRS 504.030 to require judges in criminal cases where a person is found guilty by reason of insanity to demand the surrender of the defendant's firearms; amend KRS 506.080 to specify that the offense of facilitation includes assistance in providing firearms; amend KRS 508.020 to include physical injury to a minor by virtue of the intentional discharge of a firearm within the offense of assault in the second degree; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to create the offense of criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon; amend KRS 527.040 to require that the sentence for a felon in possession of a firearm run consecutively with any other felony sentence; amend KRS 527.070 to include colleges and universities within the existing ban on firearms in schools; amend KRS 532.030 to require the judge pronouncing a defendant guilty but mentally ill to demand the surrender of the person's firearms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require the State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess firearms and assault weapons, the registration of firearms and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms and ammunition sales effective January 1, 2014; repeal KRS 65.870; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-07","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB121/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB121.htm","sponsor":"Kathy Stein"},
{"bill_id":491143,"bill_number":"SB122","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 196.026 to create the Division of Parole and Victim Services and the Division of Substance Abuse Programming within the Department of Corrections and abolish the Division of Frankfort Career Development Center; 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; amend KRS 317.420 and 317A.020, relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology, to exclude the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Department of Corrections from those provisions; amend KRS 15.315 to add three members, ex officio, to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council; amend KRS 15A.020 to abolish the Office of Investigations within the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and transfer those functions to the Office of Legal Services; amend KRS 12.020 to conform; confirm Executive Order 2012-560.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 72)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB122/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB122.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":491147,"bill_number":"SR77","title":"Adjourn the Senate in loving memory and honor of Britta Lindsay Richmond.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in loving memory and honor of Britta Lindsay Richmond.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR77/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR77.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":491155,"bill_number":"SR78","title":"Adjourn the honor and loving memory of our beloved friend and former colleague, Representative John M. Swinford.","description":"Adjourn the honor and loving memory of our beloved friend and former colleague, Representative John M. Swinford.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR78/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR78.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":491164,"bill_number":"SR79","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Don R. Barnett.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Don R. Barnett.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR79/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR79.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":491166,"bill_number":"SR80","title":"Recognizing and congratulating Cassie Drury for academic achievement.","description":"Recognizing and congratulating Cassie Drury for academic achievement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR80/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR80.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":491959,"bill_number":"HB289","title":"AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to compensation for members of the General Assembly.","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":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB289/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB289.htm","sponsor":"Kim King"},
{"bill_id":491966,"bill_number":"HB290","title":"AN ACT relating to the external child fatality and near fatality review panel.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 620 to establish an external child fatality and near fatality review panel; establish its membership, duties, and responsibilities; and amend KRS 620.050 to allow records to be provided to the panel.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-20","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 39)","last_action_date":"2013-03-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB290/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB290.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":491970,"bill_number":"HB291","title":"AN ACT relating to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Office of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange and the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange Advisory Board; confirm Executive Orders 2012-587 and 2012-783.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB291/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB291.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":491976,"bill_number":"HB292","title":"AN ACT relating to the employment of persons with disabilities.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 151B to be known as the Employment First Act to set as state policy that competitive employment in integrated settings for persons with disabilities is a priority in state agencies; define terms; require coordination, collaboration, and information sharing between state agencies to ensure compliance; require state agencies to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this act; establish the Kentucky Employment First Oversight Commission within the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation to facilitate the implementation of this Act; provide for membership, meetings, goals, and objectives of the commission; require that the commission submit an annual report to the Governor and General Assembly; require state agencies to provide data to and cooperate with the commission.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (3) filed","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB292/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB292.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":491983,"bill_number":"HB293","title":"AN ACT relating to special military license plates.","description":"Amend KRS 186.041 to establish a special military service academy license plate available to current attendees or graduates of the United States Service Academies; amend KRS 186.162 to establish the same fees for the special military service academy license plates as for standard military special plates; amend KRS 186.166 to conform; EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2014.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB293/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB293.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":491990,"bill_number":"HB294","title":"AN ACT relating to operators' licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 189.990, regarding penalties for traffic violations, to require the Transportation Cabinet to assess 3 penalty points against the driving history record of an individual upon conviction of a violation of KRS 189.292, regarding texting while driving, or KRS 189.294, prohibiting the use of cell phones by minor drivers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 1, 2013","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB294/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB294.htm","sponsor":"Terry Mills"},
{"bill_id":491998,"bill_number":"HB295","title":"AN ACT relating to farm and construction retail agreement contracts.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS 365.800 to 365.840 to define \"terminate\" or \"termination\"; clarify the existence of consent in retail agreement contracts; declare public policy standing; establish applicable effective dates.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 125)","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB295/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB295.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":492004,"bill_number":"HB296","title":"AN ACT relating to litigation costs.","description":"Amend KRS 134.452 to provide that actual attorney's fees of up to two thousand dollars shall be deemed reasonable litigations costs, and that amounts in excess may be allowed upon a finding by the court that the third party purchaser incurred actual costs in excess of two thousand dollars, and that those costs were warranted based upon the issues presented in litigation.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB296/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB296.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":492012,"bill_number":"HB297","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":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB297/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB297.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":492019,"bill_number":"HB298","title":"AN ACT relating to the Board of Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Pedorthics.","description":"Amend KRS 319B.020 to change board membership requirements; amend KRS 319B.030 to place limits on licensure fees.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB298/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB298.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":492023,"bill_number":"HB299","title":"AN ACT relating to an entity with a valid license issued by the Department of Insurance to operate as a health maintenance organization or insurer that operates a Medicaid managed care organization.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 205.222 to 205.560 to define \"emergency services\", \"emergency medical conditions\", \"non-emergency condition\", \"medical screening fee\", and \"Medicaid managed care organization\"; amend KRS 205.522 to define \"Medicaid managed care organization\" and to require Medicaid managed care organizations to comply with the provisions of the state health insurance code contained in KRS 304.17A-700 to 304.17A-730, KRS 304.17A-500 to 304.17A-560, KRS 304.17A-575 to 304.17A-590, KRS 304.17A-600, 304.17A-607, 304.17A-609, 304.17A-611, 304.17A-617,304.17A-619, KRS 304.17A-640 to 304.17A-647, and KRS 304.17A-660 to 304.17A-661 relating to patient protections, utilization review and appeals, payment of claims, treatment for emergency conditions, and treatment for mental health conditions for enrollees in Medicaid managed car ein the same manner as required for insureds within the private managed care systems, except where in conflict with the provisions of 42 U.S.C. 1396u-2 or federal regulations promulgated in 42 C.F.R. pt. 438; prohibit specified actions, non-actions or refusals by a Medicaid managed care organization, its agents, representatives and employees; authorizee an enrollee in a Medicaid managed care organization to assign his or her rights to a health care provider to challenge or appeal an adverse determination by the organization concerning health care services, authorize a private cause of action against a Medicaid managed care organization by an enrollee or health care provider aggrieved by an adverse determination concerning coverage or payment for health care services alleged to be in violation of Sections 1 to 5 of this Act, authorize an administrative hearing for an appeal by an enrollee or health care provider of an adverse determination regarding coverage or payment for health care services made by a Medicaid managed care and require the hearing officer to issue a final order within thirty (30) days folowing a hearing, subject to judicial review pursuant to KRS 13B.140; create a new section of KRS 205.222 to 205.560 to provide that a determination of an emergency or non-emergency condition by an emergency treating physician or provider shall be binding on the Medicaid managed care organization, require a Medicaid managed care organization to fully cover emergency services provided to enrollees at any hospital regardless of the hospital's participation status, prohibit a preauthorization requirement by a Medicaid managed care organization for admission of an enrollee with a psychiatric emergency medical condition if inpatient admission is required to stabilize the patient and prohibit coverage or payment for the first twenty-four (24) hours of the inpatient care for a psychiatric medical condition, authorize a medical screening fee, as defined in Section 1 of this Act, be reimbursed to a hospital only for enrolleess who are more than nine (9) years old, and prohibit Medicaid managed care organization reimbursement to an out-of-network provider for emergency serviceat an amount less than he fee-for-service rate promulgated by the Department for Medicaid Services; create a new section ofKRS 205.222 to 205.560 to require the Commissioner of the Deparment for Medicaid Services to monitor and enforce compliance with Sections 1 to 5 of this Act by Medicaid managed care organizations, establish Medicaid managed care reporting requirements for the Department for Medicaid Services including a quarterly report to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue containing the requirements specified in Section 4 of this Act, a copy of the final audited annual \"Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set\" to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue received from each Medicaid managed care organization, and a copy of each audit, performed by the Cabinet for Medicaid Services or its contractor, of each Medicaid managed care organization to the Auditor of Public Accounts for posting on the Auditor's website, and a copy to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue, and require the Cabinet for Medicaid Services to post a copy of the audit on the agency website; create a new section of KRS 205.222 to 205.560 to require a Medicaid managed care organizationwhich receives a capitation payment for a period of retroactive eligibility to perform a retrospective review of medical necessity, upon a provider's request if received within one (1) year following the date of service, for services rendered to the enrollee during the period of retroactive eligibility, and if a denial is issued by the Medicaid managed care organization based on medical necessity, a telephonic peer-to-peer review between the enrollee's treating provider and the Medicaid managed care organization's health care professional who issued the decision, prior to requiring the hospital or treating provider to file a request for reconsideration with the Medicaid managed care organization; and, repeal KRS 204.6310.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB299/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB299.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":492031,"bill_number":"HB300","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverage control.","description":"Amend KRS 241.010 to define various terms; replace references to prohibition or its discontinuance with the terms wet, dry, and moist throughout KRS Chapters 241 to 243; amend KRS 241.065 and 241.075 to clarify quota retail drink and package licenses in cities of the first class and consolidated local governments; create new sections of KRS Chapter 242 to move jurisdiction over local option elections relating to racing associations and small farm wineries to that chapter; create a new section of KRS Chapter 242 to state that territory that becomes moist after a special limited local option election remains dry in every respect except for the specific type of sales authorized by the election proposition; permit the territory to hold another election on the same question to return to dry status; amend KRS 242.020 to delete the Social Security number requirement for each voter who signs a petition for a local option election; validate petition wording that substantially complies with the statutory petition wording; repeal and reenact KRS 242.070 to allow the committees favoring or opposing the local option proposition to certify challengers; repeal and reenact KRS 242.090 to make the regular precinct officers serve as local option precinct officers; amend KRS 242.120 to create a recanvass procedure for local option elections consistent with the recanvass procedure used for primaries and regular and special elections; amend KRS 242.123 to establish the petition language for a golf course local option election; move golf course licensing language to KRS Chapter 243; repeal and reenact KRS 242.1232 as a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to require compliance with KRS Chapter 344 by local option golf courses; amend KRS 242.1242 to establish the petition language for a qualified historic site local option election; move qualified historic site licensing language to KRS Chapter 243; repeal and reenact KRS 242.1244 to establish the petition language for a limited 50 seat or 100 seat restaurant local option election; move limited 50 seat and 100 seat restaurant licensing language to KRS Chapter 243; repeal and reenact KRS 242.125 to clarify and modernize language; amend KRS 242.127, 242.1292, 242.1297, 242.190, 242.200, 242.220, 242.300, 242.430, and 243.075 to conform with new wet, dry, and moist nomenclature; establish the petition language for a city of the second class local option election to become fully wet; remove the 5 year waiting period between city of the second class or city of the third class wet/dry local option elections to revert to the default waiting period of 3 years; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 242.1295 as a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to maintain the requirement that a restaurant or dining facility in a hotel, motel, or inn receive at least 50% of its gross receipts from the sale of food; amend KRS 242.230, 242.250, 242.260, 242.270, 242.280, and 242.290 to make the listed dry territory restrictions apply to moist territory unless the alcoholic beverage is authorized under a moist election in that territory; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to move economic hardship determinations for regulatory ordinances by a city of the fourth class from KRS Chapter 242; create new sections of KRS Chapter 243 to establish licenses for malt beverage storage, distilled spirits and wine storage, malt beverage supplier, distilled spirits and wine storage, and transporters; create new sections of KRS Chapter 243 to set out licensing requirements for a limited restaurant, golf course, or air transporter license; create new sections of KRS Chapter 243 to establish new nonquota type 1, 2, 3, and 4 licenses; amend KRS 243.020 to restrict the licenses issued in special local option territory to those that directly correspond with the types of sales approved by the voters of the territory; amend KRS 243.030, 243.040, 243.060, and 243.070 to add, remove, or modify license types and fees; amend KRS 243.0305 to merge the \"souvenir retail liquor license\" into the distiller's license; amend KRS 243.033, 243.230, 243.240, 243.250, 244.290, 244.295, and 244.300 to designate quota retail package licenses, quota retail drink licenses, or both; allow a caterer licensee to cater a fundraising event that has a special temporary distilled spirits and wine auction license; amend KRS 243.035, 243.036, 243.110, 243.120, 243.130, 243.170, 243.200, 243.260, 243.280, 243.360, 243.480, 243.540, 244.030, 244.090, 244.167, 244.240, 244.250, 244.260, 244.440, 244.450, 244.590, and 244.600 to conform with license merging and renaming; amend KRS 243.037 to update service bar and supplemental bar restrictions; repeal and reenact KRS 243.050 to list requirements for extended hours supplemental licenses and Sunday retail distilled spirits and wine drink licenses; list details of city regulatory license fees; amend KRS 243.090 to authorize producers, wholesalers, or distributors to obtain licenses for either 1 year or 2 years; amend KRS 243.155 to remove local option election language transferred to KRS Chapter 242; repeal and reenact KRS 243.160 to allow a wholesaler to sell his or her products to the holder of special nonbeverage alcohol license; amend KRS 243.180 to allow a distributor to sell his or her products to the holder of special nonbeverage alcohol license; list additional requirements for a special temporary license; amend KRS 243.320 to establish a special nonbeverage alcohol license; amend KRS 243.340 to grant a special agent's or solicitor's license to nonresidents; amend KRS 243.380 to allow business entities that own more than 2 licensed premises to obtain a single master file; amend KRS 243.730 to remove surety bond requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to establish medical amnesty for minors reporting an alcohol overdose; amend KRS 244.120 to forbid licensees, patrons, or employees from causing or allowing a disorderly premises; add public nuisance, criminal activity, or failing to meet health and safety codes to acts constituting a disorderly premises; amend KRS 119.215, 230.361, 243.042, 243.154, 243.720, 243.990, 244.050, 244.210, and 413.241 to conform; repeal and reenact KRS 230.350 and 230.352 to conform; repeal KRS 242.080, 242.100, 242.130, 242.140, 242.150, 242.160, 242.170, 242.180, 242.185, 243.032, 243.140, 243.210, 243.270, 243.290, 243.300, 243.310, 243.330, 243.350, 243.400, 243.410, 243.420, and 244.330.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"2nd reading","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB300/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB300.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":492038,"bill_number":"HB301","title":"AN ACT relating to income tax.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to change the Internal Revenue Code reference date from December 31, 2006, to December 31, 2012.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB301/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB301.htm","sponsor":"Arnold Simpson"},
{"bill_id":492047,"bill_number":"HB302","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 118.127 to permit a slate of candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor to appear on the ballot only in the general election, not in the primary; require a party's nominee for Governor to designate his or her nominee for Lieutenant Governor no later than the fourth Tuesday following the primary; if this designation is not filed, require the governing authority of the party to name the candidate for Lieutenant Governor; set forth the oath to be sworn by a slate of candidates; create a new section of KRS Chapter 118 to allow a candidate for Governor to designate a replacement if the candidate for Lieutenant Governor dies, is disqualified, or is disabled; amend KRS 121.015 to redefine \"slate of candidates\"; amend KRS 117.275, 118.025, 118.105, 118.125, 118.245, 120.055, 120.095, and 121.170 to conform; repeal KRS 118.227.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB302/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB302.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":492055,"bill_number":"HB303","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Amend KRS 196.026 to create the Division of Parole and Victim Services and the Division of Substance Abuse Programming within the Department of Corrections and abolish the Division of Frankfort Career Development Center; 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; amend KRS 317.420 and 317A.020, relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology, to exclude the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Department of Corrections from those provisions; amend KRS 15.315 to add three members, ex officio, to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council; amend KRS 15A.020 to abolish the Office of Investigations within the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and transfer those functions to the Office of Legal Services; amend KRS 12.020 to conform; confirm Executive Order 2012-560.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB303/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB303.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":492059,"bill_number":"HB304","title":"AN ACT relating to postsecondary education institutions' employee retirement plans.","description":"Amend KRS 161.567 to increase to five the number of companies from which boards of regents of postsecondary education institutions may select to offer optional employee retirement plans.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB304/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB304.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":492070,"bill_number":"HB305","title":"AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.","description":"Amend KRS 527.020, relating to carrying a concealed deadly weapon, to permit a retired peace officer who has a concealed deadly weapon license issued pursuant to the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act and KRS 237.138 to 237.142 to carry a concealed deadly weapon at all times at any location within the state except for a detention facility.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB305/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB305.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":492076,"bill_number":"HB306","title":"AN ACT relating to geothermal wells.","description":"Amend KRS 223.400 to create new definitions for \"geothermal borehole\" and \"geothermal vertical closed loop well\"; amend KRS 223.435, 223.445 and 223.455 to include geothermal borehole drilling and geothermal vertical closed loop well installation under the regulatory authority of the Cabinet for Energy and Environment and the Kentucky Water Well Certification Board.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB306/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB306.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":492081,"bill_number":"HB307","title":"AN ACT relating to the equitable treatment of manufactured homes.","description":"Amend KRS 139.470 to exempt from sales and use tax the retail sale of a pre-owned manufactured home or 50% of the gross receipts derived from the retail sale of a manufactured home that has not been previously owned; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB307/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB307.htm","sponsor":"Leslie Combs"},
{"bill_id":492088,"bill_number":"HJR70","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the new bridge in North Cynthiana on United States Highway 27 as the \"Joe B. Hall Bridge\" and erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the new bridge in North Cynthiana on United States Highway 27 as the \"Joe B. Hall Bridge\" and erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR70/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ70.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":492096,"bill_number":"HR71","title":"Recognize and congratulate Aimee Turner for academic achievement.","description":"Recognize and congratulate Aimee Turner for academic achievement.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR71/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR71.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":492103,"bill_number":"HR72","title":"Recognize March 3-8, 2013, as Women In Construction Week.","description":"Recognize March 3-8, 2013, as Women In Construction Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-08","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR72/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR72.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":492109,"bill_number":"HR73","title":"Recognize February as Kentucky Career and Technical Education month.","description":"Recognize February as Kentucky Career and Technical Education month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR73/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR73.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":492114,"bill_number":"HR74","title":"Support the goals and ideals of National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month of February.","description":"Support the goals and ideals of National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month of February.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR74/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR74.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":492120,"bill_number":"HR75","title":"Recognizing and congratulating Cassie Drury for academic achievement.","description":"Recognizing and congratulating Cassie Drury for academic achievement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR75/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR75.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":492128,"bill_number":"SB123","title":"AN ACT reclassifying the City of Eddyville.","description":"Reclassify the City of Eddyville, in Lyon County, with a population of 2555, from a city of the fifth class to a city of the fourth class, which requires a population of 3,001 to 7,999.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB123/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB123.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":492134,"bill_number":"SB124","title":"AN ACT relating to city police.","description":"Amend KRS 95.015 to extend the jurisdiction of police in cities of the sixth class to the entire county, the same as in cities of the other classes.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"reported favorably, to Rules as a Consent Bill","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB124/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB124.htm","sponsor":"Chris Girdler"},
{"bill_id":492143,"bill_number":"SB125","title":"AN ACT related to newborn screening for congenital heart disease.","description":"Amend KRS 214.155 to include critical congenital heart disease testing as part of the newborn screening program; Effective January 1, 2014.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 24)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB125/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB125.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":492149,"bill_number":"SB126","title":"AN ACT relating to anesthesiologist assistants.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms, including \"anesthesiologist,\" \"anesthesiologist assistant,\" \"approved anesthesiologist assistant program,\" \"immediately available,\" \"supervising anesthesiologist,\" and \"supervision\"; forbid a person from holding himself or herself out as a licensed anesthesiologist assistant unless licensed or within designated exceptions; direct the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing and regulation of anesthesiologist assistants; establish the Anesthesiologist Assistant Advisory Committee under the board; outline duties of the committee; establish committee membership and terms of office; authorize election of chairperson responsible for presiding over meetings held no less than twice a year; enable reimbursement for committee members for travel expenses and expenses relating to meeting attendance; designate qualifications for initial licensure and renewal as an anesthesiologist assistant; permit licensure by endorsement; enable temporary licensure for a maximum term of six months if the applicant meets various conditions; establish what examinations and training programs shall be approved by the board; designate scope of practice for a trainee; set grounds for disciplinary action for anesthesiologist assistants and how disciplinary proceedings are to conducted under the inquiry panel under the board; authorize the inquiry panel established under KRS 311.591 to issue an emergency order in accordance with KRS 13B.125 if the panel has probable cause to believe an anesthesiologist assistant has violated the terms of an agreed order, violated the terms of a disciplinary order, or practiced in a way the panel believes to be a danger to the health, welfare, or safety of the anesthesiologist assistant's patients or to the general public; prohibit an emergency order from being issued unless grounds exist for the issuance of a complaint; designate other procedures to be followed in the conduct of a hearing on an emergency order; authorize a licensed anesthesiologist assistant to practice only under the supervision of an anesthesiologist; prescribe scope of practice for an anesthesiologist assistant; forbid an anesthesiologist assistant from administering or monitoring general or regional anesthesia unless the supervising anesthesiologist is immediately available; allow an anesthesiologist assistant to initiate evaluation and treatment in a medical emergency without specific approval from the supervising anesthesiologist; define \"medical emergency\"; demand that an anesthesiologist obtain board approval to supervise an anesthesiologist assistant; establish grounds of discipline for supervising anesthesiologists; establish requirements to be approved by the board as a supervising anesthesiologist; permit the board to impose restrictions on the scope of practice of an anesthesiologist assistant or on methods of supervision upon consideration of recommendations of the advisory committee; prescribe duties of the supervising anesthesiologist; forbid the supervising anesthesiologist from supervising more than the maximum number of anesthesiologist assistants approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services at any one time; amend KRS 311.840 to define \"anesthesiologist assistant\"; amend KRS 311.862 to exempt a physician assistant who has not practiced in Kentucky prior to July 15, 2002, who seeks to practice as an anesthesiologist assistant from the requirements under KRS 311.844, the physician assistant training requirements, and mandate that the individual meet the new requirements for licensure as an anesthesiologist assistant prior to practicing as an anesthesiologist assistant; amend KRS 311.846 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-08","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB126/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB126.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":492156,"bill_number":"SR81","title":"Commend Johnny Meade III for taking action to aid an accident victim.","description":"Commend Johnny Meade III for taking action to aid an accident victim.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR81/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR81.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":492163,"bill_number":"SR82","title":"Proclaim February 20, 2013, as Public Library Day in the Kentucky Senate.","description":"Proclaim February 20, 2013, as Public Library Day in the Kentucky Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR82/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR82.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":492166,"bill_number":"SR83","title":"Declare February 13, 2013, as Kentucky Hospice Day.","description":"Declare February 13, 2013, as Kentucky Hospice Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR83/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR83.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":492175,"bill_number":"SR84","title":"Recognize and congratulate Aimee Turner for academic achievement.","description":"Recognize and congratulate Aimee Turner for academic achievement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR84/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR84.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":492178,"bill_number":"SR85","title":"Declare February 12, 2013, as Kentucky Health Information Technology and Meaningful Use Awareness Day.","description":"Declare February 12, 2013, as Kentucky Health Information Technology and Meaningful Use Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR85/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR85.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":493708,"bill_number":"HB308","title":"AN ACT relating to contracts.","description":"Amend KRS 336.130 to prohibit mandatory membership or financial support of a labor organization as a condition of employment and to name this section as the \"Kentucky Right to Work Act\"; amend KRS 336.180 to conform; amend 336.990 to make a violation of the Act a Class A misdemeanor, award damages, and provide injunctive relief; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to exempt existing contracts or agreements and a new section to require the Attorney General to investigate complaints and prosecute those who violate Section 1 of the Act; amend KRS 67A.6904, 67C.406, 70.262, 78.470, 78.480, and 345.050 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB308/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB308.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":493710,"bill_number":"HB309","title":"AN ACT relating to labor agreements for public construction projects.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit the use of project labor agreements in city, county, urban-county, consolidated local government, special district, and charter county construction procurements; amend KRS 45A.030 to define \"project labor agreement\"; amend KRS 45A.075 to prohibit project labor agreements in state construction procurements; amend KRS 45A.343 to prohibit project labor agreements in local government construction contracts; amend KRS 176.070 to prohibit project labor agreements in highway construction contracts; amend KRS 424.260 to prohibit use of project labor agreements in construction procurements of cities, counties, districts, boards, or city commissions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB309/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB309.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":493712,"bill_number":"HB310","title":"AN ACT relating to underage access to alcoholic beverages.","description":"Amend KRS 244.085 to specify that licensees may not allow minors to enter premises selling malt beverages, distilled spirits, or wine unless accompanied by parent or guardian; stipulate that minors shall not enter premises selling malt beverages, distilled spirits, or wine unless accompanied by a parent or guardian; exempt specified businesses licensed to sell distilled spirits or wine prior to the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 244.990 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB310/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB310.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Keene"},
{"bill_id":493714,"bill_number":"HB311","title":"AN ACT relating to prevailing wage in education.","description":"Amend KRS 337.110 to provide that the definition of public works shall not include all construction projects in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary buildings and facilities, and therefore, the prevailing wage requirements shall not apply to education building projects.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB311/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB311.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":493716,"bill_number":"HB312","title":"AN ACT relating to prevailing wage.","description":"Amend various KRS sections to comply with the repeal of the prevailing wage requirement; repeal KRS 337.505, 337.510. 337.512, 337.520, 337.522, 337.524, 337.525, 337.530, 337.540, 337.548, and 337.550.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB312/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB312.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":493718,"bill_number":"HB313","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 132.020 to clarify that motor vehicles which have been consigned to a licensed motor vehicle dealer for sale and are in the possession of that dealer, although ownership has been retained by the consigner, are to be taxed as goods held for sale in the regular course of business as with all other motor vehicles held for sale in the inventory of a licensed dealer; amend KRS 132.028 to make similar clarification changes for purposes of the property tax levied on business inventories by cities or urban-county governments; amend KRS 132.200 to clarify that motor vehicles which have been consigned to a licensed motor vehicle dealer for sale are exempt from local property taxation as with all other motor vehicles held for sale in the inventory of a licensed dealer, and make technical corrections; amend KRS 134.810 to make conforming changes.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 94)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB313/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB313.htm","sponsor":"Hubert Collins"},
{"bill_id":493720,"bill_number":"HB314","title":"AN ACT relating to treatment of a life insurance policy for Medicaid eligibility.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to authorize the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to treat the value of life insurance owned by an applicant or recipient as an asset if the life insurance is in force and the applicant meets the state's requirements for nursing home or nursing facility level of care; provide that the value of the policy shall not be used to determine the applicant or recipient's eligibility for Medicaid if the applicant enters into a life settlement contract as prescribed by the section; provide that an owner of a life insurance policy in the face amount of at least ten thousand dollars ($10,000) may enter into a life settlement contract pursuant to KRS 304.15-700 to KRS 304.15-720 in exchange for periodic payments to the Medicaid program to be used solely for Medicaid coverage of long-term-care services for the owner of the policy; require that the life settlement contract provides that the lesser of five percent of the policy or five $5,000 is reserved as a death benefit, that the balance of payments unpaid at the owner's death be paid to the owner's estate or a named beneficiary, that a schedule be included evidencing the total amount and the number and amount of each payment, require that all proceeds of the contract be held in an irrevocable trust or federally insured account; require the life settlement provider to file all advertisements with the Department of Insurance; require the Department for Medicaid Services to provide written notice to each applicant for Medicaid as part of the application of the options to enter a life settlement contract; require the Department of Insurance to promulgate jurisdictionally appropriate administrative regulations to implement the section; and require the Department for Medicaid Services to seek any required state plan amendments or federal waivers; create a new section of KRS 304.15-700 to KRS 304.15-720 in the insurance code, relating to life settlements, to conform.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"returned to Committee on Committees (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Committee on Committees","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB314/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB314.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":493722,"bill_number":"HB315","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.","description":"Amend KRS 243.0305 to remove the restriction of the hours of sale for a souvenir retail liquor license; amend KRS 243.040 to create a souvenir retail malt beverage license; amend KRS 243.150 to allow brewers to serve samples on its premises in amounts not to exceed 16 ounces per patron per day; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to limit souvenir retail malt beverage licenses to brewers in wet territories, to allow brewers with a souvenir retail malt beverage license to sell no more than 48 ounces per visitor per day, and to prohibit a distributor from restricting the sale of souvenir packages to the licensee only.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 63)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB315/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB315.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":493724,"bill_number":"HB316","title":"AN ACT relating to the disposition of remains.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 36 to provide that a person designated on the Department of Defense DD Form 93 by a member in active military service shall have authority and responsibility for the disposition of the military decedent's remains.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB316/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB316.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":493726,"bill_number":"HB317","title":"AN ACT relating to property tax.","description":"Amend KRS 132.010 to change the definition of \"compensating tax rate,\" and to add definitions for \"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; 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; provide that the Act applies beginning January 1, 2014.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB317/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB317.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":493728,"bill_number":"HB318","title":"AN ACT relating to juries.","description":"Amend KRS 29A.040 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to purge disqualified jurors from the master jury list.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB318/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB318.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":493730,"bill_number":"HB319","title":"AN ACT authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state which have been duly audited and approved according to law, and have not been paid because of the lapsing or insufficiency of former appropriations against which the claims were chargeable, or the lack of an appropriate procurement document in place, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Appropriate funds for the payment of claims against the Commonwealth; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 37)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB319/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB319.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":493732,"bill_number":"HB320","title":"AN ACT relating to consolidated local governments.","description":"Amend KRS 6C.117 to clarify the source of the minority percentage in the employment requirements for the consolidated local government; amend KRS 67C.119 to change the amount required for a contract to be subject to advertising requirements and contractor prequalification from $10,000 to the small purchase amount in KRS 45A.385, and change the time in which the contract amount is to be measured from calendar year to fiscal year; amend KRS 67C.323 to require that the police chief and the officer receive notice of an appeal from the consolidated local government police force merit board; amend KRS 100.137 to allow a designee of the director of public works for a consolidated local government to be a member of the planning commission; and amend KRS 100.214 to change notice of hearing on a proposed zoning change from 30 days to at least 14 days, and the time in which a petition of property owners may request a hearing date change.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 95)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB320/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB320.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":493734,"bill_number":"HB321","title":"AN ACT relating to the disposition of government-owned service animals.","description":"Amend KRS 45A.345 to define \"service animal\"; amend KRS 45A.425 to provide alternative methods for the disposition of surplus property when that property is a service animal.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB321/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB321.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":493736,"bill_number":"HB322","title":"AN ACT relating to interpharmacy medication exchange.","description":"Amend KRS 315.191 to define terms; to permit an interpharmacy medication exchange provided that there is a demonstrated immediate business need; and exclude interpharmacy medication exchanges from the definitions for \"wholesale distribution\" and \"wholesale distributor\"; amend KRS 315.400 to exclude \"interpharmacy medication exchange\" from the definition of or \"wholesale distributor\".","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB322/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB322.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":493738,"bill_number":"HB323","title":"AN ACT relating to consumer protection.","description":"Amend KRS 367.409 to prohibit persons from soliciting accident victims for the purpose of filing claims for basic reparation benefits for a period of 30 days following the accident; provide limited exceptions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB323/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB323.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":493740,"bill_number":"HB324","title":"AN ACT relating to the interest rate on overpayments and underpayments of tax.","description":"Amend KRS 131.183 to apply the calculated interest rate to both overpayments and underpayments; apply retroactively to all outstanding refund claims and notices of tax due.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB324/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB324.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":493742,"bill_number":"HB325","title":"AN ACT relating to estimated income tax penalties.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 141 and 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, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB325/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB325.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":493744,"bill_number":"HB326","title":"AN ACT relating to cable television.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to require cable television service providers to offer access to channels individually.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB326/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB326.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":493746,"bill_number":"HB327","title":"AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.","description":"Amend KRS 241.065 to change the retail package liquor license ratio in counties containing a city of the first class from 1 for every 1,500 people to 1 for every 2,300 people; exempt existing retail package liquor licenses in the county from the new population ratio; forbid the issuance of new retail package liquor licenses in the county until the number of retail package liquor licenses falls below the maximum number allowed under the population ratio.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB327/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB327.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":493748,"bill_number":"HB328","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 6.520 to have pensions for members who begin contributing to the Legislators' Retirement Plan on or after July 1, 2013, based upon the member's highest 5 years of salary rather than the member's highest 3 years of salary; allow members participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan prior to July 1, 2013, to make a one-time election to have their benefits based upon the member's highest 5 years of salary rather than the member's highest 3 years of salary; Amend KRS 6.525 to prohibit members of the Legislators' Retirement Plan, who begin contributing on or after July 1, 2013, from using salary earned in another state-administered retirement system or plan to calculate benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan; allow members of the Legislators' Retirement Plan contributing to the plan prior to July 1, 2013, to make a one-time election to have their benefits from the Legislators' Retirement Plan based solely on their legislative salary.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB328/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB328.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":493750,"bill_number":"HB329","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Amend KRS 154.32-010 to clarify the definition of \"economic development project.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Economic Development (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Economic Development","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB329/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB329.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":493752,"bill_number":"HB330","title":"AN ACT relating to acupuncture.","description":"Amend various sections of KRS 311.671 to 311.686 to change acupuncture from a certified to a licensed profession.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB330/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB330.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Horlander"},
{"bill_id":493754,"bill_number":"HB331","title":"AN ACT relating to college student financial awareness.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require public postsecondary education institutions to provide entering students with educational materials related to the responsible use of credit cards and management of personal debt; to encourage independent postsecondary education institutions to do same; to require the Council on Postsecondary Education to assist institutions in identifying appropriate curricula and materials suitable to fulfill this Act.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB331/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB331.htm","sponsor":"James Glenn"},
{"bill_id":493756,"bill_number":"HB332","title":"AN ACT relating to operators' licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 189.990, regarding penalties for traffic violations, to require the Transportation Cabinet to assess 3 penalty points against the driving history record of an individual upon conviction of a violation of KRS 189.292, regarding texting while driving, or KRS 189.294, prohibiting the use of cell phones by minor drivers.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB332/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB332.htm","sponsor":"Tom Riner"},
{"bill_id":493758,"bill_number":"HB333","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; amend KRS 416.580, 416.600, and 416.610 to conform; provide that the changes apply to condemnation proceedings initiated after the effective date of the Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB333/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB333.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":493760,"bill_number":"HB334","title":"AN ACT relating to the protection of Kentucky's adults.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to clarify abuse of an adult and establish penalties, clarify exploitation of an adult and establish penalties, and clarify neglect of an adult and establish penalties; amend KRS 209.990 to delete existing penalties for abuse, exploitation, and neglect.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB334/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB334.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":493762,"bill_number":"HB335","title":"AN ACT relating to wireless enhanced 911 systems.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7635 to make permissive the listing of a commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) service charge as a separate entry on each bill which includes a CMRS service charge; remove language providing for specific calculation options and collection procedures for the 911 surcharge for prepaid services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB335/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB335.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Horlander"},
{"bill_id":493764,"bill_number":"HB336","title":"AN ACT relating to preserving the right of Kentuckians to own and use firearms and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to require the General Assembly to enact laws to prevent the enforcement of federal acts that violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB336/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB336.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":493766,"bill_number":"HB337","title":"AN ACT relating to the local government economic development fund.","description":"Amend KRS 42.4585 to increase the minimum transfer amount from the local government economic development fund to the local government economic assistance fund from 15% to 25%.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB337/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB337.htm","sponsor":"John Short"},
{"bill_id":493769,"bill_number":"HCR76","title":"Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a task force to study school and student safety, identify areas to be studied and task force membership; require findings and recommendations to be reported by November 29, 2013.","description":null,"status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR76/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC76.htm","sponsor":"Richard Henderson"},
{"bill_id":493773,"bill_number":"HCR80","title":"Congratulate the City of Bardstown on its award of the Most Beautiful Small Town in America in the 2012 Rand McNally/USA TODAY \"Best of the Road\" contest.","description":"Congratulate the City of Bardstown on its award of the Most Beautiful Small Town in America in the 2012 Rand McNally/USA TODAY \"Best of the Road\" contest.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism & Labor","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR80/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC80.htm","sponsor":"David Floyd"},
{"bill_id":493775,"bill_number":"HJR84","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate KY 867 in Magoffin County as the Spc. Ralph Honaker Jr. Memorial Highway.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate KY 867 in Magoffin County as the Spc. Ralph Honaker Jr. Memorial Highway.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR84/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ84.htm","sponsor":"John Short"},
{"bill_id":493777,"bill_number":"HR77","title":"Declare February 13, 2013, Kentucky Hospice Day.","description":"Declare February 13, 2013, Kentucky Hospice Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR77/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR77.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":493779,"bill_number":"HR78","title":"Urge Louisville Gas and Electric Company to consider alternative coal ash storage and preserve the Wentworth Limestone Cave in Trimble County, Kentucky, which may have been part of the Underground Railroad.","description":null,"status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 99-0 with Committee Substitute","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR78/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR78.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":493781,"bill_number":"HR79","title":"Adjourn in honor of O. Leonard Press, upon the occasion of his being named recipient of the 2012 Vic Hellard, Jr. Award for exemplary public service.","description":"Adjourn in honor of O. Leonard Press, upon the occasion of his being named recipient of the 2012 Vic Hellard, Jr. Award for exemplary public service.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR79/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR79.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":493783,"bill_number":"HR81","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frankfort's Pastor, Reverend James Wallace Kent.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frankfort's Pastor, Reverend James Wallace Kent.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR81/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR81.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":493785,"bill_number":"HR82","title":"Reauthorize the House Tobacco Task Force through December 31, 2013, to help address the problems facing the tobacco industry in Kentucky.","description":"Reauthorize the House Tobacco Task Force through December 31, 2013, to help address the problems facing the tobacco industry in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 96-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR82/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR82.htm","sponsor":"Wilson Stone"},
{"bill_id":493787,"bill_number":"HR83","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Stanley Fizer.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Stanley Fizer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR83/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR83.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":493789,"bill_number":"SB127","title":"AN ACT relating to the grain indemnity fund.","description":"Amend KRS 251.430 to delete grain storage establishments bonded and licensed under federal law; amend KRS 251.440 to change application requirements for a warehouseman license; amend KRS 251.720 to exempt grain dealers who are also in the business of grain storage from licensing fees and bonding requirements; change application requirements for a grain dealer license.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB127/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB127.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":493791,"bill_number":"SB128","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans designations on operators' licenses and personal identification cards.","description":"Amend KRS 186.412, regarding operators' licenses, to allow a DD-2 form to be used as acceptable proof of veteran status for placing a veteran designation on a license or ID card.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 110)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB128/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB128.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":493793,"bill_number":"SB129","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit the enforceability of any new federal law, rule, regulation, or order relating to the ownership or registration of certain firearms, magazines, or other firearms accessories; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB129/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB129.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":493795,"bill_number":"SB130","title":"AN ACT relating to continuing education for embalmers and funeral directors.","description":"Amend KRS 316.132, relating to embalmers abd funeral directors, to require sponsors of continuing education programs to pay a fee for review of continuing education programs to determine if accreditation is appropriate.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB130/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB130.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":493797,"bill_number":"SB131","title":"AN ACT relating to expungement.","description":"Amend KRS 431.078 to allow a Class D felony record to be expunged under specified circumstances; 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 the preparation of presentence investigations; amend KRS 527.040, relating to possession of a firearm by a felon, to exempt individuals who have had their felony records expunged.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB131/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB131.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":493799,"bill_number":"SB132","title":"AN ACT relating to the transportation of household goods.","description":"Amend KRS 281.624 to establish process, fees, and appeal rights for a certificate of compliance for the transportation of household goods; amend KRS 281.625 to exempt applicants for a transporter of household goods certificate; amend KRS 281.630 to delete transporters of household goods.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB132/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB132.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":493801,"bill_number":"SB133","title":"AN ACT relating to income tax.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to exclude income from the discharge of indebtedness for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB133/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB133.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":493803,"bill_number":"SB134","title":"AN ACT relating to sand and gravel operations.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 350 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to establish a permit for sand and gravel operations, a permit application, and a permit fee which shall be set forth in administrative regulation; require the permit fee be tiered by operator size and not be greater than the actual cost of processing the application; exempt sand and gravel operations from creeks and streams from permit requirements; require persons that remove sand and gravel removal from streams to register with the cabinet, use best management practices, and identify the location of the excavation site.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB134/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB134.htm","sponsor":"Walter Blevins"},
{"bill_id":493805,"bill_number":"SB135","title":"AN ACT relating to the school calendar and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 158.070 to reiterate school closure on the day of a Presidential election; permit a school district to adjust its calendar to keep schools open on the days of a regular election, a special election, and a primary election if no school in the district is used as a polling place; allow a district to schedule election days as instructional days or make-up days for purposes of recouping instructional time missed due to weather-related, safety, or health emergencies or other disasters; direct the Department of Education to approve school calendars amended pursuant to this Act for the 2012-2013 school year; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB135/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB135.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":493807,"bill_number":"SB136","title":"AN ACT relating to filling school position vacancies.","description":"Amend KRS 160.380 to change from 30 days to 15 days the length of time in which a superintendent must notify the commissioner of education before filling local school district position vacancies.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"returned to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB136/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB136.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":493809,"bill_number":"SB137","title":"AN ACT relating to assessment ethics.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to make it unlawful for any school district employee to allow examinees to view assessment questions in advance, copy test booklet contents, provide guidance to assist examinees to arrive at correct answers, make answer keys available, change student responses, fail to follow test security protocols, or follow any rules established by the Kentucky Board of Education; require superintendent and principal to enforce policies; require the Kentucky Board of Education to adopt statistical guidelines for determining testing irregularities; authorize prosecution of violations; require the Office of Education Accountability to periodically review assessment results and anomalies; provide for a fine upon conviction of not more than $1,000; confirm authority of the Education Professional Standards Board to investigate allegations of misconduct and to prosecute disciplinary actions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"returned to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB137/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB137.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":493811,"bill_number":"SB138","title":"AN ACT relating to local boards of education.","description":"Amend KRS 160.290 to require local boards of education to adopt rules, regulations, and bylaws which shall specify the requirements for conducting meetings.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"returned to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB138/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB138.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":493813,"bill_number":"SB139","title":"AN ACT relating to police officers.","description":"Amend KRS 15.470 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB139/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB139.htm","sponsor":"David Givens"},
{"bill_id":493815,"bill_number":"SB141","title":"AN ACT relating to domestic relations.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 defining \"safe child drop-off areas\" and allowing the courts to require exchanges of child custody to take place in such areas.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"floor amendments (2) and (3-title) filed","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB141/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB141.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":493817,"bill_number":"SCR86","title":"Congratulate the City of Bardstown on its award of the Most Beautiful Small Town in America in the 2012 Rand McNally/USA TODAY \"Best of the Road\" contest.","description":"Congratulate the City of Bardstown on its award of the Most Beautiful Small Town in America in the 2012 Rand McNally/USA TODAY \"Best of the Road\" contest.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"to Tourism Development & Energy (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Tourism Development and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR86/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SC86.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":493819,"bill_number":"SJR87","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of US 60 in Carter County as the Billie J. Grills Memorial Highway, and erect appropriate signs.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of US 60 in Carter County as the Billie J. Grills Memorial Highway, and erect appropriate signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR87/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ87.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":493821,"bill_number":"SJR93","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on Kentucky Route 160 at Benham/Lynch in Harlan County as the\"Pvt. Evan 'Moose' Pettypiece Memorial Bridge\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge on Kentucky Route 160 at Benham/Lynch in Harlan County as the\"Pvt. Evan 'Moose' Pettypiece Memorial Bridge\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-11","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR93/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ93.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":493823,"bill_number":"SR88","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Minkie Clark Denham.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Minkie Clark Denham.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR88/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR88.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":493825,"bill_number":"SR89","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frankfort's Pastor, Reverend James Wallace Kent.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Frankfort's Pastor, Reverend James Wallace Kent.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR89/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR89.htm","sponsor":"Julian Carroll"},
{"bill_id":493827,"bill_number":"SR90","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Gordon Parker Thompson","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Gordon Parker Thompson","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR90/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR90.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":493829,"bill_number":"SR91","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Timothy Brent Wisdom.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Timothy Brent Wisdom.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR91/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR91.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":493831,"bill_number":"SR92","title":"Adjourn in honor of O. Leonard Press, upon the occasion of his being named recipient of the 2012 Vic Hellard, Jr. Award for exemplary public service.","description":"Adjourn in honor of O. Leonard Press, upon the occasion of his being named recipient of the 2012 Vic Hellard, Jr. Award for exemplary public service.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR92/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR92.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":493833,"bill_number":"SR94","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Lillian Sadie Thompson.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Lillian Sadie Thompson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR94/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR94.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":494760,"bill_number":"SR107","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Frances Cotterill.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Frances Cotterill.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR107/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR107.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":494761,"bill_number":"SR106","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sergeant Stanley Wayne Bear.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sergeant Stanley Wayne Bear.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR106/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR106.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":494767,"bill_number":"SR105","title":"Adjoun the Senate in honor and loving memory of Helen Wagers Vance.","description":"Adjoun the Senate in honor and loving memory of Helen Wagers Vance.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR105/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR105.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":494772,"bill_number":"SR104","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robert W. Calbert, Sr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Robert W. Calbert, Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR104/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR104.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":494778,"bill_number":"SR103","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lieutenant Colonel John Loftis.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lieutenant Colonel John Loftis.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR103/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR103.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":494782,"bill_number":"SR101","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Julia Gearty Dalton Dupont.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Julia Gearty Dalton Dupont.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR101/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR101.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":494789,"bill_number":"SR99","title":"Adjourn in honor of Private First Class Dustin D. Gross.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Private First Class Dustin D. Gross.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR99/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR99.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":494795,"bill_number":"SR98","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Corporal Aaron M. Faust.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Corporal Aaron M. Faust.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR98/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR98.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":494802,"bill_number":"SR97","title":"Honor the Madisonville North Hopkins High School Marching Maroons for winning the 2012 KMEA Class AAAA Marching Band Championship.","description":"Honor the Madisonville North Hopkins High School Marching Maroons for winning the 2012 KMEA Class AAAA Marching Band Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR97/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR97.htm","sponsor":"Jerry Rhoads"},
{"bill_id":494809,"bill_number":"SR96","title":"Adjourn in honor of the Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky.","description":"Adjourn in honor of the Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR96/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR96.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":494813,"bill_number":"SR95","title":"Honor firefighters Brad Polley and Paul Goodman for their sacrifice in saving the life of Savanna Noe.","description":"Honor firefighters Brad Polley and Paul Goodman for their sacrifice in saving the life of Savanna Noe.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR95/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR95.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":494819,"bill_number":"SJR102","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of the east side of the United States Highway 127 by-pass in Mercer County as \"The Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Highway\" and erect appropriate signs.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of the east side of the United States Highway 127 by-pass in Mercer County as \"The Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Highway\" and erect appropriate signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR102/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ102.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":494827,"bill_number":"SB152","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.9-020 to amend the definition of \"rental vehicle agent\" to substitute the term \"vehicle\" for the term \"car\"; amend KRS 304.12-100 to provide that nothing in KRS 304.12-080, 304.12-090, or 304.12-110 prohibits the payment of any compensation, fee, or other consideration to an individual not licensed to sell insurance for referral of a consumer to a licensed individual in accordance with KRS 304.9-425; amend KRS 304.13-121, 304.17-030, 304.17-180, 304.17-300, and 304.30-080 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 304.17B-015 to delete the requirement that a Kentucky Access enrollee whose premium rates exceed claims for a period of three years be issued a notice of insurability, and that a notice indicate that an enrollee whose claims have not exceeded premium rates for a three-year period is eligible to obtain insurance in the regular individual market; delete reference to an individual's spouse or dependent from use of the term \"eligible for\"; amend KRS 304.24-320, relating to the payment of dividends to an insurer's stockholders from surplus funds, to substitute the term \"retained earnings\" for the term \"realized net profits\"; amend KRS 304.24-430 to delete the amount of the fee to be charged by the Secretary of State for filing a trustee's certificate regarding voluntary dissolution of a solvent domestic stock or mutual insurer; amend KRS 304.50-010, 304.50-085, and 342.340 to authorize workers' compensation self-insured groups to contract and to sue and be sued in the name adopted by the group; and repeal KRS 304.14-400, 304.17-240, 304.17-290, and 304.17A-290.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 123)","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB152/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB152.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":494836,"bill_number":"SB151","title":"AN ACT relating to reciprocity for funeral directors.","description":"Amend KRS 316.140 to permit a person licensed as an embalmer or funeral director in another state to obtain a license in Kentucky if the person has met the same or similar requirements for Kentucky licensure as an embalmer or funeral director, and pays a fee equal to the license renewal fee.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 122)","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB151/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB151.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":494840,"bill_number":"SB150","title":"AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.","description":"Amend KRS 237.110 relating to the issuance of licenses to carry a concealed deadly weapon to remove the length of residency requirement, retain residency requirement, and reduce from 90 days to 30 days the length of time the Department of Kentucky State Police had to approve or deny an application for a license.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 73)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB150/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB150.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":494846,"bill_number":"SB149","title":"AN ACT relating to public protection.","description":"Make technical changes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB149/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB149.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":494851,"bill_number":"SB148","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans' affairs.","description":"Amend KRS 40.315 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to operate state veterans' cemeteries.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB148/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB148.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":494859,"bill_number":"SB147","title":"AN ACT relating to military affairs.","description":"Amend KRS 36.110 to make technical changes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"returned to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB147/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB147.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":494864,"bill_number":"SB146","title":"AN ACT relating to the acquisition of insurance.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to define and require political subdivisions of the state to advertise for bids for all insurance products; amend KRS 424.260 to require political subdivisions of the state to use the provisions of Section 1 of the Act when procuring insurance products; amend KRS 45A.380 to accommodate the exclusion of cities from definition of political subdivision of the state.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB146/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB146.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":494871,"bill_number":"SB145","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 Constitution of Kentucky to repeal annual sessions; provide language for submission to voters.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB145/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB145.htm","sponsor":"Robert Leeper"},
{"bill_id":494879,"bill_number":"SB144","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, 78.510, and 161.220 to provide that compensation reported to the State Police Retirement System, the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, and the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System on or after July 1, 2013, shall be limited to the base pay of the employee and shall not include payments for overtime, compensatory time, living allowances, expense reimbursements, lump-sum payments for accrued vacation leave, lump-sum bonuses, severance payments, lump-sum payments for accrued sick leave, uniform and equipment allowances, employer-provided payments for service purchases, or any other payments determined by the board to be in excess of the employee's base regular rate of pay; amend KRS 161.155 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB144/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB144.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":494884,"bill_number":"SB143","title":"AN ACT relating to ambulatory surgical centers.","description":"Amend KRS 216B.015, 216B.020, and 216B.061 to exempt ophthalmic surgeons seeking to obtain Medicare certification for an ambulatory surgical center from the certificate of need process.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB143/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB143.htm","sponsor":"Julian Carroll"},
{"bill_id":494888,"bill_number":"SB142","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Amend KRS 242.020 to require petitions for local option elections to contain legibly printed names; change petition requirement from date of birth to year of birth and delete requirement of Social Security number; amend KRS 242.030 to require local option elections to be held on the same day as a primary or regular election and to establish filing deadlines for petitions; amend KRS 242.040, 242.1242, 242.1244, 242.125, 242.1292, 242.1297, and 242.185 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB142/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB142.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":494895,"bill_number":"SB140","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative ethics.","description":"Amend KRS 6.651 to require members of the Legislative Ethics Commission to receive annual training on all laws applicable to legislative ethics and to attend the training established in KRS 6.701 to 6.716; amend KRS 6.686 to establish confidentiality surrounding inquiry panels and adjudicatory hearings; establish inquiry panel and adjudicatory hearing procedures; amend KRS 6.691 to provide for the appointment of a hearing officer for the adjudicatory hearings consisting of retired Circuit Court judges; establish confidentiality surrounding adjudicatory hearings; amend KRS 6.827 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB140/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB140.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":494901,"bill_number":"HR92","title":"Adjourn in honor of Private First Class Dustin D. Gross.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Private First Class Dustin D. Gross.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR92/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR92.htm","sponsor":"Richard Henderson"},
{"bill_id":494906,"bill_number":"HR91","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Corporal Aaron M. Faust.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Corporal Aaron M. Faust.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR91/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR91.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Horlander"},
{"bill_id":494917,"bill_number":"HR90","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Specialist David W. Taylor.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Specialist David W. Taylor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR90/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR90.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":494922,"bill_number":"HR88","title":"Urge the United States Army Corps of Engineers to hold in abeyance plans to restrict boater access above and below dams on the Cumberland River.","description":"Urge the United States Army Corps of Engineers to hold in abeyance plans to restrict boater access above and below dams on the Cumberland River.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR88/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR88.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":494929,"bill_number":"HR85","title":"Honor the Madisonville North Hopkins High School Marching Maroons for winning the 2012 KMEA Class AAAA Marching Band Championship.","description":"Honor the Madisonville North Hopkins High School Marching Maroons for winning the 2012 KMEA Class AAAA Marching Band Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR85/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR85.htm","sponsor":"Ben Waide"},
{"bill_id":494934,"bill_number":"HJR87","title":"Designate Kentucky Route 460 in Montgomery County as the Pfc. Dustin Gross Memorial Highway, and erect appropriate signs.","description":"Designate Kentucky Route 460 in Montgomery County as the Pfc. Dustin Gross Memorial Highway, and erect appropriate signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR87/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ87.htm","sponsor":"Richard Henderson"},
{"bill_id":494939,"bill_number":"HCR89","title":"Direct the Interim Joint Committee on State Government to study issues related to state government cyber security.","description":null,"status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR89/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC89.htm","sponsor":"Brent Yonts"},
{"bill_id":494947,"bill_number":"HCR86","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 November 29, 2013.","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 November 29, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR86/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC86.htm","sponsor":"James Glenn"},
{"bill_id":494954,"bill_number":"HB355","title":"AN ACT relating to disabled parking placards.","description":"Amend KRS 189.456 to require that the date of expiration on disabled parking placards is indicated by a month and year hole-punch system.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB355/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB355.htm","sponsor":"Dwight Butler"},
{"bill_id":494958,"bill_number":"HB354","title":"AN ACT relating to school safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require adoption of a school emergency plan; require emergency drills; require an annual report to the department of education; amend KRS 158.163 to require safety drills within the first month of school; amend KRS 158.164 to require a lockdown practice within the first month of school; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to require local boards to review crime prevention designs when constructing or renovating a school building, provide law enforcement, fire, and medical personnel with copies of school emergency response plans and floor plans, and develop facility floor plans emergency identification numbers for windows and doors; require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop protocols for student records within the student information system which provides schools receiving the records an awareness of prior offenses described in KRS 610.345; amend KRS 158.160 to include notification to the school of students with mental or emotional conditions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish procedures to assist school personnel in recognizing and obtaining assistance for students with mental or emotional conditions; create new sections of KRS Chapters 70 and 95 to encourage chiefs of police and sheriffs to receive training on issues pertaining to school and student safety; amend KRS 61.878 to exempt school and school facility emergency plans from public viewing as open records; amend KRS 157.420 to include costs related to school and student safety; amend KRS 157.623 to include facilities determined unsafe by a local police chief or county sheriff; amend KRS 158.446 to include school resource officers; amend KRS 158.445 to include emergency response plans as part of a school's end-of-year annual review; amend KRS 160.345 to include the adoption of an emergency response plan as part of a school council's duties; amend various other sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 126)","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB354/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB354.htm","sponsor":"Richard Henderson"},
{"bill_id":494968,"bill_number":"HB353","title":"AN ACT relating to the disclosure of state tax records in criminal prosecutions.","description":"Amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to divulge state tax records or information pursuant to court orders or subpoenas issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by a grand jury, in the prosecution of a state or federal crime.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB353/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB353.htm","sponsor":"Denver Butler"},
{"bill_id":494973,"bill_number":"HB352","title":"AN ACT relating to TVA in-lieu-of-tax payments and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 96.895 to provide that, beginning in fiscal year 2014-2015, a portion of the Tennessee Valley Authority in-lieu-of-tax payment made to the Commonwealth and deposited into the general fund shall be transferred to the regional development agency assistance fund to be distributed among fiscal court-designated local industrial development authorities for economic development and job creation activities; provide that the transfer will not affect the portion of the total TVA payment that is currently distributed among local government entities; provide that these transfers will be phased-in over a five-year period, with an amount equal to 50 percent of the general fund portion of the total TVA annual payment being transferred in fiscal year 2018-2019, and each fiscal year thereafter, not to exceed $6,000,000 each year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB352/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB352.htm","sponsor":"Wilson Stone"},
{"bill_id":494979,"bill_number":"HB351","title":"AN ACT relating to limitation of actions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 426 to provide that actions to recover deficiency judgments resulting from foreclosure proceedings related to a debtor's personal residence must be brought within two years of the foreclosure sale; establish the procedure for determining fair market value of property; amend KRS 413.090 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB351/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB351.htm","sponsor":"Arnold Simpson"},
{"bill_id":494983,"bill_number":"HB350","title":"AN ACT relating to foster parents.","description":"Amend KRS 605.120 to allow foster parents to have the same right to attend court proceedings concerning a foster child as a parent or guardian of that child would have to attend the proceeding.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB350/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB350.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":494991,"bill_number":"HB349","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health.","description":"Amend KRS 202A.400, relating to the duty to take precautions against a patient's violent behavior, to expand the definition of \"patient\" to include persons currently under the care or treatment of mental health professionals.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB349/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB349.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":494995,"bill_number":"HB348","title":"AN ACT relating to the reclamation of oil and gas well sites and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 353.190 to require an oil or natural gas well operator to post a reclamation bond to guarantee the completion of the reclamation plan for the well site; specify the separate requirements for plugging bonds and reclamation bonds; clarify that bond alternatives held in lieu of plugging and reclamation bonds shall go to their respective funds when forfeited; establish a procedure for the forfeiture of reclamation bonds separate from the forfeiture procedure for plugging bonds; establish the oil and gas well reclamation fund to receive forfeited reclamation bonds, which is separate from the oil and gas well plugging fund; require the department to only expend forfeited bond amounts for the completion of the corresponding reclamation plan for the well site for which the reclamation bond was posted; amend KRS 353.5901 to require reclamation plans for all oil and gas well sites, regardless of whether there has been a complete severance of ownership of the oil and gas from the surface ownership; require oil and gas well site reclamation plans to incorporate best management practices; require a signed agreement by all surface owners and co-owners to complete the reclamation plan before a permit to drill, deepen, or reopen the well may be issued; amend KRS 353.180, KRS 353.592, and KRS 353.730 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB348/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB348.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":495006,"bill_number":"HB347","title":"AN ACT relating to domestic relations.","description":"Amend KRS 401.010, relating to a change of name, to account for proper jurisdiction for persons residing on a post, reservation, or fort of any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB347/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB347.htm","sponsor":"John Tilley"},
{"bill_id":495007,"bill_number":"HB346","title":"AN ACT relating to the Court of Justice.","description":"Amend KRS 21A.160 to clarify that the Supreme Court's authority over the Kentucky Bar Association stems from the issuance of court rules and not from the promulgation of administrative regulations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB346/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB346.htm","sponsor":"John Tilley"},
{"bill_id":495016,"bill_number":"HB345","title":"AN ACT relating to criminal liability.","description":"Amend KRS 502.050, which authorizes criminal liability for corporations, to expand its applicability to all forms of business entities.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB345/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB345.htm","sponsor":"John Tilley"},
{"bill_id":495022,"bill_number":"HB344","title":"AN ACT relating to civil actions.","description":"Amend KRS 452.070 to require payment to circuit court clerks of updated mileage and expense allowances when the clerk is removing a civil case to another county.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB344/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB344.htm","sponsor":"John Tilley"},
{"bill_id":495025,"bill_number":"HB343","title":"AN ACT relating to business identification numbers.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 14 to require the One-Stop Business Portal Advisory Committee to establish a system for consolidating the multiple business identification numbers used in filings with state agencies to a single standardized business identification number.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 65)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB343/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB343.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":495036,"bill_number":"HB342","title":"AN ACT relating to the Court of Justice, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require new or updated software utilized by the Administrative Office of the Courts to allow felony cases to be redesignated as misdemeanor cases when the case concludes with no felony conviction.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB342/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB342.htm","sponsor":"Jesse Crenshaw"},
{"bill_id":495039,"bill_number":"HB341","title":"AN ACT relating to the licensure of HVAC professionals.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.662 to allow three years of HVAC experience in another state to count towards journeyman licensure requirements, if standards in the other state are substantially similar.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"reassigned to Labor & Industry (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Labor and Industry","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB341/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB341.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":495047,"bill_number":"HB340","title":"AN ACT relating to the Department of Kentucky State Police.","description":"Amend various sections in KRS Chapter 16 to create the position of commercial vehicle enforcement officer R class to allow the employment on a one year contractual basis of retired commercial vehicle officers.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 64)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB340/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB340.htm","sponsor":"Tim Couch"},
{"bill_id":495053,"bill_number":"HB339","title":"AN ACT relating to child custody.","description":"Amend 403.270 to allow a step-parent to qualify as a de facto custodian if they have formed an emotional bond with the child, provided financial support, and is a spouse of a deceased parent of the child.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-12","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB339/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB339.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":495060,"bill_number":"HB338","title":"AN ACT relating to municipal procedures.","description":"Amend KRS 83A.060 relating to ordinances to specify that new language in an ordinance shall be underlined and language intended to be deleted shall be bracketed and stricken-through; and amend KRS 91A.040 to allow copies of the audits due the Department for Local Government and the Legislative Research Commission to be either paper or in an electronic format.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 96)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB338/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB338.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Horlander"},
{"bill_id":497545,"bill_number":"HB356","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 the effective date of legislation ratifying the administrative regulation; amend KRS 13A.010 to define major economic impact as an overall annual economic impact from an administrative regulation of $750,000 or more on state and local government and regulated entities as determined by the promulgating administrative body; 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.330 and 13A.331 to conform; specify short title of the Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB356/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB356.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":497550,"bill_number":"HB357","title":"AN ACT relating to high school athletics.","description":"Amend KRS 156.070 to provide that when ineligible students are permitted to play interscholastic athletics due to a restraining order or injunction and the order or injunction is vacated, stayed, reversed, or ruled unjustified, then the school attended by the student may be subject to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 452 to require any court action challenging an athletic eligibility ruling by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association be filed in Franklin Circuit Court.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-06","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB357/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB357.htm","sponsor":"Keith Hall"},
{"bill_id":497555,"bill_number":"HB358","title":"AN ACT relating to immunizations.","description":"Amend KRS 214.034 to require immunization against human papillomavirus for female children 9 to 16 years of age and male children 10 to 16 years of age entering sixth grade; require written statements to withhold consent for immunizations to be included with the file on immunization certificates; amend KRS 214.036 to permit parents to withhold consent for immunization against human papillomavirus for any reason; amend KRS 158.035 to conform.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB358/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB358.htm","sponsor":"David Watkins"},
{"bill_id":497559,"bill_number":"HB359","title":"AN ACT relating to a medical order for scope of treatment.","description":"Amend KRS 311.621 to define \"medical order for scope of treatment\"; create a new section of KRS 311.621 to 311.643 to permit the completion of a medical order for scope of treatment directing medical interventions; require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations to develop a standardized medical order for scope of treatment form; list the required contents of the standardized medical order for scope of treatment; amend KRS 311.623, 311.633, and 311.637 to add the medical order for scope of treatment.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB359/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB359.htm","sponsor":"David Watkins"},
{"bill_id":497563,"bill_number":"HB360","title":"AN ACT relating to the accreditation of health departments and making an appropriation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to create the Kentucky Commission on Public Health within the Public Health Institute at the University of Kentucky under KRS Chapter 164; establish membership and duties of the commission including that all health departments achieve national accreditation and maintain accreditation by the national Public Health Accreditation Board, by December 31, 2020; require the commission to submit an annual report; appropriate $500,000 to operate the commission.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB360/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB360.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":497567,"bill_number":"HB361","title":"AN ACT relating to the taxation of tobacco products.","description":"Amend KRS 138.130 to define and redefine terms; amend KRS 138.140 to replace the tax imposed on wholesalers of moist snuff and other tobacco products with an excise tax on distributors for the privilege of selling tobacco products in this state, effective August 1, 2013; tax moist snuff at 19 cents per unit; tax loose-leaf chewing tobacco at 19 cents per single unit, 40 cents per half-pound unit, or 65 cents per pound unit, and an additional 19 cents for each increment of four ounces or more over 16 ounces; tax all tobacco products, except moist snuff and loose leaf chewing tobacco, at 15 percent of the manufacturer's sales price; amend KRS 138.195 to require a $500 license fee to be paid annually by each distributor and a $100 license fee to be paid annually by each retail distributor; allow distributors and retail distributors to retain 1% of the tax due for timely reporting and paying the tax; require monthly reporting by manufacturers of tobacco products; require distributor to report and pay the tax on a monthly basis; create a new section of KRS 138.130 to 138.205 to require manufacturers, distributors, retail distributors, and retailers to keep records for not less than four years; provide for the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of contraband tobacco products and the seizure, forfeiture, and sale of personal property used in connection with the sale or possession of contraband tobacco products; reporting requirements EFFECTIVE July 1, 2013; seizure and forfeiture provisions EFFECTIVE January 1, 2014; remaining sections EFFECTIVE August 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 97)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB361/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB361.htm","sponsor":"Rick Rand"},
{"bill_id":497572,"bill_number":"HB362","title":"AN ACT relating to military justice.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 35, the Kentucky Code of Military Justice, to include crimes of wrongful use and possession of a controlled substance; misbehavior of a sentinel; dueling; robbery; forgery; making, drawing, or uttering a check, draft, or order without sufficient funds; maiming; arson; extortion; assault; housebreaking; and frauds against the government.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules as a Consent Bill","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB362/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB362.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":497577,"bill_number":"HB363","title":"AN ACT relating to fuel use for electric generation.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to limit utility fuel choice options for base load generation where price deviation exceeds certain limits","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB363/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB363.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":497580,"bill_number":"HB364","title":"AN ACT relating to animal euthanasia.","description":"Amend KRS 258.119 to require animal shelters to adopt shelter standards under the animal control and care program and conform the guidelines to prohibit euthanasia by gas chamber; amend KRS 258.505 to prohibit animal shelters from conducting euthanasia by gas chamber.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"to Agriculture & Small Business (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB364/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB364.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":497585,"bill_number":"HB365","title":"AN ACT relating to health benefit plan definitions.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-005 to redefine \"employer-organized association\" for the purpose of health benefit plans.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB365/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB365.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":497590,"bill_number":"HB366","title":"AN ACT relating to maternal and child health.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish an advisory committee to review Kentucky","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-04","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 118)","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB366/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB366.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":497594,"bill_number":"HB367","title":"AN ACT relating to the protection of vulnerable adults.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 209 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 209 to require the CHFS to create and maintain an adult abuse registry; make the registry available electronically; prohibit unsubstantiated findings, prohibit placement of an individual on the registry unless all administrative appeals and judicial proceedings related to the appeal have been completed and upheld; prohibit a long-term-care facility or provider from employing an individual or volunteer whose name appears on the registry; amend KRS 209.140 to permit limited release of information related to the adult abuse registry to long term care providers.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB367/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB367.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":497598,"bill_number":"HB368","title":"AN ACT relating to school health services.","description":"Amend KRS 158.838 to allow insulin to be administered at school by trained school employees; require a trained school employee to be on duty during school activities in which a student requiring diabetes or seizure medication participates; allow a student with diabetes to self-administer medication and other diabetes care tasks in a school setting; require two school employees other than the school nurse be trained to administer diabetes and seizure medications; prohibit a school district from denying enrollment in any school based on the student having diabetes or a seizure disorder or the school's ability to provide health services.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB368/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB368.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":497603,"bill_number":"HB369","title":"AN ACT relating to campaign finance reports.","description":"Amend KRS 121.170 and 121.180 to increase campaign finance reporting exemptions.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB369/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB369.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":497607,"bill_number":"HB370","title":"AN ACT relating to the promotion of manufacturing in the Commonwealth.","description":"Amend KRS 103.200 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 103.210 and 103.240 to clarify that industrial revenue bonds may be issued to assist with developing and improving manufacturing facilities to increase the energy efficiency thereof; amend KRS 103.220 to conform; amend KRS 103.286 to reserve 10% of the state private activity bond cap for small or medium-sized manufacturing facility energy efficiency bond projects during the first half of the bond cap allocation period, after which unused cap shall revert to the single allocation pool; create a new section of KRS 103.200 to 103.285 to state terms and conditions for the issuance of manufacturing facility energy efficiency bonds pursuant to this Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 147A to allow the Department for Local Government to establish, as resources are available, an information clearinghouse to provide advice and guidance to local governments and the public relating to the issuance and possible uses of industrial revenue bonds.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB370/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB370.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":497612,"bill_number":"HB371","title":"AN ACT relating to wholesale distribution by retail pharmacies.","description":"Amend KRS 315.400 to remove retail pharmacies from the definition of \"wholesale distributor\"; amend KRS 315.402 to prohibit a pharmacy from selling or distributing prescription drugs to any entity that is a wholesale distributor.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB371/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB371.htm","sponsor":"David Watkins"},
{"bill_id":497617,"bill_number":"HB372","title":"AN ACT relating to the disclosure of public retirement information.","description":"Amend KRS 61.661, 161.585, and 21.540 to require the Kentucky Retirement Systems, the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System, and the Judicial Form Retirement System to disclose upon request the names, status, projected or actual benefit payments, and other retirement information of each member or recipient of a retirement allowance of the systems; require the systems to also make the information available on a searchable database on the systems' Web site or on a Web site established by the executive or judicial branch to provide government expenditure and salary data to the public.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB372/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB372.htm","sponsor":"Robert Benvenuti"},
{"bill_id":497620,"bill_number":"HB373","title":"AN ACT relating to federally documented non-commercial vessels.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt federally documented non-commercial vessels from state and local property taxes; amend KRS 132.020 and 132.200 to make conforming changes; amend KRS 235.010 to define terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 235 to establish an annual fee to be imposed on all federally documented non-commercial vessels located in Kentucky on January 1 of any year, to be paid to the county clerk; provide that revenues collected from this annual fee are to be deposited in part to the state general fund and distributed among local taxing jurisdictions of the county in which the vessel will be principally operated; amend KRS 235.040 to clarify that federally documented non-commercial vessels are exempt from the regular registration requirement for motorboats in general, and shall be subject to the annual registration and fee requirements established in this Act; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2014.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB373/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB373.htm","sponsor":"Will Coursey"},
{"bill_id":497625,"bill_number":"HB374","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 525.135 to make torture of a dog or cat a Class D felony in all instances.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB374/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB374.htm","sponsor":"Will Coursey"},
{"bill_id":497630,"bill_number":"HB375","title":"AN ACT relating to military training credit towards occupational licenses and certifications.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to direct the Commission of Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education to develop procedures for accepting military training and service towards firefighter certification; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to direct the Board of Emergency Medical Services to allow direct reciprocity for initial Kentucky certification as an emergency medical technician for members of the United States military; urge all board and commissions to review military training and when possible accept military training and service towards licensure and certification in various occupational specialties.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules as a Consent Bill","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB375/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB375.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":497634,"bill_number":"HB376","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance coverage of prosthetics.","description":"Create new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover the most technologically advanced prosthetic leg or arm available, including repairing and replacing, as determined by the insured's physician and provided by a person accredited or qualified under Medicare Part B; require health benefit plan coverage equal to Medicare Part B; create new sections of Subtitle 18 of KRS Chapter 304 to require group or blanket insurance to cover the most technologically advanced prosthetic leg or arm available, including repairing and replacing, as determined by the insured's physician and provided by a person accredited or qualified under Medicare Part B, and require coverage equal to Medicare Part B; create new sections of KRS Subtitle 32 of KRS Chapter 304 to require any nonprofit hospital, medical-surgical and health services corporations subject to subtitle 32 to cover the most technologically advanced prosthetic leg or arm available, including repairing and replacing, as determined by the insured's physician and provided by a person accredited or qualified under Medicare Part B, and require coverage equal to Medicare Part B; create new sections of Subtitle 38 of KRS Chapter 304 to require any health maintenance organization to cover the most technologically advanced prosthetic leg or arm available, including repairing and replacing, as determined by the insured's physician and provided by a person accredited or qualified under Medicare Part B, and require coverage equal to Medicare Part B.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"returned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB376/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB376.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":497640,"bill_number":"HB377","title":"AN ACT relating to school safety.","description":"Amend KRS 158.148 to require a school's 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; amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to include school safety issues in professional development programs; require local districts to provide training by January 1, 2014; amend KRS 158.444 to report data by August 31 of each year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB377/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB377.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":497645,"bill_number":"HR93","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sergeant Stanley Wayne Bear.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Sergeant Stanley Wayne Bear.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR93/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR93.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":497649,"bill_number":"HR94","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of George Raymond Marsh.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of George Raymond Marsh.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR94/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR94.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":497654,"bill_number":"HR95","title":"Urge support for the construction of the New International Trade Crossing to be built between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada.","description":"Urge support for the construction of the New International Trade Crossing to be built between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR95/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR95.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":497657,"bill_number":"HR96","title":"Adjourn in honor of Lieutenant Colonel John Loftis.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Lieutenant Colonel John Loftis.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR96/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR96.htm","sponsor":"Kenny Imes"},
{"bill_id":497662,"bill_number":"HR97","title":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in loving memory and honor of William Lewis Klaber.","description":"Adjourn the House of Representatives in loving memory and honor of William Lewis Klaber.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-13","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR97/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR97.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":497667,"bill_number":"HR98","title":"Proclaim February 20, 2013, as Public Library Day in the Kentucky House of Representatives.","description":"Proclaim February 20, 2013, as Public Library Day in the Kentucky House of Representatives.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR98/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR98.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":497672,"bill_number":"SB153","title":"AN ACT relating to income taxes and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 141.305 to extend the declaration filing and paying deadline for Kentucky farmers, if the federal government extends the federal due date for farmers estimated tax payments; effective for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2012; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB153/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB153.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":497676,"bill_number":"SB154","title":"AN ACT relating to postsecondary education tuition.","description":"Amend KRS 164.507 to clarify that family members of deceased veterans are eligible for postsecondary education tuition and fee waivers for a period not to exceed 45 consecutive or nonconsecutive months until completion of the first bachelor's degree; amend KRS 164.515 to clarify that family members of permanently or totally disabled veterans are eligible for postsecondary education tuition and fee waivers for a period not to exceed 45 consecutive or nonconsecutive months until completion of the first bachelor's degree.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB154/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB154.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":497680,"bill_number":"SB155","title":"AN ACT relating to substance abuse.","description":"Amend KRS 431.518, relating to pretrial drug assessment and treatment required by courts for certain felony offenders, to delete the felony language and make the provisions applicable to persons whose criminal records indicate recent substance abuse.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB155/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB155.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":497684,"bill_number":"SB156","title":"AN ACT relating to trusts.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 386 to permit the establishment of spendthrift trusts; amend KRS 381.180 to delete provision subjecting beneficiary interests of a spendthrift trust to enforceable claims against the beneficiary.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB156/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB156.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":497689,"bill_number":"SB157","title":"AN ACT relating to drug-free workplaces.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to establish a drug-free workplace program in the Labor Cabinet; define terms associated with the program; provide process of certification by the cabinet for employers establishing a drug-free workplace program; require drug-free workplace programs to provide training to employees and supervisors; permit drug and alcohol testing of employees and job applicants; prohibit certified employers from discharging employees voluntarily seeking treatment prior to a positive drug test; require certified employers to pay for employee drug and alcohol testing; require certified employers to have a medical review officer to review drug and alcohol tests; permit a certified employer to discharge an employee for cause if the employee has a positive drug or alcohol test; specify that a positive drug test is considered misconduct; if the employee of a certified employer is injured and tests positive for drugs or alcohol, then the burden of proof shifts to the employee to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the drugs were not the proximate cause of the injury and failure to do so results in a denial of workers' compensation benefits; amend KRS 341,370 and 342.165.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"recommitted to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB157/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB157.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":497694,"bill_number":"SB158","title":"AN ACT designating Clark County, Kentucky as the birthplace of beer cheese.","description":"Designate Clark County, Kentucky as the birthplace of beer cheese.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"State Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB158/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB158.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":497697,"bill_number":"SB159","title":"AN ACT designating Ale-8-One as the official Kentucky original soft drink.","description":"Designate Ale-8-One as the official Kentucky original soft drink.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-01","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB159/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB159.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":497702,"bill_number":"SJR109","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 92 in McCreary County as the \"McCreary County Veterans Memorial Highway\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 92 in McCreary County as the \"McCreary County Veterans Memorial Highway\" and to erect the appropriate signage.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-13","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR109/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ109.htm","sponsor":"Sara Gregory"},
{"bill_id":497707,"bill_number":"SR108","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Sarah Whitelaw Findlay","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Sarah Whitelaw Findlay","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-12","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR108/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR108.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":497711,"bill_number":"SR110","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Elbert \"Gene\" Flaugher.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Elbert \"Gene\" Flaugher.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR110/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR110.htm","sponsor":"Katie Stine"},
{"bill_id":497715,"bill_number":"SR111","title":"Proclaim the month of March 2013 as Music In Our Schools Month.","description":"Proclaim the month of March 2013 as Music In Our Schools Month.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR111/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR111.htm","sponsor":"Katie Stine"},
{"bill_id":497720,"bill_number":"SR112","title":"Urge the United States Army Corps of Engineers to hold in abeyance plans to restrict boater access above and below dams on the Cumberland River.","description":"Urge the United States Army Corps of Engineers to hold in abeyance plans to restrict boater access above and below dams on the Cumberland River.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR112/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR112.htm","sponsor":"Chris Girdler"},
{"bill_id":497724,"bill_number":"SR113","title":"Support the efforts of the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame Foundation.","description":"Support the efforts of the Kentucky Veterans Hall of Fame Foundation.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR113/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR113.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":497729,"bill_number":"SR114","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Anna Grace \"Tootsie\" Gregory.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Anna Grace \"Tootsie\" Gregory.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-11","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-11","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR114/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR114.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":497732,"bill_number":"SR115","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Specialist David W. Taylor.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Specialist David W. Taylor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR115/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR115.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":499739,"bill_number":"SR121","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Virgil Lorenzo White, Sr.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Virgil Lorenzo White, Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR121/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR121.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":499747,"bill_number":"SR120","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Dorothy M. \"Dottie\" Gronefeld.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Dorothy M. \"Dottie\" Gronefeld.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR120/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR120.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":499755,"bill_number":"SR119","title":"Recognize Ms. Madison Roy as a 2013 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards recipient.","description":"Recognize Ms. Madison Roy as a 2013 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards recipient.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR119/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR119.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":499764,"bill_number":"SR117","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of former Kentucky Secretary of State Bremer Alexander Ehrler.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of former Kentucky Secretary of State Bremer Alexander Ehrler.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR117/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR117.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":499771,"bill_number":"SR116","title":"Recognize Ms. Jessica Collins as a 2013 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards recipient.","description":"Recognize Ms. Jessica Collins as a 2013 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards recipient.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR116/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR116.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":499780,"bill_number":"SR100","title":"Recognize and congratulate Ford Motor Company on the 100th anniversary year of building cars and trucks in Louisville.","description":"Recognize and congratulate Ford Motor Company on the 100th anniversary year of building cars and trucks in Louisville.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR100/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR100.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":499788,"bill_number":"SJR118","title":"Direct the Department for Environmental Protection to establish a water quality advisory group to review and recommend improvements to assessment methods used for determining the water quality status of streams in the Commonwealth; attach the water quality advisory group to the Energy and Environment Cabinet for administrative purposes; name the members of the group; require the group to make findings and recommendations regarding certain water quality issues; require the group's findings and recommendations to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission on or before November 29, 2013; require the group to meet three times before submitting its findings and recommendations; direct the Clerk of the Senate to send a copy of the Resolution to R. Bruce Scott, commissioner of the Department for Environmental Protection.","description":"Direct the Department for Environmental Protection to establish a water quality advisory group to review and recommend improvements to assessment methods used for determining the water quality status of streams in the Commonwealth; attach the water quality advisory group to the Energy and Environment Cabinet for administrative purposes; name the members of the group; require the group to make findings and recommendations regarding certain water quality issues; require the group's findings and recommendations to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission on or before November 29, 2013; require the group to meet three times before submitting its findings and recommendations; direct the Clerk of the Senate to send a copy of the Resolution to R. Bruce Scott, commissioner of the Department for Environmental Protection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SJR118/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SJ118.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":499795,"bill_number":"SB174","title":"AN ACT relating to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contractors.","description":"Amend KRS 198B.658 to require the Kentucky Board of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Contractors to issue a master heating, ventilation, and air conditioning contractor's license to any person who satisfies the board with proof of experience within the industry equivalent to being principally employed or engaged in the trade for not less than two years as a mechanic under the direction and supervision of a contractor.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB174/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB174.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":499804,"bill_number":"SB173","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.045 to insert gender- neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB173/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB173.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":499812,"bill_number":"SB172","title":"AN ACT relating to boards of health.","description":"Amend KRS 212.230 to remove the board of health's ability to adopt administrative regulations by transferring the authority to the local legislative body; prohibit a board of health from regulating any part of firearms or ammunition.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"returned to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB172/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB172.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":499821,"bill_number":"SB171","title":"AN ACT relating to the state employee compensation fund and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 establishing the state employee compensation fund, establish mechanism for funding of the fund, and establish process of expending fund receipts; amend KRS 30A.120 to provide direction to circuit clerks on depositing receipts of specified fines collected; amend KRS 56.990, 177.530, 186.991, 187.990, 189.2329, 189.394, 189.751, 189.945, 189.990, 189.993, 189A.010, 534.040, and 534.050 to increase fines resulting from violations of motor vehicle licensing, registration, and traffic law infractions, and increase fines that may be imposed as a result of convictions of violations or Class A or Class B misdemeanor offenses with a percentage of each fine directed to the state employee compensation fund.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB171/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB171.htm","sponsor":"Julian Carroll"},
{"bill_id":499828,"bill_number":"SB170","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Include penetration by body parts in definitions of rape and sodomy.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB170/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB170.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":499836,"bill_number":"SB169","title":"AN ACT relating to insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.2-210 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB169/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB169.htm","sponsor":"Katie Stine"},
{"bill_id":499845,"bill_number":"SB168","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 161.220 to 161.716 to allow an employer participating in the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System to discontinue participation in the system for new hires provided the employer pays to have an actuarial cost study completed to determine the cost to the system for the loss of new employees, the employer offers an alternative retirement plan, and the employer enters into an irrevocable contract to pay the system for the actuarial cost over a period not to exceed 30 years; amend KRS 61.520 and 78.535 to allow an employer participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and the County Employees Retirement System to discontinue participation in the system for new hires provided the employer pays to have an actuarial cost study completed to determine the cost to the system for the loss of new employees, the employer offers an alternative retirement plan, and the employer enters into an irrevocable contract to pay the system for the actuarial cost over a period not to exceed 30 years; amend KRS 61.525, 61.543, 61.560, 78.530, 78.540, 78.610, 78.615, 95.520, 95.621, and 95.852 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB168/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB168.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":499854,"bill_number":"SB167","title":"AN ACT relating to 911 emergency services.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7621 to add definitions for prepaid cell phones; amend KRS 65.7625 to add qualifications for administrator; amend KRS 65.7629 to delete existing requirement to collect from prepaid cell providers and enact replacement; amend KRS 65.7635 to delete existing prepaid service charge payment options; create a new prepaid cell phone service charge to be collected by the Department of Revenue; create new sections of KRS 142 to provide a method for Department of Revenue to collect prepaid cell phone service charge; provide for liability of corporate officers, managers, partners.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB167/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB167.htm","sponsor":"Carroll Gibson"},
{"bill_id":499862,"bill_number":"SB166","title":"AN ACT relating to the judiciary.","description":"Amend 22A.030 to refer to the correct administrative official within the court system.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"returned to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB166/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB166.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":499870,"bill_number":"SB165","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 to allow employees of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System to make a one-time irrevocable election to discontinue participation in the systems for all current and future employment with any employer participating in the systems and to provide members who elect to discontinue participation with a refund of their accumulated contributions; amend KRS 6.505 and 21.360 to allow judges and legislators in the Legislators' Retirement Plan and the Judicial Retirement Plan to make a one-time irrevocable election to discontinue participation in the plans for all future service as a judge or legislator and to provide members who elect to discontinue participation with a refund of their accumulated contributions; amend KRS 161.470 to allow employees of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System to make a one-time irrevocable election to discontinue participation in the system for all current and future employment with any employer participating in the system and to provide members who elect to discontinue participation with a refund of their accumulated contributions; amend KRS 16.520, 16.645, 61.520, 61.525, 78.540, and 78.545 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB165/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB165.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":499878,"bill_number":"SB164","title":"AN ACT relating to chiropractic.","description":"Amend KRS 312.015 to make technical correction; amend KRS 312.021 to make technical correction; amend KRS 312.035 to make technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB164/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB164.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":499886,"bill_number":"SB163","title":"AN ACT relating to health and welfare.","description":"Amend KRS 195.105 to use gender neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB163/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB163.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":499894,"bill_number":"SB162","title":"AN ACT relating to education.","description":"Amend KRS 156.029 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Education (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB162/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB162.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":499903,"bill_number":"SB161","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 186.411, 186,420, and 174.500 to include gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"returned to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB161/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB161.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":499910,"bill_number":"SB160","title":"AN ACT relating to economic development.","description":"Make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB160/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB160.htm","sponsor":"Katie Stine"},
{"bill_id":499919,"bill_number":"HR101","title":"Support efforts to raise awareness in Kentucky of inflammatory breast cancer.","description":"Support efforts to raise awareness in Kentucky of inflammatory breast cancer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR101/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR101.htm","sponsor":"Marie Rader"},
{"bill_id":499927,"bill_number":"HR100","title":"Recognize and congratulate Ford Motor Company on the 100th anniversary year of building cars and trucks in Louisville.","description":"Recognize and congratulate Ford Motor Company on the 100th anniversary year of building cars and trucks in Louisville.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR100/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR100.htm","sponsor":"Larry Clark"},
{"bill_id":499935,"bill_number":"HR99","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of former Kentucky Secretary of State Bremer Ehrler.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of former Kentucky Secretary of State Bremer Ehrler.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR99/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR99.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Burch"},
{"bill_id":499943,"bill_number":"HJR102","title":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of US 231 in Warren County as the Senator Nick Kafoglis Highway, and erect appropriate signs.","description":"Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of US 231 in Warren County as the Senator Nick Kafoglis Highway, and erect appropriate signs.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR102/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ102.htm","sponsor":"Jody Richards"},
{"bill_id":499951,"bill_number":"HB390","title":"AN ACT relating to urban-county government civil service.","description":"Amend KRS 67A.240 to expand the urban-county government civil service eligible list from 5 applicants to all qualified applicants and allow the appointing authority to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 67A.270 to require appointments to be made from a list of all eligible individuals and remove the limit on the number of times a person can be certified to the same appointing authority for the same or similar position.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 128)","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB390/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB390.htm","sponsor":"Kelly Flood"},
{"bill_id":499961,"bill_number":"HB389","title":"AN ACT relating to the transportation of aluminum.","description":"Amend KRS 189.2715, relating to overweight permits for the transportation of steel products or materials, to extend eligibility for the permits to aluminum products or materials.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB389/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB389.htm","sponsor":"Martha King"},
{"bill_id":499969,"bill_number":"HB388","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability trust fund and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to create the Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability trust fund; amend KRS 138.140 to impose an additional 50-cents surtax on each pack of cigarettes, increase the excise tax on other tobacco products to 30 percent, increase the excise tax on snuff to 38 cents per unit, and provide that revenues from the additional surtax on cigarettes and the increased excise tax on other tobacco products and snuff be deposited in the Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability trust fund; amend KRS 138.130 and 138.195 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"reassigned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB388/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB388.htm","sponsor":"David Watkins"},
{"bill_id":499976,"bill_number":"HB387","title":"AN ACT relating to nutritional supplements.","description":"Amend KRS 304.17A-139 to require coverage of one hundred percent human diet for extremely low birthweight, premature infants under a health benefit plan's prescription drug coverage.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB387/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB387.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":499985,"bill_number":"HB386","title":"AN ACT relating to military affairs and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 56.820 to allow the Commonwealth to award a built-to-suit lease under KRS 45A.085 and 45A.090 on property in Fayette County, Kentucky, administered by the Department of Military Affairs, Bluegrass Station Division; amend KRS 56.8161 to specify that the provisions of KRS 56.8163 to 56.8173 shall not apply to the built-to-suit leases;amend KRS 132.195 to exempt property in Fayette County, Kentucky, administered by the Department of Military Affairs, Bluegrass Station Division, from state and local taxation on leasehold interests.","status_desc":"In Senate Committee","status_date":"2013-02-27","last_action":"reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules as a Consent Bill","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB386/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB386.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":499993,"bill_number":"HB385","title":"AN ACT relating to personal representatives.","description":"Amend KRS 395.605 to provide that with respect to informal settlements, the fiduciary's oath regarding payment of estate and inheritance taxes relates to final settlements and not periodic settlements.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 127)","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB385/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB385.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Kerr"},
{"bill_id":500001,"bill_number":"HB384","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship.","description":"Amend KRS 164.7881 to permit high school seniors beginning with the 2014-2015 academic year, and high school juniors and seniors beginning with the 2015-2016 academic year, to use their KEES awards to pay for dual credit courses; require that the funds they would have received as eligible postsecondary students be reduced proportionally over a four-, or in some cases, five-year period by an amount equal to the amount used for dual credit; amend KRS 164.7885 to conform; designate the expenditures as necessary governmental expenses if KEES funds appropriated for fiscal years 2015 and 2016 are not adequate.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB384/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB384.htm","sponsor":"Brian Linder"},
{"bill_id":500009,"bill_number":"HB383","title":"AN ACT relating to operator's licenses.","description":"Amend KRS 186.570 to provide that the Transportation Cabinet shall send notifications regarding the suspension of an operator's license by certified mail; amend KRS 186.440 to increase the license reinstatement fee by an additional five dollars to be deposited into the road fund to offset the costs of certified mail for suspension notifications.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB383/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB383.htm","sponsor":"Richard Henderson"},
{"bill_id":500017,"bill_number":"HB382","title":"AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit the enforceability of any new federal law, rule, regulation, or order relating to the ownership or registration of certain firearms, magazines, or other firearms accessories; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB382/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB382.htm","sponsor":"Lynn Bechler"},
{"bill_id":500026,"bill_number":"HB381","title":"AN ACT relating to mental health.","description":"Amend KRS 202A.051 to require that a District Court consult with a family member or peace officer during proceedings for involuntary hospitalization; amend KRS 202A.171 to require that an authorizing physician consult with a family member and the District Court prior to discharge from involuntary hospitalization; amend KRS 202A.081 to require that all involuntarily hospitalized patients are ordered to receive community-based outpatient treatment for at least 6 months after release or discharge; amend KRS 205.560 to require that services provided by a qualified mental health professional are among those the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance recommends to the secretary of CHFS for coverage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit an individual who has been involuntarily hospitalized from purchasing or possessing a firearm, making it a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 237.104 to include those who have been involuntarily hospitalized among those who are excluded from the provision regarding firearms during a disaster or emergency.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB381/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB381.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Watkins"},
{"bill_id":500033,"bill_number":"HB380","title":"AN ACT relating to public procurement.","description":"Amend KRS 82.083 to allow a city to enter into an agreement with the Finance and Administration Cabinet for the disposition of its surplus property; amend KRS 45A.380 to allow local public agencies to purchase materials, supplies, or equipment from another governmental agency under KRS 45A.420; amend KRS 45A.420 to allow a local public agency to negotiate with vendors for supplies that are the subject of a price agreement with the General Services Administration; amend KRS 45A.425 to allow a local public agency to enter into an agreement with the Finance and Administration Cabinet for the disposition of its surplus property; and amend KRS 424.260 to exempt the purchase of materials, supplies, or equipment from another governmental agency under KRS 45A.420 from the advertisement requirements.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB380/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB380.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":500042,"bill_number":"HB379","title":"AN ACT relating to miner education and training.","description":"Amend KRS 351.106 to exempt from the new miner training persons who are contracted by a licensee but who do not perform duties related to the extraction or production of coal.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-14","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Environment (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-15","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB379/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB379.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":500050,"bill_number":"HB378","title":"AN ACT relating to impaired waters.","description":"Create a new section of Subchapter 70 of KRS Chapter 224 to define terms; require the Energy and Environment cabinet to maintain a listing of impaired waters placed on the 303(d) list and to make that list available on the cabinet's Web site; require the cabinet include other methodological information associated with determining whether to place the water body on the list and with developing any total maximum daily load; require the cabinet to provide notice to certain interested parties of a water body's listing on the 303(d) for effluent or thermal-based impairment; require the cabinet to prepare a report each year to the Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment by December 31 on TMDL development for the following year and create delayed effective date for the website listing of impaired waters and total maximum daily loads.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 98)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB378/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB378.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":501586,"bill_number":"HB391","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 110, 111, 112, and 113 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the courts.","description":"Propose to amend Sections 110, 111, 112, and 113 of the Constitution of Kentucky to give the authority to the Chief Justice to redistribute resources of the judicial branch to reflect workload and to draw Circuit and District Court judicial districts every ten years; submit to the voters for rejection or approval; ballot language supplied.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB391/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB391.htm","sponsor":"Adam Koenig"},
{"bill_id":501587,"bill_number":"HB392","title":"AN ACT relating to open meetings.","description":"Amend KRS 61.820 and 61.840 to clarify the requirements for public meeting locations.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB392/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB392.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":501588,"bill_number":"HB393","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 525.080 to include communications other than telephone calls from which no conversation ensues.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB393/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB393.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":501589,"bill_number":"HB394","title":"AN ACT relating to eligibility for public assistance.","description":"Amend KRS 205.200 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) to implement a substance abuse screening program for applicants and recipients of public assistance that have a felony or misdemeanor history of substance abuse; permit the CHFS to design the program and utilize testing of blood or urine or other reliable methods of substance abuse detection; state conditions under which an adult person is ineligible for public assistance; require testing as a requirement before the receipt of public assistance and once each subsequent year; require the CHFS to promulgate regulations governing the program and testing, including requirements that applicants pay for all substance abuse screening costs and receive a reimbursement if the test is passed; grant the right to additional screenings for applicants that fail a test; require both parents in two-parent families to comply with screening requirements if both parents have a felony or misdemeanor history of substance abuse; require that an individual who fails a test receive a list of licensed substance abuse treatment providers in his or her area; require passage of a drug test before receiving benefits; permit parents or guardians who fail a test to designate another individual to receive benefits for the parent's minor children; require designated individuals to pass substance abuse screenings; create a 60-day grace period to enter a treatment program after the initial positive test; require individuals to pay for a test at the end of the 60-day grace period; provide that if they pass that test, they must pass two additional randomized testings during the next 24 months, or if an individual tests positive after the 60-day grace period, they must show evidence of having entered a substance abuse treatment program within 14 days, during which time, benefits may be suspended and only be payable for the benefit of any children in that recipient's home.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB394/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB394.htm","sponsor":"Jonathan Shell"},
{"bill_id":501590,"bill_number":"HB395","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend and create various sections of the KRS to convert misdemeanors to prepayable violations and set fines.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB395/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB395.htm","sponsor":"Tom Riner"},
{"bill_id":501592,"bill_number":"HB396","title":"AN ACT relating to certificates for driving.","description":"Create new sections of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to define the term \"certificate for driving\" as a certificate issued by the Transportation Cabinet to an individual 18 years or older who has resided in the Commonwealth for a minimum of three years and who cannot prove citizenship or meet the requirements of KRS 186.412(2) to (4); mandate that certificates for driving be clearly distinguishable from regular operator's licenses and clearly state on the face that the document is not to be used for identification purposes; require the cabinet to establish a unique identifying number system for certificates and keep a database of all certificate holders and their driving histories available for the use of law enforcement agencies; establish that the database shall not be used for the investigation or enforcement of immigration fees; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to provide standards for the application, issuance, denial, and revocation of certificates; set out application procedures for certificates for driving; require application to be made in Frankfort or at a regional office of the cabinet; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to examination all applicants for a certificate; impose instruction permit restrictions on individuals applying for a certificate who do not have a valid license from another state or recognized foreign jurisdiction; set out denial criteria and revocation criteria; require the cabinet to establish a points and suspension system for moving violations similar to the one used for operator's licenses; make certificates valid for four years, with renewal; require possession of the certificate at all times when operating a motor vehicle; require certificate holders to notify the circuit clerk of name and address changes; set the fee for a certificate at the same fee as for an operator's license; establish an initial application fee of \"$100\"; prohibit certificate holders from possessing an operator's license; prohibit certificate holders from operating a commercial motor vehicle; subject certificate holders to existing penalties for DUI and driving on a suspended license.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 5, 2013","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB396/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB396.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Bell"},
{"bill_id":501594,"bill_number":"HB397","title":"AN ACT relating to tax credits for noise abatement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a tax credit for noise insulation installed in a residential structure that is located within a designated airport noise contour; amend KRS 141.0205 to recognize credits and make technical corrections; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB397/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB397.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":501596,"bill_number":"HB398","title":"AN ACT relating to nonpartisan elections.","description":"Amend KRS 83A.045 and 83A.170 to require instruction of voters in a primary or regular election to vote for \"up to\" the number of candidates for which they may vote.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB398/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB398.htm","sponsor":"Ryan Quarles"},
{"bill_id":501598,"bill_number":"HB399","title":"AN ACT relating to airport noise overlays.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to allow a planning unit to incorporate airport noise overlay districts within its zoning texts and maps; allow the planning unit to incorporate guidelines on building techniques and materials that are designed to provide acoustical insulation benefits to structures within the zone; affirm that nothing in the bill is to be construed to allow a planning unit to have authority to restrict, permit, prohibit, approve, or control uses or building standards on airport lands, or airport lands that are leased.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB399/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB399.htm","sponsor":"Ron Crimm"},
{"bill_id":501599,"bill_number":"HB400","title":"AN ACT relating to income tax.","description":"Amend KRS 141.010 to exclude from adjusted gross income the income from the discharge of indebtedness for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB400/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB400.htm","sponsor":"Jim Wayne"},
{"bill_id":501601,"bill_number":"HB401","title":"AN ACT relating to wage discrimination.","description":"Amend KRS 337.423 to prohibit wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race, or national origin by prohibiting wage differentials for employees who perform equivalent jobs; provide exceptions for wage differentials based on seniority or merit systems, systems that measure wages by quantity or quality of production, and factors other than sex, race, or national origin; amend KRS 337.420 to define equivalent jobs as those that are equal under the federal Equal Pay Act, or jobs that are dissimilar but equivalent in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; amend KRS 337.425 to require the promulgation of administrative regulations to specify criteria for determining jobs that are dominated by employees of a particular sex, race, or national origin, and acceptable methodology for determining equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; require that the promulgation occur on or before July 1, 2014; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2015.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 28, 2013","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB401/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB401.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":501602,"bill_number":"HB402","title":"AN ACT relating to 911 emergency services.","description":"Amend and create various sections of KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643 to add definitions; establish the prepaid wireless service charge; allow the CMRS board to deposit the fee into the CMRS fund; establish a method for the CMRS board to adjust the prepaid wireless service charge; create new sections of KRS Chapter 142 to allow the Department of Revenue to collect the prepaid wireless service charge from sellers; require sellers to register with the department; require sellers to file returns with payment of prepaid wireless service charge; allow for audits of returns; provide for review process for aggrieved sellers; provide for refunds of overpayment of prepaid wireless service charge; establish standards for recordkeeping for sellers; establish penalties for late payment or nonpayment of prepaid wireless service charge; require the department to remit collected fees to the CMRS board; and establish liability of sellers to pay prepaid wireless service charge.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB402/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB402.htm","sponsor":"Martha King"},
{"bill_id":501605,"bill_number":"HB403","title":"AN ACT relating to harvesting of catfish.","description":"Create new section of KRS Chapter 150 to regulate the harvesting of catfish by commercial anglers and the purchase of catfish by pay lakes by administrative regulation to ensure proper propagation and prevent depletion of catfish populations; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations ninety days after the effective date of the act; allow the department to set more restrictive daily creel and size limits per license holder; prohibit the transport of live catfish harvested in Kentucky out of state for commercial sale.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Agriculture & Small Business (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Agriculture and Small Business","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB403/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB403.htm","sponsor":"David Floyd"},
{"bill_id":501606,"bill_number":"HB404","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Include penetration by body parts in definitions of rape and sodomy.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB404/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB404.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":501609,"bill_number":"HB405","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky New Markets Development Program.","description":"Amend KRS 141.432 relating to the New Markets Development Program to clarify how the operating income of a qualified community development entity is calculated; require that all qualified equity investments issued on or after January 1, 2013, shall have an increased percentage of the purchase price used by the issuer to make investments in qualified low-income businesses compared to current program terms; amend KRS 141.433 to require that all entities submitting applications for tax credits on or after January 1, 2013 shall include a refundable performance fee to help ensure compliance with program requirements; provide that tax credits may be recaptured if an entity fails to invest the relevant minimum amount of money in qualified low-income businesses; establish terms and conditions for the payment, retention, and refund of the performance fee; amend KRS 141.434 to increase the cap on the amount of tax credits that may be awarded each year from $5 million to $25 million; name the act the Kentucky New Markets Development Program Renewal Act.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB405/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB405.htm","sponsor":"Keith Hall"},
{"bill_id":501612,"bill_number":"HB406","title":"AN ACT relating to employer tax credits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow an employer hiring a qualifying employee a job stimulus tax credit equal to the amount of tax deducted and withheld as required by KRS 141.310 upon the qualifying wages paid to the qualifying employee; order the priority of the tax credit in KRS 141.0205.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB406/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB406.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":501613,"bill_number":"HB407","title":"AN ACT relating to income tax credits.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 and amend KRS 141.0205 to establish a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for contributions to a school tuition organization; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB407/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB407.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":501614,"bill_number":"HB408","title":"AN ACT relating to poultry.","description":"Amend KRS 257.010 to define \"poultry\"; amend KRS 257.320 to define \"baby poultry hatchery,\" \"state veterinarian\" and \"person\"; amend KRS 257.330 to establish registration procedures for baby poultry sellers; establish time frame for registrations; amend KRS 257.350 to set out sales recordkeeping and records retention procedures; amend KRS 257.370 to authorize cooperation between the Department of Agriculture and USDA; amend KRS 257.380 to allow for promulgation of administrative regulations; amend KRS 257.390 to stipulate state veterinarian's role in importation; amend KRS 257.410 regarding labeling of imported poultry; amend KRS 257.450 to stipulate quarantine powers; amend KRS 257.460 regarding a revolving fund; amend KRS 257.470 to establish enforcement provisions; amend KRS 257.990 setting out offenses; repeal KRS 257.340, KRS 257.360, KRS 257.400, KRS 257.420, KRS 257.430, and KRS 257.440; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB408/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB408.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":501616,"bill_number":"HB409","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative ethics training.","description":"Amend KRS 6.716 to change the annual legislative ethics training requirement to two days, the second day of which shall consist of training on the Constitutions of Kentucky and the United States.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB409/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB409.htm","sponsor":"Mike Harmon"},
{"bill_id":501619,"bill_number":"HCR105","title":"Urge Congress to enact S. 209, which would require a full audit of the Federal Reserve.","description":"Urge Congress to enact S. 209, which would require a full audit of the Federal Reserve.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR105/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC105.htm","sponsor":"Jonathan Shell"},
{"bill_id":501621,"bill_number":"HCR106","title":"Urge the Kentucky Labor Cabinet, Department of Workers' Claims, to continue to monitor, collect data, search for innnovative solutions, implement improvements, and provide assistance in the area of reopenings and medical disputes.","description":"Urge the Kentucky Labor Cabinet, Department of Workers' Claims, to continue to monitor, collect data, search for innnovative solutions, implement improvements, and provide assistance in the area of reopenings and medical disputes.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Labor & Industry (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Labor and Industry","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR106/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC106.htm","sponsor":"James Glenn"},
{"bill_id":501622,"bill_number":"HJR104","title":"Direct Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University to report their most recent research on cellulosic ethanol, including sweet sorghum, switchgrass, wood, and miscanthus to the Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and the House Standing Committee on Agriculture and Small Business by January 7, 2014.","description":null,"status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HJR104/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HJ104.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":501623,"bill_number":"HR103","title":"A Resolution recognizing the 9/11 Memorial located at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central as the first officially recognized memorial to that tragic day in the Commonwealth.","description":"A Resolution recognizing the 9/11 Memorial located at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central as the first officially recognized memorial to that tragic day in the Commonwealth.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR103/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR103.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":501625,"bill_number":"SB1","title":"AN ACT relating to elections.","description":"Establish KRS Chapter 117A and create new sections thereof to adopt the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act (UMOVA); define terms; provide that certain military and overseas voters are \"covered voters\" for purposes of the Act; provide that the Act applies to elections for federal, state, and local offices and ballot measures; provide that the Secretary of State shall develop an electronic transmission system through which a covered voter may apply for and receive absentee ballots and other elections information; allow the Secretary of State to delegate duties under KRS Chapter 117A to the State Board of Elections; provide that overseas voters shall be assigned to the voting precinct of the last place of residence in the state, or if no longer valid, to an assigned address in the same precinct and to give the Secretary of State authority to promulgate administrative regulations covering the procedures for assigning an address; provide that a covered voter may register to vote using the federal postcard application or its electronic equivalent or the declaration accompanying a federal write-in absentee ballot; provide that a covered voter may apply for a specified ballot using either the regular absentee ballot application or the federal postcard application or its electronic equivalent or the declaration accompanying a federal write-in absentee ballot; provide that an application for a specified ballot is timely if received by the close of business hours seven days before the election; provide time periods for ballots to be transmitted to covered voters; provide time periods for ballots to be received to be valid; provide that a covered voter may use a federal write-in absentee ballot for all offices and ballot measures for covered elections; provide that all valid ballots cast in accordance with provisions be counted if delivered by the end of business on the day before the vote totals are certified and that a ballot may not be rejected for a late or missing postmark if the voter has declared it was timely submitted; provide that all specified ballots be accompanied by a signed declaration that a material misstatement of fact may be grounds for a conviction of perjury; provide that the Secretary of State shall implement an electronic system to allow covered voters to determine if ballot application and ballot have been received and accepted; provide procedures for collecting and handling electronic-mail addresses from covered voters; provide that sample ballots shall be prepared at least 50 days before an election that includes all ballot measures and offices that are expected to be on the ballot; provide that sample ballots shall be posted on Internet Web sites and provided to requesting voters; provide that failure to satisfy a nonsubstantive requirement does not invalidate a document submitted under the chapter, that notarization and authentication are not required, and that if intention of the voter is discernible then the ballot must be accepted as a valid vote; provide that a court may issue an injunction or grant other equitable relief to ensure compliance with the chapter; provide that the Act should be construed with consideration of need to promote uniformity of the law among states that enact the Act; provide that KRS Chapter 117A modifies the federal Act governing electronic signatures to extent permitted and governs if inconsistent with other election laws; amend KRS 117.079, 117.085, and 117.086 to conform and to establish that uniformed-service voters and overseas voters are permitted to submit absentee ballot applications and ballots by facsimile, or by an electronic transmission system; Create a Military and Overseas Voting Assistance Task Force to study the election laws and absentee ballot procedures of the Commonwealth relating to military and overseas voters; direct task force to submit report to the Legislative Research Commission by November 27, 2013; Effective dates, delayed.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 131)","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB1/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB1.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501629,"bill_number":"SB175","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 249.020 to insert gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"reassigned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB175/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB175.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":501630,"bill_number":"SB176","title":"AN ACT relating to persistently low-achieving schools.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to permit a local board of education to designate a persistently low-achieving school as a charter school and solicit applications for a governing board; permit a persistently low-achieving school to petition for conversion to a charter school; establish definitions and requirements for a charter school; establish charter school application process; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for charter school appeals, implementation, and reporting; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to clarify charter school employee benefits; amend KRS 160.346 to add a \"charter school option\" as a school intervention for persistently low achieving schools.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-05","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB176/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB176.htm","sponsor":"Mike Wilson"},
{"bill_id":501632,"bill_number":"SB177","title":"AN ACT reclassifying the City of Burnside.","description":"Reclassify the City of Burnside, in Pulaski County, with a population of 611, from a city of the fifth class to a city of the fourth class, which requires a population of 3,000 to 7,999.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB177/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB177.htm","sponsor":"Chris Girdler"},
{"bill_id":501635,"bill_number":"SB178","title":"AN ACT relating to an entity with a valid license issued by the Department of Insurance to operate as a health maintenance organization or insurer that operates a Medicaid managed care organization.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish Medicaid managed care organization requirements for determination of an emergency medical condition and a non-emergency condition based on the provider's determination, coverage of emergency services in a non-network hospital, prohibit preauthorization for admission of an enrollee with a psychiatric emergency medical condition for stabilization as determined by the treating physician; amend KRS 205.222 to require a Medicaid managed care organization to comply with the provisions of KRS 304.17A-600, 304.17A-607, 304.17A-609, 304.17A-611, 304.17A-617, and 304.17A-619 and establish compliance requirements; authorize an enrollee to assign any rights to a challenge or appeal of an adverse action by a Medicaid managed care organization concerning coverage or payment for health care services; authorize an appeal of an adverse action by a Medicaid managed care organization to an administrative hearing officer with an order required within 30 days of the hearing, subject to judicial review, and require the Medicaid managed care organization to reimburse reasonable attorney fees and costs if the enrollee or provider prevails on the merits; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require a Medicaid managed care organization which receives a capitation payment for retroactive eligibility to perform a retrospective review of the necessity for a medical service performed during a period of retroactive eligibility if utilization review is required and the Medicaid managed care organization receives a timely request for a review in accordance with Department for Medicaid Services administrative regulations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require a Medicaid managed care organization to manage and administer Medicaid benefits in accordance with insurance code provisions KRS 304.17A-500 to 304.17A-661, if not in conflict with federal Medicaid law, when a Medicaid managed care organization seeks certification as a qualified health plan under a health benefit exchange established in compliance with the federal Affordable Care act; repeal KRS 205.6310 and amend KRS 205.6328, 205. 6334, and 205.6336 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":"Rules","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB178/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB178.htm","sponsor":"Robert Leeper"},
{"bill_id":501636,"bill_number":"SB179","title":"AN ACT relating to public assistance fraud prevention.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to limit purchases with public assistance benefits; require public assistance recipients to be notified of prohibited purchases; permit a protective payee for violators; prohibit retail establishments from accepting payment for certain purchases with public assistance benefits; set fines for violations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB179/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB179.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":501639,"bill_number":"SB180","title":"AN ACT relating to legislators.","description":"Amend KRS 6.744 to permit a legislator who is a properly licensed medical professional to appear before a state agency as an expert witness for compensation; amend KRS 45A.340 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB180/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB180.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":501642,"bill_number":"SB181","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 532.025 to include a revenge killing of a current or retired state or local public official, juror or police officer, sheriff, or deputy sheriff as an aggravating circumstance in a capital prosecution.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB181/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB181.htm","sponsor":"Sara Gregory"},
{"bill_id":501643,"bill_number":"SB182","title":"AN ACT relating to preservation of Work Projects Administration buildings.","description":"Amend KRS 171.381 to require the Kentucky Heritage Council to conduct a survey and catalog the WPA buildings in Kentucky.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Economic Development, Tourism & Labor (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Economic Development, Tourism & Labor","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB182/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB182.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":501644,"bill_number":"SB183","title":"AN ACT relating to lobbyists.","description":"Amend KRS 6.611 to define \"legislative agent,\" amend KRS 11A.201 to define \"executive agency lobbyist,\" amend KRS 6.811 and 11A.206 to prohibit lobbyists from contacting a member of the General Assembly about issues, bills, or proposals under consideration during a regular or extraordinary session; require the Legislative Ethics Commission, and the Executive Branch Ethics Commission respectively, to review any violation thereof, provide a $500 penalty for each violation found, and to promulgate necessary administrative regulations.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB183/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB183.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":501645,"bill_number":"SB184","title":"AN ACT relating to electronic monitoring.","description":"Amend KRS 526.020, relating to eavesdropping, to specifically include the use of electronic devices.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB184/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB184.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":501649,"bill_number":"SB185","title":"AN ACT relating to airport noise overlays.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to allow a planning unit to incorporate airport noise overlay districts within its zoning texts and maps; allow the planning unit to incorporate guidelines on building techniques and materials that are designed to provide acoustical insulation benefits to structures within the zone; affirm that nothing in the bill is to be construed to allow a planning unit to have authority to restrict, permit, prohibit, approve, or control uses or building standards on airport lands, or airport lands that are leased.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB185/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB185.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":501651,"bill_number":"SB186","title":"AN ACT relating to veteran's nursing homes.","description":"Amend KRS 40.310 and 40.325 to not allow Veterans Nursing Homes to seek Medicaid Estate Recovery Program funds.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB186/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB186.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":501652,"bill_number":"SB187","title":"AN ACT relating to the foster care system.","description":"Amend KRS 605.120 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to consider improvements to the foster care system; require report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare by November 1 of each year.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB187/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB187.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":501653,"bill_number":"SB188","title":"AN ACT relating to reorganization.","description":"Confirm Executive Order 2012-1057, relating to reorganization of the Transportation Cabinet.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 74)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB188/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB188.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":501654,"bill_number":"SB189","title":"AN ACT proposing to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to allow voter-approved local sales and use taxes.","description":"Propose the creation of a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the General Assembly to allow local governments to impose a limited-purpose sales and use tax to fund specific projects; provide that the General Assembly shall establish the necessary procedures and parameters for the levy and collection of the tax; establish an upper aggregate limit for all levies within a county at one percent; require voter approval of the levy; require proceeds from the levy to be deposited in a separate trust fund; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB189/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB189.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":501656,"bill_number":"SB190","title":"AN ACT relating to water quality.","description":"Create a new section of Subchapter 70 of KRS Chapter 224 to require the Energy and Environment cabinet to maintain a list of impaired water identified pursuant to 33.U.S.C.sec. 1313(d) and total maximum daily load effluent limitations; identify the methods, information and rationale for placing the water on the list of impaired waters or the development of a new TMDL; provide notice to those who want to be alerted to waters on the 303(d) list or new total maximum daily load limitations; require the cabinet to take all necessary step to remove restrictions or limitations as a result of a listing or a new TMDL if the water later meets applicable water quality standards; require the cabinet to report the following year's TMDL development plan and make the written report available to the Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment and place it on the cabinet's Web site.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB190/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB190.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":501657,"bill_number":"SB191","title":"AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to create a Kentucky Pardon Board and amend Sections 145, 150, and 240 of the Constitution of Kentucky to conform.","description":"Propose to create a new Section 77A of the Constitution of Kentucky to create a Kentucky Pardon Board; propose to amend Sections 145, 150, and 240 of the Constitution of Kentucky to conform; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB191/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB191.htm","sponsor":"Walter Blevins"},
{"bill_id":501663,"bill_number":"SB192","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle reparations utilization review of services provided by a doctor of chiropractic.","description":"Create a new section of Subtitle 39 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish requirements for utilization review by a reparations obligor of services rendered by a doctor of chiropractic; require that the reviewing agent be registered with the Department of Insurance and be a Kentucky licensed doctor of chiropractic and qualified to conduct a peer review pursuant to KRS 312.200(3).","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB192/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB192.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":501664,"bill_number":"SB193","title":"AN ACT relating to legislative retirement benefits.","description":"Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to legislators who have not previously participated in the plan and who begin their first term of office on or after July 1, 2013; amend KRS 6.515 to increase the cost of purchasing active duty military service to the full actuarial cost in the Legislators' Retirement Plan, to prohibit service purchases made on or after July 1, 2013, from being used to vest for pension and retiree health benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan, and to require service purchased on or after July 1, 2013, in the Legislators' Retirement Plan to assume the earliest retirement date and cost-of-living adjustments in determining the appropriate actuarial cost; create new sections of KRS Chapter 6 to establish the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan for legislators who begin their first term of office on or after July 1, 2013; provide that the plan shall be administered by the Kentucky Deferred Compensation Authority; allow the authority to utilize plans already established or to establish new plans to administer the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan; provide an employer match of one-half the amount contributed by the employee subject to a maximum employer contribution of 5 percent of the legislator's wages; provide that a legislator participating in the plan shall be vested for employer contributions on a sliding scale that fully vests the legislator for the employer contributions at six years; provide that the benefits under the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan shall not constitute an inviolable contract of the Commonwealth; amend KRS 18A.245 to establish responsibilities of the board of the Kentucky Deferred Compensation Authority to administer the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan; amend KRS 61.510, governing the Kentucky Retirement Systems, to clarify that a legislator who begins his or her first term of office on or after the effective date of the Act shall not participate in these plans as a result of service in the General Assembly; amend KRS 61.680 to conform; EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB193/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB193.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":501665,"bill_number":"SB194","title":"AN ACT relating to surcharges in payment transactions.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to prohibit the imposition of a surcharge on a buyer based on method of payment.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB194/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB194.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":501668,"bill_number":"SB195","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 508.078 to define terroristic threatening in the second degree to include making threats against any gathering.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB195/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB195.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":501669,"bill_number":"SB196","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to define terms; establish the Legislative Advisory Reapportionment and Redistricting Commission; require the commission to draft redistricting plans for state and congressional districts; establish standards to be followed by the commission and any member who develops a plan; require the LRC to refer the plans to the Interim Joint Committee on State Government for review; establish procedures for members of the General Assembly to follow if they chose to file a redistricting plan.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB196/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB196.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":501670,"bill_number":"SB197","title":"AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance.","description":"Amend KRS 304.20-040 to require two notifications of the cancellation of a motor vehicle insurance policy for non-payment.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB197/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB197.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Parrett"},
{"bill_id":501673,"bill_number":"SB198","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 507.030 to eliminate gender-specific language and make other technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB198/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB198.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":501677,"bill_number":"SB199","title":"AN ACT relating to the courts.","description":"Amend KRS 26A.030, which authorizes a successor of a judge to sign orders, to make gender neutral.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB199/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB199.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":501678,"bill_number":"SB200","title":"AN ACT relating to civil law.","description":"Amend KRS 431.082 to apply the provisions without regard to the plaintiff's gender.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB200/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB200.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":501679,"bill_number":"SB201","title":"AN ACT relating to diabetes educators.","description":"Amend KRS 309.325 to amend the definition of licensed diabetes educator and to establish definitions for apprentice diabetes educator and master licensed diabetes educator; create new sections of KRS 309.325 to 309.339 to establish the permit and licensure requirements for apprentice diabetes educators and master licensed diabetes educators; amend KRS 309.327 to establish that permit and licensure requirements are in effect July 1, 2014; amend KRS 309.335 to amend the requirements to be a licensed diabetes educator; and amend KRS 309.328 to conform.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB201/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB201.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":501680,"bill_number":"SB202","title":"AN ACT relating to self insured workers' compensation groups.","description":"Amend KRS 304.50-010 to authorize workers' compensation self-insured groups to contract and sue and be sued in the name adopted by the group.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 75)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB202/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB202.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":501683,"bill_number":"SB203","title":"AN ACT relating to fish and wildlife.","description":"Amend KRS 150.175 to remove the distinction between the commercial and noncommercial taxidermist licenses; abolish the migratory bird permit; change the name of the waterfowl permit to the migratory bird permit; separate the senior/disabled combination license into two different licenses; create a new senior lifetime combination hunting and fishing license; allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to offer multi-year licenses or permits for certain existing annual licenses or permits; allow the department to discontinue multi-year licenses or permits at any time; amend KRS 150.603 to conform; repeal KRS 150.605.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"recommitted to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB203/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB203.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":501687,"bill_number":"SB204","title":"AN ACT relating to pari-mutuel wagering.","description":"Amend KRS 230.210 to define \"pari-mutuel wagering,\" \"mutuel wagering,\" and \"pari-mutuel system of wagering\"; amend KRS 230.361 to allow the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to authorize pari-mutuel wagers with outcomes that may be determined by the results of previously run or historical races.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB204/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB204.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":501688,"bill_number":"SB205","title":"AN ACT relating to brain injuries.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for post-acute acquired brain injury treatment; define terms.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB205/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB205.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":501689,"bill_number":"SB206","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.050 to increase the amount of the DUI service fee by $100 and to specify the usage of a portion of the increased funding in the prosecutorial system.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB206/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB206.htm","sponsor":"Morgan McGarvey"},
{"bill_id":501691,"bill_number":"SB207","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.","description":"Amend KRS 316.170 to change the per diem of a member of the Kentucky Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors to a maximum of $200; require the board to establish per diem amounts through promulgation of administrative regulation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB207/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB207.htm","sponsor":"Sara Gregory"},
{"bill_id":501692,"bill_number":"SB208","title":"AN ACT relating to probation and parole.","description":"Amend KRS 439.570 to require persons transferring their probation or parole supervision into or out of Kentucky to pay a transfer fee of $75, to be used to provide enhanced probation and parole services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB208/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB208.htm","sponsor":"Denise Harper Angel"},
{"bill_id":501695,"bill_number":"SB209","title":"AN ACT proposing amendments to the Constitution of Kentucky relating to redistricting.","description":"Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to create the Legislative Advisory Redistricting Commission; require the commission to draft redistricting plans for state legislative districts; establish standards to be followed by the commission and permit any member of the General Assembly under certain circumstances to file a plan; propose to amend Section 33 of the Constitution of Kentucky to clarify standards relating to redistricting; require the General Assembly to remain in session, without pay to the members, for purpose of redistricting if the General Assembly fails to redistrict by April 15; provide that the Kentucky Supreme Court shall have the authority to redistrict the state if the General Assembly fails to redistrict by April 30; submit to the voters for ratification or rejection; include ballot language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB209/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB209.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":501697,"bill_number":"SB210","title":"AN ACT relating to controlled substances.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to provide limited immunity from being charged or prosecuted for a controlled substance offense when a person seeks health care for himself or another person experiencing a drug overdose; exclude trafficking offenses from immunity; define terms.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Judiciary (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB210/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB210.htm","sponsor":"Perry Clark"},
{"bill_id":501701,"bill_number":"SB211","title":"AN ACT relating to knives.","description":"Amend KRS 65.870, preempting local regulation of firearms and ammunition, to include knives within the scope of the statute.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB211/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB211.htm","sponsor":"Robin Webb"},
{"bill_id":501702,"bill_number":"SB212","title":"AN ACT relating to natural resources.","description":"Amend 149.580 to make language gender-neutral and make grammatical and technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB212/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB212.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":501703,"bill_number":"SB213","title":"AN ACT relating to energy.","description":"Amend KRS 278.060 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB213/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB213.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":501707,"bill_number":"SB214","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 186.411, 186,420, and 174.500 to include gender-neutral references","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB214/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB214.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":501708,"bill_number":"SB215","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 186.411, 186,420, and 174.500 to include gender-neutral references","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB215/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB215.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":501709,"bill_number":"SB216","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":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-02-28","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":"Education","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB216/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SB216.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":501710,"bill_number":"SCR123","title":"Direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study the current statutory, regulatory, and procedural barriers to immediate notification of the Division of Probation and Parole when supervisees are arrested; alternative methods for notification and the associated costs of each method, including start-up and recurring costs; the necessary participation and cooperation of other appropriate agencies and the Administrative Office of the Courts in developing and implementing the notification system; report findings to the appropriate committee or committees by November 1, 2013.","description":"Direct the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to study the current statutory, regulatory, and procedural barriers to immediate notification of the Division of Probation and Parole when supervisees are arrested; alternative methods for notification and the associated costs of each method, including start-up and recurring costs; the necessary participation and cooperation of other appropriate agencies and the Administrative Office of the Courts in developing and implementing the notification system; report findings to the appropriate committee or committees by November 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 23)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR123/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SC123.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":501712,"bill_number":"SR122","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Logan Howard.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Logan Howard.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR122/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR122.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Turner"},
{"bill_id":501716,"bill_number":"SR124","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jack P. Spradlin.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Jack P. Spradlin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-06","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR124/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR124.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":501717,"bill_number":"SR125","title":"Honor Captain Shannon D. Ison upon receiving the Silver Star.","description":"Honor Captain Shannon D. Ison upon receiving the Silver Star.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-01","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR125/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR125.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":501720,"bill_number":"SR126","title":"Adjourn in loving honor and memory of Estelle Virginia Martin Simpson.","description":"Adjourn in loving honor and memory of Estelle Virginia Martin Simpson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR126/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR126.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":501721,"bill_number":"SR127","title":"Confirm the appointment of James R. Mahan to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of James R. Mahan to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 34-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR127/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR127.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":501722,"bill_number":"SR128","title":"Confirm the appointment of Patrick M. Henderson to the Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Patrick M. Henderson to the Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 34-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR128/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR128.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":501725,"bill_number":"SR129","title":"Confirm the appointment of Karen M. Curtis to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Karen M. Curtis to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 34-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR129/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR129.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":501728,"bill_number":"SR130","title":"Confirm the appointment of Charles Jacob Reid to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2015.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Charles Jacob Reid to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2015.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR130/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR130.htm","sponsor":"Joe Bowen"},
{"bill_id":501730,"bill_number":"SR131","title":"Confirm the reappointment of F. Lynn Luallen to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2015.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of F. Lynn Luallen to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2015.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR131/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR131.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501731,"bill_number":"SR132","title":"Confirm the reappointment of William E. Summers, V to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of William E. Summers, V to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR132/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR132.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":501732,"bill_number":"SR133","title":"Confirm the appointment of Stacey C. Epperson to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Stacey C. Epperson to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR133/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR133.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":501735,"bill_number":"SR134","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Gail J. Melvin to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Gail J. Melvin to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR134/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR134.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501736,"bill_number":"SR135","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Porter G. Peeples to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Porter G. Peeples to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR135/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR135.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":501737,"bill_number":"SR136","title":"Confirm the appointment of Ann D. McDonald to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2013.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Ann D. McDonald to the Kentucky Housing Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring October 30, 2013.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR136/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR136.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":501743,"bill_number":"SR137","title":"Confirm reappointment of James W. Gardner to the Public Service Commission for a term ending July 1, 2016.","description":"Confirm reappointment of James W. Gardner to the Public Service Commission for a term ending July 1, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR137/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR137.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":501745,"bill_number":"SR138","title":"Confirm appointment of Linda K. Breathitt to the Public Service Commission for a term ending July 1, 2013.","description":"Confirm appointment of Linda K. Breathitt to the Public Service Commission for a term ending July 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR138/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR138.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501746,"bill_number":"SR139","title":"Confirm the appointment of Wayne D. Sapp to the Kentucky Personnel Board for a term expiring January 1, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Wayne D. Sapp to the Kentucky Personnel Board for a term expiring January 1, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR139/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR139.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501747,"bill_number":"SR140","title":"Confirm the appointment of Donald W. Blevins to the Kentucky Personnel Board for a term expiring January 1, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Donald W. Blevins to the Kentucky Personnel Board for a term expiring January 1, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR140/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR140.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501749,"bill_number":"SR141","title":"Confirm the appointment of Caroline W. Mudd to the Parole Board for a term expiring June 30, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Caroline W. Mudd to the Parole Board for a term expiring June 30, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR141/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR141.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":501750,"bill_number":"SR142","title":"Confirm the reappointment of June G. Hudson to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of June G. Hudson to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR142/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR142.htm","sponsor":"Robert Leeper"},
{"bill_id":501754,"bill_number":"SR143","title":"Confirm the appointment of Benham J. Sims, III to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2015.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Benham J. Sims, III to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2015.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR143/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR143.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":501755,"bill_number":"SR144","title":"Confirm the reappointment of David M. Ingordo to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2015.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of David M. Ingordo to the Kentucky Lottery Corporation Board of Directors for a term expiring November 28, 2015.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR144/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR144.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":501757,"bill_number":"SR145","title":"Confirm reappointment of Teresa L. Naydan to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance for a term expiring August 15, 2016.","description":"Confirm reappointment of Teresa L. Naydan to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance for a term expiring August 15, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR145/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR145.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501758,"bill_number":"SR146","title":"Confirm reappointment of Craig Christman Dilger to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance for a term expiring August 15, 2016.","description":"Confirm reappointment of Craig Christman Dilger to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance for a term expiring August 15, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR146/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR146.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":501759,"bill_number":"SR147","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Michael Mark Wasicsko to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 7, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Michael Mark Wasicsko to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 7, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR147/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR147.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501764,"bill_number":"SR148","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Barbara Ann Boyd to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 7, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Barbara Ann Boyd to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 7, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR148/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR148.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":501765,"bill_number":"SR149","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Sandy Sinclair-Curry to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring September 18, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Sandy Sinclair-Curry to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring September 18, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR149/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR149.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501768,"bill_number":"SR150","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Cassandra A. Webb to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring September 18, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Cassandra A. Webb to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring September 18, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR150/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR150.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501769,"bill_number":"SR151","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Ronald Anthony Strong to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring September 18, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Ronald Anthony Strong to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring September 18, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR151/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR151.htm","sponsor":"Katie Stine"},
{"bill_id":501771,"bill_number":"SR152","title":"Confirm the appointment of Michael H. Ross to the Education Professional Standards Board for the remainder of the unexpired term ending September 18, 2014.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Michael H. Ross to the Education Professional Standards Board for the remainder of the unexpired term ending September 18, 2014.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR152/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR152.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501774,"bill_number":"SR153","title":"Confirm the appointment of Jimmy Bevins to the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term to expire August 13, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Jimmy Bevins to the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term to expire August 13, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR153/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR153.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":501776,"bill_number":"SR154","title":"Confirm the appointment of Stephen M. Glenn to the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term expiring August 13, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Stephen M. Glenn to the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term expiring August 13, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR154/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR154.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501777,"bill_number":"SR155","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Terry K. Teitloff to the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term expiring August 13, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Terry K. Teitloff to the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission for a term expiring August 13, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR155/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR155.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501779,"bill_number":"SR156","title":"Confirm the appointment of Thomas Kennedy Helm, III, to the Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2017.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Thomas Kennedy Helm, III, to the Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2017.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR156/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR156.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":501781,"bill_number":"SR157","title":"Confirm the appointment of Carolyn M. Ridley to the Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2017.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Carolyn M. Ridley to the Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2017.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR157/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR157.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501783,"bill_number":"SR158","title":"Confirm the appointment of Sherrill Brakmeier Zimmerman to the Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2013.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Sherrill Brakmeier Zimmerman to the Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2013.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR158/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR158.htm","sponsor":"Ernie Harris"},
{"bill_id":501785,"bill_number":"SR159","title":"Confirm the appointment of Arnold Taylor to the Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2014.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Arnold Taylor to the Council on Postsecondary Education for a term expiring December 31, 2014.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR159/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR159.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":501787,"bill_number":"SR160","title":"Confirm the appointment of David B. Sloan to the Mine Safety Review Commission for a term expiring May 23, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of David B. Sloan to the Mine Safety Review Commission for a term expiring May 23, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-02-27","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR160/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR160.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":501788,"bill_number":"SR161","title":"Confirm the appointment of M. Melinda Karns to the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals for a term expiring April 16, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of M. Melinda Karns to the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals for a term expiring April 16, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR161/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR161.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501789,"bill_number":"SR162","title":"Confirm the appointment of Lanola Parsons to the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals for a term expiring July 26, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Lanola Parsons to the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals for a term expiring July 26, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR162/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR162.htm","sponsor":"Brandon Smith"},
{"bill_id":501794,"bill_number":"SR163","title":"Confirm the appointment of Jon E. Stewart as the manager, Chief Executive Officer/ President for Kentucky Employers' Mutual Authority.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Jon E. Stewart as the manager, Chief Executive Officer/ President for Kentucky Employers' Mutual Authority.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR163/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR163.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":501795,"bill_number":"SR164","title":"Confirm the appointment of Debra K. Nicholson to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2015.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Debra K. Nicholson to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2015.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR164/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR164.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":501796,"bill_number":"SR165","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Rita Y. Phillips to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2015.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Rita Y. Phillips to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2015.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR165/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR165.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":501798,"bill_number":"SR166","title":"Confirm the reappointment of David H. Snowden to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2015.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of David H. Snowden to the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority for a term expiring December 31, 2015.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR166/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR166.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":501801,"bill_number":"SR167","title":"Confirm the appointment of Edward M. Bourne, Jr. to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee for a term expiring April 14, 2018.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Edward M. Bourne, Jr. to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee for a term expiring April 14, 2018.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR167/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR167.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":501802,"bill_number":"SR168","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Eugene Jeffrey Mosley to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee for a term expiring April 14, 2018.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Eugene Jeffrey Mosley to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee for a term expiring April 14, 2018.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR168/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR168.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":501803,"bill_number":"SR169","title":"Confirm the gubernatorial appointment of Nawanna B. Privett to the Kentucky Board of Education representing the Fifth Supreme Court District for a term ending April 14, 2014.","description":"Confirm the gubernatorial appointment of Nawanna B. Privett to the Kentucky Board of Education representing the Fifth Supreme Court District for a term ending April 14, 2014.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR169/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR169.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":501806,"bill_number":"SR170","title":"Confirm the gubernatorial appointment of Leo Calderon to the Kentucky Board of Education representing the members at-large for a term ending April 14, 2016.","description":"Confirm the gubernatorial appointment of Leo Calderon to the Kentucky Board of Education representing the members at-large for a term ending April 14, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR170/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR170.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":501807,"bill_number":"SR171","title":"Confirm the gubernatorial reappointment of Brigitte B. Ramsey to the Kentucky Board of Education representing members at-large for a term ending April 14, 2016.","description":"Confirm the gubernatorial reappointment of Brigitte B. Ramsey to the Kentucky Board of Education representing members at-large for a term ending April 14, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR171/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR171.htm","sponsor":"Katie Stine"},
{"bill_id":501810,"bill_number":"SR172","title":"Confirm the gubernatorial reappointment of David K. Karem to the Kentucky Board of Education representing members at-large for a term ending April 14, 2016.","description":"Confirm the gubernatorial reappointment of David K. Karem to the Kentucky Board of Education representing members at-large for a term ending April 14, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 37-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR172/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR172.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
{"bill_id":501811,"bill_number":"SR173","title":"Confirm the appointment of Jane Rice Williams as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Jane Rice Williams as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR173/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR173.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":501813,"bill_number":"SR174","title":"Confirm the appointment of Thomas G. Polites as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Thomas G. Polites as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR174/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR174.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":501814,"bill_number":"SR175","title":"Confirm the appointment of Steven G. Bolton as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2016.","description":"Confirm the appointment of Steven G. Bolton as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR175/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR175.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":501815,"bill_number":"SR176","title":"Confirm the reappointment of Otto D. Wolff as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2016.","description":"Confirm the reappointment of Otto D. Wolff as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring July 14, 2016.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-15","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 36-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR176/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR176.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":508638,"bill_number":"SR182","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jack Burford.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jack Burford.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR182/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR182.htm","sponsor":"Jared Carpenter"},
{"bill_id":508640,"bill_number":"SR181","title":"Confirm Sharon P. Clark as the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance.","description":"Confirm Sharon P. Clark as the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"received in House","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR181/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR181.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":508642,"bill_number":"SR180","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Milton Edward Wilson.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Milton Edward Wilson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR180/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR180.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":508644,"bill_number":"SR179","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Rubye Mae Masters Corman.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Rubye Mae Masters Corman.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR179/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR179.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":508646,"bill_number":"SR178","title":"Honor Kentucky farmers and recognize February 17 to 23, 2013, as Food Checkout Week.","description":"Honor Kentucky farmers and recognize February 17 to 23, 2013, as Food Checkout Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR178/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR178.htm","sponsor":"Paul Hornback"},
{"bill_id":508648,"bill_number":"SR177","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lori Acton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lori Acton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR177/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR177.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":508650,"bill_number":"HR120","title":"A Resolution recognizing February 26, 2013, as \"Spay Day USA\".","description":"A Resolution recognizing February 26, 2013, as \"Spay Day USA\".","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR120/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR120.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":508652,"bill_number":"HR119","title":"Recognize the appointment of Professor Frank X. Walker as Kentucky poet laureate 2013-2014.","description":"Recognize the appointment of Professor Frank X. Walker as Kentucky poet laureate 2013-2014.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR119/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR119.htm","sponsor":"Reginald Meeks"},
{"bill_id":508654,"bill_number":"HR118","title":"Commend the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts, for establishing a veterans' court to provide support for veterans as they interact with the court system.","description":"Commend the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts, for establishing a veterans' court to provide support for veterans as they interact with the court system.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR118/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR118.htm","sponsor":"Martha King"},
{"bill_id":508656,"bill_number":"HR116","title":"Adjourn in honor of Kentucky 4-H members and their adult mentors as they participate in \"4-H: A Capitol Experience.\"","description":"Adjourn in honor of Kentucky 4-H members and their adult mentors as they participate in \"4-H: A Capitol Experience.\"","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR116/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR116.htm","sponsor":"Ryan Quarles"},
{"bill_id":508658,"bill_number":"HR115","title":"Recognize March as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and adjourn in honor of Kentucky's thirteen regional rape crisis centers.","description":"Recognize March as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and adjourn in honor of Kentucky's thirteen regional rape crisis centers.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR115/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR115.htm","sponsor":"Leslie Combs"},
{"bill_id":508660,"bill_number":"HR114","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lori Acton.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lori Acton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR114/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR114.htm","sponsor":"Marie Rader"},
{"bill_id":508662,"bill_number":"HR113","title":"Urge the United States government to request the release of Pastor Saeed Abedini.","description":"Urge the United States government to request the release of Pastor Saeed Abedini.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"3rd reading, adopted 99-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR113/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR113.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":508664,"bill_number":"HR112","title":"Designate the Official Kentucky State Championship Old-Time fiddlers Contest as the official Kentucky state championship in clogging and all acoustic stringed-instruments except the dulcimer.","description":"Designate the Official Kentucky State Championship Old-Time fiddlers Contest as the official Kentucky state championship in clogging and all acoustic stringed-instruments except the dulcimer.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-12","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR112/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR112.htm","sponsor":"Tim Moore"},
{"bill_id":508666,"bill_number":"HR111","title":"Recognize February 17 to 23, 2013, as Food Checkout Week.","description":"Recognize February 17 to 23, 2013, as Food Checkout Week.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR111/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR111.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":508668,"bill_number":"HR110","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of John M. Tomlin.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of John M. Tomlin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR110/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR110.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":508670,"bill_number":"HR107","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jack Burford.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jack Burford.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR107/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR107.htm","sponsor":"Rita Smart"},
{"bill_id":508672,"bill_number":"HCR117","title":"Establish the Priorities of Government Spending and Budget Reform Task Force; direct the Task Force to study the priorities of government spending and budget reform and report findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than November 27, 2013.","description":"Establish the Priorities of Government Spending and Budget Reform Task Force; direct the Task Force to study the priorities of government spending and budget reform and report findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than November 27, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR117/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC117.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
{"bill_id":508674,"bill_number":"HCR109","title":"Urge the United States Congress to persuade the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its proposed Greenhouse Gas New Source Performance Standard for Electric Generating Units.","description":"Urge the United States Congress to persuade the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its proposed Greenhouse Gas New Source Performance Standard for Electric Generating Units.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 130)","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR109/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC109.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":508676,"bill_number":"HCR108","title":"Urge President Barack Obama and his administration to support oil production off the northern coast of Alaska and approve the TransCanada Keyston XL pipeline project.","description":"Urge President Barack Obama and his administration to support oil production off the northern coast of Alaska and approve the TransCanada Keyston XL pipeline project.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"WITHDRAWN","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR108/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC108.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":508678,"bill_number":"HB458","title":"AN ACT relating to warrants.","description":"Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 455 to require the issuance of a warrant prior to agents of state or local government accessing a person's location history as recorded by various electronic devices, with exceptions for consent and emergency situations, and with yearly reporting requirements by the courts on warrants issued or denied.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB458/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB458.htm","sponsor":"Johnny Bell"},
{"bill_id":508680,"bill_number":"HB457","title":"AN ACT relating to driving under the influence and making an appropriation therefor.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.050 to increase the amount of the DUI service fee by $100 and to specify the usage of a portion of the increased funding in the prosecutorial system.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB457/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB457.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":508682,"bill_number":"HB456","title":"AN ACT relating to financing of transportation projects.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 175B and amend KRS 175B.005, 175B.010, 175B.020, and 175B.030 to define \"public-private partnership\" and \"private partner\"; provide a method for using a public-private partnership to finance public transportation projects.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB456/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB456.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":508684,"bill_number":"HB455","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 18A.045 to insert gender-neutral language.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-26","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB455/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB455.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":508686,"bill_number":"HB454","title":"AN ACT relating to drone surveillance.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 500 to define \"drone\" and \"law enforcement agency\"; prohibit a law enforcement agency from using a drone to gather evidence or other information; provide exceptions; authorize an aggrieved party to initiate a civil action in order to prevent or remedy a violation of the Act; prohibit use of evidence obtained in violation of the provisions; provide that the Act may be cited as the\"Citizens' Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act\".","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB454/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB454.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":508688,"bill_number":"HB453","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 507.030 to eliminate gender-specific language and make other technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB453/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB453.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":508690,"bill_number":"HB452","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 186.411, 186,420, and 174.500 to include gender-neutral references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB452/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB452.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":508692,"bill_number":"HB451","title":"AN ACT relating to persons transporting prisoners.","description":"Amend KRS 71.065 to authorize a county in which there in no jail and the jailer has been appointed as a transportation officer to employ additional persons with peace officer authority to assist the jailer.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Local Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB451/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB451.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":508694,"bill_number":"HB450","title":"AN ACT relating to the criminal justice system.","description":"Amend KRS 6.949 to modify the contents of corrections impact statements; amend KRS 27A.097 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 197.045 to clarify the types of programs that qualify for institutional credits and apply specified credits retroactively; amend KRS 439.3406 to clarify that mandatory reentry supervision is to be applied six months prior to the projected completion date of the inmate's sentence; amend KRS 441.045 to authorize a correctional facility to apply for Medicaid on an inmate's behalf and to modify the procedure for medical billing for state inmates in jails; amend KRS 441.430 and 441.440 to clarify language relating to construction of jails; amend KRS 17.500, relating to sex offender registration, to modify definition of sex crime; amend KRS 17.520, relating to period of registration, to add specified offenses to lifetime sex offender registration requirement.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB450/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB450.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
{"bill_id":508696,"bill_number":"HB449","title":"AN ACT relating to prescription drugs, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 315.400 to exclude \"interpharmacy medication exchange\" from the definition of \"wholesale distributor\"; amend KRS 205.6312 to state that the copayments for a prescription or over-the-counter drug shall be $1 for generic drugs, $2 for preferred brand name drugs, and $3 for non-preferred brand-name drugs; state that these copayments shall not be deducted from a reimbursement due from a Medicaid or a Medicaid managed care organization, but shall be in addition to such reimbursement; state that the copayment requirements shall apply to all Medicaid managed care organization contracting with the cabinet unless the organization charged and deducted the copayment from reimbursement on January 1, 2012; provide that the copayment requirements shall not apply to a Medicaid managed care organization participating in a Section 1115 Waiver Demonstration Project in accordance with Section 1115 of the federal Social Security Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"2nd reading, to Rules","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":"Rules","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB449/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB449.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":508698,"bill_number":"HB448","title":"AN ACT relating to title insurance.","description":"Create new sections of Subtitle 22 of KRS Chapter 304 to adopt the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model legislation to establish a licensing procedure and the requirements for the business of title insurance, including licensure of title insurance agents, to be regulated by the Department of Insurance, except attorneys licensed and actively engaged in the private practice of law in this state including but not limited to the business of a title insurance agent; create a new section of Subtitle 220 of KRS Chapter 304 to authorize closing or settlement protection to indemnify a person or entity insured under a policy of title insurance against loss because of theft or misappropriation of settlement funds in connection with issuance of the title insurance policy or for failure of a settlement agent, title agent, or employee of the title insurer to comply with the written closing instructions to the extent that failure to follow the instructions relates to the title to that interest in land or the validity, enforceability and priority of the lien of the mortgage on that interest in land; amend KRS 304.22-030 to conform; EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2014.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"to Banking & Insurance (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Banking and Insurance","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB448/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB448.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Greer"},
{"bill_id":508700,"bill_number":"HB447","title":"AN ACT relating to limited commemorative boundary signs.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 177 to permit the sale of limited commemorative boundary signs; establish a schedule for the sale of limited commemorative boundary signs; establish a fee of $50 per sign; require that funds received from the sale of limited commemorative boundary signs be deposited into the road fund; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the statute.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-04","last_action":"to Transportation (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB447/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB447.htm","sponsor":"Jim Stewart"},
{"bill_id":508702,"bill_number":"HB446","title":"AN ACT relating to local government procurement.","description":"Create a new section of KRS 45A.345 to 45A.460 to provide for a fifteen percent preference for a resident bidder and define \"resident bidder.\"","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB446/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB446.htm","sponsor":"Leslie Combs"},
{"bill_id":508704,"bill_number":"HB445","title":"AN ACT relating to procurement methods for demonstration road and bridge projects.","description":"Authorize the Transportation Cabinet to utilize design/build procurement methods for up to five demonstration road and bridge projects each fiscal year.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 67)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB445/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB445.htm","sponsor":"Leslie Combs"},
{"bill_id":508706,"bill_number":"HB444","title":"AN ACT relating to transportation.","description":"Amend KRS 186.020, 186.411, 186,420, and 174.500 to include gender neutral references.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB444/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB444.htm","sponsor":"Hubert Collins"},
{"bill_id":508709,"bill_number":"HB443","title":"AN ACT proposing a new section to the Constitution of Kentucky relating to casino gambling.","description":"Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to require the General Assembly by general law to authorize the establishment and operation of casino gambling at no more than seven locations, to provide for regulation and to use revenue from casinos to be used for job creation, education, human services, health care, veterans programs, local governments, public safety, and the support of the horse industry; create the Equine Excellence fund of dedication funds from gambling; submit to the voters for ratification or rejections, and provide ballot language.","status_desc":"House Floor Calendar","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"floor amendment (1) filed","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB443/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB443.htm","sponsor":"David Osborne"},
{"bill_id":508711,"bill_number":"HB442","title":"AN ACT relating to boards of licensure.","description":"Amend KRS 317.410 to integrate definitions from KRS Chapters 317A and 317B; amend KRS 317.430 to combine the Kentucky Board of Barbering with the Kentucky Board of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists to create the Kentucky Board of Barbering, Hairdressers, and Cosmetologists; constitute nine member board and prescribe qualifications for membership; establish terms, quorum, and fix the compensation of board members; require board to elect a chair, vice chair, and secretary; amend KRS 317.530 to direct fees and charges collected by the board for the practice of barbering to be paid into the agency account and used to administer provision of chapter related to the practice of barbering; amend KRS 317A.080 to direct fees and charges collected by the board for the practice of cosmetology to be paid into the agency account and used to administer provision of chapter related to the practice of cosmetology; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 317, 317A, 317B, and KRS 164.945 and 165A.310 to conform; repeal KRS 317A.030.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Licensing & Occupations (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Licensing and Occupations","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB442/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB442.htm","sponsor":"Jill York"},
{"bill_id":508713,"bill_number":"HB441","title":"AN ACT relating to toll administration.","description":"Amend KRS 175B.015 and 175B.040 to authorize administrative regulations establishing toll collection procedures and appeals procedures, require compliance with toll regulations, provide for administrative suspension of vehicle registration, and require that all individual information relating to tolls shall be confidential; encourage any entity developing a tolled facility to consider \"ability to pay\" when establishing toll rates.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-19","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 38)","last_action_date":"2013-03-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB441/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB441.htm","sponsor":"Larry Clark"},
{"bill_id":508715,"bill_number":"HB440","title":"AN ACT relating to microbreweries.","description":"Amend KRS 243.157 to allow microbreweries to sell malt beverages produced on the premises for on-premises purposes, to sell malt beverages produced on the premises without having to transfer physical possession to a distributor if the microbrewery has a retail drink license and meets reporting requirements, and to sell malt beverages produced on the premises for off-premises purposes without having to transfer physical possession to a distributor if the microbrewery has a retail package license and meets reporting requirements require the microbrewery to collect taxes due when selling malt beverages.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"signed by Governor","last_action_date":"2013-04-04","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB440/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB440.htm","sponsor":"Larry Clark"},
{"bill_id":508717,"bill_number":"HB439","title":"AN ACT relating to the reporting of child dependency, neglect, or abuse.","description":"Amend KRS 620.050 to establish that a school district that makes a good faith report of suspected dependency, neglect, or abuse may request a status report of the case from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB439/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB439.htm","sponsor":"Rick Nelson"},
{"bill_id":508719,"bill_number":"HB438","title":"AN ACT relating to all-terrain vehicles.","description":"Amend KRS 189.515 to permit an all-terrain vehicle operator 16 years of age or older to cross a public roadway with a posted speed limit of 45 mph or less without protective headgear, to get from one ATV trail to another.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB438/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB438.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":508721,"bill_number":"HB437","title":"AN ACT relating to traffic regulations.","description":"Amend KRS 189.338 to establish an affirmative defense for an operator of motor vehicle or motorcycle for a violation of entering or crossing an intersection controlled by a traffic signal against a steady red light; establish criteria for an affirmative defense; provide that the affirmative defense shall not provide a defense to any other civil or criminal action.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB437/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB437.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":508723,"bill_number":"HB436","title":"AN ACT relating to open courts for child proceedings.","description":"Amend KRS 610.070 to provide that delinquency proceedings in juvenile courts shall be open to the public when the child was at least 13 years of age at the time he or she allegedly committed a felony offense; provide that all other proceedings in juvenile courts or Family Courts are presumed to be open; provide procedure for closing hearings; amend KRS 610.340 to provide that records in juvenile and Family Courts relating to children are open to public inspection, with stated exceptions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB436/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB436.htm","sponsor":"Dennis Horlander"},
{"bill_id":508725,"bill_number":"HB435","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 253.010 to redefine \"livestock.\"","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB435/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB435.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":508727,"bill_number":"HB434","title":"AN ACT relating to the Board of Agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 246.130 to require the Board of Agriculture to meet at least three times per year to consider the general agricultural, horticultural, and forestry interests of the state and to take the necessary steps for carrying out the purpose of the board.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"to Agriculture (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-05","committee":"Agriculture","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB434/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB434.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":508729,"bill_number":"HB433","title":"AN ACT relating to bovine assessments.","description":"Amend KRS 247.650 to state that any assessment made after the effective date of the Act shall be in addition to the federal assessment referenced in KRS 247.652; amend KRS 247.652 to clarify that if the federal assessment is terminated or suspended, the association certified to administer the assessment shall continue to collect the assessment and use it for carrying out the provisions of KRS 247.610 to 247.685; make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-04-05","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 129)","last_action_date":"2013-04-05","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB433/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB433.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":508731,"bill_number":"HB432","title":"AN ACT relating to school safety.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit carrying or possessing a knife on school property; provide exceptions.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB432/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB432.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":508733,"bill_number":"HB431","title":"AN ACT relating to tax increment financing.","description":"Amend KRS 65.7043 and 65.7049 to include mixed-use development areas such as public storm water and/or sanitary sewer facilities, to comply with a court decree mandating corrective action by local government.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-22","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 99)","last_action_date":"2013-03-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB431/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB431.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":508735,"bill_number":"HB430","title":"AN ACT relating to policemen's and firefighters' retirement funds of urban-county governments and declaring an emergency.","description":"Amend KRS 67A.345 to provide that members of an urban-county government's policemen's firefighters' retirement fund who withdraw on a certificate under the changes established by this Act are eligible to participate and receive benefits under the urban-county government's health plan; amend KRS 67A.360 to define \"participation date\" and \"actuarial funding level\"; amend KRS 67A.390 to provide that, effective July 1, 2013, a member who retires and returns to work in a position eligible to participate in the urban-county government's policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund shall not be eligible to earn a second retirement annuity; amend KRS 67A.402 to prohibit new members who begin participating in the urban-county government's policemen's firefighters' retirement fund on or after the effective date of this Act from purchasing service credit in the fund, except for up to four years of active duty military service and provided they purchase the service between five and ten years of service in the fund; prohibit new members who begin participating in the urban-county government's policemen's firefighters' retirement fund on or after the effective date of this Act from using service purchased under this section to determine eligibility for retirement; amend KRS 67A.410 to limit current members of the urban-county government's policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund from retiring at any age with 20 years of total service unless they retire prior to July 1, 2013; provide that current members who retire on or after July 1, 2013, shall be eligible to retire if they are at least age 41 and have at least 20 years of total service in the fund; provide that new members who begin participating in the urban-county government's policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund on or after the effective date of this Act shall be eligible to retire if they are at least age 50, and have at least 25 years of membership service in the fund; provide that a current member can withdraw from service prior to age 41 and receive a certificate entitling them to a retirement benefit when they are age 41 provided they have at least 20 years of service in the fund; provide that new members who begin participating in the urban-county government's policemen's firefighters' retirement fund on or after the effective date of this Act can withdraw from service prior to age 50 and receive a certificate entitling them to a retirement benefit when they are age 50 provided they have at least 25 years of membership service in the fund; provide that the surviving spouse of a member who withdraws under a certificate issued under this section prior to the member becoming eligible for benefits, shall receive benefits based upon the survivorship option selected by the member; amend KRS 67A.420 to provide that new members who begin participating in the urban-county government's policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund on or after the effective date of this Act shall not be subject to compulsory retirement provision until they have at least 25 years of service; amend KRS 67A.430 to provide a 2.25 percent retirement annuity factor for each year of service in the fund for new members who begin participating in the urban-county government's policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund on or after the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 67A.440 to increase the minimum death-in-the-line-of-duty benefits paid to the surviving spouse of a member of the urban-county government's policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund from 60 percent to 75 percent of the member's last rate of salary; increase the maximum combined line of duty death benefit paid to the surviving spouse and dependent children of a deceased member who died in the line-of-the duty from 75 percent to 100 percent of the member's last rate of salary; provide that an surviving spouse who is drawing a benefit under this section on July 1, 2013, shall have his or her benefit increased to the amount provided under this section; amend KRS 67A.460 to establish occupational disability benefit payments for current and future members of the urban-county government's policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund at 50 percent of the member's last rate of pay if the member's disability rating is less than 20 percent and the disability is the result of documented injuries occurring on or after July 1, 2013, 60 percent of the member's last rate of pay if the member's disability rating is less than 20 percent and the disability is the result of documented injuries occurring prior to July 1, 2013, and at least 60 percent of the member's last rate of pay if the member's disability rating is 20 percent or more with adjustments to the minimum based upon the level of disability rating above 20 percent; amend KRS 67A.470 to provide that non-occupational disability annuities for new members who begin participating in the urban-county government's policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund on or after the effective date of this Act shall be 2.25 percent for each year of total service with a minimum benefit of 22.5 percent of average salary and a maximum benefit of 67.5 percent of average salary; amend KRS 67A.492 to provide that the surviving spouse of members who die after withdrawing from employment on a certificate but prior to retirement shall receive an annuity of 60 percent of the member's annuity or the amount payable under the option selected by the member; amend KRS 67A.500 to conform; amend KRS 67A.510 to provide that the employee contribution rate shall be increased from 11 percent to 12 percent of pay for all members of the urban-county government's policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund; amend KRS 67A.520 to provide that the urban-county government shall pay to the policemen's firefighters' retirement fund the employer contribution rate that is the sum of the normal cost and a payment to the unfunded liability; provide that the payment to the unfunded liability shall be an amount necessary to pay off the unfunded liability over a period of 30 years beginning July 1, 2013 under the level dollar amortization method; provide that the employer contribution rate computed under this section shall not be less than $20 million, except that if the actuarial funding level of the fund is 100 percent the employer contribution shall be the normal cost; provide that the employer rate shall be fixed by the board of the policemen's firefighters' retirement fund annually based upon the results of the actuarial valuation; amend KRS 67A.560 to provide that the board of the urban-county government's policemen's firefighters' retirement fund shall have an actuarial valuation of the fund completed annually and shall have an actuarial experience study of the fund completed once every 5 years; amend KRS 67A.580 to make a technical change; amend KRS 67A.690 to provide that cost-of-living adjustments for retirees of the urban-county government's policemen's firefighters' retirement fund who retire on or after July 1, 2013, shall not be provided until the earlier of age 50 or 5 years following retirement; provide that the amount of the cost-of-living adjustment awarded to retirees if the fund has an actuarial funding level of less than 85 percent shall be two percent annually for those receiving an annual retirement annuity of less than $40,000, 1.5 percent for those receiving an annual retirement annuity of between $40,000 and $75,000, and 1 percent for those receiving an annual retirement annuity greater than $75,000 except those receiving an annual retirement annuity greater than $100,000 shall not receive a cost-of-living adjustment until January 1, 2016; provide that the amount of cost-of-living adjustment awarded to retirees the fund if the fund has an actuarial funding level of at least 85% percent will be an amount determined by the board of two to five percent for members whose participation date in the fund is prior to the effective date of this Act and of zero to five percent for members whose participation date in the fund is on or after the effective date of this Act; make conforming amendments; provide that persons employed by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government on the effective date of this Act shall be considered to have a participation date in the urban-county government's policemen's and firefighters' retirement fund prior to the effective date of this Act; EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-14","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 7)","last_action_date":"2013-03-14","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB430/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB430.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":508737,"bill_number":"HB429","title":"AN ACT relating to expedited partner therapy.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to create definitions and establish authority and standards for expedited partner therapy.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB429/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB429.htm","sponsor":"Mary Marzian"},
{"bill_id":508739,"bill_number":"HB428","title":"AN ACT relating to anesthesiologist assistants.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms, including \"anesthesiologist,\" \"anesthesiologist assistant,\" \"approved anesthesiologist assistant program,\" \"immediately available,\" \"general anesthesia,\" \"supervising anesthesiologist,\" and \"supervision\"; forbid a person from holding himself or herself out as a licensed anesthesiologist assistant unless licensed or within designated exceptions; direct the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing and regulation of anesthesiologist assistants; establish the Anesthesiologist Assistant Advisory Committee under the board; outline duties of the committee; establish committee membership and terms of office; authorize election of chairperson responsible for presiding over meetings held no less than twice a year; enable reimbursement for committee members for travel expenses and expenses relating to meeting attendance; designate qualifications for initial licensure and renewal as an anesthesiologist assistant; permit licensure by endorsement; enable temporary licensure for a maximum term of six months if the applicant meets various conditions; establish what examinations and training programs shall be approved by the board; designate scope of practice for a trainee; set grounds for disciplinary action for anesthesiologist assistants and how disciplinary proceedings are to conducted under the inquiry panel under the board; authorize the inquiry panel established under KRS 311.591 to issue an emergency order in accordance with KRS 13B.125 if the panel has probable cause to believe an anesthesiologist assistant has violated the terms of an agreed order, violated the terms of a disciplinary order, or practiced in a way the panel believes to be a danger to the health, welfare, or safety of the anesthesiologist assistant's patients or to the general public; prohibit an emergency order from being issued unless grounds exist for the issuance of a complaint; designate other procedures to be followed in the conduct of a hearing on an emergency order; authorize a licensed anesthesiologist assistant to practice only under the supervision of an anesthesiologist; prescribe scope of practice for an anesthesiologist assistant; forbid an anesthesiologist assistant from administering or monitoring general or regional anesthesia unless the supervising anesthesiologist is immediately available; allow an anesthesiologist assistant to initiate evaluation and treatment in a medical emergency without specific approval from the supervising anesthesiologist; define \"medical emergency\"; demand that an anesthesiologist obtain board approval to supervise an anesthesiologist assistant; establish grounds of discipline for supervising anesthesiologists; establish requirements to be approved by the board as a supervising anesthesiologist; permit the board to impose restrictions on the scope of practice of an anesthesiologist assistant or on methods of supervision upon consideration of recommendations of the advisory committee; prescribe duties of the supervising anesthesiologist; forbid the supervising anesthesiologist from supervising more than the maximum number of anesthesiologist assistants approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services at any one time; establish that the delivery of general anesthesia is the practice of medicine; designate who is authorized to provide anesthesia care; amend KRS 311.840 to define \"anesthesiologist assistant\"; amend KRS 311.862 to exempt a physician assistant who has not practiced in Kentucky prior to July 15, 2002, who seeks to practice as an anesthesiologist assistant from the requirements under KRS 311.844, the physician assistant training requirements, and mandate that the individual meet the new requirements for licensure as an anesthesiologist assistant prior to practicing as an anesthesiologist assistant; amend KRS 311.846 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB428/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB428.htm","sponsor":"Sal Santoro"},
{"bill_id":508741,"bill_number":"HB427","title":"AN ACT relating to judges.","description":"Amend KRS 118.105, 118.115, 118.125, 118.165, 118.305, 118.315, 118.325, 118.375, 118A.100, and 118A.080 to prohibit a judge acting as a Senior Status Special Judge from becoming a candidate for any elected office during the 5-year term prescribed in KRS 21.580 regardless of the number of days served by the judge acting as a Senior Status Special Judge.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-03-21","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 66)","last_action_date":"2013-03-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB427/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB427.htm","sponsor":"Kevin Sinnette"},
{"bill_id":508743,"bill_number":"HB426","title":"AN ACT relating to the collection of debts owed to government agencies.","description":"Amend KRS 12.210 to remove the prohibition against employing attorneys for collection of revenue owed to the Commonwealth by a resident thereof through a personal service contract; amend KRS 45A.715 to remove the prohibition against the Department of Revenue entering into personal service contracts for the collection of delinquent taxes owed to the Commonwealth by a resident thereof; amend KRS 131.030 to provide that the department may enter into personal service contracts with outside entities for the collection of debts owed to the Commonwealth, and provide certain terms and conditions required of said contracts; amend KRS 131.130 to conform.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Appropriations & Revenue (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Appropriations and Revenue","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB426/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB426.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":508745,"bill_number":"HB425","title":"AN ACT relating to agriculture.","description":"Amend KRS 247.380 to incorporate gender-neutral term.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"posting waived","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB425/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB425.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":508747,"bill_number":"HB424","title":"AN ACT relating to coal mine reclamation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 350 to define \"actuarial soundness,\" \"date of establishment of the fund,\" \"Kentucky reclamation guaranty fund\" \"Reclamation Guaranty Fund Commission,\" \"discount rate,\" and \"voluntary bond pool\"; establish the Kentucky reclamation guaranty fund as a non-lapsing revolving account and attach it to the Energy and Environment Cabinet; determine moneys and administration of the fund; specify uses for fund dollars; exempt the fund from requirements applicable to insurers under KRS Chapter 304; establish a 7-member Reclamation Guaranty Fund Commission; make the secretary or his designee chair of the commission; establish initial appointments by the Governor and make the term of appointment 4 years with reappointment; allow a $150 per diem for members of the commission and payment of actual and necessary expenses related to meetings; establish terms of vacancy on the commission, conflict of interest on matters of the commission, and misue of office; subject members to executive branch ethics code; authorize the commission to promulgate administrative regulations and matters to which those regulations pertain; establish penalties and permittee classifications; require the commission to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Banking and Insurance and the Governor annually; allow the commission to conduct investigations and subpoena on behalf of the commission for specific activities of permittees; require actions to be in Franklin Circuit Court and allow the cabinet to use the legal department for those actions; appoint an executive director to an Office of the Reclamation Guaranty Fund who will conduct the duties of the fund including collecting fees, assessing permit eligibility, paying out on reclamation, and making reports; require membership in the fund be mandatory; establish initial capitalization of the fund and transfer all assets of the previously established voluntary bond pool commonly known as the small operators bond pool; establish start-up assessments and per-acre assessments; require permit-specific bond of permittees in the bond pool; establish assignments or classifications for purposes of paying fees to the fund; establish criteria for the commission to consider inclusion of permits in the fund that were under the former voluntary bond pool and permit specific bond for any that are to be included; allow the commission to change rates and fees through administrative regulation and suspensions for failure to pay fees, suspension of permits, and other penalties; determine the proportion of penalties paid that goes to the fund and to the abandoned mine land supplemental fund; specify the method by which moneys from performance bonds and fund moneys shall be apportioned to pay for outstanding reclamation costs; repeal the following KRS: 350.700, 350.705, 350.710, 350.715, 350.720, 350.725, 350.730, 350.735, 350.740, 350.745, 350.750, and 350.755; amend KRS 12.020 to establish the Office of the Guaranty Fund; amend KRS 350.595 and 350.990 to conform; and EMERGENCY.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-06","last_action":"returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"Natural Resources and Energy","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB424/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB424.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":508749,"bill_number":"HB423","title":"AN ACT relating to electric cooperatives.","description":"Amend KRS 279.170 to require consolidation of electric generation and transmission cooperatives.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Natural Resources & Environment (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB423/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB423.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":508751,"bill_number":"HB422","title":"AN ACT relating to county government.","description":"Amend KRS 137.115, relating to license fees, to include urban-county governments and consolidated local governments; amend KRS 186.535 to include urban-county governments and consolidated local governments in operator's license renewal fees; amend KRS 440.380 also make mayors of urban-county and consolidated local governments responsible for waivers of extradition; and amend KRS 67.722, relating to compensation of county judge/executives for road department duties, to exclude judge/executives of urban-county governments.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":"Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB422/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB422.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":508753,"bill_number":"HB421","title":"AN ACT relating to consent to blood tests in serious accidents.","description":"Amend KRS 189A.103 to provide that a person consents to a blood test when the person is involved in a motor vehicle accident involving serious physical injury or death; prohibit a medical practitioner or medical facility from requiring the person to sign a waiver of liability in order to have the blood sample drawn; provide that upon a person's refusal to submit to a blood test, the investigating police officer shall apply for a search warrant to obtain the blood sample.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB421/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB421.htm","sponsor":"Brian Linder"},
{"bill_id":508755,"bill_number":"HB420","title":"AN ACT relating to parking facilities and garages.","description":"Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189, to require parking lots and storage garages in which vehicles are kept for hire to allow access to motorcycles; require garages to set aside certain number of spaces for motorcycles depending on the size of the facility.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Transportation (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Transportation","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB420/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB420.htm","sponsor":"Brian Linder"},
{"bill_id":508757,"bill_number":"HB419","title":"AN ACT relating to veterans' affairs.","description":"Amend KRS 40.315 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to operate state veterans' cemeteries.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":"Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Safety","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB419/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB419.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":508759,"bill_number":"HB418","title":"AN ACT relating to sports safety courses.","description":"Amend KRS 160.445 to require any city, county, urban-county government, charter county government, consolidated local government, unified local government, special district, or any department, board, or agency, including any agency formed wholly or in part by any of the aforementioned entities, that manages an athletic program to establish and provide training and education on symptoms, treatment, and risks of concussion.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Education (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Education","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB418/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB418.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":508761,"bill_number":"HB417","title":"AN ACT relating to hunting with crossbow.","description":"Amend 150.370 to allow use of crossbow during the entire archery season; require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to promulgate administrative regulations that specify characteristics of the crossbow.","status_desc":"In House Committee","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"posted in committee","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Natural Resources and Environment","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB417/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB417.htm","sponsor":"Fitz Steele"},
{"bill_id":508763,"bill_number":"HB416","title":"AN ACT relating to funding the Kentucky Retirement Systems.","description":"Amend KRS 131.030 to make technical corrections.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"Not accepted in Senate (violation of Senate Rules and Mason's Manual)","last_action_date":"2013-02-28","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB416/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB416.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":508765,"bill_number":"HB415","title":"AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.","description":"Amend KRS 508.025, relating to assault in the third degree, to include security guards acting in the scope and course of their employment.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB415/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB415.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":508767,"bill_number":"HB414","title":"AN ACT relating to public records.","description":"Amend KRS 61.878 to exclude information provided to a public fraud hotline from open records requests until an investigation has been completed; allow certain information to be disclosed after an investigation has been completed; prohibit the release of the identity of the subject of an unsubstantiated complaint unless consent is given by the subject person.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB414/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB414.htm","sponsor":"Jim DeCesare"},
{"bill_id":508769,"bill_number":"HB413","title":"AN ACT relating to retirement.","description":"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 August 1, 2013.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB413/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB413.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":508771,"bill_number":"HB412","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, prohibiting an abortion after 20 weeks of fetal development except in cases of emergency, allowing for civil and injunctive relief, establishing privacy protections, and allowing for severability of the various provisions; amend KRS 311.990 to establish a criminal penalty for violations; amend KRS 213.101 to expand the statistical reporting system for abortions; repeal KRS 311.780.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Health & Welfare (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Health and Welfare","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB412/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB412.htm","sponsor":"Joseph Fischer"},
{"bill_id":508773,"bill_number":"HB411","title":"AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System.","description":"Amend KRS 161.290 to require public employers other than school districts to provide paid leave to teacher trustees serving on the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System (KTRS) board; amend KRS 161.340 to allow KTRS to contract for insurance; amend KRS 161.430 to allow the KTRS board to contract with one or more general investment consultants; remove references to the book value of assets in regards to limitations on funds managed internally by system's investment staff; remove the requirement that the board investment committee consist of the executive secretary of the system and two trustees; require system's staff to be subject to fiduciary requirements applicable to board members and investment consultants and managers; make technical amendments; amend KRS 161.470 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 161.480 to automatically designate a KTRS member's spouse as beneficiary for an active member's account balance upon employment until changed by the member; declare the member's spouse as beneficiary of the active member's account balance in the event all named beneficiaries predecease the active member or the member fails to designate a beneficiary; amend KRS 161.545 to provide that full-time sabbatical leave by university staff participating in the KTRS shall be deemed full-time employment for retirement purposes and to require employee and employer contributions to be paid during the period of sabbatical leave; amend KRS 161.553 to adjust the cost schedules of providing statutory benefit improvements for annuitants; amend KRS 161.560 to authorize the KTRS to promulgate administrative regulations to require more frequent submission of annual reports by participating employers; amend KRS 161.605 to allow the commissioner of education to pay reemployed retirees in excess of statutory maximums if the commissioner deems that the employees have the necessary experience to provide services and support to persistently low-achieving schools as provided by KRS 160.346; amend KRS 160.612 to reduce the $500 minimum monthly disability benefit by benefit payments from all state-administered retirement systems for part-time employees participating in the KTRS who apply for disability benefits on or after July 1, 2013; amend KRS 161.643 to authorize KTRS to require more frequent submission of annual reports on reemployed employees by participating employers; amend KRS 161.650 to automatically designate a KTRS member's spouse as beneficiary for a retired member's account remaining account balance at the time of death unless changed by the member; declare the member's spouse as beneficiary of the retired member's remaining account balance in the event all named beneficiaries predecease the retired member or the member fails to name a beneficiary for the account balance; amend KRS 161.655 to automatically designate a KTRS member's spouse as beneficiary for the life insurance benefit available to active and retired members unless changed by the member; declare the member's spouse as beneficiary of the life insurance benefit available to active and retired members if, upon the death of the member, all named beneficiaries predecease the member or the member fails to name a beneficiary; amend KRS 161.661 to provide that members who begin participating on or after July 1, 2013, shall not be eligible for a disability benefit if they are eligible for any unreduced benefit and that they shall have their $500 minimum monthly disability benefit reduced by benefit payments from all state-administered retirement systems.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-01","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-03-06","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB411/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB411.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":508775,"bill_number":"HB410","title":"AN ACT relating to trial commissioners.","description":"Amend KRS 24A.100 to urge the Supreme Court to consider certification of necessity and appointment of additional trial commissioners to hear forcible entry and detainer cases.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-02-19","last_action":"to Judiciary (H)","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":"Judiciary","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB410/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB410.htm","sponsor":"Carl Rollins"},
{"bill_id":508777,"bill_number":"HB2","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting.","description":"(H0366B01) Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 5 to divide the Commonwealth into the following representative districts: DISTRICT 1 - Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken (part); DISTRICT 2 - Graves, McCracken (part); DISTRICT 3 - McCracken (part); DISTRICT 4 - Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, McCracken (part); DISTRICT 5 - Calloway, Trigg (part); DISTRICT 6 - Lyon, Marshall, McCracken (part); DISTRICT 7 - Daviess (part), Henderson (part), Union; DISTRICT 8 - Christian (part), Trigg (part); DISTRICT 9 - Christian (part); DISTRICT 10 - Hopkins (part); DISTRICT 11 - Henderson (part); DISTRICT 12 - Daviess (part), Hopkins (part), McLean, Webster; DISTRICT 13 - Daviess (part); DISTRICT 14 - Daviess (part), Ohio; DISTRICT 15 - Christian (part), Hopkins (part), Muhlenberg; DISTRICT 16 - Logan, Todd; DISTRICT 17 - Butler, Grayson, Hardin (part); DISTRICT 18 - Breckinridge, Bullitt (part), Daviess (part), Hancock, Hardin (part); DISTRICT 19 - Edmonson, Hart, Larue; DISTRICT 20 - Warren (part); DISTRICT 21 - Warren (part); DISTRICT 22 - Allen, Simpson, Warren (part); DISTRICT 23 - Barren, Warren (part); DISTRICT 24 - Casey, Marion, Pulaski (part); DISTRICT 25 - Hardin (part); DISTRICT 26 - Hardin (part); DISTRICT 27 - Bullitt (part), Hardin (part), Meade; DISTRICT 28 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 29 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 30 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 31 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 32 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 33 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 34 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 35 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 36 - Garrard, Madison (part); DISTRICT 37 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 38 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 39 - Fayette (part), Jessamine; DISTRICT 40 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 41 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 42 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 43 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 44 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 45 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 46 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 47 - Carroll, Henry, Oldham (part), Trimble; DISTRICT 48 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 49 - Bullitt (part); DISTRICT 50 - Bullitt (part), Nelson, Spencer (part); DISTRICT 51 - Adair, Taylor; DISTRICT 52 - McCreary, Pulaski (part), Wayne; DISTRICT 53 - Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Monroe; DISTRICT 54 - Boyle, Washington; DISTRICT 55 - Anderson, Mercer, Spencer (part); DISTRICT 56 - Fayette (part), Franklin (part), Woodford; DISTRICT 57 - Franklin (part); DISTRICT 58 - Shelby, Spencer (part); DISTRICT 59 - Jefferson County (part), Oldham (part); DISTRICT 60 - Boone (part); DISTRICT 61 - Gallatin, Grant, Owen; DISTRICT 62 - Fayette (part), Scott; DISTRICT 63 - Kenton (part); DISTRICT 64 - Kenton (part); DISTRICT 65 - Kenton (part); DISTRICT 66 - Boone (part); DISTRICT 67 - Campbell (part); DISTRICT 68 - Campbell (part); DISTRICT 69 - Boone (part), Campbell (part), Kenton (part); DISTRICT 70 - Bracken, Fleming, Mason; DISTRICT 71 - Menifee, Morgan, Rowan (part), Wolfe (part); DISTRICT 72 - Bath, Bourbon, Fayette (part), Nicholas; DISTRICT 73 - Clark, Madison (part); DISTRICT 74 - Montgomery, Powell, Wolfe (part); DISTRICT 75 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 76 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 77 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 78 - Campbell (part), Harrison, Pendleton, Robertson; DISTRICT 79 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 80 - Lincoln, Pulaski (part), Rockcastle; DISTRICT 81 - Madison (part); DISTRICT 82 - Laurel (part), Whitley; DISTRICT 83 - Clinton, Pulaski (part), Russell; DISTRICT 84 - Harlan (part), Perry; DISTRICT 85 - Laurel (part), Pulaski (part); DISTRICT 86 - Knox, Laurel (part); DISTRICT 87 - Bell, Harlan (part); DISTRICT 88 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 89 - Jackson, Laurel (part), Owsley; DISTRICT 90 - Clay, Harlan (part), Leslie; DISTRICT 91 - Breathitt, Estill, Lee; DISTRICT 92 - Knott, Letcher (part), Magoffin; DISTRICT 93 - Pike (part); DISTRICT 94 - Harlan (part), Letcher (part), Pike (part); DISTRICT 95 - Floyd (part); DISTRICT 96 - Carter, Lewis; DISTRICT 97 - Floyd (part), Johnson, Martin, Pike (part); DISTRICT 98 - Boyd (part), Greenup;DISTRICT 99 - Boyd (part), Elliott, Lawrence, Rowan (part); DISTRICT 100 - Boyd (part); PLAN INTEGRITY VERIFIED; specify that precinct names may be shortened to accommodate formatting requirements of the bill drafting system and that the precinct names will be provided in full in codification; specify how county and precinct names are to be displayed depending on whether the territory of the county or precinct is included in a particular legislative district in its entirety or in part and direct how those items will be displayed in codification; direct county boards of elections to change precinct boundaries to conform to representative district boundaries.","status_desc":"Engrossed","status_date":"2013-03-07","last_action":"received in Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-07","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB2/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HB2.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":510317,"bill_number":"HR121","title":"Honor the Campbellsville University Track and Field team for their achievements.","description":"Honor the Campbellsville University Track and Field team for their achievements.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR121/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR121.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":510335,"bill_number":"HR122","title":"Urge President Barack Obama and the administration to support oil production off the northern coast of Alaska and approve the TransCanada Keyston XL pipeline project.","description":"Urge President Barack Obama and the administration to support oil production off the northern coast of Alaska and approve the TransCanada Keyston XL pipeline project.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR122/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR122.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":510353,"bill_number":"HR123","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Kenneth G. Goins.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Kenneth G. Goins.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR123/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR123.htm","sponsor":"Ryan Quarles"},
{"bill_id":510371,"bill_number":"SR183","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Carla Joyce Tufts.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Carla Joyce Tufts.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR183/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR183.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":510389,"bill_number":"SR184","title":"Honor the Campbellsville University Track and Field team for their achievements.","description":"Honor the Campbellsville University Track and Field team for their achievements.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-02-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-02-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR184/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR184.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
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{"bill_id":538954,"bill_number":"SR265","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of John F. Cox, Jr.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of John F. Cox, Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR265/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR265.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":538955,"bill_number":"HR195","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Virginia Graves Shively.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Virginia Graves Shively.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR195/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR195.htm","sponsor":"John Carney"},
{"bill_id":538956,"bill_number":"SR266","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Mary Louise Whiteside Denton.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Mary Louise Whiteside Denton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR266/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR266.htm","sponsor":"Tom Buford"},
{"bill_id":538957,"bill_number":"HR177","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Brenda Carole Kiser.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Brenda Carole Kiser.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR177/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR177.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":538958,"bill_number":"SR272","title":"Honor William H. Fortune on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Kentucky College of Law.","description":"Honor William H. Fortune on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Kentucky College of Law.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR272/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR272.htm","sponsor":"Kathy Stein"},
{"bill_id":538959,"bill_number":"HR179","title":"Honor the Fleming County HS Boys' Basketball Team, 2013 16th Region Champions.","description":"Honor the Fleming County HS Boys' Basketball Team, 2013 16th Region Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR179/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR179.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":538961,"bill_number":"HR182","title":"Honor the Marion County HS Lady Knights, 2013 KHSAA Girls Sweet Sixteen Basketball Champions.","description":"Honor the Marion County HS Lady Knights, 2013 KHSAA Girls Sweet Sixteen Basketball Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR182/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR182.htm","sponsor":"Terry Mills"},
{"bill_id":538962,"bill_number":"SR254","title":"Adjourn in honor of the Georgetown College Men's Basketball Team upon winning the 2013 NAIA National Championship.","description":"Adjourn in honor of the Georgetown College Men's Basketball Team upon winning the 2013 NAIA National Championship.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR254/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR254.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":538963,"bill_number":"SCR267","title":"Adjourn the 2013 Regular Session of the General Assembly sine die.","description":"Adjourn the 2013 Regular Session of the General Assembly sine die.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"introduced in Senate","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR267/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SC267.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":538964,"bill_number":"HR191","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Roy James.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Roy James.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR191/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR191.htm","sponsor":"Michael Meredith"},
{"bill_id":538965,"bill_number":"SR271","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Virginia Graves Shively.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Virginia Graves Shively.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR271/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR271.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":538966,"bill_number":"HR193","title":"Honor Sue Wylie upon the occasion of her retirement.","description":"Honor Sue Wylie upon the occasion of her retirement.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR193/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR193.htm","sponsor":"Robert Damron"},
{"bill_id":538967,"bill_number":"HR192","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Margaret Reynolds Hunter.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Mary Margaret Reynolds Hunter.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR192/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR192.htm","sponsor":"Ruth Palumbo"},
{"bill_id":538968,"bill_number":"HR183","title":"Recognize Makayla Epps, member of the 2013 McDonald's All-American High School Basketball Team and the 2013 Gatorade Kentucky Girls' Basketball Player of the Year.","description":"Recognize Makayla Epps, member of the 2013 McDonald's All-American High School Basketball Team and the 2013 Gatorade Kentucky Girls' Basketball Player of the Year.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR183/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR183.htm","sponsor":"Terry Mills"},
{"bill_id":538969,"bill_number":"HR180","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Laurence Caproni.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Laurence Caproni.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR180/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR180.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":538970,"bill_number":"SR264","title":"Honor the Heritage Christian Academy Warriors, 2013 Kentucky Christian Athletic Association State Basketball Champions.","description":"Honor the Heritage Christian Academy Warriors, 2013 Kentucky Christian Athletic Association State Basketball Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-25","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-25","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR264/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR264.htm","sponsor":"Whitney Westerfield"},
{"bill_id":563750,"bill_number":"SR4","title":"Honor the Markey Cancer Center for achieving National Cancer Institute designation.","description":"Honor the Markey Cancer Center for achieving National Cancer Institute designation.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR4/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR4.htm","sponsor":"Alice Kerr"},
{"bill_id":563751,"bill_number":"SR2","title":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2013 First Extraordinary Session of the Senate.","description":"Adopt Rules of Procedure for the 2013 First Extraordinary Session of the Senate.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-19","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR2/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR2.htm","sponsor":"Robert Stivers"},
{"bill_id":563752,"bill_number":"SB3","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 56.005 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-08-20","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB3/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SB3.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":563753,"bill_number":"HR7","title":"Honor Dr. David Watkins upon receiving the 2012 Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities Medical Director of the Year Award.","description":"Honor Dr. David Watkins upon receiving the 2012 Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities Medical Director of the Year Award.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR7/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR7.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Thompson"},
{"bill_id":563754,"bill_number":"HR2","title":"Invite pastors of Frankfort churches to open daily sessions of the 2013 Extraordinary Session with prayer.","description":"Invite pastors of Frankfort churches to open daily sessions of the 2013 Extraordinary Session with prayer.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR2/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR2.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":563755,"bill_number":"HR9","title":"Adjourn in remembrance and honor of Robert G. Brothers.","description":"Adjourn in remembrance and honor of Robert G. Brothers.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR9/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR9.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":563756,"bill_number":"SB2","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting.","description":"(H0030B01) Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 5 to divide the Commonwealth into the following representative districts: DISTRICT 1 - Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken (part); DISTRICT 2 - Graves, McCracken (part); DISTRICT 3 - McCracken (part); DISTRICT 4 - Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Trigg (part); DISTRICT 5 - Calloway, Trigg (part); DISTRICT 6 - Lyon, Marshall, McCracken (part); DISTRICT 7 - Daviess (part), Henderson (part), Union; DISTRICT 8 - Christian (part); DISTRICT 9 - Christian (part), Todd, Trigg (part); DISTRICT 10 - Hopkins (part); DISTRICT 11 - Henderson (part); DISTRICT 12 - Daviess (part), McLean, Webster; DISTRICT 13 - Daviess (part); DISTRICT 14 - Daviess (part), Hancock, Ohio; DISTRICT 15 - Christian (part), Hopkins (part), Muhlenberg; DISTRICT 16 - Logan, Simpson, Warren (part); DISTRICT 17 - Butler, Grayson, Warren (part); DISTRICT 18 - Breckinridge, Hardin (part); DISTRICT 19 - Edmonson, Hart, Metcalfe, Warren (part); DISTRICT 20 - Warren (part); DISTRICT 21 - Warren (part); DISTRICT 22 - Laurel (part); DISTRICT 23 - Barren, Warren (part); DISTRICT 24 - Green, Larue, Marion; DISTRICT 25 - Hardin (part); DISTRICT 26 - Bullitt (part), Hardin (part); DISTRICT 27 - Bullitt (part), Hardin (part), Jefferson County (part), Meade; DISTRICT 28 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 29 - Anderson, Bullitt (part), Jefferson County (part), Spencer; DISTRICT 30 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 31 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 32 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 33 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 34 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 35 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 36 - Fayette (part), Garrard, Jessamine (part), Madison (part); DISTRICT 37 - Bullitt (part), Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 38 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 39 - Jessamine (part); DISTRICT 40 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 41 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 42 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 43 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 44 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 45 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 46 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 47 - Jefferson County (part), Oldham (part), Trimble; DISTRICT 48 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 49 - Bullitt (part); DISTRICT 50 - Nelson; DISTRICT 51 - Adair, Taylor; DISTRICT 52 - McCreary, Pulaski (part), Wayne; DISTRICT 53 - Allen, Cumberland, Monroe, Warren (part); DISTRICT 54 - Boyle, Casey; DISTRICT 55 - Fayette (part), Jessamine (part), Mercer, Washington; DISTRICT 56 - Fayette (part), Franklin (part), Woodford; DISTRICT 57 - Franklin (part); DISTRICT 58 - Jefferson County (part), Shelby; DISTRICT 59 - Oldham (part); DISTRICT 60 - Boone (part); DISTRICT 61 - Boone (part), Grant, Owen; DISTRICT 62 - Scott (part); DISTRICT 63 - Kenton (part); DISTRICT 64 - Boone (part), Kenton (part); DISTRICT 65 - Kenton (part); DISTRICT 66 - Boone (part); DISTRICT 67 - Campbell (part); DISTRICT 68 - Campbell (part); DISTRICT 69 - Boone (part), Kenton (part); DISTRICT 70 - Bracken, Fleming, Mason, Robertson; DISTRICT 71 - Elliott, Morgan, Rowan; DISTRICT 72 - Bath, Bourbon, Fayette (part), Nicholas, Scott (part); DISTRICT 73 - Clark, Fayette (part); DISTRICT 74 - Menifee, Montgomery, Powell; DISTRICT 75 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 76 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 77 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 78 - Campbell (part), Harrison, Pendleton, Scott (part); DISTRICT 79 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 80 - Lincoln, Rockcastle; DISTRICT 81 - Madison (part); DISTRICT 82 - Laurel (part), Pulaski (part), Whitley; DISTRICT 83 - Clinton, Pulaski (part), Russell; DISTRICT 84 - Harlan (part), Perry; DISTRICT 85 - Pulaski (part); DISTRICT 86 - Knox, Laurel (part); DISTRICT 87 - Bell, Harlan (part); DISTRICT 88 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 89 - Breathitt, Jackson, Madison (part), Owsley; DISTRICT 90 - Clay, Harlan (part), Laurel (part), Leslie; DISTRICT 91 - Estill, Lee, Madison (part); DISTRICT 92 - Knott, Letcher, Pike (part); DISTRICT 93 - Lawrence, Martin, Pike (part); DISTRICT 94 - Pike (part); DISTRICT 95 - Floyd, Pike (part); DISTRICT 96 - Carter, Lewis; DISTRICT 97 - Johnson, Magoffin, Wolfe; DISTRICT 98 - Boyd (part), Greenup; DISTRICT 99 - Boone (part), Carroll, Gallatin, Henry; DISTRICT 100 - Boyd (part); PLAN INTEGRITY VERIFIED; amend KRS 5.010 to change dates to conform; specify that precinct names may be shortened to accommodate formatting requirements of the bill drafting system and that the precinct names will be provided in full in codification; specify how county and precinct names are to be displayed depending on whether the territory of the county or precinct is included in a particular legislative district in its entirety or in part and direct how those items will be displayed in codification; direct county boards of elections to change precinct boundaries to conform to representative district boundaries.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-08-19","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB2/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SB2.htm","sponsor":"Albert Robinson"},
{"bill_id":563757,"bill_number":"HR5","title":"Adjourning the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Joseph Henry Gast.","description":"Adjourning the House of Representatives in honor and loving memory of Joseph Henry Gast.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR5/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR5.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":563758,"bill_number":"SB10","title":"AN ACT relating to state government.","description":"Amend KRS 56.005 to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-08-20","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB10/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SB10.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":563759,"bill_number":"HB11","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting.","description":"Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to establish the Legislative Advisory Reapportionment and Redistricting Commission; require six members to be elected, one from each of Kentucky's congressional districts, four members to be appointed, and one member to be the Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court or the Chief Justice's designee; set terms of office at four years; require the first election to be held at the regular election in 2020; establish powers and duties of the commission; require the commission to develop proposals for the reapportionment and redistricting of state legislative districts, congressional districts, and, when called upon to do so, Supreme Court districts; require the commission to submit its proposals to the General Assembly for consideration.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"to State Government (H)","last_action_date":"2013-08-19","committee":"State Government","chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB11/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HB11.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":563760,"bill_number":"SCR14","title":"Urge Congress to update the coverage formula in the Voting Rights Act of 1965.","description":"Urge Congress to update the coverage formula in the Voting Rights Act of 1965.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-08-21","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR14/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SC14.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":563761,"bill_number":"HR11","title":"Honor the Maysville Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility upon being named the 2012 Northern Bluegrass District Facility of the Year by the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities (KAHCF).","description":"Honor the Maysville Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility upon being named the 2012 Northern Bluegrass District Facility of the Year by the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities (KAHCF).","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR11/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR11.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":563762,"bill_number":"HB1","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting and declaring an emergency.","description":"(H0008B01) Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 5 to divide the Commonwealth into the following representative districts: DISTRICT 1 - Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken (part); DISTRICT 2 - Graves, McCracken (part); DISTRICT 3 - McCracken (part); DISTRICT 4 - Caldwell, Christian (part), Crittenden, Livingston; DISTRICT 5 - Calloway, Christian (part), Trigg (part); DISTRICT 6 - Lyon, Marshall, McCracken (part); DISTRICT 7 - Daviess (part), Henderson (part), Union; DISTRICT 8 - Christian (part), Trigg (part); DISTRICT 9 - Christian (part), Hopkins (part); DISTRICT 10 - Breckinridge, Hancock, Hardin (part); DISTRICT 11 - Daviess (part), Henderson (part); DISTRICT 12 - Daviess (part), Hopkins (part), McLean, Webster; DISTRICT 13 - Daviess (part); DISTRICT 14 - Daviess (part), Ohio; DISTRICT 15 - Hopkins (part), Muhlenberg; DISTRICT 16 - Logan, Todd, Warren (part); DISTRICT 17 - Butler, Warren (part); DISTRICT 18 - Grayson, Hardin (part); DISTRICT 19 - Edmonson, Warren (part); DISTRICT 20 - Warren (part); DISTRICT 21 - Hardin (part), Hart, Metcalfe, Monroe; DISTRICT 22 - Allen, Simpson, Warren (part); DISTRICT 23 - Barren, Warren (part); DISTRICT 24 - Green, Larue, Marion; DISTRICT 25 - Hardin (part); DISTRICT 26 - Bullitt (part), Hardin (part); DISTRICT 27 - Hardin (part), Meade; DISTRICT 28 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 29 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 30 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 31 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 32 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 33 - Jefferson County (part), Oldham (part); DISTRICT 34 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 35 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 36 - Jefferson County (part), Oldham (part); DISTRICT 37 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 38 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 39 - Fayette (part), Jessamine (part); DISTRICT 40 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 41 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 42 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 43 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 44 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 45 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 46 - Jefferson County (part); DISTRICT 47 - Carroll, Gallatin, Henry, Trimble; DISTRICT 48 - Jefferson County (part), Oldham (part); DISTRICT 49 - Bullitt (part); DISTRICT 50 - Nelson; DISTRICT 51 - Adair, Taylor; DISTRICT 52 - McCreary, Pulaski (part), Wayne; DISTRICT 53 - Anderson, Bullitt (part), Spencer; DISTRICT 54 - Boyle, Casey; DISTRICT 55 - Jessamine (part), Mercer, Washington; DISTRICT 56 - Fayette (part), Franklin (part), Woodford; DISTRICT 57 - Franklin (part); DISTRICT 58 - Shelby; DISTRICT 59 - Oldham (part); DISTRICT 60 - Boone (part); DISTRICT 61 - Boone (part), Grant, Kenton (part), Scott (part); DISTRICT 62 - Fayette (part), Owen, Scott (part); DISTRICT 63 - Boone (part), Kenton (part); DISTRICT 64 - Campbell (part), Kenton (part); DISTRICT 65 - Kenton (part); DISTRICT 66 - Boone (part); DISTRICT 67 - Campbell (part); DISTRICT 68 - Campbell (part); DISTRICT 69 - Boone (part), Kenton (part); DISTRICT 70 - Bracken, Fleming, Mason, Robertson; DISTRICT 71 - Garrard, Madison (part), Rockcastle; DISTRICT 72 - Bath, Bourbon, Fayette (part), Nicholas; DISTRICT 73 - Clark, Madison (part); DISTRICT 74 - Menifee, Montgomery, Powell; DISTRICT 75 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 76 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 77 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 78 - Harrison, Pendleton, Scott (part); DISTRICT 79 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 80 - Lincoln, Pulaski (part); DISTRICT 81 - Madison (part); DISTRICT 82 - Laurel (part), Whitley; DISTRICT 83 - Clinton, Cumberland, Pulaski (part), Russell; DISTRICT 84 - Harlan (part), Perry; DISTRICT 85 - Laurel (part), Pulaski (part); DISTRICT 86 - Knox, Laurel (part); DISTRICT 87 - Bell, Harlan (part); DISTRICT 88 - Fayette (part); DISTRICT 89 - Jackson, Laurel (part), Madison (part); DISTRICT 90 - Clay, Laurel (part), Leslie; DISTRICT 91 - Breathitt, Estill, Lee, Madison (part), Owsley; DISTRICT 92 - Knott, Magoffin, Pike (part); DISTRICT 93 - Martin, Pike (part); DISTRICT 94 - Letcher, Pike (part); DISTRICT 95 - Floyd, Pike (part); DISTRICT 96 - Carter, Lawrence; DISTRICT 97 - Johnson, Morgan, Wolfe; DISTRICT 98 - Boyd (part), Greenup; DISTRICT 99 - Elliott, Lewis, Rowan; DISTRICT 100 - Boyd (part); PLAN INTEGRITY VERIFIED; amend KRS 5.010 to change dates to conform; specify that precinct names may be shortened to accommodate formatting requirements of the bill drafting system and that the precinct names will be provided in full in codification; specify how county and precinct names are to be displayed depending on whether the territory of the county or precinct is included in a particular legislative district in its entirety or in part and direct how those items will be displayed in codification; direct county boards of elections to change precinct boundaries to conform to representative district boundaries; state that plans are severable.","status_desc":"Signed by Governor","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 1)","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HB1/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HB1.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":563763,"bill_number":"SB4","title":"AN ACT relating to civil actions.","description":"Amend KRS 454.050, relating to civil actions, to make a technical correction.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-08-20","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB4/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SB4.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":563764,"bill_number":"HR12","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gerald W. Adams.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Gerald W. Adams.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR12/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR12.htm","sponsor":"Sannie Overly"},
{"bill_id":563765,"bill_number":"SB7","title":"AN ACT relating to redistricting.","description":"Amend KRS 5.010 to change dates.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"returned to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-08-20","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SB7/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SB7.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
{"bill_id":563766,"bill_number":"SR10","title":"Honor Karen Cheser upon being named an Administrator of the Year.","description":"Honor Karen Cheser upon being named an Administrator of the Year.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR10/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR10.htm","sponsor":"John Schickel"},
{"bill_id":563767,"bill_number":"HR3","title":"Adjourn in honor of Ms. Jenna Day upon winning the 2013 Miss Kentucky Pageant","description":"Adjourn in honor of Ms. Jenna Day upon winning the 2013 Miss Kentucky Pageant","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-19","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-19","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR3/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR3.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
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{"bill_id":563770,"bill_number":"HR4","title":"Honor and commend Loretta Powell upon the occasion of her being named the 2012 Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities Statewide Certified Nurse Aide of the Year.","description":"Honor and commend Loretta Powell upon the occasion of her being named the 2012 Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities Statewide Certified Nurse Aide of the Year.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR4/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR4.htm","sponsor":"Jonathan Shell"},
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{"bill_id":563781,"bill_number":"SR5","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Elizabeth \"Libby\" Owens Downing.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Elizabeth \"Libby\" Owens Downing.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR5/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR5.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
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{"bill_id":563783,"bill_number":"HR8","title":"Honor Pete Galloway upon receiving the Kentucky Association of School Administrators' Distinguished Service Award.","description":"Honor Pete Galloway upon receiving the Kentucky Association of School Administrators' Distinguished Service Award.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR8/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR8.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Thompson"},
{"bill_id":563784,"bill_number":"SR7","title":"Honor St. Elizabeth Healthcare and their Edgewood facility on their U.S. News and World Report \"Best Hospital\" ranking.","description":"Honor St. Elizabeth Healthcare and their Edgewood facility on their U.S. News and World Report \"Best Hospital\" ranking.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR7/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR7.htm","sponsor":"Christian McDaniel"},
{"bill_id":563785,"bill_number":"SR9","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Gerald \"Jerry\" Deters.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Gerald \"Jerry\" Deters.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-21","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR9/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR9.htm","sponsor":"Damon Thayer"},
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{"bill_id":563788,"bill_number":"SR13","title":"Honor the Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility upon being named Facility of the Year by the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities.","description":"Honor the Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility upon being named Facility of the Year by the Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-20","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR13/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR13.htm","sponsor":"Sara Gregory"},
{"bill_id":563789,"bill_number":"HR10","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Officer Trip Gooding.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Officer Trip Gooding.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR10/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR10.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
{"bill_id":563814,"bill_number":"HR15","title":"Honor Emily Dove Denigris and Kirsten Nitz, lifeguards at Juniper Hills Park, for saving the life of Hannah Chesser when she became unconscious while swimming in the pool.","description":"Honor Emily Dove Denigris and Kirsten Nitz, lifeguards at Juniper Hills Park, for saving the life of Hannah Chesser when she became unconscious while swimming in the pool.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR15/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR15.htm","sponsor":"Derrick Graham"},
{"bill_id":563815,"bill_number":"HR17","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of George Sparks, Jr.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of George Sparks, Jr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR17/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR17.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":563816,"bill_number":"HR19","title":"Honor the Markey Cancer Center for achieving National Cancer Institute designation.","description":"Honor the Markey Cancer Center for achieving National Cancer Institute designation.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR19/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR19.htm","sponsor":"Kelly Flood"},
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{"bill_id":563818,"bill_number":"HR18","title":"Adjourn in honor of former Kentucky basketball Coach Joe B. Hall upon the dedication of a bridge in Cynthiana in his honor.","description":"Adjourn in honor of former Kentucky basketball Coach Joe B. Hall upon the dedication of a bridge in Cynthiana in his honor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-20","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-20","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR18/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR18.htm","sponsor":"Thomas McKee"},
{"bill_id":563819,"bill_number":"HR20","title":"Honor Dover Baptist Church on its 125th anniversary","description":"Honor Dover Baptist Church on its 125th anniversary","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-21","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-21","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR20/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR20.htm","sponsor":"Mitchel Denham"},
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{"bill_id":563843,"bill_number":"HR21","title":"Encourage awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).","description":"Encourage awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR21/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR21.htm","sponsor":"Tanya Pullin"},
{"bill_id":563844,"bill_number":"SR20","title":"Honor Emma Talley, 2013 United States Women's Amateur Golf Champion.","description":"Honor Emma Talley, 2013 United States Women's Amateur Golf Champion.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR20/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR20.htm","sponsor":"Dorsey Ridley"},
{"bill_id":563845,"bill_number":"HR22","title":"Adjourn in honor of Staff Sergeant Ryan Austin.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Staff Sergeant Ryan Austin.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR22/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR22.htm","sponsor":"Regina Huff"},
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{"bill_id":563851,"bill_number":"SR18","title":"Adjourn in honor of Harper's Country Hams upon being named the 2013 Kentucky State Fair Grand Champion Country Ham Winner.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Harper's Country Hams upon being named the 2013 Kentucky State Fair Grand Champion Country Ham Winner.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR18/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR18.htm","sponsor":"Stan Humphries"},
{"bill_id":563852,"bill_number":"SR16","title":"Express concern over Congress' failure to update the coverage formula in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and request the House of Representatives to join with the Senate in urging Congress to rectify this situation.","description":"Express concern over Congress' failure to update the coverage formula in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and request the House of Representatives to join with the Senate in urging Congress to rectify this situation.","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-08-21","last_action":"to State & Local Government (S)","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":"State & Local Government","chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR16/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR16.htm","sponsor":"Gerald Neal"},
{"bill_id":563853,"bill_number":"HR25","title":"Honor the University of Louisville Cardinal Singers upon winning best choir at the Yeosu International Choir Competition in Yeosu, South Korea.","description":"Honor the University of Louisville Cardinal Singers upon winning best choir at the Yeosu International Choir Competition in Yeosu, South Korea.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR25/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR25.htm","sponsor":"Darryl Owens"},
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{"bill_id":563855,"bill_number":"SR21","title":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Josephine Pendleton.","description":"Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Josephine Pendleton.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR21/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR21.htm","sponsor":"R.J. Palmer"},
{"bill_id":563894,"bill_number":"SR28","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Rebecca White Carter.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Rebecca White Carter.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR28/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR28.htm","sponsor":"Walter Blevins"},
{"bill_id":563895,"bill_number":"HR30","title":"Adjourn in honor of Katherine Wells, Allie Fairchild, Alli Russell, Sara Roberts, and Haley Mills upon being named Varsity All-American Cheerleaders, and in honor of Sarah Greene upon being named a Junior Varsity All-American Cheerleader.","description":"Adjourn in honor of Katherine Wells, Allie Fairchild, Alli Russell, Sara Roberts, and Haley Mills upon being named Varsity All-American Cheerleaders, and in honor of Sarah Greene upon being named a Junior Varsity All-American Cheerleader.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR30/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR30.htm","sponsor":"Hubert Collins"},
{"bill_id":563896,"bill_number":"HR31","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of John S. Hager.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of John S. Hager.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR31/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR31.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Thompson"},
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{"bill_id":563899,"bill_number":"SR25","title":"Urge comprehensive oversight of the siting, safety and environmental effects of the Bluegrass natural gas liquids pipeline.","description":"Urge comprehensive oversight of the siting, safety and environmental effects of the Bluegrass natural gas liquids pipeline.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR25/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR25.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
{"bill_id":563900,"bill_number":"HR27","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Rani Doss, Dylan Thomas Eldred, Michael Edward Doss, Bradley Joseph Doss, and Emily Ann Doss.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Rani Doss, Dylan Thomas Eldred, Michael Edward Doss, Bradley Joseph Doss, and Emily Ann Doss.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR27/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR27.htm","sponsor":"Gregory Stumbo"},
{"bill_id":563901,"bill_number":"SR23","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Russ Duane Randall.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Russ Duane Randall.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR23/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR23.htm","sponsor":"Robert Leeper"},
{"bill_id":563902,"bill_number":"HR29","title":"Request the Legislative Ethics Commission to include sexual harassment prevention training in legislators' annual ethics training.","description":"Request the Legislative Ethics Commission to include sexual harassment prevention training in legislators' annual ethics training.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-22","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-22","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR29/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR29.htm","sponsor":"Joni Jenkins"},
{"bill_id":563903,"bill_number":"SR26","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Catherine Taylor.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Catherine Taylor.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR26/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR26.htm","sponsor":"Jimmy Higdon"},
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{"bill_id":563913,"bill_number":"SR29","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of David A. Gooch.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of David A. Gooch.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR29/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/SR29.htm","sponsor":"Ray Jones"},
{"bill_id":563914,"bill_number":"HR39","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of David A. Gooch.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of David A. Gooch.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR39/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR39.htm","sponsor":"Jim Gooch"},
{"bill_id":563915,"bill_number":"HR36","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Delmer Turner.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Delmer Turner.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR36/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR36.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":563916,"bill_number":"HR40","title":"Commend Courageous Women throughout the Commonwealth and the Nation who have reported Sexual Harassment despite the attempts of those in leadership positions to Ostracize and Isolate them in an attempt to Diminish their credibility and to prevent others from Exposing Wrongdoing and making Formal Complaints against them by designating August as","description":"Commend Courageous Women throughout the Commonwealth and the Nation who have reported Sexual Harassment despite the attempts of those in leadership positions to Ostracize and Isolate them in an attempt to Diminish their credibility and to prevent others from Exposing Wrongdoing and making Formal Complaints against them by designating August as","status_desc":"Introduced","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"introduced in House","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR40/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR40.htm","sponsor":"Tom Riner"},
{"bill_id":563917,"bill_number":"HR35","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Bonita Susan Quarles.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Dr. Bonita Susan Quarles.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR35/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR35.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":563918,"bill_number":"HR38","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Peggy Madison Meredith.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Peggy Madison Meredith.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR38/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR38.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":563919,"bill_number":"HR37","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Patsye Ann Anderson.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Patsye Ann Anderson.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR37/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR37.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":563920,"bill_number":"HR32","title":"Adjourn in honor and recognition of Representative Tanya Pullin for winning the 2013 Southern Legislative Conference STAR Award.","description":"Adjourn in honor and recognition of Representative Tanya Pullin for winning the 2013 Southern Legislative Conference STAR Award.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR32/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR32.htm","sponsor":"Larry Clark"},
{"bill_id":563921,"bill_number":"HR34","title":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Barbara J. Upchurch.","description":"Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Barbara J. Upchurch.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR34/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR34.htm","sponsor":"Jeff Hoover"},
{"bill_id":563922,"bill_number":"HR33","title":"Encourage the Program Review and Investigations Committee to study salaries and certain other employment issues of General Assembly and Legislative Research Commission partisan and nonpartisan employees.","description":"Encourage the Program Review and Investigations Committee to study salaries and certain other employment issues of General Assembly and Legislative Research Commission partisan and nonpartisan employees.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-08-23","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-08-23","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR33/2013/X1","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13SS/HR33.htm","sponsor":"Susan Westrom"},
{"bill_id":568307,"bill_number":"HR199","title":"Recognize the third Saturday in May 2013 as Friedreich's Ataxia Awareness Day.","description":"Recognize the third Saturday in May 2013 as Friedreich's Ataxia Awareness Day.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR199/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR199.htm","sponsor":"Addia Wuchner"},
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{"bill_id":568314,"bill_number":"HR198","title":"Honor and commend Pope Francis upon his election as the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.","description":"Honor and commend Pope Francis upon his election as the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR198/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR198.htm","sponsor":"Tom Riner"},
{"bill_id":568318,"bill_number":"HR194","title":"Honor the Ohio County High School Boys Basketball Team, 2013 3rd Region Champions.","description":"Honor the Ohio County High School Boys Basketball Team, 2013 3rd Region Champions.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HR194/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HR194.htm","sponsor":"Thomas Thompson"},
{"bill_id":568325,"bill_number":"HCR200","title":"Adjourn the 2013 Regular Session of the General Assembly sine die.","description":"Adjourn the 2013 Regular Session of the General Assembly sine die.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted 38-0","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"House","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/HCR200/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/HC200.htm","sponsor":"Rocky Adkins"},
{"bill_id":568330,"bill_number":"SCR273","title":"Urge President Barack Obama and his administration to support oil production off the northern coast of Alaska and approve the TransCanada Keyston XL pipeline project.","description":"Urge President Barack Obama and his administration to support oil production off the northern coast of Alaska and approve the TransCanada Keyston XL pipeline project.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SCR273/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SC273.htm","sponsor":"Dan Seum"},
{"bill_id":568334,"bill_number":"SR276","title":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Richard Albert Mohler Sr.","description":"Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Richard Albert Mohler Sr.","status_desc":"Adopted","status_date":"2013-03-26","last_action":"adopted by voice vote","last_action_date":"2013-03-26","committee":null,"chamber":"Senate","url":"https://legiscan.com/KY/bill/SR276/2013","state_link":"http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/13RS/SR276.htm","sponsor":"Julie Denton"},
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